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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

imagine coming home and your mom found your steampunk clothes and shes just there with her arms crossed

she's holding up a ziplock bag of gears and springs asking you what they're for

Love how Sharp Objects consistently explores the way the parents prefer the dead children to the living ones because how they are able to perfectly control the image and legacy of the child into something that reflects well on them in the community at the expense of both the true personality of the dead child and the autonomy and well being of their living children

steam is cool half the new games are shit like ntr idol manger and busty cop adventure interspersed with fake ass slop like “zenless zone zero” whatever that is

crush totally wasn't impressed by my miraculous flying machine fml