(((I Will Outlive)))

can’t imagine living in a world where authors aren’t allowed to explore darker themes and topics through literature

honestly i always find it a bit sad and shallow how the discussion around darker family films/animation in general largely boils down to "this baby film is sooo fucked up!" rather than treating them as, you know, real films with genuine artistic merit. the actual filmmaking of movies like watership down or the secret of nimh or padak or the last unicorn is so often secondary to how "traumatizing" and "childhood ruining" they are

I don't think people get what I mean by this, I'm not saying "people act like it's bad for kids movies to be sad or scary but actually kids can handle that", I'm saying that I find it disappointing how cartoon fans tend to look at movies like the plague dogs or land before time or whatever primarily as Fucked Up Grimdark Tearjerkers rather than as legitimate cinema worth discussing in the way you might talk about any other film. Like it's very hard to find discussion of the themes or cinematography in something like watership down because the majority of talk about it is mostly fixated on "isn't it weird that this cartoon is violent", which is, in my opinion, kind of sad for a film that I find thematically and artistically interesting

“if you consume enough problematic media then there will be a point in which you become desensitized and replicate the behavior”

right, that’s why all my media studies professors moonlight as serial killers

half-serious quip aside, what you’re saying is that you think people have the inherent moral fiber of overcooked pasta and if you don’t spoonfeed them pre-digested purity, they will revert to their baser nature of amoral, immoral, cruel and murderous beasts which, frankly, means you’re a dehumanizing cunt

This is almost 1:1 the argument of ‘If you don’t have God, how can you be moral?’ Execpt, this is about consuming fiction.

How can you leave this absolute Mic drop in the tags