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sculpture-in-a-period-drama · 2 years

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#showyourprocess

Thank you to the lovely @shiloh-is-typing for the tag, I'll take any excuse to ramble

Rules: When your work is tagged, show the process of it's creation from planning to posting, then tag 5 people. Use the tag #showyourprocess so we can find yours!

I haven't shared much about my wip for a multitude of reasons but this was too fun to pass up

Inspiration: I had several worlds similar to this (that is, a magical world based in ancient Indonesian culture), but I lost interest in those stories. Not the setting, just the stories. My inspiration for the setting was basically me going all "fine, I'll do it myself" because I wanted a (good) fantasy story with south east asian representation. So I was waiting for myself to come up with a plot good enough for this world. And lo and behold, on the first day of 2022, an idea sprung up in my head and I leaped across the room to get my phone so I could write it down.

Preparation: Since I absolutely loved (and still love) this plot, I wanted to be careful with what I did with it. So I made the world more detailed; created names, terms, places, social norms, and so on. Normally I would have just jumped into the first draft, but I can't, for the life of me, ever fully go panster mode. I always end up confused and discouraged. I need a some sort of base, somewhere to work from and somewhere to work to.

Process: I always develop world and current circumstances before characters. I find it easier to make characters in an already existing world and plot rather than make a world and plot for existing characters. So I let my mind run wild, squeezed out every idea from my brain and let myself have fun. Right after the world and it's circumstances took shape, I immediately started getting ideas for characters. Now that I have a sure grip on both the world, characters, and plot, I'm making an outline. I made a whole template for myself. There's the big timeline, subplots, and chapter-by-chapter outlines. I'm still working on it.

Thoughts: I have been waiting for "the one" in writing idea form for a while, and I think this may be it. This isn't to say that I'll never come up with an idea just as good or maybe even better, I just haven't loved a story as much as I've loved this one. I'm so excited to start writing this, and I hope other writers come up with stories they love just as much.

Tagging (no pressure, friends <3): @myeekyoban @thepixiediaries @writing-is-a-martial-art @euphoniouspandemonium @sparrowandwriting

#writing #writeblr #writers on tumblr #showyourprocess #yes me clarifying that i wanted good representation instead of just representation #was a dig at raya and the last dragon

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martianbugsbunny · 6 months

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Maybe Disney needs to try taking on a fairytale they haven't done yet. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy more original stories like Raya and the Last Dragon and Encanto that as far as I'm aware don't originate from any particular legend (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong tho). Those are fun. Exploring different magical concepts like dragons and the miracle is awesome.

But that being said, I think Disney needs to go back to its roots and do a fairytale. Something with a princess and a big bad that comes from an existing legend. That's (generally) where Disney excels. That's why people love Disney. Little Mermaid? Classic. Beauty and the Beast? Classic. Princess and the Frog? Classic. Cinderella? Classic. Snow White? Classic. Really, I just think Disney does what Disney does best when they're taking a story that already exists and turning it into a beautiful piece of animation with a gentle, kind soul at the center of it, maybe with a different little spin like setting the Frog Prince story in 1920s New Orleans or having Beauty's father be an inventor. Little touches like that to make the story uniquely Disney, but with a solid basis in a folk narrative that touches something deep and instinctual inside most people.

Give me a girl who's cursed. A girl who either falls prey to evil or makes a deal with it, and whose sweetheart fights for her like Aurora or who does the brave thing and sacrifices to fix it like Ariel.

Give me a girl who's trapped. A girl whose family keeps her down or who just hasn't found where she fits yet, who stays kind despite her troubles like Cinderella or who finds her own alternative way out like Belle.

Heck, even a weird-ass thing like Shakespeare But Lions would be welcome. That's such a Disney thing to do, taking a story like Hamlet and filling it with whimsy and giving it a happy ending. Plus, Simba is one of the strongest protagonists and learns one of the best lessons in all of Disney fight me.

(I'm not going to count Frozen in the folk story group because the departure from the original was so wild I don't think it deserves to count. I love Elsa with my entire soul but I would also die to see Disney do a proper version of the Snow Queen fairytale.)

Look, my point is that I'd like to see something that really makes Disney dig a little deeper and recapture the spark of its classics. Because as much as I enjoy stuff like Tangled and Frozen and Moana (I've watched all of them loads of times and I cry about them consistently) they don't come to mind as Disney classics for me. Maybe that's just me. Maybe it simply hasn't been enough time. Maybe it's the difference in the animation. Speaking of that, however, I would actually love to see a Disney movie done in a 2D style again; I don't think 3D has any inherent superiority and I'd love to see what Disney could do with a 2D movie now. And there are so many folk stories in the world, surely there must be one that Disney can bring to life the way it used to. They haven't retold every story that's been told already.

Am I being a little picky? Probably. But I'd love to see something that reminds me of the Disney classics where a gentle person with a courageous core has their life touched by magic, faces an obstacle, and has a happy ending. Something that's not a variation on "X needs to be saved" but a specific character longing for a specific thing and either doing what they think is necessary to get it (like Tiana and Ariel) or giving it up for the sake of someone else, but getting a happy ending nonetheless (like Belle and Simba). Also a clear-cut badguy who gets to be absolutely cunty and evil about it with no peculiar twist.

I'd like to see something Classic Disney again.

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shy-peacock · 2 years

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If you ever feeling up to the task, I'd love to see your Rayaari take on this post by @justanormalhornygirl "Picture this: me on my stomach, only wearing some pretty panties and your tshirt, you are behind me with your thigh in between my legs, letting me grind on it and you can feel how wet I’m getting without you even touching me. You can hear my little pathetic needy whines and moans as it’s not enough, I need you to ruin me 😇"

jfkjjskaklhkjfhjdsahkjsjlkd FINE here you go. This is written no proof-nobeta/checker whatever. Rated M OBVS XD

Namaari never thought she’d have her Saturday night turn out like this.

Raya, wearing one of her band shirts she got last summer, sprawled out on her bed. Not only that, but grinding on Namaari’s thigh as she positioned it right between the girl’s legs. Her underwear soaked in her own cum, body burning now as she worked herself up into the state she was in. Absolutely begging to be fucked, grinding into the contact. The only point Namaari’s allowed her to touch, teasing her as she rubbed her need roughly into her skin. Wanting more of Namaari touching her, whimpering desperately into Namaari’s sheets.

Raya’s clothes were soaked, wet from the rain that hit on her way over here. Study date gone wrong (or more right) as they started off the evening with the sexual tension on a high as Namaari insisted she get into something more comfortable, somehow both of them agreeing that one of her long band tee’s was the way to go. Raya because she didn’t wanna make Namaari share anything more than the single article of clothing and Namaari because-...well…she’d be damned if she didn’t agree to Raya insisting on wearing that alone with just her underwear.

Hell, she’d imagined her in far less over the months of getting to know this ‘dragon nerd’. Where the hell had she been Namaari’s freshman and sophomore year of college, she wasn’t quite sure. But she took full advantage of their one shared class to reap the benefits of meeting up with Raya as often as possible. Study dates, hanging out before class, grabbing coffee with friends while we talk out the week’s assignments. A lame excuse, knowing both of them were past that stage of needing a ‘reason’ to see each other. But Namaari liked this game they were playing, the chase, the bantering and all those knowing little looks.

Namaari had worried it was one sided.

Clearly that was just not so.

“Unf..maari..” Raya whined, hips lifting and then falling back down.

Slow.

Methodical.

Namaari knowing Raya was digging deeper, trying to reach her clit.

“I want you..” she hissed, “please..”

Namaari smirked, giving her a preview. Bending down to roll her hip down into her backside, not before taking a nice grip of her side, using it to pull Raya back as she ground into her. Paying special detail into the way she moaned, especially when Namaari’s lips graced her ears. Breathing hotly on her skin.

“Anhf..-” Raya grunted, jerking back, “yes-...!”

Namaari chuckled, “damn..baby, you want it?”

“Y-yes…!”

“How badly?” Namaari cooed, slipping back then, tracing her finger around her sopping cunt. Just enough to see her squirm.

“Hard..fuck me..so hard..” Raya whined, gripping the sheets tight enough that Namaari swore they would tear, “I want you to ruin me..”

Namaari exhaled, hiding a moan as the words washed over her. Taking her finger then, pulling her underwear and down in one fluid motion. Seeing her bare then, ready and soaked, eager for Namaari’s fingers to claim them as rough as she had begged her to be. Namaari trailing a single digit along her entrance, collecting her cum carefully on her fingertip before bringing it to her mouth. Sucking it clean, letting her taste coat her tongue.

“You’re fucking delicious..”

“What did you say?”

Namaari felt like her entire brain had been smacked back to reality. Dizzy, the world off and tilted until she realized she was not about to devour Raya’s sweet cunt but actually staring at the pages of a book. More so a single page of a book, which she had been staring at for some time not taking any of the readings in as she was caught up in a sexual encounter with the woman sitting opposite her.

Completely opposite at that.

Raya, who sat on the couch in her dorm room while Namaari had been lying down in her own bed. One on the left side, one on the right. Raya was clearly several pages ahead of her and now waiting for Namaari to read her portion of the section they were on. Waiting, eyebrow raised curiously as Namaari had definitely not said something even remotely close to what she was meant to say. Caught up in her imagination (again unfortunately) of Raya and her in a much better position.

“Ah..what?” Namaari spat out, stupidly.

“What did you say?” Raya repeated, her eyes locked on Namaari.

“Nothing…?” Namaari lied.

“Yeah you did?!” Raya scoffed and Namaari’s face flushed, knowing she had not only said the damn words but that Raya had definitely heard it.

“I….um…I..-” Namaari began, scrambling to find a way out of this conversation.

No, what Namaari imagined didn’t happen.

Well-...not quite at least.

Yeah, Raya had come over. Yes, she had been soaked to the bone and had changed into Namaari’s band tee and the two had been eye-fucking each other all night. But- that was the extent of it. Raya took her place opposite Namaari and they began reading and, like the creative little bug it was, her brain decided that reading was far too boring and was now caught in the act of imagining doing a lot more than studying with Raya.

I mean-? I’m sure she didn’t know exactly what Namaari was thinking about.

“It’s nothing-” Namaari lied, “anyways, what part are we on-...I got sidetracked..”

Raya smirked, closing her book.

“Sidetracked huh?” she teased, getting up and walking the space towards Namaari’s couch and bed. Plopping down next to her before taking the book away from her hand and tossing it on the floor. “What’s got your mind distracted?” she asked, inching closer with a mischievous grin.

Namaari’s ears burned red, flustered at Raya’s closeness.

“I said nothing!” Namaari laughed, “just-”

“That I’m fucking delicious?” Raya spoke, amused, her voice light as she moved ever closer.

Namaari’s face went completely red then, matching her ears.

Guess Raya definitely knew what she was thinking?

“Okay-...how did-?”

“You honestly think I don’t notice how you look at me, dep la..how I can practically feel how bad you wanna touch me?” Raya teased, lightly pushing Namaari back on the bed as she slowly crawled over her. Eyes watching her like a predator, a complete opposite of the mental image Namaari had where Raya was the one beneath her. Absolutely at her mercy, begging for it, while Namaari was going to ‘ruin’ her.

However, it seemed Namaari got it wrong.

Definitely wrong.

Excitingly…wrong..

Raya was going to ruin her, in all the best ways.

“So you figured me out huh?” Namaari husked, biting her lower lip as Raya lifted her band tee up and off her body. Revealing all that glorious skin she had wanted to see so badly for months now, but in a different scenario. Watching with excitement as Raya dragged her hands down Namaari's body and to her pants, undoing them tediously.

“You’re not as slick as you think you are, Maari~” she said with a devilish grin, sinking down between Namaari’s legs while effortlessly tugging her pants and underwear down as well. Purposefully poking her tongue out to wet her lips, “but don’t worry-..I can help with that..”

#ratld #ratld au #rayamaari #rayamaari au #lemo.n #definitely so #rayaari #raymaari #not tutoring au lmao #just some random au I threw together #enjoy <3

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jamesbranwen · 1 year

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another one;

immortal x human!

YAYY

1. ships that fit it

right now i am obsessed with alex cyprin x mc from astoria: fate's kiss. i just-- aaa them. alex is a demigod and child of aphrodite and mc is human. what i find super interesting about them is (in addition to the best trope, alex being her boss) they were childhood friends as well. so alex is a super young immortal. i feel like there's so much you can do with that and something not many stories have explored. they also parallel and carry the trauma of their parents, MC's mother was involved with Aphrodite, but she passed away and left a lot of things in her wake and left alex with a lot of things to think about. AAA.

i also freaking adore Twilestia from MLP. there's that gentle adoration there and i think celestia would hesitate to act on it at first but as time goes on its just the obvious thing.

hylink from zelda hits the feels. it's almost like they're both immortal, but they aren't. every link is different but she loves him the same. or she loved one of them above the rest and can't help seeing his face in every one of them. aa.

trephacard from castlevania is another one that tugs my heart in every direction. see also draculisa.

another is raysu from raya and the last dragon!! they're so adorable. and very gay in the german dub especially.

angella/micah !!! from spop !!!!

and ofc there's ozpin/really anyone. my favorite is ozglyn.

2. general opinion on it

I love it!!! It's such a bittersweet trope. I think the idea of loving someone for the time you have with them, accepting that you will have to watch them grow old and die and loving them despite that, it's super romantic. it really digs deep into the "loving you for you" thing. and then the (usually inevitable) tragic ending and promising to love that person forever even after they die. yeah.

3. ships that don't fit but i would read

i love this trope and it could honestly go for so many ships.

i am fond of "phoenix is actually a phoenix" AUs, and maya has all kinds of magical shenanigans going on, so it could work for either half of narumayo really interestingly.

glimweaver could be really interesting, especially because glimmer's mom was immortal. either SW is immortal and glimmer has to come to terms with the fact that she can't keep a leash on her forever or glimmer is immortal and SW has to come to terms with the fact that glimmer will watch her grow weaker. and she can't worship the queen forever. (with their significant age difference that second one may have to play out anyways, but glimmer being forever 20 might make it more distinct).

ineffable husbands has the opposite problem, wherein they're both immortal. maybe one of them rejecting heaven or hell would make them mortal, and they'd both have to come to terms with that after their 6000 year relationship? fucking ow!!! love that.

#ask #answered #princefado #ask game #what a good one

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disneydissection · 1 year

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Encanto vs Strange World- Similar advertising, what happened?

Encanto; one of the biggest movies of the year, impossible to escape the mention of. Bringing in $230.7 million in the Worldwide Box Office according to TheNumbers.com, it’s easy to see how hugely successful this movie was. What makes these results interesting is how little Encanto was advertised. I only remember seeing three quick commercials for it before it’s release. When it was released, they barely made any money back as nobody knew what it was. You had to dig for information on it yourself. So, with all the classic depictions of a flop, what made it such a success? In short, Tiktok. The song “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” quickly turned into multiple trends on the app, leading people to watch Encanto for the scene. Word began to spread of the movie and within a month it had made a killing. It made such a huge impact on the media that it was (and still is) hard to escape the soundtrack and conversation surrounding it. So what did they change? Disney thought it would flop as hard as their other movies earlier in the year such as Onward or Raya and the Last Dragon, so they decided to change their tactic. In order to promote Disney+, they made Encanto a Disney+ exclusive. They already had ads and word-of-mouth going strong for the platform, so they simply added Encanto into that mix. This made the movie a much larger hit than it started out to be. This is one of the reasons Strange World has flopped (so far). However, in my eyes there is more to that side of the story. What exactly does Disney like to hide? What didn’t they advertise? What don’t they see as priority? This is what I shall cover in the next part of this post, coming very soon. (Citation in replys)

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kylesvariouslistsandstuff · 2 months

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It's been a few days now since David Greenbaum was named head of Walt Disney Studios. We should be getting an idea of what his vision for the studio will be once something is greenlit, which may take a little while. There were properties and ideas that his predecessor, Sean Bailey, had toyed around with but didn't make a move on... He could put one of those into production (and there were *plenty*), maybe not. Maybe something never before announced?

TRON: ARES, the TRON-in-name-only movie being directed by Joachim Ronning and bringing back *nobody* from the first two films, is underway with a first look image out. This is the last of the Bailey-era greenlights, along with MOANA live-action, which is likely to vacate its June 27, 2025 release date. I wouldn't be surprised if ARES movie fills the slot after it sails away. MALEFICENT 3 apparently was in the works, too, but who knows if that goes forward following this leader change. The 2nd one kinda just did okay and existed for a bit.

I wonder how many projects Bailey wanted to do end up making it under Greenbaum's watch? Usually a change in leadership means a new start, and if you know me well, I'm not fond of Bailey's legacy: The remakes of Disney's animated features. The well has arguably run dry, too, and it makes me wonder what kind of promo muscle will be put into the upcoming LION KING prequel and next year's SNOW WHITE. And whether planned re-dos of stuff like THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME moves forward or not. BAMBI, HERCULES and LILO & STITCH, last I checked, are Disney+ originals. LILO & STITCH live-action is filming as of now, but I'm not sure if the other ones make it. Some theme park movies, too, like SPACE MOUNTAIN and JOURNEY INTO IMAGINATION... Wonder where those will go.

When watching the new Walt Disney Animation Studios show IWAJU last night, I noticed Byron Howard's name in the credits as "Executive Producer". Usually that's for one person, the leader of the studio. That's Jennifer Lee, who was named Chief Creative Officer of WDAS in June 2018 following John Lasseter's prolonged exit.

Howard - who directed on BOLT and TANGLED, and pitched and directed ZOOTOPIA and ENCANTO - was at one point thought to be Lasseter's successor, along with WRECK-IT RALPH director Rich Moore, who was ZOOTOPIA's other director. Lee got the gig, and many have been critical of the films being released under her 5-year watch. Most of which are Lasseter leftovers anyways. WISH and IWAJU are new, Lee-era greenlights, as well as - presumably - that fantasy movie set in the Middle East from director Suzi Yoonessi that apparently was supposed to come out this year but MOANA 2 took its place. All the Disney+ shows - BAYMAX!, ZOOTOPIA+, and TIANA - were hers, too. Per an old article in 2019, Josie Trinidad and Marc Smith could have feature films in the works.

We really don't have that much of an idea of what her WDAS really is, other than Disney+ shows and Lasseter greenlights. Her tenure has also, curiously, been marked by a lot of focus group interference. On a level I haven't seen before with these movies, and it's a very possible explanation for why STRANGE WORLD and WISH struggled, and the general sort-of blah reaction to their recent output. Maybe not. If we are to go by streaming metrics, regular people who aren't very online seemed to quite dig ENCANTO and RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON, STRANGE WORLD did good on Disney+, and I'm sure WISH will too. But getting people into the theater to see your $150-200m movie is quite the task, and making Disney Junior-caliber stuff ain't gonna cut it if you want a mass audience to show up.

Anyways, Byron Howard previously got an executive producer credit on FROZEN II, which I suppose happened because Lee was writer-director of that movie like she was on the first FROZEN. Someone had to run the studio while she was directing, right? You'll notice that the credits for RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET, which was in production during Lasseter's exit (that started with a "sabbatical leave" that began in November of 2017, and ended with his canning in June), there are three exec producers named: Lasseter, Lee, and Chris Williams. Again, needing someone to run the ship when there is no leader or their leader is directing. Pixar did the same for SOUL, which leader Pete Docter directed. Dan Scanlon and Kiri Hart were executive producers on that film.

But afterwards, no need for Howard to run things... Until IWAJU, curiously. I wonder why he's listed as executive producer on that particular project? Is it some kind of hint that he's next in line to run Walt Disney Animation Studios? Especially following the box office disasters of STRANGE WORLD and WISH? Or does it just... Mean nothing? After MOANA The Series was apparently coming along so well that it became MOANA The Movie Sequel, maybe not. Somebody was doing something right, and no matter how the movie turns out, it's sure to pocket an *easy* billion. Ditto ZOOTOPIA 2 and FROZEN III. But an original, post-COVID outbreak movie release, remains the hard nut to crack. In a no-COVID world, RAYA and ENCANTO would've done better at the box office. The studio hasn't had an original movie that covered its budget at the box office since... MOANA... All the way back in 2016/17...

Not that that means anything, but WISH and STRANGE WORLD did shockingly low for what they were. Even for post-COVID outbreak releases, they didn't enjoy the legs of pictures like cousin studio's ELEMENTAL, alongside MIGRATION, DC LEAGUE OF SUPER-PETS, THE BAD GUYS, etc. Something's gotta change, I reckon.

I do not know, I'm not a fly on the wall in that building haha.

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getacluu · 2 years

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Reviewing *Disney Dreamlight Valley*

Magical: 🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄

Beautiful: 💎💎💎💎

Dream Come True: 🌟🌟🌟🌟

What’s the difference between DisneyLand Adventures, Disney Magical World, and Disney Dreamlight Valley?

More later

⚠️ In My Opinion may contain spoilers

❌ Jump button

✅ Interactions

❌ Swim actions

In my opinion…

So far, the game is awesome. Making friends with all Disney characters, exploring, creativity! 😁

The map is sure handy when you’re looking for where to go, AND to find your Disney friends.

I hope we’ll see more Disney characters, cook/bake more treats, and new stuff to do in the future. 👍

What more could you want?

💡 To me, I’d like my playable character to have a jump button in the game, as well as swimming.

💡 More character interactions like… dancing, giving hugs, and joking around. And maybe more interactions with furnitures and items.

💡 More awesome cutscenes

💡 Mini games!

💡 Could our avatars have a voice to choose before starting a game too?

💡 Could we have the Dreamlight Magnifier included as a tool?

💡 Creatures to ride on

💡 More to explore in Dreamlight Valley

Sept. 10, 2022

So far, the part of the second riddle inside the cave didn’t seem to reset yet when I didn’t answer correctly. 🙁

Update: (Hey, GetACluu! How about something called ‘digging a hole’?) DUH!

Sept. 11, 2022

A word of advice: Save at least 5 or 10 dream shards and night shards each. Because if Merlin sends you to investigate the giant tree in the Glade of Trust, there won’t be turning back once you get close to that tree, and it’ll prevent your Disney friends from exiting their houses, until you can find more dream shards and night shards.

Sept. 18, 2022

You might need to save up a lot of mushrooms for Merlin’s quests. Trust me on that.

Sept. 26, 2022

Note to self: when receiving a memory orb after talking to a character, make sure it’s far from the furniture to reach it. 🤦

Nov. 13, 2022

I didn’t have the time to type the idea, but I’m typing it right now! Make tons of chests for items you collect, and use them to save items for when you need them!

Disney characters in the game

- A Bug’s Life

- Aladdin

- Alice In Wonderland

- Bambi

✅ Beauty and the Beast

- Big Hero 6

- Brave

- Cars

- Cinderella

- Coco

- Dumbo

- Encanto

- Finding Nemo

✅ Frozen

- Hercules

- Home on the Range

- Inside Out

✅ Lilo and Stitch

- Luca

- Mary Poppins

✅ Mickey Mouse and Friends

✅ Moana

- Monsters Inc.

- Mulan

- Onward

- Peter Pan

- Pinocchio

- Pirates of the Caribbean

- Pocahontas

✅ Ratatouille

- Raya and the Last Dragon

- Robin Hood

- Sleeping Beauty

- Snow White

- Song of the South

- Soul

✅ Sword in the Stone

✅ Tangled

- The Aristocats

- The Black Cauldron

- The Emperor’s New Groove

- The Good Dinosaur

- The Great Mouse Detective

- The Hunchback of Norte Dame

- The Incredibles

- The Jungle Book

- The Three Little Pigs

✅ The Lion King

✅ The Little Mermaid

- The Nightmare Before Christmas

- The Princess and the Frog

- The Rescuers

✅ Toy Story

- Turning Red

- Up

✅ Wall•E

- Wind in the Willows

- Winnie the Pooh

✅ Wreck-It Ralph

- Zootopia

- 101 Dalmatians

#disney #🎮 review #disney dreamlight valley #⚠️ Warning: In My Opinion may contain spoilers

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tophthedaydreamer · 3 years

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just saw raya and the last dragon

my movie theater’s open so im taking full advantage hehe

SPOILERS AHOY!!! (maybe idk)

so! disney’s finally taking a step forward! after the debacle that was frozen 2, i was kinda worried about this one. i was mostly nervous that raya would be the Strong Female Protagonist and be an over-the-top feminist icon.

i’m happy to say that wasn’t the case! raya is very likable and her motivations are realistic. it’s understandable that she has a hard time trusting people. i found it very relatable, actually. also!!! sisu is a gem, omg. easily my favorite character, awkwafina totally delivers!! she has a lotta funny lines that made me chuckle hehe!! raya’s friends are also very nice, but i do feel they should have been fleshed out a little more. just a little. and raya’s enemy (im so sorry i forgot her name) kinda reminded me of zuko?? slightly? just less angst tho.

so, characters were good. story was good too, but it went a little too fast for my tastes (or maybe im too used to watching three hour movies lol). trust is a repeating theme in this movie and i feel it repeats too much. again! just a smidge. sisu and raya have multiple conversations that end almost exactly the same way: sisu tells raya to trust people, and raya refuses. it probably happened like three times, idk.

overall, disney’s going in a good direction! a solid 7/10 for me :D!

#saw a trailer for boss baby 2 and they used a boomer joke 😔#but then a trailer for luca showed and that was much better #toph musings #toph just watched #idk if i have a tag for this #raya and the last dragon #found family tho.... i did dig that!!!

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the-light-of-animation · 5 years

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#raya and the last dragon #disney #I dig it #I'm all for Disney still letting people make original films #but I do kind of wish there were other companies these talented people could be making films for #it's such a shame skydance had to go and hire john #that felt like it had such potential #also when I was looking up who was involved #got so excited for a second seeing the writer of this wrote digimon #but it wasn't the first two seasons so never mind hahaha #but still next year's gonna be so fun for films #can't freaking wait!

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southeastasiancinema · 3 years

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So there they were – the Fang, Talon, Spine, and Tail tribes – standing gloriously before the wide-eyed Raya. The Tail tribe in particular was the one I saw my Filipino culture in the most. Their complexion looked like mine. Their native attire looked inspired by our native attire. I was ready to be content in simply seeing the distilled image of the Filipino people in a movie as huge as this one.

But then they make you realize right away that all the other tribes, save for Raya’s, are totally unlikeable people.

Right from the get-go, we learn about the dynamics of a tribal Kumandra. All the tribes are jealous of Heart for keeping the gem to themselves and are desperate to betray each other no matter the cost. We see them do real despicable stuff as they ruin the gathering fast. “Oh, I guess we’re the jerks in the story,” I thought to myself as these tribes were competing to see who the bigger jerk was. Now, I understand that this is a story-driven choice but it’s not exactly mindful towards the goal of encouraging representation. At least, it certainly wasn’t the way I was hoping my people would be represented in their first big Disney outing.

Raya and the Last Dragon at its core is supposedly a story about unity and trust. About how wounds can be mended if everyone could just get along and trust one another. Raya’s dad Chief Benja repeatedly shares his sentiment in one day reuniting the kingdom of Kumandra as a whole before he gets turned into stone. Being disillusioned by the ugliness displayed by the other tribes that started this whole mess, Raya feels otherwise and doesn’t believe in uniting a kingdom that is so self-centered. But throughout her journey, this outlook changes when she gets to know the other tribes and understands their differences.

Or that’s how I wish it happened.

The problem is that the film squanders the opportunity to redeem the ugliness displayed by the tribes. This comes in the form of the other tribe members she meets during her journey. Normally, this would make for an ideal time, not only for Raya to mend wounds and sow trust in her heart in place of doubt but for the filmmakers to actually give these cultures they’re claiming to give representation to some depth.

Instead, the voices of the other tribes are relegated to literal children (one is an actual toddler). With the exception of Benedict Wong’s Tong, nearly most of Raya’s supporting ensemble are children... There’s not one discussion in the movie where the tribes get to settle their differences and realize that despite it all, they’re all one and the same under Kumandra. The movie fails to reconcile all these thematic pieces meaningfully.

The film also has a seemingly unintentional subtext about privilege and wealth as Raya continually laments how awful people are for fighting over a gem without realizing that her people benefitted the most from the gem out of all the tribes. How or why the Heart tribe came to be the keepers of the gem is never addressed too. She doesn’t take a moment to think what the other tribes’ notions were of being deprived of the gem in the first place. Raya just thinks everyone is totally jealous of them.

Had they treated all these characters with more nuance, with some semblance of a meaningful payoff in the end, my tune would be different. Parts of this movie left me with a bad taste in my mouth. There’s a moment where a young Raya just totally bad-mouths each of the tribes in front of her father. She describes the tribe that resembles Filipinos as “mercenaries who fight dirty,” and makes more comments on how worrisome, weird and exotic the other tribes are from theirs. Those tiny digs may seem innocuous coming from cute characters but they end up sounding like microaggressions, intentional or not.

To the outsider, these qualms may feel very nitpicky, almost to a fault, even. But in a global platform where Southeast Asian representation is few and far in between, wasted opportunities like this feel frustrating. I’m sure the filmmakers’ intentions and efforts to pay respects to Southeast Asian culture aren’t mired in malice but in light of its shortcomings, it definitely feels superficial.

by Charles Villanueva

#raya and the last dragon #southeast asian cinema #film #disney

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thepteryx · 2 years

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The list of movies and tv-shows (Multifandom Mashup 2021)

Movies:

A Mouthful of Air

A Quiet Place Part II

A Writer's Odyssey (Ci sha xiao shuo jia)

After We Fell

AINBO: Spirit of the Amazon

Annette

Antlers

Apex

Army of the Dead

Army of Thieves

Beckett

Belfast

Bergman Island

Black Widow

Blood Red Sky

Candyman

Chaos Walking

Cinderella

CODA

Copshop

Cruella

Cry Macho

Don't Breathe 2

Dune

Escape Room: Tournament of Champions

Eternals

F9

Fatherhood

Fear Street: 1978

Finch

Finding You

Firebird

Free Guy

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Godzilla vs. Kong

Gunpowder Milkshake

He's All That

Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

House of Gucci

I'm Your Man

In the Heights

Infinite

Invasion

Jolt

Judas and the Black Messiah

Jungle Cruise

Kate

King Richard

Lamb

Last Night in Soho

Le dernier mercenaire

Luca

Malcolm & Marie

Mimi

Mortal Kombat

My Little Pony: A New Generation

No Sudden Move

No Time to Die

Nobody

Old

Old Henry

Oxygen

PAW Patrol: The Movie

Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway

Pig

Raya and the Last Dragon

Red Notice

Reminiscence

Ron's Gone Wrong

Rurôni Kenshin: Sai shûshô - The Beginning

Sardar Udham

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Sing 2

Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins

Space Jam: A New Legacy

Spencer

Spider-Man: No Way Home

The Addams Family 2

The Black Phone

The Boss Baby: Family Business

The Box

The Card Counter

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

The Dig

The French Dispatch

The Green Knight

The Guilty

The Ice Road

The King's Man

The Last Duel

The Last Letter from Your Lover

The Little Things

The Many Saints of Newark

The Marksman

The Matrix 4

The Misfits

The Mitchells vs the Machines

The Protégé

The Suicide Squad

The Tomorrow War

The Unforgivable

The White Lotus

The Woman in the Window

Those Who Wish Me Dead

Tides

Till Death

Titane

Together

Together-together

Tom and Jerry

Top Gun: Maverick

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Vivo

Warning

Willy's Wonderland

Wish Dragon

Zack Snyder's Justice League

Майор Гром: Чумной Доктор

Tv-shows:

A Discovery of Witches

American Gods

American Horror Story

Behind Her Eyes

Brand New Cherry Flavor

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Doctor Who

Doom Patrol

Élite

Euphoria

Fate: The Winx Saga

Fear the Walking Dead

Gone for Good

Hawkeye

La casa de papel

Loki

Love, Death & Robots

Lucifer

Maid

Mare of Easttown

Resident Alien

Sex Education

Shadow and Bone

Shameless

Solos

The Blacklist

The Book of Boba Fett

The Chair

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

The Flash

The Great

The Handmaid's Tale

The Rookie

The Wheel Of Time

The Witcher

WandaVision

What We Do in the Shadows

Why Women Kill

Y: The Last Man

Young Sheldon

เด็กใหม่ (Girl from Nowhere)

갯마을 차차차 (Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha)

배드 앤 크레이지(Bad and Crazy)

빈센조 (Vincenzo)

설강화 (Snowdrop)

악마판사 (The Devil Judge)

어느 날 우리 집 현관으로 멸망이 들어왔다 (Doom at Your Service)

오월의 청춘 (Youth of May)

오징어게임 (Squid Game)

지옥(Hellbound)

펜트하우스 (Penthouse)

Animation:

Arcane: League of Legends

Mo Dao Zu Shi

Rick and Morty

#Multifandom Mashup 2021 #Multifandom Mashup

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flightfoot · 3 years

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Just saw Raya and the Last Dragon. I really liked it! Sisu was a lot of fun, and it was interesting to see Raya’s reaction when Sisu went from this concept of a goddess, to an actual person she could talk to. Nice reminder that people you put on pedestals are still ultimately people.

Namaari was an interesting character, and I’m glad we had a few asides with her. I wouldn’t have minded digging into her emotions and thoughts even more. Raya was a good, heroic protagonist, but Namaari was a conflicted, guilt-ridden antagonist, which I thought made her more interesting.

That being said, I agree with a lot of the criticism about how the movie handles its moral. It really drills in the “You need to give trust if things are going to get better, and distrust only makes things worse” message, but too often that trust was betrayed. I really didn’t like how Nemaari blamed Raya for having a part in Sisu’s death especially. Raya’s actions were perfectly reasonable - trying to disarm Nemaari when she saw her finger pulling back on the trigger - so I’d blame that entirely on Nemaari for pointing a crossbow at Sisu in the first place.

#raya and the last dragon

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werewolf-cuddles · 2 years

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What the fuck is going on? Lindsay Ellis quit YouTube and everyone is accusing her of white women tears? She didn't call the cops on a black man, she had gotten death threats for a year over a tweet. Are they determined to run off all the YouTubers until there's just Star Wars channels that hate Rian Johnson?

Basically just cancel culture in action yet again.

Apparently the harassment from the Raya tweet controversy* never let up and she'd just had enough, so she quit.

*For those who missed it, she posted a tweet earlier this year comparing Raya and the Last Dragon to Avatar: The Last Airbender, and despite that same comparison having been made millions of times already, it was apparently a big enough deal for people to start digging through her past internet history for shit to use against her.

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stupid-sloot-headcanons · 2 years

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Disney is such a varied company/studio at times you get stuff on the level of Encanto, Mulan, Zootopia, etc. (Your mileage may vary) but then they also put out this reboot, Mulan live action, get rid of Disney channel, etc. Like while not all their films are winners or losers you can see a different tone as they change CEOs and closed the 2d animation department.

I mean I'll give Eisner loads of shit but at the very least he sometimes tried new things after using that Paramount experience to get the company out of the red. That Alien encounter ride was interesting and Disneyland Paris was a shitshow but it was an opportunity for imagineers to let their Jules Verne love run rampant.

Encanto despite being a little undercooked in the writing department was interesting enough. Live action Mulan was a wannabe wuxia filmed right next to Ugyhur prison camps. Turning Red was...something. Not good imo but it was something. Unlike Raya the Last Dragon, TR and Encanto actually left an impression at least.

I keep wondering if Disney's trying to lean into that DreamWorks style of films with referential humor and whatnot, even the art style and writing in Encanto and Turning Red made me think of DreamWorks or Blue Sky more than Disney. And it's kind of pathetic to see a studio that built itself on its own iconic image trying all these different aesthetic (and cultural, tho that's another debate entirely) costumes. Like ok, a lot of people are disillusioned and don't think the Disney wholesome shit is worthwhile anymore. But I recall Walt himself reading a newspaper review of Mary Poppins calling it cheesy kiddy schmaltz, and he just shrugged with a frown and said "Well, I like cheesy kiddy schmaltz." This is the same man who also said he made money to make movies, not the other way around, but I digress.

Disney cannot ever succeed in that kind of parody/meta/self-referential and self-critical humor. It just doesn't work with their company's history and image for the past half a fucking century or so. Humor, yeah, they've had plenty of funny films. But those well-remembered Disney films that had that kind of humor in them also had an earnestness behind them. Hercules had some little digs at parody and shit but it was small and quick and it also didn't distract from the actual story it was trying to tell.

Shrek 2, Megamind, Kung Fu Panda, Monsters Vs Aliens are all great films AND great comedies because that meta humor is baked into Dreamworks's identity as a studio and they know how to use it. You're not gonna be as successful with that kind of writing as them, and trying just makes me want to watch DreamWorks films.

Also all the live action films are missing any kind of visual identity, and the entire thing just looks and sounds like the tax write-off and copyright reset button that it really is. I joke about "lunchables" anime but Disney's entire live action department (a fair portion of their MCU films and shows as well imo) are a lunchables factory. They're products and a lot of them, especially their remakes, have no artistic value to me.

#sloot's essays #sloot bitches about things

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AFAIK Lindsey Ellis tweeted that she thinks Raya the Last Dragon was part of a trend of YA media that's clones/highly similar to The Last Airbender. This caused the lefty flagellants to descend on her for the crime of saying that Asian themed properties are similar to each other. Then followed the usual digging up of dozens of transgressions from the past and she was successfully branded a witch. IMO she's quitting because she can't hack the hostility and also can't stop being woke.

Thanks for the help. Last night when I saw the screenshot of the tweet I was really perplexed about what could be so bad about it. As soon as you mentioned "Asian themed properties are similar" it was like a lightswitch flipped and now I can absolutely picture the things people are saying to drag her.

It's my understanding she had gone out of her way to attract these types of moral busybodies to her orbit so I guess this was inevitable, but this still feels like a waste.

Anyway, thanks again for helping clear that up for me!

#ask #anon #anonymous

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I'm very confused on the Lindsay Ellis thing. What happened?

here’s my summary. i don’t wanna go digging for sources but they’re out there.

TL;DR:

lindsay makes a tweet about two properties starring asian characters

she gets criticized for allegedly narrow-minded racist implications

she doubles down and insults her critics before deleting her twitter

everybody gets so rabid trying to memeify her “cancelling” and dig up old dirt to mock that it overshadows the point of the original criticism

she responds to this with a 100-minute monetized video about her harassment and cancel culture that apologizes for some stuff but not all of it

her fans are insisting everybody should watch the video before getting mad at her

her critics obviously don’t want to watch the whole video

and i guess we just can’t have a productive conversation about casual racism in online leftist communities that isn’t centered around a popular white leftist’s feelings about getting called out.

longer explanation:

lindsay made a tweet comparing raya and the lost dragon to avatar the last airbender. she was trying to broadly refer to how ATLA affected fantasy media in general, but asian people criticized her because they were annoyed seeing media starring asian characters constantly compared to ATLA (one did a thread on it) and eventually everybody else followed suit. this on its own wasn't really a major issue (and decent arguments followed that ATLA and raya share massive similarities) but the fallout seems to be the real kicker.

lindsay responded with a thread that was more defensive than anything, throwing around phrases along the lines of “maybe you can see this as racist if you squint” and “i wasn’t saying what you thought i was saying, ya crazies” (she did use “ya crazies” to describe her detractors). that got more people angry, especially because of the connotations of “squint” in the context of anti-asian racism. personally, i think focusing on the “squint” thing is a bit irrelevant compared to her overall defensive tone and the fact she spent more energy explaining her perspective as a white woman than having a legitimate conversation with the asian people who criticized her thread, but i’m also a white woman so i’m not gonna judge people who found it offensive.

eventually lindsay just nukes her twitter, leaving everybody conflicted. a lot of what i saw was legitimate criticism on “left twitter” prioritizing white voices and not taking criticism from marginalized voices. however, some people took to memeing the situation, turning her into a strawman who just compares every asian thing to avatar. others took the opportunity to harass her though personally i didn’t see any of that - just people clowning on her on their own accounts.

during this time, more dirt on lindsay comes out. some of it is fairly recent, like her tweet wondering if there’s slave/slaveowner fanfiction based on the harriet tubman movie, which was intended as a joke critical of fandom, but came across as if she wanted to read that kind of fanfic. i brought up something iffy she said this past october that got on my nerves but got overlooked - namely that she claimed that, in her experience, trans men were more privileged than cis women, which i felt was very narrow-minded and dismissive of transphobia against trans men, even from somebody who tries to be a trans ally. another issue was a biphobic comment about mara wilson despite lindsay being bisexual herself, and a reported incident where lindsay brushed off her friend, a black woman, who was abused by one of their other friends.

unfortunately, this became less “let’s discuss why lindsay is so bad at taking criticism and seeing outside her own perspective” and derailed into “let’s dig up shit from 12 years ago that doesn’t reflect her current image and which she’s already removed and apologized for several times” - most infamously her “rape rap” from, like, 2009. i saw somebody make a whole twitter thread just listing everything bad she’s done, with little context on when and what it exactly was. there were also some people implying she’s just as bad as her abusive employers at channel awesome or implies that she got all this bad shit from them, which is not only unfair to her, but also absolves her of the autonomy to exist outside of her male employers.

lindsay eventually made a video about the “cancelling” situation. i haven’t watched it, but it’s 100 minutes long, apparently monetized, and apparently it’s not really an “apology” video so much as a general video on twitter culture. she does address many major issues, apologizing for some but not others, and there are apparently intimate details, including responses to the “rape rap” explaining how her own trauma from rape played into that. but naturally, people are annoyed that her response to criticism is something that would take an hour and a half to watch, is catered towards her fanbase, isn’t even an apology so much as another defense of what she was trying to say, and makes her money. her attitude seems to be “i don’t need to cater to my critics,” which would be fine if she didn’t seem to be under the impression that everybody who criticized her was an overzealous white guy trying to bring her down, as if there’s not marginalized leftists speaking up who feel alienated by their community.

#answers #lindsay ellis #lindsay ellis critical #anti lindsay ellis #i GUESS im just tagging for those looking for content about her #rape m #Anonymous #long post

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