#and being consumed

[wingfooted]

Kuroshitsuji -Public School Arc- OP ➺The Parade of Battlers, 音羽-otoha-

#Kuroshitsuji #Black Butler #made by wingfooted #just some of my favorite imagery from the OP #I was a bit behind on starting to watch this so it may have been done before #but I found the OP to be SO wonderfully visually striking #I just had to make some gifs #I'm a bit rusty but this is just for fun ^_^ #sebaciel #<< just so nobody gets caught off guard by the fact that I'm an unapologetic rotten apple :P #apologies for putting basic content in the ship tag #although tbh...some of this imagery is seriously suggestive lol...the inherent eroticism of hunger #and being consumed #and being cloaked in darkness that's both protecting you and swallowing you whole #one could argue the whole thing is...heavy with implication #not me rambling in my tags at 12:30 AM on a work night #eye strain #flashing

[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!!

[skipppppy]

Uhh. Delicious in Skyrim. Is that anything

They go around killing dragons and Laios is absolutely devastated that the dragon meat disintegrates when he absorbs the soul every time. He just wants to eat dragon meat. Let him eat the dragon meat Akatosh

#this AU has been consuming me since I thought of it an hour ago #ryoku kui being a tes fan makes this all the more fun #yeah I COULD make senshi a dwemer but then i’d have to make every dwarf character a dwemer. and there just aren’t that many dwemer #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #laios touden #marcille donato #chilchuk tims #senshi #skyrim #the elder scrolls 5 #tes 5 #dunmeshi au

[teaboot]

You need to make art that nobody else likes. You need to make art that speaks to you alone. You need to cradle a serpent that eats its own tail and you need to love it until it loves you back

#The best art I've ever made will never be hung in anyone's home #That's not the point #It's not about being good #It's about being real #It's about eating something unpalatable #It's about being consumed #And tasting bitter #It's gorging yourself on crude oil just to feel something different #It's biting your tongue to make yourself cry #I'm saying that I am capable of making you feel good through personal sacrifice but I kind of don't want to cut myself up like that #If you want my heart to taste good you have to prepare it yourself #That isn't my problem

[maibeloved]

Bonnie meets the child

#fnaf #fnaf security breach #glamrock freddy #glamrock bonnie #fnaf gregory #glamrock fronnie #fivenightsatfreddyssecuritybreach #five nights at freddy's #fnaf fanart #freddy fazbear #ive been practicing drawing the animatronics! hope there was sum improvement 🤞 #been consuming mark’s playthrus and trying to finish his whole fnaf playlist #and no this is not related to Gregory being an animatronic theory the line came to me when thinking about THAT scene in the books sksjbdnd

[choochooboss]

Kalosian Emmet ideas are very entertaining rn, keep them coming ahah!!

#submas #subway boss emmet #pokemon emmet #Submas emmet #Pokemon #Pokemon legends #Pokemon Legends ZA #Kalos #Pokemon XY #Silly #I like the HC of submas being able to speak many languages but this was too funny to pass ahaha #Jun's comics #Movie reference #Meme #Mr. Bean's Holiday #Chamsin #Emmet got a lumiose galette there #Never had a galette so not sure how they're usually consumed but lumiose ones look the size of thick cookies!

[whalesfall]

btw. your search for the most morally upright and ethical piece of media that has the most correct “representation” will destroy your ability to find the most profound and beautiful and human of stories. and may even destroy the stories themselves before they are created. if you even care.

#the search for the Ideal Representation is both unattainable and soul-crushing. childrens cartoons moral codes are not #the best way to judge a piece of media #and the stories created by the very people in the communities that are most silenced are always the first ones to be #targeted for their Problematic Factors #as if any story can properly encapsulate the breadth of every complex human experience in one go #something isn't inherently deserving of being reduced to Irredeemable Media status just because you cannot personally relate to it #on the other hand approaching every single story as if its only value is its Shipping Status and how you can #incorporate it into your identity (and stake your Moral Uprightness based on how Ethically you consume said media) #is not necessarily any better. but different post is needed. #aughhhh bite bite chomp kill

[mjulmjul]

Katya / Goncharov

#yeah ik ive posted them before sorry but i REALLY like how these look together #martin scorsese #goncharov #artists on tumblr #illustration #unreality #<— posters for a ‘movie’ that doesn’t actually exist but is a tumblr meme in which everyone pretends it does&makes content for it #fascinating how we’re immediately personable w katya by knowing her first name while only knowing goncharov’s surname keeps us at a distanc #combined with him being the only major character to go by a moniker it emphasizes just how much he's been consumed by the role he plays #who is goncharov? does he know and keep it secret? or has he too lost his sense of identity? #it's reflected in these posters as we SEE katya but goncharov remains elusive - yet clearly time is running out for them both #lakjdklf ok im done now i never post meta on here so im having fun with the fictional movie #btw I updated both of the illustrations compared to the original posts but will leave those as they were #woudl be cool if my post showed up. u can do it tumblr

[doydoune]

maybe we were never meant to be older than nine

caption from there is time to kill today legit one of the best aa fics out there please please go read it

version with text + close up

#them as kids. that's it that's the post #i will never stop crying about kids narumitsu #if you want to see von karma being yelled at and horrible elevator foreshadowing in a time loop this fic is for you #ace attorney #aa #ace attorney fanart #narumitsu #narumitsu fanart #phoenix wright #miles edgeworth #benjamin hunter #for my fellow croissants #wrightworth #gyakuten saiban #art #fanart #sketch #doodle #help girl they're consuming my soul #dounart

[floweypilled]

(shrinks to the size of an atom))

#being consumed #undertale #frisk #sans #toriel #soriel #my art #comic

[hyunpic]

just hyunjin and his mega burrito

#hyunjin #skz #stray kids #bystay #gifs #this is like a pov of us being his tv while he’s looking some kind of drama from it #his fingers kinda in the shape of a heart 🥹 #he’s so funny he looks so sad and defeated by the burrito shsjnx #ik the bathroom break will be terrible for him after consuming that like im praying for u hyunebun

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

putting my prediction on record now that the coming decade is going to see the rise of viral-marketed fancy at-home water filtration systems, driving and driven by a drastic reduction in the quality of U.S. tap water (given that we are in a 'replacement era' where our current infrastructure is reaching the end of its lifespan--but isn't being replaced). also guessing that by the 2030s access to drinkable tap water will be a mainstream class issue, with low-income & unstably housed people increasingly forced to rely on expensive bottled water when they can't afford the up-front cost of at-home filtration--and with this being portrayed in media as a "moral failing" and short-sighted "choice," rather than a basic failure of our political & economic systems. really hope i'm just being alarmist, but plenty of this already happens in other countries, and the U.S. is in a state of decline, so. here's praying this post ages into irrelevance. timestamped April 2023

#apollo don't fucking touch this one #serious post #not a shitpost #hope i forget about this post and have no reason to ever look back on it one day #fyi i'm aware that access to potable water is already a major issue in parts of the U.S. yes i know flint michigan exists #i'm saying that this issue is going to GROW unless local & federal governments work together to fix it. #so it's a matter of if we trust them to fix it. And well--do you? #what are the chances the government just denies there's a problem until the water actually turns brown #at which point it's already been common knowledge for years and people have just become resigned and that's our new normal #i'm mean come on. how many of us already believe that we're being exposed to dangerous pollutants we don't know about and can't avoid #like that's pretty much just part of being a modern consumer. accepting that companies will happily endanger your life for a few pennies #and the most you'll get is like a $50 gift card as part of a class action rebate 20 years down the line #probably the history books will look back on Flint as a warning and a harbinger that went ignored #luxury condos will advertise their built-in top-of-the-line filtration systems--live here and you can drink water straight from your tap! #watch the elite professional class putting $700 dyson water filtration systems on their wedding registry #while the rest of us figure out how to fit water delivery into our grocery budget while putting 90% of our paycheck towards rent #also eggs are $15

[youngmoviemaker]

It could be real . . . @bamsara

#me emerging from under rock ive been under and immediately consumes all trod au content #and starts a cute little watercolor fanart of the dorks being dorks #hope you like #now back to my rock #definitely the most complicated fanart ive done for ya yet #hehhehehhehehheh the lamb and cat just go brrrr in my head and this happened officer i swear #trod au #narilamb #the rehabilitation of death #cult of the lamb #my art #watercolor #bamsara

[kata-kemi]

🔥Murisa - Eye of Fire - lvl 19 Monk I love my firebender monk (even she is more closer to a druid in The Plane of Fire) with supeority complex.

#dnd #murisa #zelda oc #dungeons and dragons #monk #dnd 5e #firebender #i love her very much and yes those are stars of selune #shes not religious bc she has very efreeti point of view of higher powerful beings but selune blessed her eloped marriage #and she respects for itr #even tho now... shes gonna reach level 21 bc my girl consumed power of a phoenix and went thru ascension #so she can handle the power of a volcano trapped in her chest #fire genasi #genasi

[communistkenobi]

The deeply moralist tone that a lot of discussions about media representation take on here are primarily neoliberal before they are anything else. Like the shouting matches people get into about “purity culture” “pro/anti” etc nonsense (even if I think it’s true that some people have a deeply christian worldview about what art ought to say and represent about the world) are downstream of the basic neoliberal assumption that we can and must educate the public by being consumers in a market. “Bad representation” is often framed as a writer’s/developer’s/director’s/etc’s failure to properly educate their audience, or to educate them the wrong way with bad information about the world (which will compel their audience to act, behave, internalise or otherwise believe these bad representations about some social issue). Likewise, to “consume” or give money to a piece of media with Bad Representation is to legitimate and make stronger these bad representations in the world, an act which will cause more people to believe or internalise bad things about themselves or other people. And at the heart of both of those claims is, again, the assumption that mass public education should be undertaken by artists in a private market, who are responsible for creating moral fables and political allegories that they will instil in their audiences by selling it to them. These conversations often become pure nonsense if you don’t accept that the moral and political education of the world should be directed by like, studio executives or tv actors or authors on twitter. There is no horizon of possibility being imagined beyond purchasing, as an individual consumer in a market, your way into good beliefs about the world, instilled in you by Media Product 

#just saw a very stupid post. but I will endure #these discussions also remind me of anti-vaxxer discourse #which in North America for Covid is framed as simply wanting to make the best informed choice as a consumer in a market* #ideas about public goods or civic responsibility towards others are incompatible with this consumer-citizen view of the world #like legitimately the idea of the consumer as the base civic unit of north american society is catastrophic for public health #and produces these interminable discourses about ‘media consumption’ #which itself is a neoliberal framing! I think ‘media’ as a catchall term is neoliberal because it links all art with the commonality of #being a good sold in a market #*outside of outright fascist anti-vax beliefs I should say. Although from my research so far these things seem to overlap heavily lol #which is not surprising but the distinction is worth teasing out #.txt

[eskiinox]

have a silly secret life scar :D

#secret life is so silly #its consumed my soul #being dragged back to minecraft #secret life #life series #goodtimeswithscar #eskiart