someone just accused train to nowhere (the fanfic) of attempting religious conversion.
i’m cackling because i never even thought of that. idk which religion i’m trying to lure y’all into, but fuck yeah let’.s check that box too. do u have a minute to talk about our lord and savior harry potter?
the screenshots here are from near the end of the interview, which i think makes it even worse, because the interviewer listened to everything he’d said and still didn’t treat it very seriously. there are other parts where she seems very smart and intuitive, but then other times he’d say something like “i hate myself to death and feel like i’m an empty shell” and she’d just laugh and move on while i’m just like !!!
i was really impressed by how open he is about it though, even the “ugly” symptoms that aren’t really talked about normally — like how he said he used to lock himself in his apartment alone and drink and “bang on the walls” because he didn’t know how else to cope with all the pain he was in, and he even mentions hurting himself and talks about scars and refers to himself as a “masochist” and says a coworker once referred to him as “someone constantly trying to hurt himself.” the fact that he was able to talk about all this so openly, despite the reaction he got, was so impressive and amazing to me
it’s really heartbreaking though because he’s obviously never had the support he needs — at one point he mentions that the first person he ever opened up to about all the pain he was in (back in his mid-20s, when he says it was much worse) was a director who was considering hiring him, and he later found out that that director had told people she thought “someone like that” would be “too difficult” to work with, and it caused this rumor/pre-conceived notion about him to spread that affected the way his coworkers treated him. now that he’s famous and has had other work he’s literally known for how charming and nice he is to everyone, but at that point his coworkers all thought he was moody, pretentious, and rude and always avoided him on set because of this, all because he opened up about his severe depression to the wrong person
speakng of raising awareness: the movie he’s being interviewed for here is “silenced”, a film he initiated production of. it’s based on real events that happened at a school for deaf children, where kids were sexually abused for years by their teachers. of the six rapists, two received prison sentences (and were out within a year), while the others were freed immediately because the statute of limitations had expired – and all were reinstated at the school
gong yoo read about this a few years later and said to himself “what can i as an actor do to help,” and he made a movie about it. millions of people saw it and there was mass public outrage, and because of this movie the case was reopened, the school was shut down, the rapists got much harsher punishments, and a law named after the movie was passed that abolished the statute of limitations for all sex crimes against minors and disabled people
when they were making the movie, gong yoo was convinced by the director he’d found to star as a teacher who tries to help the victims, but at first he was hesitant (because before this he’d only been in romcoms and he thought he lacked the acting ability to pull off the emotional depth required for this subject) but he eventually agreed because he wanted to use his fame to bring attention to the events
like… i have nothing but admiration for this guy. gong yoo is incredible and i want the world to know
He’s amazing, wow!
I love Gong Yoo
I need suggestions of his best work from literally anyone. What stuff should I check out?
“Koreans are all brainwashed so you can’t compare them to Americans.”
Half of America is so patriotic they believe all school shootings are false flags. There was a ridiculous piece of misinfo that was floated around by mainstream news outlets that the DPRK was forcing people to style their hair after Kim Jong-Un. This was a complete lie, tons of Americans believed it and still do and won’t even do the two seconds of research needed to figure out it’s a complete lie.
Americans are one of the most brainwashed peoples on Earth. They have had their consent engineered since their birth. Ya wanna test this?
1 – Refuse to say the pledge of allegiance.
2 – Say anything negative about the military.
3 – Question Capitalism in any way.
4 – Say that America isn’t the best country in the world.
5 – Make a critique of mainstream American culture.
Do any of these things amoung others and an army of jingoistic super-patriots will descend upon you like an angry avalanche of stupidity with the exact same copy paste arguements they’ve been taught to rehearse.
6. Question the prison industrial complex and it’s inherent racism and blatent unequal treatment of crimes and those accused.
7. Talk about the colonialist history of America and how it was founded on genocide and slavery.
We all need to do our writing apprenticeships. We all have to make a living while we write our books. Have you considered trying one of these writing jobs?
Ok, hear me out: Two authors. Ten chapters. One fic.
Two genres.
Each author gets five chapters, interwoven. (choose who starts, the other gets to end)
Each author also gets a seperate, completely opposing genre or trope.
They must respect the fiction of all previously written chapters. However, during their chapter, they must, to the best of their writing ability, wrench the story out of its previous genre or trope and back into theirs.
I just want to read a story that can’t decide if it’s a college AU or a Pacific Rim monster slayer. Half romance, half murder thriller. Half law procedural, half sitcom. Half Harry Potter au, half medical drama.
This is a dumb idea.
@insomnialexwriter I know we’re friends but I kinda want to challenge you
@mangocheesecake77 AS LONG AS ITS SUPERNATURAL I ACCEPT YOUR CHALLENGE. WE SHOULD SO ABSOLUTELY DO THIS.
*whispers* fic where it’s two rivaling fandoms that each try to gain control over the others
Kylo: “And did Master Skywalker tell you the whole story? How he tried to murder me in my sleep? It was self-defense!”
Rey, a fleshed-out character who isn’t Super-Emotional Because She’s a Woman: “And then you blew up the temple? Killed the other students? Were they your friends? Did they have families? Was killing Han Solo self-defense?”
RIGHT? Like even if Luke did that, which OOC but okay, how does that remotely absolve what Kylo did in retaliation? In fact, the only thing it does it make me think, “Fuck, Luke was right. He should have killed you back then.”
“One guy thought about trying to kill me once and so I let some zombie motherfucker talk me into blowing up planets, murdering children and killing my own father who had absolutely nothing to do with the other guy considering killing me”
– Kyle Wrong, explaining his Super Tragic Origin Story
Kylo Ren is a school shooter.
And there’s @priscellie with the most succinct description of Kylo Ren you could ask for.
Sums up his character completely
Hey now, don’t take the destruction of the Hosnian System away from Ginger Fuher Hux!
marlowfication 