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lovealtars · 2 years

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BLOOD IN MEDIA

American Psycho Crimson Peak Evil Dead II Ready or Not The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Near Dark Halloween The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning Saw 0.5 Candyman

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lasnevadaslaborunion · 1 year

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It frightens and discourages me how pervasive "tribal" stereotypes and imagery are in the fantasy and adventure genres.

It's all over the place in classic literature. Crack open a Jules Verne novel and you're likely to find caricatures of brown people and cultures, even when the characters are sympathetic to the plight of the colonized peoples - incidentally, this is the biggest reason I can't recommend 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to everyone, despite Captain Nemo being one of my favorite fictional characters of all time.

You can't escape it in modern cinema, either. You'll see white heroes venturing bravely into jungles and tombs to steal from natives who don't know how to use their resources "properly." You'll see them strung up in traps, riddled with sleeping darts, forced to flee and fight their way out. Hell, Pirates of the Caribbean, a remarkably inclusive franchise in many other ways, had an extended sequence of the white heroes escaping from a cannibal civilization in the second film.

And when fantasy RPGs want a humanoid enemy, the "bloodthirsty natives" are the first stock trope they jump to. World of Warcraft is one of the most egregious examples, with the trolls - blatant racist caricatures with faux-voodoo beliefs, cannibalistic diets, Jamaican accents, and a history of being killed in droves by (white) elves and humans - being raided and slaughtered in nearly every expansion.

It doesn't matter how vibrant and distinctive the real-world indigenous, Polynesian, Caribbean, and African cultures are. It doesn't matter how much potential these real civilizations offer for complex and sympathetic characterization. Anything that doesn't make sense to the white western mind is shoved under the same "savage" umbrella. They're different. They're strange. They're scary. They have to be escaped, subjugated, eliminated, ogled at from the safety of a museum.

Modern writers, directors, and developers don't even seem to realize how horrifying it is to present the indigenous inhabitants of a place as "obstacles" for non-native protagonists to overcome. "It's not racist," they say, "because these people aren't really people, you see." And if you dare to point out anything that hurts or offends you as a descendant of the bastardized culture, you're accused of being the real racist: "These aren't humans! They're monsters! Are you saying that these real societies are just like those disgusting monsters?"

No, they're not monsters. But you chose to design them as monsters, just as invaders have done for hundreds of years. Why would you do that? Why can you recognize any other caricature as evil and cruel, but not this?

This is how deep colonialism runs.

#tw racism #critical #this isn't even about any specific media anymore #it's a pattern #and it's a pattern that seems so obvious #but it's so omnipresent that even the most progressive folks can't seem to recognize how terrifying it is #these tropes were written in blood

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lieu-rey · 1 month

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uhm uh. rdr jovier.

#rdr2 #rdr #javier escuella #john marston #jovier #red dead redemption 2 #when you have to kill your lover to save your wife and child.#and you cant look at his face bc you cant face what you had to do.#red dead redemption #red dead #can A/I_art die already i dont like how glaze makes my art look like jpeg images lmao #um anyway. jovier still on the brain. i promise i draw other rdr stuff besides them JFKEJNFN #i still have a bunch of stuff to post stay tuned<3 #oh fuck i forgot the tws #tw blood #tw death #nobody:#my brain cell immediately attaching to the only mexican character in a piece of media:#my art

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mag200 · 5 months

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details of “organs of the house”

mixed media // ko-fi

#my art #art #mixed media #blood #gore #horror #horror art #body horror #sculpture #organs of the house

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stil-lindigo · 1 year

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the sunset.

a comic about two outlaws who loved each other, despite everything.

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all my other comics

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its-justpan · 3 months

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This game still has such a hold of my brain

#digital drawing #fanart #fear and hunger #fear and hunger fanart #fear and hunger termina #fear and hunger daan #fear and hunger pocketcat #fear and hunger d'arce #mixed media #cw: blood #process video

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hellspawnmotel · 5 months

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gorequeens

#as always this is not an endorsement of this media (except for og higurashi which fucking rules)#and uhhhh do some research before deciding to check any of these out #anyway patron saints of anime violence. guardian angels of goth teens. our ladies of excess and top 10 lists #elfen lied #higurashi no naku koro ni #higurashi #when they cry #school days #lucy elfen lied #rena ryuugu #kotonoha katsura #blood #violence #nudity #art tag #i drew this for myself and anyone else who was an edgy weeb at the same time i was #crossover

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ex0skeletal-undead · 1 month

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Seamlessly merged painting and sculptural works by Tanya Gomelskaya

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#art #painting #sculpture #mixed media #dark art #horror #fantasy #macabre #surreal #body horror #blood #eyes

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anthonysperkins · 8 months

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The Orphic Trilogy dir. Jean Cocteau: Testament of Orpheus (1960) Orpheus (1950) The Blood of a Poet (1930)

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bastart13 · 2 years

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The more I see my media telling me to mourn, the angrier I get.

I never knew this woman. The only personal impact she had on my life was when one of her relatives died or married, I would get a day off school. I never knew Elizabeth, I knew the Queen. The Queen who wore a crown coated in diamonds stolen from other countries, a crown drenched in the blood her family collected over lifetimes of imperialism.

I should not be told to mourn a 96 year old woman who lived a life of obsene wealth and experience and died surrounded by loved ones, aided by the best healthcare in the world.

The crown disgusts me and anyone who wears it is not someone I mourn. The Queen and her family earnt none of their influence, they earnt none of my respect, and I do not mourn them

#queen elizabeth ii #tw death #tw blood #united kingdom #monarchy #king charles iii #art #the fact the media is already calling charles king angers and disgusts me in a way i didn't expect #this system doesn't deserve to continue #posting this on facebook was hilarious #scrolling past the memorials and new cover pictures dedicated to the queen only to have this

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lovealtars · 2 years

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