True Crime Is One Of The Few Genres Of Media That Actually Does Have, At Its Core, Palpable Real-world

True crime is one of the few genres of media that actually does have, at its core, palpable real-world harm. So much of it is nakedly exploitative and based on invading the privacy, grief, and trauma of real people - not just when the media's made, but also by encouraging viewers to become hobbyist investigators prying into their lives. It reinforces the mainstream media propaganda that vastly overstates how common violent crime is, how common stranger violence is, and encourages people to be paranoid and fearful out of all proportion with actual danger

And anyway it's so completely normalized that there are tons of people who will casually talk about binging a show reenacting a real person's real death, and then look at you funny if you talk about watching fictional horror movies

ITS FINALLY DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Part 2

This took exactly 19 days to make 19 DAYS

I didn’t think 22 pages would take me that long but here we are 😭

Even though I was very unsure about how it look for the entire process I am incredibly proud of it

These 3 weeks were absolutely worth it

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mythighost

1 year ago

i would like to talk about romance.

not romance in the modern sense - between people - romance in the classical sense. to be a 'romantic'. to find love in nature, in society, in your lived experience. to put a beating heart in the places where the heart did not exist before. i think this is a beautiful trait. i also think it can be extremely damaging.

when the majority of your adolescence is spent building a home out of music that weaponizes sadness; it is easy to think the best way to approach your own sadness is to turn it into something romantic. to put the pain you and your friends have felt on a pedestal. to curate a museum where only the lowest moments of your shared history are permitted entry. in some situations, this can be triumphant. but it can also give too much credit to the sadness. it can allow it to take root in ways you can't really communicate.

sometimes this shared sadness doesn't have to be romantic. it doesn't have to be anything at all. it can just be something that happened and something that is no longer happening. and if you never fell in love with it in the first place, then you don't need to feel heartbroken when you let the sad thing just feel sad until it doesn't anymore. not everything has to be The Moment Of All Time. sometimes, you just need to feel it a little less.

hot chocolate is out everywhere now.

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thank you nick bears in trees i will be thinking about this for the next 11.4 years i think wast prepared fot That to be put into words and song thinking about That One Person i knew

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mythighost

2 months ago