Amy Adams has been attached to star in a Janis Joplin biopic for several years, and in 2014 the project seemed to pick up steam when Wild and Dallas Buyers Club director Jean-Marc Vallée signed on to direct. But alas, it now appears the film is dead for good.
lol full offense but stop policing how frequently bisexuals date either genders. just cause i’ve dated 5 girls back to back doesn’t make me a lesbian, just like another bisexual woman who has dated 5 men back to back doesn’t make her straight. being bisexual means the person has the potential to be attracted to more than one gender and that’s it. what they do with it is their business so just let us live for crying out loud let us live.
An interesting project on Quartzaccumulates data from billions of tweets to compile a list of the 100,000 most popular words in English, and, thanks to an interactive map, lets you figure out exactly where people use words like “shithead” and “fucking” and “goddamn” the most.
I saw Arrival last night, and in addition to being excellent (seriously, you should see it), it crystallized something I’ve long suspected: aliens are faeries.
That is to say, they’ve taken faeries’ place in our collective mythology. Fae folk are simply too familiar. They no longer evoke that instinctive this is fundamentally Other response that they once did. Faerie tales don’t tingle the spine the way they did when they were first conceived. They’ve become too sanitized, too ordinary. Faeries stealing children from their homes and doing god-knows-what with them is the stuff of Disney films, but extraterrestrials doing the same is the stuff of body horror. We’ve mapped out the natural world so well that it’s hard for anything of this earth to embody that Otherness. Outer space, though? That’s a different ball game.
I think drawing this connection could be a great antidote to the “Tinkerbell in shredded fishnets” problem I bitched about the other day. Instead of going for spooky scary gothic, people struggling with how to write truly eldritch fae should instead go for incomprehensible. That spine-tingling bafflement that a really good alien movie gives you? That. The challenge then is to extrapolate it to what people in your setting would find incomprehensible. That’s one reason I love writing religious horror so much: it’s fundamentally beyond human knowledge and experience. It can’t be tamed.
