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saintsenara · 2 days

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do you go with word of god about how tom would have been better off if merope lived and raised him or that it would have been even worse for him and merope would have become infatuated because of his resemblance to tom riddle sr? (Similar to how part of the fandom believes snape would be if harry resembled lily lmao) which of do you think its more interesting route?

thank you very much for the ask, anon!

i go for the first of the two options - that merope living would have been so much better for wee tom riddle jr. - not because it's what jkr says, but because i tend to loathe any interpretation of merope's character which undermines the fact that so much of her life could have been changed at numerous crucial moments by anyone connected to the wizarding state giving a fuck.

merope is a teenage girl who lives in abject poverty, has a treatable medical condition [exotropia - eyes which stare in different directions] for which she clearly hasn't received any medical care, is denied an education, is subjected to physical violence by her father right there on the canon page, and is implied in canon to be subjected to incestuous sexual violence by her father and/or brother. the state has numerous opportunities to remove her from this experience - when marvolo fails to respond to her hogwarts letter, when bob ogden visits the gaunts - and yet doesn't, and while i don't think that just being taken away from morfin and marvolo would have solved everything, it would have given her the safety to start healing...

i get why the idea of merope as this sinister, unhinged, devouring, unchangeable bundle of malevolence, who would destroy her own son by becoming infatuated with him, is compelling when the genre demands it to be - i've written her as a folk-horror villain myself, and she was perfect for the role - but in fics which aren't intentionally going for that sort of supernatural, dark fairytale, horror-story vibe... i don't think it hits.

merope's great tragedy - much like her son's - is that she is someone capable of and longing for a normal life, but who is denied this by the corrosive forces of grief, poverty, abuse, and indifference and who goes on to perpetuate harm in turn.

as i've said elsewhere, her rape [and we should call it what it is] of tom riddle sr. doesn't actually need to have any undercurrent of sadistic, unhinged infatuation to be both morally abhorrent and canon-coherent - her treatment at her father and brother's hands would hardly have given her an understanding of consent or bodily autonomy [and might also have made her believe that drugging a man until you can totally control him is the only way to prevent him hurting you], while the fact that the state just leaves her on her own after marvolo and morfin are arrested [with - presumably - no income to speak of] means that she can be understood as seeing tom sr. as her only escape from sliding ever further down the ladder of destitution.

does that mean that she didn't also - selfishly - desire tom sr.? absolutely not. it just means that i find it much more interesting when the idea of her wanting him for herself is given equal weight with all the other things in her life which shape her character - and that i also find it much more interesting when these forces are recognised as commonplace, human, and having pretty much nothing to do with magic.

[the state would not - after all - have had to raise a wand in order to unravel the abuse to which she is subjected... since it does this all the time in the real world - and i am definitely a sucker for stories which acknowledge that the greatest flaws in the wizarding world don't depend in the slightest on magic, but on human corruption.]

if she'd survived childbirth - while i'm certainly not suggesting that i think she'd have been a flawless mother, nor that the absence of a wizarding welfare state wouldn't have made their lives incredibly difficult - i think it's legitimately implausible to suggest that she'd have done anything other than love her son as her son [so, without any incestuous vibe].

[her comment - "i hope he looks like his papa" - is, i think, meant as mrs cole takes it - that she recognises that she's someone who isn't conventionally attractive by any means, and that she knows that tom riddle sr. is.]

#asks answered #asenora meta #merope gaunt #tom riddle #lord voldemort

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kirimoochi · 3 days

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00 - i found you.

₊˚ ᗢ synopsis; your childhood friend and bandmate moved away from your hometown to pursue music, leaving you behind. you break away from the punk rock scene, slowly building up your idol persona until you eventually move to tokyo, not to find love, but to find yourself.

⤷ genres/warnings; smau, band/idol au, slow burn, pining, fluff, angst, implied sexual intercourse, social media drama, scandals, toxic relationships, fem!reader.

⤷masterlist; here.

(name) stares down at her phone with a pensive expression, a thick frown resting on her lips as she continues her walk down the empty street. it was dark with some fog lingering in the air. the leather jacket she bundled up in kept her warm as she inhaled a deep breath, a cigarette hanging from her mouth.

earlier today, lumine had requested she meet with her immediately after work, talking about how she wanted to introduce her long-time boyfriend, childe, to her. the sour expression wasn’t because of her boyfriend per se. she told herself she stopped caring about love. not after what happened that cold, winter night. to her, love was the one thing that kept her from being her true self. she didn’t want to be tied down by any man or woman. she was a free bird. the only thing she claims to love is music because it's the one thing in life that won’t leave.

it was just a simple request from lumine, just a few minutes of your day. it wasn’t anything to be worried about. yet something felt off. she should have known by the groans of an old crow that tonight wasn’t just any night. and the vague sight of lumine’s golden hair, now tangled and messy, confirmed nothing but the worst in her stomach.

(name) is surprised to see lumine sobbing in her hands. she curls herself beside the only working light pole in the street. she was well-dressed today with a light pink scarf and white sweater. if it wasn’t for her crocodile tears, it might have been the perfect outfit for a date. lumine wipes at her face. her shoulders shaking with every second. (name) quickly makes it over to her side, crouching down to hold her.

“lumine, what happened? is everything alright?” she asked, her heart beating in her ears as lumine looked up at her. her cheeks were flushed and the bottom lids of her eyes were puffy, as if she was crying for a long time. (name) drops her cigarette to the ground, the flicker of ember being snuffed by the wind. lumine lunges forward, squeezing her in a tight hug as she buries her face in the crook of her neck. “what happened to your boyfriend? shouldn’t he be here with you?”

“he isn’t here,” she whispers, holding onto (name)’s leather jacket with an iron grip as she tries her hardest not to tremble any more than she is now. pressing her lips together, she tries to piece together the night, but every memory she stumbles upon leads her to the unfortunate truth.

childe had run off with another woman. her name was katherine, she says. she and childe worked at the same restaurant together. she was the same server who cut her finger after dropping a glass of water. lumine wants to understand his intentions. why was he more concerned about this other woman, more than his girlfriend? they’ve been together the longest. lumine moved from her hometown to be with childe. he promised her that he would never fall for another woman, especially not one named katherine. and yet lumine couldn’t believe it. he was clearly in love with someone that isn’t her. and she couldn’t stand it. she doesn’t want to look at him any longer than did had to.

(name) decides to hold back her sigh as she lifts lumine up, squeezing the side of her waist as she gestures her home. the walk was a lot longer than she remembered. it might have been the extra weight she had to carry but she doesn’t let this thought distract her from lumine’s sniffles. because regardless of how long they’ve walked, and how heavy lumine weighed on her shoulders, they had more than enough time. tonight, everything was quiet and slow.

the two of them laid in (name)’s bed, lumine’s wraps wrapped tightly around her as she cries herself to sleep. the (h/c) woman doesn’t say anything. she only closes her eyes, rubbing lumine’s back every once in a while to show that she was here. and that the gentle pumps of her heartbeat were enough to say that she would stay.

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soosoosoup · 13 days

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Funk branch au

Au and branch design by @bbc-trolls

#dreamworks trolls #trolls #trolls au #trolls branch #trolls prince d #trolls queen essence #trolls king quincy #thank you bbc-trolls!! for both making this au! and for giving permission for fanart <3 #oooghghg love this au #never knew I needed something so much #Funk family! your perfect! your everything #forgive me my queen! had a hard time drawing you #funk trolls are a bit of a struggle lol #‘branch gets adopted by another tribe’ you will always be famous #yeh funk fam and even funk trolls as a whole would be a good fit for branch #their advanced tech. how accepting/understanding they are (cue twt talk about differences) and did you see them get ready to battle!#the more I think abt this au the more I love it #the more I think about funk trolls the more I LOVE THEM<3 #they're so cool #this took a little long to make. kept adding more and more lol #in case your wondering Quincy is giving a talk about how him being different to both pop and funk is okay and should be cherished #like that talk in twt about how the strings/troll genres are different and to not deny it cause it's an important.#silk sonic on repeat making this! edit: forgot to say thanks to lonedawn for mentioning the album on bbc’s og post! you are so right <3 #also listened to other funky songs #need more funk music!! it reaches as special part of the soul #can not recommend 'atomic dog world tour remix' enough. it's so good. prince d's verse at 1:27 fav #trolls fanart #excuse the messiness #funk branch au #my art <3

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rad-roche · 5 months

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i think part of what makes the fallout setting so compelling to me is that, personally, the very, very broad strokes of the world aren't interesting to me, but the closer you zoom in on it the more fascinating it becomes. i think it serves as a really compelling foundation for genre fiction because it has so much to pull from. the regressive politics and pop/pulp culture of an exaggerated hyper 50s and the atomic age, and the desolation, black comedy and wry optimism of the post apoc. i wrote a hardboiled noir, but that's only because i like it the best. for fan projects not beholden to hundreds of millions of dollars being thrown around, i think it has strong enough bones to support almost anything you throw at it. spaghetti western, creature horror stuff, crime dramas, because it was built on all these things in the first place. in my ideal world, i'd love to see an honest to god hollywood golden age wasteland musical played completely straight

#fallout #it's the perfect amount of self-aware where it can get a little cute about what it's doing #but not so self-aware where you get that awful feeling that the book/movie etc is apologising to you for existing #like parodies that don't like or understand the genre they're pulling from #visual novels that clearly hate visual novels etc #dead man talking #dead woman walking

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weregonnabecoolbeans · 2 months

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Twilight (2008) is a genuinely good movie and I can’t wait till the day when everyone finally agrees

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bas-writes · 11 months

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y'know, it's absolutely valid for people to not want engaging in One Piece because of its misogynistic parts, but I just can't help wondering what kind manga/anime do they enjoy then 'cause, with all acknowledgment of its problematic and/or badly written parts, One Piece is still one of the least misogynistic mainstream series.

and I am painfully reminded of this every time I pick a new series up. seriously. it's like a reality bitch slap after which I immediately stop complaining about Nami, Robin, Hiyori and the others (sorry, Tashigi, you still don't get the pass, you're so badly written you're beyond saving, and in addition I don't like you).

so far, only Fullmetal Alchemist and Jujutsu Kaisen passed the check. I have a vague memory of Bleach being okay? but I need a solid refreshment cause it's been years

ah, and Golden Kamuy, of course, but it's not a manga, it's an experience.

stuff like Demon Slayer or Haikyuu might not have the boomer jokes and fanservice, but honestly, I'll take Oda's hehe booba over whatever sad joke of a shadow fem characters are in series like this. and I'm saying this from a level of huge enjoyment those brought me.

#please don't 'but shoujo' @ me cause shoujo as a genre has its own luggage of problems to unpack #internalized misogyny IS a thing and many female authors suffer from it #and no I don't read generic shounens only even if shounens are probably my fav audience focus #at work I deal with a variety of genres #Oda really is THAT GOOD writer and artist #I wish he came down from the level of his ego to actually take criticism or at least listen what readers have to say #(the latest fit over Hiyori in sbs was a perfect example #'how did you not understand it read harder lol'#dude the fact that you HAD TO explain it right in the volume because so many people missed your point #is a proof that this scene was not clear enough)#but even at his lowest he's still miles above the average #anyway it's been a rant lol #maybe I should just stop overanalysing people but hey I am curious #bas mumbles

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no1ryomafan · 4 months

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My brain has gone back and forth on between which anime if arma or new is my favorite. Cause even with all its issues Arma means a lot to me, it’s the reason I got into getter and helped me through one of the worst times of my life- But then new is objectively better written and it drives me nuts compared to arma it’s not talked about ENOUGH despite all the stuff you can poke at from it’s plot and I’m trying to pinpoint that reason since the general consensus is “no one hates new and it gets a lot of fanart in the Japanese community yet it’s never deeply acknowledged so it feels unpopular”

So my standpoint is “do I keep investing into the popular iteration despite its issues or do I invested into the less flawed unpopular iteration when it comes to introducing getter to new people?” cause man as much as I’m a critical person of media I still can forgive some messy writing if I have a good time with it and can clearly tell the staff had fun making it, which is definitely armas case. (Though they absolutely had fun with new too)

#meg text #getter robo #this general philosophy I have is why im not harshly critical on SVN next to “I think it fulfills it’s purpose”#and a few other mechas I’ve seen but not gonna tag because I don’t wanna put them in their tag when this is just getter #I was tempted to make a post asking about what people don’t find appealing about new but it be on twit and blegh #I’d ask it here and if anyone has input feel FREE to put but my following is way to small to generate the feedback I want #but on Twitter people are dumb and I’m not taking the “new has bad animation” take any longer bc it’s cherry picked #next to “we all know this is better animation then arc LOL” even if that whole debate as stupid #but past that point I’m trying to understand what people don’t like to find new unappealing when it’s flaws aren’t turn offs #like Musashibo not having a proper character arc and the villains not being consistent is a big one but doesn’t make the show bad #especially because there’s still good from those issues being Musashibo still a fun character and the villains don’t ruin the pacing #you could maybe make the argument new starts off slow but also all of the introduction episodes are engaging??#there’s not a single thing about new-let alone getter when it’s paced right-that feels sluggish #Also for a 13 ep show picking up in the middle makes the MOST sense in comparison to a longer ep series #the middle is when shit hits the fan tbh #im gonna be at war until I hear someone’s in depth opinion but I just WANNA figure out what turns off people from new #cause when I also watched it in a group I had irls drop out of it midway through but I could chalk it up to they weren’t huge on mecha #Even if I argue new is the PERFECT mecha show to recommend to someone who’s skeptical of the genre but I digress

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justanisabelakinnie · 8 months

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I was pretty bored yesterday and in a bitter mood and so I ended up spam-reblogging a shitload of anti-Madoka Magica posts(and no I’m not sorry, because no matter fucking what I will never stop hating on that trashfest of an anime), and obviously there’s nothing much really that I can say about it that hasn’t already been said by both me and other people in the past but lemme just say how FUCKED up it is…that grown men can look at a genre full of light and hope and female solidarity and empowerment for girls that teaches them that they can be whatever they want to be and that they should never stop believing in themselves and striving for greatness and go “nope, fuck that, instead of all of that happy fun girl power shit let’s write an edgy grimdark dystopia where being a girl with dreams and a desire to strive for greatness is a bad thing that can only end in suffering and punishment, where the survival of the universe and progress of humanity literally hinges on girls being tortured and killed en masse for wishing for something that would make them happy, where girls are universally portrayed as overemotional and impressionable and susceptible and weak and must slay each other in order to survive because they’ll go berserk and monstrous once their power inevitably gets the better of them, and where the only way to escape this ending is by dying and being erased from existence, because that’s the best girls can hope for, and as the icing on the sour cake, let’s aim it at an adult male audience so that they can watch girls suffer and perish and be psychologically broken for their own entertainment, all because they wanted something for themselves and had the gall and the selfishness to go after it.”

And instead of people seeing it for the sexist torture porn that it is it gets glowing reviews on every platform, people eat this shit up and say that this sleazy adult male-aimed show about barely adolescent girls suffering because they wanted something more for themselves is feminist actually, that actually all of the turmoil that the girls go through is a totally girl power metaphor for how girls suffer at the hands of patriarchy in the real world, and how the torture porn got subverted at the end when really all the end did was show the girls continuing to suffer because of their wishes but hey at least they’ll get the sweet release of death in the end, and how the all-male writing staff definitely meant for this to be the next feminist coming of Jesus despite the fact that they say they weren’t inspired by any Magical Girl works that came before them and were instead inspired by porn games…Madoka is the most progressive and revolutionary anime ever really, even more so than those insightful shows about Magical Girls that are actually aimed at girls and actually feature female empowerment and angst done well and not just for the sole purpose of letting men watch female characters suffer, those other shows are just stupid and shallow and bland and don’t know what they’re talking about, Madoka is where it’s at. Take it from me, a 35-year-old man who has never seen a single Magical Girl anime in my life except for Madoka Magica. If you don’t agree with me or if you dare to critique my soulless male gaze moebait, then you’re obviously just dumb and ignorant and don’t understand the deep philosophical nuances of this shoddy anime, I mean just look at Madoka’s mom! She’s the breadwinner of her family! Sure she’s not important to the plot on a whole and it’s not like Heartcatch Precure has done this character archetype better or anything but she’s proof that the writers are feminist icons who set out to empower women! Now watch as me and the rest of my Madoka-loving friends proceed to bully and harass the shit out of you for not sharing our vapid opinions until you either delete your account, change your tune and say you like Madoka now and were so wrong and stupid before, or stop talking about how much you hate Madoka entirely. And anyway teenage girls really ARE irrational, hysterical, and constantly on their cycles. Of course they’ll get taken advantage of for it! That’s not misogynistic to point out, that’s just the biotruth!

#anti-pmmm #in fact even if you do like madoka but critique it the rabid swarths of its fanbase will still harass you #because madoka is the perfect shining beacon of mahou shoujo anime and anyone coming for it must be burnt at the stake like a witch #(no pun intended)#gosh golly gee aren’t I so glad that my favorite power fantasy genre for girls got ‘saved’ ‘revolutionized’ and ‘deconstructed’(🤮)#by the likes of gen urobutcher #and then people want to say that the grimdark animes that came after madoka ‘missed the point of the original show’ as if madoka didn’t mis #the point of the entire genre first…lol like these shows don’t all have a common denominator for a goddamn reason #ik this post isn’t coherent at all i mean good on you if you understand it but if not idfc #i just hate this anime and need to vent #i wish it would diaf #sexism #misogyny #magical girl #anti-gen urobuchi #vent post #my post

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guest-1-2-3 · 10 months

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Idk about you but i love it when fanfic is unrealistic. just like full “everything works out the way we want it to” kind of shit. yes! they fall in love and they’re happy together and everyone supports them and are happy for them! nothing bad happens they’re just in love! and everyone loves them being in love! i read fanfic to escape from the sadness of real life why on earth would i want it to be realistic

#ofc i also live for hurt/comfort angst with a happy ending stuff #when it’s PAINFUL but we get through it and happiness at the end yay!#what i cant do is full angst im sorry it’s a story i want it to work out perfectly in the end #bittersweet ending? sad ending? hurt no comfort? fuck that shit #i am reading fiction i better have a perfect happily ever after #not dissing angst lovers i don’t understand but i respect your choice of genre #ao3 #fanfic #fandom things #fanfic things

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quetzalpapalotl · 11 months

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Ok, I calmed down. I am not trying to say that no yuri is catering to straight men, far from it. Yuri is kind of an ambiguous term, unlike BL where you can have a show about a gay relationship like YOI still not be categorized as such, yuri can sort of be considered any story with lesbian themes."

"Yuri" has its origins in stories written by women for women codified, and it's true that these motifs were later co-opted by men for men (but even then I wouldn't accuse lesbians who enjoys these stories of fetichizing lesbianism ffs). But that doesn't mean women suddenly stopped altogether. Not only is yuri broad, but it's alive and transforming. Yuri manga today looks very different than it did 10 years ago. It has a complex history.

So to say things like that all yuri is written by men, that there are no butches in yuri, that there aren't yuri that try to portray the reality of being a gay woman, to say that wlw have "settled" with voyeuristic portrayals shows that you don't really know what you're talking about. Which is fine. You don't even need to be interested in yuri. But it makes you unfit to have this conversation. And to swat a whole foreign genre that you don't know much about because it doesn't speak to your specific experience is really what bothers me.

#and also yeah the whole thing about holding women to a higher standard in their tastes #anyway uh dynasty scans isn't perfect with its tagging #but there is a non-moe art tag that may be of interest to some #also a lot of why yuri isn't realistic is more about genre convention but even so #morishima published happy picture day in 2002 there were always gay women trying to speak to their realities #also i feel like tumblr's understanding of yuri is very conflated with moe girls doing cute things anime #which i mean is also yuri by some definition but uuuuh....#it's repetitive by its nature of an essay collection and there is some other stuff with it #but it consolidates a lot of information in a single place for english readers so

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catsaysmlem · 1 year

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living like this is EXTREMELY sexy of him ngl. this set design deserves an award for completely understanding the character and for not being afraid to go All OUT. and i need to point out no other action movie guy could ever or will ever be able to carry this living space off without it looking like he's trying and failing at doing too much. but not maverick as played by tom cruise. with him and him alone does it look simply like getting a peek into the natural habitat of someone known for having jetfuel in their blood.

#jetfuel in his blood #jetfuel is his blood #top gun the movie and maverick the character were both part of pop culture in a huge way for 35 years before this sequel came out #and one thing they symbolise in popular memory is apparatus of locomotion by land air and sometimes sea that go very fast #and so does tom cruise #with any other action movie star this set would simply not mean anything to us the audience except that they were trying too hard #its only with tom cruise and this character in this sequel to this movie that a seet design like this actually holds #almost an emotional instinctual understanding for the audience #you look at the bigger pieces of this living space he's made for himself and you think of course he lives like this its maverick #you look at the smaller pieces and discover new depths new journeys hes been on for the 35 years since we last met him #this set is a perfect combination of tribute to the space this character has occupied in pop culture for 35 years #and an insight on the journey he's on in this movie #you're not even thinking they designed his home like this because he's a cool action hero in a cool action movie #even though both are true #but mostly it just makes sense like getting the reveal of the natural habitat of a legendary pokemon would #also masterful choices were made to portray the character in the way cruise did in this sequel #the wry tired genuine earnestness and compassion that transform the actiony trappings of the genre the character is in #from just shallow fun to a very warm emotionally resonant cultural phenomenon of a movie #with him as its steel spine #but that's a whole other post

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crowtits · 3 months

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thank you for my life

#truly an unimpeachable country song #literally 0 excuse not to play it on country radio #if this ain't on the top of the charts all summer then we know why #you can even line dance to it 😭😭#if you don't listen to country music then I don't think you understand how perfect this song is for the gebre #it's so light and free and charming #i know country music in general (the mainstream stuff) has this habit of trying to be other genres #bc it's embarrassed about being country (see bro country etc)#but country music is so so good when it's just being itself #everyone say thank you beyonce #Spotify

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mejomonster · 2 years

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i still think about that post that mentioned different levels of reading comprehension... i’m going to look for it to reblog again...

just like. i don’t usually think of adult reading comprehension in ‘levels’. i tend to assume ‘oh everyone can understand when a narration is emotional, its biased and implying information about the narrator’s emotions and biases and is not necessarily reliable’ and don’t realize some people comprehend a bit less, just the face value of ‘narration says X is disgusting, so X is, narrator says Y is true so its true’ and interpret texts based on that. and some comprehend less than that, not noticing there’s even an emotional overtone anywhere, and the writing says X so X is simply true.

A lot of these skills get taught to some degree in school, when english classes made us do literary analysis of texts. And perhaps more important since it involves factual information, when school would make us evaluate sources for our essays and figure out what bias writers have and evaluate which part of articles is writer’s opinion and which part is actual facts. Critical reading skills we need to determine if something is an ad trying to convince us of something or an informational update, to determine if something is trying to manipulate us, to determine if the information portion we read is backed up by other sources or likely not actually true, to determine the biases of all informational media we consume (because even simple stock updates and history books all have some tinge of the biases of the writer/presenter). These skills help keep us safe on the internet, help us look for information to make decisions, help us recognize when we are being manipulated, recognize various media’s goals toward convincing us of things and still being able to sort through for the facts connected. For example when there is a shooting at X with Y people injured, that’s a fact, and then everything the reporters say beyond that about ways it could be prevented/shouldn’t have happened is their opinion, and how the words they use to describe the facts themselves like if ‘kid’ or ‘criminal’ is used to describe the shooter and what words describe the police and victims etc all are still used to push the writer’s opinion.

I would like to hope, since figuring out facts versus opinions is such a vital skill for simple online safety (from malicious ads, propaganda, dangerous groups) and for simple real life safety (figuring out if a recall for food happened, figuring out if a location in the state is currently unsafe to travel to), that hopefully most people learned that ability to discern. I also realize now that I’m older, how useful that skill is, and how I still have more to learn and practice in being able to do it.

Well, that skill is vital in discerning fact versus opinion of nonfiction and opinion media. But it’s also a skill needed to understand stories, fiction, and again it just. Surprises me how its not actually a given that readers who find something, watchers who find something, will actually have the full ability to discern the intent and meanings that a creator put into something.

#rant #i just. idk i think about this and get how people see something like #idk old school Xmen and DONT see how its allegory calling out conservatives making discriminatory laws #i think about this and it explains so much about how media especially perhaps media widely engaged with and #engaged with a younger audience. can get misunderstood.#a person without this skill cant tell rage against the machine isnt actually about hating technology #a person without this skill cant watch Not Me and get that Sean is like he is because of his traumatic upbringing #and that Sean grows and does not start perfect.#a person without this skill may read an mxtx work like svsss and not GET that its satire making fun of and making POINTS about the genre its #referencing. get that its commenting on the black lotus character type. the overpowered harem novel stories. and commenting on webnovel #culture's toxic traits in general.#mxtx fandom sometimes has infighting thats like X is good but Y is bad. and all is by same author #and sometimes i think some of it is a reading comprehension difference depending on different readers #like. even just understanding 'this is a translation. its unlikely to perfectly communicate the original texts intent/style/meaning' is #not always thought about or considered #it always shocks me to remember such a simple thing.#that of course not all people have reading comprehension to the same degree.#because i usually read stuff that requires a high comprehension of whats implied and NOT on the page directly stated.#because even in chinese and french i am so used to looking at that level that i practice doing it in my other languages too #even before i could read perfect. the idea of not noticing the authors style and how it affects their effect/meaning/point #how what tropes they pick and what biases they put in the narration TELL you things. how the things they omit TELL you things.#i guess tldr: if you wonder why ppl dont get a point in media you get? maybe they just are not comprehending that layer #and its always good for all of us to practice critical reading skills #because even when we think we know how to do it. there's real life spheres like news and ads #where their goal is to hide the intent layer of their content. and its important for us to still be able to determine their intent.

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orcelito · 1 year

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Got the local 16 year old employee to listen to Muse today. She's one of the most normal ppl who work at the store. Super sweet, but Super sheltered.

I mentioned how my "modern rock" tag on Spotify is like 80% Muse, Des Rocs, and Nothing But Thieves, & she was like "I have heard of None of those". And I told her "you Probably have heard Muse, even if you didn't know it" & mentioned they have a song in Twilight. & she was like "Wait, really????"

So I played Supermassive Black Hole & she looooved it. & she asked for me to play more of Muse, so I did :')

She's still almost painfully normal overall, but I can at least help spread some new music tastes to her

#speculation nation #she asked if my rock playlist i was playing is a public playlist (aka could she listen to it herself)#and i was just like. sorry im literally just shuffling my spotify likes by music genre :(#& she was like 'oh okay. well ill try listening to more muse and des rocs' bc she liked some of the des rocs that played too #she asked what made smth Rock music & i mentioned it being rowdy and generally fun music (at least to me)#though also generally politically progressive. especially punk rock music #ive gotten in a few conversations with her about these kinds of things. like the treatment of muslim people by the french government #& she brought up how black people are treated there too (she's black so Definitely smth understandable for her to care about)#and today we were talking about classes & got on the topic of history and how we both haaaate history classes #but i mentioned it's important for us to know history anyways so we can try to avoid repeating mistakes in history #& mentioned bullshit like holocaust deniers. so we had a convo about antisemitism & how bullshit it is #idk she may be a normie but i do enjoy talking to her. not everything has to be about nerd interests all the time.#honestly i like being a positive adult figure in a handful of teens' lives.#i may not be perfect but i hope i can impart little nuggets of wisdom to them from time to time.

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1980ssunflower · 1 year

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aouhhh 🥺💖💙🥰

#ot3: ❤rhyme💛easy💙#tape entry circa 1980 #ngl ive been feeling like a bit sad like... i just miss them sm hfdjks #i just wish so SO soso so badly that i could go home to them both back in the 80s #to be w the loves of my life but ALSO to have someone i can talk music to and we can just talk abt music for hours <33 #i can just talk abt it to them and theyll completely understand and give their own thoughts abt whatever song/band/album im talking abt #and id love to hear them go on long insane rants abt their own favorite albums and for them to show me a new album they listened to #something theyd know i like cause we love the same music genres #fuck i just miss them so much... they understand me more than anyone and get along w me more than ANYONE #i couldnt even try to imagine a person who better suites me than them even if i tried to create the perfect person for me #they just ARE already the epitome of perfection for me like we were made to know and love eachother to get along so well to be inseparable #i love them... god i love them both so much just thinking about them always makes me cry #i almost never cry its only ever because of them that i cry...#i miss them so so fucking much i keep thinking about them throughout the day #just imagining me being w them to be able to kiss and hold them and show them just how much i love them both #actually today i was picturing them here w me which is something i never do #i just love and miss them... i feel lonely and just ah... idk i wish i could go off on an adventure w them rn #i want to escape the life im living rn and just run off on the road w them chasing after our dream of being rockstars #tbh id also just love to experience the train together and get to see all that crazy stuff yknow? would make good song writing material lol #idk i feel like i cant truly get into how much i truly love and miss them w/o sounding super depressed and pathetic tbh #so i keep holding myself back from really expressing how i feel abt them

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soryualeksi · 2 years

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The longer I let it simmer, the angrier I get about my annoying, arrogant coworker, I swear.

*talking about learning languages*

Him: "Oh I know some Japanese."

Me: "I know quite a bit of Japanese. *joke about watching anime with it*"

Him: "Well, you DO know that anime doesn't have REAL Japanese right??"

??????????

Absolutely fucking unhinged.

Like. Some Australian dude would be like. "My German is good enough to watch some German daily soap on the side" and that kid would go like "uhm sweaty you know that's not REAL German nobody talks like that in everyday life"

?????????

So fucking annoying.

#I'm not saying my Japanese is perfect #i have to look up sooooo much vocabulary all the time #but yes my good sir asshat they still speak japanese in japanese media even if it's obviously genre media speak a lot of the time #dumb annoying fucking dude #IMMER ZWEIMAL MEHR WIE DU #HALT DEINE FUCKING FRESSE ICH HABE MIR DAS JETZT ÜBER SECHS STUNDEN ANGEHÖRT HALT JETZT DIE FRESSE ALTER #god i fucking hope i wasn't as absolutely fucking insufferable at 18 or 19 i swear to god #yes you can do everything better and your japanese is better than mine because i somehow learned a fake japanese #because checks notes i can also use it to understand anime #???#god fucking damnit so annoying yes you are the bestest in everything i would know because you WON'T SHUT UP ABOUT HOW SPECIAL YOU ARE #heavy breathing #sorry i needed to vent some more #insufferable brat #six hours of this bullshit #WE GET IT YOU ARE PERFECT #AAAAAAAAAAAAH #soryuchan's personal issues #the fake japanese they speak in japanese media as opposed to i don't even know whatever he picked up somewhere that is definitely not anime #also i know it's heavily stylized that doesn't make it another language that just means people don't generally talk like that in their life #gnaaah

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