we live in a world where you are bullied, raped and killed for being trans, where you cant use a public restroom, where you can randomly have your drivers license invalidated and see jail time and then morons in labcoats conclude our lives got worse after coming out
From the Japanese pov, Comics is the English word for Manga.
From the American pov, Manga is the word for comics made by Japanese people and published in Japan.
This discourse will always leave me baffled coz it’s ignoring a huge percentage of non-English non-Japanese speaking artists that use the visual language of manga to tell their stories.
Like what should I, a Jordanian self-published artist whose mother language is Arabic (right to left) and writes in English, call my work?
If a Brazilian made Pizza in China, is it not Pizza anymore?
Would you not call it Pizza?
This is Rosemary. Her carefully sequenced collection of over ~2,500 Kodachrome slides span a period from about 1970-1987. These are only about a third of 100 different slide presentations she would share at schools, churches, libraries, and nursing homes. 🧵
I think younger generations have grown accustomed to a very disembodied vision of sex, which correlates to the very disembodied vision of the humans we see in p*rn, Instagram etc. — heavily filtered, hairless, poreless, cyborgian
Celine song hated for liking zootopia, Chloe Zhao hated for just being kinda weird, emerald fennell hated for whitewashing and turning a literary classic into her goon fantasy. Yeah totally the same thing
AI filmmaking is completely unserious.
You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.
I think it's valid criticism when this is basically their design for the guys and gals. For a game where we go to planets, everyone sure looks very similar. Genshin has more diversity in clothing.
Holy shit, if you didn't knew she was the main reason why every piece of merchandise for The Simpsons, Futurama and Spongebob Squarepants have the names of Matt Groening and Stephen Hillenburg.
RIP
@saccharinish God bless for second-hand stores and random street sellers for allowing me to get my hands on translated 80s and 90s comics that probably had spent over a decade in a box.