the enlightened despot

[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over

but people shouldn't react to the incentives i create. they should just be virtuous and do the thing i want instead

i want to read but i also want to write but i also want to read but i also want to write but i also want to—

[ID: the “same hat” meme, edited so that the two people waving at one another are saying, “same brainworms.” /end ID]

sometimes all you need is one passionate person who goes berserk for your work to keep you creating

please stop trying to convince me the cause is righteous and convince me the tactics are effective

functionally suicidal character saying “I would die for you” to their significant other and its like. I get the sentiment, honey, but if a hot dog vendor told me he’d sell hot dogs for me, I wouldn’t feel very moved now would I

i love it and hate it when a character in a story is so obviously created to be cool and awesome and then i do think they're cool and awesome. like fuck, yeah, ok, they're fucking epic. swag as hell. you got me you coolbaited me ok? i'm coolbaited.

the problem with movie remakes is that they always remake something that was already good, meaning at worst you ruin it and at best your remake is largely redundant. to make a truly good remake you need to start with source material that is absolute dogwater. ignore the pull of nostalgia. redeem the sins of moviemaking past.