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i know no one cares but im just gonna put it out there that i fully support and encourage critical consumption of harmful/problematic media. we cant just ignore it. talk about it, talk about how it could be better. or people will keep making harmful media. you’re allowed to enjoy harmful media without supporting the creator. pirate that shit.
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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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Market based mistakes.
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#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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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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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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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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I was recently in a discussion about books and consuming literature and how it's generally an individual experience. I posited to the person that intellectualising and consuming books is an isolating activity for me (especially for the past few years) because I no longer have the same peers/group of people whom I could discuss and digest books with, and that I realised one of the main reason why I stopped reading books is the said lack of people to read books with.
They then launched into a tirade of explaining how they never realised me, as an "elitist" English major, would need to "consume books with others" because all their life their book reading experience has been individualistic and never supplemented with discussions afterwards with other people. There was never a sit-down kind of discussion on how they found the book, what lessons they got from it, how did the book make them feel, all that jazz. It was more of "oh you're reading that book? How far along are you? You should finish it, it's good" then they go their merry ways thank you very much.
They thought I would scoff at the idea of a "book club" because I would just dismiss other people's ways of absorbing books, that its absurd to talk about books like its a case study of a multitude of things, coz at the end of the day, it's an individual experience, and how you experienced it is entirely your own and nobody else's. Kinda like eating a piece of candy and that's it. That's the whole experience see you bye!
I was taken aback and a little bit annoyed (with how they just jumped right into their litany while I was still in the middle of my "woe is me I'm lonely" word vomit but that's another thing entirely). Yes, admittedly, I'm the "Typical Elitist English Major", coz I was already doing my degree during my Identity vs Role Confusion years [Erikson, psychosocial development], and being surrounded by the upturned noses of literary elitist snobs is not a good thing for a 15-yr old impressionable, hormonal child. But that's beside the point (I always get out of tangent demmit).
The point is, it's what we do. Yes, reading is an individual experience because nobody can do the reading for you. But there's a whole experience that comes after you eat the words. There's the discussion of themes, of settings, of symbolisms, of metaphors and allusions. There's talking about how that piece of literature reflects the society it was written in. How the author's biases and prejudices show and/or how they approach it in their writing, whether they perpetuate or implicitly try to dismantle said biases and prejudices.
There's the world-building and characterisation. There's character development and how that reflects to you, the reader, and your own experiences. There's timelines and confusion and realisations and eureka moments or boring shit and fuck I can't stand this character or oh my gods I'm in love with them I want to kiss the very earth they tread upon. There's the relationships between characters that please for the love of gods does NOT only include romantic relationships because that's not the ULTIMATE METRIC for becoming a self--actualised, well-adjusted person thank you very much.
There's discussions about problematic themes and how you as a reader should be able to consume these themes and not be ostracised for it because enjoying said themes does not mean you are a proponent of them irl; just because one enjoys Haunting of Adeline does not mean they support stalkers or stalking. There's discourse about how dare you compare ACOTAR to Interview With The Vampire go wash your filthy mouth but I'm not judging your literary taste I just have no plans of reading *that* I'm good thanks.
And so much more! Does nobody wonder why there's always a shit-ton of papers that we need to pass for every single piece of literature and written word in general that we ever lay our eyes upon? Its because of these things! These are the things we yap about in our annoying little papers of literary criticism. Because for us, The Curtain Is Not JUST Fucking Blue. And our entire program is dedicated to four years of looking at Blue Curtains™️ and dissecting why it's important that the curtain is blue and IT IS THAT DEEP, you piece of barnacle.
I mean, this person and I existed within the same circles at a certain point in our lives. They've witnessed and even participated in these discussions with the aforementioned peers, talking about social issues, books, TV shows, films, songs, records, etc etc etc. That's the "what happens next after reading a book"', and that's what I meant when I said it's difficult to read books these days because I have nobody to read it with. Nobody to process grief and happiness and euphoria and death and ecstasy and obsessions with.
Which is just a long-winded way of saying I'd like to have friends to yap about books and literature and other shit with, thanks. I recognise that it's no longer feasible to have late night discussions over coffee, talking about how Armand is the most well-adjusted, self-actualised character in the Vampire Chronicles or how classic Russian literature portrays loneliness like nothing else in this planet and Dostoyevski is the patron saint of the tortured lonely soul or that there is an inherent overlap between the grotesque and the sublime because something beautiful cannot sublimate into a transcendental level of beauty without it becoming grotesque at some point within its existence... but you get what I mean.
So yes, before I was so rudely interrupted, that's what I meant when I said reading is an isolating activity. Because reading makes one feel a lot of feelings and its exhausting to have to explain background stories and character dynamics to you before I could even get to explaining why I'm crying over "Gideon the Ninth, first flower of my house" and why I could never JUST read a book and not be completely consumed by it. Coz its not just a piece of candy you pop and you can go your merry fucking way afterwards. It's so much more than that. Fucking more. K bye.
#gideon the ninth#toxic obsession#griddlehark#bookish thoughts#literary consumption#the curtains are not just blue you barnacle#reading as an obsession#literary analysis#literary criticism
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Some of yall do not know the difference between "media that glorifies Bad Thing" and "media that portrays Bad Thing and the audience has to use critical thinking skills" and its actually concerning
#for a bunch of ''burnt out gifted kids 🥺'' yall don't use those gifts of critical thinking much huh#media that contains uncomfortable topics (especially horror) is not glorifying said topic by default#killing stalking is the first example that comes to my head. it was just a horror series that had gay people.#wasnt glorifying the horrors at all. in fact it actually portrays the horrors as Bad and Not Okay At All#seeing our mc rationalizing the behaviours of his abuser due to stockholm syndrome is upsetting to us as the audience.#and yall were like ''it glorifies abuse and murder 🥺🥺🥺'' no babygirl. it contains abuse and murder as a subject.#you are just incapable of critical thought and you assume the portrayal of any subject is glorification. touch grass.#thats like watching hannibal and being like ''this show glorifies cannibalism 🥺'' it very much is not.#there was also the manga Star Lover that y'all were canceling for ''glorifying pedophilia'' and when you read it it's about A VICTIM OF CSA#like its literally about a character who is sexually abused by her uncle and this is an integral part to the story. its not fanservice.#sometimes media is created with the belief that the audience has the ability to think for themselves#and therefore should not have to a Explicitly State "hey this morally bankrupt concept is bad!''#because you should be able to come to that conclusion on your own <3#media consumption#a.txt#media and information literacy#media analysis
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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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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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