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i grew up here and i can safely say that those rednecks everyone talks about do have a culture. it’s just not one anyone seems to accept the existence of.

this stereotype literally just drives me insane because i’ve met people from other countries who tell me the same thing because they heard it online.

my entire childhood literally did allow me to develop and have roots in communities—once again; just not ones you care to consider. there are also. many people from other countries who have moved here and continue to practice their culture, so i’m unsure why we pretend like the midwest is like that episode of spongebob where he was insanely normal.

i was very much encouraged to explore the woods and i did develop community at school with other girls who didn’t live in the more populated area and instead spent their time building stick structures and watching their dads practice for hunting season.

unfortunately for you all there is actually a culture in the country but you all just brush it off as hillbilly living and assume we’re all white trash.

family roots, work ethic passed down, hard work, doing the rough jobs, prioritizing family over all else—that is the culture. i’d say my momma’s home cooking is culture, and so is my dad’s—and no, they don’t just season with salt (my dad makes the best steak hands down and any ruins any restaurant steak for you). and that’s not even mentioning the hunting and other things that people ignore as culture because they just have to believe that all white people are a boring conglomerate.

there are many members of my family who did odd jobs to support family—it’s honest work, especially farming, which is very common in the countryside. trucking, military, wildlife, construction, whatever these people had to do to make ends meet.

poorer families grew their own crop in small amounts in order to feed their children. some had to give up on farming because the milk from their cows, despite it being quality, was no longer being picked up because the location was too remote.

if that strong loyalty and commitment is not culture then i don’t know what you think it is.

saying “ope” when bumping into someone or saying wash as “worsh”—just fun little quirks that i love about where i grew up.

although i didn’t have a lot of friends in school i knew someone always had my back.

“I’m probably not saying that correctly”/“sorry for my pronunciation” = 👍 understandable! foreign languages often have sounds that aren’t used in English and learning to correctly pronounce unfamiliar phonemes is genuinely difficult even with help

“lol I’m not even gonna TRY to pronounce that 😂” = 👎 THIS is the problem, if treats languages other than English like they are inherently ‘weird’ or ‘overly complicated’ just because you aren’t familiar with them

hating both mispronunciation and preventing mispronunciation just creates a "damned if you, do damned if you don't" situation.

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

I think that because they see all art as political, they see it as advancing a political cause and consuming art as a political act. Therefore, there cannot be "good art" that you enjoy with the "wrong politics" because enjoying it is like enjoying the other side's campaign ads.

It’s not a strategy that would work in any other jurisdiction in Middle-Earth but hobbit law does not recognize wergild and does have the right of first finder, with the time limit being the death of the original owner, which works out great for Sauron who never died (?)

And Like, that is pretty much the perfect introduction song. Aside from setting up their abilities perfectly and giving each girl character moments to be highlighted and a perfect demonstration of how them as popstars and them as demon hunters are the same job,

It's also got Rumi's note

Every time, every single time from KPop fans reacting, to vocalists reacting, to music producers and casual fans and rap fans and everyone else When they get to that note, to the buildup, to the animation of her mouth, face and body as she puts her EVERYTHING into the note, to the note itself, how it starts high, goes long and ends higher,

THAT is the moment where everyone is shocked, explodes in appreciation and locks the fuck in

Because yeah, it's a perfect moment, the animation especially is 1 to 1 absolutely realistic to how a person would have to move and act to pull off that note, especially with the mouth muscles,

But it's also the one moment that completely sells the idea that these girls have voices that can fight demons.

No one questions it after that, because they saw it work, the movie made them BELIEVE it in a way that previous movies made people believe in Superman, in Middle Earth or in a galaxy far far away

THAT moment made the movie I think, I believe it down in my soul that if that one moment hadn't been perfect, KPDH wouldn't have reached the memetic superstardom it has

god she even pulls the mike back like she actually has to be careful that her voice will blow the damn thing out what the Fuck

He also already had a very good and VERY popular web series to adapt when they made this story. Which, since it was made on Blender in a found footage style, already had enough of a film-like style that adapting into a movie was easy.