Beatrice

We are being encouraged, year after year, to think less.

Writers need to write with the impression, the hope, that their readers or viewers are as intuitive as they are, that they can pick up on aspects of characters without having to constantly remind the audience.
It's not anyone's fault we live in a right-wing anti-intellectual society.

I especially don't think anyone at the White House has actually paid attention to Breaking Bad. Likely only knows it from memes to manipulate people into giving in to "hype and aura".

It doesn't help that a lot of the people who think he's cool can't read the most obvious subtext, and some of them probably didn't even watch the show.
It's not the show's fault.
There's a scene where a character tells Walt to kill himself, what else could they do?

I will make sure to watch it within the next 3 months, I swear!

One of the most terrifying villains on television, and it's just laughing at the camera and the editor being David Lynch.

I should frame this.

Eternal Darkness on the Clouded Mind.

Same... It's especially terrible when you practically have a whole outline and it's like...
Uggghhhhhh

Motivation to write, at this point.

Eight movies to get to know Bea:
Nowhere (1997)
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Interview (1979)
Blood Of A Poet (1932)
I'm Thinking Of Ending Things (2020)
Marriage Of Maria Braun (1979)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
The Actor (2025)

Replace Jubilee with Rogue, my brain blanked.

10 Marvel Faves, in no order;

Hulk
Joe Fixit
Daredevil
Nico Minoru
Moon Knight
Jubilee
Mary Jane Watson
Peter Parker
Howard Duck
Karen Page

Lol. Oh wow. Drink water.

Maybe. I'm not sure, it just popped in my brain.

Do you think a (mostly involving the spiders) stop-motion adaptation of Children of Time could work?

Quote from Fassbinder I find to be relevant here:

*show

My point of the post is to contrast my anger of what meme culture has done to art with the original post. We live in a world where generative AI exists. We live in a world where people like Epstein and Diddy become "memes."
This, and using someone else's shoe to use as a template makes me pissed!

Diddy and Jeffrey Epstein revealing that they've made "sixty-seven thousand bottles of baby oil each," in the style of the Breaking Bad season 2 episode, "4 Days Out."

I made a post on Twitter that was me angrily responding to AI Slop that recreated scenes from Breaking Bad, but with... Diddy and Jeffrey Epstein.
This got a lot of traction and people are obviously thinking it's me shitting on Breaking Bad just being popular instead of criticizing meme culture.

Anyone who can help me with my phone bill, it's due next week and it's just $45, I really appreciate any and all help

"How often do you think of the Roman Empire."

"Hmm... I think about their sex lives at least once a day."

Jake and I were talking about how if we wanted to make a Prince biopic right now, use his music, get an actor that looks just like him, and depict his life exactly how it was, submit it to film festivals, we'd probably get sued by the Prince estate, but AI does the same thing and nothing happens.

“My copyright infringement machine will start making money, I swear! I just first need all your money, water and the world’s firstborn.”

It's not about that. It's about making definitive statements like
"A24 and its consequences," putting forth this idea that "artsy Horror" is a new concept. It isn't.

The politics of AI are anti-human. This comparison is disgusting.

Then you don't care about films.

Elaborate. You can't just say that. All films are art, your profile picture is David Lynch for crying outloud.