everyone praises american vandal for hilariously and incisively satirizing the True Crime Netflix Doc formula, but i still think what made it most impressive was the way it thoroughly subverted the Teen Movie genre by simply not being set in a highly stylized borderline-fantastical world of its own rules that overlap extremely little with the actual high school experience. american vandal is the only piece of fiction ive ever seen about high school that truly reflects what high school kids are actually like, and there is something so unique and refreshing about that unflinching realism in a genre that seems to demand absurdism. idk
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“Discovery Channel’s ‘Shark Week’ Is Packed With Misinformation and Junk Science
Scientists watched 202 episodes and found them filled with unreliable information and white male experts named ‘Mike’”
i want to buy whoever wrote this headline for the smithsonian magazine a drink
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i think people have a tendency to overlook just how emotionally-driven dirk is as a character. probably because he has a tendency to try and mask it with the whole 'oh im doing this because i have everything planned out and this is the most logical course of action' shtick.
i know heart as an aspect is more in reference to a person's soul than it is to their emotions, but goddamnit dirk thinks with his heart okay!!! he may try to act like the logical one but he is RULED by his emotions!!!!
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its been brought to my attention that i never posted these pictures of the finished paintings of my partner! all of my love to him for being my muse and for letting me paint him. both paintings are 18"x24" and in total about 20 hours worth of work between the two
these paintings were both submitted to an art show, and if they are accepted i will be sure to update you all <3
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why did book 3 obliterate ms characterisation?
i promise this isn't me copping out but i haven't played book 3 since it dropped in april '23, so i couldn't give you a 100% accurate answer even if i tried
i spent multiple days analyzing issues with characterization when it dropped and then my life started falling apart – if i could remember + repeat what i remember from those conversations i would
what i will say of what i remember, is that a lot of my issues stem from being led to believe that the romance would develop a certain way and it going in a completely different direction – obviously, i know and respect an author's vision, but the dip in quality from the demo to the actual finished product made me step back and view b3 differently. instead of a fully realized story that i could see building on itself and leading to something much bigger, it was painfully obvious that this is a game with stats that had to satisfy requirements.
i only played one full route (m's of course) and after a while the scene/mood changes were so disjointed it took me out of it – lighthearted to heavy with no time to unpack or discuss, i.e. big relationship moments sandwiched between research/combat scenes and conversations with random side characters.
ultimately, just felt like a checklist of scenes being ticked off as the story progressed rather than a natural buildup with a solid plot progression like b1 and b2 imo.
i know i haven't gotten to specific instances of m's characterization being obliterated, which i said as an exaggeration, bc m is still m at timesin b3, but other times is an actual stranger in text – i don't think i can give you specific examples, but i can at the very least say that the above issues were what led to the issues of m feeling ooc.
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i was talking to my insane sister earlier today and she started telling me about this time she was tweaking and researched everything there is to know about doraemon. like she literally started explaining the plot of doraemon to me like it was game of thrones. she kept saying how craaazy the time travel is and went into great depth about the character relationships. i could barely keep a straight face
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