#not necessarily in a bad way at all!

[oedipushansen]

this is kind of hard to explain and maybe its just me but succession s4 at some points feels like. a script a fan from here would make

#not necessarily in a bad way at all! #it just feels. like. Different from the other seasons #its a lot clearer abt certain stuff and it calls back to things from previous seasons & addresses stuff in a way the previous seasons didnt #if that makes sense #like.. the connor mom cake thing. gregs gay dad. sophie experiencing racism. roman being physically abused #i dont have any opinion on this at all whether its bad or good but its just interesting to me #im honestly enjoying the New Feel of the season & i go crazy over any anecdote that reveals more abt the roys’ lives but i can understand #ppl not rlly digging it as its not something succession has rlly Done before #idk maybe this is just nonsense i could just be looking too deep into things #txt

[antianakin]

It's really depressing that the only real Jedi centric and Jedi positive show in existence is written for preschoolers, while many of the more "adult" shows are edgy and about morally ambiguous or straight-up evil characters. As if lessons about being kind and selfless are somehow not important or relevant to adults just as much if not more than they are to children.

It feels like characters who are unambiguously good are seen as only enjoyable by the very young and adult viewers will only actually appreciate characters who are cruel and selfish (and the requisite "tragic backstory" that always goes with it to help excuse their cruel and selfish choices).

It's just really sad and disappointing.

#star wars #listen i love andor #i really do #but i'm seeing a pattern of shows aimed at older audiences always always ALWAYS having moral ambiguity as a central theme #the good ones like andor always keep in mind that these people are doing awful things #they're not necessarily heroes even tho they're on the right side #the bad ones like ahsoka and acolyte find ways to send the message that being selfish is actually the right thing to do sometimes #i'm just so tired of the jedi getting relegated to the side because no one can see nuance in unambiguously good people #like at best they are just not there at all #at worst they are turned into the villains specifically for refusing to stop practicing their culture even in the face of persecution #give me my adult jedi show #GIVE ME THE REVA SPIN-OFF I DESERVE #STOP GIVING ME THIS JEDI CRITICAL BULLSHIT #IT'S ALL HORRIFICALLY BAD #I DON'T CARE HOW GOOD YOUR CGI IS THE STORY IS NO LONGER STAR WARS IF YOU HATE THE JEDI #GO MAKE YOUR OWN SCI FI IF YOU CAN'T RESPECT THE JEDI

[trans-cuchulainn]

had a really interesting convo yesterday about ethics and whether intent or results matters (eg if you tried to make an ethical purchasing choice but the business was actually exploitative as hell, does that "count") and very much came to the conclusion that sure, if you're concerned with your personal immortal soul, as a christian might be, then intention counts. but if what you're focused on is your impact on the world, then intention means nothing if the actions have negative results, right? (that doesn't mean you're to blame for them! you didn't know! but you also don't get "ethics points" for trying, you know?)

and this also got me thinking about the whole christian idea that sinful thoughts are as bad as sinful actions because. they're just not imo. maybe for the sake of your Immortal Soul they are points against you, if that's your jam. but in terms of putting good into the world, in terms of your impact on other people, the ONLY thing that matters is what you choose to do with those thoughts. there is no way that "was kind to someone who was pissing me off, for the sake of community harmony" or "helped an acquaintance with a task even though I felt resentful about the time spent doing that" is a Bad Thing for the world

and it made me wonder how much purity culture and thought policing is rooted in (mostly evangelical) cultural christianity and this idea that ethical choices are an individual thing because what matters is the impact of them on YOUR soul and not, you know, things we do because of what we owe the world around us / because of love for others / because a world where people are trying to put good into it is a hell of a lot nicer to live in than one where people are only worried about themselves

i grew up evangelical but like. fairly mild evangelical and even though there wasn't a big focus on hell and stuff, i definitely fixated on imperfect thoughts and behaviours that were putting absolutely no harm into the world, rather than focusing on what i could do to put good into it, and that individualistic vs outward-focused approach to morality has been something i've grappled with a lot as an adult. but i never really thought about it as simply as this and really that's what it boils down to. are you making the ethical choice because you're trying to put good in the world, or because it would make you a "good person" to do so? because the answer to that 100% defines whether it's the thought or the result that counts

#also i feel like Sinful Thoughts Are As Bad As Sinful Actions... #as well as being bullshit... #is just like a one way trip to moral ocd and a whole lot of guilt spirals #and i just don't think it's useful! you can't necessarily choose your thoughts! #you can however choose your actions because Good is something you do not something you are #ethics #i do think The Good Place did more to make me interrogate my evangelical upbringing and ethical assumptions than anything else #but also this idea of putting good into the world... idk. it's kind of encouraging AND scary #i don't think I'm naturally a very good person but i can choose to do good #i can be bitter and jealous and resentful and still help people and make their lives a little easier #and my feelings are not actually impacting on the world whereas my actions are #at the same time in a society built on exploitation and corporate greeed #it's hard not to be conscious of the harm my actions are doing without me trying #i didn't necessarily make an unethical choice but all of my choices cause harm to someone somewhere #living in the west and the global north and whatever you become very conscious of that

[angelsdean]

me, dean, and everyone else watching: ok sure, sammy

#vics spn rewatch #spn 1x10 #the apology is made worse by j*red's inability to actually sound sincere #he's doing his fake sympathy voice and it is so. grating #adds a fascinating unintentional layer to sam as we've talked abt before #and it's like not necessarily a Bad thing to perform rather than feel sympathy #but like. this is very much a non-apology and dean knows it and we all know it #sam DID mean those things on some level. maybe not as harshly as he said them bc his anger WAS being heightened by the ghost #but those feelings were real #and sam is allowed to feel them. but they are in many ways. a projection and also unfounded #sam literally could leave at any time and dean would let him go (as we'll see in thee very next episode!!) #just bc he feels those feelings doesn't mean they're inherently true #dean isn't keeping him trapped. dean isn't just blindly following orders. dean Does have a mind of his own #and in fact dean isn't being all that great of a dutiful son bc he actively is not all that interested in finding john!! not the way sam is #and you'd think for dean being the one to initially show up and ask sam's help that he'd be more invested in finding john #and making sure he's actually alive instead of following random coordinates to a case. and taking on every other case they find too #anyways. sam's feelings of anger are real bc he feels them and it's okay to feel things #but he's massively misinterpreting and projecting things onto dean #and then he feels guilty (like post-possession) and tries to swipe it all under the rug and claim he didn't mean any of it #but he Does. and dean knows it. everyone knows it. #his perceptions do not align w/ what's really happening. bc he doesn't have the full context. #bc he doesn't know just how complicated dean's relationship to john really is. bc he was sheltered from a lot of that. #he sees dean desperate for approval and a good little soldier #when in reality dean was playing peacekeeper and mediator and punching bag most of their childhood. #and rn dean doesn't really care that much abt finding john. he just wants to hang out with his brother #not samcr*t btw. we love all this abt him it's spicy it's crunchy it's tasty

[trainingdummyrabbit]

in conclusion the most poignant thing about ruina is its running theme of Imperfection. imperfection, focused not on its flaws, but on the miracle of it existing to begin with. imperfection not as a failing, but as a triumph. its cracked, broken, deeply in need of repair-- but it's real and its ours and it exists. despite everything it exists and that enough is a relief beyond words, beyond expression. to present a toppled structure not as a conclusion, but an opportunity.

its the choice-- and the joy-- of looking forward, unflinchingly, and facing it. one step at a time.

#piktalk #projmoon #didnt want to . make a bigger tagwall than i already made . ae if ur reading this uhhhhhh sorry <33 hai KSJNFD #anyway one of these days i might get th voice to really truly put down everything and what it means in regards to . [motions w hands] #but this ones just on my mind right now. something abt the presentation of ruina just fucking Kills and this is the big reason why #ilike. had to take a good couple hours after th finale to just simmer with it. because well.. #again. its imperfection. every other story has such stark; lined up beats and paths and Messages Youre Supposed To Take #which ive spoken on before-- and it isnt a bad thing necessarily! but it does really speak something; quietly; #for those whose development Isnt That Neat. that Isnt That Kind. to themself or to others. im no expert; but it really does mean something #that ruina is written in such a way where there is no 'this is wrong and heres how they fix it to be forgiven' #or 'this is right and what everyone should do to be a Good Person' #angela simply Is. roland simply Is. they all simply Are. they make choices; have hopes; dreams; things they care about-- #and theres no overarching echo of What Should Be. simply what people do; and what people hope for. #um. anyway. tag wall again; in conclusion: Why Dont You Go Listen To Poems Of A Machine And Maybe Then Youll Calm Down

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

thinking about how silver knew or suspected that thomas might be alive almost from the beginning of season 4 and still didn't tell flint like

Flint: Do I need to be concerned that you took almost two hours to tell me about it?

Silver: We are at our least rational... when we're at our most vulnerable. If nothing else, this is a good reminder that without a doubt she is the point at which I'm my most vulnerable. The thought of losing her...

I see.

Silver: If we assume... that we are on the verge of some impossible victory here, a truly significant thing... if we assume that is real and here for the taking... wouldn't you trade it all to have Thomas Hamilton back again?

Flint: I think if he knew how close we were to the victory he gave his life to achieve... he wouldn't want me to.

Silver: I see. Though, that wasn't really what I asked, was it? Assume his father was just as dark as you say, but... was unable to murder his own son, assume he found a way... to secret Thomas away from London...

Flint: He didn't.

Silver: Would you trade this war to make it so? It is some kind of hell to be forced to choose one irreplaceable thing over another.

LIKE PERHAPS THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE YOU SHOULD BE CONCERNED HE IS NOT TELLING YOU

Flint: I know what it's like... to have lost her. And then seeing a way to have her back. I understand what that must've felt like. You asked me once what I would do, what I would sacrifice if it meant having Thomas back again. I honestly don't know... what I would've done. I honestly couldn't say I wouldn't have done what you did. I told you I'd see you through this. Put things back together again so that we can move forward. I meant it.

And then again he still doesn't tell him because he can't, not until he's certain he won't have to use it-not until he's certain he'll have to End Flint because he doesn't want to but he knows (has known this whole time) that he will be the end of him so he hid this Massive Thing from him even after he knew what it was like to lose Madi he Still hid it (this is of course assuming that thomas is still alive and that wasn't just a lie to madi or a justification to himself and flint to make sending him (flint) away to live the rest of his life in chains doing labor seem like it wasn't so bad really (and also ignoring the fact that miranda who was arguably more a catalyst for flint's war than thomas was is still dead and not even silver can bring her back from the dead))

it's just really funny idk what to tell you

#sorry i am FEELING things #like how could he even do this assuming thom is still alive like i fully believe him capable of it but holy shit #i think for a really long.time i had a hard time reconciling this like the way that he Hid it from flint again assuming thom is alive #and even then if he was telling the truth that doesn't necessarily exclude the possibility that silver killed him anyway so. #tldr oh naur the implications #black sails #james flint #john silver #theres also like the thomas only being alive because silver needs him to be alive which isnt a non factor in this #and also in the viewers ability to stomach flint being sent away to a plantation prison for the rest of his life like its really not so bad! #madi(viewer)!!!! it's fine!!! he's with the love of his life (according to Me The Storyteller so it must be True) and he's happy there #i prommy #he's fine #it's fine #like GIRL #the most insane thing of all of this is that he thinks somehow that THIS is the more comforting option to tell #like maybe for you it is so you dont have to live with it but idk it would have been kinder to just have killed him

[tomwambsgans]

tomgreg is about the fantasy of being able to find someone who genuinely likes that you're mean and in fact thrives very well being needed in the particular kind of fucked up way that you need someone which makes it so you don't actually have to work that much to strip away your superiority complex in order to be loved for who you are

#mine #tomgreg #like wait i can kind of very openly see you as an extension of myself and you LIKE it? jackpot #(slash pos obviously there's a lot of nuance here and tom is very selfless underneath it all) #anyway genuinely tho i do feel like a bit of their thesis is very purposefully lacking the notion of self-improvement #like tom def does work to change the parts of himself that harm greg - WHEN he learns that they do #but there's a certain like. ok maybe it's just me and my personal revelations #in any case those revelations are that it's NOT necessarily the goal for every person and every relationship to be any particular #idea of 'healthy' #like yeah sure MAYBE if greg went to therapy and if he really WANTED to he could become someone who didn't tolerate #the way that tom as a closeted man is only able to express affection #but like... if he CAN tolerate it... if he's pathologically WIRED. even. to tolerate it #then is it really harmful? #if it's love and if both parties are willing and passionate is it REALLY bad? does it REALLY need to change? #maybe the diversity of the human condition simply includes #that what's horrible for one man is ideal for another #and that includes the people you love. idk

[communistkenobi]

people fawning over the environmentalist themes in tolkien’s work has always made me deeply uneasy but I could never articulate why, and reading orientalism is clarifying a lot of that for me lol

#Said lays it out very clearly like #‘negative’ representations of the orient. as in representing them as deficient or lacking in some way #rests on ‘positive’ representations of the occident. as in the west is always ‘doing’ is always the thing driving human momentum #so idyllic representations of a pastoral post-labour society surrounded by fields and old world forests #populated by guys who have ample free time and fuck around all day #(& who are all white. at least in the films) #that’s not an uncomplicatedly good way to present the world #and is a perspective that is deeply informed by being beneficiaries of continued colonial extraction domination and exploitation #i meam the fictional world is literally called the centre of the earth lol #anyway not ‘cancelling’ tolkien or whatever I’m just glad to be able to understand why exactly #I think it’s bad to just uncritically praise his love of the environment as this like pure ideal #that is somehow uncorrupted by the historical and political context he came from #*post-scarcity I should say not necessarily post-labour #but like the labour processes that make that life idyllic in the first place are invisible

[whitmore]

i can’t stop thinking about that jacaranda tree in tallulah’s flower fields there’s so many implications there. the solid information we have is that phil logged in yesterday to “organize backpacks”, the tree and dugout appeared seemingly overnight, the waypoint is called ‘welcome back, nerd <3’. tubbo says that it’s likely someone who doesn’t know the mechanics of planting that kind of tree due to the waypoint placement in midair & the secondary dig that seemed to have occurred after the player realized the initial dig couldn’t host the tree.

our two most implicated players there are wilbur and tallulah; phil even points out that while the waypoint name is wilbur’s verbiage, the heart emoticon is not very wilbur and is more tallulah. he however pointedly makes it known that it’s built very wilbur-style, with spruce and stone walls. and logistically (to meta-talk it) it was not ccwilbur; he did not log in at an ungodly hour, dig a hole, plant a tree, and not tell anyone. plus (if we’re looking past the dialect disconnect) there’s no real reason for him to make a waystone seemingly welcoming himself back, and he isn’t narratively aware that the eggs are even missing, so it can’t be a wilbur-made-structure in preparation for tallulah’s return. so perhaps we say ‘well maybe ccwilbur asked ccphil to do it for him for some presently unknown reason and that’s why he logged in and organized backpacks!’ except why would phil lead tubbo there knowing it didn’t make much sense and was seemingly unfinished in terms of both build and story? (cc)phil could have so very easily diverted tubbo and him both from visiting but he made it a point to go out there to the field; phil saw the tree first, pointed it out first, investigated first, tubbo just followed his lead— did he know what he was walking into? was it planned; whose idea was that, the name of the waystone, the materials and contents chosen?

there’s no black concrete, which makes me hesitant to allude it to a dimensional-tallulah structure— there’s nothing that indicates she’s communicating like there has been with all the other eggs previous communications, not even a pink sign, though you could make the argument that the tree itself is her sign because it’s her favourite kind of tree, and it’s also her favourite color, but i think it’s kind of a stretch in the grand scheme of things. plus in a meta-sense, especially if we’re taking into account phil’s recent backpack organizing activities, there’s no reason to believe that 02 wouldn’t just dig and plant the tree herself, which still begs the question that even if it IS somehow tallulah’s doing, what was phil doing yesterday?

#eleanor.txt #qsmp #qmeta #i split this into paragraphs for easier reading but the breaks don’t actually mean anything #if i could morally leave it as one big paragraph i would it flows better that way #alas. i split for reading ease (both mine and yours) #it’s not like it’s a hidden place really either like it’s accessed via warp place in an open air space #it could Technically be anybody truly there’s no like securitycraft rp laws to respect #*warp plate my bad #this is kind of saying a whole bunch of not much bc i don’t come to an actual conclusion #i Do think phil built it. like in my theoriest of theories heart of hearts the timing of it all is too on the nose #ccphil that is. i don’t think qphil did necessarily #but i don’t understand Why. i want to know why so bad what is the goal of it #sighs. good things come to those who wait #also this is all q unless i specify cc in the meta sections. for clarification

[after-nine-at-the-oasis]

THEY SAID IT!! THEY FINALLY SAID IT!!!

AAAHHHHHHHHH

OMEGA IS FORCE SENSITIVE :DDD

#or well yk high midichlorian fount :)) #also ventress is gonna reveal herself eventually lol #'know some of their ways' lol yep #AOUGOUAGH TECH MENTION #😭😭😭 #not okay thank you very much <33 #anyway :OOO FILES #THEY KNOW IT'S HER #OUAGH O.O #nah she's sending her away to talk to them- yep lol #yk (as she's talking to batcher) I wonder if some of the reason omega managed to tame batcher is her force sensitivity #not necessarily but maybe #OUAGH BAD BATCH AND VENTRESS FIGHT #I mean guys. she's an extremely skilled force user xD #slay though all y'all lol #the bad batch #tbb #oasis's tbb chatter #oasis's sw chatter #AOIUGH CROSSHAIR!! #AND TOSSING THEM THEIR WEAPONS #AAEHHHH AND THR THEME!! #y'all going so insane #omega's gonna come in and stop them but I wonder if she'll use the force o.o and if it's all just a test #awkward moment to come back xD

[eastofoktober]

the watcher screw up fascinates me.

on multiple levels it feels like some startup tech bro sweet talked them into it.

first i’m like the entire watcher tv site is 🤨:

like website hosting can be expensive. video hosting on that website can be even more expensive.

having to cover video hosting and fee processing costs on your own website is going to ravage a huge chunk of revenue.

one perk of youtube is that you’re not paying to host your videos. yeah youtube is taking like half of what you make but theyre also not turning a profit either.

also with youtube, the algorithm helps bring in new fans. its hard to bring in new people with your own hosted website (unless you’re planning to partner with a bigger brand…which maybe thats in the pipeline)

and i get it:

producing videos is expensive. highly quality production ones like the ones they seem like they want make (“tv quality” 🙄) is $$$$.

i use to freelance video edit for a mid-level travel youtube channel. one video cost them 30k to make. they would clear 100k in revenue for it but…video production cost at a certain level is insane.

and it seems like they have a pretty loyal network of fans who have been supporting them thus far.

but to say that they’re taking everything behind the paywall is kind of a slap in the face to those who’ve been following since their buzzfeed days.

which is another thing i’m like 🧐 at. because buzzfeed at the beginning was this big millennial magnet for news and media for people who wanted to kind of stick it to the big names in the space.

early buzzfeed days, a lot of film and media people joined up bc they werent finding jobs in the traditional industry. and eventually it became cool to work at buzzfeed because it didnt have the same barriers that traditional media had.

buzzfeed wasn’t sustainable. it relied on a lot of talented people who they couldn’t pay very well and the subsidies of investors who got greedy and ran the well dry when their non-traditional media brand couldnt compete with the traditional. (though it could have been sustainable if it had better management maybe)

so its baffling that these guys who left buzzfeed bc they wanted to break free from the constraints when buzzfeed started as a way to break from the constraints of traditional media but crashed and burned because they couldnt land on the right profitable business model. and now they want to prove themselves as good as traditional television but on their own streaming service???

and id understand it more if they were churning out a lot more content more frequently but it seems kind of unnecessary to have a streaming subscription service when youve got like one show dropping a week so 🤷🏾‍♀️

i wish them the best but this was a bad fumble.

#watcher #and i don’t actually think the pivot to hosting their own content is necessarily a bad move #i think its the combo take all prev free and paywall it #and the weird disregard for their actual audience #is what is sinking their ship right now #they can still save it #but staying silent is not the key #also they should have had a pr pro go through everything first #bc some of the wording is 😬 #in ways i dont think they meant to come off

[dayurno]

#i will warn you only once: tsc spoilers #literally just finished it as i am drafting this its 5am where i live #so you may be subjected to some nonsense #that all being said i have thoughts.and feelings #the kevin was lovely and tasted delicious! jean defending him at every turn even when he swears to hell and back he'll kick his ass #the kevjean was surprising i was only half expecting that #the dog metaphors i have to say i need this one cashed in. nora run me my check #im joking of course dont quote me on it #jean taking kevins promise to the end and living on it is seriously so. well. #'be careful with him' 'take kevin's name out of your ignorant mouth' 'you promised me' #also kevin getting called the court's queen had me tender and on my back oml #jean's relationship with the trojans is sweet and he is very interesting and complicated #a character with many moving parts im sure #there were a few things i did not care for #namely jeremy and the trojans felt remarkably flat to me bar lucas (by far the most interesting) and catalina on occasion #i didnt quite enjoy jeremy's pov and felt like he spent perhaps way too much time worrying over jean? if that makes sense #i wish he had some more complexity to him or really anything to catch a hook on #all we know is hes attractive and smiley and gets along terribly with his family #so much of his character is sucked out by jean he didnt feel like much more than a plot device to me #which i wouldnt mind if jeremy wasnt the literal main character alongside jean #i was living for everything jean thought but had to drag myself through jeremy's pov if im honest #uuuuh what else. neil! funny. deranged. i have to love him #andrew couldnt give less of a fuck about jean which is funny as all fuck #two bugs placed in the same habitat ignoring each other #the thing with elodie i thought was complicated. i wish we knew some more about her or that shed been mentioned a little earlier #but im assuming thats a topic to be revisited #uuuuuuuh yeah so thats most of it. i think my first thought and the one that sticked out the most to me is that the book felt remarkably #pedestrian #not necessarily in a bad way #it lacked to me one of the main appeals of aftg which were the numerous interesting side characters

[twinge-of-cosmicangst]

Just thinking about how in boar on the floor when Logan asked the three of them who spoke to Pansil and Greg looks at Tom and says “please” it’s in ear shot of Logan and Tom and Greg just look at each other until Logan shouts “Hey” I think he knew at that moment it was Greg but wanted to punish Tom for covering for him, a worse crime in Logan’s eyes because Tom was showing more loyalty to Greg then he was to Logan. This with the implication that Tom spoke to Logan about Greg getting a promotion alongside him in exchange for information on the sibling’s plans, means that surely Logan would’ve clocked on to Tom’s fondness of Greg which could lead to some interesting scenes in season 4...

#tomgreg #I don’t necessarily think he’ll accuse Tom of being a queer like he does with his sons I think he’s more likely to call Greg a slur #with Tom he might say something like I know you see yourself as some sort of father figure to Greg #but you can’t keep looking out for Greg all the time you’ve got to look out for number #Tom would be offended because he’s not quote unquote old enough to be a father figure to Greg #but also because does not view Greg in a paternal way at least not entirely it’s obvious mixed in with his physical attraction to Greg #which he doesn’t want Logan to know about it bad enough he has noticed the genuine fondness that Tom has for Greg #so therefore Tom maybe tries to distance himself from Greg #idk tags turned into a post of there own

[pbnmj]

Ur tags about how Miles and Pavitr are the ones who say "I can do both" because it IS quintessential spiderman thinking AND because they're too young to have seen that devastatingly not work yet. BUT the thing is they are RIGHT but only if it's "we"! Spiderman's mythos is inherently a lonely one reinforced by Miles and Gwen's isolation and by every. single. intro. reminding us that every spider person is the "one and only spider person"! And yet!! These films are just about relationships (1/2)

YES YEAH YOU GET IT !!!! and (quite recently rewatched it and mentioning it here cause i can't believe i forgot to mention it in the post you're talking about) it really gets me that gwen also says 'i was doing both' in regards to protecting miles and protecting the canon event, and i love that the phrase was reflected like that, even tho (at this point of the movie) miles and gwen pretty much oppose each other in views/priority !!

it also absolutely kills me the way that gwen begins (like you say) atsv quitting the band and isolates herself, and then throughout the whole thing she finds something/someone that she wants to take that leap for, all over again :') she (and the entire spider-team!!) is willing to bet everything on miles and is ready to fight for him, and i really just love the idea that miles just is a force that inspires good !!!! IT REALLY IS ALL ABOUT LOVE!!!

#and . i dont think she would have done this without reconciling with her dad and that entire speech. #i do think that acceptance and love meant everything to her when she was at her lowest and it pushes her to do more + #AND it shows her canon events arent necessarily end alls. and it reflects in how she tells miles parents how much he loves them #just feel like. gwen now believes that love he has couldnt ever be bad. and it shouldn't have to make the world end... #and she believes it wont. AUGH #also been thinking that it's such a fun way to reflect that 'parker luck' #where yknow . where peter just cannot balance his two identities #and usually a spider-man success means something in his personal life goes badly #and idk i love when things are acknowledged to be like. the RESULT of being spider-man . #its fun to me. perhaps i am analysing media wrong. but tragedy magnet spider-man is so fucking depressing on many levels #and that opens up barbie dreamhouse levels of fun to me #generally superheroes creating their own enemies on accident . like ssm's venom was a goldmine to me i enjoyed that interpretation so much #i dont think miguel was right tho . fate of the multiverse/anomaly/etc I DONT CARE OLD MAN. UR OPINION WAS OVER WHEN U STARTED BEEF W MILES #and so sorry this took forever to reply to omg i adored reading this meta !!!!! #answered #disinherits #long post #sorry everyone the floor was open for my deranged takes again

[merriclo]

i sometimes wish that jesson rlly went for it in Phoenix Drop High and made the shadow knights these cringy emo kids who were total jackasses. bc as it stands they barely even scratched the surface of grunge, and i think that making them a group of wannabe emo kids would’ve been rlly fun….. like having them listen to MCR and pierce the veil and make fun of Zane bc he only knows the most popular MCR songs. maybe even put them be in a band but all of their songs just straight up suck and have those “my soul is caged and bleeding :(“ kind of emo lyrics. have Sasha wear the those fingerless fishnet gloves with her uniform. make them force Aphmau to steal a pin from Hot Topic as one of her initiation things. idk maybe it’s just me

#plus laurance would’ve had an embarrassing emo phase and i think that’s very fun #and i say this as a wannabe emo kid btw #and all of them don’t even have to be necessarily emo. make em goth or more grunge #sasha’s whole ‘i don’t go to class as a way to stick it to the man’ aligns with like. 15 yr old punk ideology. so yknow #i’m partly glad she didn’t bc the shadow knights were def a way for her to teach her child audience to not skip class or graffiti and such #and having that associated with alt subcultures could’ve reinforced some weird stereotypes #and bc it’s a kid’s show it couldn’t rlly go into the nuances behind a lot of it #but in my heart. i crave emo kid shadow knights SO bad #phoenix drop high #shadow knights #aphblr #aphverse

[weidli]

would be very funny to me to introduce a bunch of americans who are used to the constitution being treated as a gift from god that's very hard to change and is holy Because it's almost never changed and has been in operation in nearly the same form since 1789 to the way the swiss constitution (last total revision in 1999, there have been several hundred direct democratic votes on possible changes to it since 1848, all you need to suggest a change is hundred thousand people with voting power who'll sign the suggestion) works

#i think about it every time we talk about volkainitiativen in öff. recht sorry it's So fucking funny to me #american view of the constitution is like oh this ancient unassailable thing and every change to it is earth moving #and swiss people are like ehhhhh should we put in a rule fining dog owners for not picking up dog poop in public parks? #what do you think guys? show of hands please #i'm not saying one way of doing things is inherently Better (there's some fucked shit in the swiss constitution Because the voting #population can do whatever with it (ius cogens aside) see for example 72/3 minarettverbot or all the bullshit around 121a) it's just #very interesting to me #i also think it's fun when i read works of fiction #often fanfic #that take place in alternate universes idk scifi sentinel/guide fantasy whatever introduction of magic you wanna do #that results in the author making up a legal system including a constitution #and it's just Very Obvious that the author's never encountered a different concept of thought around constitutions than the american one #again not bad necessarily! but fascinating to me #iuris