The duality of man.
Britain has such weird slang, especially when it comes to insults.
Like we’re the only place where a person has to think twice if someone says, “I’m gonna go outside and smoke a fag.”
Yesterday, my friend was like
“The British have a miraculous ability to make any word into an insult by adding ‘Absolute’ to the front of it”
Ie, “You Absolute Cotton Swab!”
“Well I was a fed and I….”
oh no a federal agent with nothing but various incentives for wanting to disarm me, I'm sure they're telling the honest truth 🤣
Postal inspectors are still cops, but more importantly; so what? “Military-style” and “high-capacity” are weasel words. Intended to be dramatic without actually saying anything.
Heck, she almost admits the “high-capacity” mags are actually “standard capacity”.
And she doesn’t actually define any of her terms.
Also, wasn’t this right about the time cops generally switched to semi-autos because the criminals outgunned them? You know, people who already tend to own guns illegally?
You know, when this whole AI art, deepfakes and other shit began, I was scared that the responsibility of convincing people that it can and will be used unethically would fall on the shoulders of small artists who would not be taken seriously. I expected change in the art world to be a slow, creeping transition into inevitable demise.
What I did not expect was hollywood studio execs doing that job for us by being so cartoonishly evil, impatient and releasing statements like "We're gonna starve you until you agree to work with us lol" and "We're gonna take your likeness and use it forever. You will be paid with jack and shit."
I also did not expect AI bros doing the same job for us by harassing a voice actor off of twitter.
"I don't care about the Writers' Strike because a few of the shows I watched had shitty episodes"
Under that same logic, no Starbucks employee should get paid or treated like a human being because their quality has tanked in the past few years.
Under that same logic, no nurse should get paid or treated like a human being because of the few who were being obnoxious on TikTok during the Pandemic.
Under that same logic, no one working for an ISP (be it Customer Service or maintenance) should get paid or treated like a human being because of shitty response times.
If you can't understand why that logic is faulty as hell, then could you just admit that you don't see writers as human beings and move along?
The irony of these statements in that these people don't realize the connection between overworked underpayed writers being unable to put out good work and/or wealthy nepo babies being hired over actual skilled writers who can't afford the shitty pay and the quality of the shows themselves.
Anonymous asked:
Saw a post that was like “people really acting like the Library of Alexandria was burned down because they can’t get their spn mpreg” and honestly I wish people would stop writing off fanfic as something “lesser”, especially because of all the nsfw and fetish stuff
theliterarywolf answered:
I’ve talked about how fanfiction, unfortunately, is seen as the whipping-boy of fandom due to a combination of misunderstanding what fanfiction is (it’s not someone trying to get rich by stealing your ideas, Mrs. Rice…) and the impression that it’s all badly-written smut due to the fact that, when high-profile people talk about fanfiction online, they’re typically pulling examples from the ‘badly-written smut’ pile because they know that’ll get good engagement.
That whole 'WhhhoooOOOOOaaaAAA! Look at this CRRRINGE! Aren’t the people who made this uber-CRIIIING?! Like and Subscribe’ factor.
Which is a disservice because there are groundbreaking examples of fanfiction out there that rival (or, in some cases, surpass) what makes it onto the NYT Bestseller list.
But, quality of the fics aside, the fact that AO3 is an archive for all of them to be published is still a service that needs to be appreciated.
absolmon asked:
I watched Kizazi Moto and I really liked it a lot! One of the things I found especially interesting was the difference in…I want to say emoting? expression? with how some of the characters responded to things. Like with tongue clicking and some hand motions. I thought that was very interesting. Did you have a fave episode?
theliterarywolf answered:
YES! Finally, someone watched/sent in an ask about this anthology!
And what you said here, noticing the differences in emoting. I am so glad you mentioned that because, yes: African storytelling, particularly when it comes to bringing stories to the big (or in this case, streaming) screen, does have its own style of emoting, staging, and composition.
And, yes, every culture does (for all people meme on Indian soap operas having the ‘twenty dramatic zooms with matching music’, you can tell that’s a modernized carryover from traditional storytelling), but I have been yearning for African stories to be able to be seen by a wider audience so they can be a part of the conversation.
Because, yeah, we have companies like Netflix picking up a few Nigerian and Ghananian movies/shows for streaming, unless you’re searching for them or your algorithm is trained, you’ll never find them.
Also, shout-out to Supa Team 4
An upcoming CGI animated series from Zambia that is looking like a fusion of Miraculous and DC Super Hero Girls.
But, my rambling aside, for me there were three stand-outs from the anthology.
My favorite cultural-reflection, My favorite spectacle, and My Overall Favorite (kind of like a Best in Show).
My Favorite Cultural-Reflection
And by this, I mean which of the shorts reflected the culture it’s creators are from the best (even though it may not have been my Overall Favorite):
Moremi (Nigeria)
(Hate that I couldn’t find a gif for this one…)
Before this series aired proper, If you showed me 15 seconds of each short and told me to identify which country they came from, with this one it would have been a no-brainer. The staging and composition are such a strong mirror to Nigerian storytelling, a facet that is made even more obvious when we’re introduced to the scientist character.
My Favorite Spectacle
Mkhuzi: The Spirit Racer (South Africa)
The sheer definition of 'Hype’. When I was liveblogging my first time watching some of the anthology, I made the comment 'Who at Triggerfish Studios marathoned Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill before coming into work that day?!’ But, yes, this short was extremely anime, extremely colorful, and extremely action-packed. All while still having a message about maintaining the connection with your ancestors.
My Overall Favorite (Best in Show)
Enkai (Kenya)
Everything about this short, the composition, the color-scheme, the acting, the setting, and the messages are beautiful. While the initial scenes give us the impression of a simple, more intimate story of a mother and daughter, as the story progresses, the audience is presented with themes of family, spirituality, environmentalism, and even a bit of generational trauma sprinkled in (if you know where to look).
In fact, I’m going to discuss the moment that solidified this short as Best in Show for me. Spoilers under the Read More
I really wish that misinformation/misunderstanding about cosplay wasn't the breaking point for a lot of people supporting the strikes, but here we are I guess.
'So, I can't cosplay from my favorite anime?!' Please remember that most anime (same as other foreign cartoons or foreign dramas) aren't typically produced in America and rethink that question.
'But I already agreed to do X cosplay for a charity event!!' If you had a non-studio agreement made prior to the call for the Strike, does it not make sense that you would be fine in keeping it?
'Um, my friends and I were going to cosplay X to go see Y!!' Are you content-creators with more than 2,000 followers? If so then, yes, that would technically count as 'cosplay to promote a struck studio production'. Otherwise, it's just a group of friends having fun and no one should harangue you for that.
Anonymous asked:
Wait what are being getting up in arms about cosplay?
theliterarywolf answered:
So I just reblogged my own post with hypothetical questions for context.
But, for this ask: someone asked SAG-AFTRA what the stance on cosplay is for the duration of the Strike.
As a direct quote from their response:
I think what a lot of people (both for and against the Strike) are willingly misunderstanding is where it mentions ‘performers are being asked’.
Again, your average social media user with 500 followers on Tumblr and doee cosplay for fun doesn’t mean the same as a cosplay influencer who has 900K on Twitter, 1 Million on YouTube, and 600K on TikTok
There’s also a bunch of people who keep trying to shove anime, video games, and foreign productions into the mix when, no… That’s not what SAG-AFTRA is talking about…
Look, while it was clear that we were never going to get Ice Adolescence --
Either from a lot of creative fields not wanting to touch anything with Russian characters right now or, as was recently revealed, YOI being a passion-project for Mappa that, in the face of all the work they have now, didn't make much money so why would they even bother
-- I kind of share the question that a lot of people have right now: Why doesn't Mappa either just sell the IP so someone else can do it... Or just outright say the movie's been cancelled?
Just give people closure, for fuck's sake.
Anonymous asked:
I really wonder where people can watchseries. id/ really like to know since my tv/ doesn't play kizazi-moto-generation-fire- What a pity... have this random string of symbols that means absolutely nothing: 706zy/1-1 *cough cough*
