#media

[prokopetz]

So: it turns out that – regardless of whether it was the original plan – what Homestuck: Beyond Canon's third writing team in five years is going with seems to be a cosmic battle between a godlike asshole who thinks transformative fiction has a moral obligation to engage in thematic and structural fidelity with its source material, and a godlike asshole who thinks transformative fiction shouldn't exist at all. It's an interesting direction, if an obvious one. In fact, it's so obvious that the Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy is treading the exact same ground at the exact same time; it's going to be pretty fucking bizarre watching to see which of them – if either! – manages to stick the landing.

[orange-coloredsky]

its not fucking KOSA censorship to ask the majority white fanbase to question why the majority white creators of a MASSIVE fucking franchise have an obsession with showing very specific kinds of racial violence and dehumanization against Black people, particularly Black men. but yeah. whatever. enjoy your franchise slop whitey

[besthoops]

stargirl

[itsmyfriendisaac]

♈ April 14th: Ice Queen, Matie Tundra.

[not-terezi-pyrope]

"Let's make games and media about other mythologies and pantheons other than Norse or Greco-Roman" is a take I really, really get, but the unfortunate reality is that most Western media conglomerates are pretty culturally white, and can you imagine the appropriation shitshow that would result from them portraying indigenous mythologies instead of the two pantheons that people can at least somewhat ascribe to Western European tradition? Ancient Egyptian seems the next most "safe" due to cultural penetration and time remove, and even that sparks discourse when it's done. Honestly I'm surprised that Disney even mostly got away with Moana, and that hardly went without critique. I think the execs that don't want bad press are well aware of this and are afraid to wade in.

I mean the obvious answer is for them to just hire people who can boast more claim to the tradition in question, but unfortunately it doesn't tend to work that way en masse, and also, even if they did do that, there would be a continent who would complain anyway. Own narratives are frequently called out as bad rep, usually by people who don't know the provenance (but sometimes even when they do!), and it'd be even worse with a big corporate name from the west attached.

Anyway buy foreign art I guess, but under current trends the big multi-billion God of War equivalent about African tradition is unlikely to come soon, I guess. Kind of an unfortunate side effect of the representation and appropriation discourse that makes certain kinds of narrative more scarce.

(A possible exception to all this might be, for instance, Japanese spiritual tradition, as there are plenty of Japanese media products that do well in the West. But this proves the point, because for instance I can think of examples of video games and films that feature oni, etc, whereas I can't for the less widespread or internationally exposed traditions that I describe).

[acti-veg]

Hey, idk if you like these types of shows but i was watching Heartbreak High from Netflix and there’s an episode on season 2 that the lesbian vegan character is *extremely* annoying saying things like “i don’t even talk to people who eat cheese!” etc. then she’s caught lying about where she went the other night and admits she went to a restaurant to eat duck meat or something 💀 but it’s “fine because she goes like once a year” and “please don’t tell anyone!!”

i’m so tired of media portraying vegans like this. we’re always so annoying having the worst takes then we secretly eat meat because it’s impossible to live without it, right? no one can give up the taste!!! lmao i’m still pissed with this show.

I can only think of one positive representations of veganism in media that doesn’t rely on or reinforce stereotypes, where a character being vegan is just a minor part of who they are and isn’t part of some sort of running joke at their expense. That is Dina from Superstore, but I imagine there are some more in less known shows.

It’s a tired joke that relies on a very outdated stereotype, media seldom keeps up with actual demographics though. Give it ten years and maybe we’ll see something reflecting how things actually are in 2024.

[desire-mona]

thoughts

why didnt i answer this???????? anyway i bit someone in third grade once

[garbagechocolate]

*looks at sunspot* ..... would. *walks away*

I haven't even gotten to these yet

[gamer2002]

Journalists demonstrate that they are unbiased by suspending the editor who has said that they are biased

[narcissisticpdcultureis]

npd culture is Glitz and Glam + Fizzarolli from Helluva Boss in different ways -🃏

.

[prokopetz]

You know things are about to get esoteric when you meet a trio of visually identical beings who each spell their laugh differently.

[zombie-ghost]

If I was a character in a TV show/movie/video game/any piece of media, I sure as hell hope I'm not the character that the fandom ships with very character under the sun despite me being canonicly aro

[orange-coloredsky]

"Many audiences in the United States resist the idea that images have an ideological intent... Fierce critical interrogation is sometimes the only practice that can pierce the wall of denial consumers of images construct so as not to face that the real world of image-making is political -- that politics of domination inform the way the vast majority of images we consume are constructed and marketed."

bell hooks - Black Looks: Race and Representation

[itsmyfriendisaac]

♒ January 23rd: Hunk, Adam Hagenbuch.

[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?