#bad media takes

[sjbattleangel]

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".

[shallow-life]

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:

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:

...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:

....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:

[wanologic]

sorry danny, sam will never think you’re cool

[secondbeatsongs]

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"

[ruporas]

trigunned the hades or hadesed the trigun (id in alt)

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 1x08 - "Oil and Water"

[fairy-bard]

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.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Remember: The burning sensation is part of the process.

[heymacy]

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

[lilybug-02]

What drawing for 16 days strait does to a mf

[frogsare-friends]

"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!!

[prokopetz]

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".

[hotpinkrathian]

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

[nightskyfoxyy]

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:

[courtrecord]

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.

[makiswirl]

can i just say. and this is probably a niche hill to die on. that i am so gobsmacked every time someone vaguely hints at the idea that jotaro doesn't care meaningfully for the other crusaders, usually particularly kakyoin and joseph, when those two actually tend to be the ones he reacts to being hurt the hardest

like he cares for his loved ones!!!! that literally plays into his character motives in every single part he shows up in!!! stop lying to me!!!!!!!