Stardust Reverie Collection

yea, i think it’s kinda just… weird how quick the turnover is?? like. literally overnight people will stop talking and thinking about it once it stops being Relevant(TM). but also it never just entirely disappears from peoples’ memories, and people will remember like “oh god yeah lost exists what the hell” and such.

there’s also something to be said about like, how things end up having longevity and not doing that. i think it might be kinda what i was just thinking, that people usually don’t forget about stuff, they just move on to other things, like, stuff like pacific rim or inception still exists in the public consciousness, it’s just dormant. and i think it might be because it no longer feels fresh, which is why that happens when something more relatable/interesting/cooler/etc comes along, it’s fresh, y’know? and i think the reason stuff like star wars still very much has longevity is because they’re always finding ways to keep it fresh.

(and, relating that to the city gods thing, that’s why some stuff like hellenism and kemeticism is still relevant to us today—we reinterpret it to be more relevant to our current lives and resonate more. like i mean, hell, apollo for instance is kind of taking on a new life of his own with the Dodgeball of Prophecy)

as for how older one-off works like romeo and juliet or whatever manage to stay relevant, i guess i could chalk that one up to it having been played with and reimagined a lot historically. and something like 1984 is talked about because it’s very much about politics and society, which are very real and present things in all our lives and are constantly evolving, so there’s always something new to relate to it.

tbh this exact thing is why game of thrones is such a funny example of this. just. absolute woody toy story “i don’t wanna play with you anymore” energy