#Dehydrated Culture Media

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Get the Best Quality of Mueller Hinton Agar (TM 339) at TM Media

If you are looking for Mueller Hinton Agar manufactured by TM Media, initially designed for pathogenic Neisseria species, evolved into a cornerstone for antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Widely recognized, it replaced other media for sulfonamide resistance assessments. Its selection by CLSI stems from reproducibility, low inhibitor content, support for bacterial pathogen growth, and a wealth of performance data. The Kirby-Bauer method, employing paper discs with specific antimicrobial concentrations, defines susceptibility. This versatile agar, endorsed by the WHO, also finds application in testing Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenza. While robust for most pathogens, Mueller Hinton Agar's limitations include unsuitability for slow growers, anaerobes, and capnophiles in disc diffusion assays.

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#dehydrated culture media #Mueller Hinton Agar

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XLD AGAR

XLD Agar is recommended for the identification of Enterobacteriaceae and for microbiological testing. Formulated by Taylor, this agar is specifically designed for the isolation and differentiation of enteric pathogens, with a focus on distinguishing Salmonella Typhi from other Salmonella species in various sources such as foods, water, and dairy products. XLD Agar demonstrates heightened selectivity and sensitivity compared to other plating media like SS Agar, EMB Agar, and Bismuth Sulphite Agar. Its formulation prevents the overgrowth of organisms other than Salmonella and Shigella. To ensure accurate results, samples suspected of containing enteric pathogens, alongside other mixed flora, are initially enriched in Modified Semisolid RV Medium Base before being processed using XLD Agar for further analysis.

#XLD Agar #dehydrated culture media #microbiological testing

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PA E. Coli Kit: Water Quality Assurance Made Easy

Testing water has always been an essential part of our laboratory work. Whether it's testing a sample to see if it’s safe to drink or testing the purity in pharma labs, TM Media’s PA E. ColiKit, is an all-in-one product for the job. Let's see why this product is one of the best in water testing.

What Makes the PA E. Coli Kit So Special?

When we talk about water, we must understand that not all water is the same. Sometimes, you've got microbes, mostly coliform bacteria, living in the water, which makes it unsafe for use. The PA E. Coli Kit helps you figure out if these bacteria are causing trouble. It's a quick, budget-friendly solution that's also perfect for those off-the-grid spots where you might have doubts about the safety of water.

Inside the kit:

Providing everything in one place!

PA Medium: Main media for detection of microbial growth

Sterile PET bottle: To carry out the process in

Sterile poly bag: To discard

How Does It Work?

It’s as simple as it gets: add some water to the PET bottle, pour in the PA Medium, give it a good shake, and let it incubate at 35–37 °C. In 18–48 hours, if your mix turns yellow from it, you've got coliforms living in there.

How does it do that?

It's like this kit has everything you need in it. It follows two key rules:

No coliform bacteria should be present in 100 mL of drinking water.

If even one of these microbes is around, it will start a reaction, ferment lactose, and start producing acid and gas.

So, the PA Broth contains lactose and a pH indicator. If lactose is fermented, it'll change colour from the original purple to a vibrant yellow.

Spotting the real from the fake:

With this kit, there's no second-guessing. Different bacteria will make the medium change to specific colours, helping you spot exactly who’s in your water.

Like Escherichia coli, it will have luxuriant growth, and the colour will change to yellow. S. serotype typhimurium will have a turbid purple colour.

That’s not it. TM Media also provides you with various other water testing products for the analysis of water, like the Chromogenic Coliform Agar Plate (TMP 1858), which is ready to use.

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#microbiology #dehydrated culture media #culture media #ready to use culture media #pharmaceutical #biotechnology #laboratory chemical #food industries #biological media bases #clinical diagnostics

[marketinsight12]

Dehydrated Culture Media Market

Dehydrated Culture Media Market- In Depth Analysis by Growth, Trends and Covid-19 Impact | IMR

#Dehydrated Culture Media Market Dehydrated Culture Media Market share Dehydrated Culture Media Market trend Dehydrated Culture Media Market

[imrreport]

Global Dehydrated Culture Media Overview Region Global Analysis and Forecast, 2022–2028.

Liquid media that have been hardened with an ingredient such as agar or gelatin are known as solid media Industrial microbiology (food industry, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, vaccine manufacturing, animal health, analytical laboratories, etc.) and clinical microbiology (human and veterinary), academic and research institutes all use dehydrated culture medium.

Read more: https://introspectivemarketresearch.com/reports/dehydrated-culture-media-market/ 

#Global Dehydrated Culture Media Market #Global Dehydrated Culture Media Marketsize #Global Dehydrated Culture Media Market growth #Global Dehydrated Culture Media Market share #Global Dehydrated Culture Media Market industry

[marketdevelopment]

Dehydrated Culture Media Market Research Reports 2022: Business Opportunities, Business Expansion, Sales Forecast, and Top Leading Player

Global Dehydrated Culture Media market is estimated to develop at a CAGR of 6.2% over the forecasted timeframe (2022-28), considering 2021 as base year.

Dehydrated Culture Media Any liquid or solid preparation is used to cultivate, store, or transport microbes or other types of cells. Differential media, selective media, test media, and specified media are some of the media available for cultivating certain microbes and cell types. Liquid media that have been hardened with an ingredient such as agar or gelatin are known as solid media.

Industrial microbiology (food industry, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, vaccine manufacturing, animal health, analytical laboratories, etc.) and clinical microbiology (human and veterinary), academic and research institutes all use dehydrated culture medium. The dehydrated powder form extends the life of the culture medium by up to 5 years, making it more convenient to produce. Condalab's dehydrated culture media is the ideal alternative for your laboratory, ensuring optimum recovery and performance, thanks to the excellent quality of the raw materials used in its manufacturing and the thorough quality controls carried out throughout the process.

According to the recent report published by Introspective Market Research, the Global Dehydrated Culture Media Market report provides sustainable growth opportunities, challenges, scope, Driver restraints and latest trends during the forecast period from 2021 to 2027. This latest industry research study analyses the Dehydrated Culture Media market by various product segments, applications, regions and countries while accessing regional performances of numerous leading market participants. In this report, there are various approaches and procedures approved by key market players that enable efficient business decisions.

#Dehydrated Culture Media Market Size #Dehydrated Culture Media Market share #Dehydrated Culture Media Market trend #Dehydrated Culture Media Market analysis

[txttletale]

Can you give your thoughts on the general character art design of Hades? It's always seemed kind of off to me and you seem to have good enough media opinions to put the reason why into words

i mean, first of all, i think that they suffer just from being The Greek Gods and therefore just having the most barebones basic designs that those archetypal characters get in pop culture. like look at zeus:

like. this is Zeus. there are some interesting flairs here with the lightning crown and cloud beard but like. It's Zeus. the visual language here is not communicating anything more interesting or unique or vivid than It's Zeus. contrast, like, rukey from pyre:

look at how much fucking personality is conveyed by this little freak. the fucking moustache! the fancy little cloak but the messy dog hair. the playful expression, the gold tooth, the glint of cunning in the eye, the raised little paw. you look, at this guy and get an immediate idea of what and who he is.

i also hate how 1. shrinkwrapped and 2. fucking grey and ashy every single character in hades is. like look at zeus's muscles up there this man is fucking dehydrated and like. why does athena look like this

she is grey. she is so fucking grey. this is a vampire. this is a woman made of ash.

furthermore i find what they did with the greek gods wrt to making them a few different races to be a cowardly half-measure. like--the idea they forwarded in interviews that greek gods are 'global' and should represent the whole world are, quite frankly, just bullshit! i dislike this universalization of a mythology that is very very very tied to a particular culture and time and place because it is just another shape of the attempted universalization of the 'Western Canon', the removal of these things from historical place and context to make them abstract ideals that can be imposed upon the whole world because they 'transcend culture' while really they have just been incorporated into a dominant culture.

but, like, most frustratingly--there is a like huge wealth of cultural variety to be found in greco-roman myth. versions of these gods were worshipped in north africa and egypt and west asia and even as far as india. but, like, the commitment to multiethnicisim is purely surface-level, so they don't employ any of the iconography or look into these non-european syncretic depictions of these deities. they just take all their design cues from the tired pop-culture versions of purely greek aesthetics. imagine how fucking interesting the character designs for hades could have been if instead of making dionysus a person of colour and calling it a day, they represented a specifically indo-greek dionysus!

first after the conquests of alexander and once again after the expansion of the roman empire, these sorts of syncretic beliefs flourished throughout the mediterranean. if you really want to write a greek mythology story without a cast of white guys then give me Zeus-Ammon, god dammit!

anyway yeah the fact that all of hades' characters look like they're severely hydrated and their roof just caved in on them is weird and bad and other than that they're for the most part just deeply generic Greek Gods with what feels like very little care or innovation or personality put into their designs compared to characters from transistor or pyre. shomar shasberg and manly tindenstauf each have more unique visual personality than every hades character combined

#ask

[the-girl-from-another-time]

Superhero media (and honestly just pop culture in general) these days is so full of dehydrated men with eight-packs and bulging veins whose huge shoulders and snatched waists have spawned countless Dorito memes. This post goes into more detail about why that’s so problematic, but the bottom line is that physique is extremely unrealistic and dangerous to achieve, and it’s really bad for creating impossible body image standards both for actors and everyone else.

So, watching Smallville from the 2000s has been a breath of fresh air! Clark doesn’t fit the ideal described above, and that does absolutely nothing to detract from his attractiveness or credibility as a superhero. He’s a big guy, 6’3 and beefy and strong, but notice how he doesn’t have a six-pack or visible veins or a snatched waist. Clark’s physique comes from farm chores, not bodybuilding. He looks perfect for Superman.

I just really appreciate how his body is strong but in a realistic and attainable way. I want more superheroes who look like this.

#me? writing another superhero genre body image post? of course #superman #clark kent #smallville #tom welling #dc #dcu #dc comics #superheroes

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Melanie Phillips

According to an anti-Israel Jewish professor at Duke University, Rebecca Stein, the programme is aimed at “remaking the dominant paradigm of Israel Studies as it has been configured in the United States and increasingly in Great Britain, with its proud ‘advocacy’ mandate on behalf of the Israeli state. Birzeit’s programme turns this paradigm inside out, providing students with a radical alternative”.

More fundamentally still, the shocking scenes on campus are the outcome of the west’s willed educational collapse. The understanding of education as the transmission of a culture to the next generation was junked decades ago in favour of a propaganda narrative of western oppression.

This opened the way for the colonisation of curricula by anti-western ideological causes. The admission of students selected on the basis of identity politics rather than intellectual ability further reduced education standards to positively infantile levels.

This was illustrated at Columbia by the keffiyeh-clad Johanna King-Slutzky, who spoke to the media on behalf of the encampment. Jaw-droppingly channelling Hamas’s strategy in Gaza, she stated that the university had an obligation to bring in food and water to the illegal encampment, demanding, “Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation? … This is like basic humanitarian aid”.

Her remarks attracted widespread incredulity and ridicule. But so should Columbia’s educational standards.

In her biography on Columbia’s website, now deleted, King-Slutzky describes her dissertation as “a prehistory of metabolic rift, Marx’s term for the disruption of energy circuits caused by industrialisation under capitalism … theories of the imagination and poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens in order to update and propose an alternative to historicist ideological critiques of the Romantic imagination”.

This gobbledygook is beyond parody. Alas, it’s all too typical of what now passes for higher education in America and Britain. The universities, the supposed crucibles of knowledge, intellectual challenge and open minds, are now in the business of propaganda, dumbing-down and the closing of the mind. They have become the principal vehicles for coercing cultural conformity to hatred of both Israel and the west.

In the appalling scenes on campus, a number of monstrous chickens are now coming home to roost.

#melanie phillips #campus antisemitism #ivory tower jihad

[littledigits]

me, trying to be glibly cynical about the state of animation right now without being a bummer harhar.

honestly tho the bubble was gonna pop - I started during a time when there were no jobs and not a ton of new animated shows going around so im familiar with the idea of a crash. the difference in what we have going now is theres a huge culture shift with a resurgence of workers rights, its going to change the landscape of the industry. 

its hard to find work right now, but its mostly because what everything was functioning on for the last decade just was not sustainable. i’ve seen it ramp up over the years ya’ll - sure it was tough when I started but. It wasnt like THIS. Its been a gauntlet of productions ever since the ‘streaming wars’ started and everyone was buying up properties. 

It will rebound eventually so I hope younger artists dont get too down, and the hope is that it can be rebuilt better. I’ve seen a lot of really positive changes in terms of the industry over the last 15 years as well - . Like. IM OLD ENOUGH THAT I CAN SAY THAT.   Its a lot of heavy rock pushing up hills but there are lots of people in the industry willing to do that pushing. 

anyway. 

all of us are so soul-dehydrated plz hug your local -working in media- person today. 

actually hug your local -whoever wants a hug friend today- because we’re all soul-dehydrated.  

#just musing bout animation bleck #nothing like the industry being on fire #hello darkness my old friend #the streaming era was a wild ride but we were kicked off after making all the companies big bucks aw yeah

[artisofthandy]

It’s been 25 years…25 years: to a show like SpongeBob SquarePants is absolutely amazing, ridiculous and incredible too! SpongeBob SquarePants isn’t just a animated show, it’s a important piece of pop culture, entertainment, animation for all ages and a special kind of media that still remains both popular and fantastic despite how the company Nickelodeon milked it too many time to dehydration and dryness as well many saying about lowering the quality and how it was before to prolong its longevity. Stephen Hillenburg himself made a masterpiece of animation that was not only incredibly popular and successful but also memorable across the world and despite him unfortunately passing away back in 2018 due to ALS and how he wished that SpongeBob would’ve ended after the first movie and around season 3-5, SpongeBob SquarePants will remain a modern gem due to the characters, storytelling, humour, messages, music, surrealism and just general content in general that made it so memorable and nostalgic. Thank you SpongeBob SquarePants, his friends, Stephen Hillenburg, voice actors, composers, animators and many more for a quarter of a century of a amazing show starring the iconic yet goofy, happy-go-lucky and optimistic sponge himself and his crew. He’ll always be ready and always will be a goofy goober. But you know what’s funnier than 24? 25! XD.

Happy 25th Anniversary SpongeBob!

#spongebon squarepants #spongebob #spongebob squarepants 25 years #spongebob fanart #spongebob 25th anniversary #patrick star #squidward #squidward tentacles #mr krabs #mr Krabs fanart #sandy cheeks #sandy cheeks fanart #spongebob 25 years

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If you are looking for Soybean Casein Digest Agar manufactured by TM Media stands endorsed by multiple pharmacopoeias for rigorous sterility testing, aligning with microbial limit testing standards of USP/EP/BP/JP/IP. Its versatility extends to microbial limit and antimicrobial preservative-effective tests. Pioneering work by Gunn et al utilized this medium to foster fastidious organisms' growth, coupled with an insightful exploration of hemolytic reactions post the introduction of 5% v/v blood. Unleash the potential of soybean agar for meticulous sterility validation and dynamic antimicrobial assessments.

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TCBS Agar, developed by Kobayashi et al through modification of Nakanishi's selective medium, was initially designed for the isolation of V. cholerae and V. parahaemolyticus. However, it has been observed that most Vibrio strains exhibit robust growth with diverse colonial morphologies on this medium. APHA recommends TCBS Agar for the selective isolation of V. cholerae and V. parahaemolyticus. The standard procedure involves enrichment in Alkaline Peptone Water (M618) followed by isolation on TCBS Agar, particularly for V. cholerae isolation. The Selective TCBS Agar variant incorporates an additional selective ingredient, sodium cholate, to enhance selectivity.

Strains of V. cholerae produce yellow colonies on TCBS Agar due to sucrose fermentation, while V. alginolyticus also produces yellow colonies. In contrast, V. parahaemolyticus, a sucrose non-fermenter, yields blue-green colonies, similar to V. vulnificus. Sucrose-fermenting Proteus species may form yellow colonies. Although TCBS Agar is not suitable for oxidase testing of Vibrio species, a few strains of V. cholerae may appear green or colorless on this medium due to delayed sucrose fermentation. While TCBS Agar is highly selective for Vibrio species, occasional isolates of Pseudomonas and Aeromonas may also produce blue-green colonies. Any H2S-negative colony on TCBS Agar is considered presumptive positive for Vibrio. It is recommended to heavily inoculate the medium with fecal specimens to overcome potential inhibition of growth for certain species due to sucrose fermentation and acid accumulation.

#sucrose fermentation #dehydrated culture media #TCBS Agar

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Understand the Spiderman of the Microverse: XLD Agar

Learning XLD’s X, Y, and Z can be challenging, but not with us. In the previous article, we discussed the various needs and applications of XLD (click on the link if you haven’t read it). In this, we’ll talk more about its composition, principle, observations, and modifications.

What is the composition of XLD Agar?

It was developed by Welton Taylor in 1965. XLD stands for Xylose Lysine Deoxycholate Agar and is a bright pink or red-colored solid opalescent gel medium. Knowing its key contents will help you better understand its principles and differentiating abilities.

Ingredients g/l

Yeast Extract 3 g

L-lysine 5 g

Xylose 3.75 g

Lactose 7.5 g

Sucrose 7.5 g

Sodium Deoxycholate 1 g

Sodium Chloride 5 g

Sodium Thiosulfate 6.8 g

Ferric Ammonium Citrate 0.8 g

Phenol red 0.08 g

Agar 12.5 g

Distilled water 1 Litre

Yeast extract provides the medium with nutrients, vitamins, peptides, and other essential growth factors. Xylose, lactose, and sucrose are rich sources of fermentable carbohydrates. For the detection of fermentation of these carbs in the medium, a pH indicator, phenol red, is added. The addition of xylose to the medium accounts for the differentiation of various fermenting enteric bacteria from species of Shigella that do not ferment it. Most enteric pathogens, including Salmonella,can ferment xylose, which results in the formation of acidic byproducts and a change in the color of the medium from pink to yellow, whereas Shigella colonies remain red. In some cases, Salmonella imitates Shigella colonies and gives red colonies, which are then differentiated by the production of Hydrogen sulfide gas by the metabolism of thiosulfate and give black centers. Enterobacteria such as E. coli can ferment lactose in the medium.

XLD Agar’s composition can be adjusted according to one’s needs and choices and is hence available in many different variations, but the basic principle remains the same.

Observation and Inferences on XLD Agar:

Observation Inferences

Red colonies, some with black centers Salmonella spp.

Red colonies Shigella spp.

Yellow to orange colonies Coliforms

Pink, flat, and rough colonies Pseudomonas aeruginosa

While learning about XLD Agar, a question that must have run through your thoughts would’ve been, “Where is XLD Agar available?” Let’s look into it.

Where is XLD Agar available?

XLD Agar is available on the market as Dehydrated Culture Media in a number of variations according to one’s requirements, including plant-based and animal-based options.

These Dehydrated Culture Media can be dissolved in distilled water according to the concentration mentioned on the package, autoclaved, poured, and used.

TM Media, the microbiology division of Titan Biotech Ltd., offers a wide range of XLD Agar as Dehydrated Culture Media in a number of variations suitable for all your needs, operations, and specific requirements.

The product range includes the following:

XLD AGAR MODIFIED (as per ISO) TM 1621: XLD Agar, modified, is a selective and differential medium for the isolation of gram-negative enteric pathogens from clinical specimens or food products. It is a modification of the original formulation of Taylor that allows selective isolation of Salmonella typhi, E. coli, Salmonella enteritidis, Salmonella typhimurium, and Shigella flexneri. It is recommended by the ISO committee, and the composition and performance criteria of this medium are as per the specifications laid down in ISO 6579-1:2017.

XLD AGAR (VEG.) TMV 492: Xylose Lysine Deoxycholate Agar (Veg) is prepared by replacing Sodium Deoxycholate with synthetic detergent No.III, which makes the medium free of BSE/TSE risks. Xylose Lysine Deoxycholate Agar (Veg) is suitable for the isolation and identification of enteric pathogens from stool samples.

XLD AGAR (as per USP/EP/JP/BP) TMH 112: This medium is employed for pharmaceutical testing and non-sterile product testing for the detection of Salmonella after enrichment in Rappaport VassialidiasSalmonella Enrichment Broth in accordance with the harmonized method of USP/EP/BP/JP/IP.

XLD AGAR TM 1448: It is used for pharmaceutical testing and nonsterile product testing for the detection (or absence) of Salmonella after enrichment in Rappaport Vassialidias Salmonella Enrichment Broth in accordance with IP.

XLD AGAR TM 492: XLD Agar exhibits increased selectivity and sensitivity as compared to other plating media, e.g., SS Agar, EMB Agar, and Bismuth Sulphite Agar. The media formulation does not allow the overgrowth of other organisms over Salmonella and Shigella. Samples suspected of containing enteric pathogens, along with other mixed flora, are initially enriched in Modified Semisolid RV Medium Base.

Why choose TM Media’s XLD Agar?

TM Media’s superior-quality and diverse Microbiological Culture Media are certified by ISO, CE, GMP, FSSAI, and FSSC.

TM Media provides unrivaled convenience, dependability, and efficacy, as well as versatility and flexibility, by manufacturing a contamination-free medium with a longer shelf life and reproducible outcomes.

Conclusion:

XLD Agar is a selective and differential agar medium primarily used for the isolation and differentiation of different enteropathogenic organisms that are well-known to cause diseases like Food poisoning, Gastroenteritis, and other Digestive illnesses.

By choosing TM Media, consumers invest in precision, quality, and excellence. TM Media's product portfolio includes over 2000 Dehydrated Culture Media, along with Ready-to-Use Culture Media, Biological Media Bases, Media Supplements, Lab Chemicals, and many more.

#XLD Agar #dehydrated culture media #food microbiology #clinical microbiology #Microbiology #Xylose Lysine Deoxycholate Agar

[blackautmedia]

So I found your post on ToTK insightful, but one thing I didn’t see you cover is how according to the narrative, when Zelda went back 10,000 years she went to her distant relatives. It was still her kingdom, just very early. What do you think of how this ties in to the themes you were talking about?

Sure thing! Hope I can address this well.

For those not in the know, this is the post we're discussing--the Orientalism of the Mummy in Dehydrated Ganon.

I also want to qualify this with two things:

I'm not Native. I'm a Black person speaking as someone who also has a heritage closely related to colonial violence and white supremacy, but not someone who can speak for Native people. I can only go by what more experienced people have said and books and readings from them.

I'm using the word "Native" which itself encompasses several different people. I don't use this to imply they are the same or interchangeable with the cultural practices and ideas the Zelda franchise is drawing from.

To your question, I feel it doesn't really change much thematically because neither Zelda nor any of the Hylians in the present day have any cultural features, practices, or attitudes that codify her as a Native person except as a costume or set of resources and knowledge associated with her.

It's not portrayed as if it's her heritage she's been disconnected with, but is effectively portrayed as a white person being introduced to an entirely new culture in how exoticized it is.

With the Zonai, their coded status comes in the form of their way of dressing, the Geoglyphs being Nazca lines, the designs of the shrines, the Zonaite outfit Link has, etc. It also narratively shows up in how it's framed as "archaic" in-game as referenced by the naming of the armor related to the Zonai versus the white rule the land has in the present day and how they're portrayed and characterized around extinction.

It's almost point for point the exact narratives and ideas about Native people colonizers use in real life. Native people imagined as a people who no longer exist but still had worthwhile resources better suited in civilized (white) hands.

A big part of why the myth of Native extinction gets pushed so hard in real life (and in turn is repeated and propagandized in media about Native or Native-coded characters) is because it reframes how we talk about recompense for them.

If you imagine a world and buy into the repeat narrative of Native people all being extinct, there's nobody left to do right by. It helps shape the conversations around policies and decisions by people in power.

Things like environmental justice, land back initiatives, reparations, healthcare access, and many other things Native people advocate for are pushed aside by erasing the people fighting for it. It's a form of colonial erasure meant to justify inaction.

So while Zelda technically is a descendant of the Zonai, the story doesn't really do anything with that to challenge the way it's recreating a colonial narrative about Native people. We've historically seen her as a pure white woman, one whose purity is contrasted with the toxicity and dangerous wickedness of Ganon.

The few times we do get characters with features or a heritage that deviate from eurocentrism (ex. Nabooru, Urbosa, Demise, Princess Hilda, Tetra, Midna, Ganon, Sonia, Telma, etc.) they're either the villain, sympathetic only in how they directly align and submit to Hyrule's power as one of the "good ones" or they're just murdered or erased from the story entirely.

The Gerudo are out looking for boyfriends, but we overwhelmingly see this in relation to white men in-game despite there being numerous dark-skinned Zelda characters in their partners and even in who is spying on them or trying to sneak into Gerudo town as a bunch of creeps.

Zelda as a franchise is very dedicated to positioning whiteness as inherently superior and more desirable.

The (white) Hylians have a god-given right to control and rule, and all of the non-white races of people are better off for it. While Zelda is technically a descendant of a Zonai, we still see her effectively as an innocent and almost holy white woman.

The franchise operates on the idea that some people are born with magic abilities and are essentially destined to rule over others and that any challenge to that superiority is inherently evil. The characters who ever challenge that are either villains or are antagonized and cut down for it.

#tears of the kingdom #totk critical #zonai #can youtubers please recognize this when making lore videos about the zonai #totk spoilers

[verdantmeadows]

I'm gonna be honest, I really hate how super defined, chiseled abs are considered inherently hot, attractive, and healthy, when in fact the abs you see in media, whether it's ranging from things like live action to fanart, are incredibly unhealthy and only look that way due to dehydration and a lack of food intake.

I hate how this appearance in men is considered ideal when it is the very thing I see give so many men extreme body image issues as well that result in disordered eating. The number of men with unnoticed body dysmorphia and eating disorders from society's value placed on this kind of unhealthy appearance is so disheartening.

Striving for this kind of body is considered ideal, and, not only that, encouraged, even when it's clear that the only way one can achieve it is through unhealthy mindsets and treatments towards their body. To be clear, I'm not saying that working towards muscular strength is unhealthy by any means, but rather, the way "ideal" muscles are portrayed in various medias are inherently unhealthy and achieved through dangerous means, and that the dominating culture around muscular definition is directly responsible for the body image issues of so many men.

I wish that criticism of this culture and ideal was more acceptable and talked about. I wish that it was easier to get people to see how this culture and ideal directly harms them and other men. And I truly wish that there was more understanding that this culture and ideal is unhealthy and that it needs to stop.

#fat tag #<- not related to fatness inherently but things about body diversity and such go in that tag for me #body posititivity #body image #book of kells