#mediocrity in media

[notbecauseofvictories]

sometimes I think they put some sort of...aural drug in mediocre movies. If I played all these thoroughly middling movies in reverse, would I hear a satanic message telling me, YOU WILL BE TEMPTED BEYOND ALL REASON TO WRITE FANFIC ABOUT---YES, THE MOVIE YOU HALF-WATCHED WHILE COOKING AND ANSWERING EMAILS. YES. YES, I---YES, I'M SERIOUS. YES, THIS MOVIE. THE CHARACTERIZATION OR LACK THEREOF MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. UH HUH. MHM. YEP. LOOK, I DON'T MAKE THE RULES, I JUST WORK HERE OKAY?

[alwaysbewoke]

[iratusmus]

karaoke night

[cilil]

Alright hear me out for a second -

"It's ok to enjoy and find meaning in flawed media because art is subjective and human creation is never perfect" and "We need to arm ourselves with media literacy, criticize media and not fall prey to blind consumerism that big companies want to lure us into" are statements that can and should co-exist.

[sunlit-mess]

How did you get so good at animating and drawing? Aside from practice, what techniques do you use? What software do you use?

I only know the basics/fundamentals of both drawing and animation.

For drawing, I've carried out lessons about the Elements and principles of design, the history of graphics design, traditional drawing techniques, color theory, anatomy, character design, blah blah blah. Lots of info I still do my best to practice/put in my art. If y'all notice me animating gifs then it's bc I have time to do so... ( I'm in term break until late July ) They're likely short, but it's through animation blocking, timing, and incorporating both in-betweens and tweening.

I've used Adobe Animate/After Effects for school projects, sometimes for doodles only, I currently use Clip Studio Paint bc it's where I'm more comfy with ^^ Maybe someday I'll be able to afford Toon Boom hehe.

[mcr-heritage-posts]

just crawling out of the woodwork to clarify something for a second: if you still post about harry potter, in 2023, after, yknow, Everything. i don’t want you to follow this blog. you will be blocked. doesn’t matter if you think you’re the biggest ally to trans women in the world, propping up the work of a notorious, outspoken terf with the funds to literally morph the politics of the UK into a right wing dumpster fire is a shit move and i don’t want anything to do with you.

[sciderman]

I just read a few of the 2017 spiderman and Deadpool comics and.

Its god awful. #12 is where I stopped. The quips feel dry, this isn’t who Wade is this isn’t Peter please kill me

i sm so sorry you had to see that chief

[zooophagous]

I see some notes on that Lovecraft post all "why aren't we also willing to look past Harry Potter if we're able to for Cthulu" and I gotta say death of the author works a loooot better when the author is actually dead.

[legislacerator]

i keep seeing this sentiment that Actually Good media is “too good” for there to be fans of it forever/for there to be a strong fandom presence, but i disagree so much. that has been the opposite of every experience i’ve had. some good examples of the opposite of this phenomenon are breaking bad/better call saul, revolutionary girl utena, the sopranos, and neon genesis evangelion. people come back again and again to these works because they are good, entertaining, and have tremendous depth. every year new people watch these shows (despite their age) because they are fantastic and there is so much to say about them that a lifetime of study would still leave more to be discussed. tbh if you’ve never been gripped by a truly fantastic piece of media i hope that day comes for you soon

[gertritude]

why was there more than one game about androids made (detroit: become human, fallout 4) that had weird and failed racial allegories regarding said androids. why were they released around the same time too. is this just a common theme with bad android games specifically

[hueberryshortcake]

beakley/goldie is like a crack ship that i would swear fealty to

[gildedmuse]

So, I've heard a lot of negative press about the movie Wasih, which, hey cool. I wasn't keen on watching but it came up and why not.

Here is my issue. I was lead it wasn't good for the following reasons:

Wish Girl: Shouldn't we grant every wish ever no matter what!?

Evil Dude: Um, that's insane. Do you know how many wishes are straight up murder?

So I was kind of surprised when it ACTUALLY went much more like:

Wish Girl: So this is where you keep every wishes or every single one of our citizens over the age of 18, huh?

Evil Dude: Yeah, preeeetty much. Oh but, careful there. Haha, you see, because some of them suck so we can't risk those getting out....

Wish Girl: Getting out? You mean you won't grant them ever?

Evil Dude: GRANT them? Are you crazy? Look at this one! This loser wants to INSPIRE people with MUSIC! IMAGINE the carnage of I granted that sort of insanity!

Wish Girl: I'm sorry are none of these like, "I really want to murder my husband?" How is that the evilest example you could manage?

Evil Dude: Inspiring music? Do you WANT to live in communist China!?

Wish Girl: I don't know about this Communism or China.... but.... like.... when people give you their wishes, they're trusting you.

Evil Dude: And I'm doing my part by not just destroying them on sight.

Wish Girl: You don't understand! They're TRUSTING you, not just with their dreams but with who they ARE. When you remove their wishes, you're removing PART of who they are! People, they forget their dreams. Your dreams, your goals, a huge part of who you are! I'm not asking you to grant every wish.... I just don't think people should lose a piece of themselves, not even knowing it's gone.

Wish Girl: If you don't want to use your magic that's fine. Why not let them at least strive to bring their dreams to reality the old fashion way?

Evil Dude: Well yeah but you know.... hypothetical badness!

Wish Girl: ..... Give them back.

Evil Dude: I'm sorry, what?

Wish Girl: Just give them back. Like, okay, you don't want to make this guy a rockstar but right now he doesn't even remember he likes music! Give! It! Back!

I mean, how is that evil? It's less a "grant every dream always!" More a "let people think and dream what they want". Her initials reaction isn't a free dream for everyone!!!" It's "people should know their own goals, they shouldn't be stolen away."

Why ya'll trying to pretend the dude who is taking people's hopes/dreams/personalities and choosing which ones get to happen and which are ERASED FROM THE MIND OF THE INDIVIDUAL FOREVER is the good guy?

Is media literacy just a joke?

[divorceblogger]

mental illness speedrun

[becasbelt]

the acolyte has INCREDIBLE story beats. it has INCREDIBLY intriguing themes that deserve thorough exploration and discussion. the characters introduced have INCREDIBLE roots to be some of the coolest, most complex characters in star wars.

and yet it just fell short of all its potential to me. it has all the ingredients of a fantastic show, with a lackluster end result. i was told everything and felt nothing. where's the depth. where's the connection. where's the FLAVOR.

[blackbackedjackal]

I have a lot of big feelings as an OG fan/collector of Pokémon merch. I watched The Pokémon Company International start paying off content creators to consistently kiss their asses so they can continue to make mediocre games without much fan backlash. The same people screaming about Dexit and the fucking awful game production in recent years are the same folks who are now getting those big money sponsorships and aren't allowed to be critical of the games. It's becoming a revenue farm.

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

everyone in the jrwi fandom who is so desperate for well written female characters should stop forcing their hcs into canon and start reading worm