#the media consumption lately…

[reagans-comet]

i’m gonna rank my favorite marvel characters 1-10 bc i said so…

1. i’m on a thor kick rn. i love thor odinson.

2. peter quill you are such a cutie patootie

3. charles xavier. (james mcavoy version)

4. james fucking howlett (specifically old man logan. chef’s kiss right there.)

5. natasha romanoff. what can i say????

6. bruce banner bc he’s literally like so real. i love you mark ruffalo!

7. tony stark. daddy. sorry.

8. okay. i love you captain america. that’s AMERICA’S FUCKING ASS!!!

9. bucky. i need to consume more bucky media. working on it atm.

10. jarvis

[whereserpentswalk]

Someone used "ungood" to describe disney remakes and it's so perfect. "Bad" does not sum up the horrible soulless products created to only fulfil capitalist desires, using artists as tormented vessels, ungood captures it so well.

Artists with passion and vision create bad art. Bad art can have entertaining qualities, and value, and sparks of life inside of them. Teenage fanfic, and b movies, and a young musicians first attempt at smoke on the water are bad, and that's ok. Ungood art does not have the same saving graces as bad art. Ungood art is empty, not just failing at quality but devoid of it.

We need to start using the term ungood. Neither Star Wars episode one, nor Star Was episode nine are good movies, but they don't possess the same lack of quality. The "live action" Lion King movie, and Repo! The Genetic Opera might both be failures at putting musicals on film, but I know which one I'd rather watch, which one still has moments I love, and which one was made to make someone at Disney see a line go up.

[runawaymun]

the whole tiktok ban situation is super crunchy and I'm conflicted. Because on the one hand...it does feel startlingly close to a kind of censorship and I think the whole 'chinese government links' thing is pure scaremongering. But on the other hand I genuinely think that tiktok has accelerated the rate of enshittification of so, so many things. Like it has been a net harm in basically everything. Even the publishing industry is suffering now. As someone who wants to get novels published, the entire state of the publishing industry catering to tiktok and the quality of even bookbinding rapidly deteriorating in the past couple of years, I've been reconsidering and thinking about simply setting up a website/archive to self publish my work.

So...I don't know. It's not as if other social media sites (X, Facebook, etc.) haven't done harm, and it's not like huge media giants like Google haven't caused possibly irreparable damage to how things work now, but...I just distinctly remember a pre-tiktok, pre-covid world and things legitimately weren't as bad online then as they are now. Tiktok actually feels uniquely bad. The change happened so rapidly, too. At what point do we decide that a product causes enough visible harm that it needs to be removed? Because that's what tiktok is, at the end of the day. It's a product. We don't have the same clear measurement as we do with, say, lead paint on children's toys, but idk idk idk...

[walterdecourceys]

once i finish watching house maybe i'll start the original man from uncle tv show

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

My dissertation on why people are super weird about race and porn.

So I've noticed in my short time on earth that certain sub-groups and just a strange fixation on porn explicitly involving race as the focus which doesn't involve interracial stuff. In this type of material I believe is at best a subtle racist undertone and at worst just plain racism, usually it's cause it involves the degredation of one racial group or another. Another thought I have is that it allows people to engage in a (mostly) socially abhorrent idea (racism & ethno degredation) without much guilt and thought as to them and others it is merely porn. This is dangerous because like all media it influences us and things like BBC or BWC or BLC can impact our worldview especially with unhealthy consumption. The history of this can be drawn to the history and exoticism that Europeans had where non-white women were seen as lesser but at the same time more attractive, as time has gone on and societies have generally become more egalitarian most ethnic groups have engaged in this new neo- exoticism. Also prevalant is a undercurrent of colonization in which the wombs of another ethnic group are colonized and their population is reduced, this once again stems from European setters often forcefully impregnating them which now has proliferated thought most societies and ethnic groups in the form of people with said fantasy. Now the answer to this is simple, simply be more mindful about your consumption and remember to keep things in mind when or if you engage or try these sexual acts/porn.

[maid-of-the-golden-deer]

if u really Must consume smth made by someone who sucks (Must is a strong word here, but i think its Relatively fair to say we all have one thing that we cant quite severe rhe positive brain feelings for easily), theres two pretty simple rules i think

1) do it in a way they dont get paid- secondhand, piracy, etc (easiest if theyre dead but even more paramount if they arent)

2) keep ur goddamn mouth shut like Please im begging

[feliciadraws]

Hot take but instead of CGI, anime should go back to more retro style animation, like we should totally bring back bold, dynamic animation and imitation cel-shading and bold outlines and rich details and unique designs because that’s what the modern anime scene needs more of and I just know that retro style animation would look absolutely amazing with modern technology

[wickershells]

Robin Coste Lewis, “Plantation” from Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems (2015)

[theoldandnewfirm]

A lil' Marley/Scrooge snippet

I spent WAY too much time researching Victorian era smut and writing styles for this snippet that, alas, never went anywhere. I present it now for your enjoyment.

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Portrait of a Rake read the title. Then, lower on the cover, Published for the enjoyment of my loyal friends and followers. There was no author. Curious, Marley flipped to a random page.

--his cock curved differently than the last man's, and struck inside me at an angle that thrilled. He held my hair as one might the reins of a horse and so doing gave a violent tug that brought my mouth in line with the prick that hovered inches from my face--

Marley's brows shot to his hairline. Then, behind him, sure footsteps that came to an abrupt halt. He looked up to find Ebenezer slack-jawed, his face the color of milk.

He surged forward, stopping just short of the desk, his features contorted in anguish. "It's filth. I know it. I found it in the tavern at luncheon, and I was going to give it to the tavernkeeper, but then I saw what it was and…" he shook his head. "I was going to burn it in the fire. Truly, I was."

"Were you now?"

"Yes," he stammered, "Paper is cheaper than coal."

"Of course, of course."

Marley opened to another page, skimmed a few lines, and this time started reading aloud. "--the gamekeeper knew no gentleness. He spread my buttocks and pushed his fingers into my hole. I cried out at the shock of it, and again when his rough hand squeezed my cock unkindly--"

"Jacob!" Ebenezer squeaked.

Marley hummed thoughtfully. "It's better than Fanny Hill at any rate."

Ebenezer looked stricken. He leaned over the desk and glanced around before whispering, "You read… smut?"

"I read a great many things. There are books in the world beyond Mercantile Accounts, you know."

"Yes, but that." Scrooge shook his head. "You're a gentleman!"

"And so are you now," said Marley as he rose from his chair, "And yet…"

He offered the book back to Ebenezer, who seemed to take it out of reflex more than desire. He was still staring as if Marley had announced he was going to waive all mortgage payments for the balance of the year.

"Burn it if you like," said Marley. "But who knows? Perhaps you'll find something of interest in it. Now, if you'll excuse me."

He went to the front office and busied himself with a nonsense task for what felt like an appropriate amount of time. Then, he returned to the counting room.

The first thing he noted was the distinct lack of pages on the fire. The second was Ebenezer hunched at his own desk, red-faced and writing feverishly in his accounting book. He did not look up as Marley entered. In fact, seeming to sense Marley's attention, he hunched down further.

Marley smirked.

[orchidyoonkook]

I suck at asks rn. If you sent me one I see it. I know it’s there and I promise I will answer when I can!!

[rangerdoubt]

is the entire dash just step siblings at this point.

[sayaratyriea]

truly nobody does media criticism quite like a trans person obsessively dissecting their extremely gendered childhood hyperfixation

[princessbubblegumandjustice]

It seems like every single thing caters to obsession and desperation nowadays and it’s tiring.

Unless you’re obsessed with a musician or vocalist with any type of notoriety, it makes no sense to spend $350+ on tickets to see them.

Unless you have enough commitment to a clothing or shoe brand to take time off of work to be available at exactly 12 PM PT when their collection drops, you’re not getting anything.

Unless you plan to binge a show when it immediately releases, you’ll be lost when you’re inundated with “Did you notice?” TikToks and keep getting Reddit threads with tons of spoilers recommended to you.

Like dude I just want to live life at a leisurely pace, I’m starting to kind of hate you all.

[blorboresidue]

man I really wanna start kkm s3 but I keep like, doing my dishes and stuff 😩

[allmynovelideas]

Movie Review: Persuasion

0/5 ⭐️'s

I’m half agony, no hope.

This film … If they were shooting a perfume commercial than all the shots in Bath were a success.

This was not an adaptation of Jane Austens’s Persuasion. With phrases like “If you’re a five in London, you’re a ten in Bath” and “I’m an empath”. This movie just left me like who was this for?

Why didn’t they just make a modern adaptation of Pride and Prejudice if thats what they wanted?

I mean by the end of the film Ann and Wentworth are basically sidelined. They gave a tertiary characters a wedding over the two leads.

Hated it. Would not recommend.

[kaxen]

Give me some recs about revolution done in a narratively interesting way

Basically anything that isn't just "goodies vs baddies."

Give me morally gray stuff going on!

Sci-fi, fantasy, historical-fiction, anything.

Tv shows, novels, comic books, anything