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after watching the new quinton reviews video and the whole discussion about child actors it's been kinda...disheartening either way

You put kids in things, no matter how hard you try, it's extremely likely that they'll get exposed to some predator who takes advantage of children in some way/shape/or form. If they're really unlucky, they have asshole parents who are happy to leech off their children and continually try to push them to their limits and give them a whole host of issues that'll make their life harder

The people say "oh well, just replace teenagers with young-looking adults!!" and then whoops! you get swathes of teenagers who are insecure about their looks to the point where they're spending 70$ on makeup and skincare to make them "look like" the "teenagers" they see on television and get really warped perceptions about aging

The ONLY happy medium is animation where the kids are anonymous until they come of age (shout out Bluey), and even that has its host of problems with how animators are treated.

There is no one size fits all solution. You're literally going to have to tear the whole establishment down and rebuild it to be safe for children actors.

#quinton reviews #dan schneider #icarly #victorious

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I already told some friends this but it makes me extremely mad seeing Lucifer's design in Hazbin because...vivzie already designed lucifer for zoophobia and he's *so much better*

Look at him! Like yeah it is all red but at least it's a nice muted red with lighter accents in the eyes and eyebrows. He's not 50 shades of blood.

The big horns that reference a broken halo are a wonderful touch. I love the grizzled face and hunched back that show he's Old and Has Seen Things. I like the cloak that adds an air of mystery as to what's behind it.

Compared to this...

This is just a White Onceler. He doesn't convey anything lucifer to me other than the snake and the apple on his top hat. He's just another generic triangle tooth twink.

Going back a bit, It also helps for zoophobia that he was supposed to be in a world of characters who WERE bright and colorful so he actually stood out in a good way

Look at these guys! Sure, it's busy, but I can actually tell which characters are what. They all feel like they have their own identity and aesthetic due to their different colors. It's what a cartoon cast is SUPPOSED to look like.

Old lucifer would have stood out in that cast because not everyone is fucking red. New lucifer barely stands out, only because he looks so much like Charlie. And even THEN, they look like siblings!

this isn't official art done by Vivienne but I couldn't find any other good screencaps showing them side by side. If someone didn't know shit about hazbin they'd think charlie and lucifer were twins. Nothing about new lucifer's design suggests that he's a father or even older than 25.

It's sad, honestly. I used to look up to vivienne when I was younger. Now, she's a shadow of her former self as an artist.

#anti hazbin hotel #anti hazbin #anti viviziepop #media critical #fandom talk #character design #hazbin critical #hazbin critique

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i have to watch hazbin hotel, like imagine if it was secretly good. thatd be nuts

#'if you guys don't like hazbin you'd like peppa pig.' literally eat my whole ass #the average hazbin enjoyer would throw up during love lies bleeding (hazbin fans cannot conceptualize gay woman having sex) #the rest of the movie? forget it #hazbin is adult media for teenagers who think this is what adult media is supposed to be

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i've never even seen a sapphic relationship like that. probably because i dont see sapphic relaitonships in high fantasy adult media

Check out Ashes of the Sun! It's got a sapphic relationship between two girls of relatively the same class/background and they both survive the entire series! It's a little bit on the more juvenile side of adult fantasy but it's still serviceable!

why is every sapphic relationship in adult high fantasy (that i've read) like: poor / lower class, physically capable and occasionally aggressive masculine woman + wealthy / upper class, cunning and hyperintelligent feminine woman in some kind of position of power over the other. like why is this the formula can i have something different please.

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if your personal least fave isn’t on here reblog and tell me what it is!! but also reblog anyways because it’s nice :]

#listen i am a massive hater of bad redemption arcs (which are most of them) #but i voted the second one #misogyny is still rampant everywhere and the fact that most female characters in popular stories end up married off to men and happy #is a complete and utter disservice #true blue queue moment

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Twf 4 in a nutshell

#the walten files #true blue queue moment

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I'm so mad this quote goes SO FUCKING HARD and it's from LORE OLYMPUS of all places. What did we do to deserve this horrid fate? You belong in a much, much better story

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'walten files is a shit fnaf knockoff' my brother in christ fnaf walked to the walten files could Usain bolt Olympic sprint stfu

#the walten files is like if fnaf had a coherent storyline and compelling characters from the start #it's 2024. we can admit scott isn't a god tier writer who was bamboozling us the entire time #i think people forget fnaf was his literal last ditch effort to make a good game and not a magnum opus he's lovingly crafted for years #and it made for a great feel good success story! it does not make for good writing. Everyone knew back in the early days scott #was making shit up game by game and just going by what MattPatt and other twitter theorists were saying #Martin seems 10x more competent than Scott on the sheer premise that he isn't pushing shit out willy nilly #and he happily takes his time #twf is clearly more than just 'hurr durr killer animatronics!!" #that's my rant for the day okay bye #true blue queue moment

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i think people reblogging this also miss the point that this is just blatant lesbophobia

The ships that are m/f are whole, loving, and complete with a healthy sexual relationship. the m/m ships are routinely sexualized and gay male characters not in relationships are too, which is a whole ass other problem, but at least there is ONE good m/m ship in the vivzieverse. Charlie/Vaggie are the ONLY w/w couple we have seen from vivziepop, and yet they are thoroughly desexualized. It does not take a genius to figure out what's going on here.

For someone who is a bisexual woman, Vivzie sure hates non straight women.

Okay thank god someone pointed out the way Viv’s approach to sex and sexuality isn’t “sex positive” in the slightest. It has a bizarrely conservative perspective on sex and being sexually active.

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#anti hazbin #anti helluva boss #anti vivziepop #true blue queue moment

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Hi, here's my experience. Buckle the fuck up, because you're getting part my life story and this post is incredibly dismissive

I was one of those kids. Identified as ace from around 13/14 to 18/19. Dates are a little off and a little fuzzy, due to me identifying as ace but not aro, having a private crisis as an adult, and then later officially casting off the label, but it was around 5-6 years.

I grew up as a very awkward kid who probably had some kind of neurodivergence and sought refuge on Tumblr. Yes, this opened me up to all sort of identities and taught me a great deal, but it also taught me "if you don't experience sexual attraction, you're ace!!" (same with romantic attraction) and i did! I was happy as aroace! I ignored all the naysayers saying i was too young. I didn't need romance in my life! Life was great! And besides, no one could have a crush on me and I could never feel that sort of rejection if I just didn't feel attraction. We'll come back to this later

ironically, while browsing for exclusionists to harass (yes, i was deep in ace discourse on instagram), I saw something that gave me pause: the idea of a late bloomer. This never occurred to me. I had already been a late bloomer developmentally, due to me not talking until I hit 4 years old, but i didn't know that sometimes, sexual attraction didn't hit until until one was in their late teens or early 20's. And even the concept that stress, weight, and other factors outside of one's direct control could have an impact on someone not feeling sexual or romantic attraction.

But I was 17 and thought I knew everything, so I disregarded that.

I ignored all those feelings I had where I'd get blushy around women. i would brush it off and say I was just admiring them. After all, couldn't I, as a woman, admire other women? Meanwhile, everyone online was encouraging me being ace, despite my friends in real life questioning my sexuality. My friends didn't know what they were talking about!

Until I had a crisis in college. I realized i did want a relationship! I wanted to have sex with women! I was just suppressing all of those feelings and covering them with an ace flag colored band aid. If I had actually wizened up and talked about this earlier, i could have identified as a lesbian WAY earlier than months before I turned 22.

So, you may ask, why was I hurt?

I closed myself off from dating. Ever, because I didn't feel that attraction. At the prime time when you're supposed to experiment with that. And further on, in college, while all my friends were dating and fucking, as someone who didn't even know their sexuality, I didn't want to hurt anyone by getting with someone while I wasn't attracted to them. I completely and utterly shut myself off from gaining experience during the very prime years when one typically gains experience. I don't think most of the people reblogging this understand how difficult it is to date when you have ZERO experience. It's hard on you/ It's hard on your potential partners. You will face challenges and hurdles most do not have to face, because they were out having fun while I had mentally decided since I'd never experience sexual attraction, I didn't need that

Seeing all your peers be leagues ahead of you in terms of romance/sex because you were an idiot 14-year-old who believed people on the internet is damaging, contrary to what you're saying. Could this have still happened even if I didn't identify as ace? Maybe, maybe not. But if I didn't, I could have worked through the issues that I refused to deal with due to identifying as ace (weight gain, internalized homophobia, etc.). Ironically, I had a friend go through something similar, but they were ace for a much shorter time than me and was able to have that experience during her teenage years. I'm happy it worked out for her.

This isn't wholly an ace problem. I recognize that. it's why I am very critical of labels and asking people why they identify as something (when it's appropriate, ofc. I don't go around asking people unprompted). People always give me shit when I tell them that you can absolutely use a label as a bandaid for your problems. Thats why it is important to ask questions and unpack shit. I do not doubt that asexuality is a real identity. I have met plenty of very happy ace people who understand themselves and still came away with that conclusion. But there is this idea that no sexual attraction = asexuality no matter what, when sexuality is a lot more complex than what you think. And if my story helps out some other kid in a similar situation, then it will have been worth it.

So yeah, OP. Maybe don't be dismissive of other people who have had similar experiences.

tbh it doesn't rly hurt teenagers to incorrectly id as ace like... what's the worst than could happen? they don't have sex till they're older?? lol

#queer #lgbtq+ #asexual #aromantic #questioning #personal

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i'm convinced that "a good story is one where every scene is absolutely necessary for the plot" is something hollywood execs and/or publishing corporations pushed on writers to make movies, shows, books etc that are both cheaper to produce and easier to sell: you don't need to spare the budget for "unnecessary" scenes, and you can get audiences in and out quickly with little barrier to entry. it's the kind of maxim that results in a very specific kind of plot structure that happens to sell well and is very uniform and digestible. and like, the "fast food" kind of fiction absolutely has its place and can be great, but it's extremely limiting to have corporate forms be accepted as The Objectively Good Way to structure a narrative

#as a writer i would be inclined to agree with this #however i did watch an indie movie where there was a 10 minute long scene where people were singing about spaghetti #and I have to disagree #it added nothing to the plot either there wasn't like a reveal or anything #Every scene must add SOMETHING (character development backstory lore etc.) #so while I understand what you're talking about #every scene in a story must add SOMETHING to the plot #true blue queue moment

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There's no agenda here. I was just thinking about how I used to walk 45 minutes to school and 45 minutes back every day (eg. I could listen to two full LP albums of music every day) and that I have no idea how common of an experience that is.

#grades 9-11 my mom drove me to and from #grade 12 you were allowed to have your own car on campus so i would drive myself #it was crazy seeing the dichotomy of cars my grade had #i had a honda my parents leased for me that they knew was cheap but still safe and easy for a beginner driver #but there were a fair amount of kids with expensive sports cars which was...insane #this is like a standard middle-upper middle class town. where r you getting those cars you're 17 #true blue queue moment

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plot twists being listed here is funny to me for some reason. insert that vine "I sure hope it does"

#'fierce fmc' i bet she's just gonna say a few quips #but otherwise be the perfect submissive girlfriend that gets to 'be in control' but in a way that's not threatening men's masculinity #anti booktok #true blue queue moment

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#RECENTLY???/ #yeah fandom hates lesbians for real. this just confirms it #and women while we're at it #true blue queue moment

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hello everyone i wrote some thoughts on why i didn't particularly enjoy a certain cartoon set in hell

#YESSSSS #HATRED!!! MALICE!!!! #Vivienne medrano when i catch you.... #true blue queue moment

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i’m lmfao at this shit

#OH MY GOD MY FRIEND SENT THIS TO ME #genuinely wtf is up with booktok people #someone made the argument that like 'oh it is technically forbidden romance since this guy can lose his job' but like #it's the easiest fix ever. once the patient isn't a patient anymore it's fair game #anti booktok #and ofc we have big strong man and itty bitty woman because GENDER ROLESSSSS #true blue queue moment

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a trend i've noticed in the post-undertale indie RPG scene is this... worrying refusal to engage with the conventions and gameplay of the genre beyond its superficial aesthetic. i don't mean to say 'RPGMaker games aren't even RPGs anymore' — most aren't, and that's nothing new — but of those which are, the entire core gameplay loop of the genre seems to be falling further and further out of focus with every new Hit New Release which isn't explicitly trying to retread the classics (and those have all their own problems!)

the thing with using your gameplay as a vehicle for storytelling — through subtext, imagery, even plain narrative — is that every 'cool moment' you think of is exactly that: a moment. OMORI's RPG sequences are neat when they surprise you or come up with something novel: yeah, I like it when the 'fantasy adventure to cope' kid stabs someone on impulse when he gets into a fight in real life, that's cute. so's much of the day 4 stuff: the RPG world crumbling into this strange open sandbox full of tired rehashes barely strung together by whatever excuse plot still flies is fun! the protagonist just dreaming up new gamebreaking moves exclusive to this route since he's out of shit to do and becoming increasingly unhinged is neat to experience!

but the problem is that, in order for those episodes and flashes of novelty to function, you have to make an RPG of some sort. OMORI is really, really bad at being an RPG. miserable, repetitive, incoherent slog through barely-differentiated mobs broken up by a handful of vaguely interesting bosses in a combat system so minimalist yet with its unique spins so underutilised that there is exactly one fight across both routes I felt I stimulated throughout. frankly, the game would have been better as a walking simulator. it does absolutely nothing with its gameplay for thirty hours of its runtime, and that is far too vapid to justify the twenty or so cool moments and mechanics the devs dreamed up and implemented.

those moments are cool shots. you could not justify making an entire fucking film for a minute of cool shots.

#video game analysis #rpg #true blue queue moment