Representation Is Not a Substitute for Worldbuilding

RAERAE RANTS · CASTING · WORLDBUILDING HAS LEFT THE CHAT Representation Is Not a Substitute for Worldbuilding If you want a modern multicultural kingdom, build one. I am listening. Give me the migrations, marriages, trade routes, neighborhoods, prejudices, alliances, languages, and history that created it. What I am tired of is a remake borrowing the […]

KPop Demon Hunters Is What Happens When Shame Gets a Soundtrack—and Loses

KPop Demon Hunters is a glitter bomb full of shame, friendship, Korean folklore, idol labor, and a tiger built like a dropped dumpling. RaeRae digs into all of it.

Please Make a New Animated Movie Before the Number Four Develops Feelings

Remakes, reimaginings, legacy sequels, and Part III again. RaeRae would like one blank sketchbook and a new animated story, please.

Disney, Animation Was Already Alive

Animation was already alive. RaeRae asks why Disney keeps turning living cultures into expensive remake décor instead of funding new stories with the same artists and experts.

Frozen Was Universal. KPop Demon Hunters Had to Prove Korea Was.

Frozen arrived as a universal Disney classic. KPop Demon Hunters had to become unavoidable before the mainstream stopped treating Korea like a niche. RaeRae has receipts.