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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 4h

You're wrong, but it is fine to be wrong about things.

Don't let it bother you.

Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 4h

Having never even heard of the series you are safe!

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Mary Borsellino @sharpestrose.bsky.social · 5h

This exactly. Go Nagai is so wildly creative at all times that the idea of a setup-payoff structure doesn't make any kind of sense. He's not just throwing spaghetti at the wall, he's inventing spaghetti mid-flight.

Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 6h

It's fine to be wrong about things.

"Cohesive and thematically resonant whole" goes against everything Go Nagai is. His work is chaotic, unstructured, and flows purely from the ID. Putting cohesion on a Go Nagai work basically destroys everything that is unique to him as an artist.

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 5h

Sure. Because you are imprinting your own sensibilities on someone else's work. But that is not the point of Go Nagai's work. He was not trying to tell nice stories that empowered people.

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 5h

I know it goes without saying here, but I fucking love cities. As someone who grew up in a small town, cities absolutely RULE.

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 5h

Same thing.

a man in a black and white sweater is standing in a clothing store and says obviously

ALT: a man in a black and white sweater is standing in a clothing store and says obviously

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 5h

I was just at a lecture series, and we asked "What is a shaman?"

The answers made me think I should stop using that term...

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 5h

I'm one of the founders of religion.

Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 5h

I'm one of the founders of atheism.

Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 6h

OK, she really said that they arrested “the girlfriend of the founder of ANTIFA”

The girlfriend

of the FOUNDER

of - anti fascism?

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 5h

Les Miserables is another example of parity. The book is a masterpiece. The musical is a masterpiece.

The film, however, is dogshit.

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 5h

I think there are several examples where there is parity; where the adaptation is as good as the original. Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep being the most classic example.

In general, I think the further an adaptation goes away from the original, the better chances of parity.

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 5h

It's possible. Just exceedingly rare. And generally requires the source material to be somewhat dogshit in the first place. But since Go Nagai's work is not dogshit, it cannot be surpassed. The best you can hope for is parity.

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 5h

Go Nagai's works can never be improved. No more than Pablo Picasso's works can be improved. Or Vincent van Gogh.

These are artists, and those are the works they create. One cannot improve on them. Only be derivative.

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 6h

Daniel has excellent taste. Be like Daniel.

Daniel Watts @danielwatts.bsky.social · 1d

For my birthday I got myself a bunch of the H.P. Lovecraft adaptations by Gou Tanabe. Such an amazing artists. I feel he really captures the feel of the Lovecraft world.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 6h

Variation of the goose chase meme, the goose asking: "What happened to the Weimar Republic?" in this version.

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 6h

The first Barbie doll could have been transported by stagecoach.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 6h

I think I can agree with that.

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 6h

It's looking at something truly unique and unfettered and asking the question "But what if this were bland and just like everything else?"

a man wearing a black and white sweater says " that 's a hard pass "

ALT: a man wearing a black and white sweater says " that 's a hard pass "

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 6h

It's fine to be wrong about things.

"Cohesive and thematically resonant whole" goes against everything Go Nagai is. His work is chaotic, unstructured, and flows purely from the ID. Putting cohesion on a Go Nagai work basically destroys everything that is unique to him as an artist.