I just realized that blog histories are gonna be this century’s equivalent of letters, so in 60 years when someone on here is a famous author and dies, their blog and chat records are gonna get published like a person’s letters are today and that’s a horrifying thought
Everyone will get their turn with James Joyce in hell
God imagine how all these posts about traps and shit are gonna look in 100 years time when our grandchildren are reading our collected letters
Something along the lines of what you read casually mentioned with like, every single poet involved in the First World War – “confused by his sexuality even into early adulthood”
“Traps are fuckin gay bro” “IT’S OK AS LONG AS THEY’RE CUTE”
~Matthew Emmerman and Trayvon Stevens, two early 21st century American poets, discussing homosexuality over a public blog. The New Forum: Authorship within the Explosion of Online Discussion, 2154, Second Edition
the best part of THE SHAPE OF WATER (2017) dir. Guillermo Del Toro is how it is clearly shade at them for not letting him make Hellboy 3 like, they didn’t let him make HB3? okay then, he goes and writes, directs and produces a whole film for Abe Sapien’s origin story and pretends it has no connection with Hellboy despite all the clear similarities, i love petty creative master story teller Guillermo Del Toro
its a weird time to be a fan of transformers toys right now
see, since the entertainment industry realized that China is a massive untapped market a couple of years ago, Hasbro has started making this MASSIVE marketing push in China
so basically, China has all of the latest Transformers toys on shelves. always well stocked, always up to date, always readily available
meanwhile, outside of China, the rest of the world is struggling to find the latest releases. hasbro just… isn’t shipping stock to western stores.
so what’s happening as a result?
Chinese companies, namely Wei Jiang and Kubianbao, have started releasing extremely high quality counterfeit versions of official Hasbro toys. Not just cheapo knockoffs, properly high quality fakes that are better than the Hasbro releases.
Can’t find the 20 dollar official Hasbro Megatron toy? Buy Wei Jiang’s counterfeit version! It’s 45 dollars, readily available online, it’s twice the size of Hasbro’s one, it has several improvements made to the figure’s engineering over Hasbro’s version, AND they added die cast metal to it.
So what’s happening is that fans outside of China are importing chinese bootlegs of Hasbro’s toys because they’re objectively better and more readily available than Hasbro’s official releases.
And they’re more readily available because Hasbro is focusing marketing on China right now.
And, if my research is correct, Wei Jiang and Kubianbao’s counterfeit offerings are often sold in the same stores as Hasbro’s official stuff, and Chinese fans prefer buying the counterfeit stuff because it’s better.
So, because Hasbro started trying to maket heavily to China to the point that they’re neglecting markets in the rest of the world, they’re losing sales all over the world to Chinese counterfeiters because the Counterfeit toys are better and easier to find.
And the Chinese audience they’re marketing so heavily to prefers the knockoffs to the official releases anyway. Because the knockoffs are better.
Listen Shouto Todoroki had all the makings to be the suave dark mysterious popular solemn brooding character and I appreciate every single day how it turns out he’s literally just awkward.
I’m dead serious. It’s very easy to misinterpret him all cool and collected and smooth especially given his overwhelming power and his emotional distance but once he softens to people and does start trying to interact honestly you realize he’s just /bad at it/ and you look back and realize all his stoic intimidating silences were 100% just awkward silences and his solemn emotionless collected face was just doing a good job of hiding his internal monologue of “oh…people are talking. I should talk to? I don’t really know. I never had friends. Um. Hmm. No, I’ve got nothing. I’m just gonna stare down and not say much. That’s probably fine. I think this is how socializing works. Yes.”
