"Consume content" is an awful phrase that makes my skin crawl.
Read a book, read a comic, read an essay. Watch a movie, watch a play, watch a video. Play a game. Listen to music, listen to a speech, listen to a slam poem. Look at paintings, look at sculptures. Tour an exhibit, view a presentation.
But for the love of god, stop "consuming content." It's a soulless, corporate phrase that wants you to rip through as much as possible as fast as possible. It wants you to spend money, cast things aside as soon as you're done with them, and forget them once you move on. It wants you constantly fixated on the next big thing at the expense of everything else.
"Consuming content" is an icky phrase and I hate it so much.
#fandom#fandom issues#media criticism#bad media criticism#fandom wank#writing issues#tumblr fandom#twitter fandom#content#capitalism#us capitalism#(I understand how this became a meme)#(and how it kind of exploded as a meme in recent years)#(including in Neurodivergent spaces)#(because we unironically joke about our SpIns and Hyperfixations and 'Consuming' them)#(And I wont bite someones head off for using it in joking fashions because Ive done it JOKINGLY too)#(but as a writer {+for fun} myself I really really HATE how it seems to have replaced the concept of enjoying literature&the arts for FUN)#(And for some certain fandom Types fandom these days is all about nothing BUT '''consuming content''' to them apparently)#(&then they force it {the meme+in inherently negative ways or as ~judgment~ ON Autistic fans} on ME&my other kind mutuals in the fandom{s})#(I didnt start my fandom blogs ANY fandom blog Ive ever had because I considered myself as '''consuming content''' during those fandom eras#(the *meme* **DIDNT EVEN EXIST WHEN EVEN THIS BLOG WAS NEW!!**)#(I was just considering myself A FAN OF MY SPINS AS AN AUTISTIC FAN who ENJOYS blogging about my Fav media FOR FUN)#(AND AS AN)#writers#artists#artist issues#writing is art#(AKA PLEASE stop demanding '''content''' in {not actually joking???} fashion from me for *any* of my rare Favs and ships and Fav series)#(I dont mind providing FANWORKS for FUN but I do NOT consider my works even my gifsets or screencap compilations or meta '''content'''!!)