Creative works you enjoyed until politics happened - "How politics made me hate Welcome to Nightvale and other things"

[Mao Hao Hao]

Star Wars. Use to be one of my favorite movie series until Disney got the rights, made new movies and Reddit deep dived into it.
Magic the gathering, Pokémon, D&D, and (sadly) warhammer.
However, The worst blow to me is anime. Anime is my main thing since I was a kid and no one really heard of it. Now with downies trying to make it political; I hate talking about it. It’s horrible when someone tries to make a character gay or a tranny or you have some alt wannabe /pol/tard having lolis in SS uniforms. It’s fuckin’ depressing

At least anime is still technically safe if you keep away from any and all western fanbases and stick to just Japanese/other east asian fanart and such. And stick to subs, since dubbing is slowly becoming more and more twisted/changed to match some current agenda or other.

 

[The Southwest Strangla]

At least anime is still technically safe if you keep away from any and all western fanbases and stick to just Japanese/other east asian fanart and such. And stick to subs, since dubbing is slowly becoming more and more twisted/changed to match some current agenda or other.

not really anymore. the japs are greedy and will edit their shit to please americans. there was an anime that was meant to come out in 2019 until the author tweeted something like "all chinese/koreans are cockroaches" the japanese didn't really cared about it until some american "nerd" websites found out about this and the studio making the anime cancelled it over the backlash. the japs don't care for black, gays, and trannies, but they will bend the knee for that sweet american cash.

 

[Safir]

At least anime is still technically safe if you keep away from any and all western fanbases and stick to just Japanese/other east asian fanart and such.

Anime is pozzed. A wholesome romance manga I used to follow (guy x girl) sprang a troon as a romantic rival on me (a troon, as in "trans women are women", yaniv style bathroom gossip and all) . My fujo friend read a gay manga which ended with one of the two faggots deciding whether to identify as bisexual or pansexual (I mean, you don't have to be a faggotry connoisseur to know that ending a romance with "who else I want to fuck" is gross, it'd be equally bad if the dream hunk in a normal romance looked around the wedding chapel and said "I do! I'm attracted to women after all! yes plural women, nice tits on that bridesmaid by the way").

Old anime and manga is mostly safe. But it is disheartening to run with "everyone good is either dead or retired" as a maxim in entertainment. I want to be a good consoomer, buying new works from good living authors blind and giving them a fair shake.

 

[Mary Lee Harvey osWalsh]

Wasn't there an installment of Death Note recently with a shitty Trump expy?

 

[Flaming Insignias]

Wasn't there an installment of Death Note recently with a shitty Trump expy?

That was actually a bit more nuanced than it sounds. The president buys the Death Note in an international auction where multiple governments tried to get their hands on it, and then refuses to actually take it once told that accepting it would kill him due to a new rule saying that trading the DN would kill the involved parties. Instead, he intends to fool the world into believing that he has it and can use it on the country's enemies, as the ultimate weapon of intimidation to protect the US. Ryuk is actually impressed by this scheme and gives him the Death Note without a catch. Not bad for a Japanese work involving a very contentious American president.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

"everyone good is either dead or retired"

This was already true years before the troon woke cult went mainstream. You can't pozz what the waifuists, isekai and moe have already taken.

 

[Anti-Social Social Club]

Anime is pozzed. A wholesome romance manga I used to follow (guy x girl) sprang a troon as a romantic rival on me (a troon, as in "trans women are women", yaniv style bathroom gossip and all) . My fujo friend read a gay manga which ended with one of the two faggots deciding whether to identify as bisexual or pansexual (I mean, you don't have to be a faggotry connoisseur to know that ending a romance with "who else I want to fuck" is gross, it'd be equally bad if the dream hunk in a normal romance looked around the wedding chapel and said "I do! I'm attracted to women after all! yes plural women, nice tits on that bridesmaid by the way").

Old anime and manga is mostly safe. But it is disheartening to run with "everyone good is either dead or retired" as a maxim in entertainment. I want to be a good consoomer, buying new works from good living authors blind and giving them a fair shake.

American culture is spreading everywhere like a virus your "based enlightened japs" are not cut off from the internet and are getting exposed to the same dumbass ideas everyone else is exposed to 24/7 so it's no surprise that it's springing up in recent manga/anime.

Spoiler: Cont.

I imagine that the people involved in making manga/anime/video games that include these topics in their work probably feel like they're educated and enlightened compared to the rest of the locals since regardless of where you're from there is no alternative way of thinking to the "gender and sex aren't the same thing" dogma if you disagree you're an uneducated conservative reactionary cuck in their POV. I imagine it will happen more and more until who knows what.

 

[ChaosReignsOnSomeSaturday]

The Magnus Archive podcast was really thrown off when they started focusing on a forced weird gay relationship, and that whole police brutality trigger warning episode just soured an otherwise great show.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Wasn't there an installment of Death Note recently with a shitty Trump expy?

Death Note is bad anyways.

 

[FuckedOffToff]

I was a huge fan of this series of books (Song of the Lioness) that featured a girl disguising herself as her twin brother so she could become a knight and he could become a wizard by Tamora Pierce growing up. Huge fan. I loved that she wrote a kick ass girl kicking ass, taking names, and growing up as a woman in a boys world.

Then I started following her on Twitter, and one day after one of the many, many public out cries of ~twanzphobia~ (maybe when JKR first went full TERF) she came out and said that Alanna was ~acktually~ non-binary because she did male things instead of going to get the training noble girls got. Sorry, "gender non-conforming", with the implication of being under the non-binary Troon umbrella.

I was flabbergasted. Alanna was always a girl. She used she, when she wasn't pretending to be a boy. She called herself a girl/woman. Grew up to love both dressing like a man for practical reasons - like fighting - and dressing in gowns and wearing makeup as a woman of her class would do. She married a man and had children with him. She pretended to be a boy because girls were forbidden to go through knight training. After she came out as a knight the next king changed the law so that girls could become a knight - as they used to be able to do a hundred years before their time.

It was a great feminist story about girls doing what they really wanted to and doing it well. But suddenly she's non-binary? No. Gender non-conforming as in the old school way of meaning it, sure. Like David Bowie and Prince. But not under the Troon umbrella!

I had no problems with JKR saying Dumbledore was gay, because yeah, he was. I picked up on that long before she said that. Before the homoerotic relationship between him and the bad dude during WW2 or whatever was written about in the last book. Same with Hermione maybe being black, her skin tone isn't mentioned once and bushy hair could be taken to mean black hair. It's assumed she's white, but unlike that black kid - Dean I think - it's never explicitly stated.

Those things were plausible at best, or a duh in Dumbledore's case. But this statement of Pierce's was just so out of left field.

I am aware that this is raw, undiluted autism, but it was a long-time favorite series for me that I read at least once a year. I still love them, but this just makes me MATI.

No. I adored those books growing up. (Please excuse the autism, everyone.) I can't believe this. I shall take a moment to grieve a formative influence in the author, while still confident that Alanna would have laughed at the idea of non-binary (probably cooked up by Raoul and Thom) and kicked abusive Tranny arse.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

The Magnus Archive podcast was really thrown off when they started focusing on a forced weird gay relationship, and that whole police brutality trigger warning episode just soured an otherwise great show.

They also have a tranny weirdo in their team

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

No. I adored those books growing up. (Please excuse the autism, everyone.) I can't believe this. I shall take a moment to grieve a formative influence in the author, while still confident that Alanna would have laughed at the idea of non-binary (probably cooked up by Raoul and Thom) and kicked abusive Tranny arse.

Raoul absolutely would have come up with the idea as a joke. But he respects women far to much for it to be anything other than a joke to get her riled up.

Gender non-conforming, absolutely. All of her heroines fall into that definition, because they don't act in a stereotypical feminine fashion according to the social mores of their suitation. But non-binary? No.

I just unfollowed her and ignore it, but damn if my heart didn't shrivel a bit when I saw that.

Never follow your heroes on social media.

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

not really anymore. the japs are greedy and will edit their shit to please americans. there was an anime that was meant to come out in 2019 until the author tweeted something like "all chinese/koreans are cockroaches" the japanese didn't really cared about it until some american "nerd" websites found out about this and the studio making the anime cancelled it over the backlash. the japs don't care for black, gays, and trannies, but they will bend the knee for that sweet american cash.

Inuyashiki has a TDS trump on the television a few times and tells everyone "fuck you. got mine".

 

[FuckedOffToff]

Raoul absolutely would have come up with the idea as a joke. But he respects women far to much for it to be anything other than a joke to get her riled up.

Gender non-conforming, absolutely. All of her heroines fall into that definition, because they don't act in a stereotypical feminine fashion according to the social mores of their suitation. But non-binary? No.

I just unfollowed her and ignore it, but damn if my heart didn't shrivel a bit when I saw that.

Never follow your heroes on social media.

I do agree. The gender non-conformity, no problem. Alanna would have rankled at the unfairness and the abusiveness of the current situation, though, I think.

"Never meet your heroes" was the the old fashioned term for it, I believe. I had feared this, tbh, so hadn't looked Pierce up.

Just as well I'm an OG woman, not one of these transfat ones. I can deal.

 

[The Demon Pimp of Razgriz]

Inuyashiki has a TDS trump on the television a few times and tells everyone "fuck you. got mine".

Inuyashiki is written by the author behind Gantz, who always shoves social and political messages into his works. This is the guy who introduced an all powerful alien force in Gantz just so that it could tell mankind God doesn't exist.

 

[ChaosReignsOnSomeSaturday]

They also have a tranny weirdo in their team

Like in the show or the actual team working on it? Regardless doesn't matter now. The shows over and their other shows suck. They'll milk Magnus forever now and just never let it die despite the show having been finished.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Funny enough, as someone who owns almost half of his discography (since I willingly bought them with my hard earned money), politics almost ruined Jay-Z’s later work

Case in point:

The guy who called himself ”Che Guevara with bling on” to literally getting manhandled by Beyoncé’s sister for cheating on her in the elevator, as well as shooting your own brother while stabbing a young producer in your younger years, tried to turn into an oppressed billionaire rapper that used to call himself “Hova”.

Sure, I don’t expect Jay to be a conservative since he hangs out with Obama from time to time, but when I see stuff like this:

Again:

Again, Jay has had a storied career, but this man is the greatest example of being both a hypocrite and B.S. artist. People change when they do get older, but not in a way that makes them ingest politics that go against what they stood for in the beginning of their careers.

It‘s also not just with rappers either; rock stars and really rich celebrities that talk about the downtrodden and poverty stricken fall in this rabbit hole, too.

 

[CWCissey]

Funny enough, as someone who owns almost half of his discography (since I willingly bought them with my hard earned money), politics almost ruined Jay-Z’s later work

Case in point:

The guy who called himself ”Che Guevara with bling on” to literally getting manhandled by Beyoncé’s sister for cheating on her in the elevator, as well as shooting your own brother while stabbing a young producer in your younger years, tried to turn into an oppressed billionaire rapper that used to call himself “Hova”.

Sure, I don’t expect Jay to be a conservative since he hangs out with Obama from time to time, but when I see stuff like this:

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Again:

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Again, Jay has had a storied career, but this man is the greatest example of being both a hypocrite and B.S. artist. People change when they do get older, but not in a way that makes them ingest politics that go against what they stood for in the beginning of their careers.

It‘s also not just with rappers either; rock stars and really rich celebrities that talk about the downtrodden and poverty stricken fall in this rabbit hole, too.

It just shows that Johnny Rotten was the only good one. He turned up, pissed the media off for his own amusement, and now he's quietly looking after Mumsy.

Shame he was a bitch about that Pistol series, even if he was being played as Rick from The Young Ones.

 

[The Great Citracett]

The Chris-Chan documentary on youtube.

I realize the guy is a leftist European soyboy, but it's not exactly a non-biased and impartial documentary when the presenter barely hides his disdain and hatred of American conservatives and their political beliefs.

He of course omits and glosses over some unimportant things, which makes sense, but I'm not sure we needed to hear every last word of every one of Chris' pro-Hillary and anti-Pmurt rants.

And the Charlottesville rally was not a "neo-nazi rally for white supremacists" as he so impartially put it.

He did last surprisingly long before cucking to the pronoun posse and calling Chris a "she" though. Never mind that it sounds dumb as hell and serves to confuse the listener by making it hard to tell who he's talking about at any given time. I can't take anyone seriously who talks about someone "jacking her penis" with a straight face.

I fully expect him to troon out in the near future.

 

[Coffee Druid]

Raoul absolutely would have come up with the idea as a joke. But he respects women far to much for it to be anything other than a joke to get her riled up.

Gender non-conforming, absolutely. All of her heroines fall into that definition, because they don't act in a stereotypical feminine fashion according to the social mores of their suitation. But non-binary? No.

I just unfollowed her and ignore it, but damn if my heart didn't shrivel a bit when I saw that.

Never follow your heroes on social media.

Part of me wants to dig up the quote, but part of me wants to keep that my image of Pierce innocent. Like you guys, the Alanna series was something I enjoyed so much growing up. I was already a tomboy, but reading her books was a nice way to see badass female heroines being knights and whatnot. I also like her Bloodhound books about a young woman becoming a city guard. They were gender nonconforming, and that was okay. They were still women.

I created a lot of characters and fictional settings growing up and much of that was inspired by books like Tamora Pierce's. To hear her step decades back in terms of gender stereotypes is saddening.

I recall liking several cross dressing manga and fiction growing up. Like Hana Kimi. But the cross dressing was a plot device, or a way to add tension if they were found out. Even something that they could use to get an "insider perspective" on how the other sex acred around each other. The characters weren't doing it because they actually wanted to be guys. But now anyone that even remotely dresses outside their strict gender role box is "trans".