#political critique

[scltbvrns]

homogenising something that has always been inherently diverse will kill us all one day.

#-> myra text #political critique #that is why hindutva should have not been popularised. hindutva is not decolonisation or reclamation. #it is homogenising and exclusionist. it takes away the diverse history of this country. #but this statement will reach deaf ears. rather than critiquing nobility they will go and bark casteist and islamphobic bs. #did invaders did what invaders do? yes. but this whole property destruction and lives being at risk has been going on for years. #biggest example who are quite popular: ajatshatru (son of bimbisara) & ashoka the great (the massacre at kaling) #i'm all in for criticising nobility i have no respect for any kings despite their religion and community and whatever. #they're all shits who benefited and left the common people to rot. #these people will say that tipu sultan is the devil reborn but will go on praising the marathas #as if the marathas did not cause a bloodshed in bengal karnataka and the punjab regions. not saying tipu is good but i rather #wanted to point out the hypocrisy of people in certain spaces. its a good thing to appreciate history and even better thing to learn from #the mistakes made in past but some of you guys did not understand the whole point. #absolute shit head cunts some of you guys are. come at me brand me whatever slurs you fuckers use i don't give a shit #calling people sex slaves just because they don't subscribe to your viewpoint is not the big own you think it is. #sanghi bs #india #hindutva

[dont-tell-mom-and-dad]

#alien #aliens #sigourney weaver #science fiction #fantasy #movies #star wars #just watched alien again #and the alien wasn't even the main villain of the story #it was literally the company wanting to make money #at the expense of human life #politics #political critique

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

The Barbie movie really said. Yes you will grow up and childhood wonder will vanish. Yes you will grow up and learn to hate yourself, your body, your awkwardness. Yes you will grow up and lose your confidence and certainty and sense of purpose. Yes you will grow up and the world will seem a bleaker, lonelier place every day, and society will seem bleaker and lonelier every day, and you won’t understand what went wrong in the span of just a few years, what took you from a happy and secure young girl to a sad, uncertain, scared grown woman.

And yet. You will learn to find beauty again. You will find joy in not having a purpose, in building a purpose for yourself. You will find beauty in connection, with the people and the world around you. You will learn to love signs of ageing as proof of a life well lived, of experience and happiness. You will take that little girl by the hand and tell her “I know, this isn’t what you thought it would be, but it’s real. Let me show you how beautiful it can be.”

#idk I’m just really really emotional about this movie #it hit me in my core #like I loved the political critique obviously but #the message about growing up and losing your sense of identity and purpose just resonated with me #I’ve been crying about this since I saw the movie lmao #and I haven’t really seen a lot of commentary on this theme #barbie #barbie movie

[nectorbruise]

So I um i I mean I sort of

I wanted to draw something for @eavee-ry horror au of total drama island. I had to. So I drew a drowned Noah as you do

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It was fun but also horrifying. And now this’ll be occupying my mind all week

#nector art! #fanart #noah tdi #island of the slaughtered #I took so much time on this #I’ve only been drawing headshots lately I need to draw a scene #buzzing on soda #anyway can someone politely critique me at some point

[hussyknee]

I'm really not a villain enjoyer. I love anti-heroes and anti-villains. But I can't see fictional evil separate from real evil. As in not that enjoying dark fiction means you condone it, but that all fiction holds up some kind of mirror to the world as it is. Killing innocent people doesn't make you an iconic lesbian girlboss it just makes you part of the mundane and stultifying black rot of the universe.

"But characters struggling with honour and goodness and the egoism of being good are so boring." Cool well some of us actually struggle with that stuff on the daily because being a good person is complicated and harder than being an edgelord.

Sure you can use fiction to explore the darkness of human nature and learn empathy, but the world doesn't actually suffer from a deficit of empathy for powerful and privileged people who do heinous stuff. You could literally kill a thousand babies in broad daylight and they'll find a way to blame your childhood trauma for it as long as you're white, cisgender, abled and attractive, and you'll be their poor little meow meow by the end of the week. Don't act like you're advocating for Quasimodo when you're just making Elon Musk hot, smart and gay.

#this is one of the reasons why #although i would kill antis in real life if i could #i also don't trust anyone who identifies as 'pro-ship' #it's just an excuse to shut down legitimate ethical questions and engaging in honest self-reflective media consumption and critique #art doesn't exist in a vacuum #it's a flat impossibility for it not to inform nor be informed by real world politics and attitudes #because that's what it means to be created by human hands #we can't even make machine learning thats not just human bias fed into an algorithm #if the way we interact with art truly didn't influence anything then there would be no value in it #just because antis have weaponized those points in the most bad faith ways possible #doesn't mean you can ignore them in good faith #anyway fandom stans villains because society loves to defend and protect abusers #it's not because you get the chance to be free and empathetic and indulge in your darkness and what not #it's just people's normal levels of attachment to shitty people with an added layer of justification for it #this blog is for boring do-gooder enjoyers only #lol #knee of huss #fandom wank #media critique #pop culture #fandom discourse

[cock-holliday]

I think it’s very funny to see posts like “idk where people get the idea that disco elysium is leftist/supports communism cause the game is very critical of it and you in that plotline”

Like lol welcome to your first day as a leftist

#disco elysium #there’s a wild amount of players who think the moralists are viewed most favorably because of how the moralists lack self awareness #‘oh this group calls themselves the Only Reasonable People it must be true’ #it’s also very telling about a lot of people’s politics that #lack of critique = the purest ideology

[wodania]

I wish critique of colonialism and feudalism in westeros was more welcome in the asoiaf fandom, considering the books are literally critiques of medieval and fictional politics. Like some people embody feudalistic lords a little too much when they see a critique of the most powerful ruling house in this fictional world and say “well so and so house did it too so shut up!!!” Like the inner medieval tyrant is showing. You are not a dragon you are a 20 year old from the United States of America. Quit dismissing every political analysis of a political book bc “so and so did it too”. You’re so boring.

#george created a world ripe for criticism with stories that focus on calling out the bad parts of this world #yet god forbid someone critique the politics of a family of magical overlords in a political fantasy novel #feudalistic and colonial politics are a massive part of asoiaf if you’re afraid of encountering them then watch d&ds fanfic idk

[the-kingshound]

Putting the current angst aside for a second, I find it telling how the two major critiques to the game are that the characters are too nice to MC and that the ROs are too feminine (because they are nice. Because men aren't nice and don't say "dear" or "darling")

... I don't know

#over and over again on the itch comment section #which is a valid critique but also subjective #but i never like how it borders on sexism and how it implies a good story needs ROs who are not nice to mc even in harsh circumstances #sometimes i wonder how deep fantasy stories like got influenced the perception of politics in a fantasy world #i love a very angst complicated game of power every once in a while #but tkh was never intended to be like that #it's hurt comfort with the ROs providing the comfort (and not the hurt. for once.) #brief vent

[elumish]

I genuinely think a lot of outrage over whether/how things are being covered by the news would be solved by Tumblr users actually regularly engaging with major news sources.

I recently saw a post with someone expressing outrage about how the Washington Post "broke" the news about Biden signing the aid package to Israel and that they had to search so much to find the information, as though there hasn't been literally months of coverage from every major news site that covers politics about the machinations to get Israel and Ukraine funding through Congress.

I see people saying that nobody covers what Israel is doing in Gaza--as though that hasn't been a major topic in the news for months. I see people talking about how nobody covers what's happening in Yemen, Sudan, Haiti, etc. as though, again, that requires more than literally googling things like "Yemen New York Times" to find a wide breadth of coverage that spans years.

Critiques of news coverage are absolutely fair and valid--but when you start them by saying that "nobody is talking about this" all it shows is that you aren't bothering to look.

#news literacy #media literacy #to be clear the nyt wapo etc are not in any way perfect in their coverage #but if you don't know basic information about what's going on in american politics like them passing these funding bills #that's a skill issue #not a nyt issue #let's have useful critiques of things

[boysnberriespie]

Truly you can’t simultaneously say “this queer media is important and meaningful in real life” and then simultaneously say that anyone critiquing it for its handling of certain subjects and the messages that sends is just applying morality to media where it doesn’t belong

It can not both be a moral win and free from analysis of those morals

#the difference is that censorship is not the goal with the critique #and nor is ‘cancelling’ the creators #you can still critique!!! if all critique was a call for censorship and harassment #the entire literature department at every university would be fucking shut down #there IS a middle ground between ‘writing X subject makes you evil’ #and ‘no fictional work can be used as a 1 to 1 analysis of real life morals’ #because sometimes works do have an express moral and political dimension to them #and ignoring that is fucking dumb frankly #and sometimes works don’t have an expressed political dimension to them #but they still reflect some of reality and the current literature/TV/movie landscape

[rustchild]

one of the wild things about people’s stubborn insistence on misunderstanding The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas is that the narrator anticipates an audience that won’t engage with the text, just in the opposite direction. Throughout the story are little asides asking what the reader is willing to believe in. Can you believe in a utopia? What if I told you this? What about this? Can you believe in the festivals? The towers by the sea? Can we believe that they have no king? Can we believe that they are joyful? Does your utopia have technology, luxury, sex, temples, drugs? The story is consulting you as it’s being told, framed as a dialogue. It literally asks you directly: do you only believe joy is possible with suffering? And, implicitly, why?

the question isn’t just “what would you personally do about the kid.” It isn’t just an intricate trolley problem. It’s an interrogation of the limits of imagination. How do we make suffering compulsory? Why? What futures (or pasts) are we capable of imagining? How do we rationalize suffering as necessary? And so on. In all of the conversations I’ve seen or had about this story, no one has mentioned the fact that it’s actively breaking the fourth wall. The narrator is building a world in front of your eyes and challenging you to participate. “I would free the kid” and then what? What does the Omelas you’ve constructed look like, and why? And what does that say about the worlds you’re building in real life?

#ursula k le guin #omelas #There are so many ideas in this story that simply do not get engaged with! #I’ve heard it argued that a central element of anarchism #as a political philosophy #is the expansion of the imagination: what is truly possible if we forget the structures we are raised in? #if we forget what we have been told is or is not possible? #le guin wasn’t an anarchist but her work is heavily inspired by anarchist thought #Also the idea that the compassion of citizens of omelas is possible only because they are able to see themselves in relation and contrast t #the kid #very interesting stuff there #arguably a searing critique of moderate liberals #who feel compassion from on high but rationalize the ways in which those who suffer cosmically deserve it #in order to maintain structures of suffering #This short story is breaking the fourth wall Constantly to grab you by the collar and ask #what do you think is possible in the world and what do you think is good and what do you think is necessary #If you want to free the kid then what! What does that mean! #ALSO if omelas is a place being constructed as an idea #are the ones who walk away meant to be literally deserting a place #or are they rejecting an idea #hmmm much to think about

[alsoknownasallison]

me: "oh yeah I like some of taylor swift's music! :)"

yall: "OMG YOURE SO STUPID AND ACTUALLY YOU DONT UNDERSTAND ART YOURE SO EMBARRASSING YOU LISTEN TO BAD MUSIC! CRINGE! BASIC! ALL OF HER MUSIC IS BAD AND I WOULD KNOW!!!! I HAVE THE POWER TO DECIDE WHAT ART IS OBJECTIVELY GOOD AND WHAT I SAY GOES!!! DONT YOU KNOW YOUR VALUE AND WORTH IS ONLY MEASURED BY HOW COOL AND UNIQUE YOU ARE WHICH YOU ARENT BUT I AM SOOOOOO COOL AND UNIQUE YOURE THE PROBLEM NOT ME!!!!!!!!"

#like woah my guy sorry i had fun #and before yall start this isnt talking about genuine critique or people discussing her actions and selective political activism #be fr you know the people im talking about #im also not here to defend all swifties actions or words #im just a casual fan stanind in front of the internet begging to have nuanced conversations again #taylor swift #taylornation #ttpd #ts ttpd #the tortured poets department #ts11 #swifties #music #new music #music criticism #internet etiquette

[troythecatfish]

#barbie #barbie movie #the matrix #the barbie movie #video essay #movie analysis #media analysis #movie critique #movie criticism #criticism #constructive criticism #leftist #leftism #left wing #left wing politics #leftist politics #jessie gender #leftisim #movies #movie #political #politics #political posting #tumblr recommendations #recommend #recommendation #youtube #youtube content #youtube recommendations #youtube video

[ugisfeelings]

wip// been doing portrait semi-studies n reading on marxist critiques of the terror this december 🤠

#and the angelus novus is here. #maximilien robespierre #im on a train rn but i forgot to pack my tablet so i dont think this is getting finished OTL #robespierre #qqart #ive read a lot abt the reception of the frev as a figure of euro enlightenment but auditing an actual history course on its political #contingencies during the terror and anticolonialist recuperative critiques has tempered a lot of my most severe impressions of it LOL #frev

[lakesbian]

Never read Worm, but should I read Worm? Its concept n characters intrigues me greatly and I enjoy your posts but the fact that even the fans hate it is making me hesitate lol

the fans don't hate it they hate the author, who is some cunt on the forums with bad opinions on his own writing. the book is excellent and we like it very much or we wouldn't still be posting about it ten years later. go read it

#ask #worm has shit parts but like. so does 99% of media out there #you'll be very hard pressed to find mainstream media that doesn't have at least some shit politics because shit politics are the norm #analyzing & critiquing worm's shit politics doesn't mean we hate it #you can in fact criticize something without hating it. and in fact i only criticize it because i like it enough to write analysis about it

[ssaalexblake]

Does anybody want to tell the people still complaining that 13's era didn't have enough political commentary that the anti-imperialism themes, the condemnation of the treatment of refugees and immigrants, the emphasis on violence for violence's sake being bad but violence in the name of protection and self defence is acceptable and heroic (you can and Should fight back against violent colonizers), and and absolute refusal to give any ground to abusers (something the other eras were sketchy at Best over), we could talk about the environmental protection themes that appear about as subtly as a brick more than once (ideally environmental protection shouldn't be a political issue, but idk if you've watched the news lately, it is) were like. Really thematically obvious? And that if you talk about the Less obvious, it gets deeper.

We could talk about medical exploitation and the parallels of the timeless child to henrietta lacks (look her up). We could talk about the northern working class emphasis in the whole era and that its avoidance of the south is a statement in itself, from Sheffield steel to nobody having an upper class accent (sans that one time lord who ran division who had the Snootiest of snooty high class accents. Almost like they were making a Point). We could talk about how all our characters and reoccurring are working class, a bus driver, a trainee mechanic, a hotel manager etc etc, we could talk about the portrayal of actual honest modern poverty, and that it's explicitly shown that Dan Wants to work and is threatened off of the premises instead as the indictment of capitalism it is. We could talk about the very clear condemnation of tech companies taking advantage of their customers (calling fake google Vor was unacceptable tho, no defence available).

I could go on, but I'd like to drink my tea before it gets cold.

Sorry 13 didn't say the words eat the rich, but idk if you noticed, there was an actual whole episode where in the future the 1% who ruin the earth beyond repair literally get hunted and eaten by the mutated remains of the 99% whom they left to die 👍

#dw shit #bc pithy phrases are actually the end word in political commentary #i know 12 got some great Lines but damn not a great deal more depth #dont get me started on the zygon plot #rtd's anti capitalism commentary ceased to be commentary when rose got a rich daddy and ten stole somebody else's lottery winnings #by cheating #(capitalism IS to cheat. if you cheat the system and get money you have Won at capitalism. you cannot critique a system #that works by cheating by cheating it. that's just winnning at it.) #anyway #it's actually quite obvious. most of it. there is subtlty but I've #also spent years reading ppl angry it's so in your face #and it cannot both be in your face and non existent #but hey this is from the crowd that think 13 is too good And too bad to be the doctor #and u know what? I've still not forgiven rtd and moffat for being weirdly up the ass of royalty #at least 13 at best tolerated james #(and tbh moffat just decided to be pro or anti royalty whenever it got the best laugh lbr. somehow this is worse)