the evolution here is also a solid contender for meme of the year 2019

Stardew Valley is wild cause it’s this fun wholesome little game where you raise animals and grow crops and get married but it also has monsters and dwarves and the mayor and rancher lady are secretly fucking and it’s heavily implied the shop owner’s daughter is actually an illegitimate child his wife had with the local wizard and there’s a note from your grandpa saying he’s gonna return from the grave and visit you on the dawn of your third year in the valley

Don’t forget that the country you’re in is being invaded by a much larger nation, one of your fellow townspeople has PTSD from being tortured in a POW camp and it’s causing him to lash out at his wife, one of the marriage candidates lives in an abusive household, another one is suicidally depressed, the mayor is using taxpayers’ money to build solid gold statues of himself while the infrastructure crumbles but everybody’s so disenfranchised with politics that nobody ever stands against him for election and, oh yes, the main plot of the game is that a supermarket is trying to destroy the town so that they can stripmine the local area.

Okay but this is probably the post that will make me buy this game like

What the fuck I thought it was just a farming sim

Also you can be gay

you can be so gay

Oh, that’s the context.

good dad

Homer was a real one.

REPEAT AFTER ME : I am about to walk into the greatest year of my life✨

imagine going to college for four years and spending thousands of dollars in tuition to do surface level thematic analysis of a children's book series and then saying you pioneered a field of study

family gatherings are great because everyones like "why is your hair so short" and im like i literally dont respect any of you

This is such a good article though

The argument Pinto makes is that the story and the doll normalize 24-hour surveillance in the mind of a child, which makes them susceptible to more passively accept police-state surveillance as adults.

It’s based in a theory that was developed by Jeremy Bentham and popularized by Michel Foucault in which students, prisoners, factory workers and others were thought to function better (for whatever value of better) in a system called a panopticon, in which an individual is potentially under surveillance 24-hours a day, but never actually KNOWS whether or not he or she is being surveilled. 

In addition to the problem of normalizing surveillance in the mind of a child, this also forces the child into a situation where they never feel like they are free to simply be themselves; they are forced to be “on their best behavior” at all times, unable to relax and make mistakes and do the job of growing up and being a child, because they never know if the elf is spying on them, ready and waiting to report back to Santa Claus that they’ve been bad.

Here is a link to the paper that the article is talking about

My co-worker got Elf on the Shelf for her four-year-old daughter last year, and was so freaked out by her daughter’s sudden and complete change in behaviour (uncharacteristically worried and anxious, while trying to be on her ‘best’ behaviour that she never kept up for family or at school) that she stuffed Elf in the garbage after a week, telling the daughter that the Elf had to go back to the North Pole to help Santa with Christmas. 

Also read the paper linked above, it’s a good one.

I hate this entire concept so much.

the creators of this monstrosity are exactly what you would expect

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This creepy bastard is making a popularity revival this year and I don’t think it’s coincidental.

When someone complains about the subtitles being on the screen

pretends to be shocked

UGH “HATSUNE MIKU WROTE HARRY POTTER” I SWEAR TO GOD YOU CANNOT DIVORCE HARRY POTTER FROM THE RACIST TRANSMISOGYNISTIC ANTISEMITIC AUTHOR ITS IN THE TEXT STOP DOING THIS SHIT

before yall go “where is it” here’s a few examples off the top of my head!

racism: the entire spew story arc wherein jkr writes about her slave race that loves slavery and hermione is considered weird and to be causing harm by trying to end said slavery

transmisogyny: girls are allowed in the boys dorm rooms, but boys are not allowed in the girls dorm rooms. this becomes incredibly insidious when you know what her beliefs are

antisemitism: every description of snape, the entire existence of the goblins, “goldstein”

you can look up any of these things for more details i am not going into it the point is stop trying to “divorce” works from their creators when it turns out they are bigoted, because their views are definitely there within their works and especially when these messages are being taught to children it’s harmful to pretend these things aren’t there and that the media should be consumed uncritically “because miku made it”

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