#Media portrayals

[strawberrybyers]

maybe i do understand the symbolism and subtext of saltburn but what if i want to sum it up as a film about a guy who is a little freak who becomes obsessed with a wealthy college classmate of his and manipulates his way into his life then eats the rich boy’s cum and bath water mix out the drain then eats out rich’s boy’s sister when she’s on her period then fucks their cousin and the longer he stays at their house the more he descends into madness and ends up murdering his obsession, the sister, and their mother so he can inherit their wealth?? what happened to letting films just be insane and enjoyable?? why must everything be direct commentary on an issue?? let characters be freaks and flawed and exist in fun interesting films that clearly understand what the female gaze is

#im saying this with a post about the portrayal of wealthy vs non wealthy people in saltburn saved in the drafts #all of this can exist at once #this film was made for all the girls. the weird girls. the media literacy girls. the girls who just want to see hot people act. #this is one of those films where any way you view it is right?? does that make sense?? like i haven’t seen a take that’s necessarily wrong #saltburn #saltburn 2023

[thekricks0krickass]

Rant time

I think when two Guys are in love generally people tend to make one of them more “girlish” I have been noticing it for sometime now and I just don’t know if that’s how it actually works as I do not have enough representation in real life but from all the books I’ve read they both are just “guys” with “guying” attitude.

I’m talking about this cuz like 2 days ago me and my mom were in our usual debates about queer people ( she’s not fully homophobic but she’s not an ally either but we’ll get there) and she was like “ One of them is always a bit “girly” “ and that’s when it hit me that the media DOES portray one of them to be girlier than the other while there’s nothing wrong with that I think we lack the representation of like guys being in love with well guys.

Again nothing against the guys who like girly stuff and act in a girly way I love you folks but Idk where I’m going with this just lemme know if my mind is in a wrong spot or not

#queer #lgbtqa+ media #media portrayals #guys in love with guys #homosexuality #i mean I can't tell my mom to read the gay stuff I read cuz well #she'll be homophobic about it #so just lemme know kay?

[grendelsmilf]

why do none of you seem to care about eda clawthorne. she’s a milf. she’s a loner. she’s a mother of two. she’s had a severe chronic illness since high school. she’s a genius. she’s divorced. she’s bisexual. she’s wanted by the state. her son is a god. she might be an alcoholic. she’s the world’s best sister. she has daddy issues. she’s an interdimensional scammer. she’s unscammable. she has a pet owl named owlbert. she lives in a sentient house and he is so annoying. she’s good at literally everything without even trying. she uses her exceptional talent to commit crimes every day. her limbs are detachable. she’s the baddest bitch on the boiling isles. she’s an anarchist.

#listen. this show would be nothing without her #you hear me???? NOTHING!!!!!!! #the owl house #o.tv #100 #genuinely one of the best portrayals of Genius in media..... imo.

[dyk3medown]

this is gonna sound dumb but seeing southern characters portrayed as capable and intelligent and good brings me so much joy.

watching glass onion and seeing benoit kick ass in all his heavy southern-accented glory is so fun and like would i love him if he wasn’t southern? absolutely. but the accent makes me enjoy him so much more.

#and also helen!!! #this is not to say that southern ppl are oppressed and need better representation #it’s just usually the portrayal of ppl from the south in popular media isn’t exactly positive #glass onion #benoit blanc #v speaks ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

[andthendk]

some practice doodles for my next post - simplifying characters do not come easy 😭🫠 and yes I'm an advocate for 💜soft grunge/ goth/ graceful goddess/ disney princess 💜 Raven and everything in between because shoving her into one category is lazy.

#raven #teen titans #rachel roth #dc #my art #fanart #dc comics #ngl though #I did mainly just want to draw out that dress #but not commit to a full piece skdjskska #anyways the next post requires simple characters #something I have trouble with lately so this is a remedy #Raven was never JUST goth #and I will fight anyone on that #popular media portrayals can do harm 🫥🫥 #will I ever stop loving her as a character though ugh NEVER #lowkey wondering why the flower came out looking good

[goingferalapparently]

the jaidens on the can you hear it mini-event and we all know ab their chat shenanigans

but like. how about this one. (after the dungeon crawl, when they're at the ordo discussing theories)

they're so silly.... their friendship means so much to me

#the jaidens #qsmp #ramblings #qsmp jaiden #qsmp badboyhalo #qsmp cellbit #qsmp foolish #i am incredibly emotionally attached to the sheer potential of this group and their combined goofiness and their dynamics and- #yes i have issues shut up #fun fact! im also actively avoiding anything and everything chess related on the server (eg when they play chess games) #this is beacuse i know i will scream about it #is it because of the play styles and thus analysis or because of rage? well. depends #(poor portrayal of chess in media is this user's most prominent pet peeve) #but back to the jaidens i love them so fucking much there needs to be more about them as a group im sobbBIing #sun qsmp posting

[rubydubydoo122]

I think the funniest thing about how the Fandom perceives Tim (especially obnoxious Tim fans) is that he is was deeply hurt by the actions Jason, Damian, and Dick have done to him, but lowkey that’s just the fandom projecting

Tim lowkey did not give a fuck. Maybe a little at first, but he definitely does not hold a grudge against any of them.

#Tim Drake #unhinged tim drake #like will Tim eternally hate you if you take a sip from his Soda? yes #but attempted murder… he can get over that #Damian and Jason were just having a really bad time #(looks at that one panel where Tim forgives Jason for being an asshole supreme) #and he can admit that Dick was under a lot of stress during the time Bruce was lost in the time stream #angst is fun though #so I don’t BLAME Tim fans for it #just sometimes it’s annoying because Dick is a really good older brother and doesn’t deserve the hate for handing off a mantle he created #and Damian was a child who only grew up knowing that violence was the only way you can earn your place #and it’s shown in multiple panels that Tim understands that #Tim was literally snarking while Jason beat him up at Titans Tower #(honestly that was most accurate sibling portrayal in media… so…) #I say that as a younger sibling who has had so many injuries from my sister beating the crap outa me #and my younger brother emotionally decimates me on a daily basis #really #certain Tim fans just make him a wimp

[n0-eyedtaissa]

thinking about how taissa’s best friend is clearly shauna, who’s best friend is jackie. it’s one of the subtle, more relatable cruelties shown on yellowjackets: the thin line between competition and alienation that comes with three-girl friendships. in every three-girl friendship, there are the two girls who walk side by side on the sidewalk, then there's the girl who's a few steps behind them. one’s always the leader, one’s the follower, one’s always the scapegoat. “jackie’s not gonna like it…” “well then we probably shouldn't tell her". shauna goes along with the plan, yet condems taissa as soon as the Allie Thing goes awry.

girl #3 defends #2 from the 'best friend' that overshadows her, but now that she's not the furthest in the shadows, girl #2 finally has someone to be cruel to. “i admire your resilience, tai. cant be easy knowing you fucking crippled someone today” when the traits that made jackie powerful at home aid in her resistance to the wilderness, shauna leans into the qualities that taissa has that are useful now but previously lead to the general understanding that she’s (to quote akilah here) “not THAT much of a bitch”: her directness, her decisiveness, the way she snaps to action and can take control.

girl #3 relishes in the power because she knows it’s slipping from girl #1. “thanks for having my back during the vote” “i didn’t have you back it was just what i thought…” taissa knows this. its what shauna thought herself, not what she mindlessly agreed to because of jackie’s influence. girl #2 and girl #3 bond over #1’s shortcomings. taissa and shauna get upset with jackie for not pitching in, for attempting to raid Dead Cabin Guy’s pantry for food and for how she recoils at shauna’s attempts to teach her how to butcher the deer.

when the girls have their seance, jackie wants to deny that they had any responsibility in conjuring the darkness: she called for it and shauna was the conduit, so she feels that guilt for the both of them and chooses to appease the darkness by not letting taissa be alone in the attic that night.

that moment jumpstarts the brewing rift between jackie and shauna, because it shows how shauna can and will choose somebody else over jackie. “what’re you doing?” “i was just gonna keep you company, if that’s okay…” it’s here when taissa revealed that she knew shauna was pregnant (because girl #3 is never in the spotlight so she pays extra close attention to those around her). when taissa finds out that not only is shauna pregnant, but she’s pregnant with her best friend’s boyfriend’s baby, she reserves her judgment because she knows that for shauna, that same fear of judgment is why she would rather die in the wilderness than tell jackie how and why she slept with her boyfriend.

when taissa figures out that shauna is trying to terminate her pregnancy (because katie lindstrom did it with the underwire of her bra last year), taissa tears through the woods trying to find her so that shauna wouldn't have to do something so risky by herself. “you’re not gonna do this alone, okay? i’m gonna help you, if you let me”. she realizes that she’s Not Jackie, she's not girl #1 with her power and her influence. she’s not who shauna would normally turn to...and that's the whole point.

girl #1 always panics when her second-in-command starts attracting more attention to herself: jackie can feel the space between herself and shauna growing larger and she knows that tai has been filling that space... the Best Friend space. but despite what shauna seems to think, jackie knows her too and can recognize the lies that even shauna herself believes. jackie knows that things aren't normal and nothing about what they're going through is remotely okay.

"i see you sneaking around and whispering with taissa, not to mention you acting all distant and weird for weeks." jackie isnt concerned with the fact that they survive a plane crash, or that she and her team are starving, all she's worried about is shauna. when jackie asks "when did you stop wanting me to be your best friend?", it seems like what she really means is 'when did you start wanting taissa as your best friend instead of me?'.

shauna may have started confiding in taissa more because she had a secret to keep from jackie and she needed anyone to be there for her...but from the very first episode (at least to ME), it's clear that taissa has been there for shauna before the plane crash, through her pregnancy, eighteen months in the wilderness, and even twenty-five years later. in no way am i insinuating that taissa's friendship with shauna is one-sided, either! shauna exhibits a very different kind of softness and affection with taissa than she ever was shown to do with jackie. it's very innocent, there's no envy, they have nothing to withhold from one another when they're hiding away in Dead Cabin Guy's attic.

shauna and taissa slept side by side up there, away from their team and the expectations that were unfairly placed on each of them and suddenly they both can breathe easier. they shared secrets and their fears and it brings them closer together, though it drives jackie and shauna further apart. with girl #1 further out of the picture, #'s 2 and 3 realize just how nice it feels to be understood. when taissa expresses the immense amount of guilt she feels about being the reason that van went on the ill-fated expedition, shauna reassures her that it's not her fault that van got hurt. that if taissa was too scared to sleep, shauna would stay awake. that she wouldn't let her go anywhere.

despite everything, though, taissa seems to understand that shauna would pick jackie over her any day. and she respects that, defends jackie's resistance to the wilderness and its offerings. when shauna (then mari and the rest of the team) start to gang up on jackie, taissa STILL defends her because she's girl #1...shauna's best friend. "c'mon jackie, don't go outside..." "don't pretend like this isn't what you wanted the entire fucking time." because jackie knows that taissa likes to win and isn't afraid to play dirty in order to get what she wants: the role of being shauna's New Best Friend.

once jackie is exiled from the cabin and shauna is watching her struggle from the window, it's STILL taissa who's saying "just go talk to her" ... just bring her inside, go and make up with her because she;s your best friend and you love her and i'll still be there for you. and taissa always is. in the morning when the find jackie, all alone and frozen in time, taissa's there to hold shauna as she cries and screams and curses the world and realizes her own capacity for cruelty. taissa's there for shauna. she's not letting go and she's not going anywhere.

#taissa turner i SEE you and i understand you! #taissa is for all of the girlies and swirlies who used to walk a few paces behind everyone else #from one girl number 3 to another #taissa turner #shauna shipman #jackie taylor #taissa x shauna #jackieshauna #yellowjackets analysis #yellowjackets #long post tw #i could give a whole tedtalk on the cruelty of three-girl friendships and their media portrayals for REALS (threatening)

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Autism vs. Autism in the Media

Mrs Speechie P

#autism #actually autistic #autism in media #autism doesn’t have a look #autism spectrum #autism experiences #autism is different for everyone #I wish media would do more accurate portrayals #or actually have autistic actors #feel free to share/reblog #Mrs speechie p (Facebook)

[moomeecore]

here's that essay i accidently hyped up (sorry) on how fionna & cake did a poor job of concluding betty & simons characters + story in the final 2 episodes. sorry it is so insanely long. i don't know what my deal is. sometimes a show just does such a bad job of handling your favorite characters that you have to write 19k+ words complaining about it, i guess. im linking it as a pdf bc i DO NOT want to have 2 copy & paste this all over to tumblr & i kinda don't think tumblr would be happy with me making a post that long.

#if it sucks uhm. be nice to me pls 👉👈 #ik im very snarky & kinda harsh in this but like. i rlly dont usually share my thoughts on media like this much #im ok w hearing rebuttals btw. but also its not likley youll change my mind #im really happy other ppl enjoyed this ending (& also kinda jealous) #but i very definitely. dont like it #not just from a personal standpoint but in that #i just genuinely think the portrayal of simon & betty was done really poorly #things r bolded + theres random section titles that interupt the flow #bc even tho i wrote this much i do genuinely have reading comprehension issues #as in the actual definition of poor reading comprension. due to disability #not the tumblr thing where its for some reason used to mean ' bad at understanding media ' sometimes #oh yea also the font is big bc of this too #im nervou s abt this but too late now ig #fionna and cake spoilers #im not putting it in the tags its 4 the ppl who already know abt it #its emberassing that i wrote all this but i think its worse if i dont share it bc then i just. have it #mmmm..worst part is i dont even cover everything. i have MORE complaints #text

[tarczar]

objectum queen? taking this opportunity to tell you guys there's an audio drama story focused entirely on her and paracelsus ((slayer is also there <3)) also here's the english translation pdf

#guilty gear #a.b.a #a.b.a guilty gear #paracelsus guilty gear #i had a whole rambly analysis written in a draft of their portrayal in the drama CD that I didn't save #we're given a further in-depth glimpse of paracelsus' past as flament-nagel #and how differently he acted and how he tried leaving ABA before #(which is referenced slightly in their accent core arcade interactions with slayer) #yeah these audio dramas are all canon btw. the previous slayer story is even referenced in xrd #with robo-ky's dream of having a tangerine farm being motivated by the events of it 💔 very sad stuff #anyways I'd love to see deeper explorations of these often over-looked parts of the franchise's various connected media <333 #FAN-WORKS #tw blood

[androgynouspenguinexpert]

everyone give it up for some of the best character writing i have ever SEEN

#redacted asmr #redacted audio #redactedverse #art #illustration #redacted vincent #vampire #look its definitely a sunk cost fallacy thing but COME ON look at him hes such a fantastic character #we've got teen angst at 21. we've got dad puns. we've got the most uncomfortably realistic portrayal of depression i have ever seen in media #what more could you want #at the end of the day #he's also just a girl #alexa play my dad is rich by danny gonzalez #which i refuse to add to my vincent playlist but by god if the song hasnt been irreversibly linked to him in my mind #i'd hang out with him #just to play uno or something

[skinnypaleangryperson]

This scene is so intense-I can really feel the tension with what Prime is saying, the emotional climax of the devastation of the fact that this is all that Rick can do, and it's basically everything that has ever been between the both of them and their beliefs coming together. On the surface, it looks like Rick is finally winning, and he's getting what he wants, and Prime is the one that is getting himself ended because of what he did and what he believed.

But I think Prime is going down with this shit eating smile on his face because he knows that Rick can literally never get what he wanted and he's in profound psychological torment possibly for the rest of his life. What Rick was ended up with, not just after he kills Prime, but all these years before, is inherently a sign of that Rick lost and that Prime won, at least in terms of his spite that he has to Rick that he didn't choose power over family.

He satisfied, because he knows that he stowed Rick permanently away in a disorienting, devastating confusion of an incredibly unwanted compromise that someone less enduring of spirit would not be able to live with especially daily- away in the absolute worst position that he could be with his heart and what he wanted in life, which was literally just to be a husband and to be with his original family. Prime has an incredibly devastating hook over Rick; which is basically that Rick has no option but to take Prime's family, the version of himself that he absolutely detests the most, and has to pretend like it's a decent life to replace the one that he would have had with his original family. It's inherently devastating and insulting beyond belief for him to have to settle for the family of the man that he can't stand, that took away everything from his own self, almost like being forced to take whatever crumbs that he can get that's left over from Prime's maliciousness that didn't care about his family because he had his own taken away. it must be such a harrowing, empty feeling, to know that Rick does love the family that he settled for but also have this knowing in the back of his head and that he is under Prime's foot for the rest of his life, even long after Prime is dead, and that is the permanent power that he has over him, for as long as Rick wants anything that even remotely resembles a family life.

I think the worst part about the fact is that Rick knows this, or he seems to certainly at least feel it, and no amount of technical physical power is going to change that battle that he has to win inside himself, if they're even is any way to win a grief like that.

By the time he gets back to his family, I feel like it's this harrowing and devastatingly confusing combination of emotion that is his own personal hell. It's a confusing degree between wanting to love this family that he's already built an entire life of out of the past couple of years, maybe a decade at this point, knowing that to some degree that he does love them and he does care about them with this sickly version of what should have been the profound and sweet version and of the simple version that he would have given his own family-while at the have the same time having this profoundly lonely secret devastation that he has to carry around that he can't express anywhere that everything that Prime said was correct; that this isn't his family, that he has to learn how to live with that every minute of every day, that he still doesn't have his wife, his original family, and there's probably some infuriating disorienting devastation and anger, but more than that, depression, towards the family that he is with and that is muddled with the fondness that he's forced himself to find with them because even that would be better than the other contrast of having no family at all, which he was forced to be left with initially.

So he eats, he plays, he sits, he has conversations, but it fucking hurts every day, and it might never not hurt again.

#I only take media this seriously for men that I'm in love with #rick and morty #lol #rick sanchez #I also think that he's an astoundingly good portrayal of depression #I don't know why #just something about the way that he is

[p2ii]

'we need more stories with complex and nunaced themes and world building that doesn't exist in black and white/where no one is uniquely good or bad' y'all can't even handle the freedom fighter trope when they use 2% violence in their own liberation

#wishy washy centrism in media is so fucking annoying #and while I absolutely DO NOT want to equate fiction to reality in this instance. it has become (unfortunately) unsurprisingly apparent som #of y'all are scarily susceptible to propaganda #y'all can't handle jet and hama from at/la #y'all can't handle scar from fma #y'all can't handle sasuke uchiha. or hell even fucking NEJI HYUUGA #from what I've heard some of y'all can't even handle sabo the revolutionary (based on reactions to his indifference towards cobras death #iirc? I'm not caught up yet) #yall cant handle reading beyond the text and holding things like racial allagorys to proper scrutiny. or people being rightfully critical o #fan fave media and characters *cough* rvvby and at/la *cough* when someone may think their portrayal of a complex issue wasnt perfect #psii.txt #i hope im getting the general point across. i like this format but i think this specific fandom behaviour is a bit more complicated seeing #my essay and a half in the tags

[captain-hen]

is that piece of media ‘fetishizing’ lgbtq relationships or did the characters, like. have sex once.

#if you see portrayal of queer sexuality and automatically jump to thinking it's fetishistic or whatever that sounds like a real problem! #pls work on that internalized homophobia! #bonus points if the media is wlw-centric because as we all know portraying women as pure and sexless beings is the only way to go <3 #neethu speaks

[frontlinebicepsoftheninth]

something that is just so special to me about the locked tomb as a whole is that no matter what happens in the absolute mind fuckery of the plot, the one thing that never changes is that a strong, kind, lonely, caring, young butch lesbian is one of the top three most important people in the universe at all times

#portrayals of young gnc women in media are so rare and make me so happy in general (looking at you teen vi arcane) #but gideon just has that special sauce #text #mine #tlt #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #is this spoilers? #tlt spoilers #the locked tomb spoilers #just to be safe #gideon nav