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Why We Love To Hate Wish by Calxiyn Cares Too Much
#video essays#analysis#criticism#fandoms#critical thinking#critical consumption#mousemonarchy#worthwhile art#food for thought#reactions#Youtube#mythology folklore myth legends#purpose of art#what art is for#synthesis#fanworks#human activity#negai100hoshi2023
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CRITICAL CONSUMPTION: Wien bis 08.09.2024
Ständig neue Trends, Textilriesen, die jährlich Dutzende neue Kollektionen unter prekären Produktionsbedingungen auf den Markt bringen, geschredderte Neuware internationaler Luxuslabels und die Zerstörung von Ökosystemen durch textile Müllberge: Die Mode(industrie) steht im Hinblick auf Konsumverhalten, Herstellungsprozesse und Nachhaltigkeit zunehmend im Fokus. Tenant of Culture, To Be Titled,…
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#Celia Pym#CRITICAL CONSUMPTION#Expansion#Fast fashion#Globalisierung#Konsum#Konsumrevolution#Lieferketten#MAK GALERIE#MAK Wien#Mode#Museum für angewandte Kunst#Produktionsbedingungen#Recycling#repair Manifesto#Sustainable Development Engagements#Trends#Wandel
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“Why are you still single?”
Because a girl I met at a book club texted me last week asking what I thought about the character Emma Woodhouse, and I texted back a detailed analysis of Emma’s literary importance as a rare female antihero, how the story expertly employs narrative bias to critique her character but also make you understand and sympathize with her, and how Jane Austen wrote one of the most compelling & complex female protagonists in English literature since Shakespeare.
…and she responded “oh. I don’t really like how she’s a mean lesbian trope tbh. was hoping you’d agree”
#I’m. um. a little much.#but this is my villian original story#emma#literary criticism and critical thought in media consumption is dead 💀#em this convo is also what I was thinking of earlier lmaooo#the gays need to learn literary criticism skills
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Market based mistakes.
[First] Prev <–-> Next
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#wen chao#wen zhuliu#Apologies for how much I skipped in the last part of this episode.#I do love the scene of Jiang Cheng regaining his will to live and the ensuing scenes of Wei Wuxian seeing him off at the mountain base.#At the same time I very much want to keep pressing on with the story.#The notes I have are for scenes I did not draw:#I still think a lot about the symbolism of food in both consumption and giving - especially in regards to the Yunmeng Trio.#Prior to JC leaving we see WWX out buying food for him. Something that initially falls through as JC runs back to Lotus Pier.#But here it comes back full circle. WWX gives away a part of himself to be 'consumed' by Jiang Cheng.#It is about being led by desire (JC wanting revenge to losing his will to live to wanting his core back)#and about being bound by duty to do whatever it takes to see those desires through to the end.#JC can't eat until he has his desire to live back. WWX carves out his own ambitions to help another reach theirs.#And it isn't held up as noble! Not even once! He is routinely punished and criticized for this sacrifice.#Being thrown into the burial mounds really is just symbolism for how we can give away every scrap of ourselves to others-#-and find ourselves at rock bottom. Alone.#When you hollow yourself out it just leaves room for something else to fill it. Something worse.
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Arcane is an excellent litmus test for your media literacy. Not even joking.
Like I love Arcane, but it is NOT subtle. My favorite example of this is when Ambessa enters into Caitlyn’s room in Season 2 Episode 4. Maddie has been talking Caitlyn down and trying to convince her to call off the martial law and reestablish the council. Ambessa needs HexTech and she needs Caitlyn to get her someone who knows how to use HexTech. So she LITERALLY walks over to the fireplace and begins stoking the embers. She’s LITERALLY stoking Caitlyn’s rage and anger. It’s MASTERFUL storytelling and visual framing. Chefs kiss 🤌 10 outta 10!
You can call Arcane a lot of things… But SUTBLE? No… it is assuredly NOT subtle.
Which is why it’s hilarious to me when I see all these REALLY BAD TAKES from people who are confused or angry at the actions of characters or who really cannot comprehend why a character would do this or that. Which indicates to me that they are either not paying attention, or they’re really bad at understanding how shot composition, framing, dialogue, subtext, and everything else that goes into making media WORKS.
Vi is desperately trying to tell herself that Jinx is dead so that killing her wont hurt at much. You can tell this from the cracks in her voice acting, the way she can’t look people in the eyes when she says it, the way she can’t look at the bullet flying at Jinx, the way she IMMEDIATELY stops the second a kid gets in the way and doesn’t try to take the kid off. Like the framing, the line reads, her actions… it’s ALL telling you that when she says “my sister is dead” she is LYING TO HERSELF. It is NOT TRUE.
And then you’ve got people going on Twitter and Reddit and tumblr freaking out about “how could Vi forgive Jinx so easily? This writing is so inconsistent! Can’t they just stay focused? Why is it all so ham fisted? The plot makes no sense!”
And I’m just here like…. Are you fucking SERIOUS? Are we watching the same show? Are you guys really just this STUPID???
I love Arcane. The story is amazing. The characters are complex. The visual shorthand and framing is exquisite. The montages and animation are unparalleled. The story is nuanced and complex while being accessible to everyone, even people who’ve never played League of Legends before.
But subtle?
No. This show takes its message and beats you over the head with it like a BRICK.
How are people missing this stuff?
Are we that far gone as a people?
Are people today just not savvy at all when it comes to the media they consume?
Are people just this DENSE that they can’t read SUBTEXT?
#arcane#arcane vi#arcane caitlyn#caitlyn kiramman#maddie nolen#ambessa medarda#arcane netflix#arcane league of legends#media criticism#media consumption
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You couldn't make star wars today because they'd claim that destroying the death star would make them as bad as the empire and the real villains would be revealed to be rebels who went too far.
#196#leftist#leftism#writing#steven universe critical#star wars#star wars episode iv: a new hope#media criticism#media consumption#star wars original trilogy#media literacy
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So is anyone else feeling Imogen/Matron of Ravens?
A once-mortal who ascended to godhood, willfully given the domains of death and fate by her predecessor... And a mortal who willfully became not only the vessel for a god-eater, but herself swallowed the flicker of the ancient and long-forgotten, original god of fate: Vordo, the Golden Weaver.
A god and a vessel, both holding sway of Fate in their own strange ways. (Yes, I know mechanically it was just 40 temporary hit points, but Narratively, y'all, the implications.)
Below are snippets of the Matron and Imogen/BH's conversation from c3ep119 along with some of the Thoughts that plague me.
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Matron: "You who has bound with the entity, your body is beyond my sight and I imagine is beyond all of our wrath. You and the Red End together have become the nightmare of my brethen. Well done."
Strange and undefinable (not necessarily sexual) praise kink, anyone~?
Imogen: "I could see you from within. I saw your light. I felt... driven... to find you, to consume."
Matron: "Then what shall be done?"
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Matron: "What will you do, Vessel? You stand here on the precipice of the future of all. What would you do?"
Imogen: "You're the one who wanted change. You wanted to leave, didn't you?"
Matron: "I want many things. But what is it you want to do?"
Oh what a happy day for Malloy it could have been if some part of Imogen still so intertwined with Predathos had looked up to the looming, faceless mask of a god and said, without trepidation or malice, only simple truth, "I want to eat you."
Imogen: "I don't wanna give it (Predathos) up."
Love that so much for you, sweetie, I don't want you to either.
Imogen: "You're scared of it, right?"
Matron: "More than anything."
A literal god is afraid of Imogen right now, yet she holds a whole conversation, smirking and chuckling all the while.
Imogen: "I don't wanna kill the gods, I don't want them to be eaten, but we can see clearly things can't go on the way they've been. It's an endless cycle. Predathos can't see mortals."
Matron: "Whatever Divine Gate we've assembled, Predathos can shrug away. But are you insinuating the gods step from their pedestals? Speak plainly, Vessel."
Imogen: "I am." / Laudna: "She has a name."
The way the Matron and Imogen seemingly speak as equals, yet the Matron refers to Imogen as an object.
Imogen: "That means we have to fight him, to get him weak enough to control him. Right?"
Matron: "Stands to reason. But let's hope reason still stands when this is done."
Imogen: "Let's hope we don't die in the process."
Matron: "If you do, well, I'll be waiting."
If Imogen dies as the vessel for Predathos, do they both go to the Matron, hungering for her even in death?
Matron: "Whoever holds the entity, we cannot touch." (...) I cannot see all their hearts in this, one way or another. But where you tread next, no mortal has, or likely ever will tread. If you step to negotiate with the gods, well, good luck."
'Cannot touch' as in cannot harm, but of course my first thought was of the Matron reaching to touch Imogen's cheek and singeing her fingertips against freckled skin stained red and laced with lightning.
#something consumption as devotion from a girl who's prayers were never answered by the gods#anyone picking up what i'm putting down?? no? just me?#imogen temult#the matron of ravens#duskmaven#critical role#cr spoilers#critical role spoilers#cr3
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I bet Brennan Lee Mulligan is jealous of Nana Morri for having a second tummy face.
I'm sure this observation has been made already, but hey, never a bad time to bring it up again.
#brennan lee mulligan#critical role#(sort of?)#tummy Brennan head exclusively for the consumption of almonds and salami#can you tell I watched the Almond Rant™ again earlier today
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"I don't want to criticize Rings of Power too hard because it has "enemies to lovers" in it and I love that."
An actual sentiment I saw.
Get better standards. Please.
The inclusion of a trope/idea/etc you like does not make something good, nor worthy of your defense. Praise good media for being well written, criticize poorly written media.
This is why so much stuff is poorly written now. Because all it takes is for a trope to be used, a character archetype to exist or the inclusion of a basic idea (a reference, a character you find hot or relatable, etc) for people to praise it.
You love strawberries? Stop eating dog food and praising it because someone put a rotten strawberry on top.
Find and eat a strawberry shortcake, made with skill, care and quality ingredients. There, the strawberries are used to enhance every other quality of the cake.
Because nobody is going to be wasting their time, effort and money making strawberry shortcake if you'll pay for and eat dog food.
#media criticism#media consumption#tropes don't automatically mean quality#references don't automatically mean quality
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Howdy y’all, my essay on the abject is finally out! It discusses a number of issues, including purity legislation, self-advocacy in media consumption, and how we interface with dark/ugly topics in art and literature. It also delves into the issues surrounding HB900, Greg Abbott’s (failed) censorship law. It’s free to peruse, no paywall, so consider giving it a read if interested.
READ HERE
RT HERE (really helps!)
#media literacy#purity culture#education#censorship#media commentary#media consumption#media comprehension#media studies#art criticism#literary analysis#literary criticism#greg abbott#texas news#HB900#my writing#grotesque
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If you think that’s what a trans woman looks like you are transphobic and also an asshole. I don’t like you. I don’t like what you stand for.
Listen guys I know they didn’t make all longlegs fans surrender their critical thinking skills when they walked into the theater so whats with this behavior on tumblr.
Im saying longlegs reminds me of the history of transphobic horror that has played a huge role in the villainizing of trans people and how its effects are still found today in modern horror whether its implicit of explicit. But im glad you believe and trust the cis actor who used a derogatory word for intersex people when describing the character and the cis writer who based the movie heavily on silence of the lambs over other trans people. Personally I usually like to hold off on parasocial relationships with men in positions of power but you do you!
#What the hell do i “stand for”? Critical consumption of media this is EXHAUSTING y#Im sorry it hurts ur feelings when i say this movie has some harmful tropes in it im sorry all ur media needs to be pure and clean.#im sure it would piss u off if i said horror is also prolifically ableist and that has not faded at all in the modern era.
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'sabrina carpenter is soooo male gaze-y' okay name one female public figure who doesn't have to cater to the male gaze, at least to some extent, in order to maintain their position in the public eye. if you don't like her make-up or costumes that's fine but don't act like it's some salient feminist critique to say wearing lingerie makes you an instrument of patriarchy when every single female popstar has to conform to a certain standard of femininity to reach acclaim. there is certainly room for a convo about why we only listen to music and watch films when the women creatives involved have flawlessly styled hair and a full face of make-up and impracticable clothes on 25/8, and how these standards implicate women in general. but critiquing this one single individual woman for being an arbiter of patriarchy smacks of weirdness. like just say you don't like her hair and go we don't need to act like sabrina carpenter herself invented patriarchy
#something something culture of individualism something something eschewing investigating macro trends in presentation and consumption#and like i understand if the hyperfeminine aesthetic gives someone the ick. but unless you're grounding your critique in trends#in wider culture and normative standards your point doesn't hold any weight i'm sorry#expressing a certain degree of discomfort is fine but blaming this one individual woman for centuries of patriarchy is tew much for me#and like we can talk about how she uses her sexuality in her art. and how that involves ownership and expression of her individual sexualit#in a way that women at least haven't been encouraged to in recent decades (#(see 'slim pickins' and 'bed chem' for a start)#no sabrina carpenter singing about dick in the nonsense outros isn't going to single-handedly stop patriarchy in its tracks. but compared t#the current tradwife trend plagueing society and culture i think it's fair to say she is doing something positive when it comes to#representing agency in female sexuality#again it's fine if you don't like her music or god forbid the fact that she wears lingerie on stage like every other popstar since the dawn#of time but let's not get this confused with actual feminist criticism. coming from an ardent feminist ❤#.txt
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It's disappointing seeing people continue to choose to get food for stuffings from places on BDS boycott lists (McD's being the most common one I've seen) but man, despite my disappointment I'm not surprised I keep seeing it. Some of y'all still can't boycott Chik-Fil-A and we've known about their shady homophobic shit for YEARS.
#sorry to get political but come on y'all#yes there is no ethical consumption under capitalism but some choices are less ethical than others#esp if you live in a place with a lot of options- there are so many better places you can choose i promise#yes boycotting is a small action when done individually but it adds up#and i don't know about you but i'm critical of damn near every place i spend my money! that's not a bad thing!#ethical k*nk relies on critical mindsets and where you choose to eat if that's what gets you off should be a part of that analysis#rant over... for now
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This is a really clarifying take on what happened with Sports Illustrated:
And look, things change. Cultural institutions evolve, fade, die out. Not every magazine needs to exist forever. But it is a bummer when an otherwise popular, viable, even beloved cultural institution is killed off — while there’s a team that’s working overtime at the helm that wants to keep the lights on — because a Wall Street firm or an adventuring licensing company can increase earnings at the margins by cutting out its heart.
The tragedy of AI is not that it stands to replace good journalists but that it takes every gross, callous move made by management to degrade the production of content — and promises to accelerate it.
Back when I worked at a talent agency in Hollywood, we represented a lot of journalists from what were then A-list publications because their feature writing was so vivid and immersive their work would regularly become the basis of screenplays. There would be bidding wars over the rights to the articles.
My boss would toss a copy of SI to me and tell me to read a flagged article and tell him if I thought it would make a good movie.
Those stories were so incredibly good, it was the highlight of my day.
That level of writing is still out there - I know it is - but once we started to think of it as 'content' instead of journalism or writing, and we raised an entire generation to expect that this kind of artistry and work should be available to them online for free in exchange for their clicks alone, we really, really lost something.
Anyhow, that's my soapbox.
#i hope everyone thinks really critically when they promote piracy#i think about my own consumption of art online all the time#and whether i'm supporting artists in the way i should#we live in a very murky time for artists being paid properly
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no babe you can form your own opinions you've just learned to automatically check what other people think and form them in accordance in fear of having the "wrong" ones and have hindered your own critical thinking as a result
#this post may or may not be based on personal experiences#for me it's mostly media consumption but also this 100% applies politically#to a shitton of people i think#but yea i hate that i've basically learned to rely on commentary youtubers to spoon-feed me opinions on media#i'm trying to break away from that but man i am very bad at being critical of the things i watch#hila has spoken
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Someone used "ungood" to describe disney remakes and it's so perfect. "Bad" does not sum up the horrible soulless products created to only fulfil capitalist desires, using artists as tormented vessels, ungood captures it so well.
Artists with passion and vision create bad art. Bad art can have entertaining qualities, and value, and sparks of life inside of them. Teenage fanfic, and b movies, and a young musicians first attempt at smoke on the water are bad, and that's ok. Ungood art does not have the same saving graces as bad art. Ungood art is empty, not just failing at quality but devoid of it.
We need to start using the term ungood. Neither Star Wars episode one, nor Star Was episode nine are good movies, but they don't possess the same lack of quality. The "live action" Lion King movie, and Repo! The Genetic Opera might both be failures at putting musicals on film, but I know which one I'd rather watch, which one still has moments I love, and which one was made to make someone at Disney see a line go up.
#196#film#media literacy#media criticism#media commentary#media consumption#bad art#b movie#fuck disney#disney#disney remakes#disney critical#disney criticism#star wars#star wars episode i: the phantom menace#star wars episode ix#repo! the genetic opera#anti capitalist#anti capitalism#late stage capitalism#fuck capitalism#neoliberal capitalism#capitalism kills art
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