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[therewasa-here]

Conqueror of Shamballa

[sunderwight]

media: we have an anti-authoritarian story for you!

me: sweet hit me with the good stuff

media: so there's this marginalized underclass of people, right?

me: okay

media: and they're like, stigmatized for something that's mostly an aspect of how they are born, or where they're from, or they're badly misunderstood, right?

me: yup, got it, I'm with ya

media: so these people are rebelling against the current social order, because it's the instrument of their suffering

me: oh good great sure

media: but also they're violent and deranged and need to be stopped

me: ...what

media: yeah they're going too far, they're trying to overthrow the system and assassinate the nice cop trying to help them and also they burned down an orphanage

me: ...why? would they burn down an orphanage??

media: extremism is bad

me: still not seeing what this has to do with their fight though???

media: also now they've shot a dog. oops they shot another dog

me: what?! why? I though their motive was to overthrow oppression??

media: yes but their suffering has also made them evil

me: ...???

media: don't worry though, the good guys will defeat them and restore the status quo

me: the status quo that's been killing people?

media: well it turns out it was only killing the kinds of awful people who burn down orphanages and shoot dogs :)

me: oh. this is actually a pro-authoritarian story, isn't it?

media: nooo of course not don't be sillyyyyyy we're super progressive look one of the cops is a black lady don't be sillyyyyyy

[charmdistrike]

I'm sure a lot has been said on the topic of motherhood in the fma franchise as a whole, and one of my favourite examples of it being fma03's take on sloth being a character confined by it and violently rejects said role. But the topic of motherhood wrt Dante's character also keeps me up at night NGL...

I keep thinking about the implications of her backstory being a devoted mother/wife who desired to resurrect her son from the dead having to devote herself towards saving her husband no matter how many lives they ended up sacrificing at the cost an entire civilization being erased. I keep thinking about her as an immortal figure whose existence is built on the murder and bodily violation of young women, whose fractured picture of her ideal family has made her into this bitter and spiteful individual that parallels the homunculi in many ways, as boogeymen of the past haunting the narrative. I keep thinking about how she was as a young woman, that her once undying devotion towards her husband who ended up abandoning her now fills her with resentment and rage with the memory of it persisting and only growing stronger centuries after.

She's a character who, in her choice to be this immortal being whose immortal existence is built on top of genocide, chooses to position herself in the role of this benevolent mother, to the homonculi, to rose, and the world at large, believing herself to be its sole protector and guardian, and this sole figure who is alone deserving of all its power and the use of the stone to keep the world from doing anything "foolish". She sees others and, especially those dehumanized and marginalized by the state as subhuman and her responsibility to control over almost as if she sees herself as this religious figure or maternal figure, proclaiming herself to be some sort of a "shepherd of sins". There is so many motifs that pertain to the idea of motherhood when it comes to her relationship with the homonculi, izumi, rose, and etc. it makes me sick and i dont know where I'm going with this post.

So much to parallel Dante wrt cycles and her desire to bring her dead son back to life being inhereted and repeated through izumi...

[cuteness--overload]

[garfield-69]

kimtty

[glassshine]

[softichill]

I think abt this tiktok all the time

[prokopetz]

Stephen King rightly gets a lot of shit for frequently having his characters think and speak in pop culture references that only make sense if you spent your formative years in 1970s Maine, but I feel like articulating that particular criticism on Tumblr is something of a glass-houses situation.

[prokopetz]

Like, yeah, King will have literal space aliens making pop culture references that only old men from small-town Maine would plausibly make; however, I have seen the kinds of novels that people who spent their twenties on Tumblr write, and there is also a very definite sense of time and place.

[vihyura]

truly

[snowflakeb0ttles]

[sagethegremlin]

[las-lus]

Watching the new Folding Ideas video and I can't stop thinking that Mr Beast is unsatisfied because he doesn't have a fandom. He is dying to understand where to throw money to make fandom happen. It gives me great pleasure to know that we hold the power to keep mr. Beast miserable

[robotlyra]

When Dan Olson said that Mr Beast's people asked him and a bunch of other youtubers "How do you create fandom", I experienced a moment of terror so visceral that my heart jumped into my throat. But luckily what followed was a thorough reassurance that he would never be able to understand the answer to that question.

The reason WHY Team Beast wants to "create fandom" is because they have an awareness that fandom is something that makes Number Go Up, and they want to have access that sort of loyalty and attention. But fandom isn't really something you create intentionally, it's more of a natural side effect of caring about something a lot, and going about the business of expressing how much you care, and finding community that cares in a similar way. But Mr Beast and his team do not actually care about anything at all, except Number Go Up. Everything Team Beast does is just a random exercise in throwing money at different ideas to see which makes Number Increase More.

Team Beast made chocolate bars because they know their audience of kids likes and buys candy, not because they liked candy or were interested in the process of making good candy. This is how they ended up making a chocolate bar that lacked the pre-sectioned bar shape that any other reputable candy maker has known and utilized for decades.

Team Beast made a reality show, because they know that reality shows are popular, and that Squid Game was a massive cross-cultural phenomenon, not because they care about reality shows, or are interested in telling stories about the limits of human cooperation and integrity in high stress, high rewards situations. This is how they ended up making a reality show with too many people to focus on any sort of interesting individual narratives, filled with elimination challenges that didn't work.

Team Beast is basically going down a checklist of "what activities that have the highest profits/highest level of public awareness associated with them" because they want that Simple Numerical Supremacy that comes from them, not because they care about the actual activities themselves. This also explains why Dan Olson was invited to Team Beast's studios to begin with. They probably only have a vague awareness of him as a guy on youtube with a million subscribers, and a 2 hour documentary about NFTs that is apocryphally regarded as the Film That Ended The Business. They don't actually care about what he or other youtubers consider important. They just want their fandoms.

[wiltking]

so you're telling me the fifa world cup is all men? its all men's teams? and so is the superbowl? and all the sports teams that states are known for and make copious amounts of merch for are also men's teams? and only 5 women have ever entered formula one since its inception in 1950 and only two of them were able to compete? and this is normal? its acceptable?

[audible-smiles]

the worst part of summer is that people get sooo comfortable expressing their disgust at having to see other people’s bodies. they’re always complaining about wrinkly old men at the nude hot springs or fat women in bikinis at the beach. I hate that shit. if you’re not capable of being normal about bodies you personally don’t find attractive, just turn your head to look at something else! and if you’re not smart enough to do that, then at least do the rest of us the courtesy of suffering in silence, because we don’t wanna hear your weird comments. thanks.

[acecroft]

Croft

[emmablowguns]

This is how shit feels lately

[achillesinhighheels]

[akajustmerry]

I do genuinely always think about the opening scene of the social network being Jessie Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg being openly rude, disrespectful, smarmy and misogynistic to Rooney Mara's character and she responds with the now iconic line that he will very probably be very successful and will go through life thinking that people don't like him because he's a nerd but actually people don't like him because he's an asshole and that this interaction is how the movie is framed and even bookended, with Mark in the final scene trying to request her as a friend on Facebook but she as far as we know doesn't accept. And everything in the movie only serves to prove her right, that he is successful and smart but ultimately an asshole who built his success on comparing women to farm animals out of spite for her. This is literally the opening sequence of the film, the main interaction it's framed around and it baffles me that there are people who view The Social Network (2010) as some kind of lionisation of Facebook's creation, and not one of the most prescient cautionary tales about misogyny and technocracy of our time. To this day, the only thing Zuckerberg actually disputes about the film is that actually he married a woman he met in college. Nothing else. He disputes nothing else. No movie has aged better than The Social Network (2010) and I do actually sincerely wish that wasn't the case.

[hydrachea]

> turns on my computer

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software

> disables a new AI fea

[utopiasslzt]

I understand being so upset is leaving, I am a HUGE Karina fan. I've been following her on tumblr for years now.

And I understand people are stressed there was beef or a fight or something, but I think we all have to take a deep breath.

Karina has mentioned multiple times shes been tired. She's had a lot going on in the background for months now, in speed paints shes mentioned being busy or preoccupied so she hasn't been able to put as much time into these projects.

Shes been apart of the channel for years. Her art has grown so much over the years, as has she.

Prior to drawfee she was making comics, animations, and pitching animated shows. She even mentioned working on pitches for nickelodeon.

Not to mention, everyone from drawfee knows how much hate she's gotten, from comments, dms, to whole reddit threads full of shit talking her. We mention Nathan's growth, Jacob's joy and Julia's talent but how many of us have spoken about karinas dedication? To studying anatomy, physical media, coloring techniques, animation, running an entire 6 hour drawfee variety hour, fucking everything.

She has never gotten enough credit for her work.

Shes and extremely skilled and well regarded artist, and she has countless contacts both in the art world and the voice acting work. I hope whatever she does brings her as much joy as she has brought us.

Go follow her socials and support her just like you support drawfee