Zepotha will never be Goncharov because when it comes down to it, tumblr culture is collaborative, while tiktok culture is merely iterative, and those are not the same thing.
Op I refuse to let your tags stay in the tags cause THIS!!!!!
YES! Thank you you managed to put into words. Tumblr is the home of the queer literary nerds who spent YEARS projecting onto movies/shows, often only with the slightest connection to the source material. Of course we could yes and the bit and create a movie out of whole cloth. Of course we made it queer. That’s what we do here!
If tiktok wants to create a fake movie, then by g-d, I support them. But here’s the key thing. They have to lean into what they are! They have to film the movie. Give me a movie made minute by minute with all the tonal shifts that entails. If they want to create a cheesy slasher, it is within their power to do so! Lean in tiktokers! You’re the site that gave us 10,000 versions of the wellerman! Give us a choose your own adventure style movie!
we can argue about queer rep in media until the heat death of the universe (and we will!) but u gotta admit: when someone says ‘the gay pirate show’ or ‘the gay vampire show’ or ‘the cartoon with the girlfriends with magic powers’ and you have to say “which one?” it feels pretty good