The average media consumer refuses to engage with art, films, music etc that don't feel directly relatable to them and that is why media literacy is dead
My letterboxd rating system is mercurial and vibes-based. Sometimes a three star movie is bad. Sometimes a two and a half star movie is good. It makes sense to me, and that’s enough
noticing that a lot of people fundamentally distrust their own taste because they treat it as nothing more than a signal so as soon as someone disagrees, their confidence (in their taste/the work) collapses… which is sad
i think i’ll always have a soft spot 4 girls in their early 20s. i remember carrying so much at an age that was supposed 2 feel light … i wish i could tell every one of them that life grows gentler
people really out here navigating relationships with rules they absorbed from sitcoms. friend, they engineer those character arcs so that no significant growth ever impedes the epsiode reset loop