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Oh youre "nonbinary"? Can i put you in a box please. Can i pleaseeeee put you in a box. We have two boxes and i really wanna put you in one. But dont worry. My boxes are very Woke and Nuanced. So its fine to put you in one. Pleaseeeee. Wow... youre such a bitch... not letting me put into one of two nuanced and essential necessary boxes... you obviously go into the box all those evil bitches end up in
You will like being in my box. My box is nice.
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I remain proudly part of the never even opened ChatGPT club but as a son of clowns and snake oil salesmen I feel compelled to give credit where credit is due: this Mechanical Turk theyāve constructed manages to simultaneously be a False Oracle, a Siren, and a Confidence Schemer, which is quite the triple threat for something that doesnāt actually know what itās doing. Very impressive Charlatanship. Slow clap.
So no one is going to tell me that they made looking for alaska into a miniseries in 2019????????? I'm so watching this after Merlin. I haven't read John Green in years and this is going to be cringy and amazing
If you want to hide a terrible secret from the world, hire Hulu's marketing team, because they didn't tell a soul about looking for alaska.
I don't know who needs to be told this, but you don't need to unpack your shit in public. Like, yeah, you can reach out to people undergoing a similar crisis in worldview in private or anonymous channels, but if you do it all on TikTok or whatever, you're just making a spectacle of yourself and you should expect people to react as they would to any spectacle
Thinking of this viral TikTok of a 3Ć Trump voter who's now deconstructing her support for MAGA and who is breaking down because commentators are saying they'll never forgive her for her past and it's just like...girl, you don't need to vlog this. You don't need to stand in the village square loudly declaiming your sins for all to hear. You don't need to be in public on camera all of the time. There must be an ex-Trumper reddit or something if you don't have a support group in real life, but This Is Not the Way.
Deconversion is a very personal process that you do need to go through alone, but you also very much do not need to go through it with a billion anonymous strangers on the Internet watching you and judging.
#there is no less sympathetic audience than the internet folks#do NOT confess your sins to a bunch of strangers that specifically revel#in the opportunity to indulge in their impulsive responses
No one cares anymore and fuck Johnny Depp, but the way that they *should* have done Pirates of the Caribbean sequels is by having Jack Sparrow as the only through-character, randomly showing up as a deuteragonist in other people's stories. Like Benoit Blanc in the Knives Out movies.
Obviously, he should always be coming in from some extravagant adventure that happened offscreen and is never elaborated upon.
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āGet a rat and put it in a cage and give it two water bottles. One is just water, and one is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself very quickly, right, within a couple of weeks. So there you go. Itās our theory of addiction. Bruce comes along in the ā70s and said, āWell, hang on a minute. Weāre putting the rat in an empty cage. Itās got nothing to do. Letās try this a little bit differently.ā So Bruce built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything your rat about town could want, itās got in Rat Park. Itās got lovely food. Itās got sex. Itās got loads of other rats to be friends with. Itās got loads of colored balls. Everything your rat could want. And theyāve got both the water bottles. Theyāve got the drugged water and the normal water. But hereās the fascinating thing. In Rat Park, they donāt like the drugged water. They hardly use any of it. None of them ever overdose. None of them ever use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. Thereās a really interesting human example Iāll tell you about in a minute, but what Bruce says is that shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. So the right-wing theory is itās a moral failing, youāre a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says itās not your morality, itās not your brain; itās your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment. [ā¦] Weāve created a society where significant numbers of our fellow citizens cannot bear to be present in their lives without being drugged, right? Weāve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is, for a lot of people, much more like that first cage than it is like the bonded, connected cages that we need. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of our society, is geared towards making us connect with things. If you are not a good consumer capitalist citizen, if youāre spending your time bonding with the people around you and not buying stuffāin fact, we are trained from a very young age to focus our hopes and our dreams and our ambitions on things we can buy and consume. And drug addiction is really a subset of that.ā
ā Johann Hari, Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction?
stuck in the time loop but i just use it as a free day off. im not even trying to get out. i am teaching myself to knit. i am crocheting. i am cooking. not even doing anything crazy. just escaping capitalism for a week. day 375 and im not sure what lesson it's trying to teach but i've taught myself to handmake lace so all is well
ok. and why would it be bad to be horny? why would it be bad to look at a photo of boobs for a long time? why would it be bad to look at a woman and be attracted to her? why would it be bad to be turned on by seeing a woman? why would it be bad to think of a woman lustfully? and why would any of this make someone a bad lesbian? quickly.
iām tired of the jokes that hinge on the assumption that it is bad to look at or think of a woman lustfully, that it would make you a bad lesbian, a bad feminist. that it is somehow bad to be attracted to a woman. its not. itās not! look hornily goddammit! itās a photograph, you donāt need to ālook respectfullyā look as long and as horny as you want! she or they canāt see you! please free yourself we donāt have time for this.
ntm that on top of that, to treat attraction to women as inherently and necessarily predatory in nature cedes the antifeminist argument that people who commit sexual harassment or even assault had no choice and that responsibility lies with the victim to be less attractive/vulnerable.
otoh every time you look with lust upon a woman and don't harass or assault her, you're living proof that attraction to women shouldn't excuse harm. Every time you hit on a woman in an appropriate environment in a way that respects spoken and unspoken nos, you're proving that wanting to fuck a woman doesn't excuse mistreating her.
thinking about it like that made it easier for me to stop feeling so much shame about my desire for women, anyways
š thank you for the addition, yeah!
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ai could never outdo my beautiful perverted mutuals
this is because they write with their mind penis and have terrible childhoods and horrible luck, which seems to be the key factor in writing shakespeare level smut
and english is their 4th language
when i watch old movies iām constantly surprised by how much acting has improved. not that the acting in the classics is bad, itās just often kind of artificial? itās acting-y. itās like stage acting.
it took some decades for the arts of acting and filmmaking to catch up to the potential that was in movies all along; stuff like microexpressions and silences and eyes, oh man people are SO much better at acting with their eyes than they were in the 40ā²s, or even the 70ā²s.
the performances we take for granted in adventure movies and comedies now wouldāve blown the criticsā socks off in the days of ācasablancaā.
thereās a weird period in film where you can see the transition happening.Ā right around the fifties, I think.Ā the example my prof used when i learned about it was marlon brando inĀ āa streetcar named desireā - he was using stanislavski acting methods and this new hyper-realistic style and most or all of his costars were still using the old, highly-stylized way of acting. it makes it way more obvious how false it is.
i even noticed it in āthe stingā, which was 1973. i actually think they used it on purpose to get the viewer fished in by the second layer of the con; the grifters at the bookieās were acting like they were acting, and the grifters playing the feds were acting for reals. if youāre used to setting your suspension of disbelief at the first setās level, then the second set are gonna blow right past you.
or possibly the guys playing the grifters playing the feds just happened to be using the realistic style for their own reason, and it coincidentally made the plot twist work better. but i like to think it was deliberate.
i was thinking about this again, and when you know what to look for, itās really obvious: old movies are stage acting, not movie acting. it just didnāt really occur to anyone to make the camera bend to the actors, rather than the other way around. just image search old movie screenshots and clips and gifs, youāll see it. the way people march up to their mark and stand there, the way they deliver their lines rather than inhabiting the character. the way theyāre framed in an unmoving center-stage.
this is a charming little tableau, quirky and unexpected, but itās a tableau. it lives in a box.
now, i usually watch action movies, and i didnāt think it was fair to compare an action movie with what appears to be an indoor sort of story, but i do watch some comedy tv. so i looked for a brooklyn 99 gif with a similar framing, intending to point out that the camera moves, and the characters arenāt stuck inside the box. but i couldnāt even find the framing. they literally never have all the characters in the same plane, facing the camera, interacting only within the staging area. even when theyāre not traveling, theyāre moving around, and they treat things outside the āstageā as real and interact with them, even if itās only to stare in delighted horror.
as for action, it took a while for the movies to figure out what, exactly they wanted to show us, and how to act it. hereās a comedy punch:
here, also, is a comedy punch:
the first one looks like a stage direction written on a script. the second one looks like your friends horsing around and being jerks to each other. the first one is just not believable. the physics doesnāt work. the reaction is fakey. everyoneās stiff. even the movement of the camera is kind of wooden. the second one looks real right down to the cringe of his shoulder, and the camera feels startled too.
iām not saying this to dis old movies, iām just fascinated and impressed by how much the art has advanced!
Iām going to bed, but I also want to say that I think, without actually bothering to explore it and make sure, that thereās been a similar shift in comics, probably related to the shift in acting/camera work. And I think you still see remnants of old āstage actingā comics in the three-panel style set ups (you might still see it in long form comics, but youād probably call it bad composition)
Now can someone explain why people in old films talked Like That
Yāall, THATāS HOW PEOPLE TALKED.
Seriously, I used to work in a sound studio, and one series of projects required us to listen to LOTS of old audio recordings. Not of anything special - just people talking.
AND THEY TALKED LIKE THAT.
It was so fucking wild to hear just a couple of people being like,
āWELL HI THERE JEANINE, HOW ARE YOU TODAY?ā
āOH, NOT TOO BAD, JOE, THOUGH MY HUSBANDāS BEEN AWAY ON BUSINESS FOR A FEW WEEKS AND I MISS HIM SOMETHING TERRIBLE.ā
āWELL ITāS A HARD THING, JEANINE, BUT YOUāLL GET THROUGH IT.ā
āWELL I SUPPOSE IāVE GOT TO, HAVENāT I JOE?ā
All in that piercing, strident, rapid-fire style we associate with the films of the era. If youāve watched lots of old movies you can imagine the above in that speech pattern.
I donāt know if people talked like that because it was in movies but I suspect itās the other way around.
Same goes for the UK - When they made the TV series The Hour, set in the 1950s, they had to tell the very well spoken, privately educated Dominic West to tone down his imitation of a 1950s newsreader because being accurate would have sounded toĀ a 2011Ā TV audience as if he was doing a parody.Ā When you watch Brief Encounter theyāre not speaking like that because they canāt act, theyāre speaking like that because it was the norm on screen. It now sounds unnatural because itās not the norm any more.
Obviously there were people with regional accents and who didnāt speak in a heightened manner, but they didnāt get to be on TV or in movies unless they were villains. (And usually the villains were putting it on, like Richard Attenborough in Brighton Rock. Sure, he was Richard Attenborough, but he was brought up in the Midlands, and by the on-screen standards of the time, that was common.)
Even the Queenās very posh accent has changed over the last 50 years and become āmore common"Ā - check out newsreel footage etc for proof - and recordings of her father are almost like someone from a foreign country (well, it is the past).
There is, for many film historians/critics, an actual turning point from mannered, theatrical, orĀ āoverplayedā acting on screen to naturalistic/American Method realism on screen. It happens in the 1954 movie On the Waterfront, during a traveling shot in which Marlon Brandoās character and Eva Marie Saintās character are walking together. Eva Marie Saint accidentally drops her glove in the middle of the scene. Marlon Brando instinctively picks it up as his character, and continues the dialog, all the while playing with the gloveāturning it about, trying it on, etc. Eva Marie Saint stuck with him, never broke, and the director didnāt callĀ ācut.āĀ
Before that scene in that movie, if an actor dropped a prop by accident, they would have re-shot the sceneābecause Brando mostly disappeared out of frame as he bent down to pick up the glove, and (as is explained above) movies were framed to keep the people in the scene in the frame. I
tās a pretty famous scene in movies because Brandoās character doesnāt give the glove back, but instead uses it to amplify what the two characters are experiencing, naturally and without artifice. It is, for all intents and purposes, the exact moment that screen acting changed.
Okay, but hereās the thing about television specifically: given the size of TV screens when they first came out? Stage acting was the only thing that could be READ. Watch Star Trek: TOS on a modern screen and it looks absurdly overacted. Film of the same era is not, and yet the TV is.
And thatās not a fault of the actors; they were all very capable of naturalistic film acting (yes, even Shatner) ā as the later movies would bear out. Itās because they were acting for the small screen, not the big one.
Stage acting and stage makeup is what it is because people are far enough away from the stage that you have to cake on the makeup garishly and exaggerate the hell out of your for it to be VISIBLE. And in early television? Yeah, those constraints actually very much applied. You could move the camera, sure, but the quantity of visual information you could send was just damned limited.
Hereās another example of that.
Watch some Classic Dr Who. You may or may not notice it without watching for it, but every shot of the TARDIS is taken from the same angle.
The TARDIS was, at that time, a stage set. The camera was behind the fourth (Sixth?) wall. It was fixed. And most TV sets were built like this. They had a specific fourth wall and everything was filmed from that angle.
Fast forward to the new series, and youāll see that the TARDIS is being filmed from different angles all the time, including following the actor around.
Three things have changed:
1. Cameras have become much smaller.
2. Set building for TV has developed as an art. Those early sets were built by people who were trained to build stage sets.
3. Overall technological improvement resulting in things being cheaper.
The TARDIS set that was just retired? Each of its walls was designed to slide out. So you could put the camera anywhere you wanted. Presumably this is the case with the new one too. They couldnāt imagine doing that back in the day. Nor could they afford the complexities of a set like that.
Itās actually my opinion that TV has very much matured as an art formā¦this century. This decade. We are doing and seeing things that couldnāt be done ten years ago, twenty. Heck, even five.
Going back to speech patterns for a moment ā I was a young child in the 80s, so my memories of the norms of the time period are limited (especially because I was incredibly sheltered), but the books I read at the time and the popular movies of the time all have this kind of ā whimsical, sardonic speech pattern going on. Think John Waters dialogue.Ā
I always thought it was kind of stylized. But then I ended up in a weird part of YouTube one night and found someoneās home video of just walking aroud a 7-11 convenience store at midnight talking to people in Orlando, Florida. Just trying out their new camcorder for shits and giggles, talking to other customers, talking to the cashier, etc. And you know what? They all talked like a goddamn John Waters movie. It was the weirdest thing, like I was watching outtakes from The Breakfast Club or Say Anything. I expected one of the Cusacks to walk into frame any second.
Anyway, so I think itās super cool how human speech and interaction shifts over time, and if youāre living through the shift, you donāt really notice it as it happens.
A) I think you mean John Hughes but Iām very amused by the idea of everyone talking like itās a John Waters movie
B) This is still happening only now you can pick up peopleās net accents. My friends with tumblrs have tumblr diction. My friends who only spend time on facebook for social media sound VERY different. People who use twitter heavily put emphasis on different things and have a different meme literacy (you all know the difference between the way greentext sounds and the way āRIP but Iām differentā sounds).
Anyway have fun listening for tumblr accents now
What gets me is that I had a medium-strong tumblr accent beforeĀ I joined tumblr. ( @magikarpjumpest and I have talked about this a few times) The way I break clauses, my stress patterns, hell, I do the Midsentence Emphatic Capitalization in speech. And I think that ties in to why I do the Giant Tumblr Rambles in a way that I justā¦ donāt, on FB. Iām too rambly for twitter, and while I canĀ useĀ ātag group dialogueā as a facebooker, and occasionally will in speech (yes, I code-switch my social media dialect in person; Iām conscious of the fact that I mirror, but itās not generally a thing I decide to do), thatās not my default setting for phrasing. Established tone/accent conventions of tumblr already correspond somewhat to my natural way of speaking, and itās much easier to get two forms of dialogue that are already close to merge. It also means that engaging with longposts here is much easier because people are more likely to be using humor and syntax that feels natural to me. Twitter threads have a concision to them. Greentext boards -I canĀ read them, but itās like reading something with a very heavy transcribed accent that I almost never hear in person -itās a headache-inducing amount of effort thatās usually not worth it to me for a downtime activity. FB doesnāt do paragraph breaks the same way, and the emoticon usage is different enough that I donāt like dealing with it.Ā
This is a wild read from start to finish!!
Having lived through early Web 2.0, I can tell you that āaccents through timeā also applies to internet āaccents.ā
You know how people now will end sentences with āLolā to indicate theyāre not mad (e.g. āI have to go now lol, Momās homeā)? Yeah, we didnāt used to do that. We also used to have a sarcasm tag! Iām going to apologize to the people with screen readers and tell you I promise this is reasonably short. It looked like this:
āYeah, well, Obama is a ~*~*~Muslim.~*~*~
The asterisk action tags used to be a non-ironic, non-cringey thing, too. Like this:
āNINA GUESS WHATā
āWhat??? :Dā
ā(Typing notification)ā
ā*waits*ā
The term āteal deerā to replace āTL;drā was a thing. And, of course, in the early 2000s you had 13375p34k, which for younger folks was āleetspeak.ā One is the Homestuck characters uses it, but itās not just a quirkāpeople really talked like that.
We are far enough into the internet era that even internet accents have changed.
This is a *fantastic* post and something I find very fascinating, because I tend to focus really strongly on character dialogue and speech. Also Iāve definitely noticed that my internetĀ āaccentā is definitely slightly antiquated. Iām still much more likely to use a :3 or a -3- text emoticon over a smiley, and Iām not in the habit of using reaction gifs, and I definitely still do actions inside asterixā.Ā
then again Iām also the kind of person who uses words like antiquated, so I wonder if soon enough itāll all sound the same amount of old fashioned?
@mothric-bry have a giant linguistics thingy
If you want to see the difference in movie-making, go to Sabrina (1952) and Sabrina (1995). Thatās where I first realized that 1950s acting was stage acting. I canāt choose between the two movies, for stylistically the first is incredible, but the 1995 version takes the original play to its full potential.
I read a book about the making of the Saddle Club (films? TV series? uncertain. anyway, early 2000s iirc. I read the books and never watched it). One of the things that stuck out to me was the way the girls talked about acting. One, they were allowed much more to be their age; the way they wrote or were interviewed sounded like children, children having a glorious lark with this acting thing. One of them talked about one of the indoor sets, which was a combination of multiple different pieces that could be moved around to allow the space for the camera. It was really interesting to me in comparison to what Iāve read about the making of the transition from England to Narnia via the painting and flooding the room, in the film of the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010).
no sorry i dont really use instagram, i can contact you via ouija board, spirit box, fluctuations in temperature, flickering lights, and certain rituals. i am also on tumblr.
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Can you imagine how stressed Katara would've been by the time she had two kids with Aang and neither of them were airbenders
Like I know he wouldn't be MAD about it but just imagining being in her situation has me so stressed out
Also Aang was lowkey kind of weird for not bothering to immerse Bumi and Kya in airbender culture even though Air Acolytes were a thing and showed that having airbending wasn't a requirement for being part of the culture
Not anymore. They ruined it.
