Sabrina the Teenage Witch | 1.17 - "First Kiss"

A very quick note

this episode did not give a good enough trigger warning

Ruby's plot here was a very obvious suicide allegory and it shouldn't have been proceeded by something as vague as "yeah some of these scenes might be disturbing." At minimum it should have gotten the same warning that the vol 8 finale did with Penny

It needs to be brought to the attention whoever is in charge of that and changed. I don't care about spoilers, that's gonna trigger somebody without giving them proper warning

DISNEY + TRIVIA

SLEEPING BEAUTY (1959) BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991) TREASURE PLANET (2002) FROZEN (2013) THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1996) HERCULES (1997) MOANA (2016) MULAN (1998) OLIVER & COMPANY (1988) ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE (2001)

A visual representation of Percy Jackson fans getting our wish fulfilled this year

I remember a post years ago that said smth like what if for the percy Jackson show they hired relatively unknowns for the kids and really famous people for the gods well wish granted the monkey paw does not disappoint

#this had to be done

For my fellow ADHD peeps:

- Death to the Author = once the work is out to be consumed by the public, we look at how it’s interpreted and it’s impact over intent of the creator.

Ie. Analyzing Harry Potter, we set aside J.K. Rowling’s intent and examine the impact of how the text depicts and impacts historically marginalized communities such as disabled people, LGBTQ folk, BIPOC, etc.

- Male Gaze= examining how cinematography defaults to audiences being predominantly white cisgender men and thus seeks to produce media men can relate to and prioritizing character development of male characters over female characters.

IE. The angry reviews of Captain Marvel, She-Hulk, and Turning Red reveal that many men related more to stories of animated male cars and fish than stories about women by women for predominantly female audiences.

This reveals the assumption they are the default audience for media and if they can’t relate to it, it thus loses meaning and isn’t good.

Death to the Author ≠ ignoring the biases, prejudices, and cultural influences acting within a creator that shapes their art.

Death to the Author ≠ rejecting intersectionality and the reality that multiple things can be true at once.

Death to the Author ≠ excusing bigotry and violence being perpetuated by a creator due to sentiment to their works.

Male gaze ≠ Mary Sues (which arose from men critiquing female Star Trek fanfiction, predominantly written by young women and amateur authors figuring out characterization)

Male Gaze ≠ dressing sexy or pretty for a date or appear attractive to catch men’s attention outside cinema

Male Gaze ≠ purely sexual imagery and the sexual objectification of women

male gaze is not 'when person look sexy' or 'when misogynist make film'

death of the author is not 'miku wrote this'

I don't think you have to read either essay to grasp the basic concepts

death of the author means that once a work is complete, what the author believes it to mean is irrelevant to critical analysis of what's in the text. it means when analysing the meaning of a text you prioritise reader interpretation above author intention, and that an interpretation can hold valid meaning even if it's utterly unintentional on the part of the person who created the thing. it doesn't mean 'i can ignore that the person who made this is a bigot' - it may in fact often mean 'this piece of art holds a lot of bigoted meanings that the author probably wasn't intentionally trying to convey but did anyway, and it's worth addressing that on its own terms regardless of whether the author recognises it's there.' it's important to understand because most artists are not consciously and vocally aware of all the possible meanings of their art, and because art is communal and interpretive. and because what somebody thinks they mean, what you think somebody means, and what a text is saying to you are three entirely different things and it's important to be able to tell the difference.

male gaze is a cinematographic theory on how films construct subjectivity (ie who you identify with and who you look at). it argues that film language assumes that the watcher is a (cis straight white hegemonically normative) man, and treats men as relatable subjects and women as unknowable objects - men as people with interior lives and women as things to be looked at or interacted with but not related to. this includes sexual objectification and voyeurism, but it doesn't mean 'finding a lady sexy' or 'looking with a sexual lens', it means the ways in which visual languages strip women of interiority and encourage us to understand only men as relatable people. it's important to understand this because not all related gaze theories are sexual in nature and if you can't get a grip on male gaze beyond 'sexual imagery', you're really going to struggle with concepts of white or abled or cis subjectivities.

"I haven’t had to play a role like Captain America in a little while so things like diet and workout regiment really haven’t been on my radar for the past couple of years. I’m gonna have to turn over a new leaf. It used to be, for me, it used to be, in the good old days, I could just eat whatever I want, have a couple of workouts per week and be okay. That. Is. Not. the case anymore. It’s just not." - Old Man Chris

And on a completely serious note, Dracula Daily was legit one of the most fun things I've done on the internet all year and I'm so sad it's over. In a world where the internet feels increasingly corporate and sanitized, having some weird little email book club spring up around a 125 year old novel feels like the Old Internet to me in the best of ways. I'm gonna miss seeing all the shipping, discussion, memes (maybe the memes most of all), and all of the little historical facts I never knew about. I've definitely come out of this with a brand new appreciation for the book, and I hope we can do it again sometime.

Y'all take care out there now! Pour one out for Quincey.

If staff wasnt full of cowards theyd keep the current logo and slap shitty pngs over it to keep it seasonal here are some examples

People getting banned from Twitter and scrambling here feels exactly like that Parks and Rec episode where Eagleton merged with Pawnee for financial problems and it was just

some tumblr etiquette for new people!!

Devil: This is the lake of lava you will be spending eternity in

Me: Actually, since we’re underground, it would be magma

Devil: You understand this is why you’re here, right?

on today’s episode of “Elon vs. the Internet”, Misha Collins enters the chat