Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) dir. James Gunn (source)
Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please reblog.
As long as we're in a bit of a Rian Johnson renaissance, why not take a step back in time to his earlier movies.
Brick (2005) - Back before Riverdale made it cool or deeply awkward or both, Brick was a stylish and hardboiled murder mystery with Johnson's very first quirky dogged detective, all set inside a group of high-school students. His debut feature, it's the kind of movie that feels impossible to follow up, a one hit wonder movie from a guy who ended up with many other hits to come.
The Brothers Bloom (2008) - A softer, less ferocious yet more poetic movie about a couple of con artists looking to pull one last heist. Or are they? Yes, they are. Or are they?
Exclusively for my Farscape folks— I spent way too much time trying to figure out why this guy on Colbert looked familiar the other night. My husband was like, “He’s on The White Lotus.” I shrugged because I don’t watch, but his face kept popping up and I kept trying to figure it out…and then he showed up in The Last of Us and I finally had to look him up and…it was Murray Bartlett. Who played DK on Farscape and good for you dude…even if your Emmy win and current success mean less to me than the 75 seconds you spent playing John Crichton’s best friend…
idk if this is a young fan thing or new fandom culture but some of yall think fics are abandoned way too quickly. a few months or a year or two is not unusual to go without a fic update. sometimes fics take longer to write, other times writers have rl events, or maybe there's multiple fics and one gets more priority. there are tons of reasons for fics not to be updated every week or every month. it also isn't uncommon for people to come back and update fics after a number of years—ive read updates that took five, or ten years. people's lives change, but they still want to tell their stories. personally, i never consider a fic abandoned unless the author has said so; though if it's been a few years i manage my expectations. but a last update being a year ago is... generally not a sign that a writer has abandoned their fic
those moments in au fics when you finally figure out how the author is reinterpreting a specific canon event and you basically go ‘oh snap that’s brilliant’ for five minutes straight
genuinely can’t stop thinking about these quotes from an article on john crichton’s trauma arc. farscape really is just so good you guys.
“The episode is ‘the obligatory’,” continues Ben. “The explanation of what’s going on in Crichton’s brain. It’s a powerful metaphor. Even without Harvey, the preconditions are present in Crichton’s journey to explain his state of mind, which may be why the rest of the crew and the audience have accepted Crichton’s behavior as ‘understandable’. But as a metaphor, Harvey is the damage. The audience groks the need to get at the root cause and fix the problem. All of us have a Harvey. People with trauma have a ghoulish Harvey. Crichton’s Harvey happens to wear a crocodile codpiece and wants to eat his brain.”
“The story of John Crichton’s descent into madness, and his recovery are a fiction. But that fiction flows from the truth as we saw it in the year 2000, in place far far from here. And I’ll say this… When I think of John, he sure feels real.”
Ben Browder
“Far too often, science fiction in TV and film glosses over trauma and depicts violence without consequence. Farscape was unique for its time — and ahead of its time — in how it dealt with these issues in the framework of a dramatic series (and full credit to David Kemper, as usual, for wanting to tackle it).”
Naren Shankar, co-executive producer
“It was a general tenet of the series that Things Had Consequences, that characters who’d been through stuff should be affected by that (rather than shrugging it all off as if it never happened in the very next episode).”
Ricky Manning, executive producer
THAT'S what happened?! All those comedy websites years ago all shifted to doing videos and lost all their money at once because just Facebook tricked them with inflated video views?!
what????? what is this about
- so between 2014-2016 facebook launches a massive ‘pivot to video’ campaign to draw media orgs to their video-based features. zuckerberg’s doing rounds, saying that in the near future, newsfeeds will mostly be video, and that video is the future of media. to back this up, they release tons of wild viewership metrics for ads on facebook, enticing advertisers to prioritize video, and as a result, the media that relies upon advertisers for funding began to do the same.
- this had an industry-wide impact, and media orgs, from established news, to humor websites, to smaller creators, fire writers and those primarily focused on print, and direct resources to their video creation efforts.
- around 2016, it’s revealed that facebook completely fabricated their original numbers, likely inflating them between 150-900%. additionally, their viewership metric considered 3 seconds of a person watching to be a ‘view’ (whereas youtube had a 30 second requirement for the same metric).
-Having totally restructured in order to pivot to facebook video, many media orgs were unable to recapture hard won (and and sometimes decades old) audiences. College Humor, Funny or Die, MTV News, Vice, Mic, and Vox were among those that were seriously impacted.
- after a 2018 class action lawsuit, facebook (who maintain that the whole ordeal was caused by a simple error in calculation) was made to pay 40 million in damages, which 1, is a paltry sum when we consider the 22 billion they made in profit that same year, and 2, does nothing to bring back the jobs, audiences, and media orgs they destroyed. to make matters worse, many still posit that it was never the public, but rather advertisers that preferred video over text, meaning that facebook intentionally deceived everyone involved specifically to secure more advertising dollars. so yeah, fb is evil and… probably should be stopped
This did incalculable damage to news reporting. Humans generally still want to read news, especially in depth reporting, but Facebook’s lies pushed a lot of corporations to put all their resources into video, to the point of firing reporters and eliminating entire publications.
We’re living with the consequences of this now. If you have this vague sense that nobody knows what the hell is going on, you’re not crazy. There are significantly fewer news outlets providing reporting now than there were 10 years ago.
David Bowie’s rare cover of ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ by Joy Division.
A chance meeting in 1983 had David Bowie, Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook chatting away over beers in the Kings Arms in Salford. “…So we were all there just having a laugh and we joked that he should come n have a jam with us, then next minute - well, it was the next day actually, but i didn’t expect he’d definitely come by - and we were in the practice rooms and we were playing Love Will Tear Us Apart and I was like, f%$k we’re playing Love Will Tear Us Apart with David Bowie singing, this is crazy. We never released it - Bowie took a recording of it, and just layered some more vocals on for fun, sent it back to me…”
