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Two absolute angels!

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Hey Bluey fans, how are we doing?

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Fleabag

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on loving your siblings

I don't love anyone, Belle and Sebastian//The Reynolds Pamphlet, Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda//The Other Boleyn Girl(2008)//Fleabag, 2x06//@earth-to-mothership //Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy//Antigone, Jean Anouilh//Maurice Sendak//Little Miss Sunshine (2006)//The Elektra Complex, @filmnoirsbian //NA

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tsc characters as unhinged quotes my friend said

Anna: when i was little i thought god wanted me to be gay so he gave me small fingernails

Magnus: do you have a fever? throat ache? homosexual thoughts?

Emma: you're in good health, but there's cancer in you

Simon: she's so hot does she like useless guys?

Mark: is temperature high or low when it's cold?

Helen: I'm gonna eat breast and nutella

Kit: sorry I'm just super emotional I saw two gay men

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Luke’s taking a break right now, please leave a message with R2 after the beep boop.

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Usually it’s video games instead of music but this is pretty much accurate hehe

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Moussa Sene Absa

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maybe I'm just on my period, but feeling WILDY emotional about the little plant in Wall-E. it's a pea plant. He found in the fridge. And they never say it's a pea plant, but it is. And when I first watched it, I didn't recognize it, never even thought about it. Now that I've grown a few gardens, I just wanna cry.

Pea plants are so good. They're completely edible, first off. Pea sprouts are considered wildly nutritional and ppl grow them as microgreens all the time. The whole plant. Eat em up.

They sprout within DAYS! Like three days!! The seeds last for ages since they're so big and dry out and don't rot. Just need a little water and sunlight and you can wake up peas that are ages old.

And there's something so cute about pea plants? They grip things? They almost fucking hold your hand? i'm not kidding??

So this little thing. this little pea. Forgotten in the bottom of a fridge. Probably the floor rotted out. There it sat. And with just a little bit of dirt. And a little bit of water. And just the tiniest bit of sunlight. This little pea woke up. And it can't be more than a week old. Of all the fridges, of all the world. This is the one Wall-E opens. This little survivor. This little pea.

I'm literally crying again, hahaha omfg.

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“Animation is just for kids!”

…Ok…Ok…Let’s take a look at some of that animation that’s “Just for kids,” shall we?

Adventure Time is a series that touches a lot on philosophical questions and theories, with one episode having one character ask “If just being born is the greatest act of creation then what are you supposed to do after that?”

Avatar: The Last Airbender dives deep into having characters question what is right and wrong when dealing with a horrible evil. Like, is it better to harm anybody, even the most innocent old man, just because their society is run by fascists? Should we torture those who tortured us? And should we really kill someone just because they are irredeemable? All hard questions, each with uneasy answers.

The Owl House has a powerful antagonist whose goal is to commit genocide on an entire race of innocent people due to being raced to believe that said people are evil, thus stating that the most dangerous people are the ones who are prejudiced and ignorant.

Centaurworld  has a scene where a man tries to drown an elk. No, I’m not kidding. That happened. It was on screen and everything.

Encanto teaches a lesson on generational trauma, the pressures of living up to expectations, and stating that the best gift is being alive and having those around you.

And do I even have to say ANYTHING about Pixar?! The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Up, Inside Out, Soul, and even Toy Story all have themes and morals that can speak to adults while also being simple enough for kids to understand.

But that’s just animation for kids. Let’s talk about animation for ADULTS, shall we?

South Park takes a comedic view of our society, poking fun in the many ways it’s broken.

The Breadwinner is a tense movie of a young, Afghan girl disguising herself as a boy so she can go out and make money so her family can survive.

Invincible has some of the most brutal scenes I’ve seen from a superhero series, including this moment with a train (you’ll know it when you see it) that was so horrific that, when it cut to black for a second, I saw the look of pure shock and terror of my face reflected onto my laptop.

And Bojack Horseman is the best adult-animated series I’ve ever seen because it tackles issues made for adults. Things like opium addiction, depression, the struggles of being asexual in a sex-driven world, and telling one truth that most adults need to hear. The truth that, in this life, you can’t live happily ever after. You’re alive, always have another problem to deal with, and then you’re dead. There’s no point, in this plane of existence, when you’re happy forever and ever. Because life’s a show, and when everybody’s happy, then there can’t be a show anymore.

Animation. Is not. For kids.

Animation is a medium that is often geared towards kids. And the reason why people keep saying it’s for kids is because they focus on the kids stuff and refuse to look at how mature some animated movies and shows can be.

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anger in heart under garments is probably the most canon and accurate thing ever

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this post & merthur

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With him, there was no neutrality, no in between.

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I know unicorns in modern media are kind of regulated to cutsie, MLP, rainbow plastic toys, or shitting rainbows, 'lets go to candy mountain' but man. I WISH more fantasy media would put them in unironically. There is so much symbolic and narrative potential in a creature that is, depending on your mythology:

A guardian of wild spaces, the embodiment of nature untouched by mankind's industry and greed. Fewer and farther between.

The ideal of "Purity" made manifest, elusive and powerful and hunted for fruitlessly by many a person. To kill. To actually kill. Living symbol of the oh-so-coveted Purity, not treated as a sacred thing to protect, or even predated for food to survive off, but a trophy for knights and lords to boast about.

So absolutely fierce and deadly that no one smart dared to fight it fairly. A gentle maiden had to betray it into resting in her lap so that a man could spear it while its guard was down.

Able to heal any wound no matter how severe - it promised miracles, if you could find one.

A creature who's magic vanished if it was captured or killed. In trying to take control of it, you destroyed it. Some things can only be given by free will, and no amount of personal desire or brute force can change that.

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