#sidenote: i love that movie

[andy-clutterbuck]

i don't know what it is about andy but it drives me crazy. he's not even my type at all and yet he's like the #1 person i am most attracted to 😭😭 it makes no sense

I get it, friend 🙃 I know what that's like. For the past 4 months Keanu Reeves and I have been having a thing™, dude's been around my whole ass life he was in the issues of Bop I was stealing from my older sister when I still had a bed time. But the dude quite literally CAME TO ME IN A DREAM??? showing up in my kitchen in the middle of the night saying I had to come with him he didn't have time to explain before jumping out the window. And since then he hasn't left me alone.

......That weird ass story was just for me to say EMBRACE IT, it doesn't have to make sense ENJOY IT ✨Andy is A GOOD ONE. the heart....and other parts want what they want. even if it makes you go

YOU'VE GOT GOOD TASTE. I'm always here to listen, you can't scare me 💚

#at least your soul or whatever picked a good one ya know #asks #sidenote: i love that movie #Anonymous #maybe im weird but it's kinda fun when they take you by surprise #i knew andy from love actually when i started twd #but i still remember twd making me fall head first into the dumpster....11 years ago now.....wow #you've caught me after jeopardy and my gin and tonic

[michaelinprogress]

Thinking about how this must have felt...

Being able to freely move his body again, to feel some semblance of life after over a century of lying in that grave rotting. Up to this point, he's been so stiff, lumbering around arduously. But this is where he becomes more man than corpse.

And the first thing he does with his newfound life?

He dances with Lisa.

He knows there is a piano inside. He could go in and play it for her, he could finally play music after nearly 200 years without it. But he dances with Lisa.

With his new life, all he wants to do is be with Lisa. To touch her, love her, make her happy. He has all this energy and he gives it all to her. Everything is for her.

#I'm going to write this scene from his pov #I've been thinking about them nonstop for days #also sidenote I love the aesthetics of this movie #the neon is so good #romance is undead #lisa frankenstein #lisa frankenstein 2024 #kathryn newton #zelda williams #cole sprouse #the creature #lisa x creature #lisa x the creature #lisa swallows #diablo cody #horror comedy #slasher films #slashers #horror movies #horror #horror films #trans creature #the creature is trans #lisa swallows x creature #lisa frankenstein movie

[pawprintsonpavements]

My absolute most favorite nimona scene is ambrosius' little outburst in his head in the ufo plane thingy when the director asks him what's wrong

Because here's this dude, descendant of Gloreth, protector of the kingdom who has been basically brainwashed to do whatever it takes to protect his kingdom from any sort of "threat". We see it in the arm chopping scene, we see it when bal is standing in front of him, pleading him to trust him and ambrosius points his sword at bal and then they have that fight-

And yet, in the middle of this whole kingdom wide crisis this little baby is worried about what? About the fact that Bal has a new best friend and that aRM CHOPPING IS NOT A LOVE LANGUAGE.

I love his priorities

I love how completely crazy he's going over this in his head

I love the way the tempo of the scene slowly increases till ambrosius is screaming and then abruptly cuts back to reality

And I love love love how much Ambrosius loves Ballister.

Also special mention to the scene where right after ambrosius points his sword at bal he goes "you wanna know what she is?" And he and nimona are just so in sync it's beautiful that scene

Also special mention no. 2 to the scene where bal is standing over ambrosius with his sword and ambrosius goes "go ahead kill me too" and bal just goes "if you really think I'd do that then you don't really know me at all" because my hEART.

#the director didnt think twice before stabbing ambrosius tho #god i have to stop talking about this movie #its killing me #i love you guys for putting up with this #ambrosius goldenloin #ballister boldheart #ballister blackheart #ballister x ambrosius #netflix nimona #nimona #goldenheart #also sidenote #can you imagine how happy historians would be #to find out that nimona exists #like they'd get so excited

[outerspace-iiinnerspace]

Goemon got a lobotomy to remove his horniness and now he can't fight :(

#lupin iii #you can't make this stuff up #sidenote i LOVE the lil throughline in this movie with the lighter

[bivampir]

idk what about dog day afternoon made me go so insane but like. the fact sonny is a character who tries to make everyone happy so bad but he's a terrible person and the efforts always go wrong. every decision he makes is to make someone else feel better but it doesn't fix anything, it doesn't fix his mistakes it doesn't fix their problems it doesn't fix the whole situation he just slaps a bandaid on a broken bone and says there, i helped! im trying my best can't you see! and the whole time he's digging his grave deeper and deeper and he wipes the sweat off of his brow and says there, it's fixed now, it's working, we've been doing so well, why did you broke it when it was going so well, because he's incapable of seeing that he's standing in the grave he dug himself. he keeps trying and it's all for nothing. masterclass

#i fucking love this movie #dog day afternoon #dda #dog day afternoon 1975 #al pacino #my posting #sonny wortzik #🎬 #sidenote when I say I want terrible representation i mean HIM #mild failpost

[akascow]

autism go brrrr leigh whannell brain but its hard to go through his filmography bc all he does is cameo n then die😭

#i love him but my man is ALWAYS dying from shit AHAHA #bc wdym he was only in matric for 5 seconds n then falls off a catwalk HAHA why was he even there in the first place #im actually surprised he lived through all 5 insidious movies i 100% expected him to die in the first one #ive practically seen all his director/writer movies tho so i guess theres that #SIDENOTE?? idk what i was expecting watching Doggie Heaven BUT IT DEFINITELY WASNT THAT ??!??? shaking in a corner rn #i cannot get a clear idea on his writing style tho. i guess its just anything horror comedy idk #which is fine i get bothered when i can immediately recognize a directors movie bc they all look the same (cough WES ANDERSON) #leigh whannell

[webcomic-character-tournament]

Genuine question. Why are comics from online only publishers discouraged? What is the goal behind discouraging paid webcomics?

sorry for taking so long to answer this!

i got really excited about answering this but also am not very good at communicating things clearly, i often get lost in the details in my passion about stuff like this, so i hope this is still interesting to read and intelligible lol!

i dont think there is any one thing that inherently defines what is and isn't a webcomic, it's an amorphous category that i enjoy the ambiguity of. but for me, what first led to my wonder for them as an 11 year old, and what has been a major factor in my passion for them even as an adult, was their low barrier to entry in both making them and accessing them. if you have internet access and time, almost anyone can make a webcomic if they want to! of course, without editors (or often even full story plans) or sensitivity readers or more people on a team to collaborate and contribute to the comic's vision, and the huge effort that it takes to do all the tasks of writing, inks, coloring, lettering, etc. all on ones own often without professional resources to facilitate that, that means that a lot of webcomics are really rough in some way or another. but a lot of people have interesting ideas they want to work with, but don't have the technical skill, desire or ability to market themselves or be beholden to external work deadlines, or connections in some way or another to be able to share those ideas through traditional publishing. regardless of skill or ability, a lot of marginalized people are barred from having their stories accepted by publishers due to bigotry and expectations about what kind of story is profitable.

as a disabled lgbt kid, i definitely read a lot of really bad webcomics i wish i hadn't, but also some of the media i was exposed to that most represented me back then was in the form of webcomics from people a lot like me. and i could read so much of it easily and for free without having to risk much to access it behind my parents' backs!

obviously that isn't the case for every webcomic, but for me and my history with them, them being easily accessible to both publish and read has been really important.

there are absolutely a lot of good points to be made about how publishing free to read webcomics isn't always the most accessible thing for a lot of people, especially for poor and disabled people. making webcomics takes a huge amount of time and effort, and sometimes even if people are passionate about making a comic, they just can't afford to find the time for that around all the other responsibilities of their day to day lives unless it can be a consistent income source. thats why even if paid online comics arent my platonic ideal of webcomics, i absolutely would never exclude them. i want small creators making stories i want to read to get the money they need to survive and keep telling stories without burning out!

it could be argued that online publishers who specifically focus on webcomics don't always present the same barriers to entry as traditional publishers, and many don't restrict the scope of marginalized creators' stories at all or to the same extent as people have struggled in other more mainstream avenues. and from my outside understanding of publishers like hiveworks, i'd absolutely agree with that! i love a lot of hiveworks comics and think its an awesome thing! (of course literally my icon is from a hiveworks comic, tiger tiger!) nonetheless however, part of my goals with this tournament is to highlight lesser known comics, and as publishers like hiveworks help advertise and promote their comics, even if i still want everyone to read all my favorite comics published by them, and certainly there are limits to those advertising resources, they still don't need as much help as other comics without that support. so its not as much 'try not to submit these' and more 'as you submit stuff like this, try to submit stuff with less advertising resources and popularity too!'

going into this tournament i also had a similar sentiment for stuff like webtoons originals. there was an added element to me in how i feel like i know a lot of people nowadays who read webtoons but don't have much awareness of other forms of webcomic, but even if in my love for webcomics i want people to come to appreciate all the breadth of ways they can exist in, thats obviously not something to make a huge priority. it's incredible the amount of forms comics can take (sidenote but reading scott mccloud's "understanding comics" a couple years ago was really formative for me in cementing how much i appreciate that, i'd highly recommend it!!!), and the way infinite scroll comics like webtoon style comics more fully make use of their digital medium, using time scrolling to pace things in place of traditional gutters and panelling, is really really cool. of course they're becoming more popular in a world where more people have smartphones, where webtoon style comics are a lot easier to read than many other forms. i love a lot of webtoons, and id feel regressive to discourage stuff like line webtoon original comics any more than stuff like hiveworks comics, just to go against current trends in what comics people seem to prefer. they have a similar low barrier to entry (through contests) as other online publishers, and it's cool to see creators get the opportunity to get paid for their work and get help from professional editors and stuff

but in the past couple weeks of running this tournament, i ended up reading a lot more about the behind the scenes of what its like to be a line webtoon original creator. line webtoon's expectations for their creators are incredibly unrealistic and exploitative, with grueling deadlines leading to a lot of creators to get repetitive strain injuries, all while working for well below industry standards. obviously a lot of webcomic creators make an inconsistent poverty level income out of it as independent creators, and that shouldn't happen either, but it's absolutely inexcusable for a company to profit off this labor and then manufacture these same conditions. without any organized labor movement surrounding that issue, that of course isn't an argument against reading or promoting these comics on its own, creators are more likely to get more income if their comics get more popular, and despite the promise of popularity by becoming an official comic, they absolutely still aren't all promoted equally. what has made me want to slightly more discourage (but still absolutely not disallow!) stuff like line webtoon official comics has been the combination of that along with learning that much of the editing of webtoons originals carries less of the benefits of having experienced creatives collaborating with creators to elevate their stories to new levels, and very often instead ends up taking the form of 'simplify this plotline and make this character look more attractive and fit this archetype more fully so we can market this better and have readers easily consume each update while they're scrolling their phone without having to think about it too much'. while obviously there are a lot of amazing webtoon official comics in spite of what i've heard anectdotally, hearing that just really went against so much of what i've most valued about my experience with webcomics!

i want creators to be able to tell stories no matter how weird and unmarketable, where they'll never have to worry about pushback for making stories with characters and themes that resonate for them as a member of any oppressed group, and where there's as little pressure as possible pushing them to work harder or faster than they healthily can or want to! so for me, even if i still love a lot of online published comics and want them to be celebrated and want their creators to be able to make a comfortable living out of them, i still just want to highlight stories that had that level of freedom that has created some of my favorite experiences with webcomics just a little bit more.

#sorry this is so long lol i am simultaneously so bad at expressing things and so so passionate about talking about things #also sidenote i feel like i unintentionally sound like i'm making an individualist sort of point of 'individual creator vs people who want #to change their work' here but thats absolutely not my intention. its just coincidentally undre capitalism oftentimes its hard for a lot of #people to have get together and have the resources to make something together without being paid for it #which leads to most more collaborative forms of storytelling being more profit motivated (like movies for example) #but im so incredibly interested in alternate forms of collaboration and cooperative models for storytelling and making art. i get why #its rarer in our current society but i love love love when i've seen webcomics doing that. often the best of both with being able to tell #stories that really need telling that people are passionate about #and with the refinement and texture of all the input and skills of everyone involved #such a tangent though lol. but yeah would love recs for stuff like that! #wctrelated #notwctpoll #anonymous #asks #long post

[newyikecity]

tagged by @romansmartini to post my top 9 first watches of 2023 (which made me v excited bc i am soso normal abt movies<3)

there it is. ✨ I didn't watch too many new movies in 2023 (i have hyperfixates on tv shows disease) but I'm thankful to say I watched a ton I really liked! Including Recovery which only exists on youtube as far as I know but is well worth it and def the most unexpected gem of this list.

tagging @ctrl-esc, @frengers, @andbutsowhen, @bjerre, @wambs, @modernoracleofdelphi and any other dear mutuals who are interested. I love to snoop on what other ppl have been watchin 👀

#see the saltburn erasure on full display. sorry to my gay followers who liked this movie #also these are in rough order from fave to least if anyone cares. sound of metal supremacy my brain chemistry permanently altered forever👍 #also thank u to letterboxd that is absolutely the only way i could have remembered anything i watched this yr my memory is not that good<3 #(and sidenote- followers dm me your @ if youve got an acc on there and are interested in connecting i love making new letterboxd friends :^

[shima-draws]

Are you enjoying One Piece?!! How far are you?

I AM, VERY MUCH SO!! I told myself I’d skip over all the filler episodes but I ended up watching the Warship Island arc purely by accident bc I didn’t realize I’d started the filler. But it was so cute anyway I watched all of it. I loved seeing the crew act as older sibling/guardian figures to Apis 🥺

Anyway I JUST got past the mini arc with Laboon, so we’re in the Grand Line, baby!! I’d probably be way further ahead if I also wasn’t watching Fairy Tail at the same time. Oops lol

#Sidenote I watched Dragon Cry and it was uh. Not great. #Ofc I flipped my shit at the brief Nalu moments. But it really fell flat as a movie esp comparing it to the first one #ANYWAY I fucking love One Piece. What the hell. How did it take me this long to get into it. #Is the 1000+ episode list intimidating? Yes. Will I end up watching most of it anyway? Also yes probably. #One Piece #Shima answers questions #OP #I love Luffy and the crew so so so much they are Everything #I’m really excited to meet Chopper too I think I’m about 20-ish episodes away from his intro so. SOON!!!!

[theold-ultraviolence]

Yesterday I saw a movie that I think it’s just become my favorite movie and i’m dying to scream about it

#it’s Phantom of the Paradise #I had been looking for the dvd of it for CENTURIES #I got it last year but hadn’t gotten around to watching it until last night #but yeah I had been wanting to see a movie easily for near a decade now #AND BOY OH BOY #I LOVED IT SO MUCH #sidenote #boy i’m glad I have this silly little blog to dump thoughts cause like #no one’s asking me these things irl lol #to to turn this post into a sadder one but damn it’s been hitting me lately #no one asks me stuff irl #’hey what have you been listening to? what movies have you been watching? HOW HAVE YOU BEEN?’ nothing #anyway #despite me craving any form of intimacy #I’ve been watching some real good movies lately and I love that feeling #ALSO LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER ISN’t AS AWFUL AS I WAS LED TO THINK IT WAS #yeah the editing is AWFUL and the cinematography is fowl #but #it isn’t as bad #come on #but anyway PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE?? WOW #W O W #amazing movie #gave it 5 stars on letterboxd fr

[dani-luminae]

Cleaning out folders on my computer deleting old crap and stuff, and I find this jpeg titled "idiots holding hands"

I have no recollection of saving something like that, but I know I must have saved it and titled it that, so I open it and

It's these idiots. And they are holding hands. So title was accurate I guess

Still have no clue why I had this saved, unless it was to play a joke on myself

#sidenote though beast and belle do love holding hands don't they? #they're hardly in the movies but its like nine times out of ten if they're there then they're holding hands or holding onto each other #its honestly kind of sweet #(and also another part of the reason I say these two had more chemistry than beast and belle in the entirety of the 2017 remake)

[soft-stoner-babe]

it’s kinda funny being a closeted belly kink enthusiast amongst my peers of film geeks, ‘cause like 90% of the discussion i’m surrounded by is how butthurt everyone is about April O’Neil in the new TMNT being fat and black and i just kinda have to sit there like those aren’t the two things that really fucken do it for me

#sidenote i love how fucking gorgeous that new movie looks like holy hell

[fishtank32]

Valid post Op, I just want to also say Zane Ninjago is also for the people who are neurodivergent and singled out in school as weird or quiet. Zane's character development also feels like our own. Very cool, still has issues.

Character development and consistency is (unfortunately) a chronic issue with ninjago. The length of the series doesn't really help with that either. As much as I love Zane (and this applies to all other characters), I'd be here forever and a day if I sat down and listed all my issues w/ him. Overall I'm hoping dragon's rising will improve on these issues, they seem to be doing a good job w/ consistency so far.

#ninjago #but overall i really love him. having a character i can relate to like that (even if he is literally a tin can) is nice #also sidenote but i love movie zane. i know a lot of people dislike him (for good reason) but i adore him. silly little guy #josh speaks

[thelightwillbreakthrough]

actually the only aceptable answer i’ll be taking from now on for how blanc and phillip met is that they’re a former kingsman and statesman who fell in love and abandoned their respective agencies, a la the first 5 minutes of spy kids

#glass onion #kingsman #((if i have to single handedly revive this fandom then SO BE IT we’ve gotta get that 3rd movie somehow)) #i was like ‘southern gentleman. english gentleman. where have i seen this bef…WAIT’ #all ​my love of semi-absurd niche genre bending movies with queer cult followings has led me here #sidenote if someone wants to write this fic i will not object

[macgregorhoughton]

So now with a new Disney film coming out with a "first gay" character, those lists are doing the rounds again and it makes me so irritated seeing McGregor on there. Like yeah, in Beauty & the Beast or Cruella or Onward they were not fleahed out, throw away gay characters, but MacGregor is a Main Character! Who is fleshed out and fully part of the story and he and his relationship with Lily drives it in many parts, and his being gay is actually part of his character rather than just hinted at and argh! People keep writing him off as "ooh, another 1st gay!" But he actually was! And you bet its mostly people whove never seen the film just reacting to the bad faith takes some people put online

A large reason I ended up making this blog (aside from I was hype for the movie even just based on the trailer) is because I knew this would happen and I wanted to create a space where people who actually saw themselves in the character could express how the character and movie as a whole make them happy and they could find positive posts and not be constantly reminded of all the bad faith takes. I don't talk about these bad faith takes a lot for this reason (I have some posts tagged #representation compilation where I discuss all of this) but I whole-heartedly agree with you anon.

a lot of people, me included, were really touched by MacGregor's coming out, saw themselves in his struggles, appreciated what a well-rounded character he is, and I suspect many more people would feel the same if they gave the movie a chance. But unfortunately "disney's 200th first gay character" jokes get more likes so they overshadowed any good feeling anyone might have been having. and I got messages from people who were absolutely crushed by this too. it feels like people are mocking them for seeing themselves in it, shaming them for liking a gay character that was arbitrarily deemed bad by people who never even saw the movie. (there is also a larger conversation to be had about the sense of moral superiority derived from deeming certain portrayals of a minority "bad" and shaming others for enjoying them in an attempt to appear more enlightened when in reality none of this really matters and personal enjoyment of media is not indicative of someone's morality or ability to treat people well and respectfully irl, whereas publicly shaming and mocking people constantly is kinda indicative of a failure on both accounts)

the opinions "we shouldn't have to beg for representation from huge media companies that only care about us when they can profit off us and instead support struggling queer artists' work more" and "a gay character from a huge media company can be someone queer people see themselves in and like watching" can coexist. feeling the second doesn't automatically make someone a bootlicker and thinking the first doesn't mean enjoying an enjoyable thing once in a while makes you a hypocrite.

#jungle cruise #ask #anonymous #macgregor houghton #representation compilation #there is a lot of hypocrisy I see tho where the ppl who think themselves better activists or whatever the hell for shitting on macgregor #and parade the ''big company inherently evil'' argument #are the same who look at other disney properties and love them for various reasons‚ sometimes even representation that isn't even there #and get pissy when people may point out negative aspects and say ppl should let others enjoy things #but they don't see how the same applies to what they're doing #and I'm not joking or exaggerating. it really is the same ppl who arbitrarily choose a disney property to use to show how woke they are #who also like and adore and defend other disney properties. #idk if their hate is a form of compensation for what they feel is some kind of sin committed by liking a disney thing #but either way they should look within themselves and whether this really is the path to queer liberation or just virtue signalling #also a tiny sidenote: the gay character in strange world is the first gay teenager in an animated disney movie #this is a factual statement #it explains in what way this is a different situation than for example gay characters in live action movies or animated tv shows #but people hate reading so they stop after ''first gay'' and think haha millionth first gay character joke

[sydmarch]

last night I watched grayson's video about nope & the logan paul review and it made me really want to see it again so I went tonight after stopping by the record store & picking up some paint and 1 it's absolutely better on a second viewing despite the fact none of the shocks on the first watch were surprising and 2 so mad & confused at how logan could possibly say oj was " the most bland vanilla character" or whatever stupid shit it was he said when oj is obviously so brave and selfless and cares about his horses and his sister and I'm in love with him

#texticles #nope #nope movie #methinks i finally need to reblog all the spoilery posts in my likes #also sidenote but the record store had SO many cheap records like 99 cents cheap so i grabbed 4 that caught my interest bcus #nothing i love more than listening to some random bullshit after getting high going in totally blind