Hey, remember when I used to do this? I do at least. It was me taking 3 or 4 or whatever number of random thoughts that were crashing around in my brain that I want to get out of there and onto paper. or internet blog paper. Whatever, you know what I’m talking about I gotta get this shit outta my head and this is the best way for me to do it.
Anyway I was posting on twitter or at least reading twitter (yes port I know and yes I am going to try to give it up again.) and someone was arguing about comics and “bad writing” and then ends up bringing up Shakespeare. I forget the whole context of the tweets now but he was angry that Marvel Comics finally let Chris Claremont’s original idea of Mystique and Destiny be Nightcrawlers parents because of the shapeshifting power Mystique has. In my mind the people arguing this is bad writing are just angry at gay people because I know these twitter weirdos and I know they haven’t even read the entire comic book and I’m guessing they haven’t read Shakespeare or any of the other writers he mentioned. I’m going to come out and be completely honest with you all, I’ve read one Shakespeare play and I didn’t like it. It was Romeo and Juliet. I was thirteen. It was forced on me at school. I liked when random Shakespeare characters appeared in Gargoyles, the Disney cartoon but I never ever cared to read another Shakespeare play. I think my problem that I don’t think I’ll ever get over is how they talk like they did in 1483 or whenever the hell it was originally written. The themes and ideas still work, you’ve seen a movie or read a book that was basically Romeo and Juliet without the THOU ART and WHILST and 15th Century talk but how many people do you seriously believe in this day and age actually read and care about the original text? How many people just use the name as a way to feel more intelligent? I’m sure it’s an insane amount. Just like the people who also just go with the rest of humanity and say “this unpopular thing was bad!” instead of trying to give the thing a shot. I’m sure there’s a lot of that there too. Anyway It just pisses me off.
Here’s another thing to chew on. Stories are subjective. Not Objective. Yeah maybe some things are better done and all that but if every movie or tv show was objective we wouldn’t have ANY arguments on these things. Ever. I can’t stand The Big Bang Theory but people love that shit. Anyway this is just me saying that I’m gonna try to say I’m not a fan of something instead of saying it sucks or it’s bad, and liking or disliking something doesn’t make someone intelligent or dumb.
Also what good is intelligence anyway? I’m not going to go out and say I’m a genius, I’m not, but I’m smart enough to know that I cannot fix any of the huge problems this world has. Like world hunger, or mental illness, or climate change, or wealth inequality. any of those things. I can at best protest but that will only work if enough people do it. People do it and maybe a small thing get fixed. Look at children, that’s when people are there happiest. I’m intelligent enough to know that I can’t fix shit and that makes me feel helpless and depressed. Wonderful.
Talking about politics on the internet is stupid and will not fix any issues. Calling Elon Musk a stupid doodie head (he is one to be fair) but that ain’t gonna fix wealth inequality or anything.
Life kinda sucks a lot of the time so enjoy whatever the hell it is that makes you happy weither it be Mr. Belevedere or eating chips or hiking. Just have fun with this shit whenever you can.
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