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

[Megaton Punch]

There's this small Pokémon comic called Tinder Skitty that got some fanfare on Twitter (which is already a bad sign) a while back. Essentially each small comic has some Pokémon talking and what not, and the 2 main characters are this Skitty and Wailord (referencing the Skitty on Wailord action meme) that had met on Tinder.

Basically, it looks like this:

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Honestly, most of the comics are tame (although the art is too furry imo).

Now I hadn't actually been looking at the comic that much recently (because I don't use Twitter) but the author had introduced some cheesy idol group that was easy to ignore, because most characters in the comics are mostly just there for the comic they appear in:

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I thought "whatever" and just skipped it. Unfortunately, the author decided to recently shoehorn in a "trans rights" comic for virtually no reason:

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The comic (link) wasn't even posted during June (aka Pride Month), it was posted today (August 2nd), which makes it worse.

Needless to say, I'll be dropping the comic, good riddance.

Don't shove your personal political views into entertainment that you create. I actually liked the comic until this happened (I didn't look at the artist's Twitter page so if he was already woke I had no idea before this). Imagine drawing like that (the art style isn't bad even if it is furry) and yet being unable to not let your personal views into your art.

I feel like I'm reading an alternate universe version of Sonichu where Chris is a passable artist. The dialog is just as bad, if not worse, and it hits the same points. Based on Pokemon, a Mary Sue protagonist who everyone loves, an Eevee version of The Hedgehog Boys, sudden tranny shit out of nowhere. It's even got typos. Are we sure the dimensional merge didn't happen?

 

[DoubleD]

I feel like if Gaiman wanted to make Death a black butch dyke he easily could have done it in the original comic. But he didn't and the character was great as she was. is more like he fell into a bandwagon and is doing it for current year pandering which is insulting to long time fans. Same as J.K Rowling retconning Hermione as black for brownie points. In the case of Death is like making Superman´s costume purple, an extremely iconic design that is ruined now.

I don't actually know if black Death was a Gaiman was on board with or just a Producer decision like in most shows but i wouldn't put it past him, he is certainly the type.

I would argue it was a bigger departure from established norms to make the Grim Reaper a woman in the original comic than it is to make the same character black in Current Year.

Now it's been a while since I've read The Sandman, but is this not the same series that portrayed Desire as a gender-ambiguous man-woman? Delirium also fits right in with the queer teen girl aesthetic, down to the traumatic backstory. And one of the most memorable storylines involved a highly sympathetic portrayal of a trans woman and the abuse she faced from her rural conservative parents.

And it's easy to forget just how ahead of its time this was for... [checks year] 1991.

Creatives like Gaiman always had a deep agenda to push. The fact that we don't see it, even in hindsight, is a sign of how successful they were in getting other people to accept their ideas. But, with the continued shifting of the Overton Window, yesterdays liberals become today's conservatives if they don't keep wanting to shift the window forwards.

Replace 10 years with 30, and it's pretty much this meme.

Of course, not everyone thinks the shift has gone far enough. But now that their beloved liberalism has become the status quo, a lot of these people get recontextualised as progressives. Their efforts to change the world, however, remain largely the same.

It could be argued that the race-based progressivism in The Sandman TV series is more in the spirit of the original than, say, faithfully recreating Death's original character design. One could perhaps argue that it doesn't go far enough, like IDK she needs to be more culturally Black, or talk about racism, or have storyline set in the BLM riots. I have not seen it, and I don't particularly intend to, but this does illustrate a fundamental conflict in the adaptation/remaking of older works: do you update the work for Current Year and possibly lose what made it special? Or do you strive for accuracy, only to find that those things no longer make it special? I know that Chato recently criticised Ghostbusters '16 for the second of these two reasons.

All this is to say that progressives have been meddling with our media for longer than most of us have been alive. And realising this (often in the context of shittier, modern-day progressivism) is often what makes me feel these things tarnish the original work.

 

[Rakdos92]

Can't blame his parents. If my son turned out to be a tranny, I'd wash my hands off him and accept that he died. I'd also hate myself for having failed him by not stopping the groomers.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

I would argue it was a bigger departure from established norms to make the Grim Reaper a woman in the original comic than it is to make the same character black in Current Year.

Now it's been a while since I've read The Sandman, but is this not the same series that portrayed Desire as a gender-ambiguous man-woman? Delirium also fits right in with the queer teen girl aesthetic, down to the traumatic backstory. And one of the most memorable storylines involved a highly sympathetic portrayal of a trans woman and the abuse she faced from her rural conservative parents.

And it's easy to forget just how ahead of its time this was for... [checks year] 1991.

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Creatives like Gaiman always had a deep agenda to push. The fact that we don't see it, even in hindsight, is a sign of how successful they were in getting other people to accept their ideas. But, with the continued shifting of the Overton Window, yesterdays liberals become today's conservatives if they don't keep wanting to shift the window forwards.

Replace 10 years with 30, and it's pretty much this meme.

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Of course, not everyone thinks the shift has gone far enough. But now that their beloved liberalism has become the status quo, a lot of these people get recontextualised as progressives. Their efforts to change the world, however, remain largely the same.

It could be argued that the race-based progressivism in The Sandman TV series is more in the spirit of the original than, say, faithfully recreating Death's original character design. One could perhaps argue that it doesn't go far enough, like IDK she needs to be more culturally Black, or talk about racism, or have storyline set in the BLM riots. I have not seen it, and I don't particularly intend to, but this does illustrate a fundamental conflict in the adaptation/remaking of older works: do you update the work for Current Year and possibly lose what made it special? Or do you strive for accuracy, only to find that those things no longer make it special? I know that Chato recently criticised Ghostbusters '16 for the second of these two reasons.

All this is to say that progressives have been meddling with our media for longer than most of us have been alive. And realising this (often in the context of shittier, modern-day progressivism) is often what makes me feel these things tarnish the original work.

Thats what i meant. He could have done whatever he wanted when he did the comic, it was already out there with these ideas so putting an ugly black woman playing Death adds nothing, is a total non-statement doing it now and kills one of the most iconic looking characters in comics just for current year trends and virtue signaling. Whats more pointless is they could have had their cake and eat it too because the endless change appearance depending on the context, in african legends Dream is seen as black, they could have had their precious representation while staying faithful to the source material but nah, not enough woke for 2022.

 

[Borax Bozo]

Relevant twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/AuronMacintyre/status/1529873073087848448

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1529873073087848448.html

Auron MacIntyre:

To understand why a magazine dedicated to science is advocating for censoring free speech we need to talk about the German cat

In the early 1930s there was a Jewish journalist living in Germany. The journalist loved cats so he had a subscription to a cat magazine. At first the magazine had articles about grooming your cat, toys for your cat, exactly what you would expect in a magazine dedicated to cats

But as the 30s went on the journalist started noticing articles appearing in the magazine about the German cat. How the nature of German cats were superior. How essential the loyalty of German cats were. Slowly some variant of this message made it into every article.

In the total state every aspect of life must relate back to the power of the regime. No academic discipline, piece of art, or hobby can simply exist for its own sake. It only exists to point back to the power of the regime.

In more formally totalitarian regimes we understand how this works. In the 3rd reich or USSR there was an official official organ of the state in charge of coordinating propaganda. Forcing every piece of media to point back to the state.

That doesn’t exist in our society so we need to explain why we can still observe the same phenomenon.

Our regime is governed by a decentralized network of consensus manufacturing institutions sometimes called the cathedral

Our ruling class do not have their orders handed down by one official propaganda office but they do all attend one essential institution during their formative years that shapes their morality, worldview, and personal networks

The university

The people who operate our key institutions and shape our culture all share the same moral system. They read the same things, attend the same parties, watch the same programs, and need to signal the same types of virtues to succeed in personal and private life

This is how a science publication can dedicate itself to denouncing free speech. The elites who run it share the same interests values and culture as other cultural elites and will become preoccupied with the same causes placing them above the stated purpose of the institution

When you notice that every company is woke, every show or video game is about social justice, every school is more interested teaching gender ideology than math or reading you’re noticing the German cat, the decentralized narrative of the cathedral

 

[KiwiFuzz]

"Murder on the Orient Express" 2017 is an absolute turkey.

It takes place on a train full of rich people going from Istanbul to Calais in 1936.

So OF COURSE there's a black doctor played by the dude from Hamilton and OF COURSE the black doctor is banging Daisy Ridley and OF COURSE the one time someone says something racist all the other characters are like "Don't be racist."

And OF COURSE everyone is worried that the Spanish guy is going to be arrested and charged because apparently everyone in 1936 in Europe was racist against the Spanish???

It's an Agatha Christie, FFS.

The ADL in 1947 told the woman to knock it off with the Jew-hate, and she wrote a book called "Ten Little Niggers" set on Nigger Island.

I don't watch period pieces to see everyone congratulate themselves on how woke they are, I watch period pieces to see people from a different time engage with the world as they understand it.

It's what made early Game of Thrones good; people have a different moral code that works for the time and place they live in.

Shit like this makes me want to watch "Birth of a Nation" and root for the Klan.

 

[Cactuar King]

"Murder on the Orient Express" 2017 is an absolute turkey.

It takes place on a train full of rich people going from Istanbul to Calais in 1936.

So OF COURSE there's a black doctor played by the dude from Hamilton and OF COURSE the black doctor is banging Daisy Ridley and OF COURSE the one time someone says something racist all the other characters are like "Don't be racist."

Don't forget the part where he reveals it was all an act and apologizes for pretending to be racist.

 

[Mao Hao Hao]

"Murder on the Orient Express" 2017 is an absolute turkey.

It takes place on a train full of rich people going from Istanbul to Calais in 1936.

So OF COURSE there's a black doctor played by the dude from Hamilton and OF COURSE the black doctor is banging Daisy Ridley and OF COURSE the one time someone says something racist all the other characters are like "Don't be racist."

And OF COURSE everyone is worried that the Spanish guy is going to be arrested and charged because apparently everyone in 1936 in Europe was racist against the Spanish???

It's an Agatha Christie, FFS.

The ADL in 1947 told the woman to knock it off with the Jew-hate, and she wrote a book called "Ten Little Niggers" set on Nigger Island.

I don't watch period pieces to see everyone congratulate themselves on how woke they are, I watch period pieces to see people from a different time engage with the world as they understand it.

It's what made early Game of Thrones good; people have a different moral code that works for the time and place they live in.

Shit like this makes me want to watch "Birth of a Nation" and root for the Klan.

I wouldn't watch the sequel then, Death on the Nile (2022). That one gets even more crazy with events, like Poirot being in love with a black blues singer, a whole sub-plot of a white guy wanting to marry a black woman and the reveal that the rich older lady is actually in a secret relationship with her live-in nurse/maid.
I just wanna watch cool murder mysteries, not see shoehorned in political issues.

 

[Bulk Bogan]

That one gets even more crazy with events, like Poirot being in love with a black blues singer, a whole sub-plot of a white guy wanting to marry a black woman and the reveal that the rich older lady is actually in a secret relationship with her live-in nurse/maid.

Burgers?

But really, who was clamoring for a new set of Poirot movies, especially pozzed ones? Where's the audience?

 

[Fictional Character]

"Murder on the Orient Express" 2017 is an absolute turkey.

It takes place on a train full of rich people going from Istanbul to Calais in 1936.

So OF COURSE there's a black doctor played by the dude from Hamilton and OF COURSE the black doctor is banging Daisy Ridley and OF COURSE the one time someone says something racist all the other characters are like "Don't be racist."

And OF COURSE everyone is worried that the Spanish guy is going to be arrested and charged because apparently everyone in 1936 in Europe was racist against the Spanish???

It's an Agatha Christie, FFS.

The ADL in 1947 told the woman to knock it off with the Jew-hate, and she wrote a book called "Ten Little Niggers" set on Nigger Island.

I don't watch period pieces to see everyone congratulate themselves on how woke they are, I watch period pieces to see people from a different time engage with the world as they understand it.

It's what made early Game of Thrones good; people have a different moral code that works for the time and place they live in.

Shit like this makes me want to watch "Birth of a Nation" and root for the Klan.

People in the 1936 would go "Don't be racist", but it wouldn't be "Don't be racist, it's wrong". It would be "Don't be racist, it's in bad taste." There's a passage in one of Joseph Roth's novels from the period that goes roughly "We were no longer anti-semitic. One can't be anti-semitic when his doorman is."

And I guess people in 1936 would think everyone Spanish is either communist or fascist, since the Spanish Civil War was just starting.

I wouldn't watch the sequel then, Death on the Nile (2022). That one gets even more crazy with events, like Poirot being in love with a black blues singer, a whole sub-plot of a white guy wanting to marry a black woman and the reveal that the rich older lady is actually in a secret relationship with her live-in nurse/maid.
I just wanna watch cool murder mysteries, not see shoehorned in political issues.

These are all issues rich people in the period could easily encounter, but why would you put them into a fucking Poirot adaptation? Plus I bet all this is handled in the most early 21st century manner.

 

[thegooddoctor]

There are none, this is the benefit of enjoying nothing life has to offer sadly.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

Art in general, as, while both sides of AI debate are fags, seeing so much people on here clearly thinking that only art that matters is HQ pseudo3D/animesque that they themselves can not draw, so having robot generate shit for you is "based", felt unpleasant.
Just fucking try drawing - I suck, you suck, but that porn drawer over there does not, such is the life.

 

[Flaming Insignias]

Art in general, as, while both sides of AI debate are fags, seeing so much people on here clearly thinking that only art that matters is HQ pseudo3D/animesque that they themselves can not draw, so having robot generate shit for you is "based", felt unpleasant.
Just fucking try drawing - I suck, you suck, but that porn drawer over there does not, such is the life.

I'm more frustrated at the artcows that treat AI art as the ultimate evil because it “threatens” their commission structure when an algorithm draws better than them. The aesthetics are irrelevant, I just think that people whining about AI art are faggots that should learn how to draw better if they feel so threatened by a string of code.

 

[Retard of the Month]

Ready Player Two.

I'm in the (apparent) minority that thought Ready Player One was an incredible read (probably because I was thirteen or so when the movie came out and I read the book a year or two after watching the movie), but then the second one had some climate change gibberish and a tranny character.

Come to think of it, though, the book I wrote (haven't published it yet) contains a few references to the Jewish conspiracy, and it has basically no relevance to the story.

 

[Negev]

Horror in general has gone to shit I think since politics started being shoved into everything. Movies are all just "THE REAL MONSTER WAS [Men,Humans,Christianity, etc.] and they spend 90% of the movie just focusing on shoving their awful message down your throat and maybe if you are lucky you get 5 minutes of a cool monster, Antlers was one that really disappointed me after they spent so much time making sure you knew that the MC was abused as a kid.
Horror gaming isnt in as bad of a shape but at least in the indie scene we have a lot of devs who make a cool demo concept but then spend all their time virtue signaling on twitter and either just add some tranny flags or something to their game and never finish them so we end up with thousands of half finished demos and nothing else
Then we have horror art, where artists post some cool art and then for no reason at all feel the need to either virtue signal or let everyone know they are a tranny or lgbwhatever, and in some instances they spend more time crying about whatever politics and even making political drawing instead of posting cool horror art

 

[Orange Rhymer]

Horror in general has gone to shit I think since politics started being shoved into everything. Movies are all just "THE REAL MONSTER WAS [Men,Humans,Christianity, etc.] and they spend 90% of the movie just focusing on shoving their awful message down your throat and maybe if you are lucky you get 5 minutes of a cool monster, Antlers was one that really disappointed me after they spent so much time making sure you knew that the MC was abused as a kid.
Horror gaming isnt in as bad of a shape but at least in the indie scene we have a lot of devs who make a cool demo concept but then spend all their time virtue signaling on twitter and either just add some tranny flags or something to their game and never finish them so we end up with thousands of half finished demos and nothing else
Then we have horror art, where artists post some cool art and then for no reason at all feel the need to either virtue signal or let everyone know they are a tranny or lgbwhatever, and in some instances they spend more time crying about whatever politics and even making political drawing instead of posting cool horror art

the REAL MONSTERS were the pedos that made the film/video/game/book, and profited.

 

[Inafune Fanfiction]

Horror in general has gone to shit

Somehow Silent hill is just the next "nu-star wars" where Heather gets treated as if she can be as omnipotent as Darth Vader from her collab appearances in everything. Especially Dead by Daylight where Silent hill 3 doesn't even have a school in it. Why is the trailer showing a high school? There is one in the shitty second movie that even konami and the fans universally disregard as non-canon.

Silent hill was an overall overrated franchise that got astroturfed to hell sometime in the 2010's. The tank controls are shit as if the game wasn't made by humans who understand how people move and interact with the world, and the story was as cheesy of a dub as you could get for the early 2000's.

Detective Douglas's lines sound like they were coming from a robot.
"Heather. I need to talk to you. Its about your birth."
No human being talks like that. She's Justified in running away.

 

[Toolbox]

Boomer crime shows are still getting worse. Most of the format is there, but shows like Ncis, really anything Dick Wolf has involvement in has gone to shit since gamergate when the hilarious out of touch gamer rapist episode was made. These shows were never high brow content, but ok turn your brain off tv. They've subverted even this, what was a successful format to preach the leftie angle on every hot button or at best lukewarm political/idpol topic. Since BLM anything relating to cops has gotten especially worse, and most of it not even in a way that's decently hilarious.

 

[Arianne Chan]

Star Wars, of course

Or at least the "Disney" version

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

Anyone remember Sesame Street's infamous Crossover with CNN where they talk about vaccines? I cannot even go 3 minutes into this without going into a fit of rage. It's television equivalent of human experimentation.