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love a character that's like. i survived (<- not a brag) (<- this is a curse that weighs on me every waking hour)

Hey, it’s me, your English teacher from the beginning of the movie who read a passage that would become thematically relevant later while you stared longingly out the window. I noticed since you came back from your magical quest you’ve been even more listless that usual. Yeah I know about that. We usually have about one or two every semester, so I try to cater my curriculum to the current supernatural crisis so you can remember some appropriate words from classic literature at the right moment in the plot. It’s kind of a thankless job but the world’s still here so I’m not doing too bad haha. That was a joke you can laugh. Anyway I know I’ve kind of taken on a mentor role for you because of your lack of stable father figure but just wanted to let you know that I am a mandated reporter so please don’t tell me if you’re thinking about killing yourself

Nothing more cringe-worthy than a story where the writer clearly thinks they're making some broad statement about the human condition in the modern day but actually it's just been too long since they left their specifically dysfunctional community, which is ultimately irrelevant to most of society. And 95% of the time that community is Hollywood.

[writer who got his big break and moved to LA about 10 years ago] wow has anyone noticed how everyone has become an inauthentic, self-obsessed social climber in the past decade?

Do u ever read a friend’s fic and it’s like holy shit how do you consider me qualified to talk to you?

this is true for art too btw

i do think there should be more stories and shows and stuff about guys falling in love with butch women actually, i think that’d be a good thing. and not ‘this is as butch as twitter can handle’, i mean butch as can fucking be without apology, and making those boys weak in the knees about it. i think it’s great actually to have f/m romances that exist to break gender norms, too. i think it sucks that the only mainstream het romances that exist are either about women who are already feminine or with women who are just a little too scarily masculine and have to be fixed into being girlier. that’s shit.

it’s not like. taking away from queer people if you let “the straights” have some genderfuckery in their romance, too. that’s good, actually, the blurring of gender roles and performance and getting better understandings of your own sexuality is good for everyone. and it’s really fucking weird if you think that mainstream “het” romances shouldn’t feature women who are “too masculine” because that’s only allowed for queer people, somehow.

btw it's not spelled "Maori", it's Māori. the tohutō (the line above the vowel) is important for the pronunciation of the word. if you don't have the tohutō on your keyboard (it should be on your phone keyboard at least), it's "Maaori" as the tohutō lengthens the vowel it's placed over. never Maori, preferably Māori but Maaori in a pinch. thanks

"character doing a c+ job of breaking the cycle of abuse" is such a crunchy dynamic forever. what if i'm giving my all to give you a better life than i had and i'm succeeding but "better" just isn't quite enough. what if my blind spots and deeply ingrained trauma and inexperience mean that you will be indelibly scarred by me despite my best efforts. what if my abuser's influence still bleeds through at times because i know nothing else. what if i go so far in the opposite direction to avoid it that i hurt you in ways i couldn't have anticipated. what if my undeniable love and unforgivable shortcomings came part and parcel with each other. what if your love and gratitude and resentment and pain came part and parcel too. what if we both knew you deserved better but i was all you had. what if we had to move forward and reckon with that. what then

Guy horror directors: and then we will cut to the scariest image of all.... Naked old woman with sagging boobs

Movies should be rated like gymnastics. First score is the difficulty (how complex is what you're trying to pull off?) second score is the execution. This would let us separate dumb movies that are competently made from interesting movies that don't quite stick the landing. Anyway. Another great idea from ME

I like this. You get big points for a big swing, you were really going for a vast engaging story that captivates the viewer. Your technical execution, however, resulted in the movie Southland Tales, so you get 9/2

the thing about art is that sometimes you'll be moved to tears by stuff that is not very good