Its been NINE YEARS and i still dont think anyone knows exactly why teen titans was cancelled
Same reason Young Justice and Green Lantern The Animated Series were canceled: Girls liked it. Bruce Timm finally up an’ said it out loud in an interview a while back when he was asked why in the hell GL:TAS had been canceled when it was doing so well on every front; DC’s animation department has institutionally decided that feee-males don’t/can’t/shouldn’t like superheroes, so even if a show is drawing in great viewership numbers and has great toy sales, once they find out that it’s popular with women and girls, they pull the plug on it. Cartoon Network loved Teen Titans— two million viewers for new episodes will do that— and wanted a Season Six, and the production staff was already in the planning stages for it; they were going to have a big arc about Terra and why she was Living Normal, and do a lot more with the extended Titans team members.
This is so fucked up.
To elaborate on this point a bit, the reason this happens is that modern television merchandising aims for total market segregation.
In a nutshell, it’s much more efficient to sell things to people if you can divide them up into tightly defined subcategories that have no interests in common; that way, you never risk accidentally competing with yourself.
This is why children’s toys (and toy sales channels) are actually much more strongly gendered these days than they were forty, thirty, even twenty years ago: one of the basic market segregation splits they’ve decided to use is “boys versus girls”.
Ever wonder why you see Avengers t-shirts that leave Black Widow out of the group shot, or Guardians of the Galaxy action figure lines with no Gamora? That’s market segregation in action.
The upshot is that shows with crossover appeal can actually be cancelled for being too popular with girls; they’re viewed as “stealing” the female market from the specifically girl-targeted media that rightfully “owns” it.
This is the sort of thing folks are talking about when they say gender roles are socially constructed, by the way. The gender split in media merchandising? It’s not just artificial, it’s deliberately imposed as a top-down marketing strategy. When folks try to justify it by saying “this is the ways it’s always been” or “this is just what the market wants”, they’re lying through their teeth - this is, in fact, the merchandisers dictating to the market what it wants in order to sell stuff more efficiently.
(Interestingly, the reverse isn’t always true: if a specifically girl-targeted show unexpectedly becomes popular with boys, sometimes rather than being cancelled, its merchandising will shift to court the male collector’s market. TV execs are so sexist, even their sexism is sexist.)
It gets worse.
Paul Dini, a writer/producer said this on a podcast: “ That’s the thing, you know I hate being Mr. Sour Grapes here, but I’ll just lay it on the line: that’s the thing that got us cancelled on Tower Prep, honest-to-God was, it’s like, ‘we need boys, but we need girls right there, right one step behind the boys’—this is the network talking—’one step behind the boys, not as smart as the boys, not as interesting as boys, but right there.’”
Cartoon network and Warner brothers deliberately made the conscious decision to dumb down their female characters because they want to push female viewers away. In fact, Tower Prep was cancelled because it had too many female viewers because the writers made too many well written female characters.
So shitty representation of girls isn’t something that just happens. It’s the result of deliberate planning just so the execs can make more money.
And it’s not just cartoon network. I mean, why do you think Nick fucked over Korra so badly? Remember them telling Bryke they didn’t want a female Avatar? Why do you think there are no Korra figurines or action figures?
IF IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY, YOU ARE ‘WEARY’. IF SOMEONE IS ACTING IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU SUSPICIOUS, YOU ARE ‘WARY’.
ALL IN ‘DUE’ TIME, NOT ‘DO’ TIME
‘PER SE’ NOT ‘PER SAY’
THANK YOU
BREATHE - THE VERB FORM IN PRESENT TENSE
BREATH - THE NOUN FORM
THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE
WANDER - TO WALK ABOUT AIMLESSLY
WONDER - TO THINK OF IN A DREAMLIKE AND/OR WISTFUL MANNER
THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE (but one’s mind can wander)
DEFIANT - RESISTANT DEFINITE - CERTAIN
WANTON - DELIBERATE AND UNPROVOKED ACTION (ALSO AN ARCHAIC TERM FOR A PROMISCUOUS WOMAN)
WONTON - IT’S A DUMPLING THAT’S ALL IT IS IT’S A FUCKING DUMPLING
BAWL- TO SOB/CRY
BALL- A FUCKING BALL
YOU CANNOT “BALL” YOUR EYES OUT
AND FOR FUCK’S SAKE, IT’S NOT “SIKE”; IT’S “PSYCH”. AS IN “I PSYCHED YOU OUT”; BECAUSE YOU MOMENTARILY MADE SOMEONE BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT WASN’T TRUE.
THANK YOU.
*slams reblog*
IT’S ‘MIGHT AS WELL’. ‘MIND AS WELL’ DOES NOT MAKE GRAMMATICAL SENSE.
Sound therapists and Manchester band Marconi Union compiled the song. Scientists played it to 40 women and found it to be more effective at helping them relax than songs by Enya, Mozart and Coldplay.
Weightless works by using specific rhythms, tones, frequencies and intervals to relax the listener. A continuous rhythm of 60 BPM causes the brainwaves and heart rate to synchronise with the rhythm: a process known as ‘entrainment’. Low underlying bass tones relax the listener and a low whooshing sound with a trance-like quality takes the listener into an even deeper state of calm.
Or more aptly named: “I got really bored and thought of a really dumb reason to do something nice for people who like nice things that are soft and cute but also Overwatch-related.”
I don’t really know how in the world I got so many of you young punks following my blog, but here we are. Time for me to do something nice for you guys.
Be following this blog!! It’s a giveaway for followers, so if you’d like a chance at getting this super cute plush, just be following me!! This is a strictly-Overwatch blog, so there’s no personal posts. It’s also SFW!!
Reblog this post!! “Likes” count as a second entry, but ONLY if you reblog it as well!! Just “liking” the post won’t count as an entry, sorry. Giveaways don’t gain an audience if people don’t reblog!! Multiple reblogs also count; just please be courteous to your dear followers!! No one likes spam!!
Some rules:
Giveaway blogs do not count, and all entries will be nulled.
You MUST be okay with giving me your legal name and address so that I can send the plush directly from Blizzard’s store to your home.
Keep your ask box or IM system open for messages; if I cannot contact you on Tumblr, I will choose someone else. I’m not going to break my back trying to get in touch with you.
If you harass the winner, I will kick you in the face. Physically.
You have to be living in the US; I can’t afford international fees.
However, if you want to pay the international shipping fee coverage, you are more than welcome to enter.
The winner will be picked on Thanksgiving Day, November 24th, 2016.
You guys have an entire month to get your entries in for this giveaway!!
The winner will be chosen from a random number generator. I will give the winner 24 hours to respond to my announcement of their win; if they do not get back to me, I will pick again with the same method.
If you have any questions or if you want to laugh at me for my hastily-crammed giveaway graphics choice, please message me here!!
I reached 4.5k followers recently! I did a giveaway for my 4k mark but I feel like I should have done a bigger one, so here ya go. Inspired by @visor76‘s generous LootBox giveaway they did a while back, so go give them a follow too, they are really cool!
☆ Winner will be drawn on November 3rd at 10 pm CST. ____ ☆ If you confront or bother the winner I will kick your ass. ____ ☆ Keep your Ask Box/Messaging OPEN so I can message you if you win. If I can’t contact you I will pick someone else. ____ ☆ No giveaway blogs. ____ ☆ You don’t have to be following this go around, though it’s greatly appreciated. You can read my ABOUT ME before following, and if I’m not your cup of tea, don’t worry about it!
☆ Likes and Reblogs both count. You can reblog as much as you want, just please be courteous and don’t spam your followers. Keep it reasonable and spread out over the course of the week if you plan to enter multiple times.
Update: If you have Overwatch Origins Edition already and you win first place you can instead take a $50 BNet Giftcard!
