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basically a lot of my problems boil down to me being really bad at waking up. and also really bad at going to sleep

honestly though this ties into a bigger thought i've been gnawing on lately that the more and more the entertainment industry gets entwined with capitalism the worse stories are gonna get because there is no purely consumable and agreed upon conflict and hero/antagonist dynamic

catmask

what i mean by this is like. stories are told in a way that helps children (and people in general) form opinions and a moral compass with which they navigate the world. who the villains are in these stories will effect who those children become and, who the villains are often reflects the perspective of the storyteller/who has persecuted them personally.

while individual people do write the stories studios produce, and teams of people working on one story can typically agree on who to make their antagonists, capitalism relies on ever-growing audiences and consumer bases in order to be considered 'successful'. a growing audience means eventually, you are going to reach people who do not agree with what your idea of 'evil' is.

additionally, the wealthy/minority group's oppressors are very often the villains in the stories they tell because those people specifically have antagonized the story teller's lives. but with media production, those in executive positions are very often wealthy, white, cishet men. so naturally, stories with those groups as the antagonists will not get greenlit, but it's becoming less socially acceptable via audience pressure to demonize the minority groups they antagonize instead, so you get progressively vague-er and watered down villains as time goes on.

catmask

u have said something beautiful and true my friend...

blondebrainpower

Blue Tube Quilt - optical Illusion

Montse Forcadell Biasco

Cambrils Tarragona Spain

Spanish Patchwork Association Show.

overpoweredoriginalposter

sandersstudies

I love when parents speak in code to avoid awakening their toddler like a sleeper agent.

sandersstudies

I had a friend trying to tell me a story with his son in the room and after two attempts to avoid any words that his son might recognize my friend just said “do you speak Spanish?” and started inserting Spanish words instead

cecut

what do red pandas even do

cecut

I MEANT AS SELF DEFENSE STOP THE HATRED im sorry red pandas

sokkalore

does this answer your question

crit20lesbian

anexperimentallife

daffythefox

"you don't have to perform around me" sweetheart i have to perform in front of myself

angelic-holland

why is this so funny to me

61below

The Peak Millennial Experience is apologizing to servers for existing

finalgirlabigailhobbs

liking mutuals’ posts about other fandoms youre not in is like 👍 i have no frame of reference of what you’re talking abt but i know you’re right and I hope you’re winning

citystompers1

Behind the scenes of Godzilla (1998)

memebf

man why didn’t they just have this guy fight him off. dude’s huge

sigmaleph

i wouldn't fight godzilla if i was this dude's size, for roughly the same reason i wouldn't fight a komodo dragon at the size i currently am

squareallworthy

Not even to save New York?

sigmaleph

what has new york ever done for me

etherealspacejelly

me when the disability disables me: oh what the fuck? this sucks. what the hell man!

toadbreath

👀

etc-source4

no i don’t have an “astigmatism” i can just see the halos of the angels that live in car head lights that you losers are too spiritually closed off to see

l0stvegas

sufficientlylargen

God I hate these fucking floating monoliths. They always go, like, 10mph below the speed limit and if you try to pass them they just fucking distort reality around them until you're back behind them again. One of them cut me off on the highway once and when I honked it banished me to a hoary netherworld where I wandered, lost and alone, for untold centuries, trapped in the liminal space between what could have been and what never was, black stars dotting the bright infinity yawning out around me as I drove out of thought and time, through endless ruined cities and blighted lands unmarked by the sun's cold rays, and when I finally got out I was more than 20m late for my dentist appointment and they had to reschedule me.