This quote still amuses me way too much
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YBW?
Normalize crushing your crushes
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The girl who had a crush on me in middle school was named Rachel.
Instead of dating her, I became Rachel.
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Based
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Mitosis
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Mitobro
Mitomom
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I’m gay
Damn, I’m still confused on to what gay would even mean for me
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Willow is yaggababble
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Mitogay
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Gagababa
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bababable
so I was thinking about adaptions of media – I feel like when I was a kid I had a conception of “what makes a good adaption” that was basically “the less it changes the better it is,” with no concept that an adaption might change things for the better, and a flawed understanding of how much a book → movie adaption in particular would need to cut to be remotely functional at all
and as I’ve gotten older I’ve acquired a more ~nuanced~ perspective where adaptions don’t have to be 1:1, changes can be good/thematically resonant/etc., and so on
WITH THAT BEING SAID
the Disney Hercules movie making Hercules the beloved son of Hera was fucking stupid
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the rest of the plot of the movie was also kind of stupid. like I think it would legitimately have been a better story if they’d just made up their own world with OCs rather than trying to shoehorn it into a Greek mythological framework that it really doesn’t fit well with. (but unlike ten-year-old-Arete I’m not specifically bothered by the fact that they called him Hercules when everyone else is going around with Greek names)
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as we all know hercules settles down with megara and they live together happily ever after and nothing else happens
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Here are the rules.
1.) An adaption is good when the changes are being made with the intention to smooth the process of telling the source material in another medium.
2.) Bad adaptions make changes with the intention to change the source material to fit they story they are desiring to tell.
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all things being considered i would rather disney poorly adapt greek myth than poorly adapt a touchy part of us history. oh wait they did that too
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No ten-year-old Arete was right. They should’ve called Herakles. The cowards
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