Diagram This Sin Triangle
The curse of modern fandom is that it has allowed fans to get even closer to artists, but they won't view the artists as people.
Human limits, human mistakes, human feelings, human needs, are never ascribed to artists, and when other fans rightfully point out, "hey, humans are making this, maybe don't harass them or demand they cater to your personal tastes," it gets shut down under, "uh, people who make popular mainstream things are automatically Public Figures who are also probably rich, so eat the rich and destroy artists over every perceived minor fault. <3"
Even though there's, y'know, a really big strike currently going on because those artists are very much not rich or influential or in control of the bullshit.
The more friends I make in the various facets of the entertainment industry, and the more widely my own art gets shared, the more I realize that a lot of y'all genuinely don't see artists as human beings if they meet some arbitrary standard of Being Known Online.
There is no amount of online fame that makes someone subhuman and a valid target for blatant disrespect and harassment.
Contrary to popular belief, you do not actually own and control a piece of art just because you like it a lot. The artists are not subject to your personal whims and tastes. They owe you nothing.
genuinely think that most bad takes on fiction online stem from the fact that people don't engage with fiction as a constructed art form and instead view it as somehow generated from the ether
a TONNNN of fandom people particularly begin and end their conversations with "[character] or [event] is problematic" or "[character]'s actions make no sense] or even "wow I love [character!!!]" without analyzing in the slightest what literary devices were employed and to what effect. this is kinda okay if you're just talking about a character you like, but it can still lead to pitfalls in your understanding of the overall story, and that's ESPECIALLY apparent with some "criticisms" i see of certain characters in stories.
bc guess what! characters are storytelling tools! they're fun, sure, and if you know me you know i LOVE to rotate some little guys in my brain. but characters, just like everything else, are elements of a broader story. and it can sometimes be a very reductive criticism to be like "[character] is a bad person" if you don't grasp that they were constructed by an author.
like okay, WHY are they a bad person? does the narrative condone their actions? are they presented uncritically as a good person? did the author intend for them to be seen as a bad person? are there biases, good or bad, in how the author presents this character, especially compared with other characters?
also: what role do they play in the broader narrative? do their actions have thematic weight? what about tone? is this work intended to be comedic or dramatic? does that make their actions have different weight due to that? why?
a story is not (usually) just a simple retelling of events that happened in an author's dream. characters and events are intentionally written. and sometimes they can pack quite a lot of unintentional baggage with them! but you have to start at base 1 of understanding that characters often exist in conversation with a work's themes before you can get to the real juicy criticisms
I like to imagine these two dated.
This is also him
“This cat saying “well hi!” in a southern accent”
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The caption really doesn’t do it justice.
here is a rendition of the skywing anthem from the wof guidebook!!!
please note!!! i have not actually done any musical training in at least 4 years, and the training i do have is for violin and piano. considering this is trumpet... it might be a little. eeehhh. off.
trumpet in B♭, F major, 4/4 time signature, tempo of 160. i think. i downloaded and taught myself to use this program (musescore 4) in like half an hour but i TRIED to get those settings.
the sheet music i referenced is from the book!!! i didnt compose this i just tried to see what it sounds like!!!
☕ latte cookie!
Football stadiums look like giant eyes when viewed from above
i don’t like knowing this.
Evil eye collecting and focusing powerful forces of enormous hatred.
this is why aliens won’t visit
Earth has evolved false eyes to ward off planetary predators
AITA for photoshopping porn in this guy's pictures for years?
So, I've hated this guy since high school when he spit on me for being a "freak" after bullying me relentlessly since middle school. I'm not the type for public retaliation so I just kinda let it fester for awhile until I got the idea to make multiple dummy accounts on every social media site I could find him on and started photoshopping hardcore porn onto like every reflective surface in any pic he ever posted.
I've been sending this guy these pictures anonymously for years now, I'm 100% committed to this bit and it thrills me endlessly to read in dms how much this drives him insane especially because he doesn't know who it is even after all these years. Any time he posts a pic within minutes I send him a photoshopped one back from a dummy account then giggle reading his messages about how this makes him miserable, it's honestly the highlight of every day.
Recently though I told an old friend about what I was doing and she said I'm an obsessed psychopath but I personally think since he got to torture me every single day for years then it's only fair I get to do the same. Plus to me it's mostly harmless, and if we're talking about the ways I could potentially get even this is the most banal choice. Still, she told me I'm no better than he was if I keep it up.
I disagree but I'm interested to see what other people think of it
Interesting poll on this post. No one's really on the same page who's the asshole in this situation but damned if we can't all agree there is one
ALTWe were robbed
