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love the end of the two towers where gandalf looks into the sunset talking bout "yea frodo had to go it alone it was his destiny and there is no changing it he will be ok 😌✨" and aragorn is like "sam went with him btw" and gandalf is like "oh fuck thank god"

#lord of the rings #lotr #lol

i-am-a-fish

don't be mean to yourself that's you

i-am-a-fish

you live there

theleavesofwesteros

reminder to myself (and anyone who might need it) because sometimes this is hard to remember

ew-lour

They De-Tumblrized Ms. Frizzle

malaesthetic

@transfagsculine

#how do yall whitewash a white woman

why would you leave this in the tags lmao

tikkunolamorgtfo

Allow me to explain:

raevenlywrites

Everyone dropping this pic

And talking about how the new frizz her is her niece, allow me to do a direct side by side instead

These are STILL not the same woman. Where is the icon fashion, the earrings (the chameleon, which might be in the new show idk I haven't watched it), the prominent hooked nose, the broader shoulders, the volume to her hair, the LIFE IN HER EYES

This frizzle looks like she's been called into the school board for inappropriate behavior and dress one too many times and has been broken.

Also others have said it before me but I couldn't find it in the scroll backs but they whitewashed all the kids too. They same face syndromed everyone to either be easier to draw or be more ambiguous so as not to offend or both or something, and it just makes me sad

raevenlywrites

Fuck it I did the digging cause I'm still mad

amingethia

And that’s not even to mention what they did to the bus itself.

The old bus had a personality and life and fun and now it’s just… a bus.

HOW DO Y’ALL WHITEWASH A BUS?!

beforeliteracytherewasdeez

It's gives "anti abortion Jehova's Witness cartoon" now

therobotmonster

Vector puppet animation and a shocking drop off in investment in kidvid is largely at fault, but international marketing is also to blame.

What's important to remember is that the whitewashy approach to character design in kidvid is a backslide.

Representation in cartoons had generally been on an upswing since the 1980s, even though efforts were often minimal, clumsy, or badly executed. Diversity helped sell action figures in the lucrative US/Canadian market and it was recognized as a prosocial value on the production side.

"Prosocial messages" are a major part of kidvid TV pitches and development, nearly every show has specific prosocial lessons the narrative themes are intended to work around, even if its an action-figure ad. These range from sincere expressions of the creator's intent (Gargoyles, OG Magic Schoolbus, OG He-Man (no, for real)) to the entertainment equivalent of carbon credits.

Slight aside. Actual ink-and-paint animation tended to lock characters down into more distinct tones because there were only so many standard paint colors. Which is why Kwame from Captain Planet, Roadblock from GI-Joe, and Tim from OG magic schoolbus all use essentially the same pantone.

Ralphie gets skinny because not only fatphobia, but I suspect because he would need slightly different rigging and would add just a teensy bit to the budget adjusting his animations when they could just copy-paste from one of the other identically built kids. If they need to put them all in spacesuits or diving suits or whatever, they just make the one body and slap the heads on, eazy-pezy.

Decals on the schoolbus mean they have to be tracked, they have to use different versions of the bus in flipped shots, same with Mrs. Frizzle's clothing patterns. Wouldn't want to spend time flipping Ralphie's "R' around.

And with the marketing for everything now being global, there's an impulse to average everything down to appeal to all markets to a general degree. Making stories oversimple makes them easy to translate. Humor varies culture to culture, keep it slapstick or quick quips that can be localized easily. Everything that makes the Chinese censor boards happy also makes US reactionaries less likely to kick up a protest, the incentive is to keep everything:

ALSO: These characters have the same face. They probably use the same eye and mouth parts for character animations.

It's all to do it as cheap and broadly appealing as possible, as determined by business weirdos who know nothing about art and care nothing about kids, and they're more than willing to leverage racism (or just ignore that its happening) for the promise of a tenth of a percent more profit.

And what's galling is that this kind of animation software doesn't have to make crap. It can be used to make amazing stuff and still be vastly cheaper than traditional hand-drawn, but the same quality at 60% of the cost is never going to beat 1/2 the quality at 5% of the cost for the money-men.

The path of least resistance rolls over a lot of people.

pavilion-of-butterflies

Reblogging for "the path of least resistance rolls over a lot of people"

#my childhood #they ruined my childhood #magic school bus #90s kid

contemptible-scoundrel

fuuuck I could use a mysterious benefactor right now

jeremybrettholmes

One of the finest and most beloved Watsons ever to grace the screen has passed away. David Burke was 91 years old, just shy of his 92nd birthday, and he is survived by his wife Anna Calder-Marshall and his son Tom Burke.

By all accounts, he was a gentleman and a wonderful human being. He could have stayed on to play Watson much longer, which would have made many of us very happy, but he chose to leave the show to be nearer to his family, especially since Tom was very young at the time.

His was not the first intelligent and competent Watson, but this version marked a turning point in mainstream depictions, from comedic sidekick to a hero in his own right.

RIP, dear sir. You will be missed. Thank you for everything.

~*~

To read a longer and moving tribute, please check out the I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere website: https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2026/05/david-burke-first-watson-of-granada-era.html. The tribute includes a link to the interview that the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Podcast conducted with David and his wife a few years ago.

#david burke #granada sherlock holmes

frightfullytreeish

reblog to slowblink at your mutuals

holespoles

Haruka Kawakami

かわかみはるか

narcisismomaterno

Declaration of the rights of the daughter of a narcissistic mother

(painting not mine)

“I have a right to be angry with those who abuse me.

I have the right to be treated as an adult.

I have the right to say "no". I have a right to make mistakes.

I have the right to cut off contact with toxic people, regardless of who they are.

I have the right to live my life according to my head.

I have the right to complain about what I don't think is right and about the injustices committed against me.

I have the right to validate my story and my reality.

I have a right to protect myself.

I have the right to feel antagonistic emotions, as well as to express them in a non-abusive way.

I have the right to ask for and refuse help.

I have the right to have my own will, opinion and interests.

I have the right to change the way I act and think.

I have the right to live a fulfilling and fulfilling life. "- Michele Engelke, author of books on maternal narcissism

wholeheartedsuggestions

shoutout to people who find mother’s day hard to deal with whether your mom left, your mom died, your mom is abusive, your mom is hard to connect with, you don’t get to see her, etc. get through today as best you can. love you.

jessie-lou

Special shoutout today to all the kids who had to raise themselves because their mothers didn't.

To the folks who are no-contact with their mothers. (Don't you let anyone make you feel guilty today.)

To those who are secretly relieved that they no longer have to come up with a gift or some elaborate celebration just to avoid The Consequences.

To the ones who are still doing something to avoid The Consequences. (I hope you have supportive people in your life who can help you through whatever comes your way today).

To the parents who had shitty moms and are working hard to break the cycle.

To all of us in the Shitty Moms Club.

halcyoncyrus

there is a fictional man in my brain and I will never be free

poetry-vs-depression

if you don't understand why the play is such a big deal in mansfield park, imagine you leave on a business trip and whenever you call home your family is like "oh yes, everything is fine, same old same old, enjoy your trip!" then when you get back your oldest son (who knows the family is having money problems) has hired a film crew to shoot a reality show in YOUR HOUSE. your two college aged daughters are making out with the new neighbors on camera. also, hope you don't mind that they hired a contractor to knock down some walls in the family room - need more space for film equipment after all!

so yeah, fanny was not just being a prude ... this was truly an insane idea

#mansfield park #jane austen