Vaudevillain Girls and Violin Strings

small town diner waitress voice: Omelas? Oh, oh no, easy mistake, you're in oh - MAY - las right now, with an A. Plenty' people get the name mixed up. Nope, no utopia here, just our small little town. *face gets really grim* We do still.. Okay well we do still have a kid that we... I mean it isn't working but- well- You know. It- It's fine. I'm sure it'll start working soon.

Casting popular celebrities as voice actors for animation isn’t a new thing btw people in the 21st century just don’t know the popular actors of the early 1900s and can’t recognise when old cartoon characters are being voiced by the Chris Pratts of their day. I do mean this in a fairly neutral way, but we do have to stop always romanticising every aspect of the past all the damn time as if professional voice actors haven’t always been screwed over by large animation companies. It’s obviously worse now because we’re well into late stage capitalism and things like AI are becoming such a huge threat, but it’s not like… new. Nothing’s ever new, we just keep gaining new generations who have to put in the effort of learning from the past, and most people just don’t do that. So conversations that have already happened have to start all over again.

This is so interesting, I love history

I understand the urge to comment on recent trends in which people seem to want increasingly sanitized media compared to the recent past, but when you say things like "people used to just shrug and move on when there were books and movies that made them uncomfortable" it's like...well. actually people used to convict artists of obscenity in a court of law.

Also messed up in that they should have been called quackarons.

She was so busy keeping an eye on the Maillard Reaction that she lost track of the Mallard Direction.

Something about the bastardization of the story time and time again proves that nobody in power really cares about the people who would resonate with King’s Carrie White. A girl so ugly and repulsive she’s been removed from her own story. The societal need for women and girls to be constantly perceived as attractive is what fuels a fair amount of her torment in the book, but that person isn’t even allowed to exist on the screen. We cannot empathize with her; it isn’t allowed. It’s fascinating to me.

a sharpened banana could change the world

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