I’m trying not to reblog posts on this blog but I feel that this is important to post here.
on a related note:
And for the people asking “Well if you don’t support it irl then why would you like it in fiction?!” Because when it’s happening irl real people are suffering and dying and that’s horrible and I’d never want that. But when it’s fiction, when no real people are being hurt or killed, it’s interesting to explore the experience, the effects it may have, and to an extent experience the emotions involved without actually having to experience the horrible thing. You explore scary, dangerous things from a safe distance.
It’s the same reason I love disaster movies and don’t love actual disasters. I mean, if someone can’t intuit the difference between watching a movie like 2012 and yelling “cool!” when LA slides into the ocean and being horrified at the real life effects of global warming and the idea of millions of people dying as a result, then *I* am not the one with the problem.
it fucks me up that tolkien only died in 1973. dude has the vibe of a victorian scholar who wrote all his manuscripts by candlelight but then you look him up and realise that he knew what color tv was. what the fuck.
Anyways before I think about that too much lemme just link you the full interview– it’s only two or so minutes long, from 2009, and watching it gives me hives. Only copy of it I’ve been able to find has this weird horror/mystery drama score playing in the back so just, ignore that.
Uh. I might as well add this too. As I’ve already gone on EXTENSIVELY about this interview, I’ll use it, so please ignore how this manic dialogue was yelled into a discord server in December at 5 something in the morning during a bout of acute insomnia:
full disclosure I’m cringing reading this but I was right on the mark
Anonymous
