#i'm not saying this to be elitist

[starswallowingsea]

Every time I think about how the Colleen Hoover fangirlies get mad when people even suggest that they should try and diversify their portfolios I get really, really sad. Like I don't think you have to read classics or anything and be an elite snob but if you limit yourself to just Colleen Hoover and maybe Sarah J Maas and a few other popular booktok authors, you're missing out on so so much. Even if you just want to find good new releases, keeping up with the book of the month club will give you plenty of options (even if you can't subscribe to them and have to get them from the library). Diversify your portfolio. Read older mass market paperback romances or literally anything else.

[elbiotipo]

I don't even want to watch them, but it's funny that there's backlash against criticizing Barbie or Top Gun or Transformers or whatever because they're the weakest targets possible. The glorification of consumerism and militarism on each is so balant and crystal clear that I think a well read 12 years old can point it out. It's not breaking ground to talk about it.

Go and watch them and enjoy, nobody's stopping you, but if your million dollars movie made by gigantic studios is literally screaming at full lungs "BUY PRODUCT" or "GO USA ARMY" I guess you can deal with some people who say "hey that's kinda fucked up no te parece?"

[tittiedshrek]

I made the mistake of looking at Twitter to catch up on the whole WBD/HBO Max situation and one thing that particularly pissed me off were the considerable amount of people going "oh well, x show didn't have an audience/sucked anyway so who cares".

Ignoring that shows like Infinity Train were some of the top rated and most streamed shows on their platform, it's such a disrespectful way of looking at this situation and it also misses the entire point of why animation fans like me are upset.

All of the shows that WBD/HBO Max are pulling are a product of months - if not years - of writing, storyboarding, animating, voice acting, editing, etc. These shows were made by a whole team of talented, hard-working professionals who gave it their all to tell their story in the best way that they can, and a lot of them had to continue working even through a global pandemic while all live action projects were halted. That's years of hard work all yoinked completely off the service, their entire art portfolio made completely inaccessible to view, and an entire section of high-quality shows featuring great representation, storytelling, and animation that kids will never be able to access.

All art has value - yes, even the shows you don't like. This isn't about your personal preferences, this is about the imporance of media preservation and the fact that your favorite streaming-exclusive show today can be pulled and entirely erased from the public eye tomorrow; it's about the lack of respect for the creators of these shows - who weren't even told that their shows were being pulled - and the lack of respect for fans of these shows, who now have no legal way of rewatching or financially supporting their favorite works; and it's about the clear and distinct lack of respect for the animation medium from giant corporations like WBD and Netflix, and how they would be more than happy to continue to underpay, overwork, and screw over young and inspiring talents while convincing the public that it's a "dream job".

It doesn't matter that you didn't watch or you didn't like the shows that are being removed from HBO Max. Content has become more disposable with the rise of streaming, and the creators of these IPs don't even own the rights to them; they're owned by giant corporations who care more about the profit margins they'll make in the short-term. A lot of these shows may end up becoming lost forever, and that's the problem here.

[monstersinthecosmos]

I really hate posting or acknowledging fandom drama unless it serves to support or encourage people who are feeling down about it but this is a tricky one for me to translate because I'm mad af!

Let's take a deep breath.

The thing is, about fandom! When you first get here, or get to a new one, or whatever! It's weird, there's etiquette built in, there's invisible rules. But the main thing is like, we're all here because we can't be normal about our blorbo, right?

And it's okay if you project on your blorbo! It's okay if your version of them isn't completely canon-accurate! It's okay if you are isolating a single aspect of their personality/backstory to play with because it speaks to you! YOU ARE ALLOWED TO DO THESE THINGS.

It's also okay if the canon has conflicting information! It's okay if a theme went over your head and you don't consider it! It's okay if you're the only person in the fandom who notices a certain quality and you're the only one talking about it!!

There is enough room here for all of us!

The ENTIRE POINT of fandom and fanworks is to ask questions about the characters, to dissect them, to put them back together. The point of transformative fanworks is to TRANSFORM! If we weren't so deeply invested in these universes and didn't have questions and didn't want more content about all the blank spots, we would just CONSUME THE CANON LIKE A NORMAL PERSON AND MOVE ON WITH OUR GODDAMN LIVES. We wouldn't be bothering to write fic and make art and RP and decode meta! We wouldn't be making this into a hobby and talking about it all day!

It's from LOVE.

So.

I get it, it can be intimidating showing up in a new space or into a new hobby. And sometimes we can step on toes if we don't know all the invisible rules and etiquette. But what I can promise you is that you don't need to make room for people who are rude to you, who try to tell you that their way is the only way, who consistently want to insult you for asking questions, noticing themes, playing with other versions of the characters.

We are ALL HERE to be silly and dick around and have fun, and when someone is being an asshole about it, I think it looks worse for them than it does for you. One of you is minding your business and having fun and the other one is trying to tell everyone what to think lol.

Please protect yourself from bullies; don't let someone police the way you read canon, or the way you speak about your fav, or the fanworks you create. These people are not your friends, and they are not your audience. You do not need their acceptance to have fun and make things.

Fandom shouldn't be this fucking exhausting, yall. It costs zero dollars to be nice to people and let them enjoy their fucking blorbo in peace and you look like a fucking asshole when you don't shut the fuck up about it and sow discord in a shared space.

People's horrendously OOC takes do not affect you at all even a little bit not even when they're so so so so so OOC that you think you need to be Fandom Professor rising from your well to shame us! It cannot and will never hurt you, so leave them the fuck alone and let them have fun!!

[rogerdeakinsdp]

it's important to watch shitty foreign movies, i'm so serious about this. when you only ever watch foreign movies if they make it to the oscars or if they're being talked about online, you have a distorted perception of what they're actually like. they're not prestigious, elitist, inaccessible, or hard to watch. they're just in a different language

[jemichiart]

Doodled the second Doctor yesterday. I love Patrick Troughton in this role! 😁

[elminsters]

okay after spending the past 2 hours exclusively reblogging from tags WITHOUT turning on any content filters, here are my findings:

number of terrible, psychic damage dealing takes spotted: 0 number of beautiful new mutuals gained: 2 number of incredible fanworks i would never have seen if i hadn't specifically sought them out instead of relying on people i follow to do it for me: 18

i hope this proves my point, if you only rely on your following tab to deliver posts to you you're only going to see what's popular in your little circle. that's why posts seem to only circulate amongst mutuals and it's hard to "break containment". it really isn't reasonable to expect non-mutuals to reblog your stuff if you're unwilling to reciprocate and step outside your bubble. being part of the solution is a group effort!

[fort-no-more]

any music-related hot takes?

Mate, I started off as a radio tower illegally broadcasting music that was censored by the BBC. I only have music-related hot takes!

Our take of the day is that anyone who thinks punk must stick to a specific aesthetic is not punk, and it's almost always trying to censor even if they might say it's "preserving" it. (Spoiler: their ideas of "aesthetics" are mostly just, you know... it's saying something awful without saying it because you know how bad it sounds? What's that word again? Is it dogwhistling, or is that something else?)

Mind you, it's not as common now as it was in the 2000s, in part because people were gatekeeping against pop punk (which is a different subgenre, chrise, leave them be) and then reached even further to target actual punk groups, but there was a good chunk of time where geezers who were into the early punk scene would mock any new group for being posers, and most of the time, the people they were pitching a fit about were women, minorities, or young people (ah, yeah, hating on the youth: the most punk thing of all, apparently!) As if British punk would be what it is today without people like Poly Styrene, who basically invented the subgenre of Riot Grrl over a decade before it was recognized and fits into all the groups that are now apparently posers. She'd go on stage with a cute bow in her hair and pastel jumper and skirt and braces like she just left school picture day, then scream her head off about identity and oppression so hard that venues had to pause shows to fix the sound systems!

And - And as if punk at the time wasn't constantly toying with how people dress or sound or look, and pushing revolution, all the stuff that people get weird about nowadays. "Oi, these young wannabes don't look like The Clash!" The Clash are great, and also they would have kicked your skull in for being an elitist bigoted prick. Multiple groups can be great! Just admit you became old and boring and Tory-fied just like the parents you used to rebel against, and can't handle a genre that's - that's based on anarchy unless you can look at it through nostalgia.

[cashthecomposer]

Man idk, honestly it's cool that you're passionate about sondheim, but people are allowed to like things differently from you, for different reasons/values. It doesn't necessarily make them idiots. If you are a teacher, just calling someone out on ignorance is one thing, (i.e. ignorant people thinking history/math/arts isn't important etc...) but not seeing how you might be hypocritical in this instance (by not acknowledging people with different lives & impact each work would have on them in the present) is kind of ? Needlesly defensive? And unless someone is actively harming you or others it just seems ? Kind of like a dick move. Like there is no need to be elitist and pressure people to vote the way you want them to. Idk just my two cents. Peace ✌️

The contest isn't "which musical has the biggest fandom", or "which musical do you like the most", or "which musical had the greatest impact", it's "best musical". Tell me that you- and several hundred other people- honestly believe, from a subjective and well informed viewpoint, that a tongue in cheek Starkid musical is better than the greatest show Sondheim ever wrote by his own admission, and I will eat my hat.

Actually, yeah, it is harmful for a musical that legitimately changed the course of theatre history to be demeaned in this way, as that will no doubt lead those uninformed voters to feel validated in their ignorance, and unfortunately not explore this great work.

Also, if you think Sunday is elitist, clearly you haven't actually watched/heard the show... 🤦

I mean, it literally is about the mundane, and the beauty in the everyday. It is the opposite of elitist. I highly recommend giving it a listen.

The fact that you so grossly misunderstand Sunday, its vision, and why I so defend it, just goes to show the ignorance here. It's sad, but not unexpected.

[thewritingpossum]

Forgot to mention it but there was a huge debate at my study group the other day about wether or not you could call yourself an historian after getting your bachelor degree and two of my favorite profs were defending opposing views and they were trying to keep it light and funny but you could see that they were getting lowkey heated and for a so-called academic I actually don't do that well with conflicts so I was like haaa mom and dad stop arguing!! T_T but anyway, my one german prof that some have called 'intimidating' went to see me me and my buddy who accidentally started the debate earlier (by joking that he was about to graduate and could finally call himself an historian), put his arms around our shoulders and kindly told us that we could call ourselves historians if we want so I guess that was some nice validation lmao

[lonesomedotmp3]

I've literally never disagreed with a take more than this. it's not pretentious or elitist to say that some films are experienced completely differently in the cinema and that it can enhance and transform that experience massively. alien isn't bad because its use of sound and its absence is ten times more effective in a cinema. shut up

[not-poignant]

Hello Pia! Do you know what Gary's favorite wine is ? (it can say a lot about someone's personality :D !)

I don't think he does have an all-time favourite! He definitely vastly prefers reds over whites, but within the red family he's eclectic and drinks broadly across the board, as long as he likes the taste (which he often does). And he leans towards dry red wines.

Anon, I detest all kinds of wine, so while I'm happy to do hours and hours of research for the wines he'll drink within the story (and have), I'm afraid I won't do hours and hours of research for your anonymous message ;-;

[lunanoc]

it's funny to me sometimes how people in social media fandom spaces will get some type of way about anyone suggesting their take on a character or ship is maybe not universally applicable and/or is heavily biased by preference and that just maybe other ones exist. "you're policing me" saying your view of something is limited to one particular situation or adaptation and can't be copypasted onto everything like you insist on doing isn't telling you to stop liking it that way, it's telling you to acknowledge it's not universal and that some people aren't going to agree with the copypasting

[scienceoftheidiot]

So I have thoughts about stuff since yesterday.

I don't know if it's arrogant or elitist, or whatever. But I have a serious problem, being myself a PhD in ecology and biology, and on top of that being very into naturalist sciences as a hobby, with people who claim to want to save the planet through their actions and job and whatever, but who know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about nature.

Like.

How. Why. How do you want to protect something know nothing about ? Why do you want to protect it, if you lack the curiosity to just stop and look and think about how things work and what are the species around you, like why does a certain plant grow there or what are those birds we're seeing?

Every time, I'm baffled. None of the naturalistic stuff I know comes from my studies. It has no other link than interest with it. I was just told by my parents, read books when I was a kid, looked up stuff on the internet when I was old enough. My parents have no degree, my dad didn't even finish high school, yet they taught me. They taught me to look, and question and wonder.

Don't mistake me, I don't want people to get a fucking degree in ecology for them to prove they want to save the planet or whatever.

But WHY. Where is your interest. Why do you not stop and look.

Like, I'm very very often appalled by the absolute absence of any interest in nature of the people around me (what's this plant, why is it here, how does this thing work, what's this animal, how does it live - i could go on) but yesterday i had to suffer a fucking lecture about the environment (full of misinformation, on top) by someone who two sentences before had told me that they had no interest in knowing what were the birds around us (bullfinches), and then went on about how birds were going to be killed by the windmills if we let them be constructed anyway (dude...... shut up).

Just. Make a fucking effort.

You won't save shit if you don't know what you're saving, because in order to save stuff you have to know about the stuff. This is like. Basic?

If you had some curiosity you would question the bullshit you're being served under the guise of protecting the environment.

This is what plagues the world now. And it's NOT a generational thing. The people I am talking about are nearing 50yo. Everyone falls into this trap.

No one is curious about what's around them anymore. They project what they want on it, they take it as a concept, but they don't just stop. And look. And listen. And fucking learn to know. Ask questions. Sometimes you don't even have to do anything else than just STOP. AND WATCH. To learn something.

I'm tired. I'm tired. But!!!! Good news!!! It's my job to try to make kids more curious. And I'm trying my best at it. If among the kids I teach ONE gets curious enough to stop and look and wonder once in his life, I'll be happy.

But damn. Don't come and lecture me about "nature" if you don't do it yourself.

[northwest-cryptid]

New Abnormality Detected: Vanilla Extract

[aeide-thea]

the eternal, often-unsuccessful struggle to separate 'hm i personally am not enjoying Thing because it smacks of Unpleasantness to me' from 'i actually dislike Thing because it's Inherently Problematic, amazing how my personal taste is an unfailing radar that way' 😔