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Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social |
This happened with the Spanish flu, too—it’s not present in almost any of the notable art made in the years after it. And, like, of course it’s not. Art isn’t made to be a beat-by-beat retelling of real life, and artists very commonly deal with trauma and disaster of many kinds obliquely.
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sasha e head
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Also just because Covid isn’t mentioned specifically in the art I’m positive it’s extremely present anyway. Basically every short story poem or character I’ve drafted since 2020 is about struggling with being completely powerless and lost during and post trauma
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Brandi
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Yeah, it's absolutely wild to ask us to process trauma well enough to present it as art/entertainment within 4 years of something that still isn't completely over starting. I say this as someone who has gone to a funeral the same day I performed comedy.
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Gwen C. Katz
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I read a couple of COVID-aware short stories and the feeling they inspired was just "...Yes? That is indeed what we've been doing for the past couple of years? Do you have a point?"
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Jason Birzer
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I just remember that Fabian Nicieza wanted to do an AIDS story at Marvel back in the day, and Jim Shooter said no. We got the Legacy Virus instead as a stand-in.
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Russ Bengtson
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not to mention a lot of this stuff is in the works for a long time and they're not gonna do major reworking of a goddamn superhero movie in the middle of production to incorporate the pandemic? lol.
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Rufus J Squirrel 🇵🇸
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It also isn’t necessarily explicitly stated but the trauma of the pandemic (and so much else) is baked into basically every album that has come out in the last 4 years.
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🌙🥀Ithewin🍂✨
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I also don't trust any big production to get it right. The mass layoffs followed by evictions, the racism, the people with "essential jobs" forced to work with no PPE while people with desk jobs got to relax and bake bread at home, the horror of intubation, the hospital bed shortage, the horse pills
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Kath Barbadoro
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Fr, quite a few creative works produced since 2020 are about covid in some way, they just don’t DEPICT covid
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Andrew Jackson Lynch
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I wrote about this a little bit in my essay about Dave Malloy's most recent musical, Three Houses, which is the first bit of narrative COVID art I've seen that I think really works.
www.andrewjacksonlynch.com/the-cost-of-...
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DJDynamicNC (he/him)
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I don't expect movies to be set in "the pandemic" but if they show like an airport with 500 people & NONE are masked, that registers to me as being from a specific time in the past rather than the generic "today" of a lot of movies, because today any large group has at least a couple masked people.
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@technicalsquirrel.bsky.social
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It would be nuts if you saw a period drama in the 1918-19 timeframe and saw everyone wearing masks. The pandemic happened in that timeframe, and was hugely disruptive and consequential, but it was life, and life goes on. We also don't show characters going to the toilet in realistic intervals.
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Amanda Mull
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Also if I cue something up on Netflix or whatever and it’s about the pandemic, I’m just turning it off! I don’t consume art to see people pantomime what I was doing exactly four years ago in any other circumstance, so why would I do that in this, the most dismal of circumstances!
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gawdzie (potato, again)
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i know this is about movies/tv, but i’ve read (at least) two books so far this year that have not ignored covid in their storylines. maybe three. i don’t think it’s really being ignored, it’s just whether it fits into the story. not to mention media like that is an escape from reality.
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Queen Gwenevere
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Plus given how long it takes to make a movie or series or game or even a graphic novel or a book, by the time any topical “Covid media” is produced and released it’ll be painfully outdated.
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Cooper Lund
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Yeah the problem is that this guy doesn’t want art that deals with the pandemic, he wants Captain America to tell you to wear a mask in 2024
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Abraham Gross
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My wife presciently wrote about this re: the bubonic plague and European art when she was in undergrad!
www.rachelelainehsu.com/thesis
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Matt
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[reads original posts, taps sign] bsky.app/profile/matt...
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Tamara Keel
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For about two years there, '20-'22, a lot of people at either end of the spectrum made COVID and anything & everything related to it into their entire existence. Entire social media tribes formed around it. That's apparently hard to let go.
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Jen Ebbeler
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I agree with everything ppl are saying—nobody wants to relive trauma. But by erasing it, it creates the impression that it is all over and done. For elderly and immunocompromised, life has gotten v complicated. I’m at more risk now than ever. Yes, I know I’m in the minority here.
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Kat Flint
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Also the film/tv industry is the only one where I still see regular masking??? Not even hospitals are masking anymore
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just a guy made of dots and lines
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Yeah like, if you're not making art specifically ABOUT the pandemic, shoehorning in pandemic references is not additive. Trauma aside, no one wants to listen to the same conversations over and over, no one wants to delete every restaurant scene, no one wants to watch everyone act through a mask.
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DJ WEED PIZZA
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I like late modernist literature because halfway through every novel, the protagonist stops everything and tells you directly “it’s so fucked up when the entire world is at war. It really alienates me.”
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Collin Woodard
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I also can't imagine it being a good financial decision. If a show I liked started a COVID season, I'd probably stop watching, and I know I'm not alone. A Oscarbait movie about a relationship falling apart during the pandemic? That's probably way too real for the many people who experienced it.
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Castle Bravo
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What do they even want to see? A lighthearted romcom about a couple that met the night before lockdown who date Zoom? A murder mystery where the killer is on camera but they can’t see his face because of his N95? A Lifetime movie about a housewife with long COVID?
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The Gil-Monster
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I have a few questions for Dr. Tran: 1. How many political cartoonists do you back on Patreon? 2. Have you seen literally none of the Covid-related original work artists have quick-posted onto social media in between larger projects? 3. Why don't you shut your trap and CURE something...?
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Frostellicus
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Aside from the show being horrible, I HATED the COVID subplot in the morning show precisely because I had no interest in reliving that era!
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harold perkins cadillac
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im not sure how they should have dealt w/ it tho, they did "the snap" and the giant hand in the ocean and then all the tom holland spidey movies. shits weird in that universe. what more do we need. also...its comic book movies...
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