#media

[prokopetz]

Tumblr: Isn't it funny how Japanese light novels have such improbably long titles? Isn't it weird?

English literature for most of the 17th–19th Centuries:

[Image description – A photograph of a book published in 1810, whose title reads, in full: "A Reviving Cordial for a Sin-Sick Despairing Soul, in the Time of Temptation, Being an Account of the Miraculous Preservation of the Author’s Bodily Life From Many Imminent Dangers; and of the Way in Which the Spirit of God Effected the Deliverance Of His Soul From the State of Nature to the State of Grace. To Which Is Subjoined, the Only Refuge of a Troubled Soul, in the Time of Tribulation and Affliction; or, The Mystery of the Apple-Tree, Explained and Laid Open, in Two Discourses From Cant. ii. 3", by the Rev. James Barry, Minister of the Gospel.]

[jstor]

In a post-truth world, where emotional appeal sometimes drowns out factual accuracy, the humanities are our compass. They help us question the narratives we’re presented with, cultivate empathy, and dig deeper into the layers of truth behind media, politics, and culture.

By embracing literature, history, and the arts, we enhance our critical thinking and foster a connection to the human stories that shape our collective experience. 💭

Check out our latest blog post on how the humanities equip us to navigate the complexities of a world filled with conflicting truths.

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[garbagechocolate]

guh

First time messing around with capcut for actual editing instead of piecing animatic frames together (I like object shows)

[spirk-trek]

hello friends. the day seems to have finally come that wikimedia is no longer being maintained, at least not fully, meaning fanlore's pages of preserved fanzines have been deleted.

because of this, you will notice source links on my fanzine posts no longer work. a small part of me hopes this is temporary, but i have the sinking feeling it was a long time coming. if the end isn't now, it'll be soon.

i have many fanzine pages still in my drafts, however without fanlore i may not be able to source them or find background information as well as i have in the past. i will continue posting them anyway, but i just wanted to make it known that if you see more "unknown artist" attributions or "date unknown," this is why.

some snapshots have been made using the way back machine. i don't know how long links within those archived pages will continue working, but i will try my best to preserve everything i can.

the internet is not a safe place for preservation anymore. it's debatable whether it ever was. anything that cannot be monetized will be forced to shrink until nothing is left. it's too late to return to physical media. this will continue to be the new normal.

i'm very thankful to have had these months to explore the wonderful world of fanzines so freely. it will be harder now, but i intend to keep going and sharing what i can <3

[desire-mona]

lawrence kutner head cannon:

[ceilidhtransing]

I'm seeing a huge resurgence in X-Men posting on my dash since the release of Deadpool & Wolverine and I call it

the X-Menaissance

[tobiasdrake]

The way people talk about Rotten Tomatoes is, I think, a good indicator of the fact that people don't really understand statistics.

People tend to read the "Tomatoscore" like it's an academic letter grade. "This got 72% Freshness; That means it's a C-grade movie."

This, in turn, leads to a lot of the hostility and confusion surrounding RT. "They graded this movie 81% but they only graded that movie 67% and I liked the 67% movie better than the 81%."

But the thing is, a Tomatoscore is not, like, putting an 8.8 rating on a video game review or something. It's a comparison of how many people liked the movie vs. how many did not. It's not a review assessment score, it's the number of critics out of 100 who gave it a thumbs up.

I see people all the time like, "They gave this movie a 52% but I thought the movie was good so THEY'RE WRONG."

But 52% doesn't mean "The movie is bad, F-grade." It means you have slightly better than even odds of liking the film vs. not liking the film. If you liked the film, that doesn't mean they're wrong. It means that, for you, the coin landed on Heads.

I see it the other way too. "They said they liked this movie but it has 28% Freshness so how could anyone like a movie that's 28% Freshness?" Uh, because that number means that 28% of critics liked the movie. They didn't average people's review scores to get that number. That's a binary Liked vs. Dislike.

You can even like a movie that has a 10% freshness rating. That doesn't mean the rating is wrong. It means there is a 1-in-10 minority that will probably like the film, and you are part of that group.

(And 1-in-10 of millions of film watchers is still a lot of people.)

[itsmyfriendisaac]

♐ November 27th: Alpha Male, Arad Winwin.

[destinygoldenstar]

”A writer putting a bad thing in their story makes them a bad person because they endorse that bad thing by putting it in there.”

FALSE.

Unless the writer explicitly states that their intention with their story is to endorse this bad thing. Other than that, writers do not have the same moral code as in the stories they write, nor do they apply their own fictional writing to real life. Especially if the bad thing they put in their story is painted in a negative light by the story. (Ex: Consequences, Arcs, Themes, Context, Subtext, Literal Text, Only The Obvious Bad Guys Doing These Bad Things, The Story Intended To Be Morally Grey To Begin With)

You as a writer are allowed to put things in your fictional story that are morally wrong, without being seen as a bad person.

Learn what media literacy is.

[tamapalace]

Tamagotchi Worldwide Sales Double from 2022 to 2023

Excellent news! Reported by both BBC and New York Post, the Tamagotchi comeback is in full swing. Gen Z is reviving the Tamagotchi that the millennials know and love. Bandai Namco has ported that worldwide sales of Tamagotchi have doubled from 2022 to 2023.

The BBC article mentions that this helped drive the opening of the Official Tamagotchi Shop at the Bandai Namco Cross store in London. In fact since Tamagotchi was reintroduced to UK back in 2019 (with the Tamagotchi Original) sales have been growing with a mix of players from young to old.

image source: toyworldmag.co.uk

Priya Jadeja Bandai Namco UK Brand Manager who joined back in 2019 mentions the new features of the Tamagotchi Uni including Wi-Fi, and how this is combating the sense of fatigue you might have gotten from earlier models. Which does make sense, the monthly Tama Arena events, and frequent gifts keep the play pattern very exciting.

We really also like how Priya mentions that for kids growing up with iPhone’s and iPad’s the Tamagotchi experience feels unique, but the gameplay is similar. 

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[burntoutuserboxes]

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[ukrainian-groove-metal]

I love the "came back wrong" trope but from the opposite side.

Imagine you are dead. And then you are RIPPED from the embrace of decay into the world of the living again. Your memories are hazy and you don't recognize any of these people, but they act like they're close to you? Like they love you? So you try to get your memories back, to act like you belong here, but everybody tries to forget you died. And you can't. It is omnipresent. And just trying to grapple with that fact pushes the people who "love" you away, and they're incapable of understanding, and they're so confused, what's wrong N̶̄̀O̶͛͗T̷̉́ ̷͋͝Y̴̎̌Ȍ̴̈U̸̓R NÄM̴̃͑E̵̾̇? And you just need them to understand, you aren't that person! You aren't! You don't know who that person is! You don't know why any of this is happening, but they're unwilling to bend, they keep insisting you are that person, your memories will come back, everything will be normal again, and you want to scream and cry and claw yourself open to show them you're different. Your existence as a being wholly separate from whoever you "used to be" is a sin unto itself. All you can do is scrabble for life and to them, you're killing whoever they loved to do it.

just. lots of fun in that concept, you know?

[determinate-negation]

thank you to the dishonest failing new york times for constantly erasing us and purposefully obscuring jewish participation in these protests just to make people less sympathetic to the movement opposing an ongoing genocide

btw you can see all the edits nyt makes to their article titles on this twitter account