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I think LGBT people need to be meaner again

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imo we gotta stop acting like podcasts are perfect and can do no wrong w gay and trans rep just because they happen to have more gay people than the average tv show

#eyes emoji

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anyway just so you’re all aware, pretty sure the king falls am tumblr just unfollowed me for saying to read the death of the author by roland barthes which wasn’t even a criticism of them whatsoever

#king falls am #kfam #eyes emoji

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i’m not gonna make my own big post about the kfam fandom drama, but if anyone’s interested, i think this would be a great time for everyone to read/reread The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes. It’s very short! You’re all in quarantine! You have the time! 

The title gets thrown around a lot online, and though it’s not used incorrectly, I also think it’s worth mentioning that The Death of the Author in its original intention isn’t a wholly negative thing or used only with writers you dislike or disagree with. 

For folks who use The Death of the Author in academia, it’s how you read everything from Shakespeare to Plato. It’s about removing an author and their intentions from a text in order to prioritize the reader’s relationship with the actual content, free of hierarchy. Death of the Author gives a text infinite meanings instead of a hierarchical meaning determined by the author.

For anyone upset by what’s going on in the kfam fandom - or anyone who wants to enjoy but also be critical of texts - I highly recommend utilizing this framework in your consumption of media. Because it means that your interpretation of the text is always inherently more important than the writer’s. 

And, very importantly, The Death of the Author isn’t something fandom made up because they’re special snowflakes who hate writers uwu!!! The Death of the Author is an instrumental part of the postmodern literary movement, and an essential tool in the past fifty years of literary critique. Use it as much or as little as you like, inside fandom spaces, academia, whatever benefits you - but I think it’s a particularly useful tool for divorcing the messy drama of fandom from the show and/or its characters. 

#king falls am #kfam #if you're interested also read from work to text! #it's my favorite essay of barthes's even though i definitely want to read more #also i'm not an expert by any means but i've taken multiple literary theory courses so i do know what i'm talking about

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okay I already made a much longer post about this but re: the ask I just got:

do they ever think that maybe we also use this same piece of fiction as an escape?? that we also want to see it be successful and have a nice community?? because what this is telling me is that you only want positivity from people that already completely agree with you, and that someone raising a legitimate, measured criticism that is in no way made to “harass, bully, [or] threaten” about a piece of media is never allowed and is only ever bullying

like, just pulling examples out of the air, say someone raises criticism about the way that a character with an already marginalized identity is kind of being treated awfully by this weird portrayal of a ““dark”” version of him, and that such a portrayal is really difficult to see (or hear I guess) because the themes of suffering and frankly religious undertones that seep through in this portrayal of the character are far too reminiscent of the kind of suffering that people in this marginalized group feel in real life. could you imagine how that would make it difficult to use that piece of media as an escape that they once were able to??

#this tea is fucking delicious #kfam was a safe space for me for a year and a half and i literally have not relistened to any of it since ep100 #i'm glad i was already death of the authoring in my mind when this happened #but even without ep100 this would be an extremely yikes situation #do i laugh every time i think of death of the author being a death threat? yes

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can I ask what happened with kfam? I don't really keep up with the social media :D

A good link that explains right here.

#kfam #it's extremely messy but also i was very entertained in a bad way yesterday #anonymous

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hey @kingfallsam maybe read/watch these before you block me lol

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_the_Author

https://youtu.be/B9iMgtfp484

#l i t e r a l l y #read some roland barthes and maybe you'll calm down #i recommend from work to text next #kfam

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SCHITT’S CREEK // January 13, 2015 - April 7, 2020

#the best finale #schitt's creek

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Look this beautiful house

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DAN LEVY and NOAH REID reenact iconic rom-com scenes for EW

#i love them

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92nd Academy Awards Best Picture winner:

Parasite / 기생충 (2019) dir. Bong Joon-ho

#parasite

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greetings men who haven’t disappointed me yet

#is it anyone now??? #it used to be kfam but lmaoooooo

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greetings all women

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Ki-jung – the facts are she’s the baby in the family, and she does sometimes come off as the most adventurous and progressive, but also very realistic out of the four Kim family members.  But in reality, she’s very saddening, sometimes, and very heart-aching, because the amount of tests and exams, and the cuts that she didn’t make.  She seems like someone who’d never complain about it: Her only outlet was the little pouch that she hid on top of the toilet, with the cigarette case and the money.  But she is definitely someone who would never talk to other people about her problems, and in that sense that’s why it was heartbreaking, because she felt that her only outlet was that cigarette box and nothing else.    But when Ki-jung starts going to the rich house, and takes on the role of Jessica, it was very cathartic as someone who was playing that role, because she was finally able to utilise every single skill that she had, and finally was able to use the tools that she’s been wanting to, but was never given the platform to do so. 

PARK SO-DAM as Kim Ki-jung/Jessica in PARASITE (2019)

#godddddd she was SO good #parasite

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been awhile but after this post i’m still thinking about how “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” and the building up of the end of phrase 2 like they were going to bring jack back is not a subversion of audience expectations like seemingly intended, and is instead conforming to every single one of our ingrained expectations in genre fiction that a gay couple’s suffering must continue in new dark, twisted ways

gay people are already presented in the vast majority of genre fiction like the sick subversion of every love story, and if the next season (which tbh seems likely to be the final season) portrays jack wright primarily as possessed by evil and not as his own person with his own story....that’s a fucking difficult narrative line to walk without villainizing sammy and jack’s relationship entirely, and making the story about anything but love, and a happy ending can’t mitigate all of that damage

love interest-possessed stories aren’t new, (and most definitely aren’t new when it comes to gay couples, i say with bitterness as i think about the magicians). but anyone with a decent level of media literacy can realize that possession always means more than just a surface plot device. 

most famous example? angel losing his soul and turning into angelus on buffy. it’s very clearly intended as a parallel to a boyfriend turning abusive after having sex. within genre fiction, we as the audience are primed to search for that angel-to-angelus equivalent metaphor. and in the case of king falls am and jack wright, the obvious answer has deeply unsettling narrative consequences about gay love being an immoral temptation

because, not to be harsh, if i wanted a story about a gay man tempting his lover to abandon his family and join him in hell, i’d just go listen to a sermon at the culty church in my small mountain town! and it would be such a shame if a show with as much potential as king falls am, with writers who i believe are talented and well-meaning, fell down that endless rabbit hole

right now? it’s a slippery slope that almost makes me dread the show coming back. and i wish it didn’t, because i love the show very much! i’m rooting for the writers here! this is criticism, not cancellation. but it’s not a crime to say that i’ve been genuinely upset about this for at least a moment every day since ep100 came out and yet still, it’s one of the few pieces of genre fiction i believe wants to portray gay love as love. but if jack wright’s primary narrative function is to be an antagonist, i don’t know how they’re going to do that successfully.

and look, i get it. if i’m unhappy, tell my own story. and i am! i’m halfway through a manuscript of my own novel, i’m planning on writing another this year, and i’m applying for grad school to write a master’s thesis about the pervasive imagery of marginalization within sci fi/fantasy/horror, a topic i’m extremely passionate about and have only become more passionate about after my disappointment with my favorite show. i’m doing fine and i’m making my own work - but i really, really wish that telling my own story wasn’t the only way to experience a story that treats gay love with dignity. 

#king falls am #kfam

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MY HOUSE. MY RULES. MY COFFEE!!

KNIVES OUT (2019) dir. Rian Johnson

#knives out

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Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Series 1.

“’Holistic’ is the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.”

#dirk gently