hey remember when people were like "stop financially supporting JKR she takes it as tacit acceptance and support of her vile transphobic views and uses it to fund all the shit she's pushing" and other people were like "but my authentic house scarf 🥺" -R
I want to know who first invented the Sneaking Through The Air Vents trope because it's that perfect combination of absolutely nonsensical if you know anything about air ducts and completely reasonable to assume works if you don't know anything about air ducts -R
I just realized I wanna know what happened with Overwatch. Like, it had like a half-dozen incredibly obvious routes to massive success and it did literally none of them. They have a top-tier team of animators and designers cranking out characters for a game with no story?? -R
checking twitter right now is just like
ENDLESS
SOUL-CRUSHINGLY
INFURIATING
POLITICAL
NEWS
MAKING
YOU
FEEL
LIKE
THE
(ooh pokemon)
WORLD
HAS
GONE
COMPLETELY
(yay dogs)
CRAZY
AND
(oh hey mark hamill)
NOBODY'S
DOING
(sweet critical role art)
ANYTHING
TO
FIX
IT
(hey another dog)
-R
JK Rowling hasn't had a literary success in years so now her brand recognition is based entirely around scapegoating and harassing trans people because being championed by genital-obsessed weirdos is better than being quietly forgotten -R
Pretty unconvincing to point the finger at writers and say "their strike is why you won't enjoy TV!" when the distributors they're striking against cancel every show after two seasons and nuke entire series for a CEO's tax break -R
I've never before processed how much "piracy" factors into the preservation of media. In the age of streaming it's all "you have absolutely no right to record this or copy it or download it" until they decide they can get a tax writeoff by erasing it off the Internet -R
look it made sense back when we were all ten and harry potter was blowing our escapist minds with Baby's First Urban Fantasy but she hasn't even made anything good this decade. nobody's life is getting changed by Fantastic Beasts and Tacitly Enabling The Horrors Of WWII -R
lovely day to remember that trans rights are human rights, trans people deserve dignity and autonomy over their choices, none of this is up for debate, and trying to scapegoat a vulnerable population to further a transparent agenda is ugly and embarrassing 😘 -R
show the trans people in your life that their fundamental human rights matter more to you than one (1) book series and then go read A Wizard Of Earthsea instead 🏳️⚧️ -R
I'm tired of trying to convince people to stop giving harry potter money that gets funneled directly into anti-trans legislature. we need to outcompete it. someone who isn't awful write a seven-book trope-laden urban fantasy boy's adventure novel series with escalating stakes -R
Dumb tropes I love unironically (1/???)
-Characters with the show's main theme as their ringtone
-"Remove all your weapons" *improbably enormous pile of weapons accumulates* "I said ALL of them" *single tiny knife OR impossibly large gun is added to pile*
-R
Gosh, I had no idea twitter was finally banning nazis en masse. We didn't realize since we've lost zero followers, probably because we don't cater to fuckin nazis. -R
which one of you game devs is super deep into Orphic Mysteries to be able to pull out Melinoë on a whim?? I confess to briefly worrying the game had fallen for that made-up tumblr goddess before confirming it was a deep pull I'd literally never heard of! -R
I know that this hurts a lot of people to accept, and it sucks when nostalgia gets poisoned by cruel realities, but that doesn't take away what the stories meant to you once. "Loved" never goes away. But it sometimes needs to be left in the past. And buried. In concrete. -R
Happy pride month! There is no human right more fundamental than the right to liberty, the freedom to live as one chooses. If you don't own your life and body completely, you can own nothing. You don't need to understand someone to let them live their life!
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 -R
dammit do I need to tap the "I personally loved this series so much it is literally why I learned to read" sign again? I ain't sitting in a "I never liked this thing anyway" ivory tower, I just have fuckin priorities -R
it's weird how few love triangles are actually a choice between two equally viable romantic interests in contrast to how many are just "two people like each other and a third person can't take a hint" -R
the popularity of Benoit Blanc demonstrated that the broad action-ification of detective genre fiction left an evolutionary niche we were all unknowingly desperate to have filled. nature is healing -R
I've only had My Adventures With Superman for a day and a half but if anything happens to Clark I will, with great difficulty, refrain from doing any acts of violence that would lead him to become disappointed in me -R
Hey American friends of voting age, if you weren't planning on voting in this election because it's a nuisance or feels pointless or whatever, I suggest you reconsider -R
blue tells me this bizarre phenomenon happened because blizzard shot themselves in the foot by tripling down on esports, but luckily there's at least one area where overwatch is still going strong -R
There's a pattern I've observed in fandom that makes me really sad, and it's that a media property will be absolutely beloved for being groundbreaking or exciting or just really fun, and then about a year or two later all that enthusiasm violently reverses into shame -R
Who the HELL is fucking with Laura Bailey for the actions of a fictional character she played? If you're unable to distinguish fiction from reality THAT bad, shouldn't you be too terrified of her apparent murder skills to send her death threats? Grow up and engage with reality -R
I love that in breath of the wild it's a major plot point that Zelda had zero connection to the goddess and felt a deep, crushing despair about this for her whole life, while Link can roll up to any goddess statue in hyrule and Hylia will shine down a sunbeam and chat with him -R
fandom dot com I'm sorry if tiny tim won't survive the winter without this ad revenue but at this rate it'd be easier for me to rent the earthmoving equipment required to unearth my 3.5 books -R
Everyone lost their minds over the character trailers, people who knew they existed liked the tie-in comics. Even now, people talk about how fun the unique dialogue options are that highlight the character relationships. Almost any other kind of game/story would work for that! -R
HIGHLY specific, but what's your least favorite case of a female character whose writer was very hung up on her not being a Helpless Waif but didn't understand that the solution to that is agency and not "I can keep up with the boys/my dad wanted a son/I had six brothers/etc"? -R
My powers of invisibility unexpectedly failed at a plot-crucial moment which is how I found out it's the first ever International Asexuality Day!
🖤🤍💜 -R
did HBO Max drop hype for The Last Of Us and House of the Dragon not three days after catching enormous amounts of shit for axing beloved series with no warning to the creators? are people actually falling for this? -R
sometimes I wonder why Encanto's ending didn't quite give me the warm and fuzzies it was clearly designed to do and then I remember not a single human being apologized to Bruno -R
the castlevania show is a masterpiece because at every turn in the boarding process they were like "how sexy should we make this" and the answer was always "yes" -R
shoutout to the youtubers that make 5+ hour video essays about shows I've never watched, you singlehandedly keep my productivity up by giving me the background noise I need -R
truly love how classic sherlock holmes stories are basically watson going "my dear holmes please at least try a safe and healthy hobby one time" and holmes responding "look old bean it's either high-octane mystery solving or cocaine and you keep saying no to the cocaine thing" -R
sometimes I look at a villain and I'm like "if you weren't so pretty I wouldn't see NEARLY as many thinkpieces about why you totally deserved a redemption arc" -R
among the many tweaks in Rogue One and Andor that retroactively improve the oroginals my fave is that they took the obligatory army of evil minions in nazi hats and got inside their heads to show that they're human beings motivated by ambitious corporate ladder-climbing -R
What kind of idiot loser society do we live in where Chariot Races stopped being the most popular sport?
The byzantine empire falls *one time* and we all just forget the sickest sport on planet earth. smh
-B
first sea shanties come back and now global maritime trade is revealed to be an incredibly vulnerable system where a single point of failure disrupts 30% of all shipping by volume? let's just bring back the golden age of piracy already, we're clearly all thinking it -R
moral dilemma of the day, do I use the onceler as the absolutely perfect representative example for this trope talk and immediately inflict massive psychic damage on a full 40% of the internet or do I resist the temptation to watch the world burn -R
@JoCat105
I've observed there's a certain kind of very online person who equates "I contrived a reason to bully someone and gleefully did so for as long as possible along with about
a half-dozen of my online friends" with "they received a huge amount of backlash" -R
Based on no evidence except for the fact that Dracula once used the pseudonym "De Ville" during his infiltration of England I would like to posit that Cruella Deville is his thriving ex-wife -R
So, uh, apologies if you're looking for our classic pride design on redbubble - apparently they decided it was inappropriate and unpublished it for as-yet unexplained reasons, which is a really nice way to ring in pride month -R
I am so fascinated by Avtar as a franchise that is somehow now two for two for leaving absolutely no detectable impact on pop culture, but not so fascinated as to actually watch Way of Water, which might be indicative of the problem -R
I just read Civil War for the first time, can someone who knows more about Marvel tell me if the writers got held at gunpoint or something when they were writing that last chapter -R
In your heart are two wolves. One loves emotional characters that are affectionate and open with their feelings. The other loves emotionally stunted characters who can only express honest affection in life-threatening danger. The wolves think these characters should kiss -R
youtube age restricting the Trojan War video for "illustrated or animated nudity" be like "I can excuse vengeance blood-rage genocide but I draw the line at female-presenting nips" -R
PragerU likes advertising their garbage on channels tagged "education" which is why we've had their ad URL blocked on our channel for over a year now -R
Should go without saying, but banning MAUS because it's deeply uncomfortable to read is like banning drinking fountains because water comes out of them sometimes -R
obviously it's always tedious when people have a loud allergic reaction to media acknowledging the existence of not-straight, not-cis and not-white people, but it's almost looped back to being funny in the case of The Sandman, which has been queer since the 80s -R
and so netflix, hearing the prophecy of its doom, sacrificed its animation projects and exposed its hype titles on the mountaintop to perish, unknowingly sealing its own fate as two million users looked up and said "huh, I HAVEN'T seen anything I liked on netflix in a while…" -R
It's weirdly common to see people who run escape rooms complaining that players tried totally irrational solutions or dismantled something they shouldn't have to get out, and I think maybe playing dnd has jaded me to this particular issue, because that's what players ALWAYS do -R
god I'm so tired of stories wink-wink-nudging the audience and pointing out their own silliness like they're pre-empting judgment. if I'm watching a musical why would I want a character to go "owo? singing now? what's happening???" it's a MUSICAL of COURSE THEY'RE SINGING -R
big fan of the Zuko-style redemption arc where a tortured villain becomes a full-on hero through love and support but I'm equally into the Hiei-style redemption arc where an absolute bastard gremlin's only personality change is acquiring one (1) person they would die for -R
Broke: Disney's Hercules is inaccurate to the original mythos on every possible level and sucks
Woke: Disney's Hercules is partially sung and features a chorus that addresses both the characters and the audience, making it a faithful modernization of the Greek Tragedy format
-R
Got married. Went on honeymoon to Canada. Got our booster shots.
Busy two weeks for Cyan and I.
Enjoy this fun travel album while I get back to napping.
-B
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눈_눈 precolonial african civilizations are routinely dismissed as primitive or nonexistent due to a lack of written records by the same historians who express immense frustration at the lack of prechristian norse and celtic writing without denying their cultural value
-R
Every so often I remember when our Dionysus video started randomly getting loads of views, and we discovered it was because BTS had a new song called "Dionysus", and their fans wanted to learn about the myth to better appreciate the song.
Astonishingly wholesome.
-B
hey, lifehack, if you really want to read a news article but they've got that "pwease turn off your adblocker and pay us a monthly subscwiption fee 🥺" popup covering the screen, right click anywhere on the page and click "view page source" to see the plaintext -R
in today's artistic exploits I spent half an hour doing shoulder-rolls on a hardwood floor to get reference footage to draw from and if I'm being honest I can't think of a better career I could've possibly chosen -R
I think the best evidence for "people don't really know what they want and creators shouldn't just give what they're asked for" is what dropping entire seasons of TV at once is doing to us -R
This tweet, like this video, was scheduled in advance – because I'm currently on my honeymoon because last week I got MARRIED!
anyway have fun with the video or whatever okay byeeeeeeeee
-B