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I was just talking about your video with my lazy fiction writing friends and what you said about those tumblr artist hacks and they’re need to project there insecure mediocre schlubby idiot identities on every strong powerful character really hit home.

If this keeps going they’re going to ruin whole Industries before anyone new and talented has a chance. Fewer people are going to be willing to take a chance when so much shit has been put out.

Me and my friends really have to get off our asses and get some shit done and the same goes for anyone else with a good ideas because these talentless hipster meatheads won’t be satisfied until they ruined everything.

leviathan-1984-deactivated20180

Can’t wait to see Vampire Hunter D in the Calarts style. ;)

lastsonlost

If that thought were ever to pop into Hideyuk Kikuchi, head I’m pretty sure that's Yoshiaki Kawajiri what blow his brains out with the hand cannon from Wicked City.

leviathan-1984-deactivated20180

I think i found the problem.

lastsonlost

zucca101

Okay, one example isn’t endemic.

Two examples is troubling.

Three examples…

Well. Now you’ve got yourself a pattern.

Producers with an agenda.

stretchscreamers-news

Just sayin that if you’re trying to imply that there’s some sort of conspiracy by women to castrate media explicitly so there’s nothing left on television that men can enjoy, because apparently men can only enjoy shows that are chauvinistic power fantasies where every worthwhile man is a grizzled meat-tower and every woman has her pussy hanging out of a leotard, then I pray to god it happens sooner rather than later so your entire mindset is stripped out of culture.

jlongbone

“If there’s a conspiracy, I hope it’s true so you sexists can be justified in believing said conspiracy!”

stretchscreamers-news

Considering that it would be a “conspiracy” to siphon tired trends from male-targeted media that are annoying to begin with and have been for years? Yeah, absolutely.

(By the way, does it count as a conspiracy if everyone but the niche of self-obsessed men that actually enjoy said trends are just collectively tired of them and have decide as a culture to move way from that bullshit, as opposed to just the “producers with an agenda” that you imply to be causing these cultural changes rather than responding to them?)

jlongbone

You’re simplifying this as “men vs women” and not “fans vs studios hiring unqualified female producers for shameless quota-filling”

Considering that I am a woman, and I made this video expressing my distaste for heroic characters purposely made shlubby, ugly, feminized (and or masculinized), I’d have to say you don’t speak for all women who are also fans of this genre. This “dismantling of tired trends” has also become a tired trend, faster than any masculinity-laden piece of programming you could name. If you paid attention to anything past whatever hug box you live in, you’d know plenty of female fans are fed up with this decline in quality.

You, on the other hand, are just another fringe minority yelling into the void that “men ruin everything” and ignoring the bigger picture. But go off, I guess.

stretchscreamers-news

But you complain about these changing trends in character design under the assumption that they’re decisions made by “under-qualified female producers” done for the purpose of pandering to a minority (?), as if the people creating content and designing can’t make such creative decisions because they’re things they want to see as well.

By making this a narrative of “fans vs studios”, you completely ignore the artistic integrity of the people that make these shows. Perhaps you presume these people HAVE no artistic integrity, because the changes they make to older properties align with certain trends that you find distasteful. That would be pretty convenient to your argument, wouldn’t it?

God forbid people actually believe that we should have heroic characters that exist outside of certain molds and are, dare I say it, not conventionally attractive. Opinions on how gender roles are depicted in media aren’t really changing at all! No artist would ever make a creative decision rooted in such beliefs, because nobody has them outside of the isolated bubble (and/or hugbox) of Tumblr!

No, this is clearly a narrative of studios making auto-generated content that follows trends that none of the REAL fans want to see, because these shows are made expressly to appeal to a fringe minority.

(Also adore the assertion that breaking away from the norm in itself is a “tired trend”. It couldn’t possibly be that you just liked things how they were and aren’t comfortable with changes.)

jlongbone

“But you complain about these changing trends in character design under the assumption that they’re decisions made by “under-qualified female producers” done for the purpose of pandering to a minority (?)”

Yes, which is why Cartoon Network is tanking. Thanks for understanding :)

“as if the people creating content and designing can’t make such creative decisions because they’re things they want to see as well.”

Members of a tacky minority, pandering to their tacky minority. Yes. Just because they like it, doesn’t mean their isn’t an agenda. You yourself said you were glad these “tired male trends” were being dismantled.

“By making this a narrative of “fans vs studios”, you completely ignore the artistic integrity of the people that make these shows. “

If your main goal in children’s entertainment is spreading your personal agenda, focusing only on what you personally find entertaining, making characters unappealing or following the same artistic formula in order to make money, instead of listening to what the fans want, then you have no artistic integrity.

“Perhaps you presume these people HAVE no artistic integrity, because the changes they make to older properties align with certain trends that you find distasteful.”

Bingo, baby. These trends are tanking their network. If men are the only ones bothered by this direction, why are they doing so poorly?

“God forbid people actually believe that we should have heroic characters that exist outside of certain molds and are, dare I say it, not conventionally attractive.”

That’s not the problem. The problem is there’s no artistic integrity in it. It’s being done poorly and for the wrong reasons.

“Opinions on how gender roles are depicted in media aren’t really changing at all! No artist would ever make a creative decision rooted in such beliefs, because nobody has them outside of the isolated bubble (and/or hugbox) of Tumblr!”

Really? Is that why most recent Star Wars movies have had female leads? Or why Ghostbusters, and the new Oceans movie has an all-female cast? (all also done for the wrong reasons - money, publicity, pandering)

They thrive on the nostalgia of real fans, and the superficiality of fringe fans. Why do you think Cartoon Network and other studios are trying to “revive” everything? They can’t come up with anything original. Steven Universe propped them up for a while, so they just repeat the same vibe with other shows.

(Also adore the assertion that breaking away from the norm in itself is a “tired trend”. It couldn’t possibly be that you just liked things how they were and aren’t comfortable with changes.)

Never said that, and no. Change is good, if the content is good. Also, this is rich coming from someone who just admitted she can’t stand shows with “tired masculine trends,”

siryouarebeingmocked

>“God forbid people actually believe that we should have heroic characters that exist outside of certain molds and are, dare I say it, not conventionally attractive.”

We had those. On ThunderCats 2011. Which CN cancelled.

They even gave the twins more differentiation than OG Thundercats. Roar actually has less diverse character designs.

It’s almost like you’re misrepresenting your opponents AND have no idea what you’re talking about!

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hotdiggedydemon

Life has many doors, Ed boy

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A tense negotiation

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markerslinger

It’s a matter of opinion.

But you know, mine is right.

*Pathetic nerd blubbering*

-M

theconcealedweapon

Poor Person: I need food stamps so I don’t starve.

Conservative: That’s lazy. Get a job.

Poor Person: Fine. I got a job, but it doesn’t pay enough. The minimum wage needs to be raised.

Conservative: Still lazy. Go to college so you can get a better job.

Poor Person: Fine. But I’ll need financial assistance to afford college.

Conservative: Still lazy.

Poor Person: Fine. I went to college, put myself in debt, and got a degree. But the only jobs I can get without experience are unpaid internships. Businesses should be required to pay their interns.

Conservative: …

Conservative: Still lazy.

Poor Person: How the hell do you expect me to get out of debt?

Conservative: It’s your own fault. You choose to go to college even though you couldn’t afford it.

Poor Person: But you’re the one who keeps telling poor people to go to college. Are you saying that I’m lazy if I don’t go to college, and lazy if I do?

Conservative: Yes.

Poor Person: Then what the hell should I do?

Conservative: Be born rich.

way-gone

What’s weird is that I know plenty of people who’d call themselves liberals or moderates who talk in the same was these conservatives.

skhaan

I saw this on Twitter and I think it’s really important tbh

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Watch the entire tour of this place and you will not be disappointed.

thevelvetdevil

Wanna GOO

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I want one

gamervamps

They look like animatrons omgg

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5 Moral Dilemmas That Make Characters and Stories Even Better

Readers can’t resist turning pages when characters are facing tough choices. Use these 5 keys to weave moral dilemmas into your stories–and watch your fiction climb to new heights.

#1: Give Your Character Dueling Desires

Before our characters can face difficult moral decisions, we need to give them beliefs that matter: The assassin has his own moral code not to harm women or children, the missionary would rather die than renounce his faith, the father would sacrifice everything to pay the ransom to save his daughter.

A character without an attitude, without a spine, without convictions, is one who will be hard for readers to cheer for and easy for them to forget.

So, to create an intriguing character facing meaningful and difficult choices, give her two equally strong convictions that can be placed in opposition to each other.

For example: A woman wants (1) peace in her home and (2) openness between her and her husband. So, when she begins to suspect that he’s cheating on her, she’ll struggle with trying to decide whether or not to confront him about it. If she only wanted peace she could ignore the problem; if she only wanted openness she would bring it up regardless of the results. But her dueling desires won’t allow her such a simple solution.

That creates tension.

And tension drives a story forward.

So, find two things that your character is dedicated to and then make him choose between them. Look for ways to use his two desires to force him into doing something he doesn’t want to do.

For instance, a Mennonite pastor’s daughter is killed by a drunk driver. When the man is released on a technicality, does the minister forgive him (and what would that even look like?) or does he take justice into his own hands? In this case, his (1) pacifist beliefs are in conflict with his (2) desire for justice. What does he do?

Good question.

Good tension.

Good drama.

Another example: Your protagonist believes (1) that cultures should be allowed to define their own subjective moralities, but also (2) that women should be treated with the same dignity and respect as men. She can’t stand the thought of women being oppressed by the cultures of certain countries, but she also feels it’s wrong to impose her values on someone else. When she is transplanted to one of those countries, then, what does she do?

Construct situations in which your character’s equally strong convictions are in opposition to each other, and you will create occasions for thorny moral choices.

#2: Put Your Character’s Convictions to the Test

We don’t usually think of it this way, but in a very real sense, to bribe someone is to pay him to go against his beliefs; to extort someone is to threaten him unless he goes against them.

For example:

How much would you have to pay the vegan animal rights activist to eat a steak (bribery)? Or, how would you need to threaten her in order to coerce her into doing it (extortion)?

What would it cost to get the loving, dedicated couple to agree never to see each other again (bribery)? Or, how would you need to threaten them to get them to do so (extortion)?

What would you need to pay the pregnant teenage Catholic girl to convince her to have an abortion (bribery)? What threat could you use to get her to do it (extortion)?

Look for ways to bribe and extort your characters. Don’t be easy on them. As writers we sometimes care about our characters so much that we don’t want them to suffer. As a result we might shy away from putting them into difficult situations.

Guess what?

That’s the exact opposite of what needs to happen in order for our fiction to be compelling.

What’s the worst thing you can think of happening to your character, contextually, within this story? Now, challenge yourself—try to think of something else just as bad, and force your character to decide between the two.

Plumb the depths of your character’s convictions by asking, “How far will s/he go to … ?” and “What would it take for … ?”

(1) How far will Frank go to protect the one he loves?

(2) What would it take for him to stand by and watch the one he loves die when he has the power to save her?

(1) How far will Angie go to find freedom?

(2) What would it take for her to choose to be buried alive?

(1) How far will Detective Rodriguez go to pursue justice?

(2) What would it take for him to commit perjury and send an innocent person to death row?

Ask yourself: What does my character believe in? What priorities does she have? What prejudices does she need to overcome? Then, put her convictions to the ultimate test to make her truest desires and priorities come to the surface.

#3: Force Your Character into a Corner

Don’t give him an easy out. Don’t give him any wiggle room. Force him to make a choice, to act. He cannot abstain. Take him through the process of dilemma, choice, action and consequence:

(1) Something that matters must be at stake.

(2) There’s no easy solution, no easy way out.

(3) Your character must make a choice. He must act.

(4) That choice deepens the tension and propels the story forward.

(5) The character must live with the consequences of his decisions and actions.

If there’s an easy solution there’s no true moral dilemma. Don’t make one of the choices “the lesser of two evils”; after all, if one is lesser, it makes the decision easier.

For example, say you’ve taken the suggestion in the first key above and forced your character to choose between honoring equal obligations. He could be caught between loyalty to two parties, or perhaps be torn between his family obligations and his job responsibilities. Now, raise the stakes—his marriage is at risk and so is his job, but he can’t save them both. What does he do?

The more imminent you make the choice and the higher the stakes that decision carries, the sharper the dramatic tension and the greater your readers’ emotional engagement. To achieve this, ask “What if?” and the questions that naturally follow:

What if she knows that being with the man she loves will cause him to lose his career? How much of her lover’s happiness would she be willing to sacrifice to be with him?

What if an attorney finds herself defending someone she knows is guilty? What does she do? What if that person is her best friend?

What if your character has to choose between killing himself or being forced to watch a friend die?

Again, make your character reevaluate his beliefs, question his assumptions and justify his choices. Ask yourself: How is he going to get out of this? What will he have to give up (something precious) or take upon himself (something painful) in the process?

Explore those slippery slopes. Delve into those gray areas. Avoid questions that elicit a yes or no answer, such as: “Is killing the innocent ever justified?” Instead, frame the question in a way that forces you to take things deeper: “When is killing the innocent justified?” Rather than, “Does the end justify the means?” ask, “When does the end justify the means?”

#4: Let the Dilemmas Grow From the Genre

Examine your genre and allow it to influence the choices your character must face. For instance, crime stories naturally lend themselves to exploring issues of justice and injustice: At what point do revenge and justice converge? What does that require of this character? When is preemptive justice really injustice?

Love, romance and relationship stories often deal with themes of faithfulness and betrayal: When is it better to hide the truth than to share it? How far can you shade the truth before it becomes a lie? When do you tell someone a secret that would hurt him? For example, your protagonist, a young bride-to-be, has a one-night stand. She feels terrible because she loves her fiancé, but should she tell him what happened and shatter him—and perhaps lose him—or keep the truth hidden?

Fantasy, myth and science fiction are good venues for exploring issues of consciousness, humanity and morality: How self-aware does something need to be (an animal, a computer, an unborn baby) before it should be afforded the same rights as fully developed humans? At what point does destroying an AI computer become murder? Do we really have free will or are our choices determined by our genetic makeup and environmental cues?

#5: Look the Third Way

You want your readers to be thinking, I have no idea how this is going to play out. And then, when they see where things go, you want them to be satisfied.

There’s a story in the Bible about a time religious leaders caught a woman committing adultery and brought her to Jesus. In those days, in that culture, adultery was an offense that was punishable by death. The men asked Jesus what they should do with this woman. Now, if Jesus had told them to simply let her go free he would have been contravening the law; if, however, he told them to put her to death, he would have undermined his message of “forgiveness and mercy.”

It seemed like a pretty good trap, until he said, “Whoever is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.”

Nicely done.

I call this finding the Third Way. It’s a solution that’s consistent with the character’s attitude, beliefs and priorities, while also being logical and surprising.

We want the solutions that our heroes come up with to be unexpected and inevitable.

Present yours with a seemingly impossible conundrum.

And then help him find the Third Way out.

I hope this helped! I’ve been really busy today, seeing how my mom had surgery and I’ve been trying to continue writing my novel today as well. I thought I’d squeeze in some more stuff for you guys!

If you have any questions or just want to talk, feel free to visit my ask box!

gvennel

icyarguments

When people say Cis/hetro phobia, misandry or “reverse” racism only hurts feelings and homo/trans phobia, misogyny, and racism kills, I just have one question for them: Do we have to wait for it to kill someone before people see that it’s bad? Must we wait until a life ends until we see that something is harmful to other people? Are you people so dense that the only way you see an ideology as harmful is is someone to dies over it? Can’t we nip this in the bud before it has to come to that? The only reason racism, homo/trans phobia and misogyny got as bad as it did was because nobody stomped it out when it just started; everyone condoned it and normalized it, then it got bad. These things develop, nothing is ever going to go from 1 to 100 overnight. The change is so gradual that you don’t even notice it half the time. Are we just going to sit around and wait until the opposite kills someone to start going “Hey, maybe we shouldn’t be saying/doing these things.”? Or is social justice even lazier than I thought?

intersectionalfeministkilljoy

You shouldn’t say or do these things. However, it’s probably never going to get that bad for privileged groups. Also, sometimes privileged groups try to argue that they have it just as bad when they don’t. They try to argue that they understand when they don’t. They even try to argue that minorities are the privileged ones because of a joke about a latte! That isn’t okay. So, while I agree that cis/heterophobia, misandry and “reverse” racism aren’t okay or acceptable in any way, shape or form, the fact that it only hurts feelings while homo/transphobia, misogyny and racism kill.

siryouarebeingmocked

Misandry doesn’t kill anyone? There’s a big marble monument in Washington that diagrees.

You are aware that the Draft in the US is still perfectly legal, it just hasn’t been used in a while?

Racism against white people doesn’t kill them? Tell that to the murdered white farmers in South Africa. And hey, Reginald Denny was only beaten half to death, not all the way, so it doesn’t count, right?

Also, according to The Guardian, the UK Home Office said that about half of racist murders between 1995 and 2004 had white victims.

Though I do like how you took the opportunity to rant and rail about those darn privileged folks who don’t know what they’re talking about. Of course, your assumption that only “privileged” folks are the ones disagreeing with you is itself prejudiced.

Strangely enough, when women talk about misandry as a serious problem, they tend to get yelled at just as much as men. And then ignored, because their existence makes it harder to dismiss people talking about men’s issues as self-interested men.

makingfunofbullshit

mr-cappadocia told me that siryouarebeingmocked was a national treasure. He wasn’t wrong.

yuukisjourney

This is like the comments on YouTube that talk about a white guy getting killed by a black cop, but plot twist the black cop goes to jail and the hundreds of white cops get thousands of dollars in ‘emotional damages’.

siryouarebeingmocked

I’m sure that had some kind of point in your mind, and it’s a scenario you firmly believe exists and is common, despite your complete lack of evidence.

Kinda like the mennist who talk about male rape and then blame it on feminism.

Except that “meninism” is a joke movement, a satire. I would, however, like to point out that feminism in general has no problem perpetuating the gendered views of rape that contribute to the male rape being ignored, such as “violence against women” and “gendered violence”.

Minorities don’t have power to do all that you’re saying. A black man didn’t invent the draft, a white man did. Women didn’t create the draft, Men did.

And yet, women have supported men going to war for time out of mind, notably the White Feather Girls, who literally coward-shamed men into fighting in WWI.

Though I like how you added race to a point I made that was entirely about sexism. Even if it was men doing it, that doesn’t make it any less sexist against men. Which proves the claim that men never die from sexism wrong. The amount of men who pass these laws are literally less than 1% of men in general.

White people have been victims of racism, by other white people. For interracial relationships. Also you can’t look at a bunch of unrelated petty crimes and call reverse racism, you already tried that. By you I mean white people as whole not specifically you.

Well, no, look at the history of the Irish, who were literally made slaves along with blacks. Look at all the times in history, in fact, where non-white people screwed over white people because they’re the wrong subtype of white people, such as the ongoing discrimination against Slavs.

Also, That one time an SJW hand-waved away a bunch of murders frequently committed against an ethnic minority group as “unrelated petty crimes” because the group in question was white.

Also also, no one disagreeing with you called it “reverse” racism. It’s just racism. Folks like you stick “reverse” in the front to imply it’s not “real” racism.

Also also also, I’m a black man you racist bigot.

Also I’ve never heard of a straight cis person being killed for those reasons, I have heard of them being banned from places but why would a straight person go to a gay bar is beyond me. Unless to a company a friend then I see

Neither have I! Which doesn’t mean that it never exists. But as pointed out, the entire premise is flawed. It’s an Appeal to Worse Problems fallacy; saying prejudice and bigotry against “dominant” groups doesn’t matter unless it kills someone when the people defending “oppressed” groups rings rather hollow when you’ve got concern to spare about #manspreading.

But all and all if you’re scared that it will get out of hand, don’t be. Unlike white people we weren’t raised to be little evil fucks.

I wasn’t. But apparently you were raised to be an idiot who’s completely missing the point of the post.

If you’re excuse to continue oppression is based on fear that we’ll do the same to you as you did to us. Keep the bullshit up and a bitch just might but let us become equal and we’ll forever forgive you for your transgressions.

So what you’re saying is that because a bunch of dead white people did bad things to dead brown people, us darkies somehow have a right to be angry?

Of course, no one here was excusing anything. If you see pointing out prejudice against “oppressor” groups as erasing the actions of said groups, that says more about you than the people you pretend you’re responding to.

If you don’t want reverse racism/heterophobia/cisphobia to be a thing stop being huge dicks and actually fight for human rights, even if it doesn’t make sense to you. Trust us. We don’t want to hurt you we just want equal rights.

You kinda glossed over “misandry” there, homie/sista/non-binary.

Plus heterophobia and cisphobia aren’t a real thing and will never get to the point where straight and cis people die for being themselves. Never. NEVER.

You know, if I were a white person, I don’t think I’d be worried. I’d be wondering why the only weapon you have in your arsenal seems to be a stereotype-reinforcing threat of violence. And more importantly, I’d wonder why you don’t seem to be too worried about ethnic minorities scaring the people who are supposedly oppressing them. Almost as if this was more about self-righteousness than progress to you.

I’d also wonder about those things if I were a black man.

Which, in fact, I am.

toughtink

my bro’s doin great things in the marines

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I was hoping it’d be this

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Finally cosplay her again :3 @Capsule#33 Title: Saint Seiya the Lost canvas Pang Hayashi as Behemoth Violate Photo by: Gorufu’s Gallery and Tattep Win Jankaew Costume made by me :) Follow me at: http://facebook.com/panghayashi