Found that How To Disappear Online post again, linking it here for anyone who might need it or know someone who needs it. This is very good information for people trying to escape abusers or stalkers, or who simply do not want to be found.
‘Life is very full of sex, or should be. As much as I admire Tolkien —
and I do, he was a giant of fantasy and a giant of literature, and I
think he wrote a great book that will be read for many years — you do
have to wonder where all those Hobbits came from, since you can’t
imagine Hobbits having sex, can you? Well, sex is an important part of
who we are. It drives us, it motivates us, it makes us do sometimes very
noble things and it makes us do sometimes incredibly stupid things.
Leave it out, and you’ve got an incomplete world.’ George R R Martin (source)
no disrespect to george rr martin but this quote cracks me up bcos every time i see if I’m just like, no george… you can’t imagine hobbits having sex. ;P
FOUND IT & I say again: I can imagine hobbits having sex just fine.
Georgey boy here forgetting Sam’s 13 kids.
he didn’t forget about them. he just doesn’t understand where they came from.
That’s even funnier, then.
george rr martin, looking at the gamgee family tree and crying: wh-where… where did they all come from…….
this man is apparently under the impression that we need sex scenes to understand that sex exists in any given story universe and honestly that explains so much about his writing
It really does
HOBBITS FUCK GOOD AND THEY FUCK OFTEN
“When we are going to have sex?”
“…We’ve already had it.”
“We’ve had it once, yes. What about second sex?”
Does he realize The Hobbit is a children’s book?
“I mean it’s very whimsical and fun but where are all the sex scenes”
“Sir please leave this bookshop…”
lack of object permanence but with sex
Wasn’t gonna reblog but the last comment killed me
Honestly, we used to have this tradition of fading to black, or pointing at the curtains and then fading to black. Everyone knew exactly what it meant.
If a couple gets together, and they end up with kids, every adult in the room knew what happened.
Joe Russo when Tony Stark saidĀ ābillionaire, playboy, philanthropistā in the first avengers
so far, I have quotes from the russos on how they think Cap is old fashioned and needed to go, how black widow was damaged and needed toĀ ācomplete herselfā how tonyĀ āneeds to go.ā they clearly donāt care for thor or ant man, thinking them idiots. They donāt seem to respect Falcon or War machine (I wonder why) so who DO they like?
Why were they given control over a movie franchise where they hate all the characters?
Completely agree. Here are the quotes theyāre referencing btw
This really freaking annoys me. If youāre in charge of a movie franchise then it is your job to embrace every character, to help them grow and overcome their differences. But no, NO! These asshats kill off every single character that they hate and are acting like complete babies just because they donāt like them. If you donāt like them so much then fuck off! Go and work on something else! Just stop ruining the MCU!!!
They both literally just hated everyone. Here is another quote I havenāt heard a lot of people mention either
Loki: h-
Joe Russo:
this is so funny tho
Oh they hated everyone that explains why the movies are like that
No wonder the mcu feels like a slightly better Michael bay franchise
On the bright side, knowing the directors actively hated half the characters they were working with leaves me feeling 0% hesitant to ignore every single bullshit character move they made! š
I donāt know why people do thisā¦ for example they did it with Star Trek and jj abramsā¦
Look, I have my differences with the LOTR movies, but you can see in every frame the sheer overwhelming love for the story that went into those movies. On genuinely every level. Every person involved with the production of those movies loved what they were doing and were working passionately, and it shows.Ā
The disregard that leaks through parts of the MCU, two of the new Star Trek movies, and the new Star Wars trilogy really is baffling to me. So many people love these franchises and would have lovinglyĀ poured their heart and soul into them. And filmmakers who just didnāt care were handed these films?? Imagine what we could have gotten if actual fans had been allowed to make these movies.Ā
Oh wait, I donāt have to imagine. People who love these franchises and these characters put their tiny amounts of free time and overwhelming effort into producing fanfiction and fanart for these characters every day. I could go on AO3 right now and in half a dozen clicks get sweeping, beautiful, poeticĀ treatises on the human condition written through these āVerses. Vast arrays of adventures starring these characters, and the characters themselves would be lovingly adored by their writers. I could enjoy content made by people who care.Ā
These directors and producers donāt deserve to be handed these franchises and they donāt deserve the paychecks they receive for half-assing their way through them. Not when fans produce outstanding content every day for free, just out of passion alone. This is ridiculous, can Hollywood please start putting people who actually care about the characters in charge of the movies? Please? I promise Iāll go back to buying movie tickets if I think the characters will be treated fairly by their narratives.Ā
Adaptations made by fans of a work arenāt always great. Thereās such a thing as being too reverent of the original ā after all, not everything translates from one medium to another, and itās important to recognize that.
Yes, you can see the love in the LOTR movies. But the other thing you can see is their respect for fellow fans of LOTR. They understood why people love the work, and they never rolled their eyes at fans.
If you donāt respect your audience, your work is going to be crap. Plain and simple.
Okay so it weāre finally acknowledging this?
Because when we say Taika never respected Lokiās character and turned him into a laughingstock because he hated him, itās this type of shit right here
He literally states that he never like Loki in interviews before Thor: Ragnarokās release. Is it any wonder why so many Loki fans liked the other films but not Ragnarok? Theyāre not being slick, we can all tell when people in charge of movies donāt actually care about its contents or characters
Imagine an alien sharing a cool human fact they just learned like ”hey guys did you know that the silvery markings on humans actually aren’t true stripes? They’re called stretch marks, they happen when the human is growing fast enough to actually outgrow their skin, which is apparently something that just fucking happens to almost all of them at some point of their life.”
and another one is like ”wait so you’re saying humans don’t have stripes.”
”actually they do, but the stripes are invisible. There’s genetic code that’d give them stripes but they’re just the same colour as the rest of the skin. So the visible stripes are not real stripes and the real stripes are invisible.”
”I swear if you tell me one more weird human thing today I’m beating your ass.”
The human in the room looks up and goes “Wait I have stripes?”
A human getting pissed at their vampire boyfriend so they put in a silver sterling tongue stud and bracelets and earrings and their vampire boyfriend is just standing five feet away like “babe. c’mon.”
letās stop seeing sex as the biggest thing you can do to show someone you love them
everyone knows that the real way to show someone you love them is to find them a really cool rock. not a diamond. just a neat rock that you think they will enjoy
Not a rock THE Ā ARKENSTONEĀ
Why just one rock Why not three Why not the silmarils
