I Don't Know If It's Just Me But I Feel Like There Is A Difference Between Liking Something And Making

I don't know if it's just me but I feel like there is a difference between liking something and making something become a part of you. I've seen in happen a lot in fandoms, but not to the scale that it is with the fandoms centering around Vivziepop or Hazbin or Helluva.

There's a huge different. You can love something with all your heart, it can even be a part of you, but you can't do what Viv's fandom does. You can't fall that deep into the belief that any criticism of the thing is a knock at you.

"you don't need to follow the rules to make good art! you can just draw whatever you want, like this" (follows more advanced rules)

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.

Hmm today I will finally work on proper reference sheets for my characters of my project. It will go well, trust.

One of my less inch resting songs in my commute playlist but still a vibe tbh

i found a cool tag game on twitter and i really wanna import it (o^ ^o)

this picrew + the last song you listened to :]

no pressure tags: @blood-loving-leech @overtaken-boredom @lesbianthatyaps @kameonerd566 @hexedvampire @laczki @anonymous-shxtposter @fleurafae @flovqy + anyone who wants to do it <3

I feel like maybe my attachment to Larry from Pokemon is abnormal. None of my fictional crushes have lasted this long and I get legitimately sad when I remember he isn't real. I should probably bring it up to my therapist but I'm already working through a lot of other things and I'm not sure if dividing my time working through past traumas to focus on this (mostly) benign crush/attraction would be worthwhile. Maybe finding real people to go on dates and such with would help but I'm waiting until post top surgery to do so. Or maybe it'll eventually go away on its own, who knows