#not how that works babes

[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!!

[super-nova5045]

sylvia plath, todd anderson and virginia woolf (aka ACTUAL tortured poets) watching taylor “im breaking up with my boyfriend for his intense depression and blaming it on him, im dating a racist who enjoys watching woc being brutalized and harasses young woc artists, i sent my fans out on a hate train to attack a young woc actress for a line she had to say as part of her job to show how mentally ill her character was, im dating a maga supporter, i refuse to say anything about a current genocide despite being the most influential person in the world right now, i am a billionaire, i fly 13 minute flights and have the highest carbon emission of any celebrity, i am a known white feminist who only speaks about issues when it affects me and has constantly let my fans get away with extreme racism and even encouraged it by associating myself with known racists” swift call herself a tortured poet (her writing sounds like a bunch of thesaurus words slapped over gabba hanna and rupi kaur-esque poetry that was created purely as a trinket for an edgy pinterest board)

#anti taylor swift #like she can be problematic that’s okay #there are SO many problematic artists i like #but she’s not even that good #like read sylvia plath or virginia woolf or listen to LDR or fiona apple or mitski or lorde or boygenius or olivia rodrigo #aka her peers #and realise how much better they are #they truly write art because they have a compassion and rawness for it #whereas taytay only writes to get more money LOL #she’s so extremely privileged that her life is not at all relatable and now she tries to make it so #by romanticizing the most mundane #thats never been your brand babe now it’s going to sound like dogshit #GUTS by olivia rodrigo is better because it has such an intensity to it. liv means what she says and you can feel it! #fiona apple means what she says when she writes about begging her lover to love her back! #mitski means what she says when she writes that she is self destructive and puts herself in bad situations since that’s all she knows! #lana means what she says when she writes about her suicide attempt at 15 because of constant abuse from her mother and crippling depression #all of it such haunting and beautiful works because it truly comes from the soul and isn’t a cash grab #Anyway i’m so sorry virginia and sylvia and todd #todd anderson #AND JOE ALWYN #joe alwyn my favourite man ever #joe alwyn #dead poets society #anderperry #sylvia plath #virginia woolf #the bell jar #lana del rey #fiona apple #mitski

[cynicallyneutral]

sasuke wants his new year's kiss :kissing_heart:

#sasunaru #narusasu #naruto #sasuke #my art #my comic #round fox baby #naruto's boyfriend #JKHAJDFKASDFADF FUCKING HELL IM SO TIRED #ASDHAHAHAHAHA I BEEN WORKING ON THIS FO #WHAT??? 10 GODDAMN HOURS IM SO DONE IM SO TIRED #ok tbh its my fault for starting late i literally had 3 days off #AND I DID NOTHING ASJKDFHAHSDFADSF FUCKKK #it took an extra hour bC SASUKE #IDK HOW TO DRAW HIS FUCKIN HAIR #NOR HIS FACE WHYS HE SO HARD TO DRAW IM GONNA CRY #anyway hahaha HAPPY NEW YEAR BABES HAHAHAHAHA FUCK

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

sick of doing therapy breathing exercises, just hit me up with a oxygen tank + bicycle pump i have hypothesized a shortcut

#u want me to control my breathing? #bitch i'm about to harness control of my OXYGEN LEVELS #and work out my delts while i'm at it #u want me to influence my nervous system with purposefully therapeutic breathing patterns? #babe i'll do it but there's gonna be some external apparatus that is. how shall i put this. #unauthorized by my insurance provider. #HIGHLY unauthorized.

[rofax]

I took a piece of art from my journal like, 2 years ago, and re-did it digitally bc it has been feeling ESPECIALLY POIGNANT LATELY.

#ro talks #art #line art #self love #you're here for more than that babes!! #you're not here to be attractive and demure and unobjectionable to others #your main value is not how young you look or how closely you mirror what is on the media #there is fucking more to life than anti aging #than going to work every day just to make ends meet #than constantly fighting your body because you think it should take up less space #take it from someone who had to stare her own mortality in the face #when that time comes #you aren't going to be wishing you were just a little prettier or a little smaller or had paid all your bills #you're going to wish you'd had more time with your loved ones #with your friends #your family #your pets #your hobbies #i know we live in a capitalist hellscape and you can't just #opt out #you have to work to pay bills and all that #but don't let it be your whole world #you're worth so much more than that #take care of you first #fuck the ideal body or face #fuck your boss #(not literally please) #take! care! of! you!!!!!

[yousaygoodbyeandisay]

#pit babe the series #pit babe #peteway #petekenta #this is how it works

[firstofficerkittycat]

i need to find that fic where kirk and spock were in iowa in the middle of winter and spock insisted on going out to help him run errands and fell in the snow and got hypothermia and kirk ran him a bath to warm him up and then it turned out spock was actually having a great time and hgave himself hypothermia on purpose just to get jim to takw a bath with him because he is a masochist

#it was literally old married spirk too which made it so much more iconic like he was not being angsty he just lives for the drama #this is prolly not how the fic actually went and i am remembering my hc of it i think maybe it was more along the lines of like #spock was like u were working hard and i couldnt just ask u to relax cus u dont listen. i think thats how it went #which i love #but also if u asked him to take a bath with u he just wouldve said yes like thats not the same as saying take a break #he has watched u die of radiation poisoning he would literally never not take a bath with u babe #spirk #fanfic #coldspockcore #spock getting hypothermia was my 1 and only fic genre of them for such a long time #i think of her

[rollercoasterwords]

i don't want to hear about your diet i don't want to hear about your weight loss "journey" i don't want to hear about your clothing size i don't want to hear about your "healthy alternatives" recipes i don't want to hear about your fucking nutrient dense protein pancakes or your green juice super smoothie metabolic booster lemon water cayenne honey tea i don't want to hear about your workout routine i don't wanna hear about your slimming shapewear i don't want to hear about how much you hate your arms or legs or stomach or hips i don't want to hear about how "bad" you've been for eating too much dessert i don't want to hear about the number on your scale i don't want to hear your casual fatphobia dressed up in the language of "wellness" or the excuse of self-hatred!!!!

#sorry i simply. am so beyond pissed off #i'm never going to congratulate you for your stupid fucking diet! #i'm never going to congratulate you for weight loss! #i'm never going to commiserate with you over weight gain! #saying oh sorry but i'm just insecure abt my body isn't a fucking excuse #i'm sorry but i DON'T CARE! #work on ur fatphobia or shut the fuck up and hate your body privately #like i know it's a hard pill to swallow but being afraid to be fat is something you should actively be challenging! #and no matter how wrapped up in the language of wellness it is #anything you share or say publicly about wanting to make your body smaller is only ever going to contribute to fatphobia #no matter how rooted in personal insecurity it is #tw fatphobia #tw ed #sorry babes but dieting IS disordered eating. it is #ranting and raving #txt

[fluffyselfships]

paralells or whatever

this is the most self indulgent thing ive ever done i'm sorry (im not)

#ITS NIGHTTIME TIME TO SNEAKILY POST CRINGE #dont look at me #i cant tell you how long this took me #i got the idea early as hell this morning and have been working on it ever since #selfship #self ship #f/o #❄️winterbun🐰 #❄️winter wonder babe🩵 #screenshot edits #self insert #mod bun🐰

[queerprayers]

actually third base is saying the rosary in your partner's room while they shower

#dating someone who isn't religious is like. one sec babe gotta do my magic chanting ritual before we leave #actually i am learning a lot abt what i value and how i love! it's been really beautiful so far #there will be hard things but there would be conflict dating a presbyterian or catholic too lol. #like bringing your practice to any kind of relationship will always involve work. this includes nonreligious ppl #i am blessed to have people i love and who want to do the work w me #and that was my dating requirement. no religion required but rather a willingness to do the work

[ohshinytrinketsmine]

"If you can satisfy me, you can pick any car you want.But there is a price to pay."

Pit Babe the Series, Ep 1

#pit babe the series #pit babe #charlie x babe #babe x charlie #babecharlie #charliebabe #I promise it's not the same gifs repeated 7 times ;-; #they just look similar cause there's only so many ways babe can put his hands down a man's pants y'know #we're also going to ignore how half the gifs look completely diff- #anyway this was exhausting i hate working with dark scenes ;-; #thai bl #thai bl drama #thai drama #bl drama #bl series #bl shows #bl edits #pls don't mark this pls don't mark this pls don't mark this no nakey skin here and i added the label- #usershinygifs

[le-trash-prince]

Very endeared that Benz felt the need to show off Garfield’s guns even though Garfield isn’t necessarily the most ripped of the cast. (to me his arms are perfect tho ✨)

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#also the way the staff was coming by to help ppl out of their jackets but benz decided garfields jacket was his job #like plz he knows how this game works and yet they dont get to kiss each other WHAT GIVES CHANGE2561 #pit babe fanmeet #garfield pantach #benz atthanin #em post #pit babe #pit babe the series #benzgarfield #garfieldbenz #pit babe cast #change2561 cast

[pharawee]

"I'll send you guys the link to the marriage equality petition. Please help share."

#a boss and a babe #a boss and a babe the series #force jiratchapong #book kasidet #forcebook #guncher #baabedit #thai drama #thaidrama #bl series #thai bl #my edits. #i'm so glad this happens in every thai bl now #i mean it wouldn't have to if parliament got its sh*t together #but until then #more aggressive calling out pls #don't get me started on people who watch bl and aren't for equality #like how does that even work ugh

[okruee]

looking at the paralives development blog is so funny they're like look at these bedsheet animations we're working on! parafolks still can't find or use the bed btw

#for the month of july: we haven't figured out how basic interaction mechanics will work. but look we created a sandwich! #sorry for being a hater but they're making 50k in USD a month babe...for what...!!

[riickgrimes]

#stranger things #stranger things spoilers #dailyharrington #dailysteveharrington #strangerthingedit #dailystrangerthings #tvstrangerthings #tuserdee #tuserandrea #usercallie #userrlaura #icedbrilatte #usergreta #steve harrington #joe keery #mine and only mine #*ripping off my clothes* god you're so dumb #i love the way he thinks #absolutely adore how ur brain works babe #*** #thousand

[braceletofteeth]

Oh, great! Problem sol-

wait what

#pit babe the series #they are throwing information at me like water balloons out here. #sorry Charlie but I don't think that qualifies as something you *can* do #more like something that happens if something happens *to* you (which no one wants right now) #also how the hell does he know that #has he ever died before #how does this work