Aspiring writer, full on fangirl

Grace:

…Then they put down a carpet, so that high heels didn’t clack on the floor,  and BOOM women were suddenly getting hired.

Emilia Perez was nominated for and WON in a musical category and you’re saying it’s too much for Paul Tazewell or any of the makeup team to be nominated.

Instead, the logic behind the Oscars is “oh, this one is popular, let’s award it”; “wait, no, popular is not good, only plebians like popular stuff, let’s award the one literally no  has heard of unless they’re an extreme film buff”; “that person is always nominated, and has deserved the award in the past when we just didn’t feel like giving it, let’s just give it now and then their fans will stop complaining”; “oh, a personal friend of mine has a role in this one! they have my vote”; “comedy??? romcoms???? Take that back to television where it belongs! this is for serious stuff!”; “fantasy? the only people that watch those are children or nerds, be serious”; “oh, this one is about war! now THAT’s a respectable subgenre”; “animated movies??? that’s for babies. just give it to pixar or disney, they’re the only ones that exist”; “I haven’t watched this one, but I heard its like a love letter to hollywood, which is us! this one wins”; “best actress/actor? Ehhh, depends, how much heat are we gonna get if we ignore the person of color that actually deserves it? not that much? well, lets give it to generic white person with mild charisma again, that’s a classic”; “oh, this one deals with a serious issue but without promoting any actual societal or structural change that would make your average audience uncomfortable and wanting to enact actual change? THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT!”.

Under normal circumstances, if a given industry finds itself unable to sell products to a given market demographic, we’d say it’s that industry’s fault for failing to offer products that that demographic is interested in buying.

It only makes sense to blame the target demographic itself is if we’re assuming that the established industries have some intrinsic right to that demographic’s disposable income that’s being denied - which is clearly nonsense.

Like, I have worked very hard to put out real, genuine quality stuff. The best that I can make while offering it at a reasonable price, because a business transaction should be fair; you get a good product, the business makes some profit, everyone walks away happy. I am not even that old, and I have already seen a significant decline in the quality, craftsmanship, materials and labor sources in almost all of my purchases compares to the items that my family bought when I was growing up- and I’m talking the expensive stuff, too! We have bought two Dysons from Costco in the last two years (returned both, thank god for Costco’s return policy!) and neither one functioned as well as Megan’s old parent’s Dyson that was made in the 80′s. My grandmother has an old metal sewing machine that has been kicking longer than I have but I’ve been through about four sewing machines in my lifetime, each one managed to last twoish years. And these are the things off the top of my head, and it goes all the way down. Like how they started manufacturing secretly-smaller containers for things with the bubble on the bottom so you don’t notice there’s less product inside, or how Charmin made their rolls ‘shorter’ than they used to be but they are still technically the same number of ‘sheets’- I mean, I know I sound a little crazy, but if you’re Charmin and you reduce the amount of paper material per-roll by even a single penny, even a fraction of a penny, it would add up to much bigger profits; and a bigger expense passed on to the consumer, who won’t notice that the rolls are an inch shorter (except me because I’m weird that way)

Retailers have started running Black Friday sales. This is very wrong because:

We don't celebrate Thanksgiving

Black Friday is January 13 1939, when bushfires wiped out 2 million hectares and killed 71 people

It's really upsetting that the first page of Google results for "Black Friday Australia" are all sales. Please. That is not our country.

Black Friday is the second largest (by area) bushfire in recorded Australian history. It lead to a Royal Commission on forestry management to mitigate future fires.

The fires currently burning in NSW and Queensland have destroyed 1.6 million hectares so far, which has been exacerbated by inaction on climate change and cutting of funding to fire services by Gladys "koala killer" Berejiklian.

It's frightening that only 1.6 million ha were destroyed at the time of my post, because by the end of Black Summer it was 18.6 million ha.

stop acting as if someone can’t enjoy both erotica and literary fiction or classics. it’s not some dichotomy.

stop acting as if erotic art can’t be poignant and meaningful. and that includes all erotic art - not just fine art.

stop insisting that sex scenes or erotic material ruin movies and shows just because you, personally, get icked out watching it.