[ SECRET POST #5835 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5835 ⌋

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Instant media turn-offs

[philstar22]

What things will have you instantly closing that book, turning off the tv, shutting off the game, walking out of the theater?



Inspired by my mom trying to convince me to start watching 1883 with her, where two of the main characters are a former confederate soldier and former confederate nurse. No. Do not try to make people who were confederates sympathetic. Unless they feel guilty about it and wish they hadn't.

Re: Instant media turn-offs

[hey_hey_hey]

my mom trying to convince me to start watching 1883 with her

The fact that MAGAs love the Yellowstone-verse is a big turn off period.

Re: Instant media turn-offs

[greghousesgf]

OK, I'm definitely not watching that now.

Re: Instant media turn-offs

[(Anonymous)]

Anything that glorifies excessive wealth. I've always hated reality television that explored rich people's lives but I'm growing to hate it in fiction too.

Re: Instant media turn-offs

[(Anonymous)]

If it is cop-focused, or described (in any variation) as a gritty new take, or a realistic reinterpretation, of a previous property. And serialised. Fuck any of that. I will drop any of those in a heartbeat. It just means it is going to be boring and miserable with everyone acting like their worst selves.

Also, if it is a book, then if it is in first person or present tense. Because, then it is just juvenile bollocks.

Re: Instant media turn-offs

[(Anonymous)]

"Celebrity" anything, unless they have actual genuine A-listers instead of over acting "reality" "stars".

Re: Instant media turn-offs

[kaijinscendre]

Cringe humor like in The Office. Can't do it. I die inside.

Re: Instant media turn-offs

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think I could ever walk out a cinema since its too expensive and I'd rather suffer for my money's worth, but if I didn't have that ideology then I would have happily walked out during The Happytime Murders. I don't know what I was expecting but I do love puppets and it sounded promising enough - but because they needed to prove it was a puppet 'for adults', there were some of the worst awkward sex jokes slapped in there for the sake of being there. Plus the story line was a bit shit towards the end, which is a shame because I think if done right it could have pulled off something like a darker version of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Its been forever since I last looked it up, but I believed that it originally had a very different storyline that suffered a fate similar to Cool World where the premise was changed in the process of making the movie (Although I did like Cool World, the original idea for that movie where the main protagonist was half human half cartoon sounded much more interesting).

Re: Instant media turn-offs

[(Anonymous)]

Toilet humour. The occasional isolated fart or poop joke might be mildly amusing, but media that repeatedly leans into it is just annoying, uncomfortable and not funny in the slightest.

Re: Instant media turn-offs

[(Anonymous)]

I had a comic from the library, and was eager to start reading it. However, I have tokophobia in non-porn contexts (but I also seek out pregnancy/lactation porn, make of that what you will). So when the comic opened up on a naked person's body, I just put down the book I had been looking forward to reading, and never read it at all throughout the rest of the book rental period.

I also fucking hate it when directors put pregnant characters in horror and make it a conflict in the story that a person in labor screams. It seems that a pregnant person in a horror movie is there for nothing else.

Additionally I hate it when an otherwise good story I was into decides to put a downer ending. There are a lot of stories I want to recommend to my friends, but the endings soured me on the whole experience. I will put up with whatever an author wants to portray, but I need that victory for the characters!

Re: Instant media turn-offs

[(Anonymous)]

Rape as drama. There are certain contexts/handlings that I'm okay with, like if it's adequately warned for and/or treated with appropriate weight, for instance; I was shockingly able to watch the early seasons of Handmaid's Tale, for instance. But a show throwing in a rape plot solely for the drama and then adding insult by playing up OTHER people's reactions to it than the actual victim? Fuck that.

I don't even have a particular trigger for it, but when it happens, I'm out completely.

Re: Instant media turn-offs

[(Anonymous)]

Casual ignorance of the human condition of people who aren't like the writer. Like male writers saying in their story that a $30 bra is expensive and women always wear the matching panties.

Re: Instant media turn-offs

[(Anonymous)]

Every comic that does at least word or phrase per text bubble like this. It throws off the way the voices sound in my head and makes it impossible to focus on what they're saying. I've tried so many times, and there are lots of comics I'd love to read, but I just mentally cannot.

I do know the history of why it's done like that, and it doesn't help.

Re: Instant media turn-offs

[(Anonymous)]

I totally agree with you the confederate thing! I didn't know that about that show, but the only people I know of who like it are right wingers, so that makes sense.

The most recent thing for me was when one of the female main characters in a book was making fun of a male character for not immediately wanting to have sex with her and questioning his manhood and stuff. I don't know if it's because I'm ace (although not a guy) but it just really rubbed me the wrong way, and I put the book down at that point and didn't go back to it.

The other one I can think of, there was a show where one of the characters was gay and estranged from his family because they kicked him out for being gay, and he had to live on the street at 14, and all the other characters were constantly guilting him about it and pressuring him to reach out to them because ~family~ and when he finally gave in and met up with his parents and apologized to them for not speaking to them, I gave up on the show. It pissed me off so fucking much.

Re: Instant media turn-offs

[(Anonymous)]

-I am dropping everything that does love triangles. Yes, I drop stuff A LOT.
-I'm done with dirty gray medieval people trope.
-There is a chance that I will stop watching/reading/listening /whatever if all the main characters are teenagers or young adults.
-Racist caricatures instead of actual characters.
-There is a chance that I am dropping something if it has obnoxious sountrack. (I am still bitter at whoever was responsible for the Old Guard soundtrack, it was atrocious)

Re: Instant media turn-offs

[(Anonymous)]

I do not need to ever see someone vomiting on screen. Ever!

Re: Instant media turn-offs

[(Anonymous)]

I don't pick up anything centered around young protagonists. Even teen-aged protagonists. I don't have any comments as to the quality or subject matter (although I think a lot of problems are solved by setting HS stories in college, that's another rant) I'm just fundamentally uninterested in all of these problems that don't matter to me.

Re: Instant media turn-offs

[(Anonymous)]

"And the kickass woman settled down with the man of her dreams and raised babies."

Last Song You Listened To.

[(Anonymous)]

Watched Anna and the Apocalypse musical earlier and have had the song 'Give Them A Show' on repeat since.

Re: Last Song You Listened To.

[(Anonymous)]

Haven't listened to anything today but I've had White Winter Hymnal by Fleet Foxes stuck in my head for hours.

Re: Last Song You Listened To.

[(Anonymous)]

The whole soundtrack to Netflix's Matilda the Musical. It's so damn catchy!

Re: Last Song You Listened To.

[kaijinscendre]

13 Angels Standing Guard 'Round The Side Of Your Bed by Silver Mt. Zion. https://youtu.be/9fN7udMAMog

Vent

[(Anonymous)]

Just a late vent thread. Feel free to post your own.

teal deer; financial/id theft shit, crappy holidays, sleep fail, gift fail

These last two months have just been shit. First I find out some asshole stole my identity last year and ran up a thousand dollar bill in my name so I had to contact the debt collector AND the original company, and obviously file an ID theft report and put alerts on my credit and all that. I got so distracted by this that by the time I remembered Christmas was coming up, it was too late to put in any time off (we are encouraged to put in holiday time early since it's the holidays, but a skeleton crew must be present). I decided to just have what few days I did get and have a nice little Christmas by myself.

I got contacted by a family member who had planned to be in the area but I really wasn't feeling up to visitors for multiple reasons. One, I'd planned to already spend the holiday by myself, two, I don't want visitors AT ALL because I keep finding fucking piece of shit cockroaches in this fucking piece of shit apartment when it's been fucking 20 degrees outside for days, and don't want anyone to take an unwanted souvenir back home. And no, I refuse to meet in a public place and linger anywhere with all the plague rats still around. Three, while we do the obligatory text on holidays and birthdays, we have never really been close. So I had to be the bastard and "nicely" refuse the visit but wished them safe travels.

Had a list of things I was going to do but all the stupid little shitty things just kept pissing me off for no reason so I couldn't enjoy stuff. Even movie watching was a nice temporary distraction but I can't watch movies all day because my body's slowly turning into shit and needs to actually move around. So great, not being able to enjoy stuff I love. I decided to use the time to do a little cleaning and of course found more bugs, mostly dead but a few alive.

Haven't been sleeping well at all because of my shitty body (I'm trying to rebuild my muscle and work on core/pelvic floor... and I know that's a process, especially with getting older and with no guarantee it'll be 100% or even anywhere near the 90s) but it's been worse this last week, waking up in the middle of the night to pee, even when the need wasn't that great. So no real rest over the holiday. And I go back to work tomorrow.

Haven't heard back on the ID theft investigation/fraud report and I'm getting nervous. I don't want to be stuck with some asshole's bill.

And to top it all off, I think I whiffed hard on my Secret Santa. The recipient left things entirely up to the gifter. It took me a long time to settle on something I THOUGHT they would like (because IMO, Secret Santa is about the recipient and not the gifter) and was something within my actual ability. The gifts are displayed anonymously in a public internet area for all to see, so the gifter (and anyone else) can comment on them. And then the guessing game begins. Well... three days my gift to them was displayed and it's been crickets. The most they said about it was "oh I have no idea who did mine" and nothing more. I'm not asking to have my ass kissed, it's just driving me a little crazy that I don't know if it was good gift or a bad gift. Literally everyone's been guessed except for me, so we're just "formally" waiting for the last guess. The recipient seems to have disappeared the last couple days. It's entirely possible they're just being flaky (going by their past behavior), but I'm kind of stuck not being able to share the gift anywhere else until they guess.

Well, I don't know wtf is going to happen and I still have other stuff I need to do. But if you made it to the end of this vent, thanks for reading. Things feel a little lighter now.

[(Anonymous)]

At this point "realistic" just means "shitty and unimaginative" to me and I hate it.* I'm reading/watching a lot of nonfiction because I do love "realistic" stuff I just hate the current fictional depiction of "realistic".

*Mother truckers are out there talking about how the Big Dark Battle in GOT was more realistic than the siege of Helms Deep because of the lighting. Like. I hate everyone who even thinks that because they put their artillery in front of the castle walls (????) AND had cavalry guarding a fixed position instead of waiting to flank (!!!). That is the single worst and least realistic battle set up ever, if you think otherwise I want to bet money with you on battle games because I could pay down my college loans.