IzyaKatzmann

@IzyaKatzmann@hexbear.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨happy sun⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s beautiful, i can’t stop looking at it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Binary Dusk⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s mesmerizing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The Marvels’ Meltdown: Disney MCU Seeing Lowest B.O. Opening Ever At $47M+⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a fan of Alan Moore’s comments on superhero media’s relation to fascism. Quoted bit below:

  And he now looks with dismay on the way the superhero genre in which he once worked has eaten the culture. “Hundreds of thousands of adults [are] lining up to see characters and situations that had been created to entertain the 12-year-old boys – and it was always boys – of 50 years ago. I didn’t really think that superheroes were adult fare. I think that this was a misunderstanding born of what happened in the 1980s – to which I must put my hand up to a considerable share of the blame, though it was not intentional – when things like Watchmen were first appearing.

  The relevant bit:

  He thinks that’s not just infantile but dangerous. “I said round about 2011 that I thought that it had serious and worrying implications for the future if millions of adults were queueing up to see Batman movies. Because that kind of infantilisation – that urge towards simpler times, simpler realities – that can very often be a precursor to fascism.” He points out that when Trump was elected in 2016, and “when we ourselves took a bit of a strange detour in our politics”, many of the biggest films were superhero movies.