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YOU ONLY KEEP ONE BULL 

(Originally published in Comics For Choice)

You know what's sad?

I don't listen to podcasts. According to stats only 55% of people in the US have listened to a podcast and only 37% had listened to a podcast in one month. So it's a growing market and depending on your taste what you listen to may have a small audience.

Netflix counted on this. With Archive 81 they knew the majority of people wouldn't be aware it's based on a podcast or have knowledge of the storyline. They can present it as an original idea and seriously change the source material without much complaint.

I liked the show, though it had an extremely predictable plot. It's trending on Netflix so clearly it's captured an audience. I always Google shows after I watch them and I felt my stomach drop when I saw an article about Melody's character being straightwashed. As I read it I wanted to cry from frustration because how am I supposed to trust that any adaptation with LGBTQ+ characters will be respected. This isn't the first time that I had to experience this and I'm sick of it.

But whats really sickening to me is no change will happen. Most people won't care that the storys been changed, one because they liked the show and are attached to the characters, but two because most people don't even know the lead females sexuality has been erased which Netflix fucking counted on.

I think ot turned out nice

A lot of people think the opposit of love is hate, but if you think about it that is not necessarily true, if you hate a person you'll have a reason for that and if you love someone you'll have too a reason, in this we can say that love and hate are like heads and tails of a coin. Now if you don't feel anything for someone you don't love them and you also don't hate them, you simply don't care about them, and loving someone is caring for them because of the feelings you harbor. So I think the opposite of love is not hate but indiference.

THIS IS ART IS SO BEAUTIFUL AS IN THE HEAVENS OFFICIAL BLESSING WEBTOON

My friend and I stayed up all night brainrottin bout this wangxian AU

When you're bored

Archive 81 Netflix Adaption

Okay, I have to rant about this real quick.

When I first heard Archive 81 was being adapted by Netflix, I was appalled! For a multitude of reasons (that I might get into in more detail at a later date) I'm vigorously against podcast adaptions!!! Not only because it's always gonna be more limited than what my imagination can come up with and because so often the audio-format makes up a huge part of the show's character but also, and mostly, because of what apparently happened with Archive 81.

The (fiction/horror/sci-fi/...) podcast movement exists (in huge parts) as an alternative to mainstream media and it's lack of diversity. It's always been weird, always been niche, always been super queer and diverse and everything Netflix and Co. wasn't. So when I heard about the Archive 81 adaption and saw the trailer I immediately suspected that they'd leave out Melody's sexuality/wife. In this sad media-scape of ours it was literally my very first thought. And, big f*cking surprise, that's exactly what happened.

Before it came out I hadn't decided if I was going to watch it (I haven't). Then I read about the straight-washing and immediately decided I wouldn't. I'm not surprised, but really, really f*cking livid! I hate that they took my favourite thing, the one place where I saw proper representation of myself, and killed it's moral/activist roots and accomplishments.

If adapting podcasts now becomes a thing (and someone decides to touch TMA, Juno Steel, Alice isn't dead, Welcome to Nightvale, etc.) I will start the revolution. This'll be my villain origin story.

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