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Can we maybe stop making shows for people who don't watch shows and writing books for people who don't read books and making video games for people who don't play video games and making sports for people who don't like sports and making music for
I'm sure I've made this point before, but there's a pervasive brand of internet lefty that can't seem to perceive art as anything other than propaganda, and if it doesn't register to them as propaganda that supports their politics, then it has to be propaganda against their politics.
Like when people argue whether warhammer 40k is fascist propaganda that says that fascism is good, or if it's actually a satire of fascist propaganda saying that fascism is bad. When it isn't really either of those things. That's not what it's going for and that's not what it's doing. It's got satirical elements floating around in there in varying degrees depending on era and author, but the point of them isn't to instruct the audience whether fascism is bad - it's for drama, and mood, and weird interestingness, and humour, and all the other reasons why things are in art other than political and moral instruction. It portrays a bunch of fucked up stuff connected by in-setting circumstance and lets you make your own mind about it, or just let yourself think "damn that's fucked up" and leave it at that.
It's not even, like, complex, by almost any literary standard. It's the same thing with them being unable to understand marvel movies, literally the most accessible movies ever made, when they crack out the most basic #101 nuance for teenagers where a villain has a sympathetic motive or a hero makes a mistake, and they can't really understand it, thinking that because the villain has a sympathetic quality then the movie is trying to demonise that sympathetic quality, because they assume that the film is operating at the level of basic propaganda, when it's, like, even slightly above that.
And they talk so much about being Media Literate and the importance of Media Literacy, in a way that makes them vastly, vastly less capable of understanding media, crunching down all the myriad ways you can interpret things into the simplest and stupidest form of idea, which is so galling when you compare it to the *actual* form of Media Literacy, the beautiful gemstone with its thousand-and-one beautiful shimmering facets!
The push for 'all art/entertainment is always political' I'd say is to blame for this. Nothing can be just there, you have to always break it down in such a way that it supports YOU.
Because if it doesn't support you...., what does it do? That's right it's against you. Which makes it bad.
And why would you, a good person, be interacting with something that's bad. You wouldn't. Unless you were a bad person.
Which you aren't. Are you? And you have to prove you aren't by showing why the thing supports you or calling out how bad it is.
I'd say the push for 'all art/entertainment is always political' is a symptom of this, not the cause. It's coming from people who believe that all art is either propaganda for their ideology or enemy propaganda, and 'all art is political because all art is made in a society' type arguments are used as either justification for this mindset or as a motte and bailey where people play victim and act like they're being attacked by evil critics who are trying to stop them from analyzing the political context of art, while in reality the situation is probably more like they got called an asshole for telling everyone in the Moms' Facebook Group that if they don't uninvite Susie (5) from their children's birthday parties because her parents let her watch Paw Patrol then they're turning their kid's birthday party into a Nazi Bar.
[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'JK Rowling posted upskirt photos of a woman on Twitter' to Cas 'I love you'. /End ID]
No one doing this should be allowed to call themselves a feminist.
The wealthy author escalated a social media spat that resulted in posting a photo from a 2023 event at the Institute of Economic Affairs in
Let's not beat around the bush: Children's author JK Rowling sexually harassed someone. In some jurisdictions, this would count as sexual abuse. JK Rowling has committed a sex crime against a woman and fell back on the old rape apologist standby of "she was asking for it".
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Alright so I've stopped using music subscription services and switched back to using an MP3 player for over a year now and this fucking rules actually? I never need to sign in, never need to worry about the servers being down, I don't even need an internet connection for it. I have headphone jacks.
Having manage my music library again took some getting used to, but now that I'm past that stage I just can't see myself moving back to streaming services.
I love my tiny player that does nothing but play music
i honestly don't really understand why "some people prefer watching gameplay online rather than playing games themselves" is treated as such a taboo when being a spectator is considered a pretty mundane way to engage with most sports, game shows, reality tv or even just like. chess.
i think americans should have to put a banner above their post that says U.S. CENTRIC ADVICE/INFORMATION. i think political posts should clarify that they are giving protest/societal/class information relevant only to the USA i think i would like to stop getting halfway through a post with really good information and then realising it is not widespread advice and is only applicable in the united states of america
for the love of GOD can we PLEASE stop treating us-centric advice as applicable to the whole entire world. Please. beyond anything else, i do not think you guys understand how difficult it makes it for young people to interact with and learn information relevant to them.
at a certain point, treating us-american advice as universally applicable borders on misinformation. i am not saying that it is done maliciously, but it is dangerous at worst. i do not want younger people going around assuming that certain laws do/do not apply to them and getting in trouble because of it. i worry about what 'fundamental/constitutional/labour rights' are only legally defensible in the USA. i worry about kids who do not know yet to wonder where the advice is for, and take it as fact because a post that reads "EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THIS" begins with "EVERYONE".
okay yes all the tags are very very good points but i would like to point out the main reason i made this post, which is that
if you are non-american then it can be dangerous to hold beliefs about your rights that are only applicable in the US.
i am australian and i have seen young australians have completely us-american perceptions on the rights they hold (or do not hold) in regards to protest, police officers, self-defense, medical care, higher education, debt, and legal proceedings. i am not talking about "boooo americans" i am talking about the genuine danger it might present to have us-centric assumptions in high-stakes situations
(please do not chalk this up to 'if you don't do research then you are stupid'. i made this post with young people in mind. that being said i am willing to bet it also applies to others, ie those who are newer to non-local internet, older folks, or those escaping high-control environments.)
This concept was supposed to be Deltarune Miku (she is a cyber world darkner of course) but I feel like it sort of just ended up being "What if I drew Miku 90% normally but then I colored her in kind of weird"
Behind the scenes trivia: The gif of the sprite is not merely a gif, but a whole Gamemaker project I made for the sole purpose of that gif, because it was the easiest way I could think of to get those nefarious Toby-Fox-type sprite rotations...
Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.
I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.
Non è la prima volta che la produzione solleva un vespaio in Sicilia. A Lipari una squadra di sub sarebbe però già impegnata a bonificare i
They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government
Concerns about prop disposal as filming on new Nolan film comes to a close | www.italianinsider.it
Found an article on this in English
Also a different, unrelated article about concerns & possible violation of international law in using another of the film’s locations
The decision to shoot in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, where the Indigenous people can’t tell their stories without fear of imprisonment
this one goes out to all my early 2000s no cable tv girlies
I don’t know what’s crazier: that at least 200 species names had this specific slur, or that 205 of the 556 votes wanted to keep it
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there's probably a better way of wording the last part but like come on it doesn't matter if we're all the same to fascists
No I genuinely don't think there's any better wording of the last part
