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1 year ago

Broke: we can't have women and minorities be villains, that's setting a bad example!

Woke: Jewish writers explicitly making Magneto a Holocaust survivor who in his trauma became just as bad as the Nazis he loathed.


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1 year ago

Learning that the guy behind that 'if you've ever pirated a show or you haven't bought merch, YOU'RE the reason it got cancelled' comic is a storyboard artist for Teen Titans Go

AKA Cartoon Network's equivalent to SpongeBob as in 'Nothing, not even the mighty, unyielding cry of Angel Israfil's trumpet, will get Cartoon Network to cancel this show'

Puts a lot of things into perspective.

But mostly just how tone-deaf his comments and his follow-ups were even after dozens of people in the industry came out to say 'oh yeah, let me just watch my show that was cancelled by Networks and nuked out of existence'


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1 year ago

As a content creator, I'm making it a point to learn from other content creators. But after seeing how badly Netflix She-Ra and High Guardian Spice were ripped apart, I've come to learn:

Diversity should not be your only crutch and selling point to make a great project. You can't sell a project on just diversity alone.

You need a well written story, well rounded characters, and to fully establish a lore to the story.

A character's race and identity are NOT a personality trait. There should be more to a character than just their skin tone and who they're kissing.

When making a trailer or demo reel, promote the story and characters first, NOT the "diverse" staff.

If someone is not interested, don't shit on them, that's not being professional it's being a total asshole. In fact don't even shit talk with posts like: "Don't look at my project if you're white cis manbaby." "If you don't like my project you're a racist cis white hetero piece of shit!" You need to act professional about it and understand you're not gonna please everybody.

Remember that companies rely on more than just ratings for a show (especially a kid's show) to work. A majority of the time it also relies on the sales of merchandise to help finance a show, its cast, crew.

I want to show this video I found which caught my attention as well:

The video brings up a lot of the points I dropped here. Feel free to watch it.


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1 year ago
Spider-man Comic

spider-man comic


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1 year ago

What happened to the modern audiences? Why are shows made for modern audiences getting cancelled after one season? Surely there has to be some kind of mistake.


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1 year ago

why do you even want a live action adaptation of avatar. it's good already. the story was told in a good way and you can watch it. you dont need it again but worse.


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3 years ago

you aren't shipping an adult with a child to deal with your trauma, i'm sorry.

shipping is idealizing a relationship. if you're idealizing a paedophilic relationship, you need help.


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1 year ago

"I know JK Rowing is a terrible person but her books are so good-"

You sure about that?

I mean, just for a start, have you taken a good look at her fantasy creatures lately? A whole bunch of them are straight-up based on malicious and dehumanizing stereotypes about actual people.

Remember the werewolves? And being a werewolf was made into a kind of metaphor for having AIDS?

And you know how AIDS was first associated with gay men? And how conservatives back in the day were claiming gay men were preying on children in order to convert them to gayness?

Remember how Fenrir Greyback preyed on children in particular? Yeah, she put that subtext in there. She was an adult in the 90's. She knew damn well what she was doing.

Remember the house elves? Remember how most of them loved to serve and needed to have a home and a master or else they just wouldn't know what to do with themselves?

Did you know that's literally what slavers in the American South said about the Black people they kept enslaved? Go look up the happy slave myth.

Do I even need to get into the goblins and the antisemitic tropes they're based on? No, folkloric goblins were not gold-hoarding bankers waiting for their chance to stab humanity in the back.

"But the characters are so good!"

Are you kidding me?

Most of her characters are pretty one-dimensional, including Harry. Her idea of making a morally complicated character is giving a tragic past to a bully. Numerous characters are little more than stereotypes. (Looking at Fleur right now.) Literally anybody, including you, can easily make dozens of characters just as good, if not better. (It doesn't exactly take a lot of character designing skill to go, "hey, actually, having a sad backstory doesn't make it okay to bully children" or "hey, maybe I should not base a character on the first stereotype that pops into my head.")

"But the rest of the worldbuilding!"

Sorry, but her worldbuilding is just as basic as her characters. Magical castles and secret passages are stock tropes. Magical people who keep their true nature secret from humanity is the premise of pretty much every White Wolf TTRPG. Most of her fantasy creatures are just common European fairy tale and folklore creatures with shitty stereotypes projected onto them.

I'm not saying "basic worldbuilding bad." I'm saying, you could do just as good, if not better, with minimal effort.

Also there's her magical bioessentialism, where only Harry's abusive blood relatives could provide him with supernatural protection from Voldemort. Rowling thus effectively declared that non-biological family isn't quite real family, and that abusive biofamily can give you some essential thing that a loving, supportive family that isn't related to you just can't.

The Hogwarts houses are one of the most insidious elements of her worldbuilding. The idea of being sorted gives you a little dopamine hit because wow now you have a li'l niche where you belong!

But the actual function of the houses and sorting system and the House Cup is teaching children to see each other as rivals, and ensure that the most toxic views of the upper class get passed on to every new batch of kids sorted into Slytherin.

Hogwarts effectively prepares children for a dystopia where magic serves to distract its citizens from how nightmarishly awful it is. Economic inequality is so bad that people like Arthur and Molly Weasley can barely afford to put their kids through school, casual sadism is just an accepted norm in everyday society, and non-humans are second class citizens. Rowling sorta acts like she thinks this is a bad thing with certain lines she gave to Dumbledore, but in the end, her special boy protagonist becomes an auror; IE, a defender of the status quo. So.

If you've never seen it, Lily Simpson's video goes into even more detail on how the worldbuilding of Harry Potter is actually incredibly fucked up, and how it betrays small-minded attitudes on Rowling's part. There's no separating the art from this artist, because Rowling's rotten values pour out of nearly every page.

Yes, there are many things in Harry Potter that evoke feelings and inspire people, but there's absolutely nothing in it that this series has a monopoly on. You can find those same experiences in much, much better media.


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