my favorite bit of “rich people are Like That” ephemera that I picked up from my Russian literature binge was from a noble character who was complaining about his serfs neglecting their duties, specifically the duty of staying up all night long slapping the pond water in order to prevent the frogs from croaking so that the nobleman could enjoy his sleep at his country estate with its adorable pond. whenever I hear wealthy people’s complaints in this day and age the majority of it automatically filters to “the fucking serfs won’t slap the pond anymore and it’s honestly so destructive and cruel of them to deny me my beauty sleep like this” type statements
Somebody once told Lucifer that they looked ethereal in the sunlight, and ever since then you see them sunbathe next to windows like a cat every chance they get.
the actual reason I consume mediocre media is because I have bad taste. the deeper secret pretentious reason is because I think there’s something very revealing about bad media that you don’t get with good media. when you watch a poorly executed plot point unfold, you see the machinery behind it. you see the gap between what’s actually on screen and the true goal the author is striving for. if it’s particularly awful, you can even measure just how poorly mismatched the author’s skills are with the story they’re trying to tell you. watching a poorly executed narrative play out feels like you’re discovering something, because you see all the wiring and guts underneath that better authors hide from you, in the same way that movies hide boom mics and books make you forget you’re turning the pages. if a story is good and executed well you just see the story. but I want to see the guts and wires!
[…] Nancy has also been seen as the Duffer Brothers’ commentary on final girls in horror franchises from the 1980s. In particular, Nancy has been compared mostly to Nancy Thompson from A Nightmare on Elm Street, the namesake for the character.
The Foundation fandom is actually so real because there’s not a single character who everyone likes. I swear there are people who love Hari, people who loathe Hari, people who love Demerzel, people who think Demerzel is deranged and evil, people who love the Cleons, people who love only one Cleon, people who hate the Cleons regardless of how hot Lee Pace is, people who love Salvor, people who hate Salvor, people who love Gaal, people who hate Gaal, people who want Ignis to win because Tellem is hot, people who want everyone in the Empire to rot, and of course people who realistically crave every major character carnally and are completely blind to the horrors who are totally valid
