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Watership Down - first the film, then the book, is one of the most formative media influences in my life. I’ve written about it briefly, here https://i-blame.tumblr.com/post/69030937937/moniquill-moniquill-kucala-moniquill
but having watched the above video essay, I want to say more.
The first time I saw a deer up close was in my grandfather’s back yard; I was about four years old. I don’t remember the reason that my mom dropped me off at my grandfather’s house for an afternoon, but I know that it was unplanned - because he was in the middle of processing a deer. It had been field dressed, organs already removed, and was hanging by its ankle tendons from the t-shaped steel pole at one end of the backyard clothesline. I was startled, worried, concerned that the animal was hurt. There was blood! There was flesh!
My grandfather responded by calmly explaining what he was doing, step by step. Explaining why he was skinning the deer, and quartering it, taking it from this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-tailed_deer to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venison
He talked about hunting, and about gratitude, and about humans and our proper place in the world - what meant to live in a good way.
By the time my grandfather was cooking tenderloin medallions and plating them up to me with grape jelly (don’t knock grape jelly on meat until you’ve tried it!) and instant mashed potatoes, I wasn’t startled or concerned anymore. I had a deeper understanding of the way the world worked, of my role as a consumer, a predator. Of the responsibilities that entailed. I couldn’t have explained it then, of course, with my 4-year-old mind and vocabulary - but Philosophy had been set into motion. This is a core memory for me.
I did not have nightmares about the butchered deer.
I was six when I first saw Disney’s Bambi. I DID have nightmares about that; between Bambi and The Land Before Time, I was absolutely convinced that my mother was going to die. That I was being presented with these media themes to educate and prepare me for that eventuality. I am the youngest daughter of a youngest daughter, and I have an extended tribal family. My grandfather died when I was six. His was one of many funerals I attended at that age; his generation succumbing to age and illness. I was aware of mortality.
I wasn’t a ‘normal’ child, by the standard of the community that I went to school in. I was too poor, too indigenous, too very obviously autistic (without being diagnosed). I had very different media influences and interests than the other kids at my public school. No one else was deeply obsessed with David Attenborough’s documentaries (Life on Earth 1979, The Living Planet 1984, Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives 1989). No one else had even heard of Dot and the Whale. No one else in my class had Lifeways Lessons classes, because they didn’t have tribes.
I wasn’t terribly interested in most media intended for children; it was boring because it was simple. I didn’t feel motivated to watch Disney movies over and over. Don Bleuth films had more staying power in my mind; An American Tale, All Dogs Go To Heaven, The Land Before Time. More complex stories, stories that confront suffering and death. My mom read me CS Lewis and JRR Tolkein, Jack London and EB White - lots of other stories that were not ‘age appropriate’, stories that were written for People, not Children.
I watched Watership Down for the first time when I was about five, and my mom read the book to me when I was about six. I was not disturbed by the violence, being far more interested in the themes explored in the video essay above. I had, by this time, seen a rabbit skinned IRL. I’d eaten rabbit stew.
I did not have nightmares about Watership Down.
I failed to make friends with the kids at school, for the most part - I primarily socialized with my cousins. In fourth grade (age 9), my class did a unit on tropical rainforests, and I brought in this video: I did not think that there was anything at all controversial about it, but at about 32 minutes in David Attenborough talks about the Guarani people and their traditional ways of life. There’s footage of an unclothed man climbing a tree. His penis is briefly visible. THE CLASS WENT WILD, and the teacher rushed to turn the video off, and I was sent to the office. It caused a school-wide incident, and bringing in videos was thereafter banned. I was deeply, deeply confused by this series of events. The video had come from the public library - how could it possible be offensive? But the incident became a vector of bullying that followed me until middle school - the adults had confirmed to the kids that I had done something taboo, that I was fundamentally wrong in some way. I quietly came to the conclusion that Most People(™) are very stupid and very reactionary, that one has to carefully coddle and explain things to them.
It took me many years to only mostly overcome that conclusion.
Later that same year, I had my first real success in making a childhood friend - someone who came to my house after school and had sleepovers and such. She had transferred from another school and didn’t know I was THE WEIRD GIRL the way my other classmates did. I remember trying to introduce my favorite movies to her, as she introduced her favorites to me. She was a Horse Girl(™) and much more interested in Age Appropriate Girl Things than I was, but we shared a love of My Little Pony - I had a bunch of episodes on VHS, recorded off TV. She thought that https://mylittleponyg1.fandom.com/wiki/Rescue_at_Midnight_Castle was ‘too scary’ and preferred https://mylittleponyg1.fandom.com/wiki/My_Little_Pony:_The_Movie.
I showed her Watership Down. She freaked out about it. It gave her nightmares.
She was, as many people, deeply disturbed by the violence of the film. She had not, at the age of nine, seen animals butchered. She didn’t seem to care about the deeper meanings and philosophical treatises presented; the fact that there was violence and death was too shocking.
I’m not sure how to conclude this essay, except with this: Watership Down is now a litmus test, for me. If a person is aware of it and appreciates it, we’re intellectual compatible. If a person’s whole reaction is shock and disgust and cries of ‘nightmare fuel!’ then we are not.
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Friend: How is it possible that you are SO in love with Dreamworks Trolls? But you watch adult stuff like Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss, Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, and now The Amazeing Digital Circus?
*Watches the Trolls' films and specials*
Friend *trying to take in all the sex, drug jokes, and heavy messages. And the diverse animation style. Combing live action, 2D, 3D, and creative as hell.*........... why do some Trolls have genitals while others don't? And how do they flip the bird if they only have four fingers? And how does racism even work here? Does that mean that Funk Trolls were slaves, if we're paralleling their world to ours? Are the Pop Trolls white folks in this world? Colonizing and all. Are they like chinchillas? Instead of bathing in water, they bathe in glitter the same way chinchillas bath in dust? Is Branch still depressed because he keeps going from blue to gray?
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This is just a combination of things my friends have asked. And they end up listening to the soundtrack afterward. Look, this is why I love what I love. Helluva Boss is very cartoony, silly, and colorful. Kid like but rated R. Hazbin Hotel is baiscaly a Disney Princess story but rated R. Don't Hug Me I'm Scared is self-explanatory. Sesame Street gone wrong. The Amazeing Digital Circus is like a roblox game that kids play all the time turned into a horror show. And Trolls is made for 6 and under, but man, do they get away with risky jokes and go heavy on the message/story and make amazing music. A massive treat for adults. And all shows/films have amazing world building and charater designs.
Baiscally, stuff that caters/treats the adults while having a child like wonder to them is my favorite form of media. 🤣
#dreamworks trolls#trolls#trolls dreamworks#trolls band together#trolls 2#hazbin hotel#helluva boss#don't hug me i'm scared#dhmis#the amazing digital circus#media for adults#but with a kid like touch to them#trolls is just the opposite#is for kids but enough to entertain adults#through music#story#and risky jokes#no seriously#Branchs and Poppy getting high on jazz#you can't tell me that feels like a sex dream#like a reactor once said when he saw that film#you better be careful wacking that stick on that girls tongue#that was real suggestive#🤣
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ok everybody block dnp on all socials they have eyes everywhere. they know way too much. those omniscient fuckers are always watching. no one is safe.
like what do you MEAN you know about those stupid “real voice” compilations and people absolutely clowning about jumpcuts and smudged whiskers and what do you MEAN you’re aware of those 2009 phan theories people still debate to this day? what happened to “i don’t check my indirects” “i don’t go on the tags”?? i bet you’re lurking RIGHT NOW reading this very post. all men do is lie. can’t trust anyone 😤😪
#/j#dnp#dan and phil#pinof#phan#gamingmas 2023#yeet my deet#dan howell#daniel howell#amazingphil#phil lester#danisnotonfire#i didn’t participate in the phandom until they came out#i was an older phannie i started watching at age 16#so i knew better#so this feels like i’m being punished for something i didn’t do#and having always been mortified and embarrassed by the shit yall would say back in the day#my only respite was “ok maybe dnp didn’t see this”#no they’ve seen EVERYTHING#you’re past is coming back to haunt you but your past is also coming back to haunt me lmao#to be clear i am part of the problem simply for consuming phan/phandom media at the time and therefore giving those videos views#but i was always terrified of the phandom#like i didn’t even consider myself part of the phandom for my first 4 years as a phannie#i was a closet demon phannie lol#i started participating after they came out and we were all actual adults about it and super respectful#i was like we’re all old and gay now i love this for us#yeet my deenp#bog
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ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 1x06 - "When These Walls Come Tumbling Down" ↳ "You're a class act, Sister. Sister. Thought I missed her. Bet you wouldn't miss her."
#and then they all talked about it like mature adults and became a happy family :D#arcane#arcaneedit#arcane league of legends#league of legends arcane#vi#league of legends#caitlyn kiramman#caitlyn#jinx#jinx arcane#arcane jinx#vi arcane#arcane vi#arcane caitlyn#caitlyn arcane#media: arcane#type: gif#s1 ep6
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I just saw a really stupid take from a Star Wars fan (I know, absolutely unheard of! (heavy sarcasm)) so here is a reminder:
People who ship clones with Jedi are more than aware of the power dynamic. That’s a huge part of what makes them interesting. If we were to to ship Cody with basically anyone else other than Obi Wan, it probably wouldn’t work as well because Obi Wan is precisely the last person who would ever want to pressure him or cross his boundaries.
The Jedi were totally screwed over and backed into a war that goes against so much of what they stand for and on top of that, now they have an entire army of brand new humans to lead. All of those brand new humans are totally unique and just experiencing the world for the first time, even though they’re all mature adults too. It’s a totally screwed up situation which puts so much added pressure onto the Order, so we throw romantic feelings on top of that and we’re not supposed to find that absurdly compelling?
Obi Wan is literally defined by his empathy and his kindness. The reason shipping him with Cody works so well is because there is no one who represents what the Jedi are meant to be better than him. Goodness is at the core of his character. There would never be a day that he didn’t value Cody’s wellbeing over his own feelings. Not to mention that they’re both so dedicated to their beliefs and responsibilities that a relationship is never even realistically an option while the war is going on.
Codywan is about the yearning. It’s about them both knowing they have feelings for each other and not being able to do anything about it because they are fighting for something much bigger than themselves. It’s about the infamous “after the war” conversation that they never got to have. It’s about them meeting again on Tatooine years later, finally on equal footing and completely alone in the galaxy, bonded together by their grief.
That’s why people love Codywan. The suggestion of anything otherwise is just an insult to the hard work all the artists and writers have put into making some of the most incredible fanfiction and fanart and fanon lore I’ve ever seen in any fandom ever.
P.S.— the portrayal of something in a piece of media doesn’t equal the condoning or promoting of that sort of behaviour. I thought we’d long since established that. Let’s use our brains here.
#preaching to the masses by putting this in the codywan tag but nvm#if your media literacy is dead I totally get how these ships would seems weird to you#pretty sure every sw ship comes with its ethical complications bc that’s how adult relationships work#it’s about how you handle it#all of my long posts are motivated by either anger or spite#codywan#clone/jedi ships#obi wan kenobi#commander cody#star wars#clone wars#star wars prequels#sw
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not only should any autistic character who’s ever been infantilized by their fanbase kill and maim more people, but they should also fuck as nasty as possible too. as a treat
#revising a dead post that you guys liked (about autistic characters killing people)#cal.txt#autism#autistic representation#autistic characters#autism posting#fandoms#blorbo tag#jack kline#supernatural#entrapta#spop#I don’t go to SheRa and never will but I feel so deeply for how Entrapta was treated#a whole 30 some year old woman and y’all are doing That? absolutely foul#autistic coding#autistic coded character#fandom ableism#ableism in media#you cannot claim to be an ally of autistic people or disabled ppl in general while viewing us as undesirable or childlike end sentence.#either you see us as complete autonomous adult human beings or you don’t#and if your blorbo is autistic and you want them carnally do NOT be afraid to speak about it#do not let ableism win. post about how badly you wanna do things to them. it’s a free country and you’re literally correct#fandom tag#jack spn#jack supernatural#jack kline winchester#jack winchester#spn fandom#supernatural fandom#castiel
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Seriously
#sunday scaries#monday#adulting#weekend#relatable#mood#accurate#heatherjs#social media#usersteen#userrin#chrissiewatts#userspicy#rosedavid#rmd tracks
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The situation is becoming more and more chaotic…
Over the past month, a series of kidnappings of politicians and businessmen have taken place throughout the country.
The latest victim?
Lex Luthor was the 10th victim and it occurred during a press conference in front of the Lex Corp building… The modus operandi was the same as the previous ones, a group of people with helmets and white motorcycle suits, along with green lacer weapons assaulted the tycoon and proceeded to take him away under the newly discovered Anti-Ecto law, once again there was a confrontation between the "Hunters" and the security group of the place, again nothing could be done and several of the guards were taken away under the charge of terrorism according to the guidelines of the previous law…..
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The teenagers of Amity Park decided to make an unconventional protest to publicize and accelerate the repeal of the Anti-Ecto Laws, said proposal consists of kidnapping the politicians who approved the law (knowing about it) as well as the businessmen with more questionable practices.
The idea ended up emerging when, noticing how the GIW began to check humans for ecto-contamination, they decided to make a "Jewel" with the sole purpose of fooling the government's sensors.
Once they had it ready, the Phantom team had to explain to the rest of the town's teenagers how and why they had to use the device…
And amidst all the chaos of the situation, the crazy group of teenagers decided that they had to do something to stop the laws, so they made the following plan…
Reverse the jewels so that they create a false ectoplasmic signature.
Implant it in politicians, businessmen or any questionable person so that they are "ecto entities"
Use a scanner "approved" by the GIW, that is, by the government, and identify them as ecto entities
Proceed to kidnap them in the most public way possible while shouting anti-ecto acts.
Wait for the chaos in the government and the repeal of the laws.
#danny phantom#batman#dp x dc#dp x batman#justice league#Amity Park teens sneak out on a summer school trip#Mr. Lancer is the responsible adult of the group along with Grandma Ida#Grandma Ida sponsors everything#Danny is the one who leaves the ecto-signature jewels#Sam and Paulina are the ones who confirm the position#Dash and company get into a fistfight with security guards#the kidnapped are in the dungeons of Danny's castle#they are in a coma thanks to Nocturne and Frozbite#King Danny Phantom#The JL is working to stop the kidnappings and repeal the anti-ecto laws#Batfamily are looking for the White Biker Group#Mr. Lancer and the teens know Danny's identity#Everyone works from Phantom's castle#Wulf is the one who takes them to the world of the living#Tucker and company handle the communications and information equipment of the living world#Star He uses social media to increase public hatred of the laws#Who continues him?
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Do you play genshin impact or honkak a
Star rail?
I don't play Honkai, but I've just started looking into Genshin Impact's story (someone described Neuvillette's character to me and I was like. hmm. HMM.) I haven't gotten far yet -- really JUST started looking at it -- but I'm looking forward to more! :D
(I know almost nothing about these characters yet, I'm probably drawing them SUPER wrong, sorry)
#art#genshin impact#(another sorry to everyone in the tag) (i really don't know what i'm doing)#oh no i'm going to have to learn to draw even more complicated anime hair aren't i#man i would like to get into more things though#but alas there is too much stuff and not enough time#me: part of being a responsible adult is carefully thinking about and prioritizing my media consumption#also me: (watches the entire wownow thanksgiving movie) no regrets
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Everyday I thank god (Nora) that aftg is set in college and not high school
#as an adult I’m so tired of queer media being set in high school#like no i actually don’t want to see high schoolers have sex and make out#I’m sure I would have still loved aftg as a teen but every year I get older it get harder to like high school centered media#I’m just over it#no saying it shouldn’t exist at all obviously#aftg#andrew minyard#all for the game#neil josten#the foxhole court#tfc
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Honestly i do not get it when people say heavily lgbt kids media is inherently not well-written because it's not about sex.What do your dick and balls have to do with literacy????Did your coochie go to Harvard?
#also idk how to tell you this but there's in way more lgbt adult media than there is pg and it's borderline illegal for the latter to exist#you just aren't willing to look for what you want and then cyberbully kids because you think it's there fault as if they even made the shows#she ra#adventure time#fionna and cake#spiderman#toh#catradora#glimbow#entrapdak#seamista#scorfuma#perfuma#bubbline#gumlee tag#bmo#gwen stacy#hobie brown#punkflower#lumity#raeda#raine whispers#lilith clawthorne#huntlow#gustholomule#veesha#💌#trans#summerposting#fionna campbell
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ngl i keep seeing new iterations of "all landmark queer media is children's media! i want queer media for adults!" and i guess i kind of get where it comes from but i have never really experienced this issue
new adult queer cinema is coming out all the time, a lot of it very good and a lot of it not, new adult queer fiction is coming out all the time, a lot of it very good and a lot of it not, and i totally get it when you say queer kids' stuff isn't enough for a queer art-loving adult to subsist on (you're right, it's not enough for me either!)
but like, are you actually checking out new and exciting queer stories that appeal to your sensibilities? or are you spending your time in insular fandom spaces instead of going out and looking for art that speaks to you?
listen to new albums, click through galleries, find art made by people who might not be where you're from or share every life experience with you, and talk to folks about that stuff and you'll make lots of friends.
#even a lot of the people who make queer kids media make adult art on the side!#like you need to seek it out#it is here and you can contribute
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honestly i hate how that “maybe the curtains are just blue” post has become shorthand for anti-intellectualism and shit bc as someone who has an utter passion for media analysis now, I WAS THAT PERSON IN HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH CLASS.
english class never taught me how to analyze stories, it taught me how to remember what things the teacher said were “symbolism” and how to take quizzes where we had to match a quote to the character who said it. i didn’t give a shit about any of it, bc literally why should i. it was bullshit.
there’s this idea online that people are forgetting or rejecting what they learned in english class when they’re bad at media analysis, and maybe that’s a little bit true, but i think the much bigger problem is they never learned it in the first place. cinemasins & “maybe the curtains are just blue” aren’t convincing people to abandon an intellectualism they already had, they’re filling a void.
when all you learn in high school is to write on the test “blue = depression”, why is it surprising that so many people don’t give a shit about the curtains.
#media analysis#i literally didn’t care about criticism until i started watching video essays in 2017#and they taught me that u could actually do interesting things with analysis#and i cannot fucking stand this shit that pretends people should all know better#also it’s not new; people who act like media literacy is getting worse are so fucking funny like#have u met an adult. have u spoken to say. an adult family member#ever in ur life#ur just on the internet now. ur seeing a million bad takes that used to be reserved for in-person conversations#or maybe writing into a paper or magazine#get real#get fucking real#1k
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from being the youngest captain of the nhl to losing after being down 0-3 and forcing game 7. i don't care what you say. this is his team
connor mcdavid | EDM @ FLA | 06.24.2024
#do you ever think about how far connor has grown and the leader he has become#from being a terrified 18 year old who didn't know if he would meet the expectations that everyone put on him#from him dreading talking to the media and not showing any personality except to his team and his family#to ben stelter#to loosening up more because he's grown up now#to shutting people up and bringing us back from the fucking dead when everyone counted us out and no one but him and drai and the rest of#the team believing in themselves#to losing in the cup finals in this way but still standing in the benches while the other team hoists the cup#the dream he has had since he was a child to a teen to a young adult to now#to make sure he could hug his team and his goalie?#yeah i think about it#he is a captain i would want to play for#corey perry#stuart skinner#anyways i am devastated and tired#good night#and yes i realized there was a portion i did not gif so i went back and added it#leon draisaitl#mcdrai#oilers lb#edmonton oilers#perlinigif#connor mcdavid
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I don't even want DVD special features back – I want VHS space-fillers back. I grew up in the era when distributors would just stick random shit at the end of a VHS tape to use up any space left over once the actual film was recorded, and sure, a lot of the time it was previews for other movies, but sometimes it was The Weird Stuff.
#life#nostalgia#media#movies#vhs#swearing#sometimes it was entertainingly unhinged even when it was just previews#i recall one tape where the main feature was like a pg-rated kids' movie#and then one of the previews tacked onto the tail end of the tape was an adult comedy#containing a scene where a woman beats a dude up by viciously bludgeoning him with her enormous bare breasts
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