#intellectual investment

[oxventure-text-posts]

#oxventure #oxventure in the dark #edvard #edvard lumiere #barnaby #barnaby fortescue iii #barnaby “the butcher” fortescue iii #oxventure in the dark text posts #barnaby x edvard #edvard x barnaby #intellectual investment

[a-casual-egg]

#oxventure #oxventure in the dark #edvard #edvard lumiere #barnaby #barnaby fortescue iii #barnaby “the butcher” fortescue iii #edvard x barnaby #barnaby x edvard #intellectual investment

[langernameohnebedeutung]

ngl, I'm beginning to take issue with how in conversations about anti-intellectualism almost automatically, the face of girls and women will be slapped on the problem.

#'all those tiktok girls who only like marvel films and' - why do you always say girls and women? are the guys filling opera halls instead? #'women in their mid 20s who still only read YA novels' okay sure that's an example and relevant discussions can be had #but it reminds me of the mocking tone in which people speak of 'chick-lit' to use women's interest as an indicator of lower value #while in fact women are reading more than men in EVERY single genre of fiction. Women are doing a lot of (often unpaid) labour #supporting libaries supporting theatres supporting cultural events #meanwhile there is a pretty big overlap between toxic masculinity and anti-intellectualism #(especially misogyny and homophobia) #especially when it comes to things like ballet or opera or musical or generally dance #in fact it is often the female investment in specific things that makes them less 'valuable' in general consciousness #for thousands of years the theatre was well-respected and a high form of art - and now it's a 'wife-thing' #the father who will teach his son that theatre and dance are for girls - how is that never an example for anti-intellectualism

[myplasticadversary]

I think that Kendall would ramble on at Stewy about John and Paul being like cosmic soulmates in a totally heterosexual way while adding "just like you and me, dude", and Stewy doesn't at all give a shit about the Beatles but is very entertained

#kenstewy #mclennon #the beatles #succession #kendall roy #stewy hosseini #roman isn't all that invested but likes to say that they 'intellectually sucked each other off' to mess with ken

[suckerpunchfemale]

So George Martin decided to support the Writers by educating the public on why the strike by the WGA is so important...

Wholesome, informative, doing his bit to ensure the AI don't take over our part of the creative world. And do you know what the his comments were filled with? The living embodiment of "if shit had brains"

Imagine writing this on someone's post and thinking, "Yeah, this will be the tweet that makes them finish the book we've been waiting for. #proud"

#if i were him id announce that its finished and that it will be buried with me #the level of petty would be unmatched #i understand the frustration i feel it too #but we are NOT entitled to his work #we are NOT entitled to his time #he has no obligation to us #he is sharing his work with us and we compensate him for it #being emotionally invested does not make his intellectual property your own #george r r martin #george Martin #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #game of thrones #winds of winter

[fictionadventurer]

A character's motivation should not be a mystery. Their backstory can be a mystery. The depths of their character can be a mystery. But not motivation. If you want us to care, we should know why they're doing what they're doing; we should understand why success is so important to them.

A villain can be a different case. Sometimes, the only motivation you need to know about is "They're evil" or "They work for the bad guys." But if the feud is personal, we should see what makes it personal. Holding the "why" back as a thrilling reveal is almost never as effective as just letting us know from the beginning.

A plot twist gives you one cool moment. Character attachment makes the entire story interesting.

#adventures in writing #yes this is about the kenobi miniseries #half of the twist was the obvious thing from the beginning #i'll admit the other half of it was kind of a cool reveal #but how much more interesting would it have been to know at least some of this from the beginning? #it could have given us a little investment in her instead of her feeling like some interloper #who's keeping us from the kenobi-vader confrontation we all care about #she wasn't even necessary #because you have the very personal feud between vader and kenobi #obi-wan mourns anakin's fall and anakin's angry that obi-wan cut off his limbs and left him to burn to death #that's compelling! #you don't need another villain to get in the way of that #but even if she's needed to keep vader and kenobi from meeting too soon #they could have structured things to give us an attachment to her #or at least an understanding #right from the beginning #imagine if we'd seen her as a youngling in that very first scene #and then cut straight to her as a grown-up hunting jedi #immediately your intellectual and emotional investment are increased #how did she go from the victim to the villain? #what's her story? #it even still allows for the twist reveal but in a way that let us understand at least part of her a bit more #perhaps even have vader treat her like an apprentice #to be a dark parallel to the anakin-kenobi relationship #so it looks like the personal obsession with kenobi is just her trying to please her master #until she goes the way of all sith and tries to overcome her master #there were better ways to go about this #which holds true for just about everything star wars tbf #but sometimes their seeming unconcern with good story structure is baffling

[icewindandboringhorror]

I know multiple of these are likely important to people, but I'm asking in terms of like - which of these do you tend to focus on the MOST, enjoy the most, that is most essential for you to actually care about the media, etc.?

(For example: someone finding "Relatability" most important would likely not enjoy a show much if they have trouble empathizing with the characters/relating to it, even if it were good otherwise. Or, someone might be able to overlook bad acting and ugly costumes, as long as the Character Dynamics are fun to them, because they value that more than Aesthetics- while for others, bad costumes would be a dealbreaker.)

Also feel free to reblog and explain your answer or more information in the tags- I've always been curious about people's relationships to media, how they conceptualize it/what they get out of it, how some people value some parts more than others, how that informs their overall taste and genres they may be more inclined towards, etc. :0c

#I was having a conversation with a friend about our favorite type of media and they said the reason they DON'T like historical or fantasy #media or etc. is because they can't imagine themselves being in those situations like it's too detached from anything that they can relate #to personally. they put themselves in the shoes of the characters and apparently like feel emotions while watching stuff and actually #get into the way the characters are feeling so they kind of judge how 'good' or 'bad' a show's writing/setting/etc. are by how it makes #them feel and if they think the characters reacted realistically based on what they were feeling in the moment/what in their head they #would be feeling if they were in the postion of the character. SO apparently the distance of it being in an unrelatable setting or too #detached from our reality makes it harder for them to relate to and less able to really engage with it on that level. WHEREAS I watch #things exclusively in a very like.. detached way?? I'm INTERESTED.. it's like im intellectually analyzing everyhting that's happening and #can be intrigued by events but it's not in an emotional way? More of like a distant 'intellectual curiosity'. Maybe the premise or the #aesthetics or something about it has piqued an interest for me to observe it. to see what it's like or how it plays out. how the idea #is executed or etc. But like.. I cannot remember EVER really relating to any character or situation or projecting onto a character #or having those sorts of feelings or investment in it. That is just not a central part of why/how I watch things or what I care about #BUT after this I was thinking maybe this is my disconnect? I do not seem to conceptualize media the way some other people do and I often #walk away with an entirely different take on things. etc. So I wonder if maybe it's part of how everyone values different things probably? #maybe I literally just watch stuff and percieve it from a different frame of mind that others. More of a like detached curiosity #vaguely bemused analysis mode. Instead of a 'I am deeply emotionally invested in this and am feeling for all the characters' mode #And also I bet people who care more about plot/story are also the people who mind spoilers. Whereas for me I literally seek out spoilers #intentionally because that element of 'suprise ooh what will happen next!' is not central at all to my enjoyment. I could know literally #everything that will happen and still can find it interesting to observe - since for me #that's not the point. I'd rather know the ending so I can determine whether I want to invest the time in it in the first place. etc. #ANYWAY!! If I had to choose - I would say I'm usually heavily focused on world details and aesthetics. With only a slight preference #towards characters individually being interesting. Group dynamics can sometimes be okay but I get tired of everything being about relations #hips and romance - especially when sometimes it seems to be like. people who could not stand on their own as a character/are fundamentally #boring otherwise lol. I would watch a series of just one guy locked in a closet talking to himself as long as he was interesting and saying #things that were amusing or notable for some reason lol. I actually tend to dislike plot because most 'plot heavy' things like action focus #ed shows ALWAYS feel to me like they're moving so fast just to get from one thing to another that I'm not getting enough details. Part of #why I tend to not like movies. the time limit makes them too quick. I need a 95 hour expostion dump of the history of the entire world #and a series of 17 episodes straight where a guy is trapped in a room & the audience is just psychoanalyzing him. hghj.. Maybe I find all #characters annoying/unrelatable bc people w my personality type make bad characters/are not often represented (or are done BADLY). so then #I'm just picking 'who is the LEAST insufferable? who could i study like a lab rat?' whilst my main focus is the worldbuilding&costumes lol

[escapedaudios]

There's a weird overlap between guys who romanticize work in the trades and guys who are susceptible to speculative investment in worthless bullshit like NFTs and crypto. It's just so strange to see the type of guy who holds stuff like construction on a high pedestal because it's "real" work with real value cum their pants over a crypto bubble.

#this has nothing to do with my audios #speculative investment isn't real investment #most of these guys are profoundly anti intellectual so its no surprise #crypto #nft #very few of these guys actually work the kinds of jobs they romanticize

[estradasphere]

#im reading radio free albemuth which is the book that the first(only) high castle teleorkestra album is based on #very strange but im invested so far. this is the first time ive willingly read a book in yeeeears lol #though i wonder why they picked This novel in particular to inspire an entire album #reminds me of when tim said he called the princes of xibalba suite that because he just randomly saw it on a bookshelf and- #-wanted to seem intellectual LOL

[oxventure-text-posts]

#oxventure #oxventure in the dark #edvard #edvard lumiere #barnaby #barnaby fortescue iii #barnaby “the butcher” fortescue iii #oxventure in the dark text posts #edvard x barnaby #barnaby x edvard #intellectual investment

[a-casual-egg]

An intellectual investment fic inspired by @theoxvest 's list of which oxventure character would main which character in Mario Kart

#oxventure #oxventure in the dark #edvard #edvard lumiere #barnaby #barnaby fortescue iii #barnaby “the butcher” fortescue iii #barnaby x edvard #edvard x barnaby #intellectual investment #egg writes

[obsessivelollipoplalala]

The only musical based on a pre-existing film I've listened to is Shrek (I did sound crew for my high school's production of it lol) and aside from two decent songs...yeah, waste of time.

#actually the era of remakes/reboots we're in #kind of started with musicals #because producing musicals is so expensive #people would rather invest money into a pre-existing intellectual property #that people will probably go see #as opposed to something new that might flop #and cost everyone thousands of dollars to have put on stage

[whoredmode]

been developing oleg’s backstory more for my rewrite and i think he had a wife. this is very specific but. oleg gives me dead wife vibes😭 basically i think she was also part of the mafia he was with—i like the idea that she was originally part of an opposing family, or perhaps even part of the syndicate, and the two of them had this longstanding rivalry/flirting thing going on before eventually she switched sides to be with him. she was one of the last members of oleg’s crime family around, but after oleg was captured by the syndicate, she and the remaining members were killed.

like i completely write out the clone shit that’s in srtt and replace it with oleg just being held prisoner and tortured by loren, but i do think it’s interesting that family, or lack thereof, is a vaguely recurring theme with oleg. there’s several references to the brutes seeing him as a father figure in-game, as well as the saints eventually becoming his new found family, and i want to keep that going in my canon. sadly his actual family has been wiped out, and he has no one left to return to, so now he’s vowing to protect this new one he’s got.

#who knew i had so much to say about oleg but. i do. i really like the guy #also something about him saying its rare to find an intellectual equal. rare implies he’s found one before #srtt rewrite tag #and i’m so invested in his and troy’s dynamic #waiting for them to just be chatting and oleg’s like you remind me of young man in my old family. something something he died brutally. #and troy’s like. thanks?

[cordofcommunion]

started the semester with a high gpa, got an archivist assistant job And declared my minor in medieval studies

#i nearly died last semester but with good results so #but i also haven't made any lasting friends it seems which is likely on me bc i'm not geared to prioritize friendship over academics #even though i want to be #i just feel too removed from my peers and a lot of that has to do with me being unwilling to invest social energy #in what feels distracting and at worst ill-suited to me as a person #i'm better 'friends' with my profs rn than anyone #i can't seem to interact with anyone without an alterior motive arising on their part in the form of romantic interest #which i do not experience but no matter how much i say that it persists #i'd like a friend i could engage intellectually and creatively with

[aeide-thea]

wot show is so obsessed with architecture and tbh i'm not mad about it???

#the number of like. elaborate little symmetrical rooms they have for things to happen in… #part of me is loling but part of me is like. you know what? they've got a theme. respect. #tvblogging #(also i'm just getting to 2x08 now and like. it IS funny being a show-only*) #[*ok technically i read like. two? three? of the books back in like 2020 or something but. they weren't Formative Texts of my Adolescence] #(bc i remember everybody on here was *freaking out* abt‚ i think‚ 2x07) #(and like. in retrospect i guess i understand what that was about! but i gotta admit it didn't quite have the same emotional weight for me) #(even though intellectually i understand it was supposed to) #(i mean i also think i like. often don't get that emotionally invested in romances i see onscreen?) #(not sure if that's fundamental to the medium for me or if it's because everything is so compressed) #(however i AM kinda thrilled abt this season's regendering of Uncommunicatively Angsting Blorbo vs Their Long-Suffering Support Person) #(also honestly i always really love when we don't have to do a whole performative abasing reconciliation situation) #(and someone's just like. look. our relationship is so much more deeply rooted than this one wobble. obviously i'll take you back.) #(i think honestly bc it's like. a confidence fantasy.) #(like you got SO much witcher fanfic where geralt had to‚ like‚ prostrate himself at jaskier's feet) #(to acknowledge the harm geralt had done him and how jaskier deserved so much better etc etc etc) #(and it just felt to me like the writers were really speaking to their own insecurities and what *they'd* personally need) #(bc that interaction would've thrown *them* into a tailspin so obviously it must've thrown jaskier into one) #(and like. that's valid or whatever‚ obviously! but like. sometimes don't you want to imagine what it's like to feel secure instead???) #(like 'actually i know i'm good‚ you know where to find me when you get over yourself and remember you know it too'?)

[kindnessoverperfection]

I think part of the reason why I struggle to feel close with anyone is like. I really only know how to get my social need filled through judgement and approval and rank-climbing.

It's part of why I keep wanting to involve myself in Greek Life, despite knowing how toxic it is. I'd have people around me always, constant social events, and the expectations would be clear and harsh always. So I'd have clear and easy ways to get supply. If someone's "love" is conditional, then I know when I'm doing the right things, I know when they're approving of me, I know when we're "connecting". I crave it.

But the system's close friends? They'll approve of us no matter what. So like. What then? How do I feel that connection? If I don't have to earn their care, what direction am I supposed to go in? What do I do, what do I talk about, how do I act?

#just spilling thoughts everywhere rn but ugh #im so lonely #saw smthn online that felt like it was calling me out directly lmaooo #about not caring about individuals and only caring about avoiding loneliness #(like i care abt ppl's well-being but i have no personal investment) #it felt like a strength. grey cares so deeply about specific people but also gets cut just as deeply bc of it #meanwhile i could get attention from anyone and be just as satisfied. couldn't care less about who it was or if x or y person randomly #stopped talking to me #(b4 anyone comes at me. again i intellectually care about the well-being of individuals. like i want them to have a good life and a good da #yknow. and im not a jerk. and personally i DO *want* to connect i just dont know how. the emotions and drive aren't there. it's not persona #at all. and it's fine if that's a dealbreaker for ppl but i'm not evil for it and i don't treat people badly bc of it) #my supply-seeking and overworking myself and ED behaviors are all caused by the same underlying need #i don't know how to exist without people. which is so funny bc for so long i've acted like i'm so invulnerable and independent and don't #give a shit about anyone's approval. but i do. so fucking deeply. and since direct interpersonal relationships are terrifying #my brain seeks out the next best thing - societal approval. no names or faces attached. just anyone. something. anything. #when i'm talking one-on-one with someone - yknow what no gonna make this another post and try and work it out separately