oh thank christ im uninstalling this cursed app

we are in a media literacy crisis

im too much of a coward to put my discord pfp as my pfp here so heres my bluesky layout bdhdhhdhxhs its cute

"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]

five seconds in and im already complaining about the WEIRDNESS about the happy huntresses lmao like the commentary hasnt even started and im pissed

like... why is may marigold characterized to be the angry aggressive mean person. like regardless of her right and validity to hate her family (that are seemingly the only transphobic people in the world for some reason in this society that supposedly values individual creativity and uniqueness) you still made the choice to have her, the first trans character, to state that she doesnt care if people die. she spends her entire time on screen being aggressive towards are hyperfemme characters in their skirts and dresses. *I* understand that there are masc transwomen and androgynous transwomen and there isnt a RIGHT way to be trans but did may marigold have to be the one of all the happy huntresses to act that way? why could she not have been characterized like fiona, who is happy and proud and FEMININE

not to mention you have this equally aggressive character in johanna, one of the darkest speaking characters to date and butch as hell, contrasted against robyn "we gave her a male model" hill, as if thats not weird in of itself like yall are NEVER beating the sexual dimorphism in ur characters allegations!!

thats not even touching on the absolute snorefest their Uniforms are-- have i mentioned how much i fucking HATE the designs in this show-- and the absolute failure to actually pay homage to robin hood or idk make the fucking happy huntresses matter?? what a waste of fucking time

Princess of Darkness plushie

Big Shot Spamton but he’s in a 90s anime.

Still version below:

Image description: Spamton sits in the driving seat of his car and is staring at you. His right arm leans on the steering wheel in a relaxed manner and a cigarette is in his hand. He wears his Big Shot Era suit of red. He is grinning suggestively. Behind him, through the windows of the car, is a view of Cyber City's skyline. At the bottom of the image is a caption for Spamton's dialogue, which reads: "You comin'?" End of image description.

Always had this image of Spamton not really knowing what to do after the Addisons left him, so he tries to seek comfort from the one person he did have back then. It’s lonely at the top.

Image description: Spamton sits on the edge of a bed in a darkened bedroom, his expression shadowed and sombre. He is wearing his Big Shot Era suit of red. Behind him, there is a window displaying a view of Cyber City; the lights are animated and they flicker. Spamton is holding a cigarette in his right hand, his left is occupied with a phone that he is speaking into. At the bottom of the image, there is a caption of Spamton saying: "The [sales!] are great. I just wish my frie-" The dialogue is cut off by another caption, which reads: "[Voice On Phone] It sounds like you're going to cry. I'm here to work with you, not coddle your insecurities. Get a grip." End of image description.

Finally finished this animation! 🎆

Our three heroes embark on an epic quest but get sidetracked by the glorious fireworks of Cyber City, which yield a little surprise…

Music: Androids & Sentient Beings by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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Really happy people are acknowledging Senshi as a sexyman. Twink era is over, we've got some meat in the menu now

one reason why i'm a fan of how widespread and accessible vtuber technology is is that it gives all the usual aspiring professional content creator sludge a fantasy-like coat of paint. while you can't stop parasocial relationships from forming between the vtuber and their audience, the technology rebuffs a lot of the factors that draw people in to feel connected to a youtuber or a streamer on a personal, human level. a vtuber is a character no matter how dimensional their host wants to be- to a degree far more pronounced than a typical streamer. a vtuber boy breaks character to get into an argument with someone in the comments, their audience is immediately discomforted with how cringe and kind of pathetic their anime prince is being. a vtuber girl fake cries while addressing allegations against her, her rig only capable of articulating a vaguely sad expression as her avatar breastfully bounces in tandem with her sobs. this. this is the new television. the new john and kate plus 8. the new maury show. dubiously ethical as all reality television is but impersonal enough to be easy to consume as pure entertainment.

fucking hate astarion

I think it’s important to have villains who are both nice and human.

Especially nice. Polite. Empathetic. Thoughtful.

Because none of those traits translate directly to good. And a lot of them are easy shields against the description ‘bad’.

the "canon isn't real we make our own rules" to "i am begging you people to revisit the source material" pipeline

Sorry I didn’t reply to your messages I was busy being that one homie that’s not gonna make it

It's just that what you have to understand about animorphs is that the most important thing about animorphs barely happens in animorphs. The most important moment in animorphs is when marco's dad says that in the year before his wife died he and his wife stopped fighting, their relationship became smooth sailing, it was like all the little things that any couple has trouble with just disappeared, and marco (maybe 14? 15? at this point?) listens to him say this and understands with cold certainty that what actually disappeared a year before his mother's ''death'' was his mother. This declaration from his father gives Marco a timeline for a familial trauma he had never before been able to fully parse, which is the precise moment in his life when his mother's body was taken over by a brain controlling slug from outer space--hey. hey. stay with me. look at me. look at my eyes. don't worry about the alien slug. just keep reading. this is a chilling and deeply compelling statement about patriarchy and colonialism and you have to not worry about the slug--anyway Eva Animorphs (an immigrant woman of color) lost all control of her life and voice and body and that was, in reality, the moment that Marco lost his mother to a colonial power, the moment he lost his childhood, the moment he and his mother lost their home, which even after winning the war they will never return to, but his father never understood that moment as anything but a mysterious sudden increase in harmony in his household. Because his wife stopped arguing with him.

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