Dawgstar posted:

Jay Exci has Views on the ending of Steven Universe and how it tanked the series for him.

sexpig by night posted:

Y'all motherfuckers like wars in stars and/or trains?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYy6V_ZVSU8

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

Every deep dive into disneyland is another expose of the brutality of capitalism, and this one was exceptionally rich. One day you’ll put enough pieces together to join the real rebellion, Jenny.

Arcsquad12 posted:

Nah, that was when Henry was being a dick and blocking up a tunnel so his paint job didn't get ruined.
Still not as bad as what happened to the engine who was dismantled and turned into a generator, still conscious but unable to move.

Kim Justice posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-yfZn5iYJE

It's Jon Bois.

Ok, it seems like a video rerun of something he already did with The Death of Basketball. But that was the greatest article on pretty much any video game ever written. And, again, it's Jon Bois.

sexpig by night posted:

I think 'not everything needs to have a message' is fine, though? Like, does every bit of media need a cause behind it or can we just make things for creation's sake?

Bakeneko posted:

Personally I think that if a story is written well, its themes will emerge naturally as the writer explores the characters. That’s certainly how it works for me, and even some professional authors have said that they don’t know what each of their books are going to be “about” until those books are half-finished.

I’m not saying that the themes emerge from nothing, but rather that the writer isn’t consciously aware of them at first, until they’ve laid the foundations of the story, i.e. the plot and characters.

Can you write a good story the other way round, starting with a theme? Sure, and maybe I worded that post poorly because I didn’t mean to imply otherwise, but you do have to go back and build those foundations eventually. What I’m complaining about are lazy writers who think they can produce great work solely by chasing popular trends, or paying lip service to certain ideas.

https://incomingalbatross.tumblr.com/post/186779226498/one-of-the-things-thats-really-struck-me-while posted:

One of the things that’s really struck me while rereading the Lord of the Rings–knowing much more about Tolkien than I did the last time I read it–is how individual a story it is.

We tend to think of it as a genre story now, I think–because it’s so good, and so unprecedented, that Tolkien accidentally inspired a whole new fantasy culture, which is kind of hilarious. Wanting to “write like Tolkien,” I think, is generally seen as “writing an Epic Fantasy Universe with invented races and geography and history and languages, world-saving quests and dragons and kings.” But… But…

Here’s the thing. I don’t think those elements are at all what make The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings so good. Because I’m realizing, as I did not realize when I was a kid, that Tolkien didn’t use those elements because they’re somehow inherently better than other things. He used them purely because they were what he liked and what he knew.

The Shire exists because he was an Englishman who partially grew up in, and loved, the British countryside, and Hobbits are born out of his very English, very traditionalist values. Tom Bombadil was one of his kids’ toys that he had already invented stories about and then incorporated into Middle-Earth. He wrote about elves and dwarves because he knew elves and dwarves from the old literature/mythology that he’d made his career. The Rohirrim are an expression of the ancient cultures he studied. There are a half-dozen invented languages in Middle-Earth because he was a linguist. The themes of war and loss and corruption were important to him, and were things he knew intimately, because of the point in history during which he lived; and all the morality of the stories, the grace and humility and hope-in-despair, was an expression of his Catholic faith.

J. R. R. Tolkien created an incredible, beautiful, unparalleled world not specifically by writing about elves and dwarves and linguistics, but by embracing all of his strengths and loves and all the things he best understood, and writing about them with all of his skill and talent. The fact that those things happened to be elves and dwarves and linguistics is what makes Middle-Earth Middle-Earth; but it is not what makes Middle-Earth good.

What makes it good is that every element that went into it was an element J. R. R. Tolkien knew and loved and understood. He brought it out of his scholarship and hobbies and life experience and ideals, and he wrote the story no one else could have written… And did it so well that other people have been trying to write it ever since.

So… I think, if we really want to write like Tolkien (as I do), we shouldn’t specifically be trying to write like linguists, or historical experts, or veterans, or or or… We should try to write like people who’ve gathered all their favorite and most important things together, and are playing with the stuff those things are made of just for the joy of it. We need to write like ourselves.

Bonaventure posted:

get that OUT of my face posted:

lol

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

Ever since the whole nazi thing I don’t trust irony any more.

Alaois posted:

I'm pretty sure everyone who has made a children's cartoon in the past 30 years is some kind of sex creep

Mokinokaro posted:

Kyle Kallgren (hope I'm spelling that right) pulled his Cinema Antifa videos for his personal health thanks to the fascist hate mob.

Dawgstar posted:

It did seem sad that just as The Loud House was receiving awards for inclusion, oop, Chris Savino is a sex pest. And even better it was an open secret.

Yardbomb posted:

I'm not wrong, all a lot of shows want to be anymore is misery parade poo poo and a lot more talented creators get their break with animated shows, which ends up with 'cartoons' handling things better than boomerbrains suffering wank.

Alaois posted:

There was an article not too long ago, might have even been posted in here, that talks about the animation industry's weird permissiveness to the point of endorsement of pornographic fanart and it was fascinating. it was very funny to me that the one cartoon where the creators put their foot down about it was Wakfu

Mokinokaro posted:

Kyle Kallgren (hope I'm spelling that right) pulled his Cinema Antifa videos for his personal health thanks to the fascist hate mob.

Mokinokaro posted:

Kyle Kallgren (hope I'm spelling that right) pulled his Cinema Antifa videos for his personal health thanks to the fascist hate mob.

Max Wilco posted:

Was it this one?: https://medium.com/@brazyintheday/kids-tv-has-a-porn-problem-84592d9514fc

Max Wilco posted:

Was it this one?: https://medium.com/@brazyintheday/kids-tv-has-a-porn-problem-84592d9514fc

sexpig by night posted:

Like, who did that video about how queer media faces a way weirder higher standard even in progressive spaces because even our allies tend to view orientation as entirely sexual based and all? It's that.

Leal posted:

Never forget the story of a group of grown rear end adults giving a child poo poo at a build a bear to the point the police had to be called because they were a bunch of dumb idiot babbies.


Or the time hasbro had to send their lawyers after a guy who got creative with mlp plushies and fleshlights.

Terrible Opinions posted:

I'd argue quite the opposite. Cage had nothing to say about racism. Instead he had a lot of ultimately unimportant set dressing of better sci-fi stories that he assumed would, just by being in his work, say something about racism. He thought this because other more talented and motivated creators have used similar set-dressing to say things about all sorts of important social issues. This lack of any real motivating point can be seen in how the endings are mutually exclusive with one another. They deliver conflicting messages either due to Cage's lack of skill in executing his intent or Cage actually not understanding the meaning of his own storytelling.

Dean of Swing posted:

Writing about a what you know and love can be difficult if all you know is twitter bon mots and videogame statistics.

Here is a trick. Read enough history until you come across something you consider the most bizarre thing you have ever heard. Then read all you can about it including any contextual background events. Write it all down in Microsoft Word. Now switch out all the names and places to re-contextualize it to the modern day. Now dump a ton of homoeroticism in it. Dump it on AO3. It worked for The Warriors, it can work for you.