#like for example back in my drugs and addiction in film and lit class one of the guest speakers we had was like ��I’ve never seen a good | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

daincrediblegg · 4 days ago

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I really wish people would stop being obtuse with their readings about things. Is it really demonizing The Thing or is it deliberately using a social perception and common tropes to frame the character in a certain light so it can deliberately subvert those things at the precise moment when it is necessary to prove that point that people are Not Like That?

#obviously not a catch all because there are definitely pieces of media that are guilty of demonizing things #but sometimes the crit I see on here and even out in the real world is just extremely shallow and it baffles me #like for example back in my drugs and addiction in film and lit class one of the guest speakers we had was like ‘I’ve never seen a good #addict in a heroic role in media and we will never see that’ and… I was sitting there like… midnight mass was only a year old #to this day I will assert that riley flynn is one of the best heroic depictions of addict ever and I will not change my mind on that #many such cases in the mike flannagan universe including danny torrance in doctor sleep as well (which mike has said was part of his own #recovery process). not to mention I would also posit crozier as the same to an extent just by the symbolism of his alcoholism as a mechanism #of empire used to supress and opress him. and I think about those and then I see so many characters everywhere that fall into the same #category. and it really baffles me how people can just. fucking miss all of that #anyways yes this is also about the previous post like girl what the fuck #I need people to learn what actual media literacy is and then also. read more media. read different media. become well-read and well-viewed #or perish by my hand

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