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I want to watch a show on Netflix that stays good and won’t disappoint me with sudden quality drop. Please.

Cough cough… Friday Night Lights.

Fine! I’ll watch it, but it’s about football and that sounds boring. But I’m watching it right now.

Breaking Bad?

I gave on on BreBa because I HATED Walt so so much

That’s the point! He’s a sympathetic but terrifying antagonist, not a person meant to be glorified, especially as the series progresses.
It’s one of my favorite all-time shows, based on the incredible writing and acting alone. It’s also pretty visually stunning.

I like a flawed protag, but all I wanted was for him to die every episode. There were characters I did like, but I can’t deal with how much I HATED him.

It was well written and extremely well acted, so much so that I have to remind myself that the actors are actors and I shouldn’t hate them as people.

The shots were stunning but I think, for me personally, they took Walt beyond the point of redemption too quickly and then I was halfway through like “I can’t watch more seasons of this guy NOT dying.”

I’ll give it props for having a genuinely detestable protag, although it is so disturbing how many fans see him as the good guy, and naturally think Skyler is just the WORST.

Her saying “I fucked Ted” was the best thing ever.

Right.

Breaking Bad definitely fulfills the request of the initial post: its quality did not markedly drop. What made the first season great carried through the whole show.

Which actually is really rare. But anyway.

This doesn’t mean that someone will like the show. After all, WW is terrible, and clearly a large segment of the fanbase identifies with him. He is, after all, the hero, be he ever so monstrous. This is not accident. It’s baked into the structure of the show. You cannot just dismiss the majority of the fan-base as just “not getting” their own favorite show. What I mean is, the show pushes way past what we’ll accept and then discovers that, oops, actually we’ll accept it. People like Walt. They hate his victims. It’s weird.

So yeah. I say that with Breaking Bad, our culture has reached (oh how I hope, I hope, I hope) peak edge-dark.

Have we reached peak edge-dark? Please say yes.

This is kind of condescending, but I get the sense that some people just have a hard time understanding that characters aren’t necessarily morally complex or sympathetic just because they’re placed at the center of a story.

I’ve seen a whole lot of this in the Homestuck fandom – people give passes to over-the-top awful characters with a lot of dramatic screentime that they won’t give to less objectionable but more marginal or “joke” characters.  (People act like Tavros is somehow worse than Vriska because she’s more “complex” or “important,” although from their actual behavior this is an impossible case to make.)

Maybe they’re just figuring that someone interesting enough to be at center stage must be not all bad.  Which is probably true, insofar as no one is literally “all bad,” and if a character has more screentime there are more chances to learn that, hey, in addition to their giant flaws, they are also nice to dogs or whatever.  But central characters can certainly be as despicable as it is possible for people to be, given that no one is all bad.

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in 2010 a rule was introduced on the MS Paint Adventures forums banning art that depicted the kids pregnant, in reponse to this a member of the Homestuck music team created a rap album entitled “The Baby Is You” about Dave Strider giving birth to John Egbert, it was deleted from the forums and people were forbidden from talking about it or acknowleding its existence

this is one of those things I came so close to completely forgetting and now here it is

WAIT DIDNT THE GUY WHO MADE THAT ALBUM MAKE UNDERTALE DJSJSMAKAIFIEBMSMAJAJ

Did he? I’d like a source before I say so.

http://super-villain.org/whywouldyoudothis/thebabyisyou.html

I WANTED TO FORGET THIS, THANK YOU >:(

Why would you want to forget The Baby Is You?

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

EVERYONE should know about The Baby Is You. Especially people who only know Toby Fox from Undertale.

NEVER FORGET THE BABY IS YOU

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so, yknow the thing in time travel stories where a message or an idea ends up being the reason for its own creation?

like, character finds some instructions as to how to build a time machine in weird great grandparent’s notebook and then they go back in time and (usually accidentally) give those instructions to the grandparent when he was a kid (or somesuch)

or, somebody plays a song which is accidentally heard by the person who composed that song in the first place, who then copies it

and every time there’s this feeling right that something’s not quite right because the thing has no “origin”; who invented the time machine? who composed the song?

well I want a story where that’s the monster; an actual conscious being that creates time loops. also that’s the only way that they can affect the world. they have no physical body. AND i want it to be one of those stories where it starts out with a scary conspiracy vibe but by the end somebody ends up romancing the monster. somehow.

(and then I want another story where there are several such characters, and they are in a roiling political conflict. it will be very confusing.)

(1) This is really cool, and (2) wasn’t there at least some point in Homestuck where it looked like it was going to end up being this?

(I stopped really paying attention to Homestuck canon a while ago, so I can’t remember what  things currently look like)

About Me: I once emailed Cosma Shalizi to recommend Homestuck to him.  He sent me a nice response about how he had given it a few hours and didn’t think it was for him.

I’m not quite sure how I want to put this, but one of the many things that makes the “high/low” fiction divide strange to me is just how complicated and hard to understand a lot of “popular fiction” is.

Not all popular fiction.  I’m not talking about James Patterson and Dan Brown here.  But take, say, Homestuck.  When I discovered Homestuck, one of the things that was startling to me about it was that something so intensely complicated and confusing and reference-driven and generally inaccessible had a giant fandom.  It seemed like some sort of category mistake.

I’m not sure that Homestuck or the Lymond Chronicles are really any more accessible than Ulysses or Infinite Jest, even though they occupy very different cultural spheres.  In fact, on content alone, those four works look like members of a similar category: long, somewhat aggressively (trollishly?) inaccessible, full of id-satisfying treasures for the patient reader, big extravaganzas of multi-colored fun (and, sometimes, tedium).  Some works in this category are much more likely to appear in tumblr sidebars than others, but I don’t think there’s any intrinsic reason for that.

To look at things the other way around: since I started reading “difficult” books, I’ve repeatedly discovered that a lot of them are much less difficult, and much more fun, than is often let on.  “Homestuck is kind of like Ulysses” is not some sort of wacky makes-u-think culture-clash comparison – there really is not much of a difference there.

There are people (I know, because I use Goodreads) who strongly self-identify as “people who read difficult books.”  But i don’t think this is really any sort of distinctive trait.  Everyone who’s read Homestuck all the way through is 95%, maybe 100% of the way there already.

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well, toby fox did a lot of the music for homestuck and lived in andrew hussie’s basement for a while, so i was expecting as much going in

Yeah, I was expecting it to be Homestuck-esque, which it (also) is, but I wasn’t expecting it to lift these kind of superficial, yet very specific, elements almost directly from Homestuck

There’s a lot of stuff in Undertale that very closely matches bits of Homestuck, not on a thematic level or anything, just

I escaped from the tall aggressive fish woman with ties to the royal family, and now I’m in a land of metal structures and machinery where it is very hot and there is steam and lava, and there are puzzles and obstacles, but another character knows all about them and is helping me with them in a way that sort of undermines the way you’d expect a game to work, and she just helped me out by giving me a jetpack

It’s all just a bit too pervasive and specific somehow, I dunno