i do desperately need everyone on this website especially people who arent american but want to rag on america to familiarize themselves with the basic romanized spelling conventions of native american languages because every day i come on here and i see people making fun of massachusetts or connecticut or mississippi or passamaquoddy or mashpee or nipissing and its like PLEASE. PLEASE THEY ARENT ENGLISH WORDS. PLEAAAAASEEEEEUUUHHH. USE YOUR MINDS TO IDENTIFY WHEN A WORD LOOKS LIKE IT MAY NOT BE ENGLISH. I DONT CARE IF YOU MAKE FUN OF AMERICA JUST PLEASE STOP BEING RACIST WHILE YOU DO IT
if a character means enough to me i will truly never stop thinking about them. i just retire them into a little back room in my brain and periodically bring them out to stare at them under a little light
Finally sat down to do this and it was kinda difficult, but I think I really like this design!!
I like the idea of his cowl being sheer/really thin fabric so it flows really nicely underwater, and with the tail, I was originally going to just have it be fully hollow in the front, but I think it looks much better with some remnants of flesh left over :)
Actually Steven Moffat is basically just this sentiment given human form.
A version of this happened with The Magicians, tbh. Though instead of expectation: men, reality: women it was expectation: smug nihilists, reality: mentally ill queer folks.
Arguably Game of Thrones.
If we broaden it outside of television…I think Star Wars falls into this, at least the sequel trilogy. Maybe the MCU as well. And I can’t help but think of every band that’s ever complained that their fanbase is mostly women. 5 Seconds of Summer comes immediately to mind.
In general, most white male creators seem to have this massively entitled mindset where they want–and think they deserve–the time, attention, and enthusiasm that creative fandom (i.e. the side of fandom more dominated by women) is known for.
They want our eyes for ratings, our word-of-mouth for free publicity, our metas for social media buzz, and our spending power for merch and cons. But they don’t want us. And they don’t really want the responsibility of telling a story to a thoughtful, engaged audience, regardless of that audience’s demographic makeup. They just want to be praised for whatever schlock they cough up.
And like any other spoiled brat, they will break their toys before they share them.
It goes all the way to the top for kids shows. Toy sales will crash a show. Makes sense, but if those toys are gendered for boys instead of the female viewers, they won’t usually switch up the marketing and move them to the girl aisle. They cancel the show outright.
Mind you it is perfectly possible to make the switch in marketing, but execs would rather throw it all out than have something that doesn’t perform well with male viewers. For example the Rey merch was not expected to be popular, for some reason, there had to be public outcry to get merch of one of the main 3 protagonists. A PROTAGONIST. The fact that she wasn’t a huge part of the 1st launch says a lot already.
And what happened when female fans got too invested in the Sequel Trilogy? The entire writers room didn’t necessarily lash out, but they sure forgot how to behave.
Young Justice
Paul Dini: Superhero cartoon execs don’t want largely female audiences
#WhereIsRey (initial)
#WhereIsRey (ongoing)
The older, male generation of 'Star Wars' fans may be losing interest in the franchise, but female fans are stepping up.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was designed to be the opposite of The Last Jedi
#SONS OF ANARCHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!#LITERALLY SONS OF ANARCHY IS THE BIGGEST EXAMPLE OF THIS LIKE EVER#kurt sutter wrote that show for MEN and ended up with an overwhelmingly female audience#because he’s actually a good writer and knows how to develop characters well and wrote excellent female characters#but once he realized that his audience was almost entirely women he literally took it out on tara and gemma in the show#but like tara specifically#he resented her character for being a huge draw for female viewers so he tore her development to shreds and killed her#in the most brutal gut wrenching way possible#kurt sutter you will pay for your crimes#i actually wrote a manifesto about this on one of my old blogs i should try to find it sldkjsldfjsdljf#long post (via@m-oonknight)
OMG YES. I LOVED Sons of Anarchy, especially the women and then I got to season 6 and it was like - everything was just tossed in the trash? And like, why did Sutter hate that Tara drew tons of attention? That should have been a good thing! He should have been like “Hey folks, this girl’s getting us more viewers, let’s put her in more scenes!” It just doesn’t make sense to me. MEN don’t make sense to me.
The 100 too. I’ll never forget how Jason Rothenberg would attacked female fans on Twitter and mock them in interviews, and then post links to male fan discussions on Reddit to praise and thank them. In his goodbye letter to the show he SPECIFICALLY thanked Reddit and it was so disgusting.
Star Trek from TNG on was also a boy’s club, even though the TOS fans were mostly women. Women, in fact, who literally created modern fandom with their zines. But after TNG it was all, “Women don’t understand Star Trek, only smart men hur dur.”
(though it could probably start to make some sense if you follow the money past audience bases to maybe a couple of investors or like a rich patron … 🤔)
Stooooop I just wrote a masters thesis on this shit. Media creation and distribution is a means by which dominant power structures consolidate their hegemony. Dominantly situated creators get upset when the audience they attract isn’t the audience they wanted, because they view the whole creation and sharing of the fiction as an exercise to sustain kyriarchal conditions that benefit themselves. When the audience is Other, they see it as a failure of those efforts and lash out.
Simply, they’re trying to assert a particular worldview via fiction, and upon getting confronted with something else, begin foot stamping. It’s not just men wanting male attention and gatekeeping. It’s that the fiction in the first place was an attempt to curate dominance and whoopsie! they miscalculated.
(anyway if anyone wants to read 35k words of philosophy about this, hmu)
I think a lot about an interview I heard with Bo Burnham a few years ago, where he talks about this phenomenon with his own work. He gained a large audience of teenage girls, and people in comedy spaces would look down on him for that or say what a shame it was, but he responded differently:
“The real truth is, I would perform my show and I would meet kids after and young girls would come up to me and they understood what I was expressing in that bit onstage way more than guys my own age. Way more. So if there was a bridge between us that I had to cross to write the movie [Eighth Grade], it was built to me by them. I felt understood by them before I presumed to understand them.”
Instead of trying to change his comedy, he decided to lean into and celebrate the audience that he actually had by making a movie specifically about the experiences of a teenage girl. It’s fascinating to hear him talk about how he got there, but also to acknowledge how rare that reaction is.
On BitBot and Why I Think You Should NOT Support Them
Originally, I was going to include this section in my review of Ascendance, but I'd like that to be a little more... analytical, I guess? Less rage fueled?
There's a lot to say about BitBot as a company. I don't feel like I have the time or know how to research them on a deep level. On the other hand, I feel a certain obligation to say my piece on BitBot sooner rather than later, so I'm just going to vomit out some burning thoughts I've been having and allow my readers to make of them what they will.
As of this writing, The Dead Shall Rise is officially the top sixth funded kickstarter of all time for a comic book. Regardless of how that turned out, I think we all deserve to take a moment to feel proud of ourselves for showing our collective passion and drive to support a series that meant so much to us all.
We good? Okay. Deep breath.
It has now been over six months since Kickstarter backers, many of whom pledged hundreds of dollars of their hard earned money, were expected to receive their rewards. Recently, BitBot has not only released Ascendence but begun selling additional LoK merchandise which is both over-priced and cheaply made.
Look at the eye in the center of Elaleth's raven amulet. Open the image in another tab if you need to -- hell, just click here and zoom in real good.
THAT IS A STICKER!
Not even a glass eye. A sticker, like the kind you would slap on the back of a laptop.
THEY WANT 40 DOLLARS PLUS SHIPPING FOR THIS TEMU NON-SENSE
THAT'S LIKE 80 DOLLARS
ARE WE FOR REAL!?
Important to note, BitBot's entire business model seems to be based around grabbing a bunch of different IPs and getting projects funded on Kickstarter. Legacy of Kain fans aren't the only ones who are still waiting for rewards.
Now I don't know about you, but this feels rather tone deaf, don't you think? Why is BitBot trying to sell backers (who are presumably their fans) more merchandise (Ascendance included!) when they have yet to fulfill their original promises? And you can bet they're selling merch of their other IPs too. Selling additional merch to other backers who also haven't received their rewards.
Of course, I understand that the current political climate is making things difficult. The products that were promised back in 2024 now cost a lot more in materials and shipping. However, taking on the responsibility of fulfilling multiple kickstarters at the same time, as a small company that was founded less than two years ago and already has 16 IPs under its belt...
... is fucking INSANE, right?? Does this seem like a bad idea to you or am I just not good at business?
I'm not going to speculate on what fresh hell is blazing behind BitBot's doors, that's not my place, I'm just going to say that from the outside looking in, it doesn't exactly look good.
So yeah. I might've lied about Janos uppies making everything better.
I’m one of those backers who paid a fair amount, have yet to receive anything other than a digital version of a mediocre comic and a subpar OST, and has seen the quality of the proposed physical rewards (they look bad).
As much as I would LOVE to rip these guys a new one, please DO NOT threaten them or send them death threats.
Instead, boycott them. Give them NOTHING.
Also, I would suggest documentation. KEEP RECORDS OF EVERYTHING. Receipts, reviews, comments, emails, all these can be used as evidence for potential legal action.
Something fishy is going on, but unless we have enough proof, we can’t do anything about it.
Thank you.
(ADDENDUM: the same can be done with Crystal Dynamics. Do not buy this new game.)
idk what young person on the internet needs to hear this but you are not obligated to share any personal details about yourself online. in fact im gonna straight-up circle back to 00s era advice and say being anonymous is good actually
People need to understand that the point ISN’T “being single is not a failure if you’re aromantic”, the point is being single is not a failure full stop.
You can be allo and be single; it’s allowed. You feeling attraction doesn’t mean your priority NEEDS to be finding romance (it can be! But it also can not).
Being single should be normalized no matter what your romantic/sexual orientation is. It isn’t a tragedy.
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