i think i tend to forget how good boredom is for creativity because we’re all so addicted to numbing ourselves with screens and stimulation. but standing in the shower or going for a walk with no music or just sitting in your bedroom without being allowed to touch any screens & all of a sudden i have multiple new projects to start, a solution to a months-long plot problem & 4 new original characters
Reblogging with a link to the artist, Emily K., who’s based in Philly and is firmly anti-AI! You can print this piece (and some others) for free for use at protests and such!
thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3
as a society we need to normalize platonic soulmates. please. like literally live with your best friend. raise a kid/pet with your best friend. why should people have to “be alone” and not experience some parts of life just because they never fall in love. stop making the world revolve around fucking romance.
It’s rage inducing, because we’ve HAD short run series with huge fandoms before, because they took the time to let the shows marinate in the fandom space, giving us time to question and theorize and fucking do art, and fics and get in slap fights over where the plot was going.
Arcane would be fucking CANDY to this Hellsite on par with Doctor Who, If they had spaced out the episodes and let it run for three months.
The 9th doctor had 13 fucking episodes. THIRTEEN.
Bingeing is supposed to be for people who want to wait. the show itself can’t GROW an audience if the audience is watching it all at once.
The episode ends, on a cliffhanger, or even if not, it leaves you wanting more. But there won’t be more until next week. So you rush to your computer to get your fill online, discussing ideas, squeeing over the good, talking fanfic an and what ifs and searching art…talking to people, making friends maybe, even more excited for next week’s episode and what it may bring…
With binging, there’s a bit of a high at the end, some squeeing and art, but there’s no theories because it’s over, or discussion will only last so long between seasons because the show didn’t really marinate in the brain the right way, and the gap will make you lose enthusiasm as you are encouraged to binge something else in the meantime.
It’s created this…flighty feeling in fandom, and why some people don’t even seem to care about characters beyond shipping or surface level representation: they’re only in fandom for so long, because the new method is to watch it all and move on.
