#fury road fandom

[grandwitchbird]

This is as much as I’m going to say on the debacle at the moment.

Veilguard as a text worries the audience is at least a bit racist on the whole. It wants to somehow prevent this from playing out in gameplay this time and also avoid the whole issue altogether maybe thankyouverymuch. This is in no way an actual ethical shift from previous BioWare games. They’ve just finally said ‘oppression bad’ in the text instead of hoping you’d know that and added some extra weight and consequence just in case you really wanted to kill the black dude or side with the fascists for noreasonatall.

To contrast. Disco Elysium knows most people are quite racist. It has zero interest in the audience’s response to its approach. And its approach is to call racists clowns right out the gate.

I know which approach I prefer, and I know I prefer it because it’s ethically stronger and not built on a codependent relationship with the audience. I also know why Veilguard did things the way it did. If you’re mad about it, maybe just check in the mirror for greasepaint first. And at least consider acknowledging that BioWare’s audience holds stock in the clown shoe factory.

[kamakrazeewarboyz]

The mad max fandom lived, it died, and now it will live again

[outpostsystem]

If I don't see more war boys content when furiosa comes out what is even the point

[disabled-characters-showdown]

Disabled Characters Showdown Round 2 Wave 1

Propaganda/Who is this:

Imperator Furiosa- It’s Charlize Theron, what more could you want.

Eileen Leahy- Neither of us have watched any of Supernatural and hope we never will, but Eileen seems interesting.

Check out the other polls in this wave here.

[roopnavarro]

the most unhinged takes from the facebook side of the mad max fandom - feat: this guy's Feelings about furiosa

general content warning for the psychic damage you're about to take: here lies misogyny and missing the point so badly it actually becomes funny

this guy just does. not. quit. he drops a new one of these posts every few days. some people agree with him. some people disagree with him and he argues with them in the comments. and other people respond like this:

[couldtheyescortelliewilliams]

Do you want to submit a potential protector for Ellie? Click here if you do!

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

Mini-event poll series: Fictional Survivor Series, round 2 (part 1)

(In the ABW canon, this would be the same pay-per-view event that Ruby Rose of RWBY beat Asami Sato of Legend of Korra for the Ultimate Women’s Championship)

We now move onto the 2nd 5-v-5 tag team match of the evening (in the previous match, Team Live-Action Show defeated Team Animated Show). The teams are:

1) Team Royalty (Shuri of Black Panther, Rhaenyra of House of the Dragon, Zelda of The Legend of Zelda, Arwen of Lord of the Rings, and Diana Prince of Wonder Woman)

2) Team Revolution (Katniss of The Hunger Games, Leia of Star Wars, Evey of V for Vendetta, Furiosa of Mad Max Fury Road, and North of Detroit Become Human)

This event will go until one team is entirely eliminated.

[irishsaints]

oh look tumblr has changed, again

I'm still here, still keeping this godforsaken thing alive. I should probably do a follower purge, bc there's probably so many porn bots following me rn it's insane.

ANYWAY, if you like:

mad max fury road

or any of the mad max movies

If you're especially hyped for furiosa

f1 and f1 fandom [iykyk]

ofmd

queer shit

coffee

good vibes

shouting about how the us govt is the worst place in the world

tattoos

come follow me!

[traewilson]

Saw Quinton Reviews' side video talking about Star Wars and how the brand's strict dedication to continuity leads to past "mistaken" continuity gets snipped off, like Sebastian Shaw as Anakin Skywalker. It got me thinking: Star Wars, deep to its most primordial basic structure, isn't actually myth - that's the bones of the body of Star Wars. In its proverbial genes, its history, and even cursory knowledge of how George Lucas tells stories shows this. American Graffiti is the most obvious example of this, being a dramatization of Lucas' childhood experiences. Indiana Jones is another example (until the last one, anyway, but we don't talk about Dial of Destiny). The first three films are defined by the pop culture trends of the time they were set. The villains in 1940s serials were, naturally, Nazis, so the villains are Nazis in the Indy films set in the 40s. This commitment to historical accuracy does lead to problems, however - namely, another source of villainy in the 40s were racial stereotypes of tribal peoples. Cue Temple of Doom, and the cartoonishly bigoted portrayal of Indian people in that film. This is why Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is the way it is. In the 50s and 60s, the villains of American serials were the Soviets, so the villains are Russians. A chief obsession of that time was with aliens, so, like how religion was a big obsession in the 40s, aliens are a focus on Crystal Skull. Dial of Destiny partially failed because the filmmakers didn't engage with the series' formula, or rather, the executives didn't want Indiana Jones to deviate any further from what fans were nostalgic for. This results in a sort of bizarre feedback loop, where Indiana Jones is now referring back to ITS OWN PAST, ITS OWN HISTORY, rather than the actual history of the pop culture of the real world. The villains in the Indiana Jones films everybody likes are Nazis, so we're doing Nazis again.

Indiana Jones was on a trajectory where it would mirror the pop culture of the time period its set in. In the end, it abandoned this and gazed down its own navel, harkening back to the history of its own series, nonsensically contradicting the pop culture of the late 60s going into the 70s. Star Wars ran into a variant on this issue with continuity - with history.

Star Wars, of course, is obsessed with its own history. George Lucas himself was obsessed with the history of the Star Wars universe, at least the continuity of the films he made. The creators involved in the Expanded Universe were allowed to do their own thing, provided they didn't contradict his films, and with full knowledge their stories are only as canon as Lucas wanted them to be - which resulted in situations where stories about the Clone Wars pre-Prequels were essentially erased from existence because they, inadvertently, were inconvenient to a constantly revised history. To be clear, this isn't adjusting actual real life history, where it is a good idea to keep its narrative as accurate as possible. These are stories, fiction. And yet, creators and fanbase alike are as obsessed with the minutiae of Star Wars' history as the preacher is obsessed with the minutiae of the Bible and Biblical narratives.

This obsession with historical revisionism for a history that does not actually exist is resulting in the eradication of elements that are no longer convenient to its narrative. Sebastian Shaw as Anakin Skywalker, Clive Revill as the Emperor, all performances destined to become pop culture relics, only known by the most devoted of acolytes at the altar of Star Wars. I'd argue this started all the way back with Splinter of the Mind's Eye, the novel that was essentially George Lucas' backup concept for a Star Wars sequel if the first underperformed, realized. This novel is meaningless to the grand Star Wars continuity. An odd little curio; a peek into a future of the faith that could've been. I only know about it because I was obsessed with Star Wars as a kid. Less and less will know of it as time goes on, because it's basically a heretical text written in unwitting defiance of a constantly rewritten history. This eradication is deeply unfortunate, and actively works against Lucas' undeniable mythical inspirations for Star Wars. Myths are fluid, dynamic, ever-changing. Star Wars only changes as nostalgia and continuity so allow. This will be a BIG problem with Star Wars going forward - both the religious fanaticism of the fandom's strict devotion to their particular denomination of fandom faith (the Prequels are the best! The Originals are best! The Sequels are best! If you don't think that'll happen, I wouldn't bet on it.) and the strict devotion of the creators to the constantly changing, constantly eradicating, timeline of a world that is entirely fictional. Star Wars confines itself like this to its own detriment. Luke Skywalker won't be nostalgic for people forever. Anakin Skywalker won't be nostalgic forever, and in time, Rey won't be either. They will, gradually, over the course of time, become confined to the dustbin of history, along with Sebastian Shaw's Anakin, of Clive Revill's Emperor, as Splinter of the Mind's Eye, or Gennady Tartakovsky's Clone Wars miniseries. Some of this, of course, is the relentless march of time's fault, I get that. But the structure of Star Wars has grown to such an extent that stories are becoming harder and harder to write for it. You can't do too much; you absolutely cannot change Anakin's fate, or a different end for Luke that contradicts Last Jedi, or a British guy as Darth Vader's true self.

All this buildup to say George Miller and how he's handled the structure of the Mad Max franchise will give it a longer life, I feel, once its originator has passed on. George Miller is, frankly, a much better mythical storyteller than George Lucas. Anyone can be Max. Anyone can be Furiosa, or Immortan Joe, or Dementus, or Lord Humungus or the Doof Warrior or Aunty Entity. That's the beauty of this series; since anyone can be anyone, and hard facts are few and far between, this allows much more room for creative experimentation.

Anyway that's my ramble for tonight. I'm sure this will be a mess to get through, but it is a somewhat accurate picture of how I think. I'm a natural rambler. This is why Xwitter and I are not getting along lately.

[hunterssm00n]

fandoms 🎂

Overwatch

Alien (Xenomorphs)

Predator (Yautja)

Slashers/Horror Movies

FNAF

Mad Max: Fury Road

Resident Evil

Misc Monsters/Creatures

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Transformers - Bayverse & Prime

Diablo

Watchmen

Jurassic Park/World

Hannibal NBC

Mortal Kombat

Batman - Arkhamverse & Nolanverse

Dead Space

Godzilla - Monsterverse

Ghost Rider

Venom

Outlast

Star Wars

Sons of Anarchy

X.x

My Loves <3

Predator/Yautja

Alien/Xenomorph

Reaper/Gabriel Reyes

Ramattra

Chromeskull

Immortan Joe

Springtrap

Glamrock Freddy

JEH! Freddy Krueger

Richard Trager

Shao Kahn

Rorschach

Michael Myers

Remake! Jason Voorhees

Mephisto

Tig Trager

HUNK

Ripper aka the Indoraptor

Soldier: 76

Arkham Knight! Scarecrow/Jonathan Crane

Ghost Rider

Darth Vader

Night Hunter

[leetweevil]

Wah! Who's this funky fella

[kamakrazeewarboyz]

THE FURIOSA TRAILER IS AMONG US RAAAAAAAH

[conjcosby]

Stardate: 2024.5.24 ▫ Max has reached the end of the line in this new tale. Not to be missed. 😈🙏 #MelGibson #MaxRockatansky #MadMax #MadMaxSaga #MadMaxUniverse #MadMaxWorld #MadMaxTheRoadWarrior #MadMaxBeyondThunderdome #MadMaxFuryRoad #MadMaxFuriosa #Furiosa #MadMaxMovie #MadMaxFan #MadMaxFans #MadMaxFandom #MadMaxFanArt #FanArt #Fan_Art #Friday #FanArtFriday #FanArt_Friday #Fan_Art_Friday

[disabled-characters-showdown]

Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1 Wave 4

Propaganda/Who is this:

Imperator Furiosa- It’s Charlize Theron, what more could you want.

Check out the other polls in this wave and prior here.

[kimbureh]

in a twist of events, the fanart with the clunky text underneath got a higher ratio of reblogs to likes than my usual fanart gets. This either means the Fury Road fandom reblogs more than the Star Wars TCW fandom, and/or mmfr fans aren't afraid to post an artist clowning on their own art (I say ironically; clown is a serious profession and a true art)

[snafu-kushima]

god DAMN IT I miss this fandom