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friendly reminder that while it's totally fine to be frustrated by this as fans, do not lose sight of why these actors (and writers) are going on strike in the first place.
be frustrated, but at the studio heads who actually deserve it, not at the actors for going on strike
#sag-aftra#also the social media one is to promote projects#not that they cant use it at all lol#actually all of these are for promoting projects
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It really sucks that creative people are now also expected become their own marketing team or become experts in business ventures in order to keep making art. Literally cannot think of a group of people less inclined to tedious number punching work than passionate artists.
#watcher#just kinda sucks that a couple of dudes who just wanted to make videos had to become a business in the first place#it also sucks how authors are expected to promote themselves on tiktok#and how they might write one of the best novels in the world#but if they dont have a high enough number of followers#they will never get publised at all#idk just the way art is treated on social media makes me so mad#birdy chirps
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So if Colin Robinson gets drained when people are interested in what he says, does that mean he knew about Laszlo liking his talks about 19th century naval battles and didn't mind getting drained/not getting any energy out of him?
If so, that's so god damn sweet.
#might be reading too much into this#i don't talk about wwdits on social media much#but damn this episode was wild so i had to#colin robinson#laszlo cravensworth#wwdits spoilers#wwdits#what we do in the shadows#wwdits colin robinson#wwdits laszlo#(i'm referencing the colin's promotion ep on the naval battle thing btw if anybody wants to know)
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I definitely think there's Something (TM) to say about the portrayal of "off-human" characters in modern media adaptations as having (particularly facial) deformities and/or learning disabilities.
Robert Louis Stevenson was fully like "this is my OC, Hyde, who represents the impact of a complete apathy toward your fellow man. There is nothing extraordinary about him except that his rancid vibes make people uncomfortable which adds to the core theme of the role of morality in humanity, so its really important that he's physically normal so the audience can recognise that it's what's inside that's most important," and every film adaptation was like "mmkay. Yeah, no, I've got it. We can show that he's evil by using prosthetics and making him non/semi-verbal, which, as we all know, are the True Measures of Evil."
#non-human#jekyll and hyde#doctor jekyll#mr hyde#jekyll and hyde weekly#also frankenstein#the creature is classically beautiful and exceptionally well spoken#the horror comes from the idea of the role of humanity in an act of creation#projecting their idea of the perfect self onto a model#aha yes#this means he should be physically grotesque and have an obvious learning disability#this is where the horror comes from#having never met mary shelly#i can be 100% sure she did not shag on her mothers grave for her work to be used to promote ableism in the media#i would like to clarify that there should be more disabled actors and characters on screen#but this is not it
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with sheezy making a return i'm going to take some time to update mine as well as maybe populate my cohost [which i forgot to do after the initial embargo period]
can always use more backups for my work
https://sheezy.art/godbirdart
https://cohost.org/godbirdart
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I’ve got one of those late night posts rolling around in my head, and this is probably more proof I should start sleeping with my phone in another room, but HERE WE ARE
One of the best things about becoming an author is how it changed how I experience media, but also, goddamn was that a trip through a valley. It’s so easy to let frustration and cynicism poison what you’re reading/watching/listening to, when the first impulse is, I can do better than this. Why did this succeed when I didn’t? Or even, this isn’t what I want the story to be. Isn’t that wrong?
But the more I learn as a writer and artist, the more I learn to see what cynicism interprets as flaws to actually be deliberate choices. (This is at least partially due to seeing my own deliberate creative choices deeply misinterpreted, haha.) Everything is so much more interesting when you assume the creator acted with intent, and look for why.
Periodically I see people griping about writing from a defensive crouch, which is a fair complaint. But honestly I’d like readers, viewers, listeners to understand that for the last couple decades, social media driven media criticism has prioritized easy, sensationalized punch lists of a work’s flaws. Our audiences need to start asking if they’re engaging with the work itself, or the baggage they’ve personally brought to it.
#media thoughts#things really change when you see how much negative content is promoted#my stance is if you want art without cynicism that road has to go both ways
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the horny horny response to that tiktok makes up for the ppl in the notes having full on wah-wah meltdowns over the suggestion that tiktok's perceived Quality fully has to do with how you, individually, use it. I don't even have to say anything, bc these two tags already summarize it perfectly
#IT'S CALLED CURATING YOUR EXPERIENCE...#and yes for god's sake. stop hatewatching#it adapts so specifically that I started getting golden retrievers like Crazy in the months before I adopted Hugo#bc when I came across a video w one in it. I would watch it like 10 times#and it went oh I see you're looping this#people are so dramatic. someone tried to say that tiktok (unlike other social media) is promoting eating disorders#as if tumblr.com didn't LITERALLY INVENT THINSPO. pro-ana anybody? or are ppl too young to remember#you can still find ppl on tumblr promoting that NOW. tiktok isn't special.#also 'regularly' here is used like 'normal' and not 'frequently' if u could not tell jfc#sergle.txt
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Listen I- I can explain
#I like to think CXS talked him into it for “promoting the studio on social media”#lu guang#link click
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I would honestly call the left's inability to accomodate people with morality-based OCD compulsions an accessibility issue at this point.
#coming under this: black and white morality thinking!#constant guilting about posting on social media showing your true values and personality!#shitting on people for their alarm about protest suicide! (with bonus 'how dare you insinuite mental illness was a factor!')#glorification of making yourself suffer mentally by viewing uncensored war imagery in 'solidarity' for those suffering in war!#unquestioning acceptance of all of the above as good and right!#promoting the idea that the individual self is expendable and that focusing on yourself (even to survive) is a reflection of your character#seriously this website cares so much about mental health until suddenly it doesn't- fuck the left so much for this i'm so triggered by this#not to be graphic but if i ever take my own life and claim it is for activism- this is not out of the realm of possibility#i DO NOT want anyone to justify my decision with it being activism and indirectly encourage others to do the same#i want people to instead look at the kind of rhetoric that causes people to choose this as a way out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ERLKÖNIG
Inc: Malleus (/Reader later on), Reader/Prefect, Lilia, Silver, Sebek, Ace, Deuce, Grim, and a lot of fae who should not be in this dimension yet somehow are.
Wc: Roughly 9k (Currently sitting at chapter 2/23).
Warnings: Violence, reference to war, kidnapping, rituals that fae allegedly did in mythology (wild), psychological horror, body horror (not until much later), and the boys are fighting... a lot. Relies heavily on ancient Celtic and Welsh lore (Tam Lin, Thomas the Rhymer, and Oisin I owe u my life)
Summary: Your first encounter with the fae was not in Twisted Wonderland, but rather on the coast of a village your grandmother once lived in—where stones bit into your bare feet and the water poured into your lungs as you were pulled to a world so different from your own.
It was by cunning alone that you managed to escape, having since pushed those memories aside. But the fae do not forget—not even when you cross dimensions once more—and as Beltane looms, the time for collecting is near.
Chapter 1 (Prologue) below the cut. Check out the work up to chapter 2 here!
I saw their starved lips in the gloam,
With horrid warning gaped wide,
And I awoke and found me here,
On the cold hill's side.
- La Belle Dame sans Merci, Keats
19??, Dunhill, Ireland. October.
There is an unsettling truth behind the superstitions we hold. After all, why else do we face horseshoes upright, or close our blinds when the sun begins to set? We did not learn to play mute when we hear our names get called at night for no reason, nor did we discover on a whim that blackbirds circling are harbingers of ill outcomes.
Your grandmother was a woman of superstition. Because she lived in Dunhill, Ireland, you very rarely had the opportunity to see her growing up. This didn’t mean that you weren’t occasionally shipped out to arrive at her doorstep for a few weeks at a time over the summer months.
Your memories of her appearance are mostly flashes of the few moments you saw her. Knotted joints on her body, silver hair hidden behind a headscarf she always wore, and the way her shoulders would stoop with each shuffling step she took. What you remember more vividly was the way she acted when the two of you went out. Her trembling hands—Parkinson’s, you think your parent may have mentioned—would always press an iron nail into yours to put in your pocket before you departed.
“They like to wait on the coastlines,” she had murmured when you asked why she gave this to you. “And they’ll like you the most.”
She would not offer any further information, nor would she let you out until the nail was securely tucked away. Despite how slowly she would move on your many walks along Benvoy Beach, you never once failed to miss the way her sharp gaze would always be fixated on the unruly seas beyond.
She dies when you’re ten years old. Her funeral is a vivid affair. Your grandmother’s humble home has been transformed into a centre of traffic within a matter of hours since her passing, barely giving your family a moment to breathe despite catching the red-eye flight earlier that day. People you have never seen before shaking your small hand and offering their condolences. The strong fragrance of unknown flowers and cheap perfume fills each room, suffocating out any last semblance of your grandmother that may have still lingered. It feels more like they’re spitting on her memory than honouring it. You know your grandmother—she is, was, a quiet woman, and not one for all this pomp and circumstance.
Perhaps this is why no one notices when you sneak out and down the rocky hills.
You slip on several rocks and scrape up your hands really good by the time your feet hit the familiar sandy beach below. With the way the sun is beginning to set, the waters seem to be a wine-red color, swirling in their chaotic fervour to reach the earth you stand on. You pause to take several breaths before kicking your shoes off and stepping forward into that hungry sea.
Your parent will be furious at you for dirtying up your formal garb, but this isn’t at the forefront of your mind right now as your eyes slide shut and you stretch your arms wide. You feel the wind rush along your body and the fragrance of salt overtake you as you spill your grief into the vast waters, letting it mix and swirl into that abyss for a moment of catharsis.
It’s when the wind carries the scent of something pungent that your eyes snap open again. The foulness is brief, and for a moment you write it off as simply a byproduct of the ocean, until it returns again stronger than before. It smothers the brine and has your head turning to look around for the source. You look over your left shoulder at the empty beach around you. The sun continues to set, and your gaze tracks the path of a gull flying overhead before you look over your shoulder once more.
This time, someone is waiting.
There is an unsettling truth behind the superstitions we hold. The reason why we are scared of things that try to look like us, why we try so hard to ward them off, is because we know that anything that wants to be like a human certainly has no good intent in their heart. This is the case for the figure you see standing on the beach.
They’re wearing the same dark funeral garb you had seen the others in your grandmother’s home wearing. A wide-brimmed hat sits upon their head to conceal most of their features, although you can see scarlet hairs peeking out, and their hands appear to be clasped behind their back as they stand stoically ahead. Despite the winds that bite at your cheeks, not a single scrap of fabric on the figure’s body moves. It’s as though they’re cut from a painting and placed in real life.
You both observe each other in silence. You can feel your body locking up as your mind chants to you wrong, wrong, wrong, over and over again like a mantra. Your right hand drifts down to your pant pocket—you did not take a nail with you before you left the home.
They like to wait on the coastlines, and they’ll like you the most.
Your breath catches in your throat.
The figure smiles—black, sharp, and not quite human.
Something in your gut tells you to run and you, even as a rebellious child, do as you’re told. Your body twists around to scramble towards the rocks as your feet slip in the wet sand. You completely discard grabbing your shoes in your haste to get away, fully accepting the agony that the stones ripping into your soles will bring as consequence.
You don’t get very far. Whatever is on the beach with you is far quicker than you will ever be. Within moments of you turning, its cold fingers dig into your shoulders. You scream—cry—as the figure leans down and the pungent aroma of rotting fish emanates with each breath it exhales. You thrash and twist in its grip until you face each other, and you lock eyes with her.
She looks exactly as she did the last time you saw each other. Same knotted limbs, same silvery hairs, same stoop of her shoulders.
She stares down at you. The wind whips the loose strands of her hair around her face, and her eyes are the cloudy blue of the dead as something begins to claw in your mind. You watch as her thin and cracking lips form the syllables to your name—but it’s lost to the roar of an ever-cacophonous sea. The ground surges up around you, wrapping thorns—thorns? —around your legs. They bite into your skin, draw ruby gems from beneath your frigid flesh, and when you lift your head again, your grandmother merely continues to wear her blackened smile at the sight.
You cry out once more, but just like your name, your pleas are stolen away by the winds.
Everything lasts all but a few moments before the sea finally reaches what it has been clawing for.
#twst fanfiction#twisted wonderland fanfiction#malleus draconia#lilia vanrouge#twst silver#sebek zigvolt#malleus/reader#malleus x reader#twst x reader#enjoy the sneak preview of the first 5 chapters lmfao#fellas is it dumb to use media as a promotional material? :/#anyway i just want to write about. fae doing things they shouldnt#and the fae in twst seem too bloody nice so im pulling on dimensions#in mythology they can dimension hop anyway so <3 not breaking any logic LMAOOO
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Tfw your favourite faux-leftist liberal shill turns against you. 🥲
#WE HAVE VOX#hahahahahhahahahha#you don't understand look at the Vox stories promoted on their twitter feed the last six weeks and now look at this#this fucking bootlicking shill turned against Biden#although now I'm thinking the Dems are setting him up to be fall guy#as though this is his circus instead of a bipartisan collusion with the military industrial complex#still it's a sure sign of the tide turning fast#ideally I want Vox bombed along with CNN but. Baby steps#Can't wait to see which dick-riding rag turns next#media manipulation#free Palestine#genocide Joe#fuck Joe biden#us politics
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Jean-Baptiste Augustin in Baptiste Origin Story | Overwatch
#overwatch is in an awful place right now but i love these characters and the work the devs have done to create them#corporations are evil and cruel and capitalism needs to d!e. don't become an overwatch fan if you aren't already one tbh#on the one hand blizzard doesn't deserve me making gifs and promoting their game for them#on the other hand... this is a canon bisexual black man. a Haitian and an orphan.#when do you ever get to see those traits in media? let alone as a PLAYABLE CHARACTER#Baptiste's existence deserves to be CELEBRATED#baptiste my beloved#nesskain's art always goes so hard#jean baptiste augustin#baptiste overwatch#overwatch#overwatch gifs
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im so excited for invincible s2b now that it has an official release date… and that release date is march 14th
Let me talk about why that has me worried for the future of the show
‼️also no hate to any other shows mentioned‼️
I want to start with these two images :
invincible compared to the boys and now hazbin hotel has BARELY gotten any offical advertising on this level. The boys also got ads in times square for the promotion of s3 and the spin-off gen v im pretty sure but I could be wrong.
Don’t get me wrong I am rly happy to see an animated show get promotion at that level and I think more streaming services should do the same but why is it that invincible, a show on its SECOND SEASON gets nothing? The official invincible accounts have to do most of the heavy lifting themselves with generating hype on their twt,insta and tiktok. People complain that the accounts often make “an announcement for the announcement” but they have too! They literally have no other option! It sucks to see invincible show signs of a show thats clearly being tampered with by executive fuckery that has led so many other animated shows to an early grave.
Also I NEED people to realize that invincible’s release schedule NOT THE FAULT OF THE CREW
I see people regularly being rude and borderline aggressive to crew members online (which ive seen happen in other fandoms too) but the amount of people that were bitching and whining about the hiatus saying things like “this is why we shouldn’t let animators have good working conditions” and people agreeing with those takes were INSANE. The crew have no control over when the show drops or not, that is a decision left up to executives.
Now why could this delay be happening ?
a little bit ago amazon made this announcement to its customers:
this very well lines up with what many people began to speculate online as to why invincible had such a weird release schedule for season 2. They release the first half and get people hooked on the first 4 episodes ending on a massive cliffhanger and then release the second half after ads are introduced in hopes of making more money bc ppl don’t want ads in the middle of their shows.
Even then many people (myself included) think that it would’ve ultimately been better for the sake of the shows own hype to just wait to release them in March back to back all 8 episodes. Because the midseason break just kneecapped the hype the show had built up so hard and now many people are reasonably frustrated.
Because there was no clarity on when the show would be back. Most people assumed it would be a month long break for the holidays which shows have done for a long time. And then fake leaks came out that the show would come back in early January, and then the invincible accounts were virtually silent, and people were saying the break was intentional for fans to (recover) for ep 4. It was all over the place
What should fans do going forward?
Best thing you can do is stream the show legally if you can! TALK about invincible, don’t let the hype die out. Get this shit on trending ! Boost any official posts online showing that there is still a demand for this show! If you can, buy merch! Read the comics legally ! LET AMAZON KNOW WE STILL CARE ABOUT THIS SHOW!
again no hate to the other shows here bc ive watched all of them! I just want invincible to get some of that love too because this show is so amazing and you can tell how much love the crew has put into it <3
#i would honestly be so fucking heartbroken if invincible got canceled because its genuinely one of my favorite pieces of media ever#shoutout to the invincible crew for putting so much love into this show it fr shows#it deserves so much more promotion and attention#invincible#the boys#hazbin hotel#gen v#animation#invincible show#amazon prime#long post
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I've always hated the idea of turning a human being into a brand, for much the same reasons that I hate the concept of careers: it's gross, people aren't commodities, we all need to be free to contain multitudes and to occasionally flake out. I'm not my creative work, and my creative work is not me. Plus creating a personal "brand" inevitably turns into questions of "authenticity" which are fraught as hell for a lot of marginalized people.
How To Build Your Online "Brand" Without Burning Out (my latest newsletter!)
#writing#trans#quotes#bookworm#transgender#books#social media#writers on tumblr#writing advice#writing life#self promotion
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Next I'll be working on my original short story
"Temple of Dreams" 🌊🐍
Hoping to release & get it printed around February 2024! Right now it's just sketches still. Please look forward to it!
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melontoyo.fanbox.cc
#artists on tumblr#original art#short story#temple of dreams#melontoyo's art#gee how do you tag this!#ngl I'm scared of how social media (especially... twitter) has become useless for promoting your art#but Imma get this printed no matter what!! I'm good at business - I just wanna spend money on pretty printed books heh
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