i have a Kirby's Adventure hyperfixiation

Yoooooo heads up for those of you with kids, I know this time of year schools start holding canned food drives so keep this in mind if you’re able to give.

Also, please consider setting this as a scheduled post for June/July. A lot of food insecure families with children rely on school lunch to make ends meet, and that’s obviously not an option during summer vacation. Lots of people give during November and December, but summer is a lean time for food banks. Which is a shame, cuz fresh produce is at a boom during that time of year, so not only would summer donations boost how many people the food banks can help, it would boost the quality of the help they provide.

I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?

I’m reblogging this simply because I admire the dedication of the Thursday the 20th fandom.

do you guys know how long this has been sitting in my queue

hi I'm making a new account so I can avoid harassment from this dude who has been stalking me for over 2 years so DM me if you are a Devoted Follower Or Mutual and I will send it to you

no seriously ask me for it this account is dead now and nobody has asked

People really need to realise that “media can affect real life” doesn’t mean “this character does bad things so people will read that and start doing bad things” and actually means “ideas in fiction especially stereotypes about minority groups can affect how the reader views those groups, an authors implicit prejudices can be passed on to readers”

ok but it also means that “bad things” that are treated casually in media will be treated more casually in culture broadly. if you depict rape but frame it as consensual, that will impact the popular perception of what counts as rape. this has been a concept in feminist media studies since time immemorial. most people on this site can accept that, for example, the casual depiction of rape in game of thrones is a flaw in the show, even if you’re a fan of the show generally. but for some reason y’all pitch a fit when someone dares suggest that the same is true for casual depictions of pedophilia. media that romanticizes or downplays rape normalizes rape. media that romanticizes or downplays pedophilia normalizes pedophilia. simple as. i know that might be hard to accept because you’ve all been conditioned by this webbed site to believe that normalize and romanticize are cringe sjw anti words with no meaning or utility but i am begging you to crack open an actual feminist & critical race theory informed media studies book

People really need to realise that “media can affect real life” doesn’t mean “this character does bad things so people will read that and start doing bad things” and actually means “ideas in fiction especially stereotypes about minority groups can affect how the reader views those groups, an authors implicit prejudices can be passed on to readers”

This feels related to how children's television shows are allowed to show ridiculous bad things (like kids with missile launchers) but not reasonable bad things (like playing in the street or hitting your friend) because kids could copy the latter. People don't tend to see unhinged murder and wanna copy that. The do get influenced by subtle ideas that they can easily pick up and unconsciously mimic.

thinking about anti-role models. people you look at like "well whatever i'm gonna be in life it's not gonna be that"

parents

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