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relay314

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relay314

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flicker-fly

An extraordinary GIF made out of nighttime images of the Earth taken by the Artemis II crew, during a three minute period as they travelled away from our planet.

(credit: u/ResponsibilityNo2097 - check out their other space GIFs)

bogleech

I've had this conversation 4 times this week but characters in stories aren't SUPPOSED to be bluntly verbally confronted by other characters about their bad behavior. The writers aren't supposed to turn to the audience and just say "this is abusive and here's why," that's for basically toddler shows.

I get that a lot of people naturally have difficulty with non-literal communication but in *serious* storytelling, the morality of the characters is supposed to be "addressed" symbolically and wordlessly. If a character is mean, and then gets eaten by a dinosaur, that *is* supposed to be enough acknowledgement that they were an asshole. The author, their god, metered out karma.

I scrapped a much longer post about this but it's only mostly in kid's media, and frankly only recently, that characters explain in words what was right or wrong about one another's actions, and that only happens because Disney Channel forces the writers to shoehorn that in against their will. Writers expect you to be smart enough to already know right from wrong, and the "justice" experienced by characters is often expected to be partially or completely meta.

#this feels symptomatic of a wide (but declining) spectrum of audience media literacy #there’s also a strong profit incentive to guide the conversation (and thus the interpretation) of a work as much as possible #which of course is impossible; death of the author and all that #everybody gets something different out of a story; moral lessons included

fforsythiaaa

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

miquellakind

trust the process. believe in the process. have faith in the process. hold the process in regard above all else. forfeit all to the process

kitsnicket

I don’t like this actually

kitsnicket

This is depressing does anyone else find this depressing

#relentless profit incentive without artistic integrity means loss of artistic confidence #the consumer is not always right! Be fine with shaping and even culling an audience #if you have a story and characters worth sharing then take ownership and steer it in the direction you want to go #the artist and writer both do not create content for the sake of the critic; they (should) do it for love of the craft

jerreeeeeee

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

jerreeeeeee

what mutual is prev

my liege lord

my loyal knight

my wise wizard

my evil advisor

my brother in arms

my lady muse

my wild mermaid friend

my fellow alchemist

my dashing rapscallion

my monstrous foe

Voting ended onJun 6

#my brother in arms #two leftist creatives making blorbos and communism in a technofeudal world

fancyfade

Made a chart for sorting fantheories

mamawasatesttube

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

#critical theory/analysis encompasses a wide range of at times contradictory and conflicting frameworks #it's about learning to see the world from perspectives beyond your own and which you may or may not agree with #at heart it is multidisciplinary and draws from a wide range of academic subjects: everything from philosophy to socioeconomics #and very little of it can be said to be objective or scientific or moral: at its heart it is intended to peer into the world and the self

orbitingrook

gryficowa

+ Alex Hirsch

lsdoiphin

The modern Original Character Creator experience.

Denizens of tumblr, the answers you seek often lay in the tags or the image descriptions…

stjohnstarling

Genre media since the 1980s has become so painfully self-conscious.

stjohnstarling

tbh I think part of the appeal of anime to a lot of people is that it isn't full of this cringing embarrassment of the nature of what it is. It isn't constantly making fun of itself or apologizing for its existence, it's just straightforwardly doing the thing it's doing.

#deconstruction shouldn’t be used as a convenient vessel for irony #there’s so many ways that you can employ awareness of narrative constructions beyond just mocking them #deconstruction without creativity is more indicative of lacking confidence or respect for the fundamentals that gave rise to the art form #equally as important to pushing art forward is the understanding of how the current state of the art came to be

sabertoothwalrus

much appreciation for people who create ocs that are clearly derivative of The Character because even if the inspiration is clear, they had the self awareness that their headcanons had snowballed so far past character analysis into pure self indulgence that there was very little of source material left. and that’s beautiful. sometimes when you’re preoccupied playing touys it’s hard to take a step back and realize you’ve actually created something wonderful and new