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You won't get media with messier, more nuanced, more realistic queer characters if you keep flying off the handle the second a fictional character has sex, does drugs, swears too much, or acts vaguely like an asshole.

You won't get more diverse queer media with wider stories if you can't handle it when queer artists make art that is raunchy, crude, edgy, and gross.

You won't get more diverse queer media if you shut everything down the second it does something you, personally, get squicked out by.

You will never get more diverse queer media if you contribute to the way queer media is picked apart, raked over the coals, and held to unreasonably high standards.

You will never get what you want if you keep tearing queer artists down for their weird experimental art instead of learning how to say, "this isn't for me, that's fine, and I'll be over here in my own space."

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The opposite of a mansion murder mystery where everyone present is a bounty hunter who really wants to take credit for the murder and the detective has to find out who really did it

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re: prev post

i do think the whole "if you like and don't rb this i will block you" and other such phenomenons i see with artists on here is genuinely counterproductive. it comes off as hostile and accusatory, so you've probably already lost a few reblogs from people who would have but are now put off by that. and then if you do actually go through with blocking people you are limiting your potential audience. plus some people like stuff and then queue it. bitching about how no one ever reblogs your art gets you nowhere except misery. i understand being frustrated and i understand needing internet validation but there HAS to be another solution

#people who beg for reblogs over likes on all their posts even non-aggressively still put me off from interacting entirely #I don't hate people for doing it but I have the mindset of thinking no one wants their posts reblogged by someone like me in the first place #and people like that sound like they go through their notes with a comb and meticulously check the blogs of every reblog #it's totally my own weird anxiety doing it but it always just makes me worried about people judging me #not as bad with mutuals cause they already know what a weirdo I am and are cool with it

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#finnish

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#finnish

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i think that all the people who argue about gender by saying "the woke left cant even define a woman" need to get hit with the "who are you" question by a buddhist monk. no, thats your name, who are you. no thats your profession, who are YOU. no you fucking idiot thats your species, who are YOUU. dumb bitch u cant even define yourself

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man this year is gonna be the year i either die or become someone else i dont know which one maybe both

#was waiting to reblog this when I really needed it #now with my new dietary restrictions and fucked up knees it is time #with my partner everything's gonna be ok <3

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Why the media CEOs will always learn the wrong lessons

Yesterday a friend and I talked about how the entire (AAA) game industrie looked at BG3 being as popular as it is and going: "Oh, we need to produce 100+ hour games, I guess! Those sell!" Which... obviously is not why it is popular. The game is not popular because it has 100+ hours of gameplay, but because it has engaging characters, that are well-acted and that work as good hooks for the players. Like, let's face it: The reason why I so far have sunken 160 hours into this game is, because I wanna spend time with these characters - and because I wanna give them their happy endings.

But the same has happened too, just a bit earlier this year, right? When Barbie broke the 1 billion and every Hollywood CEO went: "Oh, so the people want movies based on toy franchises! Got it!" To which the internet at large replied: "... How is that the lesson you learned from this?"

Well, let me explain to you, why this is the lesson they learn: It is because the CEOs and the boards of directors at large are not artists or even engaged with the medium they produce. They mostly are economists. And their dry little hearts do not understand stuff more complex than numbers and spread sheets.

That sounds evil, I know, but... It is sadly the truth. When they look at a successful movie/series/game/book/comic, they look at it as a product, not a piece of art or narrative. It is just a product that has very clear metrics.

To them Barbie is not a movie with interesting stylistic choices that stand out from the majority of high budget action blockbusters. It is a toy movie with mildly feminist themes.

Or Oppenheimer is not a movie to them with a strong visual language and good acting direction. No, it is a historical blockbuster.

And this is true for basically every form of media. I mean, books are actually a fairly good example. In my life I do remember the big book fads that happened. When Harry Potter was a success, there was at least a dozen other "magical school" book series being released. When Twilight was a big success there was suddenly an endless number of "teen girl falls in love with bad boy, who is [magical creature]" YA. When the Hunger Games was a success, there were hundreds of "YA dystopia" books. Meanwhile in adult reading, we had the big "next Game of Throne" fad.

Of course, the irony is, that within each of those fads there might have been one or two somewhat successful series - but never even one that came even close to whatever started the fad.

Or with movies, we have seen it, too. When Avengers broke the 1 billion (which up to this point only few movies did) the studios went: "Ooooooh, so we need shared universe film series" - and then all went to try and fail to create their own cinematic universe.

Because the people, who call the shots, are just immensely desinterested in the thing they are selling. They do not really care about the content. All they care about is having a supposedly easy avenue of selling it. Just as they do not care about the consumer. All they care about is that the consumer buys it. Why he buys it... Well, they do not care. They could not care less, in fact.

So, yeah, get ready for a 20 overproduced games with a bloated 100+ hours of empty gameplay, but without the engaging characters. And for like at least 15 more moves based on some toy franchise, that nobody actually cares about.

And then get ready for all the CEOs to do the surprised Pikachu face, when all of that ends up not financially successful.

Really, I read some interviews yesterday from some AAA-studio CEOs and their blatant shock and missing understanding on why BG3 works for so many people.

Because, yeah... capitalism does not appreciate art. Capitalism does not understand art. It only understands spread sheets.

#I'm an artist and chose a business career to have a boring normal job next to my hobby #I hope I don't get this brainrot from it

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media: the very serious brooding asshole character is actually super deep and complex

me: ok

media: the dumb joke character is actually super deep and complex

me: ghhogoohhh. ohhhh oh mygod. oh m. oh. are you kidding me. oh i am going to throw the fuck up over this

#Carnage is my best character and I'm no longer joking

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I think one of the kindest things you can do for people with various mental health struggles is just... let people back into your life after they've been absent for a while.

Making friends as an adult is so fucking hard already and isolating yourself from other people is a very common symptom of depression, anxiety, burnout, ocd, trauma, grief, etc. Which means that someone will do the hard work of recovery/healing and resurface back into a world where their previous friends have written them off because they stopped showing up.

So if you know someone where you're like "yeah we could have been better friends but they fell off the map a bit" and that person suddenly reaches out, or starts showing up to events even though you kind of forgot they were still in the group chat... well they may have been Going Through It and you don't actually have to punish them for their absence you can just be glad that they're back.

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Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

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I was looking for dark souls stuff and came across this.

beautiful.

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me to my mutuals when i discover a new hyperfixation <3

#me when I can't make a single irl friend but people online love me <3 #not sarcastic it is a joy

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I forgot I never posted this cuz I was still toying with it. Anyone have any suggestions for it? Still doesn’t feel fully… finished.

#Ooohh really loving the poses here! #I never noticed before but they do have that nice complimentary color between them with purple and yellow #idk about any suggestions tho uhh I kinda like that the bg is simple like that so that the characters pop out #cool art

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KITR from ULTRAKILL

#I love the V1 vision #canonically renders the world it sees on low graphics to save power and makes the most animal ever

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Sometimes it feels like everyone around me is speaking in a secret language and I'm the only one who doesn't know it.

#yeah.... #it's weird and hard to believe this isn't a universal experience #miscommunication is part of basically my every interaction