#conscious thinking

[spyglassrealms]

had a fucking hilarious dream that tumblr replaced the "block" function with the far funnier "glock" function, which did the exact same thing except whenever anyone blocked you a random bullet hole, like a png of a bullet hole, would appear on your blog. discourse blogs were unreadable bc you'd go to the page and the sheer amount of bullet hole pngs stacked over the blogs obscured everything. I woke myself up laughing

#normally I don't chronicle my dreams here but fucking hell that one was funny #I think this would genuinely make tumblr better tbh #@ staff do this cowards #spy has thoughts #my life is a sitcom and i am my own laugh track #functional website #spy's smash hits #Glock function #edit for everyone in the notes saying 'everyone clapped' #I know I can't prove to you that it happened for real you're just gonna have to trust me on this #but I swear on my goddamn life I'm not making this up #I make so many conscious puns that sometimes my subconscious cooks up a real good one

[talaricula]

Things I've seen tumblr memeing about James Somerton doing à la "How did no one see how bigoted he was!" as if those things haven't been a significant part of tumblr culture for over a decade :

Presenting untrue and bordering on conspiratorial versions of (queer or otherwise marginalised) history without any sources

Completely disregarding and disrespecting any expertise on socio-cultural topics/humanities and distrusting academics and historians (incl. acting as if no academics or historians could be queer or marginalised)

Downplaying the role misogyny played in the historical oppression of queer women and concluding that queer men must have been more oppressed than queer women

Bi women are, at best, not as queer as "real" queer ppl, and at worst, simply equivalent to straight women

Despite nominal trans inclusivity, transmasculine ppl are functionally women when convenient (combined with the above, bi transmascs are functionally straight women)

Despite nominal trans inclusivity (bis), shamelessly attacking, threatening and actively endangering any trans woman who questions them or smth they find important (often by unfairly presenting her as violent or as a threat)

Having absolutely fucking wild and reductive takes about ace ppl, the oppression they face and their place in the queer community

Stating that marriage equality is an assimilationist fight while completely ignoring its direct roots in the horrifying consequences of the AIDS crisis for partners of ppl who died of AIDS

Praising western media creators from the past for queer coding even under censure and in the same breath condemning current non western media creators for being homophobic bc their representation isn't explicit enough

Blaming China for all existing homophobic censoring in western media

Assuming all queer media would be better told by western creators and by western standards

Only out queer ppl get to tell queer stories

Heavily criticising almost all queer media created by women or ppl they see as such (see above points about trans ppl) or involving/starring a significant amount of women for any perceived or real amount of "problematicness", but fawning over and praising and negating criticism of queer media created by and starring mostly or even functionally exclusively men (even when it could be argued that, you know, not involving/seriously sidelining women is a pretty clear example of misogyny which should probably be considered "problematic")

And I'm probably forgetting stuff or there's stuff I have internalised myself and don't recognise as an issue

Like idk but I feel like the takeaway from Hbomberguy and Toddintheshadow's videos should maybe be "be aware of such patterns in your communities bc they definitely exist" and not "this guy is uniquely awful" and I feel like a lot of the discussion I've seen surrounding this has been severely failing at that. Most ppl who've spent any significant amount of time on tumblr prob either have internalised at least one of those thought patterns, have had to de-internalise them, or have had to be extremely vigilant to not internalise them (which is done by, you know, seeking out other sources, which also seemed like an important takeaway from the videos)

#Also I'm saying this as someone who actually watched quite a few of Somerton's videos #And noticed those patterns and stopped watching bc I recognised them from here #and had already learned to unlearn them after being so exposed to them here #And tbh I think anyone who hasn't had the luck or made the conscious choice to seek out ppl who pushed against those narratives #Would absolutely have fallen for this man's bullshit. Like let's not kid ourselves we see takes like this every day on this hellsite #2014 me would have. For sure. #This is next to the plagiarism issue which as Harris points out is an Internet wide issue and this includes tumblr #James Somerton #hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #This brought to you by a conversation with my wife yesterday #So many ppl on here don't deserve to meme or be this self absolvingly critical of this man #The call is coming from inside the house #The man has a tumblr it would legit not surprise me if some of the things he supposedly made up himself he did actually get from somewhere #And that somewhere was a tumblr post

[humblegoat]

every once in a while i think back to college and the time my animation professor used moses from prince of egypt as an example of “unappealing character design” and each time i remember this i’m closer to branding it an internalized racism thing

#oh his eyes are too far apart? his nose is too big? are his lips too pronounced for you? #is his face too angular? #suspicious #not that i think this wad a conscious thing on the part of the prof #just an example of how the word appeal in animation can be hiding other implications #anyway. this isn’t important to anyone but me #scoutposting

[time-to-write-and-suffer]

I love how on Tumblr, "media literacy" has become "Um, just because someone writes about this doesn't mean they're endorsing this. I hate all these media puritans ruining everything."

I'm sad to inform you that knowing when and whether an author is endorsing something, implying something, saying something, is also part of media literacy. Knowing when they are doing this and when they're not is part of media literacy. Assuming that no author has ever endorsed a bad thing is how you fall for proper gander. It's not media literacy to always assume that nobody ever has agreed with the morally reprehensible ideas in their work.

Sometimes, authors are endorsing something, and you need to be aware when that happens, and you also need to be aware when you're doing it as an author. All media isn't horny dubcon fanfic where you and the author know it's problematic IRL but you get off to it in the privacy of your brain. Sometimes very smart people can convince you of something that'll hurt others in the real world. Sometimes very dumb people will romanticize something without realizing they're doing it and you'll be caught up in it without realizing that you are.

Being aware of this is also media literacy. Being aware of the narrative tools used to affect your thinking is media literacy. Deciding on your own whether you agree with an author or not is media literacy. Enjoying characters doing bad things and allowing authors to create flawed or cruel characters for the sake of a story is perfectly fine, but it is not the same as being media literate. Being smug about how you never think an author has bad intentions tells me you're edgy, not that you're media literate. You can't use one rule to apply to all media. That's not how media literacy works. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Aheem heem. Anyway.

#anyway this is just more of that lefty shit where 'well i can't be racist because i'm gay!' #'well i can't be media illiterate because i love villains!' #not how that works babes #'well I KNOW bad from good so i can't be affected by media!' #'everyone else also knows bad from good and defines it the exact way i do!' #'so if i think this is bad then the author must also think this is bad!' #i have bad news .... #also how do you know bad from good? who taught you that? hmm? #did you fall out of the womb knowing? or did you pick up some things on the way here? #'i just know' no you don't! that's what i'm saying! #assuming one thing is always true is the opposite of being a conscious consumer of media soz #assuming someone thinks and knows the exact same shit you think and know is not media literacy!!

[taikk0]

i cant think of a caption i have an exam tomorrow 💀(it is currently 12 am <3)

#taikko art #yes this is a reference to the one raggedy ann movie #i think im starting to get fixated on raggedy ann but im a lil guilty cuz i only got around to watching it because of tadc and i dont wanna #-be the one insufferable tadc fan </3 #i saw the comments on the movie on yt talking abt ragatha and it pissed me off i got self conscious lmao #tadc fandom. pls dont touch raggedy ann shes her own seperate thing pleae #same thing happened with my interest in animatronics being constantly being told its fnaf MADE ME SOO MADD #ragapom #jesterdoll #buttonblossom #ragatha x pomni #pomatha #ragamni #pomni x ragatha #the amazing digital circus #tadc fanart #tadc pomni #gooseworx #amazing digital circus #tadc #pomni #tadc fandom #the digital circus #digital circus #tadc art #fanart #art #digital art #ship art #tadc ship

[en-chi-la-da]

they're being "bow"-friends haha heehee get it

#hinasouda #kazuhina #sdr2 #i was half conscious when i thought of this and i just HAD to doodle it real quick lol #danganronpa #kazuichi souda #hajime hinata #AND FEATURING #fuyuhiko kuzuryu #ari art #kazuichi is SO fuckin fun to draw.....i lvoe him <3 #anytime i think abt hinasouda it's just 'FELLAS IS IT GAY TO- 👉🏼👈🏼🥺' situations lmao #pink tag

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Assisting Acquaintance Acquired.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wen ning #wei wuxian #Ignore how Wen Ning's hair looks here because I messed it up. Let's pretend he just sported a different hair style for a brief moment. #I am not exactly great at consistency but I am trying very hard to work on that (immediately messes up again). #Absolutely *love* how Wen Ning clearly remembers and admires WWX...who does *not* recognize him. #This is the best day for Wen Ning and it means *nothing* to WWX. A painful one-sided crush made worse. #It is bittersweet to realize that we care about someone more than they care about us. Sometime we pour love into a relationship- #-with someone who just can't reciprocate. It isn't always a conscious things either. Some people just aren't aware we care. #And painfully - so painfully - You can't make them aware. No act of kindness or gift or self sacrifice will make someone care about you. #You can martyr yourself for someone and they will continue on unchanged. #I think a lot about the parallels between WN and LWJ. Not foils - just reflections. A theme repeated. #People who give so much of themselves to someone who doesn't have the capacity to give any part of themself away. #I will die on the hill of 'Wen Ning would be the love triangle romance if that trope wasn't being avoided'. #And to be honest - thank the stars above that is the case. I do not know any good love triangles in media. #We are skipping some of the sad Jiang Cheng content because I really want to finish season 2 before May. #Sorry JC emo moment lovers...I'll deliver another time.

[cresneta]

Season 2 | Yor totally thought that Loid skipping with Anya was cute, and I shall not be convinced otherwise. This is one of the few headcannons of mine that I'm personally not willing to budge on.

I also believe she thought he was cute when she watched him watching the penguins at the aquarium. Just look at her little blush and laugh! They were on completely different pages when that happened, but still!

While I'm sure she likes other sides of him as well, I do think she likes this slightly dorky side of him that Anya often brings out of him. I think if she saw that scene from the cruise arc where he tried on that infamous outfit at the gift shop, that she also would have thought he was cute in that scene (he might have died of embarrassment though).

#spy x family #spy x family season 2 #sxf season 2 #spy x family episode 35 #spy x family headcanons #twiyor #yor forger #loid forger #yor thinks loid is cute #spy x family cruise arc #perhaps she isn't fully conscious of finding him cute just yet

[ivemanifest]

Your perspective can change everything.

#inspirational quotes #inspiring quotes #book quotes #quotes #motivational quotes #spiritual growth #spiritual #spiritual life #spiritual development #self development #self conscious #self awareness #self worth #self improvement #self help #spiritual journey #spiritual enlightenment #spiritualgrowth #change your beliefs #change your thinking #change your life

[sillyfairygarden]

90 minute leyendecker study b4 bed. heard cleo has a cat cafe this season :swoons:

#thellos art corner #zombiecleo fanart #hermitcraft #hermitblr #mcyt fanart #mcyt #ok time for a peek inside my skull: i really contemplated not posting this. not for any reasons of disliking it #im pretty conscious about how fat people are characterized/portrayed around food in media. both in fan works and canonized material #(flashbacks to hunk from voltron) i really think about ways to defy the way fat bodies are portrayed in my works. while also staying normal #i think at the end of the day i really see food as a love language. and serving people i love (even if its just coffee) brings me joy #even if theres a one-dimensional box that fat characters get put into regarding food. it makes me happy! so i'll try to do it with grace #i think representation isnt always this mentally twisting lol. but its definitely something i think about. #i hope i can positively project my feelings about food and love onto a plus size body (as a chubby girl :handheart:) and showcase that love #ok yeah yeah its 11pm. time to put meemaw in bed. if you read all this ur rad <3 also i stopped watching HC peeposad

[nomohmoss]

they continue their trip

#genshin impact #artists on tumblr #fanart #genshin fanart #kaeya #kaeya alberich #kaeya fanart #diluc #diluc ragnvindr #diluc fanart #sumeru #the quality....... #im afraid people might start thinking i post stolen pics with how shitty they look 😭 #but believe me it's my conscious choice to make them worse

[river-taxbird]

Reminder that I am a homosexual, and that is always the case no matter what I'm doing.

#its also still the case even though in practice ive pretty much exclusively dated trans girls #it wasnt a conscious choice #it just ended up happening more than once #its also the case even though im intersex andnmb #meaning i never think of myself as any particular gender #but it is still true none the less and thats the joy of being queer

[omaano]

"Kriffing hell, he’d fallen asleep. On Boba.  They’d stayed back to back, but Din’s head had leaned over onto Boba’s shoulder. The poor guy had been holding Din’s weight for—a quick check of his chrono eased some of his guilt; it’d only been ten minutes." Mand'alor Cabur chapter 14 by @nautilicious

This is one of my all-time favourite BobaDin fics, please give it a read and heap some love on the author, they really deserve it! (Their Boba is amazing. He isn't actively present all that much, but even then he has a presence, you know? and it's so good, I love him so much there!!!)

#also happy (slightly) early birthday to me! I'm getting all my presents early this year apparently even from myself XD #I honestly didn't think I'd finish it by the day but turns out I'm even a day early... thanks to dog sitting taking up all my time lol #bobadin #boba x din #boba/din #boba fett #din djarin #the mandalorian fanart #tbobf fanart #my art #star wars fanart #tbobf #the mandalorian #digital art #digital illustration #fanart #It's not exactly what I'd imagined but I'm so happy with it! #as well as how I could stick to the greenish palette through the process #I tweaked the colours a little once it was done #because I grow self conscious about it feeling too warm and yellow but I think it looks nice #I'm keeping all my blues and reds and purples and browns to another painting #another 3 but you know. one project - so one painting

[fluentisonus]

important to gimli characterization. to me. is that while he's generous & steadfast & caring where it matters he is also just a little bit vain. not in a delusional way or a way that causes problems but like. he is aware that he's good looking & good at what he does and is pleased with himself for it. he's aware of his own good qualities & proud of them in a way that makes his friends roll their eyes a little. but he's charming & realistic about it and also Right so you can't be too annoyed. guy who takes way too long styling his hair & beard because he knows he has very nice hair. guy who will brag a little about his axework because he knows he's just that good. do you see what I'm getting at

#thoughts #tolkien #sometimes people characterize him as being insecure particularly re: relationship w legolas in a way that simply does not ring true to me #at least not in that way. like I think his insecurities are largely external; he's not insecure about himself but he is #deeply conscious & touchy about other people's (mis)perception of him if that makes sense #i.e. his insecurity is Way more ''can other people see me as me well enough to understand me & see my good qualities'' #than ''am i in and of myself good enough'' #ANYWAYS. #gimli

[astronomodome]

why do cc impulse's eyes always look like this in screenshots

#his dark orbs. this isnt negative btw just something i've noticed #not putting this in tags bc if impulse saw it he would get self conscious about it. also not /neg: #that man is just so flip floppity whenever he thinks The Fans (3 people on reddit) are mad at him #anyway. #astro speaks

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

He definitely meant the sword, right?

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #Wwx’s moral dilema with wanting to know more about lwj in this honest state vs respecting him is *so good* #he can ask silly questions and tease a little bit #but the fact he makes a conscious choice not to ask and deeply prying questions #says more than one might realize #That’s mutual respect baby!! The real sexiest thing you can have in any relationship. #Regarding wwx assuming lwj meant the sword; honestly…very relatable #when you’ve spent a long time thinking of someone as not holding much affection for you #any sign they give that they might is very easily written off as something else #it’s a little melancholic to feel like you like someone more than they like you. Platonic or otherwise. #you live with it and take whatever scraps you can take #not too unfamiliar for a former street kid huh