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Celebrating the 31st anniversary of Kirby's Adventure

Happy birthday to the most character to character ever

pride month, baby! time to draw my current favourite character with the non-binary flag colours!

twt loved this one so ig i should post it here too?

all i could think of when i heard the new voice lines

JINX'S SPECIAL FACE RIG

"We built a special rig on Jinx. You can control her face, going from looking childish to adult." [...] "The idea was to connect her somehow, visually, to what she was as a kid." (Arcane: Bridging the Rift)

sorry y’all

jinx!!

That's not what he meant, Jotaro

tumblr is less a social media site and more language's final frontier

to boldly go

it is crazy how “if this childrens show doesn’t kill their villain at the end it’s irredeemable media” became such a popular opinion here. like people were calling steven universe fascist apologia. and to be clear I don’t even think that would be the case for non childrens media, either. perhaps holding every single story up to the same standard of “does it follow the acceptable narrative path or is it evil propaganda” isn’t the most anti-fascist thing, either. maybe.

"you are morally obligated to murder your enemies" is also perhaps not the most anti-fascist thing

I did a research project on the ways popular children's animated films punish their villains and when you lay all the data out, the number of films that actually do kill their villains is terrifying. (It gets even more interesting when it's mapped out alongside the social characteristics of the villains, the the crimes they commit too)

Can you post the data? I'm curious ngl

Sure!

I did a study of around 100 top box office animated movies aimed at children from the last 30 ish years, finding 180 villains represented. This graph shows the ways they were punished within the film based on the crimes they committed:

As you can see, the punishment is generally harsher for "more serious" crimes, but drawing attention to the statistic for the villains who murder, they are killed more than 50% of the time. Which I guess can be seen as an eye for an eye type thing, but is that really what we want to be teaching our children? Notice how little legal action takes place as an act of justice too (you know, the system we rely on in society to take care of crime).

When taking gender into account, we also find that female villains are punished much more harshly that male villains, despite the fact there is not much difference in the ratio of crimes they commit.

Take a look at how they are punished when they don't conform to their gender expectations too:

When they are murdered in response to their crimes, it is much more likely to be active capital punishment than an accident, and the comparison of physical punishment (an action that would usually cause bodily harm) is staggering.

This data (and even the study) barely touches the surface of what could be uncovered here, and I definitely believe more research should be done into what we are teaching our children about criminal justice in the media they consume. Particularly as media becomes more accessible, and the overconsumption of media more normalised.

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William: "Challenge accepted."

I am still not over vento aureo, it's been months I have a problem

Reblogs appreciated <3

#oh no!! #his LUNCH

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