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Ice Age 3

what's the first movie you remember seeing in theaters? don't try and be all edgy and cool and say like tetsuo: the iron man. be honest.

Go!!

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you know i have never heard a convincing arguement as to why AO3 should not moderate the content that is posted to their website and i think a lot of the arguement against moderation on AO3 boils down to, terminally online people thinks community moderation is the same as government censorship and personally sending the cops to someone’s house to arrest them irl/

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When you’re interested in queer history and come across the thousandth (non-historian) explaining about this queer couple that historians will call best friends (academics have agreed for decades that it was queer) and trying to prove their queerness with “you wouldn’t do that (any caring thing ever) for a friend!”

#and then they slap some modern labels on them and call it a day #queer #lgbt history #platonic queer relationships are also part of queer history just so y’all know #platonic #aro rambles #and historians will call them...

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I kinda want to try binding, but I already feel like I’m being suffocated by just wearing bras….so.

#the gender is gendering #breastily boobing my way forward #queer

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I think that we as a society need more creature fics

#ao3

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A note to all creatives:

Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn around and use it on somebody else’s industry.

No AI book covers. No making funny little videos using deepfakes to make an actor say stuff they never did. No AI translation of your book. No AI audiobooks. No AI generated moodboards or fancasts or any of that shit. No feeding someone else’s unfinished work into Chat GPT “because you just want to know how it ends*” (what the fuck is wrong with you?). No playing around with AI generated 3D assets you can’t ascertain the origin of. None of it. And stop using AI filters on your selfies or ESPECIALLY using AI on somebody else’s photo or artwork.

We are at a crossroad and at a time of historically shitty conditions for working artists across ALL creative fields, and we gotta stick together. And you know what? Not only is standing up for other artists against exploitation and theft the morally correct thing to do, it’s also the professionally smartest thing to do, too. Because the corporations will fuck you over too, and then they do it’s your peers that will hold you up. And we have a long memory.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking “your peers” are only the people in your own industry. Writers can’t succeed without artists, editors, translators, etc making their books a reality. Illustrators depend on writers and editors for work. Video creators co-exist with voice actors and animators and people who do 3D rendering etc. If you piss off everyone else but the ones who do the exact same job you do, congratulations! You’ve just sunk your career.

Always remember: the artists who succeed in this career path, the ones who get hired or are sought after for commissions or collaboration, they aren’t the super talented “fuck you I got mine” types. They’re the one who show up to do the work and are easy to get along with.

And they especially are not scabs.

*that’s not even how it ends that’s a statistically likely and creatively boring way for it to end. Why would you even want to read that.

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Karl Marx? The dude who wrote the Donald Duck comics?

#donald duck

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Bring back slutty mustaches

#fashion #mustache #please #text post

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if i ever have kids, i just need them to know that i will never be as proud of them as i was of zuko when he stood up to his father, and when he became the firelord

#atla #atla shitpost #avatar the last airbender #zuko #prince zuko #atla zuko

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I actually think that the thing that bothers me most about live action Yue’s design is that her eyebrows are black. Why would only the hair on her head get white. It makes it feel disconnected. If her brows and even lashes were white too, I’d believe that her hair is white. Like the wig wasn’t good. But the dark eyebrows aren’t certainly helping with convincing me that her real hair color is white.

#atla live action #princess yue #atla liveaction spoilers

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Okay, ep 6 of live action avatar. so far the best, and it’s so frustrating, because in that i see the potential that this thing has. that chat with aang and zuko, after the escape, i liked it. because for a moment, the show paused. it stopped with the exposition, it stopped with the plot, and it just breathed in those characters for a moment. i was interested in what was happening. but it was also frustrating, because; why are you making me care about the relationship between zuko and aang, before making me care about the relationship between aang, katara and sokka. if they could’ve put that energy into them, allowed them to have moment where i care about them, this could’ve been so much better. not having sokka and katara do much anything in that episode worked in the animation, because it was one of twenty. this was one of eight. that’s a very different thing, and it’s clear that the show doesn’t care about sokka and katara.

what they should’ve done, is cut the original show into it’s bare bones. leave all the extra plot out, that isn’t necessary, and spend the time they have; not creating new plot to fill that, but to explore the characters. take time, show the audience why we should care about them.

also, the agni kai scene. i’ve seen a lot of people say, that because this is live action, it’s going to be a lot darker. but that scene showed them do pretty much the opposite. nothing about the original agni kai needed to be changed, it was already really dark. but that could have changed, is how they told that story. they could’ve done like they did in that episode, and show fully what happened, but no changes. because no one did speak out for zuko. Iroh looked away. and zuko didn’t fight back. he didn’t try to defend himself. he just begged for forgiveness. if they wanted to go the dark route, they should’ve kept that. they could’ve shown ozai walk over to zuko, telling him to get up and figth, while zuko refuses to do so. they could’ve literally shown ozai cradling zuko’s face in his hand in a moment of comfort, that for a moment makes people and zuko thing it’s going to be okay, before lighting his whole palm on fire. but then they couldn’t get away with not making his scar a proper scar.

i did like the idea of having a scene in which ozai tells zuko he’s banished. but even on that one, i would’ve made a few changes. i think they should’ve remembered that the agni kai was for speaking out of turn, and the banishment was for refusing to fight and therefore dishonouring himself. there were no real reasons, there was no right way to act in an agni kai (a battle to death), that would’ve resulted any better, and ozai knew that. he wanted to get rid of zuko, because he liked azula more.

yeah, i don’t know if any of this made sense, i just kinda wrote out my thoughts. i guess if i had to summarise this, it’d be just, i wish they’d spend more time on the characters and the relationships between them instead of on useless plot that no one gives a shit about.

also, removing sokka’s sexism arc is not progressive, it just gives you an out from actually talking about sexism in depth and from making sokka wear a dress.

#i did not proofread this #throwing thoughts into the void #atla live action #atla liveaction spoilers

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So um. I genuinely don't have many thoughts on the live action atla. It looks fine.. i guess

Except. Zuko's scar.

It's so... underwhelming. Like yeah it's there. It's red and it has a little bit of texture. But I guess i was hoping the live action would make it a little more prominent.

Like I'm a burn victim myself, who very much went through a similar struggle Zuko did. Where i felt like my scars define me. This. This feels not like what i hoped for. They even let him keep his eyebrow 😤

And I'm hoping that it's just because it wasn't practical to go all out with it. Like it was too expensive to put full prosthetics and special effects on such a young actor for every shoot.

But i have this sinking feeling in my gut that its because he's 'meant to be attractive'. Or even more heartbreakingly, that making it bigger would be considered too 'gory' or 'body horror'.

And im just tired of seeing scars and other 'deformities' as being seen as something to only be shown in full capacity in horror movies. That it would be too visceral or too 'gross' to fully show. It reinforces the idea that people like Zuko, people like me have something inherently disgusting and ugly about us. That our features have to be toned down in order to be palatable to a wider audience.

I remember seeing Zuko for the first time as a kid and seeing a part of myself that was rarely represented. I was bullied for my skin grafts as a child. Of course i was, kids are cruel. But seeing Zuko go through the struggles i went through and to have him find people who didn't treat him differently was so important to me. Like to me, that part of his story was arguably more important than his redemption arc.

And seeing Zuko seen as attractive by people in the fandom was also a profound experience. Because it felt like i could too exist in my full burnt chicken nugget glory and still be treated as a full person. Not looked at with pity or disgust.

So that's why live action Zuko's scar is such a disappointment to me.

I have other thoughts on the atla remake but really, they don't matter that much, since i don't think ill be watching it

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Everyone’s a bit of a furry when beast’s human form is revealed

#i just know belle was disappointed #beauty and the beast #disney beauty and the beast #furry #shitposting

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I actually still haven’t seen it, I refuse to see it and everything I’ve heard of it makes me want to crawl up in a cave and die

Okay but like, toothless was not domesticated. Hiccup didn’t tame him, he befriended him. That’s the whole point. Toothless is not hiccups pet, he’s hiccups best friend. They learned to communicate and understand each other, i could write a whole essay about how they are equal in that relationship. They’re best friends.

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I put something there and they all stopped talking!!???

How tf do people talk in group chats, these motherfuckers are writing so fast and I’m still trying to figure out my answer to a question that no one even remembers anymore

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How do y’all do this shit. So stressful

How tf do people talk in group chats, these motherfuckers are writing so fast and I’m still trying to figure out my answer to a question that no one even remembers anymore

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How tf do people talk in group chats, these motherfuckers are writing so fast and I’m still trying to figure out my answer to a question that no one even remembers anymore

#socialising is difficult #text post #help #wtf