mummer: why dont you read/watch something that forces you to confront the fact that you are capable of feeling empathy for a person who has done deeply cruel or evil things. And maybe you’ll calm down
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smolsarcasticraspberry: hey asking for a friend but uh. what’s it gonna take for fandom to relearn the difference between “canon” and “word of god”? ★ canon = the text itself; the show/movie/book/comic; the actual up-on-Netflix content; anything a casual fan would reasonably[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
kragehund-again: thekobrakiddo: marisatomay: marisatomay: “maybe the curtains are blue because the author just liked the color blue” set human critical thinking skills decades back you get it i would rather die than think critically about some bullshit “metaphor” just say[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
prokopetz: dragonsaffron: prokopetz: “Why does this 19th Century novel have such a boring protagonist” well, for a lot of reasons, really, but one of the big ones is that you’re possibly getting the protagonist and the narrator mixed up. A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
anurarana: t4tails: im starting to think you guys dont like it when stories make you feel things [ID: a reply with the url and profile picture cropped off: “You do NOT need to kill off a character for ‘emotional impact’,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
gayhoediaz: i just never thought the day would come where i would have to earnestly explain to people that fanfiction authors may, at times, possibly, play around with, change, exaggerate, or interpret the canon material in ways they personally see[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
eatingcroutons: eatingcroutons: bastlynn: eatingcroutons: More and more I’m beginning to think that a lot of wank about problematic “ships” comes from the fact that we’re collapsing an entire spectrum of how people approach fandom pairings into a single word. (To keep[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What I love about brudick (the ship of Bruce Wayne/Dick Grayson, aka the original Batman and Robin) is that it is the original father of all toxic yaoi problematic parings in a way. There was literally a book written about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
willgrahamscock: willgrahamscock: perhaps there are issues between the two of them that may be of greater importance, like the murder and maybe cannibalism the medical malpractice is up there too, but who are we to judge their kinks am I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
rnorningstars: “shipping and blorbofication are not inherently at odds with understanding a story’s deep themes” and “some people can’t grasp the themes of a story because they never learned how to engage with stories outside of the lens of shipping[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
the-lunar-warrior: maidenvault: bluebeardsfinalgirl: bluebeardsfinalgirl: when internet people are like “i love gothic literature but i hate anything that discusses incest, sexual violence, oppression, misogyny, abuse, torture, gore, murder, or death” no actually me and everyone else who’s ever watched crimson[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
headcanon: “i have decided that this is true about the character, and it doesn’t matter to me if the canon text supports my idea or not.” interpretation: “after considering elements present in the canon text, I have decided that this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Reading more and different interpretations of a thing you want to better understand is always good. When you think about other people’s opinions of a thing you like, it introduces you to new information. Even when you’re reading opinions and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
catmask: maybe a crazy take idk but i dont actually think many scenes in stories are ‘unneccesary’ i think they just make people uncomfortable and rather than try to understand the significance of that discomfort and why the author mightve[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
brady-like-the-bunch: brady-like-the-bunch: centrally-unplanned: Lmao how is this real, “the ambient sounds of the world were wrong, sir” Imagine paying Columbia-amounts of money to be taught by someone with kindergarten-level art literacy. Like, motherfucker, the wholeass point of 4’33” is to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
bloodraven55: bloodraven55: it never fails to surprise me how some people will simply take every single thing in a story at face value and assume that what the characters are saying or doing or thinking must always be true even[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s not a bad thing, and you shouldn’t have to engage with the canonical text of a piece of fiction if you don’t want to. It’d just be nice if there was like, a better way to separate the people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
candiedsmokedsalmon: candiedsmokedsalmon: I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: it’s more important to know and understand fully why something is harmful than it is to drop everything deemed problematic. It’s performative and does nothing. People wonder why nobody[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yesterday I talked a lot about the gay subtext in Ace Attorney– it exists, and there’s lots of it. Today, I’m going to talk about the het subtext in Ace Attorney– it exists, and there’s lots of it. Honestly, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
No inconvenience at all, anon! My opinion is that “popular media”– that is, commercial, heavily distributed media, already experiences heavy restrictions. Films in a movie theater are given a rating based on their content. Movie theaters won’t allow a film[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s lots of gay subtext in Ace Attorney. But when looking specifically at subtext that might be intentionally put in the narrative by the creators with the intention that the character in question is actually gay, I think the main[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
nick-nonya: paprikapony: reblog if you’re obsessed with imagery and symbolism and also are a homo
I am not going to write fiction about my trauma in a way that you approve of. I am going to write fiction about my trauma in a way that makes me feel better.
toaster-trash: Being into gothic horror is wild, because you’ll look up the reviews/public opinion on a book and all the posts will be like “ugh, this was insufferable. The main character was the most melodramatic whiny narcissist cunt who’s perspective[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I think people started putting “minors DNI” in their blogs because “OMG you post NSFW content on your blog and yet you have minors following you!!!” was used as ammo in callout posts to drag people’s reputations through the mud.
Flippant answer: because they’d rather spend time pissing on the poor. Genuine answer: because for the last couple of decades christofascists have been eroding the american public education system.
Continuing on the topic of this post about queer coding and if other types of relationship coding exist– Here’s the hell of it. I know this is hard to accept, but– Prior to the modern era, heterosexual incestuous and pedophilic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Queer coding exists because queer relationships and characters were (and to some degree in some places still are) considered too taboo and too illegal by society to portray directly in fiction. If there are other types of coding that legitimately[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
No, there isn’t. Queer coding is *literally about* stereotypes. Its when you use stereotypes to make your audience assume the character is queer without saying it directly or having them do anything queer. The word you are looking for is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hey friend. I have some news that you probably won’t actually like. “Queer coding” is when a writer gives a character culturally stereotypical gay traits, but the character isn’t actually said out loud to be queer, or allowed to do[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Speaking of the difference between a queer reading, queer subtext, and queer coding, as relevant to the Ace Attorney series… There is a moment in Dual Destinies that carries obvious queer subtext relevant to one of our main characters (Apollo[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Queer coded” is when a writer deliberately uses subtle but obvious cultural tells to inform the audience that their character is meant to be queer, without openly stating that they are queer. This is done to present a queer character[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wish more people in fandom understood (or would make the distinction between) a character who is queer coded, and a character they have a queer reading for. I think that many fans do understand the difference, but insisting that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
times-chu: nachosforfree: yuri-alexseygaybitch: I want someone to make one of these new sterile teen gay romance shows on Netflix but halfway through they pull a Doki Doki Literature Club and it turns into a fucked up fourth wall breaking psychological[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
distr3sso-m0de: Some thoughts on Dune, media literacy and the way we interact (and do not interact) with difficult topics in fiction…. Buddy, imma say this with kindness in my heart…. If this gets you ‘tweaking’ then you aren’t gonna like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Stop using the word “criticism” as a shield to excuse yourself when you attack and harass writers on a personal level. Saying “you, the author are a monster, and your fiction is destroying society” is an attack, not a literary[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve never said that they’re not, and it’s fascinating and telling on yourself that you would suggest that I have. I am a constant advocate for real, deep media analysis and media literacy. What I am not an advocate for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
problematic-faves-appreciation: ────── ────── ────── The perfect responses to people who insist creators “must” write all stories, even those aimed at adults, like a 1980s cartoon PSA and spoon-feed their audiences everything — or else they’ll be accused of being “irresponsible”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Listen. I don’t believe that seeing acts of evil glorified or romanticized in fiction causes human beings to choose to do evil. But even if I did believe that, I still believe that any amount of censorship of art and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Do you genuinely believe that people should be allowed the choice to do good or to do evil? Or do you actually believe that people should have no choice but to act in a way you personally consider moral. Because[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Censorship of some topics in fiction and art is good and I would be happy if it were to be enacted in a way I approved of” and “some things should be banned from ever being written or read about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You cannot blackmail writers and artists into creating the way you want them to by holding your approval hostage. I mean both: you have a social obligation not to attempt to blackmail writers and artists into creating the way you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
strangelock221b: omgcheez: this one is so real. Dear God, someone take “-coded” away from fandom until they’re able to use it properly.
So, we’ve recently started a new policy with regards to whether we bother to reply to someone’s shitty bad faith response to one of our posts. We go over to the tumblr original post finder, plug in their blog, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Uhoh! Popular fandom headcanon makers have fallen for the front the character puts up! Hundred dead, thousands injured.
Here’s the thing about the argument that fiction the argument that “fiction that portrays bad evil wrong things as good will result in the audience believing that bad evil wrong thing is good in real life.” When fiction impacts us,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
✨ Write and read the stories that you want to. ✨ Write and read the horror and violence that you want to. ✨ Write and read the romance that you want to. ✨ Write and read the ships that you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
the fandom pro-censorship crowd LOVES to lean into infantilizing themselves and denying their own agency and culpability.
If you see a post promoting freedom of artistic expression and denouncing censorship and your first instinct is that OP must be a pedophile and that you need to attempt to discredit their post with the same kind of ‘child[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
☝️ Writing in fiction about an evil, disgusting, immoral or illegal act does not mean that you believe it is good or should be allowed in real life. ☝️ Reading in fiction about an evil, disgusting, immoral or illegal act[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Queer coding” exists because for a long time it was unacceptable or outright banned to depict characters who were states to be, or implicitly queer. Therefore authors had to sneak depictions of queer characters in through coding with plausible deniability.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“But why would you want to imagine, read or write about a relationship that wasn’t healthy, good or desirable to you personally?” I genuinely don’t know how to explain the concept of fiction to you.
but-a-humble-goon: “Starship Troopers is bad satire because the actors were too cartoonishly model gorgeous and it really makes me want to blindly like/agree with them.” That is literally exactly why Paul Verhoeven cast them. Thank you for completely proving his[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
vergess: jactingjoices: jactingjoices: we are in a media literacy crisis friendly reminder that characters don’t need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
rnorningstars: no offense but some of y’all should really consume more weird media ok some of y’all are ready to clutch your pearls at the mere sight of the slightest offbeat concept in speculative fiction and this can’t go on
soracities: ALT “Absolutely no one comes to save us but us.” Ismatu Gwendolyn, “you’ve been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)”, from Threadings, on Substack [ID’d]
✏️ There is no reason to assume that an author’s intention with dark elements and evil characters is to sway their audience into believing that those things are good. ✏️ There is no reason to assume that every dark element[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes, exactly. They have the cause and effect backwards. There are not sexist people in real life because they saw sexist themes in fiction. There are sexist themes in fiction because there are sexist people in real life creating fiction.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
paradoxtrollplanet: A general frustration I have with the assumption fiction, especially erotica, reflects the authors morals is that it relies on a very literal interpretation of a text. A movie monster isn’t just a scary creature and an obsessive stalker[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
bloodraven55: bloodraven55: it never fails to surprise me how some people will simply take every single thing in a story at face value and assume that what the characters are saying or doing or thinking must always be true even[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
a-sentient-cup: felipe-kuso: beemovieerotica: dio-without-an-s: dio-without-an-s: “We removed a major character growth moment” Mindless attempts at pandering like this drive crazy To me this too, is enshittification no war in Ba Sing Se… There is no war in Ba Sing se???[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
tyrantisterror: funkypoacher: thecourtshrieker: suilesbianpoasts: apparently no one was paying attention in middle school language arts when we learned what a fucking protagonist was #while we’re at it the author is not the narrator or the protagonist either now THIS one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
wingedwoif94: wingedwoif94: The way people talk about fictional villains and evil characters as if they are real people who are actually dangerous and should NEVER be liked or supported…. What happened to media literacy? Are you telling me people DONT[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
fiannalover: What’s that bro? You began interacting with a media from a different country than yours and/or was made in time period different than the recent present day? Haha that’s sick bro! Keep expanding your horizons bro! You’re remembering to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Not every idea an author has ever had is related to their bad opinions, so? 🤷 It’s important to acknowledge that good art isn’t only made by the ideologically pure. But as for where you draw the line– I can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
sals-sonic: If you’re not okay with the existence of art that challenges you someway, you’re not a “lover of the arts”, especially not a transgressive and avant-guarde one at that. The issue isn’t disliking it, no one is in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
anticensorshipsideblog: there are some arguments that antis make where I just want to see what would happen if they sent it into a college class how much their teacher would wilt at their bad arguments and lack of understanding of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
lazylittledragon: made a sticker for anyone to slap onto their work if they need to
renthony: rain-droplet: renthony: The thing about media analysis is that yes, things really can be that deep even if the artist didn’t put the thought into it intentionally. Little cultural references, personal artist quirks, broad societal influences, unacknowledged biases…there are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
animentality: kicking a hornets nest.
Let’s talk about how to think about the artistic merit inherent in smut and pornography. Smut and porn have the same amount of artistic merit and worthiness as every other kind of fiction, and can be interrogated in the same[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
fungi-maestro: Hm. Your interpretation of this character displeases me. Guards! Take them away! Make them read the source material once more, and if that fails, the stocks. darkheart-despairs https://ift.tt/cXesZIo
fungi-maestro: Hm. Your interpretation of this character displeases me. Guards! Take them away! Make them read the source material once more, and if that fails, the stocks.
silvergryphon: faustandfurious: Basic rules for analysing fiction, an incomprehensive list jotted down in a hurry: The protagonist isn’t always right The protagonist isn’t always good The protagonist isn’t always written to be relatable or likeable The narrator isn’t always right[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
roshi-no-tabi: palominocorn: vergess: vergess: Quick question, genuine question: Why on earth does “more than half of US adults under 30 cannot read above an elementary school level” not strike horror into the heart of everyone who hears it? Are the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
marshemillow: blackheart-biohazards: context link for first part of this discussion. Here’s the thing, anon, you and I disagree in a pretty fundamental way. First I’ll address what you say about censorship. You specifically mention: “steam is chock full of disgusting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…