RP for Velma from Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated by Rubberchickencircuit. Headcanon here: https://tinyurl.com/varcie • Drabbles here: https://tinyurl.com/varciefics • Also Rubber’s place for animation and gaming blogging.
Mun/blogger is bi and overage; also into writing and editing and all kinds of fun stuff.
Other fandoms: Life is Strange • Until Dawn • Infamous Second Son • Mass Effect • Idolm@ster • Westworld • Detroit—Become Human
I know I fall in love with almost every horizon zero down npc but I just met vanasha and oh my fucking god. oh my god. jesus fuck ing christ. oh my god. fucking shit jesus fuck oh fucking jesus fucking chr
So instead of writing the essay this is exactly what I’m talking about. This shit reduces your capacity for empathy. If you can’t understand why people are hurt by a simple joke, nay, think that’s the whole point… How the hell are you supposed to feel for someone when they come to you complaining of ACTUAL oppression? It’s the foot in the door phenomenon. A little oppression isn’t too bad, cuz it’s funny, right? It hardens your heart against others
Somebody actually wrote this essay already. It’s a Twitter thread about how the alt right recruits teenage boys by getting them to post slightly offensive memes… And then when they get called out and don’t understand why the alt right channels their anger at feminists and women and people of color and liberals. According to this thread, boys are being “set up”
Read the whole thread at the link above this is just a snip
“offensive” shows like Family Guy are a precursor to the alt right and you can’t change my mind
Here’s the thing about shows like South Park and Family Guy that make their money off of being edgy and offensive. They fundamentally reduce their viewers’ capacity for empathy. If I found a joke funny, and you found it offensive, you’re just too sensitive. This is directly related to the ride of the alt right and the election of trump. In this essay I will
a sane person sees some of the seth mcfarlane triumvirate, or rick and morty, or south park, or any number of a parade of other aggressively offensive shows, and is disgusted at their crass attempt at crude ‘humor’ that ditched having the exuce of being commentary or having a point as theyve just dedicated to being as nasy as they can
someone who binges those shows regularly -‘you are too sensetive’
yes, thats called empathy, being sensetive to the pain of others is natural, to the point that not having it is somewhat unhealthy
im not even against most of these elements, but they have to be used properly to have any worth. people point at the simpsons as starting this kind of thing, back in the day purists assumed it was a show about shitty people, but it almost always had a point about something- sexism, parenting issues, alcoholism, meeting your heroes, mental health and how we treat people in need of such help, religious ideology, theres a whole episode solely devoted to homer refusing to let lisa grow up so he hallucinates in legos as he clings to a singular bonding moment they shared- but people assumed it was a degrading perversion of american values when what it was doing was asking you to look at those values long and hard. in contrast rick and morty tries to have a statement about someone being in pain, after they just sent at least two friends and a family member to their own doom so they could get him some drugs- and then repeatedly risks his families life without giving two shits every episode yet somehow frames him as sympathetic and we should care hes in pain.
theres a reason the simpsons are a classic even now when theyre long stale, relevent almost more now then when many of them first aired. same with shows like roseanne, showing a crass family that had many actual problems yet still actually functioned and loved each other fiercely, ironically a more functional family then the plain toast of such ‘good’ families from prior shows like leave it to beaver. the crudeness had a point, which is why it worked
even family guy started that way, in the first two or three seasons they had most of the same purpose and point that the simpsons had… which isnt surprising because they unapologetically were a counterfeit following the formula- peter himself says, and i quote, ‘i would take a bullet for my daughter’…. how long did it take before he started farting in her face, announcing he wishes she was aborted in her presence, and completely ignoring her suicidal tendencies. that was a long drop
the failure to copy simpsons- homer was an oaf, but he always cared, tried as hard as he could after he realized he was in error; and at first peter was the same, but then rapidly stopped caring, then became proud of not caring, then when they created american dad they started day 1 with being proud of not caring and went south from there, reveling in their complete lack of empathy as though it was their purpose for existing…. which it is
Incredibly important.
I like to think I enjoyed some of these shows while retaining my empathy—but I wasn’t effectively raised by these shows from infancy. I think this is primarily a summation of their effect immature people, but it doesn’t make the situation any less damaging.
I think MacFarlane’s shows are much more damaging than the others, since they take place in a relatively more realistic sitcom world. Any teenage boy could do most of what Peter does—and they do.
Fandom: Until Dawn Character(s): Emily Davis, though all the others are mentioned. Words: 1058 Rating: T (Character death, swearing) Author’s Notes: Welp, I honestly didn’t intend to even write anything for this writing challenge but here we are! I decided it would be fun to just see what ideas came to mind from one or two of the prompts has a joke, and thought it would be hilarious to give Rainbows to Emily of all people. And well, that was my first mistake clearly. You can find the original post here for any others that want to try!
I will not tolerate any Emily hate. She may not be my fav character in the game, but I still love her a lot and having a gun shoved in your face would mess anyone up.
Personally, Emily had never been a huge fan of rainbows. It wasn’t that she hated them per say, she had just always been indifferent to them. There were far more exciting things out there than looking at a spectrum of light that didn’t actually exist cause it was just light that reflected off of water droplets that sometimes appeared in the sky after rain.
None of which was helping her as she glared at the mug of coffee that one of the officers at the police station had given her.The chintzy rainbow adorning the one side was way too cheerful and uplifting for the shit she had endured and somehow survived. Jess had once told her that rainbows were supposed to be a symbol of hope or promise or of good things to come. If so, then they were pretty shitty symbols in her opinion. Nothing that had just happened at been any of those things.
(Unlike her, Jess loved rainbows. Her blue eyes would always brighten up when one appeared in the sky after a rain shower. She would squeal in childlike joy when she watched the colors dance across her hand when cast through a window.
