girl in my theater was rizzing up her date by pretending to be willa wonka during the trailers which seemed like a difficult gambit but when the girl she was with giggled at her going "scratch that, reverse it 🤓☝️" i knew i was watching a real professional at work in front of me
"Homura... I've finally figured out what I'm going to wish for"
"What are you wishing for Madoka?"
"I want every girl... to send me her credit card number, its expiration date, and the three numbers on the back"
my thing to promote is watch bottoms in theaters now. also if you know a lesbian in your life give her $20 today, if you are a lesbian you can show someone this tweet and they have to give you $20 it's the rules
also also everyone saying "i need this" i am manifesting it for you
"animation is cinema!! it's not just for kids!! it deserves respect as meaningful art that adults can enjoy!!"
"here's a serious critical take on a new animated feature"
"these critics just don't get it. it's a kids movie. it's supposed to be fun and they're being all thinky!!"
i feel like the longer you spend at any given job the more you rightfully skew towards option 2 here. if you do option 1 you'll just get "promoted" to Circle Spotter (on top of your existing title) which basically only entails extra responsibility without extra pay
still amazes me that people identify so deeply with the image of lain as a kind of ceding to and fetishization of being totally estranged and abject via online identity when the show's entire thesis statement is a deep concern and apprehension towards this exact line of behaviour
so happy scott pilgrim is back i'm having so much fun i wish toronto was a real place you could go to and not something they made up for cartoons and body horror films and sad indie records
any time i see posts about how critically examining a text "ruins the fun" and we need to embrace escapism/the content machine i just think back to that letter kafka wrote about literature as a means to break "the frozen sea inside us" (i.e. solipsism/numbness to the other)
"you're not authorized to leave section 2-C" is already what it's like to live almost anywhere in america (especially suburban sprawl) without relying on a car lol
the term "zoomer" is getting increasingly funny considering that as a generation most are decently into their 20s at this point navigating impossible adult responsibilities as well as generally being significantly more exhausted and burnt-out than they were as teenagers
had a thought the other day about how "video essayist" is kinda entirely a grift by hacks gaming the algorithm who barely know what they're talking about because as long as you say something with enough of your chest and slick editing it actually doesn't matter how wrong it is
nobody is brave enough to make a "what's a 4chan post that's so embedded in your head that you make shorthand reference to it, even if people might not know what you're talking about" post, but this would be mine
idk if it's more concerning that marvel fans think people like this are actually real or that they think scorsese and tarantino are the face of inscrutable pretentious arthouse directors
i saw panchiko earlier this year and had a really fun time but most of the crowd there was teenage/early 20s girls. what hoes are you speaking of that you're scaring the kids all love this stuff
so are we at the point where we've stopped fearmongering and catastrophizing about AI art and can start having sophosticated conversations about it or are we still just at the stage of complaining about some vague notion of an indelible human spirit and defending copyright lol
like this is a show that opens on a girl taking her own life because she believes she can live online forever and climaxes on a scene of lain finally disconnecting from the gigeresque labyrinth of wires and machinery in her room to experience the warm embrace of her only friend
like a good half of y'all need help for issues that a relationship isn't going to solve but then the rest probably just need to rail a shy twink with hair past his shoulders
think my all-time sigma moment was a couple years ago when i got a generous academic grant, torrented all the books for my classes, and spent the money on nendo figures
we answered the question of "are games art" decades ago but the problem since then is that gamers want the perceived social prestige of engaging with art—being cultured/learned/etc.—without any of the reflexive cultural critique and scrutiny towards what are often glorified toys
@twinkophrenia
only really an issue if you're disingenuous about it. a million new "indie" bands that don't want you to know their dads are/know promoters or otherwise have connections, but afaik keem has been honest from the get-go about this? like his breakout song is called family ties lol
Given the number of angry replies from manga fans to my post suggesting some manga art is pederastic and misogynistic, I can only assume there are lots of incels who beat off to drawings of oversexed preteen girls.
been thinking a bit recently about how a lot of the digitization of media access, especially access to music, has meant younger populations have had more art available to them than ever before but are also thinking about all that art in an increasingly decontextualized manner
literature/art will not "save" anyone and it should never be a purely didactic tool either (that's a lecture at best and propaganda at worst) but we must nonetheless treat it with the dignity to articulate and comprehend, not as abstractions from reality but negotiation with it
crazy thing about the way people say "ontologically evil" here isn't just that they're misunderstanding the term "ontological" but also that even if it did mean what they thought it did (i.e. "inherent") it would reveal some truly unhinged assumptions about the nature of evil lol
bandcamp layoffs are so depressing it's unreal we're really losing one of the most vital outlets for incisive coverage of new independent and experimental music and it's getting replaced with yuppie corporatespeak performance review slop for rock music as a taco bell branded item
constantly thinking about that one scene in angel's egg with all the fishermen throwing spears at the giant shadows and how much of discourse about and post-AI is just chasing ghosts and regurgitating language almost as an aesthetic defense mechanism against "bad" signification
this is wrong on so many levels, but what's especially racist and pernicious here is the implication that tonal harmony (which only took form in Europe around the 17th century and became widespread through centuries of colonization) is somehow a fundamental element of musicality
dont know how to phrase this in a way that doesnt sound prudish but i am always staggered and exhausted by how much ppl on this site seem to operate on horniness and horniness alone
honestly the funniest thing about the music torrenting tweet is that there's also just so much literature out there supporting the notion that the people who pirate music are also more likely to buy physical albums, go to shows, i.e. like actually materially support musicians lol
we answered the question of "are games art" decades ago but the problem since then is that gamers want the perceived social prestige of engaging with art—being cultured/learned/etc.—without any of the reflexive cultural critique and scrutiny towards what are often glorified toys
aside from the good points being made about archival, access, ownership, etc i also just think haecceity and thing-ness is a not-insignificant part of our relationship with art that gets jumbled when your only experiences of media are all immaterially mediated and reproduced
"go to hell" boring, overused, doesn't work if they don't believe in hell
"i hope your favorite band gets popular on tiktok" real, threatening, terrifying, could happen to anyone at a moment's notice
none of us are zooming!! we're all slamming our heads into walls making sense of a collapsing media landscape and walking outside every day while a state-sanctioned genocide is happening and all signs pointing to the system failing and everyone being chronically ill in some way
"i asked chatgpt", "i asked gemini", etc is weird to hear so frequently out in public, not in an anti-tech way but bc imo having so much information readily available to me always required a degree of common sense to parse out stuff that seems more plausible when looking up stuff
approaching media critically is healthy and valuable and should be encouraged but I also sincerely appreciate seeing people just unabashedly gush about stuff they love. passion is cool and fun and it can be super therapeutic to let yourself indulge in that a bit and express it.
i feel like condemning queer people for their religious affiliation (christian or otherwise) is functionally the same as condemning them for eating at chick-fil-a, where choices can only exist in the ideological context of morally swaying an aggregate of political signifiers
@twinkdefcon
i was talking about this with a friend earlier but i think every self-identifying hater of freud couldn't actually tell you the difference between psychology and psychoanalysis lol
so incredibly brave of you to post an orientalism on your birthday but did you know you can just not like things? i promise that you'll be much happier just accepting stuff isn't for you instead of trying to make flimsy ideologically sweeping justifications for "thing bad" lmao
it's so weird how games disavow their lack of seriousness by trying to replicate the structure and feel of narrative cinema but in turn so many recent blockbuster action scenes also just look and function as video game cutscenes to capitulate to a kind of hyperreal verisimilitude
rateyourmusic is the perfect place for if you want to stumble across the most shockingly ill-informed and poorly conceived takes on albums imaginable and then clicking on the user profiles that post them and wishing you could explode teenagers with your mind
forced to go to my dumb little classes and take dumb little notes and then go to my dumb little job when truly i was just put on this earth to be the girl at the control panel in the sci-fi film who gets all frazzled when something goes wrong and goes "captain, system overload!!"
genuinely frustrating whenever i see one of my male friends express anxiety or discomfort over something like their appearance (facial hair, clothing, etc) or like, estrangement from certain forms of masculinity and half of the replies are like "well then just stop being a man"