I love how on Tumblr, "media literacy" has become "Um, just because someone writes about this doesn't mean they're endorsing this. I hate all these media puritans ruining everything."
I'm sad to inform you that knowing when and whether an author is endorsing something, implying something, saying something, is also part of media literacy. Knowing when they are doing this and when they're not is part of media literacy. Assuming that no author has ever endorsed a bad thing is how you fall for proper gander. It's not media literacy to always assume that nobody ever has agreed with the morally reprehensible ideas in their work.
Sometimes, authors are endorsing something, and you need to be aware when that happens, and you also need to be aware when you're doing it as an author. All media isn't horny dubcon fanfic where you and the author know it's problematic IRL but you get off to it in the privacy of your brain. Sometimes very smart people can convince you of something that'll hurt others in the real world. Sometimes very dumb people will romanticize something without realizing they're doing it and you'll be caught up in it without realizing that you are.
Being aware of this is also media literacy. Being aware of the narrative tools used to affect your thinking is media literacy. Deciding on your own whether you agree with an author or not is media literacy. Enjoying characters doing bad things and allowing authors to create flawed or cruel characters for the sake of a story is perfectly fine, but it is not the same as being media literate. Being smug about how you never think an author has bad intentions tells me you're edgy, not that you're media literate. You can't use one rule to apply to all media. That's not how media literacy works. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Aheem heem. Anyway.
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chat I think they understand each other like no one else can
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modern media literacy is so cooked like what do you mean you gave saltburn a .5 star rating because it wasn’t the class consciousness film you wanted that’s not what the fucking movie is about… ‘they made it hard to keep rooting for him and identifying with him’ idk maybe don’t project onto every character in media you come across & then get scared when they act in a way you wouldn’t
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shes the love of my life it must be said
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why are people mad that movie william doesn't have a motive. guys....... william afton hasn't had a motive in Years............. like. this is the same man who, in the games, crawled his way out of hell SOLELY so he could kill more children. there's no reason for why does the things that he does he's just Like That
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thinking ab Narinder holding a sleeping Lamb, feeling comfortable and safe for the first time in so long he hardly recognizes the feeling at first
Thinking ab the moment Narinder realizes he's in love. so deep he'll never come back from it. so deep he loses a piece of himself, and finds it again in the Lamb's laugh, their warm hands, the worry lines on their brow
im so normal ab them
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something something percy having such a strong belief that you arent suppose to earn a parents love and thats all because of sally and her unconditional love and support for him 😭😭
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