#undertale (it was better when nobody knew the twists but now everyone knows and memed it to death but it still holds up i swear)

[murderessdominatrix]

more and more often, I find myself falling in love with media for the potential it has to be good, not for what it actually is. That desire for something to be better leads me to create new details, new concepts and imagery to tie everything together into an actual theme, a real story.

I think that is ultimately the premise of fandom, taking something that is OK or even great and modifying it so its almost perfect. Rarely do you see media that is almost perfect develop a huge fandom, because there is so little to improve.

I love creating, I love seeing what others create, but also, there is something to say about watching a film or a TV series or reading a book that is so close to perfection that makes you want to sit in silence and reflect for a while. Something about experiencing a story that moves you in a way that makes words meaningless. Something that is beyond description, something that needs to be experienced to be understood.

I wish there was more of this. More stories that were created for the sake of telling a story and moving the audience, instead of created for the sake of making a profit. I wish we could fall in love with more stories for what they are, instead of what they could be.

#musings #thoughts #anyways here is a short list of media that fucked me up #undertale (it was better when nobody knew the twists but now everyone knows and memed it to death but it still holds up i swear) #everything everywhere all at once (talk about complex parent-child relationships in immigrant families! underappreciated i swear) #nope (a movie that critiques but also pays homage to hollywood in a way only a minority who admires an industry #that they have historically been excluded from could) #get out (exploration of neo-liberal racism) #knives out (exploration of how racism and classism isnt about individuals being nice or mean its about a group of people maintaining power) #the good place (we are all trying our best goddamn it also people and the finality of life are what gives us meaning) #Fahrenheit 451 (fascism and how censorship is bad actually) #animal farm (fascism again but also a little bit of how controling the youth is critical for a regime to succeed) #fight club (the book haven't seen the movie. iykyk and if you dont know then read the book using critical thinking skills) #jennifers body (the complicated relationship white girls have with each other and womanhood and their place in a patriarchal society) #no se aceptan devoluciones (a beautiful father-daughter relationship)