#laila.txt

[juregim]

the reason the forgers haven’t discovered each other’s covers yet is because they both have not idea what constitutes a regular person

#also they both do insane shit with a straight face and the others like ‘well ig that’s normal’ #spy x family #laila.txt

[17mujipens]

i’m finally reading the poppy war trilogy and while i’ve got a lot of thoughts and opinions and all that. but. the whole “me, my military academy fwb (frenemy with benefits) situationship, his dilf of a dad who i have a psychosexual relationship with and the spirit of the one that got away who’s haunting us” thing in the dragon republic is killing me

#compels me though #there’s also ‘my lieutenant who was in love with my the one that got away’ and #‘my platonic soulmate who’s a sunshine (he’s actively drawing up plans to terrorise the enemy as hard as possible)’ #really encouraging me to write interpersonal relationships weirder in my own work tbh #the poppy war #the dragon republic #laila.txt

[lsleofthelost]

i found the official website of the production designer for all the Descendants movies. his name is Mark Hofeling and he is quite detailed and gives in-universe information on all the settings, so here's a selection of things i found interesting about Isle of the Lost:

About the colours: "With the entirety of Disney's stable of villains imprisoned here, the color palette had to reflect their very particular taste. After a careful study of classic Disney villainy, I took all their purples, blacks, burgundies, and acid greens, and drenched them with 20 years of soot, rust, grime, and grit. I called the resulting palette "Dirty Candy"."

Main street:

Thieves Market:

Fortune teller's shack.

"The vendor on the left sells the highest quality, slightly bruised produce from Auradon. The one on the right sells the more typical Isle fare, toadstools, nightshade, assorted rot, and all varieties of curdle."

Other vendors at the Market, "where the once-powerful residents of the Isle of the Lost sell, steal, resell and re-steal the same tired old trinkets and goods to each other."

This is someone's bed jammed between two rickety towers, right beside their booth at the Market.

Other locations:

"Life on the Isle of the Lost is miserable for its once-powerful residents. Upon being banished here, all their magic and witchcraft were disabled by a magical shield. So they mostly just steal and sell and re-steal and resell the same old junk and useless trinkets to and from each other."

Propaganda:

"This is a detail of the cheerful and largely hopeless propaganda campaign the good people of Auradon paste-up on the streets of the Isle in hopes of rehabilitating the fallen villains. In no time at all the people of the Isle make their feelings known."

This is all from D1, I want to do a separate post on Maleficent's castle, since it has a lot of cool details, and then I'll move to other parts

#im primarily interested in isle of the lost but he has a lot of super interesting infor on auradon too #descendants #isle of the lost #worldbuilding #laila.txt

[pavloveme]

you all know how much i love annotating and analyzing lyrics and recently i've been getting into bad omens. im a big fan of bring me the horizon so when i saw noah on the bmth ig i was like who is this mysterious man with this nice voice? so of course i went on a deep dive and now im in love. i've listened to their entire discography at least 5 times over by now and i know you think at this point i'm going to choose a song that is not just pretend to talk about how much i love the lyrics but. here i am. talking about how much i love just pretend. it's not even my favorite song by them. it's not even my favorite song on this ALBUM (my fave is somebody else. by the way. yeah. the song they never perform. pray for me.) but like there is a reason why that song is so popular. there's a reason why everyone loves it. i absolutely CANNOT believe noah and jolly wrote this beautiful ass song out OF SPITE. like. he started this song to be ironic. and i literally just can't deal because this song makes me want to lay on the floor face down and stand out in a thunderstorm at the same time. and it's the bridge that gets me the most. that fucking:

"weigh down on me, stay till morning"

"way down, would you say i'm worthy?"

like i think they were trying to kill me when they wrote this. god i just love songs that i can interpret to be about attempting to find salvation and religion in a person. bad omens uses a lot of religious imagery in their music and i absolutely LIVE for it. like yes i am so devoted to our love even if you don't love me anymore. i find salvation and home in you even if feel nothing but apathy for me. am i worthy of your touch? your attention? your love? yes i will wait for you as long as i live because you are my life's purpose and i'll never find anyone like you in this lifetime or the next. UGH. THIS SONG JUST GETS ME SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH LIKE THANK YOU GOD FOR MAKING ME BORN IN THIS LIFETIME SO I CAN LISTEN TO MUSIC! I LOVE MUSIC! YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#laila.txt #bad omens #just pretend #i'm silly and i love this song so much. #like its just so. #especially with noise cancelling headphones #just mwah #chefs kiss

[windmillsdeancas]

DEAN SAVED THE TRENCH COAT AND BROUGHT IT WITH HIM BETWEEN EACH CAR SWITCH BECAUSE HE KNEW IT WAS CAS’S COMFORT ITEM THE SAME WAY THE CAR WAS HIS

#HOLY SHIT #laila.txt #they need their comfort items they make them feel safe as sunforgrace says it’s the adhd autism brain

[harleysquinnzel]

Hey I’m looking for some more black and white and pale blogs to follow so if you like

Star Wars

Harry Potter

Marvel

Stranger Things

IT

I Am Not Okay With This

Merlin

Pirates of the Caribbean

Or anything on my about page

Pls reblog this so I can follow you!! Tagging some mutuals! @romaanovas @wespers @tinanewt @florenepugh and @jedirey

#laila.txt

[momojiri]

happy new year!!!

sorry im not here as much as i wish i were ;;

#laila.txt

[windmillsdeancasjail]

i am going THROUGH IT tonight besties

[juregim]

the brothers sun took “daddy issues make u a people pleaser and mommy issues make u a psychopath” and just ran with it

#the brothers sun #laila.txt

[juregim]

Yor: one of the best assassins in the whole world

also Yor:

#i love her so much #yor forger #spy x family #spy x family manga #laila.txt

[lsleofthelost]

au where everything’s the same but Fairy Godmother has the personality of Sister Michael from Derry Girls

#descendants #laila.txt

[17mujipens]

kabru was absolutely perfect in this episode. immediately figuring out that it's an illusion, killing people with unmatched efficiency as his party cheered him on (and then helped him dump them in water so they don't get revived), figuring out exactly what happened based on one hair, his inability to understand the Toudens because he can't conceive someone not having hidden intentions, the contrast in his human-killing abilities and his inadequacy when dealing with monsters.... i also really like his voice, it's very much guy next door but its a bit put upon and then there are moments where he's more himself and it changes

#also so cute that all the girls in toshiro's party immediately blush when he turn the charm on #laila.txt #dungeon meshi #toshiro was also so depressed this ep </3

[lsleofthelost]

jays hair gets stuck in fencing gear all the time. he refuses to braid it because that’s his brand

#laila.txt #i just had a fencing club flashback

[lsleofthelost]

genuinely feel the need to ask some people in the descendants tag if they even like the source material

#this is a joke #i just went into the tag as i do. and there are sooo many anti mal posts. girl if u dislike one of the mcs that much #or the logic of the universe. or the design choices. or the way characters behave.u have to ask yourself. do i even like this piece of medi #like i may clown some things. or like disregard some dumb additions. but im never not having a great time when i rewatch the trilogy #laila.txt

[lsleofthelost]

in continuation of this post, here's a more detailed look at Maleficent's castle, including the commentary from the Descendants production designer, Mark Hofeling, and also my own thoughts and obsesrvations.

"We imagined the once-mighty Maleficent humiliated and furious in defeat. Even in her fallen state, she would still require the most befitting accommodation on the Isle of the Lost. The "Bargain Castle", while hokey and ramshackle, most resembles her former keep in the Forbidden Mountains. And its balcony gives her an unobstructed view across the bay to the hated Auradon. This is the exterior of the second floor, interior set. This was digitally added to a practical ground floor at the end of the main street of the Isle of the Lost. "

"A broad view of Maleficent's cavernous, leaky, drafty cold-water walk-up in the Bargain Castle on the Isle of the Lost."

i love the peeling paint on the walls, the mismatched furniture and lamps, how weathered and aged everything is. and how this is the height of luxury for the Isle.

"Maleficent's sunken living room with her unreliable Predicta TV. It is her only link to the outside world."

the Predicta TV is from the late 50s, the screen is tiny, and, according to the commentary, the connection is unreliable. but still, in Maleficent's home, it has a special niche, and a stand, it's treated as an indulgence. there's also a vinyl player, and some records, but most of them are without sleeves, so i imagine they're scratched and skip sometimes, but Maleficent still likes them. there's a newspaper, probably a few days old, but a way to keep up with the outside world when the TV is broken.

"The mismatched sofa in Maleficent's sunken living room."

since the barges only bring in trash, we can assume that no big objects, like a sofa arive in one piece. there is also a bowl of (probably stale) froot loops (?) on the table which i think is hilarious and sad.

"A view of Maleficent's dressing area and her elevated throne. Domesticity is not among her considerable powers."

it's actually such a tiny space... like her vanity is made out of an old trunk, the lamp on it is covered with fabric, most likely because the proper lampshade is ruined. this also implies that there is not enough space for it in her bedroom... there is a tiny furnace with wood, which is used both to warm the place and to dry the clothes. the drapes are thin and totally let the light in but i think it's not such a problem on the Isle, since it's permamently overcast.

"We wanted to give Maleficent one artifact from her former, magnificent life. The director suggested maybe her throne. Unfortunately, the throne from the original animation was a 12 foot wide, 6 ton stone bat. Not a practical thing to carry into exile. So I tried to evoke the idea of that throne with a ridiculous green and purple wingback chair she might have confiscated from the Isle's Bazaar."

first off, i love that he says that it's confiscated. Maleficent doesn't buy things, but she doesn't steal them either, she just takes them because she has the power to do so. other thing i love is that as far as i understand, this is the most elevated point in the house, so she can sit on her “throne” and feel powerful.

we also see a similar rug in front of her sofa, so i assume it was probably one rug that was cut up in pieces.

the fact that there's a telephone implies that they have some kind of internal landline system on the isle, my head canon is that one of the more engineering inclined minion/scientist/wtv hooked it up. there's just a few telephones between the houses of the most powerful. the dirty, stained windows supported by old newspapers and duct tape just show how weathered everything is.

"The job of the production designer is to conceive and execute the broad look of a show. But the big picture is built out of thousands of details. I spent my weekends in Vancouver having a ball cooking up little details like Maleficent's childlike "REVENGE", "FOOLS!", and spinning wheel magnets, and her shopping and to-do lists, all stuck to her "WICKEDAIRE" refrigerator."

the real-life equivalent is a Frigidaire refrigerator from the late fifties. which, from what i've seen, seems like most of the tech on the Isle is from that time period, despite the fact that Auradon living in seemingly contemporary times, with modern technology and all that. i think they purposely don't send modern tech there, only old, barely working things there, because they know that technology could, theoretically, break the barrier (which is what Carlos does in the first book). also, i like that he calls Maleficent child-like, because i think she's definitely become that way there, bored out of her mind, every avenue for revenge lost, nothing to really keep sharp. also, if we ignore the things on her to-do list that are cartoonishly evil, the rest of the list is kind of mundane and a little pathetic... like there's something wrong with the rain gutters, she needs to call Jafar over to fix her TV antenna, since it's her only connection to the outside world... she used to be the Mistress of all Evil.

"A detail of Maleficent's poorly tuned piano."

again, the paint is peeling on the walls and on the furniture, there is no front on the piano, there is no one to even tune it. i think she still likes the music... we see what are probably magic book strewn around, potions (and probably some alcohol) on the side table.

"A detail of one of Maleficent's many broken, drafty windows."

i can't quite figure out where it's supposed to be but still, the way some windows are painted, some covered by newspaper (help together by duct tape) makes me thing that either 1. Maleficent wanted to emulate the look of stained glass from her former glory days; 2. Mal did it to make the place look better (actually, she probably did a lot of work to make the house look better?); 3. they don't want outsiders looking in, while still letting light in. i doubt that the trash telescope works, but if it does, it's probably used to spy on people, though i think it's just a vanity item.

"Maleficent's scratchy Victrola. Notice the double helix of the custom wallpaper. It evokes both Maleficent's classic thorn vine's from Sleeping Beauty and the idea of the DNA of evil. Does it pass from one generation to the next, or can one change their destiny?"

again, more books and another record player. i think Maleficent tries to dissociate from the situation, get lost in music, re-listening to the same scratchy records, re-reading the same books, re-trying the same ineffective spells.

i didn't even notice the double helix wallpaper before!! i always thought it was just a thorn pattern, referencing her story. this is such an amazing representation of how evil is embedded in the kids blood, and how despite it all they choose change.

through what we've seen, i think there's probably just a few more rooms in the castle: Maleficent bedroom, Mal's bedroom, and their bathrooms, maaaybe a smal storage room. they call it a castle but really it's just a rickety, crooked, decaying apartment on top of some shop. and this is how the most powerful person on the Isle of the Lost lives.

#descendants #isle of the lost #laila.txt #watch my overanalyse the SHIT out of this #this is just soooo interesting to me!!! like this is where Mal grew up!! #also this shows how fucking deprived of everything the Isle is becuase this is how THE most powerful person there lives #like only the powerful can afford to have a place at all #the regular villains/criminals/their kids sleep behind their stalls in the market or have some communal situation #also the fucking dna wallpaper BROKE me..... lost my mind at that

[lsleofthelost]

desperately going to need you to elaborate on chad's dream being a racecar driver actually hdjkfdsfklsdfds

that’s actually from my mutual’s @thebluestbluewords tags!! also i think there was some tie in media where he said it?

but as someone who’s into formula 1 i will take this opportunity to talk about it.

it’s no secret that racing is a very expensive sport to get into. so like 99% of all the drivers come from wealthy backgrounds. and as fans, we all accept that as a reality of the sport. but like i said, what i’m picturing for Chad is something of a Lance Stroll situation.

if u don’t know who that is, Lance Stroll is a driver competing for Aston Martin at the moment. and well, he’s not a bad driver by any stretch of imagination (or he wouldn’t have made it all the way to formula 1), he even was the second youngest person to get a podium iirc. BUT he is the son of multi billionaire Lawrence Stroll who is a part owner of Aston Martin. so yeah i think his family would invest in a team to secure a spot for him lol

so like. there are a couple of ways we can go here.

one would be, if he is the oldest son, he probably wouldn’t be allowed to pursue something like f1, since it’s so time consuming. so, let’s say, he gets into karting, gets into an academy, and he could probably get to f3 or even f2 before getting pulled out for his duties. but he loves the sport, the feeling of adrenaline, the speed. he’d probably be able to go karting recreationally but it’s not the same. he probably goes to as many grand prix as he can, keeps in contact with the drivers from his grid, hangs out with them during the off season, and talks wistfully about it in his interviews. i think people make sad edits of him about it

the other way, if he’s not the heir apparent, he would move up to formula 1. i think he’d start with a middling team. as a rookie, his first race would be a bit of a disaster, maybe even dnf, which causes ALL the gossip sites to rag on him but eventually he does get himself together and even has a podium finish in that season. he spends a couple of seasons there while his parents prepare the team for him and goes there. first season there is a dip in his previous ratings as the team is still getting used to it all but after that i think he’d have a solid career and is generally well liked by the public because he proves himself as a driver. he’s also really funny.

ALSO important to me. i think he definitely has a bit of a one sided rivalry going on with another driver on the grid, dating back to their karting days.

also also. maybe down the line he even has a hamilton-rosberg-brocedes thing with a teammate (if u don’t know it don’t look it up the lore will consume u)

people definitely make thirst edits of him taking off the helmet/stretching in the suit/spraying celebratory champagne. there are constantly articles and thinkpieces on whether he deserves his place in the grid. there are videos on youtube titled “(actual prince) chad charming being dumb for 10 minutes” and “charming team radio but it gets more chaotic”

#EDIT: just rbd the tie in where he mentions his dream of being a race car driver #i COULD say logan sargeant but i like to think he’d genuinely be a good driver #sorry this is a bit chaotic lol i tried to keep it organised but idrk how much info a non fan has on formula1 lol #asks #chad charming #laila.txt