I also miss when the internet wasn't built upon stupid ass out of context ragebait. Like I watched the clip out of morbid curiosity, and what he actually says is wildly milquetoast, but all the quotes and tweets and thinkpieces make it sound like he personally killed baryshnikov in live combat
it's been kind of wild to realize that i've been pitching my voice up inadvertently and subconsciously for years, and my natural speaking voice is actually much deeper? like i wonder how common of an experience that is for women, especially women who've worked customer service...
I feel like classic adventure like Indy has fallen off quite a bit, but the supernatural aspects are more urban fantasy, and a comeback for UF been bubbling under the surface for awhile. Horror undertones are also extremely popular right now. Pulp is kind of hit or miss, it depends on market niche.
nevermind queen, you answered this already, go with god
did you see iron lung, by chance? and if you did, did you have any thoughts about it?
they're engaging with the "damsel in distress / everybody wants to fuck the main guy / hot girls in titty chainmail" style pulp, but then they don't actually have the frame of reference to be able to grapple with characters like bêlit or valeria or sonja and how they fit the gender paradigm
like for instance, a lot of modern fantasy attempts to engage with the gender roles and misogyny in sword and sorcery-style pulp, but a lot of it kind of falls flat because the authors are engaging with a caricaturized cultural idea as opposed to the actual texts themselves
so many modern authors could genuinely benefit from reading some howard or moorcock if only to understand a little bit of the history of the genre as it stands. so much of modern fantasy is drawing from places the authors themselves have never been and it shows at times
in general i get very annoyed sometimes with how incurious modern fantasy authors seem to be about older works and the history of the genre. there seems to be this pervasive attitude that the genre was stagnant and backwards until the modern era, which isn't... correct?
like man, this is the prose in conan. you can talk a lot of shit about howard, but that dude could WRITE
so many modern writers have this idea of the genre that's just, "tolkien, then everything after tolkien was shitty tolkien ripoffs until 2004. also game of thrones happened at some point."
saw someone in an argument about prose style in modern fantasy say that "not every author can be a prose stylist like tolkien, the world needs conan too." conan is also very flowery in prose. tolkien himself considered howard a prose stylist. what do you MEAN
astounding to me the amount of people that talk about "pulp fantasy" and say they pull from it and use it in rhetorical arguments about the modern genre but then very obviously have not, in fact, actually read any pulp fantasy
love wins
what kind of archery are you doing? 👀 i used to compete in recurve and compound both, now i mostly do recurve / bare bow!
gave threads a try for a hot minute but couldn't stomach it. really does give off facebook for millennials vibes
i just find a lot of first person pov very... low effort, esp in romance. like it can be done well but god do a lot of authors just not. do that
forever mourning how first person pov is THEE dominating preference anymore. i like writing first but i often prefer reading third and i am consistently driven batshit insane by the lack of it
it also very very very very obviously was not an adaptation of wuthering heights so much as a film that used the framework of wuthering heights to make a commentary of its own. which is fine. you are all so boring
i think an interpretation of wuthering heights that reimagines it through the lens of sexuality and eroticism is like, fine. i think it's an interesting angle. i think the film had some interesting things to say. and i say this as the #1 saltburn hater on earth.
like people absolutely melting down at the idea of interpreting wuthering heights as a story about thwarted desire and repression when it does, in fact, deal in both of those things. baffling to me.
i hate how the reaction online has unfortunately conscripted me into the war on wuthering heights on the side of wuthering heights
Dunk and egg
#AKOTSK
finally finished akotsk and the best change they made from the books was how just absolutely atrociously down bad lyonel baratheon was for dunk
like txf to me is just so wrapped up in 90s counterculture, and that kind of counterculture just really doesn't exist in the same way anymore
i don't know how i feel about the concept of an x-files remake. like aside from the fact that i think they'll struggle to find another anderson/duchovny duo, since that was kind of lightning in a bottle, i think the concept of txf is just so 90s. i can't imagine what a modern x-files would be like
For someone just starting out in Trek, I’d recommend Strange New Worlds. It’s set before the events of the 1966 original series, and has modern production values and scripts. For older series, The Original Series is fun if you like pulp, and Deep Space Nine is also great, just a bit darker.
at least i have one redeeming quality left to my name: the game of thrones ending was bad. everyone clap
the attack on titan ending is good except for the part where it tried to gaslight me into believing eren gave a shit about mikasa. the tokyo ghoul ending was good, people were just mad that it was anti-nihilist and not a bleak grimdark ending like they were expecting
i think perhaps i am the most misunderstood and persecuted girl on the internet (i liked the endings of both tokyo ghoul and attack on titan)
