#and consume responsibly

[tchaikovskaya]

[tevintersnakes]

back in the fallout pit, fortunately my art has improved since 2016 so I can draw doctors hanging out together somewhat effectively now

[communistkenobi]

The deeply moralist tone that a lot of discussions about media representation take on here are primarily neoliberal before they are anything else. Like the shouting matches people get into about “purity culture” “pro/anti” etc nonsense (even if I think it’s true that some people have a deeply christian worldview about what art ought to say and represent about the world) are downstream of the basic neoliberal assumption that we can and must educate the public by being consumers in a market. “Bad representation” is often framed as a writer’s/developer’s/director’s/etc’s failure to properly educate their audience, or to educate them the wrong way with bad information about the world (which will compel their audience to act, behave, internalise or otherwise believe these bad representations about some social issue). Likewise, to “consume” or give money to a piece of media with Bad Representation is to legitimate and make stronger these bad representations in the world, an act which will cause more people to believe or internalise bad things about themselves or other people. And at the heart of both of those claims is, again, the assumption that mass public education should be undertaken by artists in a private market, who are responsible for creating moral fables and political allegories that they will instil in their audiences by selling it to them. These conversations often become pure nonsense if you don’t accept that the moral and political education of the world should be directed by like, studio executives or tv actors or authors on twitter. There is no horizon of possibility being imagined beyond purchasing, as an individual consumer in a market, your way into good beliefs about the world, instilled in you by Media Product 

[turtledotjpeg]

[obsessingmuch]

1. tenet

2. onward

3. into the spiderverse

4. the father

5. the killing of a sacred deer

6. beast

7. in the heights

8. i'm thinking of ending things

9. luca

10. alita: battle angel

11. dear evan hansen

12. dune

13. coda

14. nowhere special

15. the princess switch: switched again

16. happiest season

17. the knight before christmas

18. last christmas

19. love hard

20. don’t look up

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[uncanny-tranny]

Whenever people who are entrenched in diet culture talk about how terrible chemicals are, I just want to whip out this:

[queruloustea]

alright alright i know i’ve been posting an awful lot today but ..... i did draw the baby wrapped up :)

[ky-landfill]

Just wondering but have you read “the big road home” by crumpetz? I’m rereading it now (and taking extreme levels of emotional damage from doing so) and it seems like something you’d really enjoy

"Tim does excitement a little differently than most people, a little quieter and with less movement, but it’s really obvious once you know him. He’s not saying much or screaming or anything, but Tim looks like a human sunbeam. Like he’s glowing under his skin."

[volitioncheck]

does near every single post-canon DE fic out there need to be tagged ‘Sober Harry Du Bois’? i’m getting so tired of it.

do i expect every single piece of fan content to have to fully delve into the often-depressing always-complex topic of addiction? not really. sometimes you just want to write/read a silly fluffy romance one-shot, whatever. i get it. but i think my issue is specifically with the fact that for nearly every sillyfluffy au out there, there almost must be a ‘sober harry du bois’ tag. and it does feel very slapped-on more often than not.

i think to me it is an unconscious statement that nothing *good* can ever happen to harry du bois until he is completely and permanently sober. before solving the next big case, he has to be sober. before quitting the force, he has to be sober. before falling in love with kim, he has to be sober. before accomplishing anything, starting any sort of recovery, making any life improvement, he must first be sober.

sobriety as a goal, as a journey, and honestly as a concept in of itself is not as cut and dry as so many people think it is. and i think it would serve a lot of people well if they did some introspection on the implications of how nearly every single post-canon fic that isn’t dealing directly with harry’s addiction have him as completely sober instead.

if the plot of the fic isn’t going to touch directly on harry’s substance use (and again, i’m not demanding that every single fic should), why does that mean that sober!harry must be the default?

i think i am just tired of reading a casefic, a smutty one-shot, a fantasy au, whatever, where it almost seems that before getting on with the plot, the author feels obligated to first assure us that the harry we’re reading about is a Sober Harry. it’s established with a couple lines in the exposition, probably about his improved appearance, a tag up top, and then never brought up again; a checkmarked box. like the societal image of An Addict has completely prevented people from being able to imagine a person just, continuing to live life, while still struggling with addiction.

life happens, with all of its backslides and achievements, mundanity and changes, to people with drug addictions just as much as people who don’t. is a post-canon harry who isn’t sober not worth writing about?

i think so. i think the game we all played thinks so too. in fact i think that sentiment is woven into the game’s very core. i just wish i saw that reflected in our fan content more.

[cayennecrush]

evangeline makes an offer... 👀 [next >>]

[pixelprofligate]

yea fuck it here's all the ones I've made so far yippee

[dawnbreaaker]

After finishing the latest main story quest, I couldn't help but think about Gallagher and Sunday fighting over someone, just to get a scrap of attention from them.

Of course, their darling would be clueless - both men are incredibly cunning and intelligent, but not immune to the likes of their shared person of interest walking in on them having a rather.. tense moment.

Having to at least be civil while in the presence of their darling, when they want to be at eachother's throats with clever remarks and insults. Bitter glares shooting across the room, and unsaid words sitting unspoken on their tongues.

All to keep their prospective darling blissfully happy and unaware - all for a chance to hold them in their arms, all for themselves.

This is absolutely unfinished and needs some work, but if any of you big brain writers want to use this for anything, go ahead! @ me so I can eat up your writing :>

As always, reblogs are always appreciated!

[permanentlylatetotheparty]

*gnaws on my screenshots*

[ohbother2]

Minors, DNI

Hi!

I'm still on my break for my exams but something has come to my attention that I cannot ignore. (also, thank you everyone who has been messaging me in my inbox, I promise I'll respond to you guys when I officially come back. and im sorry my first actual post in a while is negative).

So, it's come to my attention my works have been re-posted on several different platforms, which is something I do not consent to, regardless of credit.

This has happened several times, and isn't my actual main concern which is why I am creating this post.

A particular tiktok account has been brought to my attention, that I will not name here for the sake of its creator, reposting a work of mine uncredited. The fact that has me concerned is that this account is run by a 15 year old, a minor. (thank you again to the person who informed me).

I know I cannot control what content you decide to consume, but I am going to repeat - minors, do NOT interact with my blog or my content. By engaging with my works you are potentially putting yourself at risk and into an adult space. You are also overstepping one of the few boundaries this blog has, and if I find out you are a minor you will be immediately blocked.

If the owner of the account sees this, know that I tried to find your tumblr account to block you but for some reason couldn't, and I ask that you unfollow me and disengage from my works.

Tumblr, for me, is not about numbers, I am not a content creator, it's about sharing work that I'm proud of and hopefully inspiring others to do the same. I do not care if I lose over 1,000 followers, do not follow me if you are a minor, and if you are one and see this either disengage completely or block my account.

This applies to all accounts and persons engaging with my content - if you are a minor, do not engage.

It is not my job to mitigate your internet usage, but it is yours.

(sorry for the negative post guys, promise the next one when I come back in like 3 weeks will be something we all much more enjoy. Hope exams are going well for everyone else!)

[tev-the-random]

"This town ain't big enough for the two of us, North Star."

Saw this Bounty Hunter Kanako AU by @raerambling and. I Just Couldn't Help Myself.

Dad Starlo adopts Kanako? The king is dead? Ceroba gets murdered by the police? Little baby Kanako joins the cowboy larping as a bounty hunter of all things? Dude, you've got some juicy stuff going on there!

(got the flat colours downstairs because I think it's a funny contrast lol)

[toughtink]

here's the thing about playing around with generative "ai" aka applied statistics based on stolen data: even if it's just for teehee haha laughs and funtime for you, even if you're not using it to replace real talent in a professional setting, it's a tacit endorsement of these shady as fuck, unethical training models and companies that will happily use your teehee haha generated memes to sell their tech to others who will then happily replace real creative people with technology that seeks to undermine them and then have to rehire those people at half the pay and with none of the credit to fix the absolute sludge they're generating in place of a proper job. and that's the optimistic outcome because the alternative is they say "good enough" about this meaningless, lowest-common-denominator sludge and send it out to consumers as is.

even if you're just the consumer in this system and not one of the creatives getting undercut, why in the world would you want to read or watch or interact with something that no one could even be bothered to make themselves? why in the world would you want to encourage that future?