This is why it drives me mad when people say, “Don’t you wish you’d had AI to write your college essays?” No, because writing those essays was a pleasure, because I enjoy looking things up in books and I like learning. I take pride in my work because I’m not a loser.
people who hold the source material as sacred are obnoxious idiots and people who ignore the source materially entirely are disrespectful fools. only i, the proper enjoyer of the source material, truly understands what makes or breaks a good adaptation
polish trans guy naming himself naruto and getting canceled on twitter for cultural appropriation but in reality he's patriotically naming himself after the first president of poland gabriel narutowicz, is this anything