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gen z has to reckon with its radicalization problem. you are not a morally pure and superior generation of youth come to save the world, your men and boys are radicalized at an unprecedented level and you ignore it because it’s too hard to address but you have to. these boys are in your classes, they date your friends, you know them and you cannot continue to pretend this is an “old white guy” problem

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things we need to address:

gen z men getting pulled into alt-right pipelines through andrew tate, joe rogan, elon musk, jordan peterson etc

the gullibility and stupidity of half the country voting against our collective best interests

the broad effect social media has on public and common good

lazy minds and lack of empathy

outside-country interference (trump and elon’s connections to russia and the amount of bots from other countries spreading misinformation)

the long-term effects of AI and rampant disinformation

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Usually I like to be very open minded. Everyone matters and hating anyone will only fuel more prejudices and hatred. But due to the election results,

Status changed to evil misandrist !!! The first man who speaks to me is getting clocked.

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“Show, don’t tell”

I feel like so many people operate on the belief that if something isn’t EXPLICITLY said in the most clear cut manner, it isn’t canon or isn’t true. Which is actually extremely ridiculous. The rule of showing vs telling doesn’t only apply in old books or essays you have to write in school, guys. Most pieces of media, including GAMES, do in fact put ‘show don’t tell’ into their work for things like a more natural dialogue, a more complex story and also because to the average person, when everything is explicitly told to them in a story, it kind of feels like the creator is assuming their audience is stupid.

Lately online, I’ve been seeing a lot of discussion about queer coding and whether certain characters from a game or a show are implied to be trans or queer and whether those implications makes the character canonically queer. For some reason the most common argument I’ll ever see against these discussions are: “well it was never EXPLICITLY said”

I don’t think this people realize how unnatural it would be for a game or a show to state certain information in a very clear way.

“Thank you for saving our world from the big evil dragon! I’m a lesbian by the way. I love women. I’d never dare a man. I am a lesbian. I am sapphic. Please don’t ship me with a man. I am a lesbian.”

Obviously that’s an over-dramatization but the point still stands, there’s very little reasons or moments in some games for characters to be so straightforward with their identity. A character feels alive through nuances and complexities, how boring would it be if every single character just…said everything.

Also it’s most common for this dismissal to happen for queer implications which is…who’s surprised :/

If a character who is a soldier who fights against monsters said ‘…I had someone once’, wore a wedding band, blamed the monsters for taking someone away from him, and had references to a poem about the death of a spouse. People would immediately know ‘ah yes this character’s love probably died at the hands of the monsters’ without it ever having to be explicitly said.

Why is it that when it’s a character being implied lesbian or gay or transgender that suddenly it’s a little more ‘up to debate’ or a coincidence.

I am aware the example I used is extremely easy but once again, my point still stands.

If you truly, from the bottom of your heart, believe something cannot be canonical until it is explicitly said, please brush up on your analysis skills.

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Self Shippers

Can we bring back oc x canon. It’s genuinely so cute and I love it so much. I adore seeing people’s designs and the dynamic their character has with canon characters. I wanna make fanart for self shippers. I feel the urge to just create OCs for me to ship with characters I love. When I was a kid, I used to self ship with cross/xtale chara and honestly? Nothing was more fun than that. I don’t think I’ve ever been at the same level of joy compared to the pure radiance I felt when people drew me and cross chara together as a kid.

I was gonna talk about cringe culture but I just can’t be bothered right now. But I do need to say that I truly appreciate self shippers and I need to see more people unapologetically shipping their OCs with a canon character.

I think I’m gonna start picking up OC making again and start self shipping once more. Though I’m unsure if I’ll ever post it anywhere. Shrug

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Shock Value, horror and media literacy

I feel like it’s very normal to see anti-gore and shock value sentiment online. Which makes a lot of sense obviously. I feel like most people agree that if your definition of good horror is just how much blood or shock value is present in the piece of media, you probably don’t actually know how to tell good media from bad media and operate on the belief that blood = good. I think most people kind of see how bad most modern day horror movies are. They just aren’t creative and it feels like a regurgitation of the same troupes. I especially hate how popular poorly written slasher movies have become. For example, I genuinely think The Terrifier just isn’t a good movie because the people raving about it are only raving about how disgusting and gory it was. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything actually interesting about the movie and it feels like the directors know that the general audience will just consume the most boring, low effort film as long as they add as much blood as possible. Have some of us become so simple minded that people can truly watch a video online saying ‘this movie was so good because blood!!!’ And then just…agree with that sentiment?

However I think the opposite sentiment is also true. It’s just as media illiterate to look at any piece of media with any form of shock value or gore and go ‘this is awful and terrible’. You can be uncomfortable with gore and not consume any disturbing media and that’s okay. You don’t have to villainize something just because you don’t like it. I recently read litchi hikari club and I thought it was a great piece of writing and art that carried an anti-Japanese imperialist message as well as showing how fascism can affect people, especially kids. Is it an uncomfortable, disturbing piece of media? Absolutely. Is it okay for people to not want to read it because it’s kind of gross? Yes. However writing off the entire comic as bad and anyone who likes it as bad, is plain ignorant. If you cannot or do not like to consume nuanced media that takes form in a more disturbing way, that’s okay. But exaggerating the plot and practically reading the comic with your eyes closed, is a whole other thing. Not everything has to have a happy ending. Not everything has to be appropriate. As long as there is substance outside of the shock value and the shock value isn’t glamorized, sexualized or used horribly lightly, I don’t see an issue with people enjoying that piece of media. I came across a video where the OP was in the comments flat out lying about the plot and contents of Litchi Hikari Club and it made me really upset. How can you paint yourself as some morally superior person for not liking an artistically shocking piece of media without even putting an attempt at truly understanding it. Was some of the shocking content unnecessary? Absolutely. But at the end of the day, the comic was meant to make a large point and refusing to even try to see that point to stay on your moral high ground because you don’t like any form of dark media is stupid.

Some topics are disturbing and deserve to be spoken about and shown in a disturbing light and not in a ‘happy ending everyone lives at the end’ story. However shock value and gore shouldn’t just be used because you’re an incompetent writer who can’t create a good story without making it a torture p0rn.

TLDR: if you think shock value = always good, you’re media illiterate, if you think shock value = always bad, you’re also media illiterate

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Introduction !

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Any pronouns. Kind of boring person I fear. Me talking about stuff. I’m 17.

I don’t have any revolutionary thoughts but I still feel the need to speak

Professor nap taker and certified vampire maybe

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