people applauding marvel for its “first openly gay character” in endgame is only proof that we are living in the most pathetic timeline. you’re gonna tell me we’re in the year 2019 and a multi-million dollar industry lets a nameless extra use male pronouns for a dead, irrelevant partner during a throwaway scene in a three hour movie and we’re all supposed to bust a liberal nut at The Brazen Woke Inclusivity??
This is the same franchise that disallowed Valkyrie from being written as openly bisexual and made sure all the f/f content in Black Panther got the ax. Black and Brown creatives wanted to give us real representation but this bullshit is what we’re expected to applaud? nice try.
you could point a drill to the ground, break into the earth’s core, and even then the bar would still somehow be lower.
just throw them away then! why is people hoarding stuff that no one wants better. it all has to go somewhere when you die anyway
Wow it’s almost like the problem is our entire commercial fast fashion industry and not Marie Kondo.
And the clothes nobody wants from donations, you could just as easily tear up to make “t-shirt yarn” and then make thick warm blankets out of them for homeless shelters, animal shelters, some medical facilities, etc. Or you could compost the natural fiber ones (cotton, linen, wool), and make a memory quilt out of the synthetic ones. Or or or, there’s a ton of ways to upcycle clothes if local donation centers really don’t want them–which says something about the donation center itself, rather than Marie Kondo’s methods. Obviously don’t donate stuff that isn’t quality (no torn, stained, or ratty clothes), either find other ways to use them or throw them away.
But yeah, like pp said, it’s almost like the issue is with the way we push people buy and hoard rather than Marie Kondo helping people get their homes and lives in order!
The “how many planks can you replace in a boat before it’s not the same boat anymore” puzzle, except “how many mods can you install on Skyrim before you’re not playing Skyrim anymore”
The Skyrim of Theseus is my favorite philosophical quandary.
I hate this “no spoilers” culture that we live in right now. Producers and writers are so terrified of fans predicting the ending to their works to the point that they’re making nonsensical endings to their narratives. They’re messy, out-of-character, and outlandish, but, hey! at least they’re unpredictable!
Rian Johnson, The Last Jedi — completely ignored & disregarded the 3-film narrative arc J.J. Abrams has planned out for the sequel trilogy, and instead developed his own messy narrative full of subversions for the sake of subversion, and completely disrespected the legacy of Luke Skywalker’s character (Mark Hamill himself has reported several times that he doesn’t recognize the character).
Russos, MCU — give out fake scripts, actors play against green screens and are cut & pasted together in post, show fake/edited scenes in trailers, throw away previous character development (Thor, Ragnarok vs Infinity War and especially Endgame).
D&D, Game of Thrones — throw away a decade of foreshadowing and character development for shock value, not to mention they missed a whole ass Starbucks cup in a shot in 8x03 (either on set or in post, somebody should’ve noticed this).
I’m sick and tired of this. It’s not good writing, and it’s no longer entertaining to fans when the characters they know and love become complete strangers. There’s good shock value — “No, I am your father,” for example — and then there’s ignoring years of character development and turning a kind and caring character into a murderous maniac. There’s a difference, and I think writers still know what that difference is, but they’re pressured to create an ending that fans can’t predict because of this mass panic over “no spoilers”.
This needs to stop. Give me a happy ending. Who the fuck cares if we guess what comes next? That means the writers have done their fucking jobs. If we can guess what comes next that means the writers have successfully developed their characters and foreshadowed future events as you’re supposed to do in a well-written narrative.
No spoilers? Sure. I like to experience narratives without being spoiled. But don’t make the narrative unrecognizable by the ending. It’s just not good writing.
One of my favourite myths is one about cheetahs getting their streaks from the tears of crying mothers through the generations. It’s possible the most beautiful story imo in existence.
The version I was taught in Zulu was that a mother loses her cubs to a hunter. After hiding them in a bush and going to hunt, the Hunter- being too lazy to hunt traditionally - steals them, and so distraught she cries and cries until the tears stain her cheeks. A wise man, hearing this, comes and helps her. Hearing that her cubs were taken he tells the whole village about the selfish hunter, who is then banned.
Now cheetahs wear those stains to remind everyone that it is only honourable to hunt traditionally.
It would be epic if some of our myths and legends were represented more because some of them are plain gorgeous, whilst others like the tokoloshi are practically key to understanding the culture.
