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yk i think putting media in the ps5 was mankind’s best invention (i found out that exists yesterday and haven’t stopped using it)
Yes we need more chaste twee baby gay romances like heartstopper and yes we also need more shows where men fuck raw to express their love for one another like Élite and yes we need more toxic gays having hate sex like Interview with the Vampire and yes we need more incidental gay characters like the dads in cartoons like Owl House.
It's not a competition! It's a hoard and I'm like a gay little Smaug.
Several documentaries publically treating Luigi Mangione as guilty before his trial even started got released over the past 2 months.
Here's the billion dollar companies behind them.
Why I don't side with Nazis
internet meme, I don't side with them even with my flaws. I have so many of that, but I do not side for many reasons.
first they always use words "subversion" and "subtelty"
as if personal choice and ignorance are victim card. I am not subverted, it is my fault personally.
It is feminine ideology, "words" "words" kind of argument, ignoring any reasonable cause.
and also , it is made for SUCKERS. for sacrifical sheep (except they're male - tautological joke). how many of these roman citizens were rich and happy? How many, compared to the oligarchs who have ruled the country through fear and hired mercenaries, who was happier? Absolute power. Will not help me white male, only your full humility is what I want. Otherwise, don't talk to me about it.
sometimes a piece of media just! grabs you by the throat and says, "hey buddy! I'm gonna irrevocably alter your brain chemistry now! have fun with that!!"
and then you just ! gotta deal with that ! you guess !!
Do not let the antishippers find the Got or House of the Dragon fandom cause they'll cry
Or Labyrinth, or Flowers in the Attic, or any one of Stephen King's books. It's almost as if the wider public understands that fiction can be both fucked up and entertaining without the need for a moral lesson following after, or that it's an indictment that you're going to partake in the things you read about.
Antis are so far removed from reality, and they have to remain that way in order to not have their beliefs constantly challenged and torn apart.
I want to feel and be loved but because of the media I’ve been conditioned to think teenage romance is only meant to last if it’s secretive, most notably gay romance.
Idk why but villains with standards will always be the funniest thing to me. like you'll get someone who will take absolute pleasure in doing the most vile things but paying their minions less than minimum wage? how dare you insult their honor. there'll be a guy who just loves terrorizing people but if you say something sexist about his sidekick he'll punch you in the throat and step aside with glee to let her pummel you. villains who are like "murder is fine generally but if you're a homophobe then I'll tie you to a boulder and catapult you into the ocean". Idk there's just something innately hilarious about a villain who is very definitively bad, like extremely morally reprehensible, but like there are just certain things that even they won't stoop to, thereby implying that those who do are worse
One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:
It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and
Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.
Has anyone else liked a piece of media so much but the art style or animation is just HIDEOUS :(
But of course you watch it anyway bc it’s SO GOOD
For real. Please, let’s slack off the celebrity voice casts and start giving roles to talented voice actors with range. I don’t want to keep hearing the same people over and over. I want variety!!
(This is not said to demean celebrities who have actively worked at becoming better voice actors, this is about casting directors giving roles originally belonging to voice actors over to celebrities for star power—instead of investing in the quality of the production in other areas.)
I don't know what those '90s sci Fi TV writers were putting in their shows but I wish they'd start doing it again
Contemporary Basement Calgary Mid-sized modern idea for a carpeted basement with beige walls and a ribbon fireplace
Brick Pavers Patio a sizable brick patio in the backyard with a gazebo
Time shifting
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I wanted this but the original poster is transphobic
Jaaha, ja nyt on sitte viimeistään irtauduttava suomalaisestakin massamediasta.
Oon sanonut ennenkin, että nää 'paremmat' journalistiset, ja keltainen lehdistö alkaa huolestuttavasti erottua toisistaan entistä vahvemmin vain ulkoasullaan. Hyvää lehtimiestapaa on loukattu mm. plagioinnilla, kyseenalaisella kuvituksella ja kunnianloukkauksilla laidasta laitaan jo pidemman aikaa. Siitä voidaan sitten puhua erikseen, että millainen julkinen spekulaatio on ok ja millainen ei, etenkin lasten ja yksityishenkilöiden kohdalla. Pointti on siinä, että kun valtamediassa julkaistaan suoraan ja kritiikittä äärimielipiteitä samalla, kun ihmiset arkielämässään kärsii niiden vaikutuksista, jokin on vinossa ja pahasti.
Se, että jossain menee huonommin, tai että Suomessa vois mennä huonommin, ei tarkoita, että meillä menee nyt riittävän hyvin & kehittämisen voi lopettaa. 'Riittävän hyvin'; täällä rivikansalaiset yrittää päivittäin polkea toistensa oikeuksia mm. kotirauhaan, itse-ilmaisuun, koulunkäyntiin ja uskonvapauteen. Ei kuulosta reilulta minusta.
Joku voi sanoa, että 'lehtimiestapa' on vanhanaikainen etiketti, mutta itse pidän sitä (pää-asiassa) ihan validina laaturajana. Ihan vähintään radikaalina pidettäviin julkaisuihin pitäisi aina ottaa mukaan asiantuntijan tai 'vastakkaisen' mielipiteen edustajan näkökanta.
I know the genie is out of the bottle and you can't go back but dear GOD I hate the mainstreamification of fandom so much
I do NOT want authors or showrunners or actors to acknowledge us or talk about fanfic or fanart or fan theories! I do NOT want people asking questions of the canon creators and getting them answered (make up your own answers, like god intended!) I do NOT want companies making jokey advertisements aimed toward fandom!
I know that fandom was never entirely underground but like... I miss that fourth wall existing, you know?
are either of these stories good? cause they sound really interesting
On the one hand, it's true that the way Dungeons & Dragons defines terms like "sorcerer" and "warlock" and "wizard" is really only relevant to Dungeons & Dragons and its associated media – indeed, how these terms are used isn't even consistent between editions of D&D! – and trying to apply them in other contexts is rarely productive.
On the other hand, it's not true that these sorts of fine-grained taxonomies of types of magic are strictly a D&D-ism and never occur elsewhere. That folks make this argument is typically a symptom of being unfamiliar with Dungeons & Dragons' source material. D&D's main inspirations are American literary sword and sorcery fantasy spanning roughly the 1930s through the early 1980s, and fine-grained taxonomies of magic users absolutely do appear in these sources; they just aren't anything like as consistent as the folks who try to cram everything into the sorcerer/warlock/wizard model would prefer.
For example, in Lydon Hardy's "Five Magics" series, the five types of magical practitioners are:
Alchemists: Drawing forth the hidden virtues of common materials to craft magic potions; limited by the fact that the outcomes of their formulas are partially random.
Magicians: Crafting enchanted items through complex manufacturing procedures; limited by the fact that each step in the procedure must be performed perfectly with no margin for error.
Sorcerers: Speaking verbal formulas to basically hack other people's minds, permitting illusion-craft and mind control; limited by the fact that the exercise of their art eventually kills them.
Thaumaturges: Shaping matter by manipulating miniature models; limited by the need to draw on outside sources like fires or flywheels to make up the resulting kinetic energy deficit.
Wizards: Summoning and binding demons from other dimensions; limited by the fact that the binding ritual exposes them to mental domination by the summoned demon if their will is weak.
"Warlock", meanwhile, isn't a type of practitioner, but does appear as pejorative term for a wizard who's lost a contest of wills with one of their own summoned demons.
Conversely, Lawrence Watt-Evans' "Legends of Ethshar" series includes such types of magic-users as:
Sorcerers: Channelling power through metal talismans to produce fixed effects; in the time of the novels, talisman-craft is largely a lost art, and most sorcerers use found or inherited talismans.
Theurges: Summoning gods; the setting's gods have no interest in human worship, but are bound not to interfere in the mortal world unless summoned, and are thus amenable to cutting deals.
Warlocks: Wielding X-Men style psychokinesis by virtue of their attunement to the telepathic whispers emanating from the wreckage of a crashed alien starship. (They're the edgy ones!)
Witches: Producing improvisational effects mostly related to healing, telepathy, precognition, and minor telekinesis by drawing on their own internal energy.
Wizards: Drawing down the infinite power of Chaos and shaping it with complex rituals. Basically D&D wizards, albeit with a much greater propensity for exploding.
You'll note that both taxonomies include something called a "sorcerer", something called a "warlock", and something called a "wizard", but what those terms mean in their respective contexts agrees neither with the Dungeons & Dragons definitions, nor with each other.
(Admittedly, these examples are from the 1980s, and are thus not free of D&D's influence; I picked them because they both happened to use all three of the terms in question in ways that are at odds with how D&D uses them. You can find similar taxonomies of magic use in earlier works, but I would have had to use many more examples to offer multiple competing definitions of each of "sorcerer", "warlock" and "wizard", and this post is already long enough!)
So basically what I'm saying is giving people a hard time about using these terms "wrong" – particularly if your objection is that they're not using them in a way that's congruent with however D&D's flavour of the week uses them – makes you a dick, but simply having this sort of taxonomy has a rich history within the genre. Wizard phylogeny is a time-honoured tradition!
NYT article abt goncharov has comments like 'what is the purpose of this film's existence these kids are just lying' motherfucker how do you think our ancestors survived. how do you think folklore formed. culture. music. art. PURPOSE????? do you think everything must be commodified? sold? weighed to be valued? has the rot in your soul spread so far you cannot find value in anything not spoken in numbers??? it's FUN. THAT'S WHY. THE PURPOSE IS THE ACT, THE MESSAGE IS THE MEDIUM, THE SYMBOL IS THE STORY. it brings people joy for its mere existence and that IS the point. existence is its purpose alone
Please take my survey, I need responses for my sociology class.
Is this about ww2 or am I just hyperfixating
One of my favourite genres of supernatural horror media might be described as bear-poking horror.
Basically, it’s horror media where the supernatural threat is a known quantity. Everybody – or at least everybody who’s involved – knows what it is and what it does, and there’s a specific, known, easily avoided act that will incur its wrath. All that’s necessary for nobody to get eaten is for nobody to do that thing. Typically there isn’t even any benefit to doing the thing, so there’s literally no reason to do it.
However, in spite of all that, absolutely everyone is going to die, because some fucker went and poked the bear.
Why, oh why did they poke the bear.
Hotwifing in media
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