#in a good and bad way

[soft-persephone]

Jake Johnson currently looks like a southern blue collar worker in some of his podcast clips and it’s killing me

[valariemoon]

Only in Mario sunshine man 😭

[tbaluver]

trying to write but i cant get season 2 arcane out of mind

[sarenhale]

I'm watching Fate Stay Night with my friend and I feel like my brain is being picked apart and rearranged

[hobbitunderthemountain]

SCREAMING AND CRYING AND THROWING UP OVER GO S2 AWAFHWAEFAEFAWEF

[cherrybeetle]

THE LAST EPISODE OF THE OWL HOUSE HAS ME SOBBING

[lovenona]

I'M SO SCARED

PURE HORROR?? TOWARDS US? TOWARDS MY BABYGIRL TOJI? ADELE!!!

i am rereading my draft and i have truly done something so terrible

[l-lucas-s]

I love my friend but sometimes I wanna bite them

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[francixoxoxo]

I will genuinely throw up if swaddled and silk hits 1k notes

[kingofdoma]

best description of morgan spurlock's legacy ever

[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"

[kitkatsaskblog]

Master Post ig

Welcome to Kitten's World!

Here you can ask any and all questions you have about this sweet little oc world.

[If your ask isnt answered within one week, you may need to remind me that Tumblr exists lol]

{Warnings at the end of this post}

“Who and what is ‘Kitten's World’?”

Kitten's World is what I have named my oc, Kitten Queen's, world. It used to be connected to Undertale, but was recently broken off to be it's own thing.

“Can we make art of any of the characters?”

As long as it isn't ship art, go right ahead! I'll be happy to show it to everyone following.

“What's this world's story?”

You shall see soon <3

I'm planning on writing and posting Kitten's story in between asks.

Now to meet the main characters!

Kitten Queen

32years(In the blog)

PrimRose's birthgiver/father

Bisexual, transgender

(More art in the future)

PrimRose "Rosa" Queen

20 years(In Blog)

Bisexual, polyamorus

(More art in the future)

Crow Rin

<N/A>

<N/A>

Straight

<N/A>

[More shall be added once introduced]

<WARNING FOR THIS BLOG>

This blog could contain the following!!:

•Homo/Transphobia

•Abuse mentions

•Stockholm Syndrome

•Very young birth

•Abuse{includes domestic, physical, verbal, etc}

•Self harm/suicide mentions

•Angst

This list may update, so please check in <3

[marzipanandminutiae]

what's with the weird glorification of smoking that's come back lately

like

I've seen so many posts that paint opposing smoking as some impossibly Loser-ish or puritanical stance and I really don't get it

it makes you, your house, and your clothing stink, destroys your teeth, and gives you lung cancer. opposing it is. Correct. obviously addiction is very complicated and quitting can be hard, but just saying "smoking is gross and harmful as a practice (including vaping)" is True and Right actually

some of you have never grown up hearing about how some beloved family member died a slow, agonized, wasting death of smoking-induced cancer, or watching it firsthand for yourself, and it shows

[montanabohemian]

if i see a single one of you pissed that your faves canceled an event or a con appearance because they're striking for fair wages then imma come for you in your sleep 🔪🔪🔪

(direct that fury where it belongs: AMPTP and the execs)

[time-to-write-and-suffer]

I love how on Tumblr, "media literacy" has become "Um, just because someone writes about this doesn't mean they're endorsing this. I hate all these media puritans ruining everything."

I'm sad to inform you that knowing when and whether an author is endorsing something, implying something, saying something, is also part of media literacy. Knowing when they are doing this and when they're not is part of media literacy. Assuming that no author has ever endorsed a bad thing is how you fall for proper gander. It's not media literacy to always assume that nobody ever has agreed with the morally reprehensible ideas in their work.

Sometimes, authors are endorsing something, and you need to be aware when that happens, and you also need to be aware when you're doing it as an author. All media isn't horny dubcon fanfic where you and the author know it's problematic IRL but you get off to it in the privacy of your brain. Sometimes very smart people can convince you of something that'll hurt others in the real world. Sometimes very dumb people will romanticize something without realizing they're doing it and you'll be caught up in it without realizing that you are.

Being aware of this is also media literacy. Being aware of the narrative tools used to affect your thinking is media literacy. Deciding on your own whether you agree with an author or not is media literacy. Enjoying characters doing bad things and allowing authors to create flawed or cruel characters for the sake of a story is perfectly fine, but it is not the same as being media literate. Being smug about how you never think an author has bad intentions tells me you're edgy, not that you're media literate. You can't use one rule to apply to all media. That's not how media literacy works. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Aheem heem. Anyway.