#liws

Okay, take two! I wanted to test out Tumblr's communities feature, so I made one for liw fans of old: https://www.tumblr.com/communities/liw-peeps. Apparently even public communities are invite-only at this point, and you can only be invited by the admin (me). So if you would like an invite (regardless of whether we've ever talked before or not!) please comment here or dm me, and we can test it out together!

so i started thinking about bea and ben's relationship arc in lolilo and how it happens almost fully in subtext because if their issues were ones that could be shared on camera they wouldn't be issues at all. and now i'm having a 'oh god vlogseries are so crazy cool!!!' moment thinking about the audience (us!) as an active participant in these characters lives, not only through transmedia and comments and stuff but as the act of being observed fundamentally changes characters' behaviour/choices. how an audience renders problems and plotlines both visible and invisible. how vlog-style LIWs aren't just telling the same story in a different medium, they're problematising the original story by making characters aware that they're inside of it. for fiction to be so heavily influenced by its audience in a way that the characters are aware of (if mostly subconsciously) is just like, very cool to me.

My favourite medium of adapting classics has sadly died down almost completely in the past few years, so whenever there's a tumblr post that is like "this is how this character would act today" I just add it to my mental adapatation of that classic in that medium

there is nothing that signals the pandemic coming to a close more than the fact that rational creatures is filming!!!

I was watching THAT episode of NMTD at the end with Ben, Pedro, Balth and John and I can't get over Pedro sneaking glances at Balthazar and Ben looking into the camera deadpan and that "Balthazar... d'you wanna go out...side with me?"