#MEDIA

[incognitopolls]

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#polls #incognito polls #anonymous #tumblr polls #tumblr users #questions #polls about interests #submitted dec 17 #books #reading #media

[archive-pl]

Weird how all these institutions of higher learning let pricks like Milo Yiannopoulos, Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson come in and speak in the interest of "promoting free speech" but bring in the cops when people want to say Israel shouldn't be doing a genocide

#free palestine #free gaza #gaza #palestine #all eyes on palestine #genocide #usa #protests #police brutality #us politics #police violence #universities #conservatives #mine #media #current events

[itsmyfriendisaac]

♍ August 29th: Adult Entertainer, Kyle Fletcher.

#birthdays #virgo #earth signs #kyle fletcher #buns #pecs #boyfriends #media #sc guys

[floor-help-crime]

#dm me for my content #meetup #bubbline #stydia #male yandere #bimbofied #Kali Roses #peeta mellark #bad puns #sims 4 mods #media #dancer

[appear-interest]

https://amy-026.ludgu.top/nf/NOcRif7

#sims 4 mods #media #dancer #chris brown #thilbo #natural history #bored #skam italia #call the midwife #drawing #seokjin #gifs #jon bernthal #女m

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Andreína Chávez Alava

For over two decades, Venezuela has been the target of the “free elections” broken record alongside regime change operations and economic sanctions, leaving a long trail of destruction behind. How does the U.S. get away with this “free elections” scam? With the unconditional support of the remorseless corporate media.

#elections #Venezuela #imperialism #media #sanctions #Donald Trump #Genocide Joe #Hillary Clinton #propaganda #regime change #Bolivarian Revolution #Struggle La Lucha

[burningvelvet]

captain ahab 🤝 captain flint

unapproachable terrifying intelligent captains who are viewed as gods of the sea and who bribe their crew with the promise of spanish gold to achieve a years-in-the-making revenge scheme they're utterly obsessed with to the point of madness

#isnt a lot but weird that it happened twice #i love a corrupt captain #literature #black sails #treasure island #moby dick #captain flint #james mcgraw #james flint #captain ahab #piratecore #maritime #nautical #nautical fiction #pirates #media #books #comparison #byronic heroes

[narcissisticpdcultureis]

npd traits culture is furina from genshin

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#npd culture is #npd traits culture is #npd #actually narcissistic #actually npd #narcissistic personality disorder #cluster b #npd traits #narcissistic traits #media #-🌋

[prokopetz]

I'm asking you because I've seen people ask you similar questions before. Why are kobolds, as a fantasy creature, so nebulous?

Generally when people say orc, goblin, elf, dwarf, werewolf, vampire etc. a person can have a pretty solid idea of what traits that animal will have. I guess because they're usually copying that species from the same similar source works?

What happened to kobolds? I used to know them as a kind of german folklore creature, but then also as a short lizard person, and most recently there's been Dungeon Meshi, which gives the name kobold to anthropomorphic dogs.

Well, the trick is that none of these terms have a standard definition. In folklore, the words "elf", "dwarf", "gnome", "troll", "goblin", "pixie", etc. are used more or less interchangeably – all of these words might refer to the exact same folkloric critter, and conversely, the same word might be used to refer to several completely different folkloric critters, even within the same body of regional folklore, to say nothing of how their usage varies across different regions and over time.

Literally the only reason any of these terms have "standard" definitions in modern popular culture is because one specific piece of media got mega-popular and everybody copied it. For example, Tolkien is responsible not only for the popular media stereotypes of elves and dwarves: he's responsible for popularising the idea that "elf" and "dwarf" are separate kinds of creatures to begin with. Similarly, while Bram Stoker's Dracula isn't solely responsible for cementing the idea of what a vampire is in popular culture, it did standardise what vampire magic can do, and it helped cement the idea that a "vampire" and a "werewolf" are different beasties, which hasn't always been the case.

So the short answer is that there's just never been a mega-popular work about "kobolds" to provide a standard template for the type. Most modern depictions in Anglophone popular culture ultimately point back to the interpretation set forth by Dungeons & Dragons, but D&D itself has gone back and forth on the whether they're tiny dog-people or tiny lizard-people, with the tiny dog-person version being the earlier of the two, so even folks who are directly cribbing from D&D will vary on this point depending on which particular edition they're name-checking.

#media #tropes #folklore #popular culture #kobolds #gaming #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #dungeons & dragons #d&d

[ukrainian-groove-metal]

I love the "came back wrong" trope but from the opposite side.

Imagine you are dead. And then you are RIPPED from the embrace of decay into the world of the living again. Your memories are hazy and you don't recognize any of these people, but they act like they're close to you? Like they love you? So you try to get your memories back, to act like you belong here, but everybody tries to forget you died. And you can't. It is omnipresent. And just trying to grapple with that fact pushes the people who "love" you away, and they're incapable of understanding, and they're so confused, what's wrong N̶̄̀O̶͛͗T̷̉́ ̷͋͝Y̴̎̌Ȍ̴̈U̸̓R NÄM̴̃͑E̵̾̇? And you just need them to understand, you aren't that person! You aren't! You don't know who that person is! You don't know why any of this is happening, but they're unwilling to bend, they keep insisting you are that person, your memories will come back, everything will be normal again, and you want to scream and cry and claw yourself open to show them you're different. Your existence as a being wholly separate from whoever you "used to be" is a sin unto itself. All you can do is scrabble for life and to them, you're killing whoever they loved to do it.

just. lots of fun in that concept, you know?

#writing #media #tropes #characterization #character dynamics #came back wrong #kiriona gaia #nona #alecto #tlt #the locked tomb #personal growth #trans #transgender #like the whole trope is very transgender #vulture chatter

[itsmyfriendisaac]

♎ October 21st: Actor, Glen Powell.

#birthdays #libra #air signs #glen powell #media #wet #pecs #boyfriends #anyone but you #scream queens #haley joel osment #jamie lee curtis

[let-them-fight]

can we stop doing this trope

#tumblr #politics #media #fiction #tropes #social justice #like soooooo much of the popular media I see big on this website does this. like #marvel #mcu #atla #tlok #the legend of korra #avatar #rwby #bioshock #the clone wars #dc #dc comics #<- just to name a few #this might get me harassed by a certain fandom but you know what they already harassed me 2 times before third times the charm!

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

#shows #tv #television #media #twitter #meme #memes #tweets #tweet #funny #lol #humor

[percistent]

Tells you everything you need to know about the people making these adaptations.

#politics #media #the witcher

[determinate-negation]

CNN is facing a backlash from its own staff over editorial policies they say have led to a regurgitation of Israeli propaganda and the censoring of Palestinians perspectives in the network’s coverage of the war in Gaza.

Journalists in CNN newsrooms in the US and overseas say broadcasts have been skewed by management edicts and a story-approval process that has resulted in highly partial coverage of the Hamas massacre on 7 October and Israel’s retaliatory attack on Gaza.

“The majority of news since the war began, regardless of how accurate the initial reporting, has been skewed by a systemic and institutional bias within the network toward Israel,” said one CNN staffer. “Ultimately, CNN’s coverage of the Israel-Gaza war amounts to journalistic malpractice.”

According to accounts from six CNN staffers in multiple newsrooms, and more than a dozen internal memos and emails obtained by the Guardian, daily news decisions are shaped by a flow of directives from the CNN headquarters in Atlanta that have set strict guidelines on coverage.

They include tight restrictions on quoting Hamas and reporting other Palestinian perspectives while Israel government statements are taken at face value. In addition, every story on the conflict must be cleared by the Jerusalem bureau before broadcast or publication.

#muh free press #media #palestine #mine

[darkwood-hollows]

hot take but i actively miss when tv shows were like 20 episodes a season. slow down. let me get to know the characters. let them do something dumb and not consequential to the plot for one fucking second i'm begging you.

#television #movies #media #prestige tv this and prestige tv that #its not prestige when everything is???? #none of these streaming service 8 episode whatevers have anything on the sopranos #and that includes ones that i like