#children’s shows

[demonicsparkles]

The amount of nostalgia this gave me 😍

[mo-mode]

Percy seeing an old satyr that is a completely different race than his best friend and saying with his whole chest “Man, Grover got really old” is the FUNNIEST FUCKING THING IN THIS EPISODE FIGHT ME I AM RIGHT

[evitachristine]

While the looks part is relative, I have to say, kids shows definitely portray the victims as more similar to real life bullies while bullies to real life victims.

I remember it always being like:

This is our main character! X is nice and kind and everyone likes them and has a lot of friends!

(Apart from nice and kind, it is basically the description of a typical bully)

And this is the villain, who doesn’t like our main character, is mean, no one likes him and has zero friends!

(Apart from being mean, which depends, this is basically a description of an ostracised victim of bullying)

I remember watching SO MANY kids shows that had this kind of trope.

One of the most recent examples of this is literally Miraculous Ladybug. Marinette is being picked on by Chloe, but Chloe has like one friend and no one likes her while Marinette is basically friends with the whole class.

If this was a real life situation, I’d say Marinette would be the bully. OR she would stay the victim, but wouldn’t have that many friends, while Chloe would be actually popular.

The bullies are popular and get along with a lot of people, because they 1) can have psychopatic or narcissistic tendencies which charm people 2) people are friends with them to avoid being their next victim.

While I understand why the creators are building their shows like this - the main character needs to be both relatable and also someone kids can aspire to be, and even victims can relate to them - this trope can also be damaging. Kids don’t see what the bullies are doing, they see the pattern that happens in their class - thus, the outcast with little to no friends is the “villain”.

I can easily imagine a little girl who’s being bullied being told “you’ll be Chloe because no one likes you” in a game, or as a pick on.

I’ve probably got fans of ML raging against me now.

On TV, bullies are usually physically unattractive, counter culture, intellectually impaired, or mentally ill. The victims are usually the main characters, who are normal in every way and are who the average person finds relatable.

In real life, it's often the opposite. The bullies are usually normal people who the average person finds relatable, and the victims are usually physically unattractive, counter culture, intellectually impaired, or mentally ill.

If a TV show portrayed bullying accurately, it would be considered "woke garbage".

[vanessagillings]

Since the show's been announced, here's my piece for Gallery Nucleus' Over the Garden Wall Tribute show, opening in LA November 2nd!

[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"

[animusrox]

[90's Sitcoms]

[nightbirdz]

It’s a bit unrealistic how Toph never made any counterfeit coins once she learned to metalbend

[demonio-fleurs]

To me, what is so fantastic about One Piece Fan Letter is the emphasis on the way the Straw Hats have created these connections in the lives of people they have never met. The ending scene, with all the hands putting together the puzzle pieces, and the way that all these connections came together in one dazzling way-- I loved that. I teared up at that. Wherever the Straw Hats go, they leave behind all of these puzzle pieces for people to put together and create bonds that would not have existed had the Straw Hats not shown up!

And it also just... Makes me so in love with the concept of the world after Luffy becomes King of The Pirates. I know that Oda has the final chapter planned in his head, and I doubt we will really see the long lasting effects of Luffy achieving the title of Pirate King + his dream, and I really do not want a sequel series ala Boruto or Yasahime, but.... I want to see a world in which children believe they can become a Brave Warrior of the Sea thanks to Usopp, I want to see more children look at Nami and realize they don't NEED to have a Devil Fruit or Haki or muscles to have adventures. I want to see the next generation of the One Piece world believe so strongly in their dreams, that they set out to accomplish them.

One Piece Fan Letter really opened the door, I think, for more and more stories about the "regular" people in the world of One Piece, the people you don't see in the arcs because they're the nondescript background characters, and how the Straw Hat Crew has changed them. And I want that. To me, that is fantastic.

[btoon-alba]

Wally not knowing how to hug vs Julie loving giving hugs 🫂

This is not ship art Btw, they are just cute

[sharksandjays]

It'd be really funny if all of the members of YJ are so scared of being punished by their older counterparts, except Tim.

Which boggles YJ's minds. Because HUH? THATS BATMAN??? WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE NOT SCARED OF HIS PUNISHMENTS? SURELY THEYRE WORSE THAN ANY OF OURS?

Yj gets in trouble. Diana grounds Cassie and tells her no costume for a month. Clark tells Kon "im not mad im just dissapointed" (the boy is in tears). Barry/Wally tells Bart that hes "not crash" and that he's not allowed to run with them to Tokyo for a week. They're all on the ground crying.

Then they look over at Tim. They're terrified for him. Batman is in front of him, looming over him, glaring down at him. They're far away from the others but yj is still shaking in fear because look how pissed Batman is.

Then Tim "I lied to Batman" Drake walks back and grins at them. "He tried to ground me. I'll be back by tomorrow."

[91vaults]

the most annoying trope when I was a kid in almost ALL the media was the “smart” kid would just stuff every sentence with “big” words as a shorthand for intelligence and the normal charachters would just be like “huh??” No you can’t trick me cartoon i know exactly what that character is saying and trust me i’m not that smart I just have a decent vocabulary. And like that’s not even how “smart” people talk, they know where to use certain words for emphasis or they will say “complicated” words im. wry specific contexts (like medical or technical jargon) they don’t stuff their sentences to sound as complicated as possible

[crippledanarchy]

When you call "influencers" what they are, freelance marketers, it makes the phrase "mommy/family influencer" sound just as dark as it is in reality.

They are using their children to sell you things. Some of these people intentionally have children solely in order to use them as marketing devices.

They aren't harmless or wholesome. They are expanding and normalizing new and different forms of familial abuse to a worldwide audience

[mo-mode]

The Biblically Accurate Trio in TLT

[gaywineauntsstuff]

I love the idea of Dick being all the Batkid's favourite sibling but in violently different fonts.

Jason: Dick and Jay canonically have a pretty solid relationship but i'm partial to the Jason was around for Dick's rebellion stage and so Dick doesn't think he has to worry about the pedestal thing bc Jason has absolutely seen him violently hungover before he was legally allowed to drink font of this

So by the time Jason comes back and is no longer trying to murder Tim (except psychologically) Dick decides... Well he's evil sometimes but also I can finally tell someone all the Titans drama. So him and Jason meet up like once month if they're in the same city and get progressively drunker while shit talking their teams and Bruce.

Also I hate the Dick and Robin!Jason didn't get along. They absolutely did, Dick was like 0.5 seconds away from taking Jason to live with the titans permanently.

Tim: 'Oh Jason is Tims Robin, Oh Dick betrayed Tims trust.' in the name of the orange dude y'all elected twice W R O N G. Tim Drake used to watch VHS tapes of the flying Graysons routine. He wasn't even a batman Stan first. That came after he saw Robin do a quadruple summersault. Tim is a Dick Grayson fanboy first Person second. Like Tim canonically saw Jason die and went lmao skill issue, imagine not being like Dick Grayson i'm better. When Dick first started training him, he'd consistently excuse himself go to the other room, hyperventilate over Dick Grayson teaching him how to train surf. Dick is not just his idol he's also a pretty substantial part of Tim's support system. He calls Dick when he's going through something or is stuck on a case. And he knows that Dick will always have his back. They have like the unrealistic adorable sibling relationships from Tv that don't exist irl. Tim also does that awkward shuffle thing after fights bc they're still siblings and Dick just pretends the fight didn't happen until Tims calm again

Damian: You have to understand Damian thought he'd have to basically do the league all over again. He lands with Bruce and those ideas are soundly rejected and he now has no trust or respect and he has to adjust. And Bruce is doing his holier than thou, you should know better 10yro who literally was brainwashed as a child act, like Tim didn't have to pull him away from straight up becoming a villain and Dick didn't have to put him in his place with his fists a couple times a year (we love Bruce really). Then Bruce gets Time-streamed, Tim runs away and now the circus freak is BATMAN. Except the circus freak is also a sadistic bastard to criminals, despite being made out of marshmallows to you. Dick hangs people upside down off high buildings for information and cackles as Nightwing. He also listens to Damians worries and helps him deconstruct his bias view of the world. Dick canonically set the standard for child heroes and is among one of the most beloved and trusted heroes despite being marshmallowy and refusing to murder people. Dick is kinda like Damians stand in non pretentious moral compass until he learns his own one later on. Hence why Damian adores Dick Grayson more than anyone really.

in summary support my agenda that Dick and Jason are gossipy drinking buddies, Tim absolutely had a Dick Grayson Shrine as a child and Damian calls Dick to double check that he still cannot kill Timothy (its now entirely a joke.... mostly)

[vanessagillings]

Who’s ready for an adventure? 🦋

Follow me to Berry Hill as over the next two weeks I share my pieces for my upcoming solo show opening this Saturday at Nucleus Portland!