WE WERE GOING THROUGH STORAGE TO GET A STURDY BINDER FROM THE 80S FOR SCHOOL AND MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS FELL OUT OF ONE OF MY MOMS JOURNALS IM SHITTING

the miku expo 2024 shitshow is gonna be a real test of how much people have spent the past several years especially on tumblr/twitter/tiktok spaces anthropomorphizing and intensely attaching to the concept of miku as a character like she's a pokemon especially from all the "hatsune miku wrote harry potter/made minecraft/etc" shitposts that treat 'her' like something that inherently can't do anything wrong. already seeing people going "yeah but miku looks she's having fun she looks great on a screen it doesn't matter i just wanna see miku" hatsune miku is not a real person you are not going to hurt hatsune miku's feelings if you hold the company who owns this character responsible for breaking 10 years worth of concert quality precedent after charging you inflated concert prices with those very expectations in mind. some of you goons have given yourself stockholm syndrome.

Disney is in a unique position where it can – via its films – create the culture that enables us to accept its questionable business practices...

Disney’s own messaging... encourages the values that secure its own existence...

The cultural critic Henry Giroux, author of The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence (1999), believes that Disney is a “teaching machine” that articulates “strategies of escapism and consumerism that reinforce an infantilised and utterly privatised notion of citizenship”. Disney films, by and large, are not about shared responsibilities, the social contract, human rights struggles, democracy, protests, boycotts or the evils of shopping too much. “Disney cultivates a kind of agency that fits into its market plan,” Giroux tells me. When the company does tackle social issues, it often favours tales of hyper-individualistic heroism over collective action. “Saving people always comes in the form of superhuman powers.”

Giroux believes that Disney purveys a wholesome image while “shaping the identities, desires and subjectivities of millions of people across the globe as ardent consumers and deskilled citizens”. Some might argue that Disney films should not be concerned with social issues – after all, they’re for kids. But who placed these limits on our children’s imagination? Disney did, when it sanitised the dark and gruesome fairy tales that have entertained youngsters for centuries.

When asked what they liked most about the Walt Disney Company, the second-most popular answer in my survey was it “makes me feel happy”, but the first was far more telling. By far the most common answer – selected by 81 per cent of respondents – was, “It offers an escape from an increasingly troubled world.”

“What is going on in both the UK and the United States that makes entertainment one of the few places left that people can escape into?” questions Giroux. “People’s lives are so fraught with anxiety, with poverty, the lack of housing, and debt,” and that the only way people have to relieve their troubles is to use the services of companies that may have contributed to those problems in some way.

If Disney adults – by their own admission – are seeking escape from a troubled world, then who told them entertainment, not collective action, was the best option? Who told them to seek escapism instead of an escape?

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one of the weirdest experiences ive had being trans and out so far was when i went to the doctors about hrt and she walked me through the consent form (the one that tells you youre doing irreversible damage to your body and you're a freak) with a pen in her hand like crossing shit out and being like "this isn't true, this is actually completely false, this is totally an exaggeration" and it was stuff like "research on hrt is limited poor and speculative" or "hrt can increase risks of disease" or "testosterone makes you more violent and angry" like idk having it written in a way intended to make you feel like you're making a big mistake is one thing but the fact that the form has like literally proven false info in it and the doctor had to verbally be like sorry this isnt even true its just on there because society hates trans people. is wild

The beach that makes you old

Maid Skater as good as you'd think so far.

Blue Archive is one of the horniest franchises out there for a game that has 90% meh designs.

i love tumblr glitches. sponsored message everyone

Shikigami Aya

Commission for @NeoAyaya, ty for the request!

I don't know if this is a hot take or whatever. But man I have a strong desire to just want to go through the computer and violently shake someone anytime they make suicide jokes about themselves. That shit is not healthy man.