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she/her | Yoonmin | Sope | Namjin
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cashiers don’t actually care what you buy you could buy a fork a toaster and a bath plug and i wouldnt notice all i’m thinking abt is “in five min it will be one hour until two hours before i can go home”

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tlirsgender

Bad practical effects >>>>> bad cgi

Give me a dude in a rubber suit or give me death

You know what's even better than bad practical effects? Good practical effects

Me looking at bad cgi: hm. Fake

Me looking at bad practical effects: ohohoho hehehoohoo fuck yeah

Me looking at good practical effects: This Is The Coolest Shit I've Seen In My Life

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luxlightly

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it a thousand more times: No piece of dystopian fiction has ever been a prediction of the future. They are observations and criticisms of the present. 

“Wooow! How did Orwell predict the surveillance state so well in 1984??” 

He didn’t. He was making an observation of the surveillance state that already existed in his present, and exaggerated it to make the metaphor obvious.

Learning and discussing these works in terms of them being predictions and having test questions like “do you think his prediction came true?” is not only pointless, but actively counterintuitive. When you frame these works as being ‘people from the past knew that the future would be terrible’ you shift the entire perspective to one of some kind of nostalgia for a past that didn’t exist. 

These author’s aren’t oracles. They’re satirists. Their predictions ‘come true’ because they were already true when they wrote them. 

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