Thank you for being open minded. If you and/or @loaExMachina@hexbear.net are interested, the slop is meant to be an irritant for the ‘hairy’ part of harmonies. The concept is to pair two movies that have something in common but also have issues, be they disturbing subject matter (such as colonialism, sexism, murders or triggering content), bad excution, or poor taste. It felt appropriate to me that a slop icon would reflect the idea that even though there is always a reason I think the movies are worth seeing, there is probably something cringe-y in at least one of the set. For example, this week’s ‘The King and I’ is so offensive and belittling of the King that it was banned in Thailand. Sure, Brits might think Siam is an exotic fantasy land, but it doesn’t play that way back home, so I paired it with another movie from Thailand related to the same time.
To make an icon as hairy as possible, I generated a bunch of potential icons, and picked the least-cute/most-ugly result. If it really really bothers people I am happy to defer to the group consenus. My initial icon was a take on the hairy ball problem wherein you can’t ‘comb’ fur in one direction over a sphere. As you can see, it is delightfully primitive, but I worried it implicitly required that at least one movie be musical: 
P.S. Next week I plan on showing ‘dumb blondes’.
Thank you for being open minded. If you and/or @loaExMachina@hexbear.net are interested, the slop is meant to be an irritant for the ‘hairy’ part of harmonies. The concept is to pair two movies that have something in common but also have issues, be they disturbing subject matter (such as colonialism, sexism, murders or triggering content), bad excution, or poor taste. It felt appropriate to me that a slop icon would reflect the idea that even though there is always a reason I think the movies are worth seeing, there is probably something cringe-y in at least one of the set. For example, this week’s ‘The King and I’ is so offensive and belittling of the King that it was banned in Thailand. Sure, Brits might think Siam is an exotic fantasy land, but it doesn’t play that way back home, so I paired it with another movie from Thailand related to the same time.
To make an icon as hairy as possible, I generated a bunch of potential icons, and picked the least-cute/most-ugly result. If it really really bothers people I am happy to defer to the group consenus. My initial icon was a take on the hairy ball problem wherein you can’t ‘comb’ fur in one direction over a sphere. As you can see, it is delightfully primitive, but I worried it implicitly required that at least one movie be musical:
P.S. Next week I plan on showing ‘dumb blondes’.