Sometimes you have got to step back and say this media (or media’s fandom) is not for me, it handles topics in a way that upsets me, and I will stop consuming it, will stop debating it, will stop immersing myself in a thing that promotes my misery
I do not say this flippantly
When the majority of your interactions with a piece of media are ones in which you suffer, you deserve to be able to put it down and step away and find something else
You will not argue it better, and your suffering is not a badge of honor
and as I’ve said on this topic before: it’s okay to grieve for this! grief is as much about lost potentialas anything else. if you need to find a place with supportive people who will listen to you vent and grieve for the loss of the happiness you once hoped this media could give you, then do that. give yourself permission to grieve, and then step away.
ENOUGH. no more celebrities. we only post about biocrusts now.
“what’s your opinion on-” what’s your opinion on this sick complex community of algae, cyanobacteria, lichens, bryophytes, and assorted bacteria, fungi, archaea, and bacteriophages that colonize the soil surface?
one of the things i really like about the wheel of time show that stands out from both past bigtime tv fantasy adaptations (okay, it’s game of thrones) and the WOT book series is just how clear it is that the characters are friends. in the books they always seem to be sniping at each other or behaving cordially but judging each other on the inside, but in the show as it currently exists there’s so much palpable affection, you can really feel that these people are comfortable with each other and have intimate histories beyond just happening to be involved in the same plot together, and it gives them more density as characters and shows how that intimacy matters when they are going through these intense, traumatic, world-changing events together. they’re not bonded by the trauma, they have had bonds before it and those bonds enable them to survive it better than they would alone. there’s a lot of visible, casual affection and closeness on display here, in a way that reminds me of lord of the rings somewhat, how the movies had that running undercurrent of earnest, unembarrassed friendship. it’s really refreshing
David Jenkins was a playwright before he was a tv showrunner and it so clearly shows in how OFMD was designed as a stage play, indeed, our logistical questions around how Stede managed to find his crew with just a dinghy or why distances don’t matter only come up because we can see the ocean and the distances thanks to the power of CGI movie magic and wouldn’t even ping our collective consciousnesses if this was all happening on a stage as the story in its bones was clearly meant to be, in this essay I will…
Oh so that’swhy Blackbeard sustains being Blackbeard primarily through really great special effects, and Stede survives as the Gentleman Pirate solely via his dramatic instincts.
[ID: Tumblr tags condensed for readability: seriously though I think half of the point of the show is that we’re all playing roles and sometimes the roles stop working, and it’s okay to change them, and also we’ll cope with being human much better if we can see through each other’s roles to the hearts behind them /end ID]
@the-moon-loves-the-sea EXACTLY. This is it. This is IT. The messages of the show blend so well with the format & suspension of disbelief when you accept that theatre is the core of it.
