#everyone? HMM

[time-to-write-and-suffer]

I love how on Tumblr, "media literacy" has become "Um, just because someone writes about this doesn't mean they're endorsing this. I hate all these media puritans ruining everything."

I'm sad to inform you that knowing when and whether an author is endorsing something, implying something, saying something, is also part of media literacy. Knowing when they are doing this and when they're not is part of media literacy. Assuming that no author has ever endorsed a bad thing is how you fall for proper gander. It's not media literacy to always assume that nobody ever has agreed with the morally reprehensible ideas in their work.

Sometimes, authors are endorsing something, and you need to be aware when that happens, and you also need to be aware when you're doing it as an author. All media isn't horny dubcon fanfic where you and the author know it's problematic IRL but you get off to it in the privacy of your brain. Sometimes very smart people can convince you of something that'll hurt others in the real world. Sometimes very dumb people will romanticize something without realizing they're doing it and you'll be caught up in it without realizing that you are.

Being aware of this is also media literacy. Being aware of the narrative tools used to affect your thinking is media literacy. Deciding on your own whether you agree with an author or not is media literacy. Enjoying characters doing bad things and allowing authors to create flawed or cruel characters for the sake of a story is perfectly fine, but it is not the same as being media literate. Being smug about how you never think an author has bad intentions tells me you're edgy, not that you're media literate. You can't use one rule to apply to all media. That's not how media literacy works. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Aheem heem. Anyway.

#anyway this is just more of that lefty shit where 'well i can't be racist because i'm gay!' #'well i can't be media illiterate because i love villains!' #not how that works babes #'well I KNOW bad from good so i can't be affected by media!' #'everyone else also knows bad from good and defines it the exact way i do!' #'so if i think this is bad then the author must also think this is bad!' #i have bad news .... #also how do you know bad from good? who taught you that? hmm? #did you fall out of the womb knowing? or did you pick up some things on the way here? #'i just know' no you don't! that's what i'm saying! #assuming one thing is always true is the opposite of being a conscious consumer of media soz #assuming someone thinks and knows the exact same shit you think and know is not media literacy!!

[obsob]

despite, despite, despite!!

#mine #original #fun fact when i first started colouring this i like couldnt remember what th trans flag looked like #i just like. did it then was like . hmm. that is the flag of slovakia i think #anyway #i missed tdov by a mile but. hello #i missed th day bc i was at my bfs house. thats t4t love baby #i hope u hve all had a good easter!! #thank u to everyone who inquired abt commissions i am surprised abt th amount of interest!! #when this batch is done i will open more. will probably b a regular thing :3 #i will now do exercise and have a bath i thinky #i need to make myself read this book...im so not use to horror anytime i read anything remotely unsettling im like oohoohohohmmhhmm n #dont read for like. 4 days #ive read like 200 pages in 10 days KSFBSBJ get a GRIP #anyway. good evening

[somethingcorenotsure]

I think it's so adorable that early humans took wild gourds - a tiny fruit that hollows out as it dries, making it float - and decided to make something out of it

they thought the tiny fruit was so good that they bred it for thousands of years, making it larger to form into bowls and cups, and different shapes to become bottles and spoons

and musical instruments

And then, people took the hollow gourds they farmed, and they turned them into houses for birds. We adapted them into the perfect houses for birds, and now there are specific breeds of birdhouse gourd just for making into birdhouses

And humans dedicated gardening space and time and thousands of years of breeding to make the gourds so absolutely perfect for birds, that there is a species of bird that lives almost exclusively in them

#yes I KNOW i posted about this the other day but *crying* i just love plant domestication and the history of agriculture #and humanity's positive affect on the ecosystems we live in #mine #image IDs in alt text #hmm. I'm gonna tag this #permaculture #just to pspsps @ that community to look at how cool gourds are please everyone grow birdhouse gourds and give cavity nesters places to live #i don't think mine will become fully ripe before i get my first frost :( next year i need to start gourds indoors #i didn't want to grow them before because i didn't have much garden space but now i do and i need to grow all of them #i might be. a little obsessed with gourds. but also i saw a pair of purple martins flying by the road last year #and i had never seen one before then! and i need to see more of them #i have a few hundred barn swallows but i need more birds flying around my house. more!! #and also i have a ton of invasive cavity nesting species around here. house sparrows and starlings. #gotta make up for those things competing with native birds for nest dites #*sites #the invasive birds very often win :/ #that's why they're invasive #i really do need to start trapping them....

[twinkubus]

Bound Man by John Singer Sargent, c. 1917-21

#john singer sargent #i think his sketches are soooo much more interesting and alive-seeming than his portraiture #just found out his male nude sketches were “hidden” until a gallery show in the 1980s and then everyone was like hmm maybe this dude was ga #tho apparently that was well known by his friends at the time lol #i saw this sketch irl at the art institute several years ago but its not on display now #its funny bc iirc it was like. a kind of underwhelming exhibit of portraiture and then these REALLY COOL sketches at the end #s

[egophiliac]

at this point I'm not going to finish this, but I need everyone to know that I don't CARE that it was Kamejim, this scene has been replaying itself in my brain for the past week --

#art #super sentai #kingohger #king-ohger #let them dance for real! #LET THEM DANCE FOR REEEAAAL #me at the preview: oh no i really don't want an episode about himeno romance #me after the episode: i need more exactly like this please #i have. a problem. #you know i won't say i forgot that sebastian is actually like 25 and just wearing old age makeup 24/7 #because i am incapable of ever forgetting the most incredible character trivia of all time #but i was not expecting this backstory. i can't believe they managed to improve on it. #i did however manage to forget that one nurse is named ~elegance maun~ #sorry everyone else you are all great #but i do think ishibana is the best actually #then again we are headed back to toufu next episode. hmm...

[wasyago]

some profiles o3o

#drew it because i felt for a second that chip and niklaus had a similar face structure. and then everyone else just kinda appeared idk #turns out caspian and niklaus are much more similar....... in personality too hmm #and gillion is there just because he wanted to be included (real not fake) #jrwi riptide #jay ferin #jrwi chip #niklaus hendrix #lizzie lafayette #jrwi caspian #gillion tidestrider #my art #sketch

[deeva-arud]

A considerable amount of makeup was used to cover Deeva's freckles and face marks, and Cater also had to use magic to make her clothes his size. They did this as a joke, but they sure were committed to it! 💪

Original style swap challenge by @ashipiko ! (see her post here!!) If anyone wants to give it a try, go ahead, it's really fun!!! <3

#I could finally finish this!!! #thought it would be super cursed but why does CayCayfied Deeva actually look good?? #well and Cater uhh... I can't look at him for long without laughing he looks like a sad wet cat 😭​😭​ #Cater is lucky Deeva has long hair. He can fidget with it all he wants in class while being subtle about it #Also are those really his freckles or just makeup?? Hmm hmm I'll leave it to everyone's opinion~ #personally I've always been VERY fond of the headcanon that he actually has freckles <33 #And no I didn't forget to draw her wings. Cater's jacket doesn't have slits on the back so they're just a tiny lump under the fabric HDFHDH #Oh but please do imagine Cater having a paper with poorly drawn wings taped on his back. It's a very funny thought #twisted wonderland #twst #twisted wonderland oc #twst oc #twst cater #deeva twst #cateeva #my art

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

wild to me that sailors spent centuries saying yeah sometimes in the middle of the ocean just one absolutely huge wave happens completely alone for no reason and everyone on land decided just. not to believe them. for shits and giggles. Until we got recording equipment out there and started recording huge single waves and had to go back to the sailors and say we're really very sorry.

#like everyone was like hmm sounds fake! I know nothing about the sea but sounds fake to me bestie!

[beaulesbian]

Lucci Vs. Luffy || One Piece ep. 1100 "I see. This is gonna be fun."

#one piece #one piece spoilers #opgraphics #opedit #onepieceedit #monkey d. luffy #monkey d luffy #luffy #rob lucci #egghead arc #egghead spoilers #op spoilers #gear 5 #sun god nika #mine #gif:op anime #gif:one piece #i just love the gymnastics luffy was using in the first half. the kicks and dodges. really nice to see his fighting style now #tw flashing #tw flashing gif #do you think lucci keeps fighting here luffy bc its just the only time hes doing something to feel actual FUN? #bc it was strictly against his orders to fight luffy bc hes an emperor (and lucci says it like he doesnt see him as emperor.) #but it seems like since the last time they fought he really needs a stupid silly fight with someone to feel something? hmm #the way everyone who fights luffy can still find moments to smile.. he really brings laughter and joy to everyone ;-; #long post

[bleh1bleh2]

Just a little Post-Training Bonding

#the voltron water is so funny to me #someone taking a sharpie and going to town #'hmm. perfect water for the paladins' #team bonding water if you will #makes everyone work better together <3 #anyways theyre sweaty and gross and flirting #klance #voltron #my art

[suiheisen]

sully’s 400th win gift 🎂

#this was the first thing i saw upon waking up #let sully eat cake off his cake #apologies to everyone but especially beau #hmm #belly #sidney crosby #pittsburgh penguins #mike sullivan #hockey

[daily-hanamura]

#p4 anime #persona 4 #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #OK LISTEN THIS SCENE COMES AT THE HEEL OF MITSUO'S ILLUSION ON YU. #and urhajhsnd im not going to break down the souyo aspect of it because people smarter than me have already done so but #im gushing about it anyway because yosukes been going around calling yu his partner for quite some time now #but now hes reached a new level in intimacy. first name no honorifics intimacy. #its also yosuke forgetting about the others briefly because when theyre together theyre always just in their own world. #and when nanako picks up on the change they just laugh. but when teddie picks up on it yosuke suddenly gets embarrassed #and thats when it pans to everyone else whos also watching that yosuke remembers theyre not alone and hes so shy. HES SO SHY #he panics a little and its almost like doesnt want teddie to find out because hes afraid of what teddie might say? #also look at teddie's face like OH HE KNOWS. HE KNOWS SOMETHING. #hmm teddie tell us what secrets about yosuke you're hiding #he's good with his queue

[clannfearrunt]

would you trust Claire’s (the children’s accessory store) or Kaibacorp (the children’s entertainment company) more with your child’s transition vote now

#we are still playing claire's telephone #yugioh #seto kaiba #katsuya jonouchi #joey wheeler #everyone elese is just kinda secondary hmm #ryou bakura #yugi muto #mokuba kaiba #Conarts #Con goes to the shadow realm #i put too much effort into joeys shirt last time i spent a lot of time researching zoids just for a shirt too

[shima-draws]

Once upon a time... there was a space outlaw who fell in love with the inventor’s daughter and they both agreed they were meant to be together.

#Thanks to everyone who validated my ship here's fanart as a gift <3333 #BAPC #Bee and Puppycat #Bee #Space Outlaw #Puppycat #Bee and Puppycat Lazy In Space #BAPC Lazy In Space #Bee x Space Outlaw #Bee and Puppycat season 2 #BAPC season 2 #Bee x Puppycat #Shima arts #Digital art #Art #Stars #Starry #Aesthetic #Do they even have an official name. Hmm #BeeCat #SpaceBee #????? LOL #shima-draws

[alicenpai]

believing is your magic! i made buttons for one of my favourite manga rn! ✨ in my store! 🖋

#witch hat atelier #coco (witch hat atelier) #qifrey #olruggio #agott #tetia #riche #atelier of witch hat #tongari boushi no atelier #i know the quote is not applicable bc i stole it from little witch academia BUT SHH #IT'S A SIMILAR CONCEPT #unknowing girl enters magic society has to work hard to prove her worth #she uses her uniqueness to interpret magic in new ways #i want to make more of these but hmm .. time is killing me ! #like i really want to draw hiehart and suzy/jujy but alas #i know everyone moved on to making charms bc higher profits but im the loser still making small buttons in 2022 bc i love drawing portraits #like i love focusing on details like expressions and clothing folds. chibis on charms could never #tumblr is nice bc there's no algorithm so i can post art at ass o' clock and dead hours of the day thank you tumblr #my art

[c-kiddo]

(about cr2 rewatch again) i litrally love tmn so much i will frow up. theyre so good. the cast are so good at embodying them. they dont sound like people trying to be characters sm of the time they sound like just (weirdo) real people it makes me crazy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#theyre so funny . theyre so real . theyre so the girls. #cad and fjords interactions are going to make me explode the admiration. the gentleness. the warm hug of the wildmother through cad #just like. through the way he talks . the comfort . the vulnerability fjord trusts him with (im deeply unwell abt this) #dont even need to say this but man taliesin is such a good actor T_T like soo committed to the bit. jester bought pastries and passed #them around to everyone and immediately he's talking like he's eating the cupcake at the same time as talking #also lol cad being like 'its vry sweet. hmm . hrmrm mrm' #also got to the bit when cad walks around eating fungi garnish off peoples plates <3 his swag #the way in which hes so odd and gentle and joyous and kind but theres that odd little lingering loneliness in there too . whatever. dies. #kiddo say