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Why does everyone think fiction is just fantasy wish fulfillment now and not like an exploration of themes and ideas

People will be like “this movie is evil and gross because it depicts a predatory relationship” and then you watch the movie in question and it’s about how preying on young women is bad and impacts their lives negatively

treecitysessions

“Why would they do this instead of just making everyone in the movie nice and normal and good” so we would have this conversation….

we used to have words for people without a sense for media analysis, we called them philistines or dilettantes or, more recently, posers, because people consuming media uncritically without reflecting on it or navigating their feelings towards it is a tale as old as time. it used to be just a way to elevate yourself and your pretensions over the slavering masses addicted to daytime television because you, o artiste, read bukowski and watched my dinner with andre and understood most of the words. but really for a long time thats all there was. i imagine a lot of greeks felt the same way after seeing medea and noticing how many of their countrymen thought she was just such an irrational bitch and jason was so hot and dreamy.

the difference now i think is the sheer scope of media available for consumption without really having to do anything to get to it, or go through it, or think about it. netflix has an entire category of shows specifically for playing in the background while you do something else. cozy farming and life sim games have gotten extremely popular as a contrast to our decidedly uncomfortable and increasingly isolated real lives. and a lot of us do just want to turn our brains off and watch two guys hit each other over the head with hammers for an hour before the dread inevitably seeps back into our minds. like, i get it. its getting dark out there. but eventually, for your own sake, you are gonna have to turn your brain back on and learn to determine the difference between something that was made by an independent creator who wants you to find all their little tricks and references, and who would like you to think about what theyre saying; and mass-market big-budget shovelware meant for young kids and hospital televisions. its just good for you to train your mind to hold all this complexity in it without getting scared, and to realize that most people are not, in fact, going to explain themselves to you, and that the convolution is the point, and untangling it is fun. like, it really is that deep.

and im not saying you have to analyze the themes and motifs of two guys hitting each other over the head with hammers or, god forbid, the erotic tension. nor am i saying its necessarily bad to consume fun easily-digestible media, i used to watch marvel movies too. i just want you to spend an extra 10 seconds thinking critically about what you see before you tell that independent creator to kill themselves.

#sorry i had more thoughts #it is worth noting that a lot of the independent creators being harassed rn are trans women

demilypyro

Digital circus' biggest problem is that it was written to be a niche show aimed at weird analytical queers with actual media literacy and it accidentally blew tf up and hit the mainstream and a bunch of people who have never had a second thought about anything got into it

#i mean. this is the recurrent problem with all media innit #aside from like shit made for kids

aomitois

rb and tag your favorite song that's not in english, japanese or korean

#i have listened to a lot of finnish metal in my time #but an old classic is bamboleo by gipsy kings #actually they have a lot of good latino-catalan music i had a few of their albums as a kid

storyweavingspider

Jerking off one of her horns as a stim toy while scrolling on your phone

#k..kita[hit by a truck]

tomhoppusdelonge

someone send me music to listen too and I need it to be really fast, loud and nasty

#im assuming op is already familiar with machine girl sewerslvt death grips etc #but if not go listen to money store + self destruct worldwide broadcast #dj sharpnel is always good for real fast music

slowlikehoney1996

If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earthquake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.

James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

jetix

“Sky Box” by Parker Parrella, 2025 8x8 Acrylic on canvas

satanfemme

lakemojave

bethfuller

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halondrus

Heres what i think gulool ja would look like playing fortnite with an ultrawide curved monitor with an obnoxious rgb speaker setup that is thematical for solution 9

#ffxiv #its shales computer she just lets him play on it while hes there