#fi says

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

#the truman show #sbs rambles #I keep thinking about how children on popular youtube channels should probably have laws to protect them #social workers assigned to them maybe #I dunno #they did not sign up to have their lives sold for profit #but here we are #tho #I guess none of us signed up for it #and our data is harvested more than ever #god #high-tech capitalism sucks turns out #OH WAIT because tumblr is bad at getting context sometimes #let me specify: #I am not saying that the movie The Truman Show is bad or that it normalizes this #like all good sci-fi (because it is kind of sci-fi) it's there to warn us of what the future could hold #and it did that in a very good way - it's a beautiful movie #I could see someone with a bad faith take assuming I meant that it was part of the problem #it absolutely wasn't. it didn't normalize this; we did #youtube did and social media #it's us that's the problem #or more specifically: big corporations and a lack of regulation #that's the origin of most modern problems

[ministarfruit]

day 3: your life is mine ♡

(femslashfeb prompt list)

#minifemslashfeb2024 #this is how you lose the time war #tihylttw #book jumpscare! #yes I read it because of the trigun tweet #everyone say thank you bigolas dickolas wolfwood #this is based on their early book appearances! #they do change appearances a lot throughout the book tho #it is so epic I also do recommend it #sapphic sci-fi... time travel bullshit... my kind of genre... #bro this might be the first book fanart on this blog #that's wild. all these years. WHERE is my book fanart

[nell0-0]

I was just having a bit of fun with incorrect quotes stuff and. well-

Look, do I love Fi? Yes.

Do I think Mask would be a tad salty and sensitive about that specific subject? Also yes.

#linked universe #lu mask #oot link #mm link #loz fi #tloz #tloz fanart #time travel shenanigans #my art #Was just thinking about hyrule warriors again as usual #and how an hypothetical strained relationship would be with these two #fi doesn't say it to be mean just to clarify #it's complicated #I haven't drawn it yet. but I love the HC of Fi calling Mask 'young master' #while she calls the other Links 'master' #and then there would be Sky. The only one she calls by name 'Link' (and master too sometimes. it's a habit) #I just drew this for the sillies. don't look too much into it

[redrocketpanda]

Something that has been driving me insane about the credits are these sections with the fish so please bear with me whilst I do a mini deep dive (hehe) into fish discourse because YO, we need to talk about these fish!

Notice how at the beginning of the credits we actually have two white fish swimming along beside one another; one with bright turquoise eyes and the other with black.

A little while later the fish begin to circle each other and a droplet falls into the water between them. As the disturbance ripples out from the center, one of the fish dives deeper into the water and changes its colour to black; symbolizing Geto's change and descent into darkness

Then we have this heartbreakingly beautiful moment with Gojo and Geto:

I cannot stop thinking about how long Gojo watches the black fish for as it swims across the screen, whereas Geto's eyes are lowered the moment the white fish appears and he closes them as it swims past.

Gojo cannot bear to tear his eyes away, whilst Geto cannot bear to look

Throughout the credits, Gojo and Geto have been making their way towards each other through the pouring rain (or mostly sitting and waiting in Geto's case). At the end, they meet each other under a bridge and as they walk away together we see the fish a final time, swimming together again in a puddle formed by the heavy rain.

Geto walks on the left in the light, as the white fish swims close to his head, almost invisible in the brightness of the light. Whilst Gojo walks on the right in the shadow with the black fish swimming further away but still close by.

The fish speed after the two men before disappearing completely under the water just before the camera pans up and we watch as Gojo pulls Geto in for a hug as they walk away, before he's playfully shoved away by Geto.

There's a lot going on the credits (+ opening) that is absolutely killing me but man, these fish?! Breathtaking.

#just been sitting here for 20 minutes sobbing over fish discourse bc altho they only appear very briefly they are saying SO MUCH #i haven't read the manga so i sadly cannot provide a deep dive stsg analysis so would love to hear other people's thoughts #also apologies as I know some people haven't even had a chance to watch ep 1 yet but i need to scream into the internet about these fkn fis #stsg #satosugu #gojo satoru #geto suguru #gojo #geto #jjk #jjk s2 #jjk s2 ep1 #jjk season 2 #jujutsu kaisen season 2 spoilers #jujutsu kaisen season 2 #jujutsu kaisen

[callisteios]

im going on a space adventure, and you’re all going to join me. take my uquiz to find out your assigned role in the crew

#uquiz #this one's pretty fun if i do say so myself #as always there's a decent chance im gonna call you gay #but in this one theres an even greater chance i call you a war criminal #fun!!! #if this looks like a mass effect quiz when you squint no it doesn't shut up #but maybe most of the answers are mass effect characters with the labels filed off who knows #um #space #sci fi #quiz #personality quiz #umm #yeah #callisteios #mine

[ghoulisheous]

I love those dp x dc fics where Danny is a boy on the run and for some reason or another the bats are trying to track him down, but Danny is a boy on the run. Cause they always give off this vibe

#danny phantom #dp x dc #ghouly tag #crossover #danny fenton #i spent entirety too much time on this for joke #but in my defense #it was ugly #i personally think hood going pspsps is one of the most in-character things he could say will pay monopoly money to see it in a fic #danny: making my way downtown #walking fast #a bat: spots him and calls hime by his full legal name and not the fake last name he picked out of a sci fi novel #danny: walking faster

[sweatermuppet]

Is there any way to support you directly right now? you're a huge inspiration to me and I'd hate to see you stop creating beautiful things.

i have a bonfire (shirts, mugs, totes)

i have inprnt

my book is available in paperback & i receive royalties monthly from sales

& the quickest way to support me is to tip me on my ko-fi. i have grit available as a free/pay what you want in my ko-fi shop, along with a free/pay what you want list of contemporary poetry recommendations

#when i say quickest i mean i get payouts fastest thru ko-fi. anything counts but ko-fi is the most immediate #anonymous #made rebloggable

[jaykatt]

god this guys so stupid. I want him

also bonus 808 doodle for the soul :3

#hi fi rush #hi-fi rush #hifi rush #chai #chai hi fi rush #808 #808 hi fi rush #god PLEASE play hi fi rush its such a good game #also if its not obvious chai is my blorbo of the month #what can i say i love me a dumbass pretty boy #artkatt

[linkvcr]

could i request a fi ? shes one of my favourite characters in anything ever and she means the world to me ... no pressure of course though ^__^ always happy to see your artwork, your style is so lovely !! the way you draw faces makes them look so inviting and friendly :]

i love her dearly

#skyward sword #link #fi #tloz #loz #the legend of zelda #my art #fanart #anyone else thinking abt how he showed her what happiness feels like. crumbles to dust #srry ill never get over it #thank u sm btw!!! thats such a kind thing to say...sniffles #im glad u think so :'] that makes me very happy #skysword

[jadequarze]

‘Mogen, consistently rotating her in my head

#jade draws #critical role #cr3 #critical role fanart #imogen temult #ngl since opening ko-fi bust commissions that forced me to learn drawing faces. i've improved #even found ways that lets me enjoy coloring again #anyway. this was supposed to be in a short comic i have in mind where they get reunited but work wont allow me #i have a thought they have an outfit change since it's cold af where the quads are #also imogen has a yellow knitted scarf because i say so and in my head deanna knitted it for her :)

[screwpinecaprice]

Anonymous Ko-fi request! 😁 Thank you very much for the ko-fi and for requesting this series!

(Prompts, ideas, and added polaroid border by anon!)

#It's a connverse week series yo #Since when did we last have a... like a community connverse series btw #connverse #connie maheswaran #steven quartz universe #my shiz #steven universe #su #ko fi requests #Just gonna dispense them out through out the week #Ahhhh I actually need to hit the hay I haven't slept for 49 hours. Lmao RIPPPPP #Will add additional description or tags later? #I actually don't know when I'll be back so I'm posting it now. #I'm screaming. I'm looking at all the drawings from this series and they are all inconsistent day after day. lmao BUT DON'T SAY i DIDN'T WA #N YA from my ToS! 😭

[lotus-pear]

guys stop asking me for bsd fic recs, i will tell u to go read the light novels

#“lotus do u have any angsty soukoku fi-” have you read stormbringer? what about fifteen? and dead apple? #“so i hear you ship knkdz have u stumbled across any good fi-” entrance exam. osamu dazai's entrance exam. Light Novel One. also 55mins #why read fics when the canon source is gayer than ANYTHING fic artists could dream of #yeah someone could write abt soukoku making out with tongue and fucking each other until they can't stand and the bed breaks #but is that rly as gay as saying “you used corruption because you trusted me? how beautiful.” #or “what a violent way to wake up snow white” #SHUT UPPPPPPPPPPPPP #i hate it here fml #bsd

[writingwithcolor]

[Running Commentary] Zombies are Zombies: Cultural Relativism, Folklore, and Foreign Perspectives

She obviously started getting into media in Japan, and (from my research into Japanese media and culture), Japan’s movies about zombies are mostly comedic, since due to traditional funerary practices the idea of zombies bringing down society is ridiculous to a lot of Japanese people. 

Rina: OP, this you? https://www.tofugu.com/japan/japanese-zombies/

Marika: Counterpoint: Parasite Eve. Resident Evil. The Evil Within. 

Rina: Literally all the grody horror game franchises that people forget were developed and written by Japanese people because the characters have names like “Leon Kennedy” and “Sebastian Castellanos” 

~ ~ ~

Based on the reception we received the last time we did one of these, the Japanese moderator team returns with another running commentary. (They’re easier to answer this way) (Several of Marika’s answers may be troll answers)

Our question today pertains to foreign perspectives on folklore—that is, how people view folklore and stories that aren’t a part of their culture. CW: for anything you’d associate with zombies and a zombie apocalypse, really.

Keep reading for necromancy, horror games, debunking the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, Hong Kong jiangshi films, Japanese disaster prep videos, and Vietnamese idol pop...

Essentially, in my story there’s an organization who wants to end the world. They think this one woman in particular, a woman of mixed Vietnamese (irreligious, Kinh) and Japanese descent who spent her formative years in Japan, is the person to do it because she’s (for lack of a better term) a necromancer; powers are semi-normal in this world. She prefers not to use her powers overall, but when she does she mostly talks to ghosts and spirits that are giving people issues. She could technically reanimate a corpse but she wouldn’t because she feels that would be morally wrong, not to mention she couldn’t start a zombie apocalypse in the traditional sense (plague, virus, etc.) in the first place. 

(Marika (M): Your local public health officials would like to assure necromancers that reviving the dead will not provoke a zombie apocalypse. This is because necromancy is a reanimation technique, and not a pathogenic vector. Assuming that the technique does not release spores, airborne viruses, gasses, or other related physical matter that can affect neighboring corpses in a similar way, there should be no issue. However, necromancers should comply with local regulations w/r to permitting and only raise the dead with the approval of the local municipality and surviving family.)

M: I think it makes sense for most people of E. Asian descent, including Japanese and Vietnamese people, to find it culturally reprehensible to reanimate the dead. I imagine the religious background of your character matters as well. What religion(s) are her family members from? How do they each regard death and the treatment of human remains? Depending on where she grew up, I’m curious on how she got opportunities to practice outside specialized settings like morgues.

M: It’s true, space in Japan is at a premium, even for the dead. You note that most of Japan cremates, but, surely, it must have occurred to you that if there aren’t that many bodies in Japan to raise…she doesn’t exactly have much opportunity to practice with her powers, does she? I yield to our Vietnamese followers on funerary customs in Vietnam, but you may want to better flesh out your world-building logic on how necromancy operates in your story (And maybe distinguish between necromancy v. channeling v. summoning v. exorcisms). 

She obviously started getting into media in Japan, and (from my research into Japanese media and culture), Japan’s movies about zombies are mostly comedic, since due to traditional funerary practices the idea of zombies bringing down society is ridiculous to a lot of Japanese people. 

Rina (R): OP, this you? https://www.tofugu.com/japan/japanese-zombies/

M: Counterpoint: Parasite Eve. Resident Evil. The Evil Within. 

R: Literally all the grody horror game franchises that people forget were developed and written by Japanese people because the characters have names like “Leon Kennedy” and “Sebastian Castellanos” 

R: And yes, the Tofugu article uses Resident Evil and those games to support its theory, with the reason that they are set in the West. But that only suggests that Japanese people consider zombies a Western thing, not that Japanese people consider zombies nonthreatening if they were to exist. 

M: Same with vampires - series like Castlevania also use Western/ European settings and not “Vampires in Japan '' because vampires just aren't part of our folklore.

(M: Also, realistically, these series deal with individuals who quickly perish after their bodies are used as hosts for the pathogen in question, rather than the pathogen reanimating a corpse. Although the victims are initially alive, they soon succumb to the pathogen/ parasite and their organic matter then becomes an infectious vector for the disease. It should be noted, infecting ordinary, living humans with viruses to grant them elevated powers, is not only a major violation of consent and defies all recommendations made by the Belmont Report (in addition to a number of articles in the Hague Convention w/r to the use of WMDs) and is unlikely to be approved by any reputable university’s IRB committee. This is why the Umbrella Corporation are naughty, naughty little children, and honestly, someone should have assassinated Wesker for the grant money.)

R: wwww

From what I know Vietnam didn’t have a zombie movie until 2022. 

R: Do you mean a domestically produced zombie movie? Because Vietnamese people have most certainly had access to zombie movies for a long time. The Hong Kong film Mr. Vampire (1985) was a gigantic hit in Southeast Asia; you can find a gazillion copies of this movie online with Viet subs, with people commenting on how nostalgic this movie is or how they loved it as a kid. 

M: “Didn’t have a [domestic] zombie movie” is not necessarily the same thing as “Would not have made one if the opportunity had arisen.” None of us here are personifications of the Vietnamese film industry, I think it’s safe to say we couldn’t know. Correlation is not causation. It’s important to do your research thoroughly, and not use minor facts to craft a narrative based on your own assumptions.

(R: …Also, I did find a 2017 music video for “Game Over” by the Vietnamese idol Thanh Duy which features… a zombie apocalypse.)

(R: The MV has a very campy horror aesthetic and zombie backup dancers (which I love, everyone please watch this lol). But the scenes at the beginning and end where people are biting their fingers watching a threatening news report clearly establish that the zombies are considered a threat.)

So at one point, she laughs about the idea and remarks how ridiculous it is to think zombies could end the world. What I’m struggling with are other ways to show her attitude on the issue because I’d assume most non-Japanese readers wouldn’t get why she thinks like that. Are there any other ways to show why she thinks this way, especially ones that might resonate more with a Japanese reader?

R: The problem is this does not resonate in the first place. Your line of thinking is too Sapir-Whorf-adjacent. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, otherwise known as linguistic relativity theory, claims that language shapes cognition—that you can’t conceive of something if you can’t express it in your language. This is a very weak theory that you can easily bring evidence against: think of the last time you felt an emotion you had a hard time putting into words; just because you didn’t have the language for it doesn’t mean that you didn’t feel it, nor does it mean that you won’t be able to understand or recognize it if you feel it again. Similarly, it’s not a sound assumption to say that if some kind of subject matter does not exist in a culture, then people of that culture couldn't possibly conceive of it. This excerpt from linguist Laura Bailey sums it up quite well. 

M: Just because ghosts may be more culturally relevant doesn’t mean that zombies (or vampires, or whatever) are nonexistent in a Japanese or Vietnamese person’s imagination when it comes to horror and disaster.

R: Really,  if anything, Japanese people are much more attuned to how easily a society’s infrastructure can be destroyed by a disruptive force without adequate preparation. Japan is natural disaster central. A Japanese person would know better than anyone that if you aren’t prepared for a zombie epidemic—yeah it’s gonna be bad. 

M: Earthquakes, tsunami, typhoon, floods: Japan has robust disaster infrastructure out of necessity. 防災 or bousai, meaning disaster preparedness is a common part of daily life, including drills at workplaces, schools, and community organizations. Local government and community agencies are always looking for ways to make disaster and pandemic preparedness relevant to the public.

M: Might “zombie apocalypse prep as a proxy for disaster prep” be humorous in an ironic, self-deprecating way? Sure, but it’s not like Japanese people are innately different from non-Japanese people. Rather, by being a relatively well-off country practiced at disaster preparation with more experience than most parts of the world with many different types of disasters (and the accompanying infrastructure), it likely would seem more odd to most Japanese people within Japan to not handle a zombie apocalypse rather like might one handle a combination of a WMD/ chemical disaster+pandemic+civil unrest (all of which at least some part of Japan has experienced). Enjoy this very long, slightly dry video on COVID-19 safety procedures and preparedness using the framing device of surviving a zombie apocalypse.

M: Living in Los Angeles, I’ve often experienced similar tactics. We do a fair amount of advance and rehearsed disaster prep here as well. In elementary school, the first and last days of class were always for packing and unpacking home-made disaster packs, and “zombie apocalypse” simulations have been around since I was in middle school for all kinds of drills, including active shooter drills, like the one shown in this LAT article. The line between “prepper” and “well prepared” really comes down to degree of anxiety and zeal. So, it wouldn’t be just Japanese people who might not be able to resonate with your scene. The same could be said for anyone who lives somewhere with a robust disaster prevention culture.

M: A zombie apocalypse is not “real” in the sense of being a tangible threat that the majority of the world lives in fear of waking up to (At least, for the mental health of most people, I hope so). Rather, zombie apocalypse narratives are compelling to people because of the feelings of vague, existential dread they provoke: of isolation, paranoia, dwindling resources, and a definite end to everything familiar. I encourage you to stop thinking of the way Japanese people and non-Japanese people think about vague, existential dread as incomprehensible to each other. What would you think about zombies if they actually had a chance of existing in your world? That’s probably how most Japanese people would feel about them, too.

#Youtube #asks #japanese #vietnamese #cultural differences #cultural relativism #linguistic relativity #zombies #sci fi #science fiction #necromancy #death #funerary customs #funeral #ghosts #vampires #folklore #natural disasters #disaster preparedness #rina says stan thanh duy #writeblr

[incomingalbatross]

Listen. If you write a baby into your main characters' lives, you live with the consequences. You don't speed-age the baby to adulthood. You don't find a convenient reason why they absolutely have to send the baby away. You don't cleverly reveal it was Never A Real Baby Anyway so they were never going to get to keep it. And this should go without saying but you do not KILL the baby either.

These are COWARDS' ways out. If you didn't want your protagonist to be saddled with parenthood then maybe you should have just not given them a baby. Now they HAVE one. Live with it like a writer with some integrity.

#i've said it before and i'll say it again #*staring every sci-fi franchise directly in the eyes* #babies are for life not for your one-off plot arc!!

[the-irreverend]

If I had a nickel for every time I came across a work of horror fiction where a fungus turns a human corpse into an art project...

...I'd have two nickels. Which isn't much, but it's weird it's happened twice.

P.S. The one on the bottom is from Annihilation.

#the last of us #tlou #the last of us hbo #last of us #tlou hbo #hbo tlou #hbo the last of us #joel miller #annihilation #ellie williams #pedro pascal #horror #horror fiction #sci fi horror #cordyceps #horror television #horror tv #say what you will about fungi but you've gotta admit it's got style

[bontwisty]

Wonder what the Leo's dynamic would be lol

The Leo crossover comic will come around soon after the Raphs but here’s a shorthand of how I think they are all like. In the end they’re all “oldest one who takes charge but wants to be a kid again” in a way with the exception of Rise and 84

2012, Rise, and 87 absolutely would geek out over video games and sci-fi shows and the others would at least be entertained by it

Also leader bonding yayy!

#rottmnt leo #2012 leo #2003 leo #bayverse leo #1987 leo #tmnt mirage #asks and replies #forgive me im basing the mirage tmnt on turtles forever #yes the leos get along too because I say so #will they argue? yes but only about sci fi powerscaling #into the tmntverse