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children's media ain't pulling punches

BougieBirdie - 3w

A while back I was recovering from a panic attack so my wife said we should try watching Bluey.

The feelings were too scary, so instead we settled on Friday the 13th

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Berengaria_of_Navarre @lemmy.world - 3w

I love the owl house though. But yes the feelings are very real.

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caseyweederman - 3w

For anyone who hasn't heard, Dana Terrace and her team (from The Owl House) have put out a pilot for their new show: Knights of Guinevere. I highly recommend it, and please spread the word.

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Evil_Shrubbery @thelemmy.club - 3w

Well, it's kinda important to expose developing/more pliable brains to the full scale of things (not just one narrow little bit/spectrum) - a bit like playtime equips you with the mindset to face & make real-time decisions in the real situation (and not first having to comprehend what's going on + have the years of background thinking about bigger concepts).

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Moonbunny - 3w

I uhhh get very excited and bouncy and flap around a bunch when I watch cartoons… at 29 years old😅

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Eryn6844 @beehaw.org - 3w

totally the feels are too intense. this is why i am on beehaw instead of youtube and facebook.

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Samskara @sh.itjust.works - 3w

What is it with trans women being into cartoons and anime so much?

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gray @lemmy.ml - 3w

Queer ppl find ways to make up for their lost childhoods

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Samskara @sh.itjust.works - 3w

Queer kids can’t watch cartoons?

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Clocks [They/Them] - 3w

Queer people usually have bad childhoods either by abuse or by simply having been lost or disassociating, by watching cartoons again with other queer people they reclaim those experiences — now in a healthy way.

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Of the Air (cele/celes) - 3w

You'd be surprised actually. A lot of us were 'raised' by abusive and/or ultra religious folks that hated cartoons. Not all, but a lot.

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ChaoticNeutralCzech @lemmy.ml - 3w

I don't think that's a big proportion, I assume most just weren't allowed or too anxious to express how they felt about the media.

(Just a hunch, I'm likely cis; I also haven't been exposed to anime or emotionally heavy cartoons until 15, and even then very sporadically)

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gray @lemmy.ml - 3w

Yep, this is me. I felt a lot of pressure (from outside and the inside) to conform to what "real boys" liked. And kept my true interests hidden.

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trashgirlfriend @lemmy.world - 3w

I watched cartoons as a kid! I think... I can't actually remember due to the memory loss caused by depression.

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TotallynotJessica - 3w

Nerdy introverts who find community in niche fandoms?

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Samskara @sh.itjust.works - 3w

Not sure that trans is a niche fandom.

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TotallynotJessica - 3w

No, but trans people tend to be nerdy introverts

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theresa (she/her) - 3w

Trans people who are on lemmy/reddit, I'd say. Plenty of less chronically online trans people I know are quite extroverted. (I'm not disagreeing, just offering another perspective)

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Diurnambule @jlai.lu - 3w

People here are nerdy. You are using shortcut. That like : Count Dracula have a castle because he is a count not all vampire got castle.

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Berengaria_of_Navarre @lemmy.world - 3w

If you are immortal and eat for free, you have no excuse not to invest your food budget in index funds and wait a couple of hundred years. If a vampire doesn't at least live in a stately home, they are making very poor investment choices. What I wouldn't give to have invested in Nintendo back in 1889.

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Diurnambule @jlai.lu - 3w

Truly, but do you really expect vampires to be up to news, the guy lived through every major crisis, he probably is pissed about human made crisis

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Berengaria_of_Navarre @lemmy.world - 3w

Would you rather be poor and pissed off or rich and pissed off?

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Berengaria_of_Navarre @lemmy.world - 3w

Find me one queer person who doesn't like the owl house! I'll wait.

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UnixSlvt42 - 3w

Hi. I don't like owl house. Your 2hr wait is over.

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Berengaria_of_Navarre @lemmy.world - 3w

Truly? Why? It's a beautiful story of a missfit's journey towards self acceptance and has strong LGBTQ characters. And it is all accepted as normal. A blueprint for how society should function. A world in which your identity or romantic preferences aren't given a second thought by anyone. On top of that it's a classic underdog tale of a struggle against authoritarianism. The characters are well written and grow and develop throughout the seasons. I just don't see why you wouldn't like it.

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SCmSTR - 3w

There are all kinds of people out there. I once knew a guy who wrote drum corps music but literally hated all other kinds of music.

That being said, I'm also curious about their reason(s).

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Noxy - 3w

The what now?

I mean owls are cool birds and all but that's probably not what you meant

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Of the Air (cele/celes) - 3w

That's not what was meant, it's the cartoons that were meant.

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Diurnambule @jlai.lu - 3w

That the normal amount... Ypu are just used to the "normal" comics which are always straight. Same thing as autism didn't exist in 1800.

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SCmSTR - 3w

I watch and read and play all kinds of stuff, not just anime. If it's good it's good.

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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 3w

I think I personally have an aversion to live-action partly because trying to avoid looking at people because of self-denial. IRL, that's easy to avoid, but you can't really watch a show without watching it. Can't say I've heard others express similar reasons though, but I supposed there's a reason why "I want to be a cute anime girl" is such a popular webtoon (relevant panel).

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GarboDog - 3w

DO NOT CHANGE THE CHANNEL!! ;—; THESE ARE RELATABLE TEARS

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