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he/they. personal acc where i talk about personal shit. mostly.

[7lordsc]

before i get to posting anything here i want to make it clear i am not a cisgender, straight white man (nor woman). i avoid putting little descriptors like my age and my gender and stuff in my bios these days because i get incredibly angry when people who have bones to pick with my ELITE CORRECT OPINIONS start getting pissy and targeting the aspects of my personhood instead of accepting their stupidity. but i swear on my jax plushie that i spontaneously bid 90 bucks on that i am a BIPOC+ ALLY!!! a TRANS ALLY!!! a QUEER ALLY!!! and a NEURODIVERGENT ALLY!!!

and not one of those phony allies who only care about these groups fitting into conventional norms, i stand for actually uplifting the members of my community and striving for harmonious unity whenever it presents itself :)

[myveryownloveshack]

The American Dad one was the better one.

[7lordsc]

i feel so embarrassed about my depressive spirals because they hit me so hard and so suddenly (idek my triggers that's how sudden it is) but i can pull myself out of them so quickly (earliest is maybe a handful of days that were less than a week?) that i feel bad for ever bringing the spiral to anyone's attention. cause it's like "this is the worst i've ever felt and i'm actually gonna seriously end it all this time" and then 3 days later i'm talking about how excited i am for something or what a chill day i'm having??? and it's not like i'm lying or saying any of this for a reaction, it's just genuinely how my depression moves... bt it's an embarrassing movement!!! i wish my depressive spirals were more predictable so i could avoid them better.

[modernmusess]

there’s something so gutwrenching about the fact that the female characters in obsession have real dreams and wishes but never get the chance to see them realized, while both male characters waste their wishes on short-term selfish satisfaction. they were complex, free-spirited young women who just wanted to create art, and they were destroyed by a man determined to confine them to his superficial perception of them. nikki wanted to be a writer, sarah wanted to be a tattoo artist and now neither of them will get to be anything at all

[7lordsc]

what makes it worse is nikki and sarah were enemies... except they weren't. nikki was (in?)directly turned against sarah by a man... much like how the patriarchy turns women against eachother by coming up with these standards of what the socially acceptable woman should be, which leads to women desperate for this validation (for one reason or another) to villainize women that like themselves, are victims.

[nessa007]

so i just saw obsession

[7lordsc]

you know, this could be crazy to say but i think most people who wanna "die in peace" and acknowledge that they aren't ready for the attention that comes with having a huge fandom would step out of the spotlight the second they can... instead of continuing to interact with the very fandom that made them say all that stuff in the first place.

[fizzyrodeo-critical-acc]

once again my bestie is real as hell.

[7lordsc]

annoying: "how do you come up with OCs?" . there is no way to explain having an interactive imagination to someone. if you've ever watched a piece of fiction and gone "man i wish a certain character that doesn't exist was in this show"? boom, oc. if you've ever daydreamed about a story that doesn't exist? boom, oc. if you've never done anything like this, i'm sorry but i genuinely don't think anyone can help you gain the ability to. you either develop an imagination as a child or you never really have one (i could be wrong and just annoyed with people asking me this question though).

less annoying: "how do you develop your OCs?" . it's still kind of annoying because there are lots of resources online to dive into if you're serious about doing this, so when people ask me this it annoys me because it feels like they're trying to force me into a teaching position as a means of expressing awe when they can just say "I think it's so cool your OCs are so developed". but it's less annoying than asking me how to bestow the capacity to imagine upon you, and i usually don't mind sharing my tips of how i work on developing my OCs because there was a time when it was hard for me to do as well so i understand wanting advice.

not annoying: a normal compliment that is not asking for intensive advice. i think most artists can agree it's annoying to constantly be asked things like "how do you create like that? how do you draw/write like that?" because most of the time the answer either doesn't exist because we've been doing it for so long we forgot how we got good, or the answer is as simple as "practice/trial and error". or the answer is so complex that the person asking for advice would be better off just googling it.

thank you for reading.

[spookycriticalblog]

I posted this on my other social medias so why not post it here

[r41nyd4yscritiques]

so about the “isn’t she lovely” sequence, if there wasn’t such mistreatment of black characters and black fans, do you think it would still be appropriate for tadc to reinterpret the song’s meaning?

No.

The concept of trying to reinterpret the song's meaning is exactly what I have an issue with.

"Isn't She Lovely" is a Black song, made by a Black man for his Black daughter. It is a song about Black joy, about Black fatherhood and beautiful Black baby girls. It is about Black people. It is for Black people.

Yet again, the issue is not with gender, but it is about race. To take that song out of its original context and rehash it into something whiter is what I take the most offense to, it's completely disrespectful and it doesn't even pay homage to the original culture. It's a form of whitewashing that is incredibly sinister, because it often follows along the logic of "wanting everything to be for everybody".

But you can't possibly partake in other cultures if you do not understand those cultures first, if you don't take the time to listen and be generous. To them, the song is just a song. Like most facets of the show, they take these brilliant works and strip them down to scraps, then try to spin that into something brilliant by telling people to look at the "abstract" and what isn't there. Then people go and theorize and completely overwrite the original intention, they erase the meaning, and it's very painful to witness.

The mistreatment of Black people both in and outside of the show is WHY they used the song in the first place, certainly part of it. If they had respect for Black people then this wouldn't even be a conversation.

[7lordsc]

if gooseworx clearly wanted the show to culminate with focusing on jax's downfall why didn't she just write a different show centered on him and his life instead of presenting tadc as inspired by ihnmaims and claiming the moral is "make meaning in your stagnant life" (a moral that to me doesn't even land with the knowledge that all the characters are digital copies and not actual people, therefore they're not even really alive and the meaning in their existence is very shallow)... like that's my overall issue with tadc, you don't get what's on the tin. had i known the whole show was going to keep shifting focus back to that purple asshole and then have the last episode be a reel of his circus life/mind (something none of the other characters got by the way) that was tooootally not meant to manipulate people into feeling sympathetic towards him after all the fuckass shit we've seen him do, i wouldn't have watched it. i watched it to get answers about the mystery that is the gaming company and the world outside of the circus and the show didn't give me satisfactory answers to either of those.

[7lordsc]

shoutout to all my phenomenal black women

[7lordsc]

i am not built for this pining shit, how do gay people and sombr do it 😓

[7lordsc]

i hate when people wanna sit and argue and argue with you online after you've made yourself clearer than air and are using the most de-escalative wording known to man. like do you really need to win this conversation that bad. give up bro.

[7lordsc]

tee ay dee see critical community what did y'all think of the movie? because i have thoughts on it but i wanna see if anyone else feels the same before i blast em on tumblr (aka ground zero for crazy fans who can't engage with criticism of their favorite media without having an aneurysm).

[7lordsc]

i ain't ever seen a queer-focused show do worse at pandering to the queers than hazbin hotel and helluva boss. how is that even possible given that there's a collective of three straight people (six if you count the homophobes) across both shows 😭

[7lordsc]

shoutout to that one player in scotl who keeps lighting my candle even though i literally haven't been on the game in over six months