funniest thing my philosophy professor has ever done is stop lecturing for a solid 20 seconds before going “….you know, I don’t actually know how brains work”
my hot-tip for every writer of any skill-level is ‘don’t make your villain the joker’
an antagonist who doesn’t have any stakes, who doesn’t have any redeeming qualities, who doesn’t have any limitations and who doesn’t have any motivation besides committing evil acts is an inherently boring character. they do not, in fact, say a lot about society.
honestly no matter how faithfully you adapt les miserables to stage or screen, nothing can really quite replicate the effect of hugo being like “so valjean got to this convent…. btw, just briefly, i don’t normally do this but bc it’s relevant, im gonna take 45 pages to tell u the history of the convent, all the significant nuns & their daily routines, & this is my opinion of organised religion in general - it fucking blows! - do you believe in god btw? we actually are god. philosophy and religion are both right. actually, convents are quite noble sometimes when u think about it. idk, anyway, as i was saying valjean got there” and u know he’s gonna do t again on some other topic in like 6 pages time
what I love about the whole “we’re calling the Child “Baby Yoda” because we don’t know the name of Yoda’s species” is that this is Star Wars. This franchise has detailed backstories for everything. Guy with an ice cream maker? The droid who R2D2 replaced? The Trooper whose armor Luke stole? we know all about them.
which makes it so absolutely ridiculous to me that no one, not in Legends, not in the Disney EU, ever thought to give Yoda’s species a name, and even more ridiculous that no one ever pointed to the muppet, voiced by Frank Oz, put George Lucas on the spot, and said “Hey George, what the fuck is that?”
