Ayyy hereâs part 2! Thank you so much for the incredible response to part 1! I read the tags and comments often yâall are too nice ;v; Enjoy all 69 pages! tw for blood and injury
iâve said it before and iâve said it again. fanfiction is not an inherently subversive practice that is going to elevate art and save it. fanfiction is also not the scourge of all literature that is going to destroy art and debase it. fanfiction is literally just another lightly popular medium of writing and is capable of being good or bad. itâs not inherently uniquely good and itâs not inherently uniquely bad, itâs just a way you can write a story
shoutout to the autistic bitches who write wholeass informal essays of meta/analysis/theories about their special interest media. you are the fucking backbone of our goddamned society
While we like to joke about Izzy being in the wrong genre, I would argue that there are in fact at least five distinct genre universes in the world of Our Flag Means Death, and all of them have different rules.
Stede Bonnet, and his crew when theyâre around him, live in a Muppet movie. I didnât come up with this analogy but itâs so accurate. Insane physical comedy and comedy-action where no one really gets hurt. Mild peril but you know everything is gonna work out. Terrible puns and sight gags, but room for sweet, genuine emotional moments too. The rules of time, space, probability and logic will bend for a good joke.
Izzy Hands is in a grimdark action/drama where if someone gets stabbed in the gut they will behave normally and fucking die. (Probably slowly and painfully, of sepsis.) Crucially I think Izzy also lives in a genre where you can only be subtextually queer, and violence (done for or with or to each other) is the only acceptable form of intimacy between men. This is why being forcibly dragged into Stedeâs world, where everyone is busy having silly low-stakes misadventures and being gay and emotionally available all over the main textâand seeing his Subtextual Boyfriend go into this world and love itâsends him round the twist.
The British, Spanish and other imperialist militaries are in a Master and Commander-style naval adventure where theyâre the heroes. This is why they all take it completely seriously when Stede (unintentionally) kills Badminton and takes hostages, even though we can see that he bumbled his way into it ass-backwards. This is also why Stede is so shocked to get actually for real stabbed aboard the Spanish ship. (âDid you mean to do that?â) He didnât realize until that moment that heâd stepped into a different genre. The stabbing is one of the first Surprise Genre Switch moments we get and in retrospect itâs very important for setting up that in this world, the threat of getting hurt or killed is very realâwhich we need to understand to know that there are real stakes much later, when Stede almost gets executed by the British.
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open-access academic journal Baltic Screen Media Review released a whole issue on Disco Elysium in Dec 2021
articles include:
Production of Game Making Spaces: Disco Elysium and the game making community in Estonia
Selling Elysium: the political economy of radical game distribution
Disco Elysium as Gothic fiction
The Hanged Rhizome on the Tree: Arborescence and Multiplicity in Disco Elysium
The Object Gives Rise to Thought: Hermeneutics of Objects in Disco Elysium
âWhat kind of cop are you?â: Disco Elysiumâs Technologies of the Self within the Posthuman Multiverse
âMaking Sense in a Senseless Worldâ: Disco Elysiumâs Absurd Hero
âYou Wonât Even Know Who You Are Anymoreâ: Bakthinian Polyphony and the Challenge to the Ludic Subject in Disco Elysium
production of game making spaces & selling elysium both comment on za/um's decision to relocate to London (& how that sits with the game's radical politics) in ways I think are noteworthy & indicative of the game industry's composition
I don't agree with the joke, don't get me wrong, but it is and always should be completely unacceptable to assault someone for a joke of any kind, or just to assault someone in general. Bad jokes are punished by silence, not physical violence, and that's how it should be. In fact, whether what happened in the oscars was justified or not doesn't really matter, what matters is what other people now think is fine because their favorite actor got up and did it, and now comedians can't make any other satirical and/or dark jokes without the fear of being assaulted, even though they got up on the stage to be guaranteed some level of safety.
A guy thought it was really funny to call me a faggot. He did this a lot. Everyone knew about it. I went to the proper authorities and they did nothing.
I kicked him in the face so hard I broke his jaw. He didn't say shit to me afterwards. But yeah, that guy should have been allowed to make jokes about how I'm a tranny faggot with aids forever because dark humor or some shit.
This wasn't satire or even dark humour, this was ableist and misogynoir bullying, and if a comedian can't tell the difference between the two then that comedian should not be on stage to begin with.
"silence punishes bad jokes". Buddy, everybody in that room was laughing. Being the only silent person in the room just makes you a target. Abuse thrives in silence. And your comment on podiums about sums it up.
If you need to be in the position of power a podium offers to safely take potshots at the people you consider beneath you. If you need your targets to be unable to defend themselves, you don't deserve to have that platform. Shut the fuck up. You're not a comedian, you're just a high school mean girl who found a way to turn bullying into a viable career path.
someone: an alarming number of young girls are being pressured to contour and highlight their faces so that they look 10 years older, which is already not great, and then they take all their selfies with an app that makes their faces slimmer and their skin lighter and their eyes bigger and this is MAYBE not great for their self esteem
a grown adult, somehow: makeup is a choice, IDIOT, and Snapchat filters are ALL for FUN, I donât ACTUALLY wanna look like a DOG hahaâŠâŠâŠ. society is fake and kids can just CHOOSE not to be influenced by the things that are thrown at them 24/7!!! i am very smart
Tbh, the way some of you guys so voraciously defend against any and all criticism of the makeup industry just proves our point. Itâs become such a big part of your identity and self worth the idea of accepting the harm it does is scary.
Some of you guys: I love masks because now I donât have to wear makeup :)
Me: Isnât it a bit fucked up that we face so much pressure to wear makeup that some women are expressing gratitude for a literal deadly virus because the PPE covers their faces?
Some of you guys: Stop being one of THOSE feminists!
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i think âdisco elysium has a firm stance against racism and has enough nuanced portrayal for it not to be a purely surface-level understandingâ can co-exist with âdisco elysium still makes use of world-building most white-centered fantasy uses where it mixes and matches a bunch of asian countries together, meanwhile the European nationalities and locations have a clear counterpart, and overall some scenes and insensitive clothing items could have been better handledâ and âplease warn poc that this game uses slurs and has racist characters that feel painfully realâ
[ID:Â How can dog breeders sell puppies for over $1,000? Do these puppies shit gold? Do these puppies fight crime? Can they play the banjo? No theyâre fucking infant dogs that poop on your things and love you omg. /end ID]
link to a reblog of the original post, this reblog is from 2013
EDIT: OP blocked me for calling them out in this reblog, I canât reblog or reply to this anymore and my reblog wonât show up in the notes, but if you reblog this from me then your reblog will show up in the notes. I thought maybe they were just trying to be funny and didnât care if people knew they were lying but theyâre like.. legitimately trying to convince people itâs true lol. Sketchy tumblr behavior, especially since theyâre promoting their Kofi on their page meaning they are trying to get actual money for lying
Iâm still thinking abt the fact we successfully âkung pow penisâedâ the Bitcoin blog like it was an anime attack. I like to think theyâre dead
Pauly Shore is a 54 year old man who has been acting since the 90s. To the people leaving these tags: Literally who told you this? Why would you lie about this? Not to mention today (February 1st) is his birthday. Youâre gonna tell lies about this man, on his BIRTHDAY? This man literally just turned 13 years old, and youâre not only gonna roast his gay ass puppet voice, but youâre gonna spread lies about him too? About this poor 13 year old man? On his 13th birthday?? Cut the guy a break.
being disabled in the pandemic is horrific. ive been trying to fundraise for a vehicle i can easily get in and out of *as well as my sdit*
id like a bit of freedom truthfully and to have a vehicle before applying for disability where you can't have more than 2,500usd at all times (it might be less than that) please consider donating but definitely reblog. Thank you
A good portion of reblogs are me and it's a bit devastating asking for help but I need a vehicle. Badly. I need to be able go to therapy, PT, doctors appointments, specialists and have zero transport. I desperately need help. Please reblog this I'm begging
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