#subverting

[radicalgraff]

"Pay for your own pompous pageantry"

Unauthorized anti-Coronation poster in a bus stop ad space in Norwich

#not my king #pay for your own coronanation #anti monarchy #subverting

[thelonelymechanist]

Being cybernetically subverted by an A.I🤤

Not realising anything at first, continuing as normal. But then the changes start. Your favourite foods loose all taste, occasionally you dooze off and wake up somewhere else nearby, you find things you didn't recall ever recieving

Then one day, you're sat there watching TV as your own hand reaches up and lightly strokes your face without intending to do so, a rush of euphoria crashing over you as it manipulates your own implants

The voices follow swiftly afterwards, sometimes they're quiet and friendly, other times? Less so.

You start to loose sleep, you start waking up in places you don't recognise, people in the street come up and talk to you as if they know you

You start to loose contact with friends, family, work. Either you can't keep up with them, or they think you did something(maybe you did?) and cut off contact

You break. You plead with it to let you go, that you'll do anything, that you didn't do anything to deserve this

Then it finally has a conversation with you. After all, there's just the two of you now...

#transhumanism #cyberpunk #cybernetics #subverting #brainwashing #neuromods #neural implants #ai domination

[rattrapdadfigure]

Okay I hate Disney as much as anyone else but I do love that there’s so much single dad stuff going on. Iron man, Dr. Strange, Thor, etc

As a single dad myself it’s just heartwarming ig 🥰

It’s lovely, and I can relate to/kin them a lot 🥹

#father #parenting #disney #marvel mcu #wholesome #family #familia #stray kids #kids #adopt #found family #representation #subverting #social expectations #masculinity #toxic masculinity #cute #i love it #movie tropes

[exilley]

I do sort of wish western anime fans would analyze anime and manga from a framework of japanese historical and cultural context. Specifically a lot of works from the 90s being influenced by the general aimlessness and ennui that a lot of people were experiencing due to the burst in the bubble economy and the national trauma caused by the sarin terrorist attack. I think in interacting with media that’s not local to our sociocultural/sociopolitical sphere it’s easy to forget that it’s influenced and shaped by the same kinds of factors that influence media within our own cultural dome and there ends up being this baseline misalignment of perception between the causative elements of a narrative and viewer interpretation of those elements. It’s a form of death of the author that i think, in some measure, hinders our ability to fully understand/come to terms with creator intent and the full scope of a work’s merits

#exilley's diary #this is about utena btw like. yeah its feminist and a coming of age horror story but also #it was in part ikuhara’s response to the changes he observed in the corporate anime industry and an attempt to subvert those trends #it doesnt really help that i feel certain aspects of the show are filtered through translation and certain cultural emphasises are lost #like for instance. the blood type symbolism. or wakaba’s gestures with making packed lunches #theyre incredibly japanese expressions of conventional gender roles that non-japanese audiences might not fully resonate with

[izacore]

You remember Jane Austen? Yeah. I'm not gonna forget her in a hurry, am I? The brains behind the 1810 Clerkenwell Diamond Robbery. Brandy smuggler. Master spy. What a piece of work. She wrote books. Novels. Jane? Austen? Yes! Whoa, bit of a dark horse. Novels, eh? Yes. They were very good. Good Omens (2019-) || Pride and Prejudice (2005)

#good omens #goodomensedit #ineffable husbands #pride and prejudice #good omens 2 #good omens season 2 #gomens #good omens spoilers #michael sheen #david tennant #aziracrow #aziraphale x crowley #aziraphale #crowley #my gifs #i hope you guys see my vision akjxj #i just couldn't get it out of my head #also i love how it took this concepted and subverted it and used it #there's crowley putting his pride aside in the final confession #but aziraphale is still prejudiced towards the hell and demons #convinced that heaven are good guys #also side note but finding a good quality pride and prejudice online was a piece of work #pls don't let it flop #edit: this post is officially neil gaiman like approved #i can't believe i got to write this

[astrowarr]

i haven't watched pearl's episode yet. but there's something to be said about the fact that she knew scar well enough to know that, when it was the two of them, he would have too much pride to accept a sacrifice.

she doesn't want to win, and she tells him at first before she quietly tucks that secret back into its shell after scar's indignant reaction to her first attempt at self-sacrifice. she lets scar forget about it as they kill gem, and then as scar kills pearl. at no point does she try to say here, let me give this to you. she knows scar, but she also knows the pain of an ending like that.

but she misses a few swings, doesn't she? her legs don't move as quickly to duck away from his arrows. and isn't that familiar? isn't that something like a cactus ring, with two unrelenting fists and two half-hearted ones: a fight with two unwilling participants, a fight that was over before it ever really began at the insistence of one of its patrons

pearl is all too familiar with the sting of sacrifice, but then on the other side of things... scar knows all too well the tragedy of gifted victory, doesn't he?

#pov this season keeps subverting huge story beats from past seasons and im not ok about ot #im sick of this (lie) #secret life spoilers #goodtimeswithscar #gtwscar #gtws #pearlescentmoon #secret life #grian #3rd life #scott smajor #double life #(both as references) #desert duo #trafficblr #secret life smp #life series #watercolor words

[weeblmaodotcom]

subverting expectations , Meme by Weeblmao.com

#anime #Animememe #Animememes #Animeme #Animemes #expectations #GoodAnimeme #GoodAnimemes #subverting

[nyamafriend]

none of you are talking abt whiskey which truthfully is such a damn shame. she was introduced and i thought she was just supposed to be the dumb blonde girlfriend - arm candy. but then she ran into helen and we immediately see how badly she wants to do more, but she feels trapped to go along with what duke does in order to build her future. shes also the only person to look at helen, who she believes is andi, and say thats shes sorry, that she was fucked over and didnt deserve what happened. dont look at me and say this character wasnt fucking fantastic

#nyambles #I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT SHE WAS GONNA SUBVERT MY EXPECTATIONS #and yeah. shes not a Great person. but i love love love how complex she is even as a side character #glass onion #whiskey glass onion #knives out

[momochanners]

The Astarion Romance Experience

10/10, would recommend 🤞

Thank you to my patrons' support for making this artwork possible 🤞🤞🤞

#Baldur's Gate 3 #BG3 #bg3 spoilers #astarion #BG3 MC Dagmar #BG3 MC Tav #dwarf tav #the writing/animation/acting is *chef's kiss* #the subverting of expectations was very well-done

[writingwithcolor]

Diversity Win: Is "Crazy Rich" POC Representation Necessarily Empowering?

sodapopsculptor asked:

I’m writing a story with two sets of protagonists: A trio with a Black girl, a Latino, and a Vietnamese-American boy who all come from middle-upper class to ridiculously rich families, and a pair of white working-middle class sisters. They’re all heroes of this story. I’ve seen way too many rich white people and poor poc people in fiction, and I’m kinda getting sick of it, but I’m worried that by having the poc kids be rich and the white girls not so much, I’ll be reinforcing the idea that poc somehow rule the world. The only time the rich kids use their status as leverage is when the Asian threatens to sic his cop dad on a bully (race unstated but I imagined him as white) picking on a freshman, and during the Black girl’s birthday party, when she pays the biggest jock there fifty bucks (And later says offhandedly that it was just what she had in her pocket) to chase off a creep hitting on her.

OP, have you ever seen the “diversity win!” meme before?

I understand that your motivation for these narrative choices is to give POC a chance, if you will, to be the rich characters. But it is evident from this ask that you have not asked yourself what this entails. I want to ask you to critically examine the race and class intersections you’re creating here, as well as these kids’ roles in oppressive systems.

You explain that these rich POC are heroes and only have righteous reasons for leveraging their power.

But is your Black girl character aware of the potential disciplinary and/or legal consequences her jock accomplice might face while she has the resources to keep her hands clean? Are you?

Is your Asian character aware of how much of an abuse of power it is to “sic” a cop on someone, and the sheer amount of harm a criminal record or incarceration does to a juvenile with behavior issues? Are you?

So you want to put POC in positions of power for #representation.

Does it resonate with the group you’re representing?

Do you research and portray the unique ways race, ethnicity, class, and majority vs. minority status come together?

Or are you putting these characters in oppressive hegemonic roles for the sake of a power fantasy, on behalf of a group you're not even in?

To your question, you're not reinforcing the idea that "POC rule the world" because such a generalized belief does not exist. Instead, you're reinforcing:

The idea that society has “winners” and “losers.”

The idea that the problem with disproportionately powerful people is the lack of “equal opportunity” as opposed to the power imbalance to begin with.

The idea that those in oppressive positions of power need only have the right intentions to justify their use of it.

To be clear: that is not to say that you can't have jerk aristocrat billionaire millionaire crazy rich POC. Evil or mean rich characters are fun! I have some myself! You can even have rich characters who are gentle-hearted and well-intentioned, but you have to know the ways in which they’re privileged and decide how aware of that your characters are. That’s no problem.

But if you think that wealthy and powerful POC would have the same values and priorities as their poorer counterparts, you’re deluding yourself. There’s a reason why the quote “power corrupts” exists. There’s a reason why no matter where you look on the globe, there are historical dictators and tyrants.

If you want bratty rich POC who lack regard for the consequences of their actions, because you want bratty rich characters, great! If you want them because it would be uplifting or empowering representation? You’re doing it for the wrong reason.

~ Rina

I fully agree with Rina, and truly want to emphasize the last paragraph.

If you want bratty rich POC who lack regard for the consequences of their actions, because you want bratty rich characters, great! If you want them because it would be uplifting or empowering representation? You’re doing it for the wrong reason.

I don't think you need to aim to subvert or purposely make all the BIPOC rich and powerful and the white people poor and suffering. Add diversity and include upper class rich and class privileged BIPOC, sure thing! And you can avoid your fears of intentional subversion message by including rich and powerful white characters as well, even if they're not the focus of your story. Just their existence helps. You could also include middle-class characters of Color as well.

More reading: Black in upper-class society

~Mod Colette

#class #upper class #capitalism #POC #creator responsibility #asks #representation #wealth #privilege #subverting tropes #intersectionality #crazy rich asians #last edited 1/8/24

[radicalgraff]

"Make your workplace better, Unionize / Strike"

Improved ads in the NYC subway

#graffiti #graff #subverting

[colbycheeseslice]

Very self indulgent vampire timber

#dc #dc comics #dc comics fanart #tim drake #tim drake fanart #dc robin #bernard dowd #timber #timbern #vampire au #fanart #timber fanart #timbern fanart #bernard dowd fanart #I am trying to subvert expectations by making Bernard the vampire #is it working? #cw blood #tw blood

[rattrapdadfigure]

Suddenly I wish there was a stoic/serious female/genderfae in a leadership position who is also buff/plus size and has a strong voice. Plsss I need that in media rn. She/They would be so cool. I mean yeah step on me mommy/nonny but it would be nice to have a woman or other person in a leadership position.

#genderqueer #robots #transformers #female #trans woman #woman #plus size #leader #woman’s rights #hornyonmain #yes pls #pls pls pls #i want it #strong woman #buff woman #subverting #nonbinary #queer #agender #tall woman #step on me mommy #step on me #mommy? sorry. mommy? sorry. mommy? #respectfully looking #respectfully #crying and shaking #I’m crying and shaking rn #step on me Nonny

[deancasforcutie]

Supernatural’s deep-cut references to other queer media and icons continued (multimedia mlm meta madness edition)

(see captions for context)

#spn: watch me I'm a camp monster show (I will give you an advanced course in queer media studies and subvert censorship like a boss) #supernatural #spn #dean winchester #castiel #destiel #spn meta #parallels #intertextuality #dean is bi #spn is queer #4.17 #5.03 #5.22 #8.08 #10.13 #10.22 #11.04 #11.10 #14.13 #15.10 #mine

[infinitelilith]

I think it really is a testament to how good the storytelling in Kingdom Hearts is that it can make expected moments still feel significant and emotional. Like, even if I ignore the fact that I got spoiled on a lot of story-beats before I ever played the games: We knew that Xion would disappear at the end of Days. We knew that the Wayfinder trio would fall to darkness at the end of BBS. We knew that most of Xehanort's classmates would die, that Roxas would come back, that Sora would save Aqua etc and yet when it happens it's executed so well that it still feels as important as it should be. We know that Scala and the people living in it will probably be fucked at the end of Missing Link and we know that Sora will probably escape from Quadratum in KH4, but you bet I'll cry when it happens nonetheless

#KH is GREAT at subverting your expectations but it's just as good at doing exactly what you were hoping for in the best way possible #kh #kingdom hearts #khml #kingdom hearts missing link #khdr #kingdom hearts dark road #kh bbs #kingdom hearts birth by sleep #kh 358/2 days #kingdom hearts 358/2 days #kh3 #kingdom hearts 3 #kh sora #kh roxas #kh aqua #kh xehanort #kh scala ad caelum #kh xion

[actuallynunk]

evil stepmother trope is OVER. give me good loving relationships between stepmothers and children — especially daughters!

#yes i DID just watch the movie damsel what about it #i enjoyed the hell out of it #and i especially loved how they subverted the expectations on this... #i just wish angela and millie got more screentime together #angela bassett #millie bobby brown #damsel netflix #damsel