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I'm sorry but are there people that were born before 2007 on this site because like we've already had a bunch of cyclical waves of capitalist crises that were worse than the great depression like you have to be at least 13 to post on tumblr and 2007-2008 was-
Scanner’s down, so here’s Teen Comix #1
Happy ten years of what if they made simpsons porn illegal
The thing that gets me about the impending Harry Potter show is like. I'm able to, for entirely hypothetical purposes, put aside my disdain and disgust for the author's full-tilt bigotry and put myself in the shoes of someone who's still a Fan, like I would be if the author hadn't doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down on being a full-tilt bigot, and even then, imagining the alternate universe where JKR remained a staunch ally and well-meaning if clueless liberal philanthropic darling, I still can't quite wrap my head around why I'd want this show to be made
Everyone keeps saying it's going to be a Faithful Adaptation Of The Series and I'm just like... okay? This isn't A Series Of Unfortunate Events that got a bad adaptation and they had to go back and try again to get it right. The majority of fans liked and continue to like the movies, a lot, and despite some minor quibbles here and there, they're considered incredibly faithful adaptations. The Fandom isn't exactly divided on this, either.
Like, I imagine a nearby alternate timeline where JKR was never hit by the Idiot Stick That Makes You Hate Women and remained normal, and I remained a fan of a flawed but influential children's fantasy series, and I can't really think of a reason why I would be excited about them trying to make lightning strike a second time. Are people really that mad about Michael Gambon saying "Harry did you put your name in the goblet of fire" animatedly instead of calmly? Or is WB just worried that the incoming demographic of theme park attendees have nowhere near the nostalgic link to the series that millennials would, and that if they don't inject the series back into the zeitgeist, the golden goose might stop laying eggs?
sorry i saw some absolutely god awful stupid takes on chappell’s instagram and i got mad about it. yeah this rich pop star doesn’t need me to defend her but its a little hard not to get a bit of a chapped ass seeing whiny bitches on the internet take one of the few lesbian pop stars we have to task for the crime of (checks notes) refusing to spoon feed politics to her fans. maybe if you got off instagram for five minutes and like, did anything productive, you wouldn’t need a freshly 27-year-old white woman from bumfuck missouri to hold your hand and tell you what to think
the chappell roan discourse is so tired. y’all will find any reason to hate on a lesbian and it shows. known abusers/homophobes/transphobes/zionists (doja cat, lana del rey, melanie martinez, etc) still have careers and dedicated fans yet y’all jump on chappell’s ass for saying ANYTHING you personally disagree with. honestly? i think she should be meaner
Chappell Roan: Some of my so-called “fans” have been acting really creepily towards me, crossing some major boundaries to the point of sexually harassing me and invading my personal life when I’ve explicitly told them not too. Please don’t interact with me outside of my work hours, as I’d like to maintain my privacy.
The internet: oh my god chappell roan literally JUST said that she hates all of her fans and that they should all DIE can you fucking believe that??
Chappell Roan: I am going to vote in the presidential election and I think everyone should vote against Donald Trump, but I’m not going to endorse Kamala Harris as my personal candidate because her policies on Israel are not going to lead to effective change for Palestinians, nor hold Israel accountable for their war crimes, and I want a candidate who reflects my policies before I endorse theirs.
Everyone: did you hear chappell roan just said she’s not voting?? like she literally just said that she’s going to abstain from voting and she’s encouraging all of her fans to do the same. she must be a republican in disguise and is actually going to vote for Trump. did you know her uncle is a republican.
Chappell Roan: I think you all should stop getting your political opinions from fucking pop stars and stop expecting me to tell you how to think.
Everyone: WOOOOWW chappell roan is now saying that she’s not political. like she literally JUST said she’s not going to get involved with politics. what a privileged and selfish bitch.
Everyone: anyway now let’s talk about how doechii is literally holding gotye hostage in her basement to steal his music and she won’t let him go until every straight man has been executed.
Everyone: I support women by the way.
the problem with everyone becoming a reviewer and essayist now is that, plainly and gently, a lot of these people are not smart enough for the position
this post has gotten pushback and i want to be clear i am not against the idea of someone starting out bad at a craft and getting better nor am i saying that if you're not immediately excellent at something that it is not something you can ever be good at. what i am saying is that not everyone has the desire to learn how to analyze a work in the way that a proper review or analysis truly requires. in large part i think this has been perpetuated by social media sites like rateyourmusic, letterboxd, and youtube having very minimal thresholds for reviewing (unambiguously a good thing btw), but it has led to a trend of everyone calling themselves a reviewer when they simply are not good at it. and when this is addressed to them, they will take a defensive stance and go "it's my opinion".
and that's the thing: analyses and reviews and critiques and essays are your opinion, but they're your substantiated opinion that references other works, pieces of evidence, etc. i could write twenty paragraphs about how much i like a work but if i write it poorly and repetitively it frankly means less than a two sentence soundbite. the craft is being watered down and disrespected, and now whenever says they've reviewed something, i have to wonder "did they actually review it or did they write a summary and sprinkle in occasional comments/opinions that ultimately serve no thesis?".
i did not mean to frame "smartness" in an inflammatory way in the same way that i do not think everyone who has ever written a bad review is stupid or that anyone who is not a good reviewer is stupid. without derailing the post, i personally believe there are multiple types of intelligence and gatekeeping various fields for this is not a bad thing. not everyone is capable of working on spaceships, or doing brain surgery, or counseling people through mental health crises, or writing orchestral music. these are fields that require different types of skillsets and intelligences and it's not a bad thing if you or anyone cannot meet the standards of all of them or even any of them. my point is that people should try to express themselves in the ways that fit them and their perspective, instead of trying to shrink themselves down to a mold that doesn't fit or serve them.
i just want to stop seeing bad reviews and shoddy analysis. that's all.
okayyyy and what if i don't? would you be mad if i said the world of critical analysis is more than just vibes and memes?
