#Mainstream narratives

[in-sightpublishing]

Conversation with Ginger Coy on Psychology of Conspiracy Theorists in America: Independent Journalist

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#Agency #America #autism spectrum #Coalitions #Conspiracy theorists #Continued secrecy #DSM-5 #hostility #ICD-11 #Mainstream narratives #Partisan conflict #Patterns #Psychological profile #Watergate

[didanawisgi]

#controversy #zoonosis #biological WMD #virology #mainstream narratives

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

realised. dean is the perfect viewer avatar for a horror show. he gets to be both the action hero and the quippy, self-aware wiseguy who knows he's in a horror show. he provides a safe point; a comfortable power fantasy for you to experience a story through. he's ash in the evil dead. he's a gunslinging tough guy, and you get to see those moments where heroism sits on his shoulders like an ill-fitting leather jacket. and even when he gets his turn at being captured and victimised by the narrative, it's filtered through this mythic lens first. he's the tormented hero; tortured by villains, tortured by the constraints of his role. yeah he gets bruised, beaten bloody to a pulp, torn to shreds and killed, but his perception of reality never gets thrown into serious doubt (unless it's played out as a gag). the narrative valorises his sense of right and wrong, because that's what heroic stories do. their heroes provide moral center, regardless of how we might judge them. the lines dividing hero, anti-hero, and villian are paper thin, and dean isn't truly ever allowed to be ambiguous. and the hero always wins in the end, even when he dies.

meanwhile sam is the abject object of the horror show, a character who gets trussed up, chased, tied up, ripped apart, cut into, possessed, exploited, manipulated and psychologically hounded. he's carrie covered in pig's blood. he's the marginal person people are cheering on either to die - or to live past it all. he gets his turn at playing both movie monster and victim, always occupying the liminal space between both. abject horror lives within him. he's violated with demon blood, he consumes demon blood. he hates halloween because he vomited his guts up in front of a room of normal children. he will never get to be normal, he's designated the freak on multiple levels, but most significantly, by the way his narrative frames him. he's living inside a world that is at its core, fundamentally frightening and horrifying - full control over himself and his surroundings is always slipping away, just beyond his reach. his grip on reality and the world around him gets thrown into question by the story consistently. what's right? what's wrong? what's real? what isnt? the narrative punishes him - because that's what happens to you when you're living in a horror. he can never run away from his nightmare reality, it catches up to him like a curse nipping at his heels. the only way out for him is through the punishing fire. in order to survive, he's required to be pushed to the absolute brink of instability; emotionally, physically and mentally. he emerges out the other end, barely holding it together but somehow alive - like the bloody final girl, changed irrevocably by what she's experienced.

#FINALLY releasing this. oof #finalgirlsamwinchester blog thesis statement #i do also think this is where the fundamental tension between how both brothers are treated by the narrative and the audience comes from. #it's interesting that the moment the show swaps into a grand heroic narrative (s4-5) its perspective shifts primarily to dean's #and as the show grew into becoming a primarily action adventure narrative. dean takes center stage! that's his home genre! #sam fades away bc ultimately. the kind of horror he lives in isn't appealing to the Generalist possible audience. #at the end of the day. guy designated as The Freak has less mainstream appeal :(( #my meta #j.txt

[fellhellion]

looking up video essays analysing the queer themes of persona 4 has been such an Experience. You will ping pong between white men condescending to u that there’s absolutely no way to read queer subtext (LET ALONE TEXT!) and tiny channels made by queer fans passionately explaining their readings of this game.

#as soon as someone starts off a naoto gender essay with she/her pronouns u know it’s gonna be all downhill from there #specifically SPECIFICALLY for the way people are so. SO unwilling to truly be open to seeing queer text and subtext #it’s so aligned w w the way the narrative handles some of these topics in a ‘wow. crazyinsane THAT happens! <- makes fun of queer identity #or relegates it to the role simply being a symptom of societal unease #when like. look the game came out in 2008 and considering the reading I’ve started to have done on how queer Japanese scholarship has #developed over the years and what particular things have influenced it and how mainstream information ABOUT queer identities have changed a #lot over the years I’m not surprised persona 4 is Like That. but I also think we aren’t restricted to simply agreeing w the narrative’s #conclusions #you CAN examine the text for yourself and argue for why it comes to the conclusions it does #tunes talks critical #tunes talks persona

[thorniest-rose]

find it really fascinating that modern shows about queer characters and queer desire & romance are all very sweet and twee and funny (Heartstopper, Good Omens, OFMD, also that Red, White & Royal Blue movie)... where are the shows about queer desire that are violent and messy and hard-hitting? I want stories where queer desire is something carnal and complicated,,, these other examples all feel so safe and antiseptic.

#something something queer narratives only being acceptable when they're mainstream #queer desire is only comfortable when it's funny

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

Person who thinks literally everything is a deep-state conspiracy: getting some real deep-state conspiracy vibes from this

#every time something happens you all emerge with your Big Think emojis #oh the mainstream narrative just doesn’t add up?? #you have questions?? #🤔🤔🤔

[hiddenbysuccubi]

"Why's it necessary to have transphobes calling X character their deadname-" To show exactly what we face. That it is ugly and unnecessary. To parallel their grandmum fumbling but doing their best. To show how I still have to hear my birth name in legal settings. To show that my mom isn't really an ally but is trying for my sake. to show humanity and that it isn't just easy A B C the character is This without even Trying. To connect with a varied audience. Why the entirety of fuck do you want it sugar coated and dumbed down for you? In a perfect world yes it DOESN'T MATTER. But for how often it does matter - IT MATTERS. It matters that I get to see this character facing the harship I have faced AND SHRUGGING IT OFF. It does MATTER that their family accepts them even if they struggle with correcting the pronoun they use. The Star Beast handled this correctly and I'm glad our LGBT rep producer handled this the way he did. I'm sorry that the younger generations don't appreciate this the way I do.

#Doctor Who #Sorry not sorry #The Star Beast #You have to appreciate subtext to appreciate when they break through subtext to just make it text #some of the posts I've read recently want to jump through a dozen hoops without effort or appreciating the mainstream backlash it takes #AT ALL #We won today #it's wonderful #Now stop discounting everyone who came before you to enjoy it #We WILL get to effortless text someday #Now stop belittling those of us who didn't get this when we were your age and discouraging those who can give us this now #Do we deserve better yes #But this is something huge for BBC and a newly backed Disney narrative #And remember not to be prejudiced and phobic to those who experience queer different than you or face being no better than the haters

[tavtime]

headcanoning monogamous characters as polyamorous is free, fun, and easy to do! additionally, it is always both cool and sexy 😎

#why am i posting this to my bg3 blog you ask? well. it is because. i am tired. #tag rant here we go: #when people hc straight characters as gay or bi there (mostly) isn't nearly this much pushback #because people understand that bias in storytelling means there just were never going to be as many queer characters in canon #so making your own is understood as creating your own stake in a heteronormative narrative #but when you do the same thing with polyam characters suddenly it's Disrespecting The Character bc 'that's not how they're written' #like no shit? polyamory as an identity is no more respected in mainstream storytelling than being queer is #so yeah. yeah. your canon monogamous boy is part of my polycule now. he's engaging with the beauty of commitment to multiple people at once #i helped your girl work through her possessive and jealous instincts with patience and care. she's our girl now. #anyway! no matter how much this fanfom clearly doesn't want me to be here doing this i remain #saltposting #baldur's gate 3

[rawliverandgoronspice]

Have you watched three of BatGames' rant videos about ToTK? I'm curious what you think about them

I'm sorry I had never replied to this ask!!! My brain was full of worms for my defense (it's a bad defense I know I'm sorry).

I have seen two out of three! But I pretty much agree with what I've seen. I would have liked to see the whole ideological shenanigans touched on, but it's a really *really* niche critique after all (unfortunately), so I, yeah. I think he paints a really good portrait of what did bother me otherwise, and even helped me formulate things I knew bothered me but I hadn't truly addressed in my head yet.

I'm not always super fond of all the theory stuff he does, but we're on the same wavelength when it comes to TotK's shortcomings!

#asks #totk #totk critical #bandit games #thanks for the ask!! #shoutout to the “they never cared about the story” video in particular #I'm glad someone is countering this weird narrative in the mainstream #because it's so!!! aggravating #and it's factually wrong #also! miyamoto or even the directors =/= the entire team #author worship tends to be even worse in discourse surrounding japanese companies for some reason #there are people working on these games beyond the management level and I'm sure they care deeply about their work!!

[rondoel]

People who enjoyed Outer Wilds, I think you’d also like The Swapper.

It’s another indie space game with stunning visuals, beautiful music, fun puzzles and amazing existential narrative.

I remember the ending leaving longest lasting impression on me of any game I’ve ever played. Seriously shook me to my core.

Here’s my absolutely favourite piece of soundtrack as an incentive:

#it's seriously underrated #if it came out in like 2019 instead of 2013 #I think it would totally join the mainstream #people enjoy this kind of narrative much more these days than back then

[tattooed-alchemist]

What is the mainstream U.S. media’s greatest single distortion about the protests at Columbia University and elsewhere? Here’s the winner so far: the media is ignoring the fact that Jewish students are participating in the pro-Palestinian protests, and therefore they might have valuable things to say about the charges of “rising antisemitism” on their campuses. Their comments would have been particularly pertinent because just last week, Columbia’s president had been interrogated by a hostile committee in the House of Representatives, where she seemed to concede that antisemitism was a real danger.

#Mainstream media #distortion of information #False narrative

[seventh-fantasy]

remembering tonight "变得不适应因为它们原本来自江河大海 世上本不应该有池塘" (said by a monk character) and thinking about the sea being repeatedly suggested to be the place with the last traces of lxy - and llh - in this world

#rough tl: 'they found themselves out of place bc they came from the rivers and sea. there ought not to be ponds in the world to begin with' #(it's just going home) #lz 1994 is not a perfect film to me but it's got some banger lines that GET IT. #once again this is not anything new i'm saying about lhl/llh but everyday i ruminate and think. oh they understand OKAY. #they know what they're doing. it's all in the narrative and the motifs #mainstream cnet reading of lhl/llh has always taken a buddhist lens. and thinking about that one cfan who specifically said chan/zen: #the journey of liberating yourself is. smth you can attain in ordinary mortal life but it's also smth that warrants continuous reiteration #it rings so true to lxy's life. you think you've shed pretensions of your old life and indeed you have gained new perspective and clarity #until it stops serving you and you realise it's not enough and it's time to move again #if the idea of llh is built on the denial of the idea of lxy #then towards the end of the show lxy realises this distinction is one-sided and imagined #if what 'llh' had offered to him is the taste of liberation and freedom then clearly it had run its course. face it. it's time to move #he experiments with his identities like he experiments with his cooking. the last one's alr good enough. why stick to it #anw there's no coherence in this post. just tacking thoughts all to this like a board so that i'll eventually write a proper post. maybe #lhlmeta #lhl #my posts #GOOD NIGHT IT'S 2AM jfc not again

[lilalilan]

There's just something kind of lonely about being trans in a way that doesn't line up with the mainstream narratives about transness

[gingerswagfreckles]

Hot take we gotta start posting on Facebook more, especially in regards to class struggle. Every time I post about the crazy ways the rich are screwing us over on there I get at least a dozen boomers up in my comments going hey that's insane what the fuck!!!! And it's like hell yeah Deborah B. that is terrible isn't it!! Maybe AOfuckingC ISN'T such a crazy radical after all!!

Start posting about it to those who need to hear it lol. We're just preaching to the choir over here.

#class solidarity #gingerswagfreckles #its like a few old relatives but every time i get at least a couple random 68 year olds wandering into my posts #going damn back in my day we used to threaten to shoot our bosses when they tried this crap!! #and its like fuck yeah man!! ur right we should bring this back!! #in all seriousness its so much easier to radicalize old ppl than the mainstream narrative would have u believe #most of them just arent as tuned in to whats happening #but when u put the info in front of them theyre like hey i want to kill someone actually!

[xcziel]

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#it's like ferguson all over again #livestreams and posts but the narrative in mainstream media is like we're not even on the same planet

[archtroop]

#icj #media bias #or: media does whatevs on its mind nowadays apparently #whatever fits the narrative #in this regard all mainstream media is just a rumors section and a paparazzo outlet st best #joan donoghue