I do what I want

[catchymemes]

[disgruntledexplainer]

goodness, I love ravens so much.

[pikamusume]

[jager-bruder]

[viralfrog]

[dragongirlbunny]

[francesderwent]

we think pining is romantic because fidelity is romantic. the reason it pulls at our heartstrings is less the idea of a longing that can never be satisfied and more the idea of someone being faithful to their love even when they’re not getting anything from it

[qi-mera]

More of you need to learn about these ☝️

[jadenebula]

[thegaymertrainer]

Ribbon dancing I was not aware of your evolution 🤯

[the-great-duck]

I love the entire concept of spy x family so much. The first time I watched it I felt like it was an original, new, never seen before sort of plot.

Like in shounen we get kids being given insane amounts of responsibility at such a young age, and the adults around them don't care or feel responsible for them.

But in spy x family we see the main motivator of one of the main cast is protecting children from living the nightmare childhood that he lived.

And the kids, Anya and her classmates, they feel so real, it's so well written. It feels like childhood experiences of messing around with friends and the process of making friends when you were a kid.

I'm not a kid anymore, but there are some moments in this anime that sort of feel like they're forming a core memory. It reminds me of my childhood.

This makes the message of war is bad, and children are it's worst victims so powerful. We see the two types of experiences these kids and mostly Anya have, like normal childhood kids stuff at school, then stuff like the bus hijacking and all the other situations Anya gets into cuz of her mind reading skills.

And the mind reading itself was a result of experiments done in an effort to gain an advantage over the enemy. Anya herself is already a victim of the war, and yet living with Twilight gives her a chance for a normal childhood.

Twilight doesn't know about it, but he tries his best to protect her from his work. So he's not like adults in normal shounens, he's actually trying his best to give Anya a good childhood even though he says it's "all for the mission".

He does pressure her to study, but he doesn't want to traumatize her so he gives her breaks.

It's not like the usual shounen message of work until you get it or you're not my student thing.

And the romance is sort of barely there but also it's building up. I thought it would be like unspoken, as is usual in a lot of action animes, but it's more like it has to be spoken at one point cuz these characters are dumbasses.

Alright that's my rant for today. I leave you with these thoughts.

[abonethrownfromthevoid]

Losing my mind over this

[kimiko24]

Happy wet beast Wednesday~ 🐾

[hear-me-out-contest]

to the person who submitted

That one Calico guard actor that calls Rhino adorable - Bolt

Please please I beg give me more info and/or a picture. I cannot make a poll with this guy unless I have more info and I do not have the time to rewatch bolt to find this guy cause i still have 80 polls to make

[angelfishcake]

Really making me expose myself like this, huh

So he shows up for barely 2 scenes, is nameless, but has a great personality, I can tell

My first ever childhood crush before I even knew what that was. I replayed this scene multiple times in a row as a kid, I couldn't get enough of him.

[hear-me-out-contest]

SORRY? WHAT? TELL US MORE!

[vendimeyers]

Lol so first I'm an animation student so all the teachers in that department generally have some amount of professional experience in the field

And its actually not too uncommon for people in that industry to dabble in voice acting. Generally what happens is that during the storyboard process the artist will do like a filler voice to pitch a sequence and if the sequence gets picked up they'll send the script to the actual voice actor for the character. But often times if the production is early enough in development they haven't picked a voice actor for every character and then as things develop the people working on the project can often get really attached to the filler voice and just keep them on for the finished product.

A more famous example of this is how Chris Sanders became the voice of stitch in Lilo and Stitch.

Anyway so the tag above was really just me picking the most exciting way of saying "my storyboarding teacher used to work at Disney"

[angelfishcake]

DUDE, THAT'S AWESOME!!!

On an unrelated note, you wouldn't also happen to know the guy who voiced the Calico guard, would you? Asking for a friend

[nazus]

(every time I feel like I have either too few stars on his pants or too many ⭐)

[yorgen-sh]

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[fairycosmos]

why is it so hard for people to grasp that disabilities disable and chronic illnesses are chronic. yes even when it inconveniences you. yes even when your patience runs out

[gaylor-moon]

[cipheramnesia]

Hideo Kojima would do numbers as a Hideo Kojima parody account on Tumblr

[tfoutofcontextcomicedition]