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[wanderinsect]

🫩 no i don't think those characters are siblings i think they're friends. I don't think that's their mom I actually think she's their friend. I don't think they're related actually I think they're friends with each other.

[dollhair]

Something about the bastardization of the story time and time again proves that nobody in power really cares about the people who would resonate with King’s Carrie White. A girl so ugly and repulsive she’s been removed from her own story. The societal need for women and girls to be constantly perceived as attractive is what fuels a fair amount of her torment in the book, but that person isn’t even allowed to exist on the screen. We cannot empathize with her; it isn’t allowed. It’s fascinating to me.

[ragsy]

Contemporary art haters will be like "i don't get it" and then not read the title or artist statement or the medium or the year or

[ragsy]

How to "get it":

Ask yourself, how does this piece make you feel? (No wrong answers)

Look for an artist statement nearby. What does it say about the artist and their relationship to their work? What does the artist say that they are trying to convey with their art? What contextual clues can you pick up from what they say about their background, or what they omit?

Look at the title of the piece. What is the artist saying about their work by naming it that, either explicitly or implicitly?

Look at the medium. Is there anything about the piece that stands out to you, knowing what it's made of?

Look at the year it was made. What cultural events might have been happening around this time? Was this piece part of a particular art movement? What was the purpose of that art movement, and what was it trying to say?

Accept that sometimes, you still might not get it. This is perfectly okay.

[tlirsgender]

We need more women characters who are Male Protagonists. You know. Slightly haggard. She's splashing cold water on her face and gripping the edge of the sink staring in the mirror for a minute. She's coping badly with her deadwife

[bevsi]

I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with relating to characters, “they’re literally me” etc but if that’s the only way you engage with stories you’re kinda missing the whole point of Characters being vehicles through which we can see perspectives outside of our own. and also you’re going to get upset when the Character acts in a way that is not Personally Relatable to You

[bevsi]

doubly for shipping. at risk if biting the hand that feeds me, a well written fictional relationship should ideally be more than a didactic template for how to have a nice relationship

[bardace]

I think it’s so funny that utena has literally no idea why anyone in the black rose arc got turned into a duelist. Like imagine someone pulls up in an intricate uniform holding one of your friend’s swords and says “HAHHAHA I GET IT NOW ALL OF MY DEEP PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS STEMMING FROM MY HIGHLY SPECIFIC INSECURITIES CAN BE SOLVED IF I KILL YOUR GIRLFRIEND!!!” and it’s sarah from math class who you only vaguely know

[electrichorses]

you can't say "hey has anyone noticed that M/M fic outnumbers F/F like 100:1” or “it feels racist that only 3/202 characters on the ao3 top 100 ships list are Black and two of them are Alastor HazbinHotel” bc some ppl will start going like “oh so you think we should FORCE people to write about things they DON’T CARE ABOUT for WOKE????” and you’ll be like “no, i’m pointing out that the conditions that created this disparity are informed by racism & misogyny” and ppl will say “it’s not BIGOTED to only care about WHITE MEN” and then the gargoyle king appears

[everybidenjusthavegoodtime]

mark, my words. *mark brings me my dictionary* thank you mark

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The R-word was taboo as a slur for people with disabilities. Now it's being normalized again | CBC Radio

The R-word has been considered taboo for several years, as a slur against people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Now, the

Growing up with Down syndrome, Liz Etmanski says she was called plenty of derogatory names in school — but the main one was always the R-word. “[It’s like] having the wind knocked out of you, like you're not visible to them. It's really like an attack to your heart,” said Etmanski, an artist, writer and advocate in her 40s, living in Surrey, B.C. “People that use it think they can get away with it … all they're doing is putting you down.” The R-word has been considered taboo for years, used as a slur against people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In the 2010s, celebrities including the Kardashians and basketball player LeBron James issued apologies for using it publicly. But the slur appears to be making a resurgence, despite its ongoing capacity for harm. It’s been frequently used by high-profile figures like Elon Musk and Joe Rogan, while U.S. President Donald Trump levelled it against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in a Thanksgiving Day post last year. People appeared to follow his example in the weeks that followed, Montclair State University tracked a more-than-threefold increase in the word being used on social media platform X.

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[alliluyevas]

do you ever read goodreads reviews and realize that there are people out there approaching fiction is a diametrically different way than you

[alliluyevas]

you could not pay me to read a book whose fans describe it like this

[deep-state-partisan]

[jessaerys]

ao3 → filters → exclude → alternate universe (modern setting)

[jessaerys]

[wolfertinger666]

burn it 🔥

(he/him) 🐇

[weirdflowrs]

Can we get a dislike button on letterboxd reviews some of you need to be shot

[unwastelandunbaby]

sorry but I actually do love that pluribus is “slow” I love that it lingers a bit too long and makes you watch characters walk all the way across rooms and load things into their cars and listen to entire voicemails I love that a 50 minute episode might have a few dozen lines of dialogue I love that it’s nearly impossible for it to be a “second screen” show maybe I love slow!!!!!!!

[crimeronan]

it's absolutely fucking Crazy to build a TV show with the premise "every time you get angry literal millions of people die but you can't emotionally reach any of them because they're a perpetually-happy hivemind but they're still THEMSELVES so you can't rationalize it away as killing zombies/aliens. you already have anger issues and you're a middle-aged closeted alcoholic dyke whose wife just died and no one around you gives a fuck about your wife's death AND IF YOU LOSE YOUR TEMPER ABOUT ANY OF THIS..... MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WILL ACTUALLY LITERALLY DIE....." like oh my god the utterly suffocating psychological horror goes CRAZY. i'm INSANE.

FUCK. watch pluribus.

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