Mm.. cozy..

something that i find interesting about independent animation nowadays is that if you don't have studio/streamer backing, you have to release your work yourself on the internet, but you have to do it for free on the internet because virtually nobody is going to be willing to accept a paywall just for one original show, so what you have to do in order to make any money off of it is make all of your money from merchandising, but then this means that you show must be merchandisable and have very toyetic character designs that translate easily to plushies and whatnot, but then you also need to cater your show to people who are disproportionately inclined to buy merchandise like that in the first place so that your sales can be enough to sustain you, which means that even if you want to communicate complex or difficult ideas in your work, your independent animation project must attract (at least on a first impression) and retain viewers who are both very consumerist and very capable of rabid passion, which unfortunately has a single-circle shaped venn diagram with a lot of the most toxic fandom tendencies known to man, and this explains a lot of things about independent animation and its fandoms nowadays I think

man sometimes friendship really is just "I saw this and knew it would give you psychic damage. please respond with agony" and then they do. and it's great

‘bread is bad for you’ ‘rice is bad for you’ sorry im not subscribing to the idea that staple grains that have been integral to cultures for centuries are evil. i love you carbs

step one of good media criticism is to remove yourself entirely from your interpretation of the text. step two is to insert yourself back in but in new and thoughtful ways

I'm sure that making it near impossible to become a doctor in a country where every hospital and medical building is always severely understaffed with exhausted, over-worked, financially struggling workers & every ER in every city has a 6-18hr wait & it takes 6 months to one billion years to get into a specialist with a referral is a great idea that has no negative consequences whatsoever

I bet making sure that only the most financially well-off most able-bodied people can become doctors will absolutely create a class of doctors that have only the utmost respect, patience, understanding, and care for disabled patients, especially poor disabled patients

I am going to make rant art about something I noticed and I need you all to engage with it in good faith or so fucking help me.

Did not realize that the background saved transparent. My bad for those who couldn’t see it.

It does feel very Japanese to go "we're squarely in the predicted Kaiju tsunami zone, maybe we should draw up plans on where to move the government and vote on it and then do that, so that we can have a government to respond to disasters if a Kaiju tsunami happens".

If you believe in any of the above bullet points, you are either a TERF or you are dangerously close to falling for TERF rhetoric, and no amount of psuedo-progressive language about “centering men” is gonna cover up the fact that you agree with JK Rowling on at least a few points in her crusade against trans people. And that is NOT a good look.

I hear being kind is punk but is it ska? Is being kind ska? I don't care about being kind unless it's ska.

i think a lot of you or rlly all of you should stop using war criminal as a “cutsie” self descriptor and like. google what that means, especially if ur american

like genuinely y do u as a white american even feel comfortable giving urself a username like “nonbinarywarcriminal” do you know what war crimes american soldiers do to the global south specifically to the women and children there? maybe we should be informed on that, maybe we should do some required reading

"why do men watch porn instead of just having sex with their girlfriends?" is already silly for numerous reasons, but seeing it being used as like. a feminist talking point is so crazy to me because like of the implication that being in a relationship means being available for sex all the time, which you know. doesn't feel great for women i think.