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I really enjoyed Bloodmarked lmao

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Yeah I think you’re in the right place, Al.

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My new headcanon is that Karens become Susans in Hell.

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A begrudging Happy Valentine's to you all! Stay safe out there, my fellow aromantics ...

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Sparkle on!

It’s Monopoly Mermaid Monday!

Don’t forget to EXPAND EXPAND EXPAND!

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I hate when people criticize magical girl anime for having long transformation scenes. "so the enemies just wait for them?" have you ever considered that something can be beautiful without needing to serve a purpose or make sense in a literal scenario 💔

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transparent ageha pushing a curtain aside for all your sillygirl needs

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"A Descending Noble Mystery! Cure Majesty!"

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This meme is inescapable on French insta so I'm posting it here for all to enjoy

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a story that never ends is a sad fate

PLEASE click for better quality!! this. took. FOREVER omg but I love how it came out

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Oh boy,,,

Pov: you grew up reading weird fantasy in the early 2000s

#bookworm #bookblr #nostalgic

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What Kind of Duck, is Duck?

OK. So first, let's get this out of the way:

Duck is not real. Duck is, first and foremost, the vague idea of a duck. Duck... is not strongly based on the reality of ducks as an animal.

She is extremely stylized, a blobby little chibi-mascot in a world of anime humans and realistically rendered animals and animal-people. She has contradictory traits - the yellow coloration of a duckling, on the functional flight feathers of a bird that's entered its adult plumage. Her thoughts and actions are noticeably less bestial than those of Mr. Cat or any of the talking-animal students, not beholden to instincts.

When asking what kind of duck our friend Duck is, we must first admit to ourselves that this is a silly question. Ducks like Duck do not exist. She has little candy-cane legs, for god's sake. God bless her.

(If we want to get real meta, perhaps we could speculate that she isn't a real duck because she is a story-duck: escaped from her narrative like the prince and the raven, and the wilis maiden, and the ghost knight, oblivious to her origins. It would, if nothing else, provide a fun watsonian explanation for some of her oddities.)

But fandom is all about getting fucking silly with it, and building elaborate though exercises about shit the creators didn't think about. And I'm an animal nerd. So this is how I choose to have fun. Let's go.

Analysis of the Birb

Duck can be safely assumed to be a Anas platyrhynchos domesticus, or domestic mallard, as this is the typical barnyard duck throughout Asia, Europe, and... really almost the entire world. I say she must be a domestic mallard, and not wild, for one simple reason:

On the left is the typical appearance wild mallard duckling. On the right are various domesticated ducklings. That's right; the solid yellow color we associate with baby ducks? Specific to domesticated ones! Solid yellow is a sign a duckling will grow up to be a white duck; ducklings that grow up to be other colors have darker fluff mixed in.

(That's right. She'll have white plumage like a swan...)

Many white ducks have orange bills, legs, and feet; other white ducks, especially as ducklings, have orange legs and pink bills. Duck's bill is far more pinkish than her feet, but it's still noticeably orange-y, putting her in sort of a middle area. (By the way, have you ever noticed that Duck's hair color as a girl is the same as her bill color as a duck?)

If she's intended to be anything in particular (which I doubt she is), it might be the German Peking - native to the area, and the creamy-yellow tinged adult plumage of the German Peking compared to other white ducks seems to be reflected by the tint of the duck-feather quill Autor provides as a substitute for Drosselmeyer's swan-feather quill.

However, let me provide my personal baseless headcanon.

Come and see the humble Call Duck

The Call Duck is a Dutch breed, speculated to be descended from a variety of duck imported to the Netherlands from Japan. Call ducks are a smaller-than-average breed, with a note-worthily "cute" appearance compared to other ducks, even as adults: large forehead, round cheeks, short bill. They're also noteworthy for being sociable and friendly with their human keepers, making them great pets compared to other ducks... as well as very, very noisy and talkative.

(Nobody's perfect.)

There's also a certain... symbolism, I think, to the Call as a breed.

Call ducks are friendly and talkative because they were bred not for eggs, or for meat, but for hunting. Not that they themselves hunted! But their innocent, friendly talkativeness, their cheerful noisy voices, were shaped as a siren song to lure wild ducks into funnel traps. Unwittingly bringing the demise of its own kind, the Call duck's sweetness is exploited by hunters to draws other ducks to their doom.

Duck is kind, and sweet, and wants to be friends with people, and wants to help them. She saw the Prince on the lake, like a wild swan, and wanted to help him in any way she could.

In Drosselmeyer's eyes, this made her the perfect person to become Princess Tutu, to set the story back in motion... and through that friendly kindness, send every "character "in the Story to their doom.

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well anyway. the copyright system exists to commodify art and expression and process it into more money for larger companies, and it is actively detrimental to efforts for preservation, open education, and creation. everyone reading this is morally obligated to hoard and share data because we live in a world that is hostile to the idea that books or music or movies or scholarship have inherent value independent of a DRM stamp and ticket price. btw fuck hachette, harpercollins, wiley and penguin random house.

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I see it every time I hear (or even think about it) someone telling how progressive and amazing work of S/JM - directly to the S/JM that TikTok

Link to the original

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMY5TR19p/

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Utena as Onion Headlines, part 7/?

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at this point it would be less of a liability for elon’s lawyers to just kill him and take their chances on a murder trial

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Hi, Hello, Sailor Moon R?

In the Sailor Moon fandom, at least in the corner I occupy, we seem to have neglected the incredible Amazing third-to-last episode of Sailor Moon R, episode 86.

This episode looks damn near flawless, which is such a shame considering the animation director, Shinya Hasegawa, develops a far too shonen-y style in the future.

*shudders in Outlaw Star*

The pathos and sense of subdued dread are so well developed. The emotional core of this episode is entirely derived from the redeemed Spectre Sisters and Saphir.

There is a sense of adult fear-not that our main girls don't face their own share of challenges, but the unspoken love Petz has for Saphir, and his quiet resignation when it comes to his demise give the episode a distinctly mature feel.

There is a muted quality to the colors, a sense of restraint in the shot composition that is just gorgeous (at least until Wiseman fucking nerfs Saphir). Although "Clash of the Ten Warriors" is the standout when it comes to animation in R, this episode deserves credit for being just as stylistically unique.

#shinya hasegawa #sailor moon R #Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon #Saphir #Petz #animation directors