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sjbattleangel · 5 months ago
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Double D facts book: When we said "Be critical of the media you love"... we didn't mean "nitpick and tear it to shreds" to the point of seeing things that aren't there such as "pro-status quo Neoliberalism" or "Nazi apologia".
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shallow-life · 1 year ago
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Lily's the Princess and Frog video:
Lily: the movie doesn't need the Shadow man.
Me: Why? How?
Lily: Tiana is amazing but the plot keeps telling her give up her dreams and to settle down and have babies
Me: I thought her character arch was that while her hard work to achieve her and Father's dream is something to admire , Tiana needs to have a life outside of work?
You know the opposite of Naveen's arch which is not doing the hard work isn't going to get you what you want?
Lily: the only ppl who support her are Neveen and Lottie. Literally everyone is telling her to get married and have babies
Me: ...pretty sure her mother was supportive too. Just wanted Tiana to have life outside of work?
no other character is telling her to give up her dreams. Just that that can't be all to her life.
Lily: *gushes how cute Tiana and Neveen are*
Me:
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Yes. Yes they are.
Lily: the shadow man is only there cause Disney tropes.
Me: again, you say the plot doesn't need him. But haven't made any suggestions on how the film could improved without him.
Lily: Lottie could be in love with Tianna. But I see them as friends.
Me:
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...still not answering your orginal question
Lily: Disney could remake Princess and the Frog without the shadow man.
Me: ...how?
Lily: the first Disney live action that completely did it's own thing was Maleficent - and it's the best film Disney's made!
Me: ok, ignoring the "best film Disney ever made" thing...pretty sure the Jungle Book (1994) was the first Live action adaptation Disney did...and it didn't follow the 1961 cartoon.
You're also going to ignore the 1996 adaptation of 101 Dalmatians? Which while having lines form the cartoon, still did its own thing?
Come to think of it, Tim Burton's version of Alice in Wonderland (2010) was the start of the new wave of live action remakes. Again, it did it's own thing outside the cartoon.
...you really don't do any sort of research don't you?
Lily: The Princess and the Frog has deeply mysoginstic themes
Me:
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....You're saying this again? I don't think you understood the message of the film.
Like at all.
Lily: I just want fluff romance (shameless plug of TSR) and the princess and the frog could work as fluffy Romance without the Shadow man
Me: you still haven't answered how the film could be improved by his removal. Beyond more romance fluff.
Lily: that's all BYE!!!
Me:
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wanologic · 4 months ago
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sorry danny, sam will never think you’re cool
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secondbeatsongs · 2 years ago
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for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal
before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"
and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"
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ruporas · 6 months ago
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trigunned the hades or hadesed the trigun (id in alt)
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fairy-bard · 3 months ago
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i’ve been loving watching critical role recently if for no other reason than because i get to watch a decent portion of viewers actively falling for cult tactics lmao
a forbes article describes cult tactics as when cult leaders “censor dissenting viewpoints, promote a distorted narrative and use relentless repetition and peer pressure”
ludinus needing to monologue at everyone he meets. cherry picking what information to let people know (ie the orb). showing popular world leaders (gods?) at their absolute worst as a means to win over the vulnerable. creating dissent between cult prospects and the people who they’re close to outside the cult. doesn’t take no for an answer. repeating his points over and over, in whatever context he thinks will be most persuasive. targeting people who’ve lost everything. convincing people that they’re special
matt is a genius.
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arcanegifs · 11 months ago
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ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 1x08 - "Oil and Water"
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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 12 days ago
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Remember: The burning sensation is part of the process.
#Mouthwashing#blood#body horror#Emphasizing here that this is in reference to a media and character and not a cry for help on my end.#Mouthwashing is one of those games that tickles my brain and checks all the boxes for my niche interests -#-but it wasn't something that got the silly comic part in my cortex firing up. My analysis brain is eating well though!#What said...It is impossible for me to see this scene and not say out loud: “Me in the middle of my work day".#While there is a lot more going on with curly I personally resonated a lot with his struggles with burnout.#Burnout feels like mouthwash to me. That you keep rinsing out your mouth trying to get rid of the rotting smell#but it's just surface level solutions. The real cure requires something far more significant to actually make a difference.#The job 'is hard' and 'everyone struggles'. It's part of the process right? You're tired? Anxious? Depressed? Us too! Chin up!#Actually I resonated with a lot of things within Curly (this is a curly positive space - he's not perfect. He's just human).#One thing being his desire to see the good in people and believe in their potential.#Because here's the thing. Some people truly do just need someone in their corner who stands by them so they can grow and improve.#And some people will take advantage of your kindness. You focus so much on their humanity while you stop being a person to them.#The horrifically toxic relationship persists because Curly tries to see the bigger picture and believes in the good within.#Anyone who has lived through constantly trying to reframe the hurt as something else knows-#-just how many excuses your brain will make to avoid cognitive dissonance. It's human psychology.#Jimmy sucks so bad. But we the audience have the privilege of not having years of baggage associating him in our minds as 'friend'.
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heymacy · 7 months ago
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IAN GALLAGHER + his journey with bipolar disorder
╰┈➤ “At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you’re living with this illness and functioning at all, it’s something to be proud of, not ashamed of." - Carrie Fisher
#happy world bipolar day to all my bp babies#(more thoughts at the end of the tags)#shameless#shamelessnet#shamelessedit#ian gallagher#cameron monaghan#*macygifs#bipolar disorder#hello pals how are we doin#i made this gif set in july of 2023 and never posted it because 1) i was terrified to share it and potentially see Bad Takes in the tags#and 2) because my hyperfixation was waning. and while both of those things are still mostly true (the fixation comes and goes)#i feel like it's really important to share as ian's bipolar storyline was not only so vital to his character it was a bit of representation#that isn't often given to the disorder and those (like myself) who live with it every single day#world bipolar day is a day where we can both celebrate ourselves and our resilience and also raise awareness of the reality of the disorder#which is both terrifying and beautiful at its core. this disease is not a death sentence or a sentence to an unfulfilled and miserable life#while there are challenges galore when it comes to balancing life with this disorder it IS possible to live a full and productive life#and i think it's really important to have representation of that in media - and while shameless dropped the ball on a LOT of storylines#over the years THIS is the one they really fucking nailed and i am incredibly grateful#i first started watching shameless while in the midst of a major depressive episode and i was later (finally) diagnosed during an extended#hypo/manic episode - this show and ian's storyline got me through so much and made me feel so seen and validated in my struggles#world bipolar day is also vincent van gogh's birthday (happy birthday buddy) who was posthumously diagnosed with bipolar disorder#and who experienced both depressive and hypo/manic episodes during his lifetime (and was regularly institutionalized)#it takes a lot of help and support to keep us going. it takes the support of our family and friends and *most* of all#it takes patience and kindness and understanding - which is so so so easy to give if you are willing to love and listen#so please. be willing. listen to our stories. be patient with us. show us love without conditions. support us in any way you can.#we are worth it#i promise#anyway. that's really all i wanted to say. happy world bipolar day to those who celebrate (me) and may all of us living with this disorder#go on to live happy fulfilling beautiful magical lives
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lilybug-02 · 5 months ago
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What drawing for 16 days strait does to a mf
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frogsare-friends · 5 months ago
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"war on palestine" "war on gaza" "israel palestine war" "israel palestine conflict" actually it's none of those things, it's a genocide and an ethnic cleansing, hope this helps!!
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prokopetz · 1 year ago
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You know you've stumbled into one of Those Fandoms when a prosaically straightforward reading of information the text is explicitly giving you is considered a "bad take".
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hotpinkrathian · 7 months ago
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I am so upset (not) at LoK for making women muscular I will never get over it 😤
Also, the audacity to say the LoK women are less sexy than the ATLA women is WILD considering the Atla girls are minors
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nightskyfoxyy · 3 months ago
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I remember seeing someone claim she "hates kids" a while back. Yeah sure thats probably why Lyana came running to hug her and yell "Auntie Phee!!!!! :D" the moment she landed and Omega thinks shes the coolest around lmao.
Live Tech Reaction:
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courtrecord · 1 year ago
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honestly i hate how that “maybe the curtains are just blue” post has become shorthand for anti-intellectualism and shit bc as someone who has an utter passion for media analysis now, I WAS THAT PERSON IN HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH CLASS.
english class never taught me how to analyze stories, it taught me how to remember what things the teacher said were “symbolism” and how to take quizzes where we had to match a quote to the character who said it. i didn’t give a shit about any of it, bc literally why should i. it was bullshit.
there’s this idea online that people are forgetting or rejecting what they learned in english class when they’re bad at media analysis, and maybe that’s a little bit true, but i think the much bigger problem is they never learned it in the first place. cinemasins & “maybe the curtains are just blue” aren’t convincing people to abandon an intellectualism they already had, they’re filling a void.
when all you learn in high school is to write on the test “blue = depression”, why is it surprising that so many people don’t give a shit about the curtains.
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bruciemilf · 2 years ago
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One thing I wanna do more is include Battinson's complete lack of filter.
That scene at the funeral where Falcone tried to push that 'your father saved me for a reason' fantasy, which Bruce ended very quickly with his '' He took the Hippocratic oath" line
It can sure read as snarky, and in some parts, it was, -- Falcone's antourage surely saw it as that, -- but Bruce was completely serious.
It wasn't a diplomatic move on his part, but that's why it works. 'No filter' doesn't generally entail being rude and bold, it's your thoughts being faster than your mouth without considering how it'd sound out loud
Not to mention, Bruce wouldn't process sarcasm the same as everyone else. He's good at dishing it, for sure, but we've seen he's completely oblivious to obvious social ques,
If somebody were to be like, " haha maybe YOU'RE batman" him, the go to reaction would be " haha good one"
Bruce? Would start shaking on the spot. It's raining nerves out here. " No I'm not." With a blank face, " I'm not. I'm scared of bats. I hate bats. I wish bats never existed. I wish YOU never existed. Im sorry. Goodbye." Before taking off in a hurry.
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