We're all mad here~

morning light

im so sleepy... *doesnt go to sleep* *doesnt go to sleep* *doesnt go to sleep* ill sleep soon i think... *doesnt go to sleep* *doesnt go to sleep* *doe

regular jon sims tuesday

The history of the Disney company is so fucking fascinating and complicated that I could spend the rest of my life studying it.

I hate the company. I love the media. I want it to burn. I was profoundly shaped as a person by some of the art its workers have produced. It’s evil. It’s beautiful. It’s an eldritch horrorterror personified as a charismatic mouse. It’s a nightmarish example of capitalist hell. It destroys as much as it creates. It’s a flaming trainwreck. I can’t look away.

It’s the goddamn Elephant’s Foot of media studies.

It’s honestly fits perfectly with who Walt ultimately was. A brilliantly intelligent manipulator terrified of the inevitability of loss yet incapable of costing himself as he lashed out at his friends and workers over basic workers rights, driven to obsession over a theoretical town where he was basically a pleasant Uncle dictator who could determine the lives of his citizens right down to what appliances they use.

#Disney ruined copyright law#because Walt never really died#He’s in the genetics of the company#And that is far worse than being a frozen head in an urban legend

You. You get it.

#hot take#i think we just need to find other media#i didnt grow up with disney and i dont feel like i missed anything

Look, you can do what you want, but Disney as a company has wormed its way into everything, and as someone whose JOB is researching and analyzing media, Disney is incredibly important. Evil in many ways, but important. Disney studies are so wrapped up in the history of American film and television that you just straight-up cannot study the field without studying Disney.

Hell, even if you’re studying more broadly than just American media. The cross-pollination of Disney and anime is massive. Osamu Tezuka, the Father of Manga, was famously inspired by Disney movies in his own art, to the point where it’s discussed on his Wikipedia page.

That’s not even getting into the fact that the company buys up everything it can get its hands on, the fact that the theme parks are deeply wrapped up in the economies and politics of the cities they’re in, and the fact that Disney is a big enough entity to be a major political force in the USA. Hell, American copyright law is so twisted up in Disney’s bullshit that you can’t separate them. You HAVE TO talk about Disney if you’re talking about US copyright law.

“Just find other media” is such a holier-than-thou response to a post that’s about the field of media studies. YOU don’t have to be invested in anything you don’t want to be, but to respond “just find other media” on a post about my field of work is…quite irritating, actually.

This is my field. I don’t need to “just find other media.” I am quite familiar with plenty of other media, thank you.

also, its sister tweet:

How could you forget:

Had to add this gem

Pouring one out for Poison Junior.

We're getting the grim reaper arc animated in July I will explode

I love Spirit Hunter: Death Mark's approach to the amnesia trope and the question of "If you can't remember who you were, are you even the same person?"

A lot of narratives play around with the weight of that, only to turn around and say "Of course you're the same, who else would you be?" The character gets their memories back and they're suddenly exactly as they were before, maybe with a life lesson along the way.

But Death Mark doesn't. Without all the knowledge and experiences of Masamune Kujou, Yashiki is fundamentally a kinder and less apathetic person, without any sort of prompting. Even when confronting dangerous spirits out to kill him, he takes the time to learn their stories and show them some small form of kindness. He listens to the recording of who he used to be, and he can't reconcile the callousness that Masamune had towards the deaths caused by his mistake with the way he feels about them, to the point where he doesn't even go back to using the identity that he's worked so hard to remember. Even when the game gives you the option to forgive Masamune, the options are still "It had to be done" and "I can't forgive him" because Kazuo Yashiki and Masamune Kujou are not the same.

And I think that's a way more interesting take than the protagonist just reverting back into the same person they were despite all the experiences we saw them go through.

XII

This panic happens like every few months.

this bitch

i feel like nobody has NOTPs anymore. like if you hate a ship now it has to be for some deep moral reason and you have to justify it to everyone what happened to just not liking stuff that isnt inherently bad but just because you personally think it sucks