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Chorus of imbeciles
#corporate media#sensationalization#fantasy#hysteria#propaganda#bayoneted babies#warmongering#incitement#journalistic malpractice
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being this young is artâŚ
#thinking about how they both were sexualized/had their relationships scrutinized and sensationalized#taylor swift#1989 taylorâs version#norma jean#marilyn monroe#1989 tv#1989 taylorâs version photoshoot#tsedit#tswiftedit#myedit#taylor swift edit#tscreators#userpurpleswift#tsuserkatie#userthelasttime#userjerr#userjacinta#userserena#tswiftedits
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This is a super super gentle reminder not to put your favorite authors on a pedestal. We're real people living average lives and not trying to be influencers. We criticize ourselves enough and we don't want to be held to an invisible standard (we start to worry we fail to exceed our own selves) or compared to other writers (we are not competing) or tailor our craft to cater to a wider audience (the right people will find you).
#hannah's rambles#compliments are great!!#sensationalizing me is making me a little uncomfy.#got an ask that seemed pretty well intentioned but i couldn't tell for sure.#yall dont have to write as much as i do or interpret things the same way or think of my writing style as the ultimate finish line.#writers on tumblr
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the violence in bottoms (2023) is so satisfying in a way i don't really know how to put into words. somewhere between the violence against women that movies sometimes shy away from too much but also Lean Into a little too much (spectrum of either not depicting realistic violence/harassment due to discomfort with it or the "you can't hit her she's a girl!" concept vs gratuitous sensationalized violence). like it's that "boys will be boys" kind of roughhousing that girls are excluded from if the narrative frames them as too delicate / feminine / untouchable. and i see them beating the shit out of each other and it feels Good. they're not untouchable dolls nor are they objects to project malice and gratuitous violence onto! it's not even fully about the empowerment or seeing girls be able to fight back (which does feel amazing in its own right and the movie does a great job of delivering it) like even seeing like, idk black widow beat up a bunch of guys in a marvel movie doesn't feel the same as how bottoms does it. it feels unpolished and grounded and realistic and satisfying. #girlswillbegirls
#bottoms movie#bottoms 2023#reminds me of wrestling w kids in my neighborhood in my Yonder Days....#also makes me think of barbarian which i never stfu about and how violence against women is at the core of the plot but isnt depicted in a#nightmarishly gratuitous wayâits still very in your face but i appreciate how they deliver it in a way that isnt sensationalizing it#sidenote such a good soundtrack i fucking love party 4 u#ik the hype has passed but i hope this stays as a classic romcom for its target audience in the future#i watched it w my friend and then rewatched mean girls after which still holds up for the most part#but bottoms deserves a slot in pop culture classics
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nostalgia slapped me upside the head a little while ago so i had to draw my favorite dudes ft. the gecko effect
#wild kratts#chris kratt#martin kratt#okay the tokay :)#all my rat#i was gonna do more but i got distracted with another project (fish) so this one's going up by itself.. i wanna draw some cps soon tho#i was obsessed with wk as a kid#i reeeaaallllyyy wanted a creature power suit i even wished for one for christmas one year#this shit was the original formative media for me#it was the source of all of my concentrated righteous indignation about animals that i kinda never grew out of#anyways wild kratts is like really good#realistic (not sensationalized!!!!) depictions of animalsâ fun characters and plotsâ great animationâ banging musicâ like it's STACKED#ive been rewatching it recently because why not and i keep getting excited when i see animals i really like#you know there's a cannon FLOUNDER power suit???!! that's a fucking dream come true for me i love that so much#daphnia keep making cameos in a lot of the ocean episodes and every time i point at the screen and go DAPHNIA like a 5 year old#i'm just happy my favorite microorganism is getting some screentime
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I respect the labor it has always taken to push queer stories to anywhere approaching the mainstream and I appreciate that all of these works have their merits and will have been extremely meaningful to people but sometimes I look back at the state of queer media in the late 2000s/early 2010s and I briefly see into hell
#something about that brief time period#where explicitly queer characters could have fairly major sympathetic roles in media with mass appeal#but queer people were also not seen as 'normal' by milquetoast liberals#makes for a kind of self-consciously both sanitized and sensationalized representation that gives me hives#marina marvels at life
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Leverage and Criminal Minds are mirror opposites of each other
an elite team of hyper competent people travel around fighting evil by getting into the heads of bad guys (and/or punching them)
But one is outside the law, one is the law. One is premised on the idea that evil in the world is a result of systemic problems, the other that it originates in lone evil individuals.
And Leverage, despite being not really all that good, is excellent. While Criminal Minds, despite being actually quite good, is not good.
#posts#leverage#criminal minds#even the team roles map pretty well#and they take exactly opposite approaches to sensationalizing violence and misogyny#I cannot be the first person to realize this#in fact probably everyone else knew it already#but I only just now realized
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please consider reading my hypersexual jamie fic. it starts uncomfortably (on purpose/by necessity) but is a fic about carrying trauma and the messy nonlinear nature of healing. the far reaching consequences of amsterdam. how jamie spent his time on lust conquers all. also royjamie slowburn. thank u đ
#logs on after years of silence and shillsâŚâŚ#recently updated so iâm in my âplease clapâ era#jamie tartt#royjamie#royjamie fic#i try extremely hard to not romanticize sensationalize or glorify his trauma. also roy doesnât fix him. saying just in case
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all those abuse cnc/mask kink people mixing isopropyl/acetone and bleach to make crackhead chloroform are going to be so confused in like 20-30 years when they realize they have tumors and various forms of cancer and say "but i was so healthy i had 6 pack abs in my 20s :'(( "
#chloroform was sensationalized by media but it doesnt really work like that đ huffing lots of noxious gases will make you pass out theyll#also give you cancer !!!!1#i know yall dont care lol
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new suicide squad anime got me thinking about the genderbend batman au i made when i was 16 again.
extra (nsfw??? body horror + shirtless doodle lol) art under the cut + drabble.
A mysterious actress appears in Gotham!
Production for the long-anticipated remake of the 1930s classic horror film, "The Clay", is saved in part thanks to the audition of one woman with no credits to her name, just a face and demeanor identical of the late leading actress of the original film.
However, the cast and crew have bigger worries than their limited budget and endless demands from their producers -- everyone involved seems to be disappearing one by one!
While the average gothammite worries that the cult classic's "cursed" reputation might be a little more than an urban legend, The Batman refuses to entertain such unfounded silliness and aims to get to the bottom of this crime against cinema!
presenting BATMAN '63 - THE RISE OF CLAYFACE coming not actually ever lmao
(her hair is brown now because I like the idea of her appearance never being fully consistent lol. shapeshifters gotta do their thing)
#batman au#gotham rogues#genderbend#clayface#dc comics au#i have no idea how to tag this. hi guys.#anyway i rlly do like how silly they made clayface in the isekai anime. i definitely took some inspiration from that iteration but#this version of fem clayface has been. in the back of my mind for literally years. i like the film actor angle for him too much#might do more of these might not. depends on how indulgent i feel ig.#anyway some misc headcanons for this clayface:#she was a struggling actor who was incredibly insecure about her appearance.#before she became clayface she would undergo plastic surgery for every new role she landed. her over the top passion for getting into (cont#(cont) character frightened directors. she gained a moniker for herself as âthe woman with 1000 facesâ#in this story specifically she's working under the penguin to get rid of some loose ends in a sensationalized way because the targets (cont#(cont) are famous. and she's more than happy to comply because a good chunk of the cast on set have been bad to her in the past.#her shapeshifting abilities have some limitations. she can morph into anything she has had skin to skin contact with however (cont)#(cont) she cannot change her total mass. which is why she has so much hair lol#she also can't copy powers cus that's whack. also only living things she can't turn into a car.#i probably forgot something important but yeah. goddamn you au i made as a teenager#goddamn you stupid ass suicide squad anime for making me think about this au again#cw horror#body horror#oh yeah she's also probably got a weird gender but she doesn't know that#she also can't maintain her not-clay-monster form for long or she starts to literally melt away.#my art
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No Iâm SO sorry but itâs truly so funny to me that a lot of dudes going to see challengers for the idea that theyâll see a hot naked Zendaya and what they actually get treated to is tasteful and delicate aspects of the male form from the visionary that is Luca Guadagnino (and of course very very explicitly homoerotic imagery.) And there is a healthy amount of sexualization for both forms. But the fact that there is full frontal male nudity in this movie, the only true nudity in this movie is of the male form, marketed the way it is is just so good. Like I work in a theater and the amount of dudes coming out lambasting that this movie sucks is so fucking delicious. The way straight guys have to sit and accept the queerness of this movie that it EXISTS, that itâs beautiful and tender and gentle, and intimate, ďżźbut also loud, and brash, and seeped into every conceivable corner adds another 10 on top of this already 10/10 movie.
#challengers#challengers movie#challengers spoilers#and like donât get me wrong Zendaya is stunning and they way they treat her body is so graceful and respectful and tasteful#again this is her first leading film role as sheâs stepping into a new chapter of her career#and the way SHE especially has been sensationalized is so infuriating#and to see a sports movie being so loudly and subtly queer and again that just being able to exist is thrilling#and again the marketing being two boys fighting over very beautiful woman also being about the relationship between two men is just yeah
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ok, toning down a few embellishments there.
she didn't "beat him nearly to death", first of all. that is the accusation by hungarian prosecution who want to throw her in jail and lose the key. no one has stepped forward to accuse her and no witness has pointed to her as the "perpetrator"
her name is ILARIA SALIS, not Laria. yes, she is an anti-fascist activist, and a teacher. in this instance, her only crime is that she traveled to hungary to a counter-protest after a disgusting far right rally that took place over there. that's it. there were skirmishes at the protest, chaos ensued, but that's what happens usually at these events
what's truly ludicrious is that the hungarian authorities arrested her and she has been kept in jail for months. treated like an animal, chained hands and feet whenever she was due to appear in court at her sham trial. the italian government (also right-wing so, secretly thrilled about this development) had to finally throw their weight around and demand she be moved to house arrest at least.
finally. she faced a sentence of up to 20 (TWENTY) years in jail for a simple fucking misdemeanor. because Hungary is a fucking dictatorship - just imagine how many Hungarian protesters and activists have been jailed and are routinely terrorized and oppressed without the privilege of an Italian passport. we don't hear about them, right???
as for the "communism" part. there is no communist party in italy at the moment. the USA have made sure of that over decades of, let's say, involvement in Italian affairs. the Greens and Left Alliance, the party Salis was elected with, is a left-leaning socialist, progressive party. many former communists vote for them but only because it's the "closest living relative" to what they used to stand for.
this isn't a "get out of jail free card" by the way, or a win whatsoever (except that she finally was released, which we have been protesting nearly a year for). because nothing's stopping, say, the German neonazi party AfD from doing the same thing to save a neonazi on trial for hate crimes.
so, like. Europe is going down a very dangeorus path and there's very little to rejoice here. it's making us who go to protests against the rise of neonazi - far right sentiment in Europe very, very scared.
#making my own post because i realize i was derailing the other one#italy tag#ilaria salis#eu politics#european politics#hungary#debunking#all this sensationalism
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Why do you think Paul insists saying John was sweet and nice when he really wasn't. He was shit to everyone including Paul. Because he feels he has to or because he was in love with him and that's what he remembers?
i meannnnn people are mixed bags. someone isn't always cruel and they also aren't always nice. ofc, john WAS a deeply awful person to many people around him (especially women). he had a Lot of untreated issues & anger. he could be very cruel & hurtful. but i think paul says he was sweet and nice because he was that, too. people aren't all black and white, ykwim? and while certainly you can absolutely hate john for some of the things he did & that's totally your right, so too can the people that loved him in life choose to forgive him. i think paul definitely like. remembers john's capacity for cruelty. he's talked about it a lot, as well as how much john hurt him & how confusing that whole period of their lives was for him. i DO wish he'd ever talk about the awful way john treated women, but i really don't think that's ever going to happen.
but as for their personal relationship, i think he just sees that john was sweet/nice a Majority of their friendship (or... whatever lmao) & that's just as much a part of him as the cruelty was. not to mention, a lot of that cruelty paul unfortunately shared in, especially in their youth, so i don't know that he saw as much of an issue with it before it turned on him.
but yeah i mean. john being a cunt & abusive doesn't necessarily negate him being sweet/nice. and if the latter is what paul remembers most and wants people to remember about john as well, i can't exactly blame him given how traumatically john died & the hole he left in his life. i think remembering him only for his cruelty would be worse for him than remembering both and focusing on the sweetness, yk?
#abuse mention#i think it's also that we tend to hear a Lot about the incidents of john's anger/cruelty#bc those are the most easily sensationalized#so when he talks abt it it often seems paul's trying to 'balance the scales' if you will and like#tell people that he DID have a very soft and loving side to him that the people close to him got to see#that we the public didn't necessarily have access to bc that soft/sweet side wasn't exactly his public facing persona#ofc none of this Excuses john's actions. just digging into why paul talks about it the way he does
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Jason Robertson for ESPNâs The Point
I have a lot of kids and... people who come up to me and [are] like, "Oh, you're Jason Robertson," and they're Asian and they want a picture. Or I remember going to a game, during the season, and I saw a Filipino flag.
#jason robertson#dallas stars#stars#*#soz for deeply indulgent lil gifset. i just love this feature so much...#the ice rink his dad built inside their house that had the homeowners' association on their asses lmfao#the fact that no one invites him to golf because he SUCKS. pkariya fans usa đ¤!!! idk man.#mostly it's like i'm old enough that there's no need to sensationalize the emotional significance of his place in the sport/league whatever#but it does in fact continue 2 be special! & seeing all those clips sliced together kind of got me in a soft little place in my heart T__T#like it's an extension of baseline temperament but he does approach his position w a commendable balance of self-awareness/levity#Anyway.
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Why does anyone even think that max "hates media" verstappen would want to be an ambassador after he retires
scream .. truly once he Retires retires ((and this is post wec too)) we will c maybe like a corner of his elbow on twitch every 5 weeks or so but lemme tell u something enzo ferrari voice ask a child to draw verstappen and theyll draw him in full rbr kit holding the f out of a can of red bull like max has ambassadorial qualities he just doesnt have ambassadorial . interests . his preference is that he represents nothing and we do not perceive him ever
#ask#which is fine hes only just the figure head of the most sensationalized sport in the world#hell be ok#max verstappen
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it's 2004 and new jersey. there's an oncologist who cheats on his wife. the morally questionable man in the tub gets shot. a cane used incorrectly. a feeble man who loathes and saves, is he god or a mockery of one? men who find comfort in another in spite of the hurt they inflict on them.
is this post about saw or house md?
#house md#saw#saw 2004#it's so easy to switch between being mentally ill about these two media#also the sensationalism of further installments of both media. couldn't find a way to work that in all prose-like
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