In Color!

my general opinion on what people should be "allowed" to portray and what topics they should be "allowed" to explore in fiction is that you can make whatever art with whatever themes you want but i'm also allowed to think the way you handled it was tasteless and should've been done differently. my negative opinion on your handling of sensitive topics is the price of admission for publicly showcasing your work. this is not a pro-censorship stance because i am not The Government

this is getting really popular so i’d like to add the important caveat that your criticism of a work is no more unassailable than the work itself. just as one is entitled to be critical of something someone else is entitled to disagree with that criticism. i add this because some of you pretend to give a fuck about thoughtful analysis and then when someone points out flaws in your argument you declare that all criticisms are valid. this is untrue. the status of a hater is no more sacred than that of a liker. get off your high horse and engage in the thoughtful discussion you pretend to believe in or perish by my blade

marcus: do you even have any idea what it takes to pass a fucking bill? henry: no. i never watched schoolhouse rock.

[Video Description: A timelapse of someone creating a cross stitch of the scene from Saw where Adam and Lawrence hold each other. Below is an image of the final product. End Description]

[ID: People sitting at two tables in a studio react in extreme delight. Some jump up and run around. Two hug and dance in a circle. END ID]

Skinamarink: I prefer row row row your boat

imo you get the most out of engaging with media when you strike a balance between treating characters as people (reading interiority into their actions, considering the effect of various aspects of their identity, etc etc) and as vehicles for storytelling (what narrative purpose do they serve, how do their actions and personality function to convey the themes of the work, etc etc). because of course characters are literary devices but also there’s a reason we use literary devices written to embody realistic people in order to tell stories

[ID: Dan Cain walks past a body on a gurney in a hospital hallway. The smirking security guard with a cigar in his mouth says, "Don't know why they keep locked doors around here. Nobody wants in... and ain't nobody gettin' out." END ID]

[ID: A headline accompanying an image of an unconscious man in a hospital bed: "Family Mercifully Pulling Plug on Grandfather Unaware They Sending Him Directly To Hell". END ID]

[ID. Screenshot of a twitter post by @ ScaredAsian that has been edited to read "im probably transfem but i have a Castle to escape so idrc about that rn". End ID]

[ID: A headline accompanying a picture of a seagull on pavement: "Seagull This Far Inland Must Be Total Fuckup". END ID]

[Image ID: Tweet from marc (@/ msnetiker) reading: this can't be the same internet I raised my neopets on /End ID]

my infinite monkeys just wrote "penis". this is a good start

mine just wrote 'The Complete Works of Shakespeare', as in just those words. i feel they're just mocking me