one time i told a guy with a huge punisher decal on his car that i loved the punisher but that i'm too scared to have any of his merch because in the current political climate i wouldn't want people to think i support killing police and the man had. no response whatsoever. he was smiling and completely frozen in place. i'd never seen anyone bluescreen that hard
there is a Gaston Vs. Beast joke somewhere in there
There's a whole bunch of TikTok drama at the moment after someone posted a video asking "would you rather be alone in the woods with a bear or a strange man?"
And the men are *very upset* that nearly every woman replied with "....obviously a bear."
It's honestly wild (I think some of these guys think that bears are movie monsters, craving human flesh).
But it boils down to this- they want you to expect the worst from the bear and the best from the stranger, and they are deeply offended that this isn't the case. 🤷
It's a western (and I DO mean a western) set in the aftermath of the russo-japanese war about a treasure hunt of which a surprisingly lot of it is about weird cuisine and eccentric people.
And I don't mean like with Dungeon Meshi.
Hm, seen the book around but I've not idea if it's any good or not.
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Y'know, still kind of surprised there hasn't been a live-action adaptation of Black Lagoon?
Communists and anarchists will spend all day talking about abstract concepts and structures like capitalism and the state, but willfully ignore the very real, tangible curse placed upon me by the foul necromancer
Wild thing about Bedknobs and Broomsticks is that the cartoon animals were "Doctor Moreau"ed into existence by a wizard and then murdered the wizard and stole his powers, which is an insane backstory for cartoon animals playing soccer that is never mentioned again and I ADORE IT.
(gordon ramsay on star trek) oh what the hell? the gagh is fucking dead! look at this! it’s not moving. it’s feasting with its fucking ancestors in sto’vo’kor! excuse me, darling, how fresh is this gagh? they’re what? fucking hell. thank you. my god, it’s fucking replicated. wow, fuck me.
by which it means every chapter is an accurate 1:1 recreation of the source material plot but in text form, including having the exact same dialogue and plot beats and each chapter ends exactly at the exact point the source material's equivalent to an end-of-chapter originally happened.
and this is because the *real* fan-fic is in the chapter's notes as the story is a muppet-style "Show within a show" and the note's is the equivalent to seeing the behind-the-scene drama and production problems that would come from making this theoretical show.
We need to bring back fanfics where the author talks to the characters in the chapter notes and occasional intertexual asides, and through this medium the reader gradually becomes aware of a whole secondary metanarrative concerning the interpersonal dramas of the notional "actors" playing the characters in the fic.