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thinking more about authorial insecurity in fiction... it truly is frustrating to me when an author is clearly ashamed of their own premises, or is preemptively responding to imagined criticism. this is where you get a lot of unfunny humor about how stupid genre conventions are and how Unrealistic fantastical/speculative elements are. like ultimately the reason that authors undercut and overexplain their own works is because they're insecure about audience reaction and want to get ahead of the haters by proclaiming that they're Not Cringe. this will not work because I, the ultimate hater, will eventually find them and make one million posts about how much I despise irony poisoning

#babel by rf kuang to me #just reading the introduction i was like 'girl who hurt you you don't need to explain why you changed some historical facts in your #alternative history book before i even read the first page' #the entire time i felt like she was sitting right behind me ready to jump in to make sure i know she thought of every possible attack of #her work and preemptively wrote in a counterattack into the book #but reading a work of someone constantly on the defense is not a fun experience #and most of the time when she tried to tie lose ends with a footnote or sth i was like 'girl either make this a part of the actual narrative #or just leave this bit unanswered' i feel like a less selfconscious writer could get a way with narrative additions in footnotes and make #them impactful but (and maybe this is harsh) i feel like rf kuang treats herself too seriously for this to work for her #anyway #on writing #text post

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ever since i learned about ghost buildings i haven't been able to stop thinking about them

#architecture

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I had a very interesting discussion about theater and film the other day. My parents and I were talking about Little Shop of Horrors and, specifically, about the ending of the musical versus the ending of the (1986) movie. In the musical, the story ends with the main characters getting eaten by the plant and everybody dying. The movie was originally going to end the same way, but audience reactions were so negative that they were forced to shoot a happy ending where the plant is destroyed and the main characters survive. Frank Oz, who directed the movie, later said something I think is very interesting:

I learned a lesson: in a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow — in a movie, they don’t come out for a bow, they’re dead. They’re gone and so the audience lost the people they loved, as opposed to the theater audience where they knew the two people who played Audrey and Seymour were still alive. They loved those people, and they hated us for it.

That’s a real gem of a thought in and of itself, a really interesting consequence of the fact that theater is alive in a way that film isn’t. A stage play always ends with a tangible reminder that it’s all just fiction, just a performance, and this serves to gently return the audience to the real world. Movies don’t have that, which really changes the way you’re affected by the story’s conclusion. Neat!

But here’s what’s really cool: I asked my dad (who is a dramaturge) what he had to say about it, and he pointed out that there is actually an equivalent technique in film: the blooper reel. When a movie plays bloopers while the credits are rolling, it’s accomplishing the exact same thing: it reminds you that the characters are actually just played by actors, who are alive and well and probably having a lot of fun, even if the fictional characters suffered. How cool is that!?

Now I’m really fascinated by the possibility of using bloopers to lessen the impact of a tragic ending in a tragicomedy…

#on film #on theatre #text post

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Ilia fucking Malinin’s world record breaking free skate

#figure skating #vid

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women………….. | DOROHEDORO

(by the way. this is noi.)

#dorohedoro

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#the untamed #yunmeng sibs

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Jiang Cheng & Wei Wuxian | Episode 28

#it literally is 😭 #the untamed #yunmeng sibs #cql meta

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#oh baby 😢 #the untamed #fanart

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the circus was in town that day 🤡

#mdr #lgbtq

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His whole life he had been honest and righteous and immaculate - you were the only mistake he made.

#😭 #the untamed

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The foreshadowing in the first act of Jurassic Park is nuts, considering it's an adaption of a story everyone watching it knew.

Most famously, this is a movie that foreshadows the entire plot with a seatbelt, with Grant having two "female" connectors but managing to tie them together anyway, or the fact that the plot is kicked off by Hammond treating a liability tour conducted bc dinosaurs ate someone as a exciting grand opening, but like

"Dr. Wu is introduced writing lab data down in pencil, and erasing it." Sure

"In the DNA lab some of the dinosaur's names are misspelled." Huh (and likely intentional, since it's two misspellings of two popular dinosaurs shown in close-up)

"When Hammond is pouring champagne for Grant and Sattler, he accidentally grabs much cheaper glasses without noticing, and we can see the right glasses sitting in the background" What?

I think this ties into the "UNIX system" scene too. Set aside that that was a real, if obscure, file manager program, everyone mocking how it was an example of Hollywood "not getting computers" is wrong on those grounds too. "Yeah, it looks cool, but it wouldn't be very efficient or functional". Yeah, and that's why it makes perfect sense for John Hammond to have it on the computers at Jurassic Park. After all, a boring, functional folder doesn't scream "spared no expense". It's not an great example of the filmmakers not getting computers, it's a great example of a character not getting computers

#jurassic park

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#jurassic park

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JURASSIC PARK (1993) Dir. Steven Spielberg

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#mdr #jurassic park

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You brought us back to life. You did something I thought no one could do.

The Secret Garden (1993), dir. Agnieszka Holland

#this was THE movie of my childhood #my first ever vhs #i got it together with the book with the instruction to read the book first from my grandma #and the feeling that i must read the book before watching a film it was based on stayed with me into adulthood #the secret garden

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Credit: Symbio Wildlife Park

#animals #vid

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#he looks so good! men should wear bags more #cql cast #xiao zhan