sine lucro friget ludus

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Can't tell you how frequently I encounter posts on here for people with entirely opposite issues to me

Their narcissism of small differences, your crisis of proximity, my attentiveness to a crucial distinction

I've been taking peaks at the kids shows of generations that came after mine and tbh while adventure time remains the GOAT, otherwise the zoomers had a looooooooot of great cartoons. seems generally that the past decade ish has just been the best ever. Ducktales, Craig of the Creek, owl house, the ghost and molly mcgee, amphibia- I basically just watch a few eps of these at random and while I don't love all of them they're a total shift in effort and purpose than anything before. kids shows these days now have like, endings plotted out in advance. they have arcs. they have high effort and very bold and distinct art/animation styles it's crazy. a thousand blossoms bloomed

Reblog if you are Bad Queer Representation.

i'm generally alienated by the current atmosphere of calling characters "failures" and "pathetic," mostly because i like my characters hypercompetent, but also because i'm really interested in failure in fiction, from crushing defeats to partial wins to pyrrhic victories, and I especially like it when my hypercompetent characters can't or don't win (because the forces against them were too great; or because this was always a no-win situation; because they were outmaneuvered; etc). and so i find it really frustrating to see the character who made it almost all the way, against great odds, described as #cringefail, as though the fact that they didn't actually manage to take the world off Atlas' shoulders means that all their skill, all their work, all their strength, was always comedic, or worse, that they have no skill at all ("they're so bad at things!!") . and most of all i just think it's boring. there's so much more to any instance of failure than "haha, they just couldn't get it done," if we're willing to look.