Ah, the Cinema Sins school of media critique.
Why didn't every character in this story and every person participating in this activity make the most optimal choice (as defined by my own understanding of "the most optimal")? DING!
I want to put the AAAAAAAAHHH with a lil skeleton on my work laptop
YES*
(*as long as it's available on good quality cotton that doesn't attract every tiny speck of dust in a two mile radius, I have two cats and spend an unreasonable amount of money on lint rollers)
Aha, Buckets of Space, sequel to a solo TTRPG Bucket of Bolts!
This sounds like it was written by an AI trained exclusively on tweets of a crypto bro who genuinely believes he would win a fist fight with a grizzly bear.
The Wretched record, The Moss Mother's Maze adventure and Under the Floorboards game, all by Chris Bissette.
I've got mail! I'm hoping to run Under the Floorboards by @loottheroom.bsky.social later this year for one of my groups.
I bought a turntable a couple of months ago. I can say with certainty that in that time I've paid more attention to the music I'm listening to that I probably had in a decade before. Because I'm actually LISTENING, and there's no app attached.
Reddit tells me my Led Zeppelin record is probably from the early 80s after all. Ah well, still happy to have it!
Update - Led Zeppelin sounds fantastic, so does Escape by Journey, side 2 of Puzzle People by Temptations crackles like hell but side 1 is pristine, Lust For Life reissue is shit (sounds flat and strangled), Gloria Gaynor rocks, and I got a MINT 1977 Linda Ronstadt record.
A hand holding Led Zeppelin's first album. The cover is a bit beat up.
A hand holding a lilac tote bag full of old vinyl records
I was warned multiple times that thrift stores and antique markets sell vinyl records at stupid prices and lie about everything, but I had a blast today! I'm an absolute noob, and everyone was lovely and helpful, I found a bunch of cool stuff. The best find was a 1973 pressing of Led Zeppelin. ☺️
It is unfortunately A TRAP.
White cat sleeping belly up on a bed in a patch of sunlight.
Wishing everyone the kind of blissful weekend my cat is having right now.
Was for me, I think.
They want everything to be a bedtime story. The witch has a crooked nose and she lives in a dirty shack with an evil little goblin minion. The princess is pretty, wears a clean dress and plays with cute animals. The witch is bad and will lose, the princess is good and will win. No thinking required.
No, you see, when it's a man, then anger does not count as an emotion. 🙄
Okay, but in what way and to whom would THAT be sympathetic or aspirational?
I suppose there is a not insignificant, media illiterate part of the audience who see the pathetic, humiliated, toxic man in themselves and feel inspired by the idea that he can also be "a badass" that everyone is afraid of, while remaining pathetic, humiliated, and toxic?
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I mean Danielle's take.
I hate the idea that it is amoral or misguided somehow to have "bad people" as characters in your media without being so moralistic about it that NO ONE can have ANY interpretations of the media other than "bad guy is bad, no further analysis required".
That's a shit take. Walter White is shown as an unambiguously terrible person throughout the show and he keeps causing harm to everyone around him. Was he supposed to look into a camera and say "cooking meth is bad, kids" to make it even clearer for the media-illiterate part of the audience?
The Poet Laureate of the UK is famous for his translation of St Gawain and the Green Knight, and Kym once got up on stage, looked him straight in the eye, and then performed this.
Unsurprisingly enough, every time they've encountered each other since, he's remembered them.
On a piano?! 👀
I just finished listening to Tiamat's Wrath last week, I'll be starting Leviathan Falls tomorrow. I love this series. It deserves a conclusion on screen. And it's literally BUILT to come back after a long break.
I'm talking about myself too. I've got one of those huge Lego sets on my shelf. I'm flying to the UK to watch CR play D&D TWICE this year. I watched and enjoyed Firefly when it came out. I would 100% be the target audience for this, if not for that pesky "unexamined" part. But I did the examining.
No, but you see, fantasy/sci-fi nerds who feel strong and unexamined nostalgia for things they enjoyed in their teens are now real grownups with REAL MONEY. They're buying $400 Lego sets and playing D&D in a castle! It's like printing money! (what I'm imagining the pitch for this was)
Reading elaborate 18th century cursive may be a bit difficult but the text itself is in perfectly clear English?
Hi Uni, I'm Ded.
Also, translated from what into what? I'm not even a native speaker and I can understand these documents just fine.
And that one you can actually restart after 20 years! Because that's what the books do, and they didn't finish the story!
My "ended too soon" show is The Expanse. And that's one where coming back after 20 years would actually be excellent, because the story in the books jumps a few decades forward.
Firefly had its conclusion with Serenity. And like you said, it doesn't hold up that well on rewatch.
Firefly had its moment in the sun, the story concluded with Serenity. The Lost Cause story is not something I want to watch, and the supposedly Anglo-Chinese worldbuilding could sure use some actual Asian people around.
Plus, Whedon and Baldwin can go fuck themselves.
