#a misnomer

[missmisnomer]

it's always a good day to wake up and choose violence

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[hrokkall]

ULTRATOBER /// SECOND: MOST EPIC BATTLE

[ryukisgod]

I don’t understand how they are female presenting, they’re just lizards

I am literally on my knees begging fantasy writers to use "he-elf, "he-dragon," and "he-dwarf." ... Oh, it sounds weird? Then stop doing it for the female presenting ones, it sounds just as weird 🤭

[idrawprettyboys]

"The Back-From-Hell Hug" painted with Mei Liang watercolors on Canson cold pressed paper and inked with a Sakura Pigma Micron.

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[natjennie]

game changer stills are often like renaissance paintings to me.

[apas-95]

I think the 'problematic media' issue is composed of two principle parts, one superceding the other.

Firstly, and the most important to address to cut the discourse off at the head; yes, media is a vector by which social systems reinforce themselves. This is the purpose of propaganda, and this dynamic is completely intelligible to us if we consider the cases of 'person whose sole source of online interaction was 4chan, and who exclusively watched History Channel hagiography about fascist war machines', or 'person who developed inappropriate ideas about sex through watching misogynistic media'. It is plainly clear that it is both possible and common for media to influence people ideologically, as an apparatus of a given social system. Material reality dictates which social systems are given ideological hegemony in media, but media is in fact an effective tool of those systems.

Secondly, while acknowledging the first point, it is not the dominating factor, here. While media can and does influence people ideologically, often commandingly so, it is not some sort of cognitohazard. It is plainly possible to watch, even repeatedly over an extended timetrame, some given piece of fascist propaganda, or abuse apologia, or what have you, without becoming any more beholden to its ideas - if anything, becoming more opposed. The crucial thing, here, is that doing so requires some level of understanding and defence against the ideas presented. Someone with no rebuttal to fascist positions, with no even kneejerk dismissal that what they're taking in is fascist, is unlikely not to internalise something if they're surrounded by fascist media. On the other hand, someone who has been innoculated with opposing political theory, who is capable of recognising the social systems being reinforced by a given communicative work and reasonably countermand them, can watch a thousand misogynist movies, read a thousand racist books, peruse a thousand transphobic news articles, and leave with only stronger convictions to oppose these systems. Clearly, the dominating factor here is not the content of the media itself, but the content of the audience - whether the audience is able to sufficiently recognise, interrogate, and oppose the messaging in a given work.

All this is to say - yes, media can and does influence beliefs, but that that influence is completely subordinate to the question of whether the audience has any level of political theory or critical analysis. A liberal reading fascist literature, not holding any real theoretical opposition to the content of fascism, is safe so long as they can recognise and reject basic fascist signifiers. A feminist is able to recognise misogynistic logic in a given work. A communist can recognise and countermand reactionary spin in a news article or wikipedia page. While the politically-unconscious man will not recognise that his favourite sitcom is instilling him with absurdly sexist views on marriage, the issue here is not the media itself. Fundamentally - the issue of 'problematic media' is one best and principally solved by the development of political theory and political education, not by any suppression of the media itself, which is cumbersome.

[kitnita]

who's ready for some afternoon hockey?

[mikotos-nape-nibbler]

shaking-

quivering even

Today I found out MILGRAM isn't a multimedia, it's a transmedia. "Multimedia" means the same story in multiple mediums, whereas "transmedia" is multiple stories scattered over multiple mediums. MILGRAM's MVs have a different story compared to the narrative in its respective voice dramas (as well as different stories in its novels and minigrams), thus making it a transmedia series.

[ansburg]

not to soapbox but like. diasporic asians growing up the in the west were constantly told we were uncool, ugly, unfit for leading roles, and just so generally other that many of us still struggle with that self-hatred and deal with the material discrimination that comes with looking "different" from the default. so many diasporic asians have stories about how our creative accomplishments or potential were discounted because we were told we didn’t have enough “personality” – a judgment call that can’t be divorced from how racial triangulation has worked to alienate asian people from dominant cultures in the diaspora.

you know how asian people have been treated by western fantasy? we’re either

ugly and monstrous

exotified beyond recognition

or we don’t exist.

(thanks david. it’s not like thedas is the only continent the player can explore or anything. or that boats exist. where does solas get his tea btw? where do the silks in orlais originate from? why are there always asian aesthetics present without asian faces?)

when a game like bg3 comes along and the studio makes a decision to make an asian companion, it’s huge for us. that’s our crumb of representation. karlach is very obviously not “eurocentric” in her features – if anything, westernized beauty standards would have her face redone to comply with market demands.

she has monolids. she has a flat nose bridge. her cheeks are full and round, buccal fat very much in attendance. whatever she may have arguably been in previous patches, that is not what she is now. and pretending like her face – a face that, newsflash, asian people can relate to – is just a toy you can pop features out of because they don’t have enough “personality” to you, or because they’re too “soft," or because you don’t think a face like hers is “warrior-like” (whatever the fuck that means), is insensitive at best and willfully ignorant at worst. her asianness isn’t a setting to opt out of any more than wyll’s blackness is.

lastly, i’m exhausted that it even needs to be said, but being a person of color does not absolve somebody of intercommunity harm. minority status isn’t an excuse to get out of self-reflecting. it’s okay to step back and say, “wow, i didn’t think about how i’d affect members of this community,” without digging your heels in like one mistake on the internet is an extinction-level event.

studies:

[corviiids]

akeshu as the couple nobody wants to be in the room with

[missmisnomer]

They're my little guys. My good time pals. Just a couple of goobers.

They are also menaces to society, but that's besides the point 😁

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[spooksier]

i love revisiting and re-drawing my old tma stuff because most of it was done in my senior yr of high school/freshman yr of college and it's really cool to see my progress in illustration/character design/composition/being-able-to-draw as a whole :-) ily the magnus archives

[mariaendingmp3]

i hope someone made this one already jeez.

[dataentryspecialist]

I never post things like this, but Peter David is one of my favorite authors and this is such a tragedy that he shouldn't even have to deal with.

If you've read any Star Trek novels, there's a good chance Peter David wrote it. He also wrote a lot of other comics (like Spiderman 2099 and, a personal favorite, Fallen Angel) and for various TV shows.

If you're a nerd, you've likely come across his fantastic work in some fashion.

If you have the means, consider donating to help him out. If you don't, believe me I understand. Passing along word can also help so reblog and share elsewhere please.

[wolfythewitch]

I need to reread your Judas x Jesus fic again, can u send the ao3 link ?

Sure

[10001gecs]

i do think that many of you are much more distrustful and contemptuous of ai than is reasonable