#i want to talk about a media im enjoying

[shirecorn]

Where my circle of 30 freaks who are normal about media

[whoatemyshoe]

[cerealmonster15]

i guess ive always loved media where characters are bitches to each other for No Reason other than It's Funny........... im watching a lot of retrospective videos of thomas the tank engine, and also animal crossing. and it's like that paired to my fixation on twst right now........ im sensing there has been a pattern here all along .....

[gncrezan]

some old @chrysanthemumgames hermes-seph sketches!!! some of it is established-relationship daydreaming but also a peek at my dark and twisted mind (sprawling intricate spidey au)

[humblemediagenius]

The need to share my OCs with everyone vs the fear that people won't be FUCKING NORMAL FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

[icewindandboringhorror]

I have found a beautiful perfect humble rock specimen that is light yellow with a weird dark yellowy brown lining, somewhat resembling a chunk of smoked gouda cheese... effervescent

[tacomedli]

i love how linked universe is one of the few video game fandoms i'm in where i've actually played some of the games

[deargravity]

haiiiii sardini i hope youre weeell !!!!! dyou have any favorite/comfort media like movies or books or anythinf that changed your tastes 4ever !!!!!???

haiii i’m doing okay actually.. college is a horror but we persist. so firstly, i have a LOTTTTT of stuff i really enjoy and no real fixed tastes, except that i don’t like romance-centred plots. i love gothic literature and detective fiction mostly but i’ve been getting into memoirs too etc etc let me get into it

so, FIRST OF ALL i really like sherlock holmes. i grew up on it so it’s given me a taste for cozy mysteries in general and the occasional hardboiled crime/espionage novel. it’s my all-time favourite series but i also have quite a few adaptations i enjoy and return to

- Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (the original canon, cozy detective fiction)

- Charlotte Holmes by Brittany Cavallaro (a young adult series with 4 books)

- the 1940s Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone (all on youtube, btw, a great way to pass the time)

- Moriarty the Patriot (manga series, with 1 season of animation, one of my ALL-TIME favourite adaptation ever)

- Enola Holmes (the book series, but the movies are also really fun)

- Moriarty: The Devil’s Game & The Silent Order by Charles Kindinger (audible original podcast, a moriarty origin story with a refreshing change in perspective, where Moriarty is the heroic protagonist and Holmes is the villain antagonist, a lot of creative and original recharacterisation, it was so interesting just give it a chance)

- Sherlock & Co. (ANOTHER FAVOURITE. and a classic. a podcast too, set in the 21st century and by far, my favourite adaptation of the original stories and just wonderful)

OTHER THAN THAT:

- (book) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - got me into gothic horror

- (movie) Good Will Hunting - coming of age (?) movie about friendship, love, potential, and the power of vulnerability

- (movie) Jennifer’s Body - i’m not a horror fan at all actually but this was a horror comedy, iirc and it did give me a taste for evil women in fiction

- (book) Unquiet by Linn Ullman - a recent 4⭐️ read, a very intimate, vulnerable memoir of grief and memory that opened me up in a lot of ways

- (movie) Bound 1996 - lesbian noir film, god i love criminal / mafia lesbians

- (music, album) Folie á Deux by Fall Out Boy

- (animation) Arcane

and you may already know this but i’m also into Paradox Live, A3, Blue Eye Samurai and Mahoyaku. i’ll get into anything if it can promise me a good, fun time I don’t really have limits on the kind of media i can enjoy, except that maybe animanga is a little hard for me to get into.

[mar64ds]

the wild robot was a good movie but i think i watched it at a bad time 😔

[atissi]

another year of progress! since my birthday is right before the new year, i always associate my personal growth with my previous age. i think i’m happy with how I grew as a 20-year-old...more than just improving my anatomy and style, i’m learning to be more comfortable existing outside of my own head. i like looking at other people’s art summaries, so i thought i’d post mine (even if i’m pretty fucking embarrassed to look at my old pieces.......lol)

in 2023, i want to do more environments, get more comfortable with painting different body types, post my writing, and feel less awkward talking about myself. along with my academic and career goals of course :P

here’s to the new year! 🎉

[viciousvampirevillain]

Im sure someone has said this before, but I cannot stand when people in the TS fandom complain about the finale taking as long as it is.

First of all, we know Thomas has been actively working on the finale. He has updated us about it consistently. It is four parts long. It has music. It takes a lot of effort.

Second of all, Thomas’ career is his creative expression. Whether you like it or not, he is an artist. Artists owe you nothing. Their art is for them, not for you and your consumption. If you can look through an entire gallery of hard work and get upset when the artist hasn’t added to a painting and can only focus on that then you contribute to the unfair treatment of artists. Stop allowing yourself to be brainwashed by capitalistic consumerism.

That, along with the fact that Thomas hears your criticism and wants to make up for lost time, is why the finale is four parts and musical. Because that is what Thomas wants it to be as the artist.

While artists like Thomas rely on that consumption to make a living off of their creative expression, that does not mean they need to live in service to the consumer because, as I said, art is for the artist.

I might sympathize more if the situation was that he hadn’t posted any sanders sides content since POF, but we have had content. We’ve had WTIT and a slew of short form content, but it seems like most critics aren’t just content with what they have. Which is incredibly ungrateful considering how much effort Thomas puts into listening to his audience.

Long story short; let Thomas be an artist and make the art he wants to make for goodness sake.

[spyroz]

too much scifi and fantasy is "this is how we can transcend humanity, here is a glorified being thats Beyond humanity, humanity is Flawed, having a body is a flaw, and we have to Ascend to something higher and Better". i genuinely hate that viewpoint on reality. its so sooo so sad to think that way in my opinion

more scifi and fantasy should be like "look at these beings that are very Alien and Other but we still share a celebration for the core things that make us alive like food and drink and life routines and community and pleasures and sharing and building a world that includes all of us even if life is messy sometimes." my worldbuilding project is about a lot of different things, but i think that is the core theme that encompasses it all. i think is is why i also really enjoy the work of a few other popular worldbuilders on here, who create stuff of this message

[volfoss]

I’ve never seen you talk about themes and tropes you enjoy in media and stuff like that, it’s always about how misogynistic or racist something is, which it’s totally valid of course, but I think we often forget those are not the only types of things we can take from a story. Anyways you’re totally valid for being a hater lol.

if u are referring to the stuff ive been posting lately irt tezuka its because the themes and tropes are pretty well documented but the horrors are not. and id rather any mutuals know about those rather than solely focusing on the themes being there and not addressing that, esp when those are easily found on sites like tezukainenglish or even looking up essays on the matter. i also feel that if its about this topic, it is something i bring up when its there (the one im reading rn handles a lot of anti-war themes in a really good manner and i did get into that pretty deeply in my review of it (which i havent posted yet bc its been taking a while to get through)). imo its something where it is important to discuss issues w media and id rather be getting into both that and thematics of the media vs just an analysis of it (which can tend to overlook issues). w kimba specifically, it was VERY hard to overlook the issues that were in the media as it was glaring and pretty much everywhere bc it was DRENCHED in racism. i did not want to be like ok :) heres the super good themes in this bc quite honestly it was a very miserable experience to read. my posts on tumblr are also not indicative of HOW i enjoy something or if im focusing on themes or not bc often thats something i tend to be messaging friends about as i watch/read something. i love analyzing themes and getting into the nitty gritty of a media but i also think its important to bring up issues when they are less talked about in the general fan space of it all. if you talk to me one on one you KNOW how passionate i get about themes in a story but its just not something i talk about publicly.

[rainingincale]

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[elmorejuniorhigh]

waow. so fucking cool that both ging and mito freecss are aroace. who would have thought

[planet4546b]

actually maybe i just need to join one of the book clubs at my local library🤔