This is my favorite spot on the Citadel @ieatlazers - Tumblr Blog

bloomlaurel

Celica/Faye on a date for fe scuffle ❤️🩷

#fire emblem stuff #celica x faye

innovadesexual

sob emoji is up there with the period and the comma

kosmogrl

can things stop happening for a while? in general

mewtwoenthusiast

The emperor’s pet

#fire emblem stuff #edelgard x rhea

amanitaphalloides

maybe next year instead of amateur fireworks on every block for hours and hours we can try holding up a single beautiful flower

yokowan

job markets so fuckeeedd rn i applied to like 60 different positions for swirly glasses oversized labcoat scientist girl who makes tf potions and i didn't even get a single call back

guerrillatech

heartseeker

i do im celebrating my dogs birthday

shes turning 2

awbrainno

I’m also celebrating your dogs birthday

storms-and-illness

celebrating tumblr user heartseeker’s dog’s birthday on the fourth everyone

surprisebitch

Happy 4th of July Americans

eggtempest

yuri? in MY fire emblem? it's more likely than you think

#fire emblem stuff #lyn x florina #cutes...

derrickwildsun-deactivated20250

That video of Alex Hirsch reading S&P notes for Gravity Falls conveys a few things to me:

1) the U.S. entertainment industry (especially animation) is run by older conservative types who make up offensive terms and get really mad about them.

2) the people who run Disney would be the first to fall in line with a fascist regime.

3) most of the media we consume is tailor-made and watered-down to appeal to the tastes of older, deeply religious conservative audiences.

4) conservatism, not the left, is and always has been the biggest voice of censorship in American culture.

sci-fantasy

J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, was before that a producer and writer for a number of cartoons in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s (The Real Ghostbusters and the original She-Ra, most notably). After a few years of dealing with the censors and their obsession with finding Satanism (or at least looking for Satanism to further political agendas) he wrote an article about the whole corrupt and bullshit system.

And published it in Penthouse, to force those same censors to buy a skin mag. The editor there asked, why Penthouse?

That one is from his autobiography, Becoming Superman. See also:

(As he goes on to say, he’s never worked in animation again–he’s effectively been blacklisted by the cartoon industry.)

transhuman-priestess

Every time something like this comes up, I remember two stories about making media. The first is about movies, and comes from Quentin “Feet Man” Tarantino.

When he was making Pulp Fiction, he was worried that the MPAA would object to the high level of violence in the film, so he shot a bunch of extra-gory stuff that he didn’t actually want in the film, and added it in before submitting it to the MPAA. Predictibly, they asked him to cut most of it (without even commenting on some of the things that had him worried, like the bits of Marvin’s skull that lodge in Samuel L. Jackson’s hairpiece). The resultant cuts were actually more permissive than he’d expected, so he cut a little more and submitted it, and it got passed with an R.

The second story is about that artist on Morrowind whose name escapes me (I’m not a big ES fan tbh) who figured out that if he made two creature designs, one weird and what he wanted, and one even weirder, he could get Todd Howard to agree to just about anything by showing him the whopper first, then going back and “working” for another few hours on a second, “toned-down” version, and it worked every time.

The reason I bring these up is that the thing that drives censors isn’t some extant physical rubrick of what is and isn’t acceptable, it’s the idea that they can have absolute power over someone else’s creative work. It’s about the social dominance of the interaction.

There is nothing so innocent, so clean, that a censor will not find some fault with it. Because they must find something wrong with it to justify their existence, and because it makes them feel powerful.

This is true of all censorship.