#that's not the kind of media i consume

[otaku553]

Haha

#yanqing #honkai star rail #hsr yanqing #my immediate fixation on ice wielding child genius characters in every media I consume strikes again #idk I just think he’s neat!! and so is his gender #he’s definitely overdesigned but I do enjoy the general shape of his clothes #like wow… baggy outer layer AND baggy inner layer #how come you get to have two baggy layers #still don’t know that much about him even after reading his character stories on the wiki #so I’m hoping that his quest writes him well #I suppose there’s some degree of like interesting contrast in the fact that he’s very young on a ship full of people who live very long live #but I feel like regardless they really don’t give him much of a personality besides his hyperfixation on swords and the general naivety and #inexperience from youth yknow what I mean #I just think it would be cool to see like why he’s so ambitious! was he railroaded into being a knight because of his talents? did he try #to be accepted as a knight? what kinds of expectations is he facing and what expectations does he place on himself as a result #I really hope he isn’t just there to be a simpler minded child character for jingyuan to take care of

[youarenotthewalrus]

Reading The Song of Roland and y'know it's nice to read an Ancient, Respected Classic that's just. Trash. A jingoistic action movie. The 11th century equivalent of 300, a historical war depicted in a wildly inaccurate and propagandistic way as an excuse for buff macho warriors to face off against poorly-researched stereotypes of foreign enemies and then kill them in spectacularly violent and improbable ways. You want depth? Nuance? Timeless themes that still speak to the common human experience nearly a thousand years later? Fuck you. You'll take Charlemagne's nephew cutting a Saracen in half with his sword and you'll like it.

#i kind of want a film adaptation that plays it completely straight to the point of parody starship troopers-style #but given how large the unironic fash following would be i'm not sure you could make it in good conscience #i also want to see a sung performance because a lot of these repetitive parts probably work a lot better that way #idle musings #walrus reads old books #walrus consumes media

[lipt-97]

came back just to post these. okay bye

#gbf #belifaa #did you get triple zero (summon)? the sanfaa scissoring summon? SSS? i sierotixed it. It was awesome. Everythung in gbf is going right for #e except for the fact that i had to sieroticket it but its alright. just the notion of so much lucilius is just enough to put me back on my #feet again it’s almsot unreal how much lucilius-centric stuff theyve pushed out the past few months. his GBVSR debut. his summon. #Omg when I saw the gbfes fashion show i was a few seconds behind zen and she told me “You wont believe this” and I was like “WHAT? BELIEVE #WHAT? WHAT? WHAYT DO YOU MEAN” and the official lucilius cosplayer walked out in his robes it felt unreal unreal like it was seeing my onl #dreams come true after years and years of being like Theres no way they’d do that. There’s no way they’d make a cosplay for lucilius in his #robes because hes in his void outfit forever. BUT THEY DID…..AND THERE WAS BLOOD UNDER HIS SKIN….AND HIS LIPS WERE GLOSSED…AND HE HAD A LIT #LE BIT OF TAREME AND TSURIME (TARIME) ACTION ON HIS EYES AND EVERYTIME HE WALKED HIS ROBES KIND OF FLUTTERED AS HE SHUFFLED ALONG I HAD TO #SIT ON THE BATHROOM FLOOR lay down on the bathroom floor and I almpst puked from how nauseous it made me i was OVERJOYED BEYOND MY PHYSICAL #LIMITATIONS OF HAPPINESS . I WAS SO HAPPY. THIS YEAR HAS BEEN UTTERLY MISERABLE FOR ME AND I HAVE NOT BEEN THIS DEPRESSED SINCE HIGH SCHOOL #BUT SEEING LUCILIUS like this genuinely blew me off my socks . I don’t know if i should be 100% thankful because I’ve been trying to figure #out how to balance my emotional state with the media i consume but #I think i really needed it. thank you lucilius for ending my 2023

[canisalbus]

I say this in the best way, but your characters feel like they're from an obscure but really good piece of media, and you feel like the artist who always draws the two main characters as ghay lovers

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#that's actually a really flattering thing to hear! #and I get what you mean #every now and then someone mistakes my art as fanart of some piece of media #that they don't recognize but like the art anyway #I wish I had the product to give to you #a graphic novel or a webtoon or a written narrative #I fear there's a hole the shape of the main story in my work #and even though I allude to it and talk about it in the safety of the tags #it's kind of frustrating that you have to piece it together from the scattered bits of lore #instead of reading ~the thing~ digesting it and knowing you have consumed the story in it's intended form #this got a little off track #I think it's so motivating and rewarding that you're interested in my characters to begin with #even in the absence of a proper finalized work of fiction that ties all the art together #answered #anonymous #imagine a reality where they aren't lovers in the canon work but I just ship them really hard #even better if they aren't even the protagonists but some inconsequential side characters #that get two minutes of screen time every other episode and barely ever in the same scene

[boombox-fuckboy]

However you feel about humans, they sure as fuck know how to tell a story. Many stories. Pretty great at stories.

#Been recharging by consuming more different kinds of media. I should have energy to finally answer my asks this weekend.

[devsgames]

Gamer: I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I’m not kidding! :)

Game devs: hey so just a heads up everyone, we cancelled/delayed our project so we can put the health and well-being of our team at the forefront

Gamer: why would you do this to me what the FUCK is wrong with you

#for every three gamers who are kind and care about developers there's one who is Just Saying These Things #I support workers rights (as long as it doesn't affect me or interfere with the media I consume in any way) #anyway #the secret is to accept that any project you're excited for might get scrapped and learn to move on like a normal human being #in order to avoid sliding into people's replies constantly I just vaguepost instead lmao #gamedev #game development #game dev #gamedevelopment #thoughts #blog

[moriartyschamp]

"if you wanna date me you have to solve my seven evil cases"

#i have never consumed any kind of scott pilgrim media in my life #bbc sherlock #sherlock #sherlock bbc #sherlock fanart #sherlock holmes #john watson #johnlock #sherlock x john

[delicatepoets]

on undying friendships for @fightingdragonswithwho​ <3

graceland too - phoebe bridgers / daisy jones and the six / leonard cohen - boygenius / a league of their own (2022) / a little life - hanya yanagihara / ladybird (2017) / the seven husbands of evelyn hugo - taylor jenkins reid

#graceland too #daisy jones and the six #djats #boygenius #a leauge of their own #aloto #a little life #ladybird #tshoeh #the seven husbands of evelyn hugo #on undying friendships in honor of one of MY undying friendship! 💘💘💘💘💘💘💘 #ana my sweet baby love!!!!!!! a little post about friendships that are all consuming in media that we’ve consumed together! #honorable mention: the entirety of ribs by lorde <3 (tumblr didn’t let me add it ):< i can’t win?!!) #these remind me of you or the essays we’ve insanely written about them! <3 #(i wanted to include succession bcs who are we without the roys……………. but they aren’t that kind so we’ll keep them in mind <3) #from our mirrorball book club to swapping playlists and hyper analyzing tv shows and movies and assigning characters super specific songs!! #the way you take one for the team and absolutely WRECK your sleep schedule just so we can scream about things at the same time 😭😭 #you are just such a light!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love you so bad bestie!!!! 💘💝💞💗💓💖💝💗💓💞 #i hope that you have the best day and that everyone holds doors open for you today and is so tooth rotting sweet to you!!!!! as you deserve! #ALWAYS!!! 💓💝💞💗💘💞💗💝 #everyone say ‘happy birthday’ to ana NOWWWWWW 🫵🤨 #💗💝💞💓💘💖💓💞💗💝💘💗 happy birthday my sweet sweet sweet bestie loml and fav meme maker! 💝💗💞💖💓💘💖💞💞💗 #web.m #web weaving #qp

[thirtyskeletons]

making it in the world today takes everything you’ve got

#fionna and cake #fionna campbell #simon petrikov #adventure time #fionna the human #betty grof #kind of lol #i know this is fanart of the FIRST EPISODE when so much has happened since but. i’ve been busy ok #caro art #i’ve been very inspired by the media i’ve been consuming so i’ve been drawing a lot more lately #which is nice #one thing about me. i can only draw thematic artsy renditions of situations i will never be able to draw a scene as it happens #i’m a FEELINGS guy #anyway i also just wanted to draw fionna flipping off the bud with her pants down. peak Hashtag Girl moment

[agentark]

a purely self indulgent whatever this is about a vibe I love

there's just something about an eerie town, a few old friends, a slowly building sense of dread, radio static, an outsider, I think we're being watched, remembering

oxenfree 🤝 the fernweh saga

Aelsa Trevelyan - The Fernweh Saga, Book 1 // The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms // Oxenfree - Night School Studio // Paramore - Figure 8 // Aelsa Trevelyan - The Fernweh Saga, Book 1 // Oxenfree - Night School Studio // Trocadero feat. Meredith Hagan - Contact Redux // unknown // Aelsa Trevelyan - The Fernweh Saga, Book 1

#am I transmitting? is anyone listening? #I literally played through book 1 of the fernweh saga 4 times and went - dang I need to replay oxenfree #come get your loops kids #won't say what kind - time/physical/self inflicted/generational; could be one could be all #being trapped in a gravity well of a place is a true bonding experience #fernweh saga #oxenfree #web weaving #I wasn't gonna tag this but what if I convince someone to consume either of these pieces of media #there's something missing from this but it's probably better than adding 1400 additional photos #it's literally just self indulgent who cares if it's incoherent #I feel like bly manor could fit in here as well #the whole - she would wake / she would walk / she would sleep / she would forget bit #the 'it's you it's me it's us' #the ghosts being trapped at bly and the living always coming back

[sciderman]

Yk not looking at usernames sure is wild. I thought the Bob and Wade you were talking about were those guys from distractible

don’t know what that is but 👍 ok

#I feel so pop culturally inept whenever any of you guys talk #you guys know I have not consumed a single piece of media from the past two decades #sci speaks #oh. it’s a podcast. #yeah. I don’t listen to podcasts. #I listened to the always sunny in philadelphia podcast. that was the only podcast I’ve ever listened to. #are there fandoms for podcasts. do people talk about podcasts like they do comics. #I bet they do. #you know what I’ve kind of always wanted to make a podcast. I like to talk about stupid things. it seems anyone can make a podcast. #I have a good mic and a cute accent. #I bet people will fall in love with me if I made a podcast. #does anyone want to make a podcast with me. we can talk about comics and stuff. #I think I did a podcast episode with someone one time where we talked about deadpool 2. im not going to link it. #it was with a guy I cosplayed with as cable and deadpool. he was a weird guy. #we don’t talk anymore. he was weird. he killed my friend’s guinea pig.

[jadegr8]

Have you seen the Duolingo January Badge?

#duolingo #zari duolingo #lily duolingo #i'm sorry i had to #they just have this kind of energy #gaaayyy (affectionately) #I'm consuming too much queer media #OBVIOUSLY

[violent138]

Nothing in the whole world drives me as crazy as the sight of people in movies/shows/other media fucking eating in the lab? It's even more reprehensible when it's a pathology/disease/tissue culture/bacterial lab, but for god's sake, people keep the damn sandwiches outside it's a lab coat, not an apron.

#personal #about me #can you tell consuming media is getting to me #not dc related but who knows #I have so many examples just off the top of my head of this kind of idiotic tomfoolery #it's wilder when the characters are self-proclaimed to be “anal” or OCD or obsessive about this shit #scientific research #science in tv shows #my on and off situationship

[mimic-tesdinic]

Context for the sexual culture of Victorians, and why it's dangerous to oversimplify it

Acting like Victorian’s sexual culture is just ‘repressed’ is to remove all nuance from the subject. To show what I mean, I think it’s important to look at the reasons we may be seen as prudish right now:

The rates of highschoolers having sex has been on a decline since the 90s (down 15%)

The number of explicit movies shown in theater is on a decline

Social-distancing has caused people to be less comfortable with physical contact, even post lockdown.

There’s been a lot of anxiety that Gen Z and Millennials are too prudish, but this fails to consider the nuances of these facts:

The decrease in sex among teens has more to do with an increase in entertainment available for teens, as well as a decrease in virgin-shaming, due to higher awareness of asexuality and consent, as well as growing anxiety about sexual expectations.

The decrease in explicit movies in theaters is mostly due to the popularity of streaming services, seen in shows like Bridgerton, etc.

People have been connecting non-physically via the internet, so in even though being physically with other people is more difficult, people are still connecting

It’s not that there hasn’t been a rise in sexual-repression per se, but boiling things down to “kids aren’t having sex these days” is a massive generalization that isn’t helping anyone. And viewing Victorian sexuality as this caricature or prudishness isn’t going to give any insight to the actual problems underlying their perception of sex.

This is part of my issue with a lot of historical fiction about the 1800s, they want to give commentary on purity-culture and sexuality, but they can’t conceptualize it beyond a surface level idea of “sex feels good” so it ends up feeling like poorly written smut catered purely to the male-gaze, which they claim is somehow feminist. The sexual repression of women in this time was more complicated than that, the leading factors were:

A female monarch in a committed and intensely passionate marriage after five male rulers, notorious for debauchery

A rise in the Evangelical Protestant Subsect

Better rights for single women as opposed to married women

A Rising number of STD’s, particularly syphilis

A lack of custody rights for mothers

Both a rise in and banning of sexually explicit fiction

Women's Suffrage

The trial of Oscar Wilde

Most of the rumors you hear about the time period, like the idea that tablecloths were a matter of propriety, or that female orgasms were a medical treatment, are untrue. Marriage books from the time claimed that conception was more likely if both partners climaxed. And self-pleasuring was frowned upon regardless of gender.

Although Puritanical expectations were a factor in the sexual repression of women, I would argue that women's sexual repression was mostly due to a lack of contraceptive, STD protection, and human rights.

To be clear this isn’t to say that puritanical culture wasn’t a factor, but it was one of many, and the idea that no women has enjoyed sex is often used to frame sexual pleasure as a privilege that modern women should feel indebted to men for having, and it’s not. Don’t feed into the idea that social progression is purely linear, especially when it’s used as an excuse to silence the marginalized.

#dracula #dracula daily #kind of? #I just think it's good to have context for the media your consuming and last year I saw some analysis that was a little oversimplifying #mostly this is about Coppola's Dracula #victorian era

[stargatelov3r]

Yeah, people suck. Now that the fandom is on life support, the hate has retreated back into the shadows. Thank goodness! I've read "gen" stories by slash writers where John and Rodney both secretly hated Elizabeth, who was shrill and incompetent. The worst were negative physical comments about Torri (which I never understood, cause the woman is gorgeous).

That’s absolutely baffling to me. I know some people don’t like Elizabeth and that’s fine, not every character is for a everyone, but I don’t get how you can actually hate her

And hating her only for the reason bc she “gets in the way” is just nuts and unreflective.

I’m glad it has become less hateful tho.

But also????? John and Rodney secretly hating Elizabeth? I feel like every slash shipper is always on the look out for the most minute movements, gestures, shots and cuts and scenes between their ship (and i’m guilty of that myself) but you gotta look past that at some point don’t you?

Like for me, I usually focus on one character or one ship the first time watching something and I ignore/forget about 80% about everything else that’s happening but upon rewatches I notice so much more, I realize how full the shows are, how intricate the relationships to other characters, outside the ship!

Also if you don’t ship John/Elizabeth and you want to get her “out of the way” there are so many better things to do than making them hate her😭 a) don’t put her in the story at all. b) make her oblivious to their relationship. c) make her ignore the relationship. d) make her ship them too!

Do whatever the fuck you want but it’s embarrassing to absolutely mischaracterize a woman character for the benefit of *your* ship.

I’m sorry I kinda went off the rails here but that actually bothers me a lot even tho it’s now (mostly) in the past.

#i’m already in the minority for always having women as my fave characters in 98% of the media i consume #and being a femslasher + um… canon shippe i wanna say? on top of it (although the latter doesn’t make me a minority) #but i just get VERY defensive about women when it’s about this kind of thing #like wtf #i don’t even get the appeal of writing about a character i actually hate😭 like what the fuck😭 #asks #answered #mathgirl24 #sga

[countess-of-edessa]

the thing about taking advice from anyone on tiktok or instagram including catholic and christian type influencers, parenting advice, relationship advice, etc, or internalizing any stories of horrible relationships and betrayal people tell on those platforms, or reading about all the ways interpersonal relationships can end horribly and be cycled through extremely quickly on those platforms is that you are necessarily then consuming the thoughts and experiences of someone who is willing to put their face and name on a public social media platform to talk at you. and like 1% of those people have a good reason for doing so and the other 99% are completely unhinged. so everything you’re consuming has first gone through the filter of "is this person weird and insane enough to make Instagram reels of themselves crying?" and if the answer is yes maybe their advice doesn’t apply to your life because you’re a normal person who would not do that.

#i don’t know if this makes sense but it’s something i was thinking about today #not that i really live my life according to Instagram reel advice but as a human being when i see something stated as fact i naturally seek #out the parts of it I believe or compare it to my current worldview #and when that person seems to have a lot of “clout” for discussing spiritual things….idk sometimes I’m like wait is this true? should i #believe this? and other times I’m like well is this a real pattern of behavior that can be observed in many people from different walks of #life including my own? this thing that all men do or all women do or the way all couples will eventually behave #this makes it sound like i am constantly on social media consuming hours of content which im really not #I’ll be on a train and scroll a little bit and something gets stuck in my craw #but with me I’m always like am i rationalizing this away because i don’t want it to resonate? #and I think in the case of anything on social media the answer can almost always be no #because im like wait. why would i take advice from someone who has a public Instagram account #im not saying a stopped clock isn’t right twice a day but really how much of my perspective and life experiences can they share in #when we have this totally totally mismatched worldview #(i mean this also applies to basically anyone offering any type of life advice who isn’t catholic about that) #(but when they are Catholics doing this that gives me slightly more pause for obvious reasons I’m like we are on the same team though?) #(and we are but only kind of and i do not have to listen to you because being an Instagram influencer is still cringe in 99% of cases.)