This diatribe of mine is less just about LOTR, and more about the dilemma of adaptations as the dominant IP production method of global visual media now. (A thread 🧵)

smh.com.au/culture/tv-and… Perhaps this is the harsh truth: at this point, facilitated no less by people who never really cared about Tolkien beyond using his flaws to shore up the very voices of Mordor in the real world, criticism of this work will remain associated in bad faith. (cont.)

Sawsaw na siguro ako, tutal eto na nga pala talaga dissertation ko.

3 bagay ang kinakaharap natin kung piliin natin ang NGO/private sector engagement, muli, sa pagbubuo ng mga ugnayan laban sa administrasyong Marcos-Duterte.

(A thread) 1. Kailangang malinaw at pantay-pantay ang tratuhan ng constituency sa isa't isa. Alam ko marami nang gusto magsabing nais sumuporta sa Angat Buhay Foundation ni outgoing VP Leni Robredo, at marami dito gusto ko paniwalaang busilak ang puso. (Cont.)