as someone who genuinely loves pop culture and prefers liking people/music/movies than hating them .. i’m actually depressed what the internet has turned fandom spaces into
Really, DVDs might have been the apex of entertainment. Affordable, cinema-level sound & image, full of special features to get you deep into your favorite films, watch on a variety of devices with no limitations.
Streaming honestly sucks compared to DVDs.
The clock tower climax in The Great Mouse Detective (1986) is pure tension. Basil and Ratigan racing through Big Ben as those massive gears grind and snap around them. Disney turned a kids movie finale into a full-blown thriller.
Can we stop with all this bs propaganda pretending like there wasn't a world of kids making flash animations, game mods, indies, writing short stories & fan fics, making home movies, sketching in their notepad in the classroom. AI has never been needed for creativity.
out of all the tropes, friends to lovers is the most relatable and one that actually happens irl everyday, so i’ve personally never understood the hate. “it’s boring” well, not when it’s done well! the pining, the things left unsaid, the tension, THE LOVE
You can tell when people don’t engage much with fiction because they expect the heroes of stories to be morally perfect and assume that all the views expressed in a story are the views of the writer. Demanding that all characters be unproblematic angels is the death of fiction.