#but it seems more like a Group Effort

[reikunrei]

just bc i was thinking about it on my drive home from work:

quiet little quick shoutout to @henrysglock and @aemiron-main for noticing all the weird detail shifts and changes in 001’s appearance during the hnl massacre/confrontation with el. because the first few times i watched it, months before i even thought about becoming active in the fandom on tumblr, i remember thinking “something is weird about this. he keeps looking different, or the color grading keeps changing, or something. something’s weird. it doesn’t feel cohesive” but not really having the reason or wherewithal to focus on it and try to pick apart why it felt weird

thank u kings for having the eyes to catch all those little changes so i could understand just why the whole thing felt slightly off

[applepixls]

please can we have more jimmy and impulse.

collabs, streams, heck even a life series team

i just really really want to call them jimpulse

[icewindandboringhorror]

"We can get through this by working together, reach out to your friends, community is all we have, a social network will be your security in the world, now is the time to lean on others!"

I do agree, and it's scientifically sound (pretty sure there is data about how people with better social networks live longer and etc) but also....augh..... what about the severe social issues, difficulty to leave the house, physical issues which lead to like zero socialization energy a majority of the time, etc. etc. Social support can be a replacement for structural support, but.. I guess I just wish it didn't have to be. Community is extremely difficult to build, even moreso if you're someone who has issues with social cues or group conversations or even just being around others in the first place. And blah, nuance, of course I'm just complaining or maybe being too negative or maybe misunderstanding, but, I hardly have the energy to brush my hair once every 2 months.. how am I supposed to maintain a wide social network and be active in a Community and Join Groups lol... sometimes it kind of feels like "er.. well if thats my only option then...... ruh roh". It's overwhelming

[dye-it-rouge-et-noir]

"For particularly important things, it's always more reassuring to write them down like this." - Zhang Beihai

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[kafkaesquedyke]

The new Velma show seems to neatly fall into this trend of tv shows (paramount heathers, leaked powerpuff girls script) that want to seem progressive by having a diverse cast, while simultaneously wanting to preserve that same edgy, punch-down comedy style found in 'centrist' or conservative media. They want the praise for having female, queer, and characters of colour while still retaining an audience made up of mainly edgy white men laughing at how ridiculous ‘the minorities’ are behaving. It’s a punch-down comedy wolf in progressive sheep clothing.

The fundamental flaw in this logic is that show runners assume the audience that would enjoy this humour will see past that supposedly progressive façade… and that often doesn’t happen. A lot of these specific edgy types see diversity as a red flag and immediately presume some type of agenda. It’s almost like seeing a minority participate in the joke (even though they’re still very much the punchline) zaps all the humour out of it or they can’t understand that the joke is still for them if it isn’t said by someone that looks exactly like them. And because they (especially, but not only, cishet white men) recognise all the jokes from things they like, but don’t find them funny anymore, the only reasonable explanation they have is that diversity is bad and makes it unfunny, instead of realising their inherent inability to recognise and relate to any character that isn’t a white man.

Meanwhile, an audience that would appreciate a diverse cast does recognise the comedy for what it is: cheap jokes made at their expense. At most there are occasional jabs thrown in at the white and/or male characters which often don’t relate to these identities in any fundamental or even realistic way. So you have this show that constantly uses it’s minority characters as punchlines and only includes vaguely progressive, but ultimately pretty universally accepted, messaging hoping progressive audiences will be enamoured with the occasional ‘girlboss moment™️’, while not noticing that vast amounts of regressive ideals.

In the end neither audience feels appealed to and the show is a massive failure. While it might be satisfying to see that these conservative audiences are too blinded by, let’s be honest here, identity politics to recognise something that is clearly made for them, ultimately all that is remembered is that ‘the comedy show featuring a lot of diversity’ failed. And it becomes harder for people who actually want to make media with, and especially for, minorities have a harder time getting any funding. Shows like these are a lose lose situation when it comes to furthering diversity in the media landscape and it’s increasingly frustrating to see this happen again and again.

[bunnihearted]

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[tigergender]

I like going back over early SU episodes and thinking about them too hard until my blood vessels in my brain pop. I enjoy the show as much as I did when I was younger but I think my enjoyment has shifted from "watching Steven go on exciting magical adventures" to "watching the horrible threads of everything that encompasses Steven in SU:F betray themselves through innocuous interactions and episodes."

[irhabiya]

i just realized making people. disappointed in me is like my biggest interpersonal fear... idc that much if people get mad at me or exclude me or whatever else but disappointment? i can't handle it👍🏻

[dandyshucks]

everyone pray for me that i did not just give myself food poisoning (;･∀･)

[aidenwaites]

Library job,,, soon,,,

[alren-ki]

Hmm. That sure is brains. Don't like em but they sure are fucking exist

[princekirijo]

Captain!Mitsuru is like yes she's a girlboss from afar. Like whenever she appears on TV or at a public conference whatever, she is so confident and a true leader, and when the Phantom Thieves meet her for the first time, they're intimidated by her (in a scary hot woman way). She's def matured a lot from her high school days.

But don't get me wrong this woman is a girlfail. She is my wet pathetic milf. She's crying in her office when she thinks no ones looking. Yes she has a loving wife but she's dealing with the horrors (Kirijo Group sins still biting her in the ass)

[unproduciblesmackdown]

no, More active effort, More conscious consideration

[surpriserose]

watching a playthrough of the devil in me and oh my god this looks like shit?

Like how could they do this to me they put the tutorial in as a 1880s period piece about H H Holmes and then the actual game is set in the modern day??? But its still about H H Holmes?????? Just hire a dialect coach and get those mid atlantic accents down instead of making this convoluted ghost shit with recreations of the hotel like???

[toyonberries]

I think it's actually so important to be your own audience. I spent so much of my life feeling like I wasn't funny or like I was boring and just overall so caught up in what other people thought of me. Doing things just because they'll amuse me, even if no one else will find it funny or even notice what I've done, has made me so much happier. It feels really good to do something and think "god, I am so funny" and not care if anyone else is laughing

[golvio]

I wonder how much of the practice of banning other faiths, especially Judaism, had to do with the newly Christianized Roman Empire not wanting to own up to crucifying Jesus? It’s all about finding convenient scapegoats to distract the populace from the government’s hypocrisy and various screwups, and modern ethnonationalist governments with ambitions of Empire keep up this “proud” tradition of Blaming Somebody Else.

Fun fact about the early Catholic church is that, despite spending generations being persecuted by the Roman empire, it took less than 15 years under Theodosius I to go from “the empire is Catholic now” to “and also every other religion is banned.” You can literally read St. Augustine move from “state religious persecution is unacceptable” to “state religious persecution is cool actually” over his lifetime as Catholicism came to power. I’m sure there’s no broader lessons to be learned there