Jet and Maddox are siblings?!?

(For those who are unaware of the news Holly Jackson got it all together and they filmed season 3 in SECRET. So it’s already done filming which is insane on multiple levels but mainly it means we most likely don’t have to wait as long as last time to see it)

I wonder if Holly Jackson is just insane or if it maybe had to do with actors schedules. Cause like I know Wednesday season 3 is set to come out soon enough (not like, soon soon, but soon-ish) and I’m sure the other actors have projects (I don’t actually know I just know Emma Myers is almost as booked and busy as McKenna Grace, though I don’t think any one is as busy as McKenna).

(I’m aware it’s the job but they also can not do that job I mean it requires a very specific skill set so it’s not like they applied bc it was all they had)

Also I like Zooey Deschanel, not quite on the level in which I like Emily Deschanel, but that’s just because I love Bones so dearly.

Anyway the artistic takes. (Obligatory spoiler warning but also obligatory this movie is almost 17 years old so I don’t really care that much about spoilers) I like that the day counter constantly is utilized to a point where you absolutely have to be paying attention to follow it. As someone who struggles with attention to things this was really good for me (I also think it’s good in general).

I like that they chose to make the old film reel style thing that some movies or shows utilize in that start of the movie/episode a thing through out, and that it wasn’t just used as the usual visual way to show people younger or used as a visual way to display a gag. It’s a major part of the movie as opposed to just being an intro gimmick and I thought that was interesting, but I only really thought it paid off or worked(?) I guess(??) once they did that ‘expectation’/‘reality’ thing.

I enjoyed that they took the time to think of a screen for the day counter that was neutral enough to not influence a mood, yet interesting enough to work with the color palettes and feel of the movie as a whole. It’s not made to explain the rollercoaster of emotions we’re supposed to see or feel with Tom, it’s made to tell us what day it is. Some segues in media adjust the style or feel to fit the mood we’re walking into, but I like that this one didn’t (probably because the days change so fast there’s no time for that but either way it works). I do like that when it did focus on the mode it was subtle yet brilliant in that it used the numbers as a device.

I liked the look and feel they put into Summers apartment, I only wish they’d done more with it. I get the point was “she doesn’t let just anyone into her world so this is a limited glance” but I wanted more.

I also think we could’ve had more on the IKEA front. Make it more of a prominent fixture in the film and their situation-ship instead of adding random “going to the movies” bits that just felt like they added them for the sole purpose of “relationships need more substance and they need to do more things”, which would totally be a valid reason to add any of those sort of scenes, but in this case it felt unnecessary.

I went into this only seeing to romanticized on social media and I have to say, there is way more substance to it and why doesn’t anyone ever use those more substance scenes in edits. Why are we shipping and romanticizing a pair that’s whole points is some people don’t work?

My final assessment is that i would watch this again if someone had it on, but I’m not reaching for it. It’s not as influential or aesthetic as the internet made it out to be. It exists in its space and it fills it well but it’s sized for that space and nothing more nothing less.

-Janis Joplin (never formally came out but was in serious relationships with both men and women)

-Labi Siffre (I don’t know his exact sexuality but he made music about his queer love and joy that was nuanced and subtle enough that it could be out there freely in his time)

-Marsha P. Johnson (as well as every trans woman who was out there defending our rights. We owe our building blocks -or rather building bricks- of rights to trans women and lesbians and anyone who is transphobic or lesbophobic this month I hope the ghost of Leslie gore mistakes you for that girl Judy she always sang about and gets her revenge)

-Leslie Gore (was never able to come out in her youth though she is/was a lesbian. Her music, while probably not always being solely written for her as is lots of music, has a certain quality to it that feels like a queer woman trying to break free and I love her with my whole soul. I mean ‘it’s my party’ and ‘Judys turn to cry’ both feel like she picked one man she was willing to be with as a closeted lesbian and some girl was trying to take him. And ‘I wish I were a Boy’ is pretty self explanatory if you listen to it.)

-Keith Haring (His art about the AIDS crisis is so culturally important and we need not forget how he kept making art until he couldn’t anymore)

-Harvey Milk (first openly gay man in California to be in office)

-Alan Turing (gay mathematician who was a very big part in the inception of computers. He was as I recall, an atheist which is understandable given his scientific and technological pursuits. I love Alana Turing so much.)

-Rosie O’Donnell (actor. She stood up for our rights and this countries equality and did what she could to be a voice and a decent person. She left the US to live in Ireland I think last year? In light of how bad everything was getting here. She couldn’t stay here especially because if I remember correctly a lot of US people didn’t want her here, which is unfortunate because she’s from what I’ve seen, lovely.)

-Freddie Mercury (Singer, musician. He had his problems as many musicians of his era did. A notable thing about him is that he hid that he had AIDS from everyone including his band mates, until it got too processed and he had to tell them. He lived his final years with his beloved partner until the end.)

-Brandi Carlile (musician, activist. She’s awesome and I don’t have a ton to say I just love her. Such a joy.)

-Jane Addams (she was a woman who played a huge role in providing care, training, education and legal aid to immigrant communities. She received a Nobel peace prize and is noted to have had a relationship with a woman named Mary Rozet Smith, as discovered through a series of love letters)

-Sally Ride (astronaut and one of my inspirations. The first queer woman in space and the first American woman in space. Obama even gave her the Medal of Freedom posthumously for how she inspired young girls to achieve their dreams.)

Minimal-no spoilers but maybe spoilers I write as I think as I assume we all do mostly.

This season showed (in my opinion) a very very strong example of an autistic person who’s obsessiveness drives them too far to the point of breaking down/spiralling/losing control.

She loses control in probably most if you not all of the different meanings of the phrase. She loses it personally by pushing away people around her out of her hatred for certain characters and their connections to the people her friends have chosen to hang around. She loses control when she can’t stop what happens to certain people at the end because she’s gone too far. She loses control when she makes promises and then cant keep them despite how hard she tried. She loses control when she keeps choosing to ignore everyone and leave places because her brain has decided she needs to despite people telling her she can’t leave (this is severely out of character and stems from her obsession consuming her).

Also, the way she needs to seek justice. This is also related to her obsessions, but what I think is so interesting is the way that she’s so keen on seeking justice that it gets to a point where she’s not even only trying to straighten out the truth, she’s trying to prove innocence and truth where it doesn’t exist. She gets it in her head so strictly that something can’t be true or real or a person can’t be nice, that she refuses to stop until it’s proven.

Everything this season leads to her doing things that aren’t like herself to the utmost extreme. Season one she was just kind of not like herself and doing things she wouldn’t do, but season 2 she just doesn’t care anymore. She almost wants the obsession to consume her so that she doesn’t have to be reeled back to her normal calm life because it’s going to be physically, emotionally, and mentally difficult and draining to go back and handle the fallout.

Aside from the personal ties/people who traumatized me who were obsessed with vivzipop in the very early Hazbin days, that would make me want to scream into a pillow if I ever heard “inside of every demon is a rainbow” again (which I’m trying very hard to keep separate from my main reasons for not watching bc I feel they should be for me personally),

I can’t help but notice that (and I’m not talking about the younger viewers or new fans who simply don’t know the history bc they got into a show and its current fandom and didn’t dig deeper bc they didn’t know they could or should)

There’s some people who will just ignore allegations either because Vivzi said they weren’t true (which, there’s nuance to be had there in the bigger scope of that for people in general, but sometimes people lie to look better or protect themselves, and it would make sense that someone looking to have their shows as a stepping stone into a bigger career, wouldn’t want allegations, true or not. Something to think about I think.) or because when they looked into it what they found pointed to it possibly not being true, and they latched on.

Maybe it’s because it’s easier to just let themselves enjoy things and that’s understandable, but doing it here or there or even once as an exception bc “well I really like this thing!” “But this art style is so good!!” “But these characters!”

It’s really reminiscent (and I’m being very broad with this in the sense of the topic correlations not matching perfectly so stick with me) of how everyone said “Colleen Hoovers books are derived from real people’s personal trauma, including someone her son dated!” And everyone who likes her movies and books, ignored that bc “ultimate love story!! So cute! They’re so perfect!”

And it kind of feels like no one would care even if these allegations/pure facts of Vivzi were more well known based on this- not formula but, experience (??) of people putting trendy, cool, or even what I’m going to call “perceived niche but is really just popular bc of how many people post about, it and how niche it is” things above how people are irl. It’s the same thing with people not letting go of Harry Potter despite JK Rowling being transphobic. If it’s their story and their little world that is beloved to them, they can’t let it go because comfort outweighs morality.

because I have bad eczema and have to put medication on my head and arms so it looked like I had greasy hair, but I didn’t say that so of course in my comments I was fighting for my life telling everyone my hair was wet because I have thick hair and had showered that morning (true but it had definitely dried by then), and a few people did comment defending that point when others were like “ew no it would already be dry”