#God forbid someone engages with the media they consume critically

[pixiesnooze]

i swear the internet has scrambled y’all’s brains beyond repair iwl

[deepseawave]

obsessed w the tags on ur last reblog

Omgg, thank you haha, it was a quality post so I just had to appreciate it in full force 😂❤️

Can‘t believe someone would actually enjoy my yapping :,D

[prickly-paprikash]

Don't you just hate it when one of the biggest grifters online decides to like a piece of media you like?

Gatekeeping is wrong. Forcing someone to like something in the specific way I interact and consume a piece of media is wrong. Art is meant to be viewed through a multitude of lenses, and each individual will have their own way of interpreting that creation. And that's good. That's fine. That's human.

But when an Anti-Woke Grifter who thinks alcoholism is a really cool personality trait and decides to brand everything about themselves as that; who has historically engaged and criticized films and shows and games and books in bad faith; who has put down women and POC's and Queer representation in media; who is one of the biggest dicks in the online space decides to actually pay attention to an art that is pretty much dipped, coated, laminated, and injected with fucking GAY, ANTI-PATRIARCHAL ENERGY—that's when I get mad.

For those not in the know, Critical Drinker has posted a review for Blue Eye Samurai, saying he likes it.

You know... Blue Eye Samurai?

The show that oozes Queer Wrath? Feminine Rage? Curb-Stomping Toxic Masculinity and the Patriarchy whenever and wherever it can? That Blue Eye Samurai?

See, he's done this before with Arcane.

He says he likes it. Him and his ilk say that, "Finally, the wokies have done something actually good!" and point to Vi and Jinx as strong female characters written well!

But they also say, dang, feels like all the men in that show are idiots and that they had to be dumbed down to make room for the rainbow-haired girlies brigade. Who have all remarked that Vi and Caitlyn's relationship is forced and being shoved down our throats because god forbid women like women!

I got sick of watching his Arcane review halfway, and this was before I knew what a douche Critical Sucker was.

So I ain't watching his Blue Eye Samurai review. Why?

His Glass Onion review was done in bad faith.

I didn't like She-Hulk, but that's because that show was a byproduct of abused VFX animators, creatively bankrupt executives, and writers desperately trying to manage a convoluted shared universe that continues to buckle under its own weight. Political Stinker over here thinks that it's pandering, stupid, feminist garbage. He is one of the biggest Anti-Feminist voices in Youtube.

Him and his incel brigade have an obsession over hating Captain Marvel and Brie Larson. These basement dwelling cucks rant and rave over a mediocre duology and an actress that just lives in their tiny heads rent-free.

He says that they are removing men from leading roles and roles of great importance!

So why would I want to listen to an inebriated libertarian's opinions on a show that has become the show for lesbians, trans mascs, and other lovely brands of gay and feminism that he oh so despises? He'll most likely praise the action and violence and shit like that, then probably say that Mizu and Taigen's homoerotic rivalry isn't gay actually. Or that Mizu and Akemi's narrative foils don't scream enemies-to-sapphics. Or that Mizu, WHO'S NAME MEANS WATER AND HER ENTIRE CHARACTER REVOLVES AROUND FLUIDITY ISN'T IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM FLUID IN HER GENDER AND SEXUALITY.

Fuck. I'm sorry. I don't even care if he doesn't say that. He's made so many disgusting, disparaging remarks about any piece of media that shows an inkling of progressive themes that what else am I supposed to expect?

If anyone watches it and sees this, lemme know. Watching an Anti-Woke bullshit video with just myself is just straight up wading through the desert without proper protection. No thanks.

Anyway watch Blue Eye Samurai again. Because I know you watched it. Watch it again. And again. And when you're done, watch Arcane. Watch She-Ra. Watch Dragon Prince. Castlevania. Watch anything "woke". Consume trans-positive shows. Make all the haters and even the ones who like it but have no ounce of media literacy irrelevant. Let them dry out and die, please.

[neechees]

So this is going to sound weird...

I wholeheartedly agree with blatantly everything on your blog, including shit about being critical of media and being against pedophilia for just pedophilia in fanfic.

But it's the agression and absolutes in your posts right from the start, (even to some people who are genuinely trying to learn/change/engage themselves in a moral conversation with you), that makes seeing your content give me second hand guilt or just generally makes me feel like shit. Not in the sense that this shit isnt stuff that I dont already know or try to consume without a critical light, but in the sense that its still doesn't seem to matter in some way?

Idk. Like I said it's weird. Feel free to call me out if I'm wrong in a regard, since this whole thing barely makes sense to me.

I'm just kinda tired of seeing activists blogs that will resort to agression even to those who are ignorant and trying to learn.

You sound like you’re new here, because longtime followers will know how much I promote enjoying critical enjoyment of media, and I’d say that this is true then you must have a limited view of me of you think I’m too “aggressive” when I talk about it, given my many posts about the same topic in the past. But I think it’s more interesting that you tell me this (that I’m “aggressive”) after the most common string of posts I’ve made on this topic have been about specifically how white people in fandom spaces perpetuate racism alongside white fragility when a piece of media they like has racism (or when THEY get called out for racism) instead of just listening and trying to improve themselves an the fandom experience for poc. I’m specifically talking about performative white people. There’s a lot of white “leftists” who SAY they’re willing to change, and to listen, and they don’t. That’s who I’ve been interacting with lately & who my posts were about.

So yeah you are wrong, & this is called tone policing. Half the time I'm not even aggressive or mad, people just interpret it that way & I try to deliver things on at least a neutral tone of voice. But if someone's being blatantly racist to me I'm not gunna hold their hand & make them feel better for being racist to me. No fucking way. Its not really my problem if anybody feels guilty because they interpret me as being angry, not that I don't have the right to be. I'm not really about to start changing my tone to make people more comfortable. Please think about why a native woman talking about fandom racism and god forbid, being angry about people being racist towards her makes you feel guilty for the people she’s calling out. Otherwise, maybe you shouldn’t follow me.

[dulcetines]

teh gimana bedain seseorang sebagai manusia dan sebagai penghasil karya ((di sini konteksnya author ya)? jadi kemaren tuh rame ttg author novel yg udah terkenal banget, sebut saja CH. banyak orang yg ngga setuju karena dia disebut sebagai jane austen versi modern dan 'katanya' karya dia tuh temanya toxic, abusif, controlling blabla pokoknya yg jelek2 deh. bahkan ada yg bilang 'the messages that her books send are harmful to everyone', jujur aku sendiri ga bisa komen krn belum baca karyanya (1)

(2) honestly idc about that karna toxic menurut mereka blm tentu toxic menurutku. tp yg bikin greget si CH punya anak co dan anaknya nge-harrassed cewe dan waktu si cewe ngehub CH eh malah di block.. misal ada org yg ngefans sm karyanya tapi ngga ngedukung kelakuan CH di rl, cara terbaik untuk memberi apresiasi ke karyanya AJA, gimana? because aint no way i or maybe someone would give money to another who supports her son's wrongdoing.

(you can say colleen hoover its okay lol)

i’ve been fiddling with the same thoughts lately. most recently i’ve experienced this with val kilmer (and tom cruise, one way or another). i adore the man; i don’t usually indulge myself in parasocial relationship with famous people but when i do i get in too deep and it’s with men technically 3 decades older than me, what the hell even. as soon as i found out he’s involved in the n ef tees business i started feeling guilty about making my entire twitter feed about him. tommy c, on the other hand — i know he’s practically in a cult but that doesn’t stop me from going to the theater to see tgm every month. that’s my money right there that goes straight into tc’s pocket which probably funds the cult. so what does that say about me, right.

i wish there’s a simple answer to the massive debate around the question of ‘separating the art from the artist’, but god forbids there is one. for me, acknowledging that awful people can be talented and talented people can still turn out to be shitty people is the first and simplest real step towards awareness. awareness gives us another pair of lenses to be critical of what we consume, and it at least somewhat removes power from people who actually abuse it. so from what you’ve told me in the ask i would say you’re in the right track. but what you want to do from here is entirely up to you and is none of anyone’s business, including me. 

sometimes this means pirating the creator’s work, so you could still engage with the creation in the way that doesn’t financially benefit the creator. sometimes this means cutting ties with the creator and forever disengaging with their creation. so i’d say do what feels right to you. just don’t let anyone talk you into thinking THIS IS THE ONLY RIGHT WAY TO DO IT AND IF YOU DON’T YOU ARE A BAD PERSON. BAD!!!!!!!!!!. i’m saying this because you asked if there’s “cara terbaik”, but “cara terbaik” means catering to someone else’s standards, probably the community standards, which i’m telling you is most likely the byproduct of how social media works and the stan/cancel culture.

this is probably a good time to remind people how stan culture + the commodification of art and media under capitalism creates the idea of ‘the things that i like are what i am’, and then from that it makes you think you gain a sense of personal responsibility for the actions of people whose work you identify with. i personally don’t believe in this BS. because for me liking something should not mean acting like it’s a part of you which you are morally responsible for. so even if you still choose to engage with the creation, you are consuming it with complete awareness that that is a brainchild of someone whose actions you don’t agree with, which in and of itself protects you from further getting misguided. so i would say do what feels right to you - it only has to matter to you. not anyone else and especially not me.

(i don’t think this answer helps at all but i do hope it makes you re-think about the whole thing. stay safe my friend.)

[vulnerasti-cor-meum]

you know, I am fully aware that the US is a majorly culturally Christian country from her founding even to today, but sometimes, and in this case, when I’m watching a film and it’s not even a purposively (or God forbid, programmatically) religious film, I get surprised that there are overt references to Christianity, which then makes me see the film in a new light

Idk if it’s because I’ve lived on the West Coast (aka “atheist bubble”) for as long as I have (not even a decade!), or if it’s because liberal/progressive medias that I consume don’t really bring in religion unless (1) it’s America Magazine or Commonweal Magazine or (2) to criticize rightwing fundies. 

But when the protagonist in the gay AIDS movie Jeffrey has visions of mother teresa comforting him and he ponders the Augustinian definition of evil, or when the depressed reviled-by-his-neighbors handyman protagonist in Manchester by the Sea gets wounds on his hands and head (stigmata, anyone?) and explicitly tells his nephew, “we’re christian. catholics are christians - you know that right” it’s like. huh. 

I don’t really have a point to this but ig as someone who is religious and christian I always feel it gratifying when christian imagery is engaged in surprising and more importantly sensible ways - in a way that puts it in relief against the general [or rather, stereotypical?] culturally christian milieu outside the cinema