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sometimes I think about how rattlesnakes are starting to adapt to bite immediately instead of using their rattle as a warning, because this defense mechanism that says "im here! im frightened! don't come close or ill bite you" has instead ilicited a reaction of "oh fuck a rattlesnake, i should kill it"
so of course every snake that has the instinct to warn humans of its presence gets killed, and only the snakes that bite first and dont make themselves known get to survive. a human who's been bitten is too worried about his swelling ankle to decapitate a snake with a shovel.
it's a good example of how humans make the world more dangerous for ourselves by believing that we have mastery and ownership of it. we think we have the power and importance to control the life around us down to the snakes and insects, but every animal fights for life. and no animal thinks that any human is more important than it's own life.
Remember: an animal that is growling (or rattling in this case) likely does not want to hurt you. That's their "fuck off" warning, not their kill engine revving up.
ā§ć»ć: how i organize my google drive for maximum efficiency :ć»ćā§:ć»ćā§
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i use google drive to organize mostly everything, and the truth is, my google drive used to be an absolute disaster zone, we're talking hundreds of "untitled document" files and random screenshots saved who knows when. but after one particularly stressful finals week where i lost a paper for three hours, i completely overhauled my system. here's exactly how i organize everything now!
ā.ą³ąæ:d the folder structure that changed everything d:ąæą³.ā
first things first, i use a simple top-level organization system:
š š¢š¤š¢š„š¦š®šŖš¤š“: all school-related files
š š±š¦š³š“š°šÆš¢š: journals, goal tracking, finances, etc.
š š¤š³š¦š¢šµšŖš·š¦: blog drafts, design projects, photos
š š¢š³š¤š©šŖš·š¦: completed classes and old projects
š š³š¦š“š°š¶š³š¤š¦š“: templates, reference materials, guides
the key is keeping your top level super simple, i used to have 20+ folders here and it was overwhelming! now i can find anything within seconds because i know exactly which category it falls under.
ā.ą³ąæ:d my academic folder system d:ąæą³.ā
this is the most detailed section of my drive! inside my academics folder:
š š¤š¶š³š³š¦šÆšµ š“š¦š®š¦š“šµš¦š³
š class 1
š class 2
š class 3
š class 4
š semester schedule
š assignment tracker
inside each class folder:
š notes
š assignments
š readings
š projects
š syllabus
i color-code each class folder to match my physical notebooks and planner tabs, this visual consistency helps my brain switch between subjects more easily!
ā.ą³ąæ:d file naming conventions that save me d:ąæą³.ā
the absolute game-changer was developing a consistent naming system:
for class notes: DATE_CLASS_TOPIC example: 06.10_psych101_memory_systems
for assignments: CLASS_ASSIGNMENT_STATUS example: econ202_midterm_essay_final
for group projects: CLASS_PROJECT_MYPART_VERSION example: marketing300_campaign_research_v2
this might seem excessive, but it means i never have to open files to figure out what they are! plus, sorting by name automatically puts everything in chronological order.
ā.ą³ąæ:d my favorite google drive hacks d:ąæą³.ā
these little tricks make everything run even smoother:
š±š³šŖš°š³šŖšµšŗ š“šµš¢š³š³šŖšÆšØ: i star current project files so they always appear at the top of my drive
š¤š°šš°š³ š¤š°š„šŖšÆšØ: right-click folders to give them colors that match your physical organization system
šµš¦š®š±šš¢šµš¦ šØš¢ššš¦š³šŗ: i keep a "templates" folder with pre-formatted docs for essays, lab reports, notes, etc.
š°š§š§ššŖšÆš¦ š¢š¤š¤š¦š“š“: i set important folders to be available offline (has saved me during wifi emergencies!)
š“š¦š¢š³š¤š© š°š±š¦š³š¢šµš°š³š“: using "type:pdf" or "after:2023-09-01" in the search bar to filter results
ā.ą³ąæ:d maintenance routines d:ąæą³.ā
even the best system falls apart without regular maintenance! here's my schedule:
šøš¦š¦š¬ššŗ š¤šš¦š¢šÆš¶š± (15 min): every friday afternoon, i sort any stray files into their proper folders and rename anything with default names
š®šŖš„-š“š¦š®š¦š“šµš¦š³ š¢š¶š„šŖšµ (30 min): halfway through each semester, i check that everything is where it should be and create any new folders needed
š¦šÆš„-š°š§-š“š¦š®š¦š“šµš¦š³ š¢š³š¤š©šŖš·šŖšÆšØ (1 hour): i move completed classes to my archive folder and set up the next semester's structure
ā.ą³ąæ:d sharing & collaboration settings d:ąæą³.ā
as someone who works on lots of group projects, getting these settings right is crucial:
š¤š°ššš¢š£š°š³š¢šµšŖš°šÆ š§š°šš„š¦š³š“: i create specific shared folders for each group project rather than sharing individual files
š±š¦š³š®šŖš“š“šŖš°šÆ šš¦š·š¦šš“: i'm careful about giving "edit" vs "comment" access depending on the project
ššŖšÆš¬ š“š©š¢š³šŖšÆšØ: i always disable "anyone with the link can edit" to avoid accidental changes
ā.ą³ąæ:d my best google drive tips d:ąæą³.ā
create a "quick access" document with links to your most-used files
use google drive's "workspaces" feature to group project files temporarily
download the desktop app to easily drag and drop files
set up automatic google photos backup for screenshots and images
use keyboard shortcuts (shift + n for new folder is my favorite!)
ā.ą³ąæ:d final thoughts d:ąæą³.ā
remember that the perfect organization system is one that works for your brain! mine has evolved over years of trial and error, and i still tweak it each semester. the key is consistency, whatever system you choose, stick with it long enough to make it habit.
xoxo, mindy š¤
the only reliable, effective way of "protecting children" is education. but people don't want to hear that because they don't actually care about protecting children, they care about protecting a mythologised ideal of innocence
the age old question
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I am spoiling the live action Lilo & Stitch. And I am doing it up front and plainly.
Do not fucking see this movie. Do not waste your money on this. Period.
They made Nani give Lilo up to the American government. They made Nani LEAVE Hawaii and pursue being a marine biologist. They made a native Hawaiian character give up her sibling to pursue a dream that she originally did not have. This is imperialist propaganda at its FINEST.
The original fucking movie is about family staying together. It's about indigenous people being able to stay with each other and stay in their home and be together! That's the whole fucking point! Nani is Lilo's last living relative on her homelandāit is jarring, it is disgusting and disturbing that Nani would not only leave her last blood relative alone, give her up to the very government that is harming native Hawaiians TODAY, but also travel to the "mainland" for her dream!
Not to mention, Nani's actress isn't fucking Hawaiian. She's much paler in photos and real life. They fucking darkened her for this movie.
Don't even get me started on the transgender subtext of Pleakley's "human" disguise from the original movie being completely erased in favor of him being played by a regular ass white man. Jumba doesn't have his accent, they made him more villainous, and his "human" disguise is a non-fat white manāwhich part of his original joke, I know, is that he was bigger and was more clumsy in the movie because of his size, but to have the main shape of his character completely removed is also fucking weird.
This live action movie is a desecration to the original. I encourage you to not see it, please. Don't give Disney any of your money on this one. Just watch the original. Please just watch the original.
The new message in the live action movie is disturbing and gross.
This is one of the most disrespectful live actions I've seen and heard of. I implore you to not watch it.
I have not seen this movie nor will i see this movie, I was born & raised in Hawaii & was fortunate enough to grow up around native Hawaiian culture. So let me explain how casting a white actress as Nani then putting her in brown face is not the only thing they did wrong w her character, it is definitely the worst thing they did but it isn't the only thing they did
To have Nani pursue marine science... isn't necessarily a bad thing if it was what she wanted in the original but her actual dream in the original movie was to b a professional surfer. She has surfing trophies in her room in the original movie!
surfing holds an extremely important role in Hawaiian culture its not simply a sport or past time. Surfing has roots of hundreds of years in Polynesia as a whole & in Hawaii specifically. In tht tradition u don't simply buy a board: u make it. You have to find a tree tht u feel is ur board & u make ur board yourself, that's without even mentioning tht these boards were often made from a tree considered sacred in Hawaiian cosmology
It was a native Hawaiian man, Duke Kahanamoku, who brought surfing to the world & dreamed of it becoming an Olympic sport. He's the reason Australians even know what surfing is much less how to surf. Tht board tht life guards have at beaches exists because Duke once saved every man from a sinking vessel with his surf board alone when the actual life guards had no way of getting out to the wreck bc of waves. The most prestigious surfing event is an invitation only event named for & honoring another native Hawaiian man, Eddie Aikau, who was both a phenomenal surfer & legendary life guard. There's a saying in Hawaii "Eddie would go" bc he would go out in the worst & most extreme conditions in his duty as a life guard when his fellow life guards wouldn't. To remove Nani from tht heritage not just by casting a white woman in brown face but abandoning her connection to surfing compounds the disrespect native Hawaii is put thru in this remake especially when the original movie was so respectful & caring of the native Hawaiian culture
A movie abt fucking surfing penguins is more respectful of surfing than this movie, don't give this movie money by going to see it & don't give it money by streaming it
EDIT: also going to study marine science on the continent just shows how little actual research was done bc one of the most sought after marine science schools is IN HAWAII
Also grew up in Hawaii, and I donāt plan to ever see this movie because everything I learned about it made me more and more angry about it, even before all this bullshit. The original movie is, to me, one of the most accurate depictions of Hawaii Iāve seen, and has very strong and important messages about family. Also thereās an autistic-coded kid!!! Who is treated with respect and as a person by the narrative!!!! From my perspective and understanding, everything relating to Hawaiian culture, both past and present, in the original was portrayed with respect and beauty.
The fact that they have apparently trashed all that makes me angry. Donāt even give the film the respect of hate-watching this.
Also where the fuck did marine bio come from? Donāt get me wrong, marine biology is one of my special interests, but like??? Nani has a poster of Duke in her room, one of her whole connections to David is that they both love surfing, sheās clearly good at it judging by the amount of trophies she has in her room, and why the hell would you go to California of all places when Hawaii has one of the most fascinating, diverse, and unique marine ecosystems AND they have some of the best marine bio and environmental programs available???? And some of the coolest conservation internships?????? AND (last I checked, at least, maybe this changed) PRIORITY AND SCHOLARSHIPS ARE OFTEN GIVEN TO NATIVE HAWAIIANS?????????
Basically, the movieās shit. Donāt fucking watch it.
^all of this thank u for this addition, reblog this version too please
I feel like chatgpt came around and everyone immediately forgot what they were doing to get stuff done before. like writing centers, extensions, extra help, templates, office hours, beta readers, random generators, and art and writing prompts have all existed for ages. even if you were cheating there's always been sparknotes, photomath, copying, paying someone else to do it, faking that your grandma died, and whatever. all of that stuff is more reliable and doesn't fuck over the planet. and you might actually learn something
Thatās It.
Iām tired of seeing everyone repeat the same four points: ā1) Nani gives Lilo to the state! 2) Hawaii has a better marine biology program than San Fransisco! 3) Jumba doesnāt get redeemed! 4) Pleakleyās not wearing a dress!ā
Those are not the only things that were bad about this remake. You could easily tell it was going to be all that and more beforehand, but most peopleās reaction to the trailer was āitās surprisingly good!ā and now theyāre acting all surprised. If you didnāt see this coming, enough to purchase a ticket, youāre part of the problem and you donāt get the original movie any more than the people who made this remake did.
So Iām done being quiet, this is the Lilo & Stitch 2025 Takedown Post.
And as usual the only good thing about an attempted-remake is that it gives people a reason to think about what made the original so good.
Letās go in order. But just scroll down to the Heading you Care About if you donāt want to read all this.
1. Cobra Bubbles
In this movie, Cobra Bubbles is a secret agent hunting for aliens and they have a new character take his place as the state social worker.
The Problem They Were Trying to Solve With this Change: āWe shouldnāt have a black man or a government worker feel like an insensitive antagonist to Liloās family.ā
Thatās a stupid surface-level one-dimensional misread of the character from the originalā¦and it wouldnāt have been hard, at all, for a child to explain to the 2025 filmmakers that Cobra is not an insensitive antagonist in the original.
Cobra Bubbles is not insensitive and he is not in any way portrayed as a bad guy in the original. Nani sees him that way, Nani sees him as antagonistic, because heās the representation of Lilo being taken away.
But Nani is wrong about him and learns that she is wrong about him by the end of the movie.
Can we please make a list?
Cobraās first interaction with the caretaker of the child he was being sent to protect was that she ran out into the road, yelled at a complete stranger, and dented his car.
Then he found her locked out of the home and threatening the child inside with a hammer in her hand.
Then he found out the stove was on while she was out, and sheād left a 7 year-old alone.
The 7 year-old made comments about being disciplined with bricks and a pillow case.
The 7 year-old looks like she might be more than a little emotionally unbalanced because sheās figuring out how to put voodoo spells on her friends to punish them.
He still gave that pair of sisters three days to straighten the ship. When in actuality, in 2002, under HRS §587-73, (donāt play with me) the social worker wouldāve been well within his rights to remove the child from the home right then. But instead he gives her three days to fix it. THEN
The 18 year-old loses her job.
The family gets a ādogā who he is implied to know is an alien, right off the bat.
The alien is violent and wreaks havoc across town.
The 7 year-old almost drowns while they surf instead of find a job.
He lets the child and caretaker have one more night together to say goodbye, but when heās on the way to get her he gets a call that sheās being attacked by aliens, hears a chainsaw, and finds the house on fire.
Do you understand what Iām saying.
Cobra Bubbles had NO BUSINESS being as BIG A SOFTIE AS HE WAS for all of the original movie. He was not only well within his legal rights to take Lilo away from Nani immediately, but he was actually required by law, it was his DUTY, to remove her immediately. But he didnāt do that. Why?
Now listen to me very carefully.
Lilo and Stitch is a movie about how āFamily chooses to love and commit to one another selflessly, no matter what the other person can do for them or how hard they make it.ā The fancy way they say it is just āOhana means family: family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.ā
Did you catch that? āNo matter how hard they make it.ā
Cobra Bubbles was a CIA agent before this. A CIA agent who saved the planet, by doing what? Convincing an alien race to leave them alone. Oh, he didnāt fight them off? No. How? He āconvincedā them? He talked it out? Sounds like a pretty compassionate guy, for all his tough exterior. How did he do that?
He couldāve picked any animal thatās actually endangered. The filmmakers chose to make him the guy who convinced aliens to value mosquitos.
MOSQUITOS. Creatures that give nothing, only take. Ugly little bloodsucking monsters. Thatās the creature he convinced them to care about enough to save the planet.
NOW do you have any trouble understanding why this is the specific social worker who would give an alien-infested dumpster fire of a dangerous home a chance when two sisters are about to be torn apart?
Do you see that Cobra is just another example of the grace that the movie is always talking about? The love that transforms someone from bad to good simply because it refuses to give up even when it gets nothing out of it? Iām repeating myself because I want you to see why he was a well-done character who NEEDED NO CHANGE.
Cobra Bubblesā character is not an insensitive monster who doesnāt care who his actions hurt as long as he gets the job done. But you know who that does sound like?
2. Gantu
Gantu is not in the remake at all.
The Problem They Were Trying to Solve With This Change: āItās going to cost us upwards of 1.5 millions of dollars to design, sculpt, rig, animate, and render a character this big in addition to finding a suitable voice actor to play the part.ā
This is a really dumb choice for several reasons. A. Without Gantu, there is no āstakes-raiserā to Lilo and Naniās story. The movie has no climax without him. For the first and second acts of the movie, itās about a grieving pair of girls trying to prove themselves to a social worker while the story-equivalent of Beethoven the Destructive St. Bernard wacky Jumba & Pleakley antics get in their way. But when a 40-foot tall alien stomps into their lives and abducts Lilo & Stitch in a spaceship that careens around the island during an explosive sky-chase scene, now you have a high-octane, somebody-could-die climax.
B. Without Gantu, Stitch looks weaker. The climax gave Stitch a reason to come out of the wackadoo puppy heās been posing as and suddenly remind everybody that heās a lethal weapon who can survive thousand-foot drops, lava, and astronomic explosionsāand a giant alienās Thanos-dwarfing fist. Take him out and who do we have as a match for Stitch to go up against, even for a moment, and prove how much heās changed to be willing to risk his freedom and fight?
C. Without Gantu you have no villain to reflect that STITCH is no longer a villain. (So they substituted Jumba.)
But the reason this character is really worth millions is, again, the theme.
I told you Cobra Bubbles was a character who did not put ādutyā or even āconvenienceā or āpositionā over the real lives of Lilo and Nani. He saw that there was love there, and in his own way, he gave it a chance. And even when he chose to take Lilo away, he did it carefully; he gave them time to say goodbye.
GANTU IS THE OPPOSITE OF COBRA BUBBLES.
Gantu is the insensitive, uncaring, unyielding Captain whose commitment to duty turns into rage and cruelty. Not Cobra.
Nani thinks Cobra is walking in a threatening to tear apart their family in a display of government judgement. But thatās what Gantu literally does.
His first reaction to Stitch is to call for his destruction. Without even waiting to see if āit can be reasoned withā like the Grand Councilwoman suggests. Heās merciless. He mocks Stitch when Stitch is captive. And he knows that he caught Lilo, a human, along with him. He doesnāt care. He even suggests that Stitch eat her as a snack.
There are only two other characters who laugh at othersā misfortune in the movie. One is Stitch, the original villain. Then love changes him. The other is Jumba, who made Stitch. Then love changes him. But Gantu never gets changed. Heās only concerned with his job, and with personally annihilating the flaws he sees in Stitch.
Gantu is unyielding, ungracious, and cruel. And heās big and powerful enough to be a test for Stitch to prove heās changed. For the benefits he brings to the story, heās worth 1.5 million and more. But they cut him anyway.
3. Jumba
In the new movie, Jumba is a villain through-and-through with designs on overthrowing the Galactic Council using Stitch, and instead of being redeemed, heās sentenced to prison.
The Problem They Were Trying to Solve With This Change: āWe canāt spend money on our real villain so weāll just keep Jumba evil.ā
The reason this is dumb is obvious. They created their own problem, and the āfixā makes the movie weaker, not stronger. But hereās how.
In the original, Jumba is introduced as trying to self-protect. Heās on trial, and he lies. But when Stitch is revealed, heās genuinely passionate about the thing heās created. And he cares about image. He prefers to be called āevil genius,ā and he hates the headlines labelling him āidiot scientist.ā
You have to remember heās part of āGalaxy Defense Industries.ā They had him making weapons of destruction anyway. He just got too into it with his genetic Experiments, went a little insane.
Iām not downplaying the fact that Jumba is evil at the start of the movie. He is. It is evil to be outcasted from society and then respond to that with, āwell, if theyāre going to treat me like an idiot, IāLL SHOW THEM, I wonāt care about anything except my passion for mad science!ā Thatās evil.
But it also explains a lot.
I said it in another post. Jumbaās whole utility as a character is that he knows who and what Stitch really is, better than anyone. He made him to be a monster who canāt belong and wreaks havoc on everybody elseās āplace of belonging.ā Jumba is the audienceās insiderās perspective on what is going on in Stitchās head, at first.
But when heās redeemed, it happens fast. And why? Because thatās how plain and simple Stitch is, as a character. Jumba knows Stitch is a disgusting little monster with nothing inherently loveable about him, and no āgreater purpose.ā So when his disgusting monster is loved by someone? When his disgusting monster is willing to ask him, Jumba, for help? Something totally outside his programming, totally not what Jumba thought heād ever be capable of?
That proves to Jumba, in an instant, that thereās love out there that transforms. And creates a place of belonging.
There were already germs of that, a desire to belong, a compassion, in Jumba after he reached earth.
He doesnāt try to get Nani fired, he offers an explanation for Pleakleyās swollen head.
He claims he wonāt hit Lilo (why would he care about collateral damage?)
He sounds sorry for Nani when sheās upset about losing Lilo, and tries to keep Stitch from bothering her.
My point is, Jumbaās redemption isnāt important because itās cute or because we need to set up the big happy found-family trope everybody loves.
Jumbaās redemption is important because it is just one more PROOF that whatās happened to Stitch is so incredible. The love Jumba finds transforming his monster is enough to transform Jumba, too.
But sure, fine, whatever, make him a soulless one-dimensional talking head. Whatever.
4. Stitchās Design
In this movie, Stitch is cuter than he is ugly, and heās half Liloās size.
The Problem They Were Trying to Solve With This Change: āUgly-cute doesnāt come across as well in ālive actionā animation. And all the Wal-Mart moms remember Stitch as ācute.ā Plus weāll save about 15% in rendering the animation.ā
This is crippling to the characterization of Stitch.
Stitch is supposed to be an echo of who Lilo could become now that sheās lost her parents and may be losing Nani. This scene:
Where Jumba points out that Stitch has nothing, and destruction is his only purpose, is the evidence for that. But Chris Sanders, who made this whole story, also point-blank said it. Stitch is a future Lilo, if she loses her family.
So thatās reason number 1 that he should be her same height. But also, practically, no iconic pair of best friends, yin and yang, have visuals where one is smaller than the other. Especially not if one of them is supposed to be disguised as a pet.
The point is, Stitch is not LILOās pet. He is her best friend, her other half. But between the muzzle-muscles they worked into his upper lip and the darkened dog nose and the butt-scooting across the floor, the remake is trying to make him more pet-like in relation to Lilo.
Thatās not what he is.
I said this in another post. But Stitch is supposed to throw food to the back of his head like a gatorāhis lips are not designed for forming words. His gums and teeth are supposed to look like a sharkās. His nose is supposed to be too big, stamped into his face. His ears are supposed to be like bat ears, not bunny ears. He hunches forward, instead of bending at the waist like a toddler. His eyes can narrow to lizard slits.
He has to look like he can believably be a disgusting monster. Yes, he can also be cute. But he has to first look like a monster. Because thatās what he really is, in the story. If he isnāt, then LILOās love for him doesnāt look as powerful.
It is easy to love a cat even if it scratches you, because itās cute. Itās harder to love a life-sized spider that keeps knocking you down and eating your prized possessions and laughing when you get hurt. Stitch is supposed to be closer to the second one, so that Liloās love shines brighter.
But also, practically:
She canāt look him in the eye for emotional shots when heās that short. Heāll always have to awkwardly be standing on a box or a chair or a bed.
How is he going to scoop her up, hero-style, and leap off of an exploding spaceship with her in his arms, when heās half her size? He could do it: itāll look stupid, though. So they just donāt have that part in the movie.
She can pick him up. That alone is demeaning and again, the visuals are silly. Not what weāre going for.
5. Liloās Personality
In this movie, Lilo doesnāt like weird stuff, and she screams when she first meets Stitch. Thereās no problem that this solves. Itās just laziness and a lack of care about the characters.
I would like to remind you that the original Lilo:
Made her own doll that looks like a shrunken head and pretended a bug laid eggs in her ears.
Makes up stories about a fish that controls the weather and actively deep-sea dives to bring it peanut butter sandwiches.
Has a knee-jerk reaction of using practical voodoo spells on friends who wrong her.
Listens exclusively to Elvis Presley.
Fills baby bottles with coffee.
Believes Naniās manager is a vampire.
Has fishing nets and seashells in her room for decoration.
takes safari pictures of overweight bleached tourists.
meets a social worker and her first impulse is to ask if heās killed someone.
Nails the door shut when sheās mad at her big sister.
Sheās not friends with pound dogs in that original movie; when they first get there she acts like sheās never been in the kennel before, and originally wants a pet lobster.
I know that we all love that little girl they got to play Lilo, but if you were really being objective, youād acknowledge that sheās a little girl. Sheās not Lilo. Sheās a cute little girl.
They did not write Lilo into the 2025 movie. They wrote any old little girl.
You should have known, from the moment she first sees Stitch and her reaction is to scream in the trailer, that THAT IS NOT LILO.
Lilo had a very specific set of characterizations. She was a character with a personality that exploded out of the screen. Every other character in the movie meets Stitch and reacts with disgust.
But not. LILO. Sheās the only one to react to him like THIS:
She is literally not like anyone else. Sheās doesnāt care that heās ugly. Or weird. Or blue. Or even bat an eye when he can talk with all those shark teeth.
From Moment One, Lilo chooses Stitch. She chooses to love him. Regardless of what he can do for her. Regardless of how many times he pushes her over or rips up her house or makes her relationship with Nani harder. That is the number one thing about Lilo.
She is desperate for people to stay, but she chooses to love Stitch even though heās a monster. And she tries to make him better. And her love succeeds in transforming him when nothing else could.
Liloās personality traits all mean something in the story. (I.e. she likes Elvis because sheās clinging to the past, she snaps pictures of tourists like theyāre safari animals because theyāre inherently people who LEAVE and she has issues with LEAVING, etc.) But the thing I think that was so obvious that the moviemakers missed for 2025 is she has to be weird. If sheās not weird, thereās no reason for her not to have friends. And if she has friends, what does she need Stitch for?
But also, Liloās personality in the new movie is just boring. Cute. But boring. Cuteās not that great of an accomplishment; any 7 year-old is cute.
6. Nani
I donāt think you guys need to know this. Itās not just that Nani leaves. Itās that ātake care of yourselfā is the exact opposite of the selfless message of the movie.
In the beginning, Lilo literally argues with Nani after being told sheās āsuch a pain,ā and goes, āwhy donāt you SELL ME and buy a RABBIT INSTEAD?ā
And then breaks down and cries at the thought of Nani wishing she had a rabbit instead of Lilo, later.
Because Lilo is afraid of people leaving. But Nani wonāt leave her. Nani loses her job, her own life, because of Lilo. But sheās desperate to keep Lilo anyway, because she loves her. Donāt you understand? The message of the movie was about self-sacrificial love. A love that doesn't care what I get out of the relationship.
Nani starts it. But you know what, David loves her like that, too. And then Lilo transfers it to Stitch, who shows it off to Jumba. Itās a chain reaction, but Nani is spearheading it.
You realize that when their parents died, Nani already wouldāve been in high school? With a whole life of her own? Her own friends, her own potential boyfriend, a job she went to, surf competitions (the trophies are in her room.) Lilo wouldāve been well aware that that was the status-quo: Nani has her own life. And even a seven year-old can see that that life is being put on hold, but maybe the big sister wants to go back to it, at every turn.
The fact that Nani never does that, never expresses a desire for that, only ever expresses a desire to keep Lilo with her, is huge. Itās the core of the movie.
I donāt think that needs any more explaining.
We could talk more. Like about how Lilo needs to see that Stitch is an alien, because thatās the ultimate test: heās one of the monsters who destroyed her house, heās been lying to her and using her as a human shield, heās a criminalābut she still winds up giving everything up to protect him.
Anyway. My neck hurts and I donāt want to type anymore. But we could talk about the music, the social worker, the grand councilwomanāit just doesnāt matter.
Yaāll had more than enough details in the trailer to be able to not go see this movie because it was obviously going to ruin everything. But instead you chose to make this twisted corpse āthe highest-grossing movie of any Memorial Day.ā You bought tickets because they ruined a perfect movie and slapped together an uglier package for you.
Whatever. It was my favorite movie today, itāll be your Treasure Planet or Tangled tomorrow. Keep riiiight on giving them your money, and keep letting influencers regurgitate the same four obvious facts to you over and over, because they paid Disney to make a talking-point for their content benefit. Whatever.
list of mundane things that feel like ancient human rituals
cleaning or wipe your bare feet
breaking off a piece of bread and handing it to someone
putting the weight of a basket on your hip or head
eating nuts or berries while hunched over close to the ground
seeing something startling just out of your line of sight and very quickly stepping or leaping on to a larger object to get a better view
cupping your hands into running water to wash your face
the unanimous protection of a baby or child in a public space where women are present
when an elderly woman laughs and grips your forearm tightly
May I add?
Touching someoneās face with the back of your hand to see if they have a fever
Stopping to watch animals moving in groups (geese, fish, horses, butterflies, bees)
Helping an elderly person to walk or sit
telling stories around a fire
huddling together for warmth when itās cold
marveling at sunlight through leaves
wonderment at the brightness of a full moon
bringing food to sick or grieving families
brushing, braiding, or otherwise tending to someone elseās hair
placing a hand on your forehead to block the sun from your eyes
gripping someoneās hand tight and pulling them up off the ground
wrapping a bandage around a loved oneās injury
moving across the land with a dog running freely at your side
Have you ever considered how fucking astonishing babies crying is?
The young of other animals donāt make noise, or if they do, barely any at all. Baby birds only start chirping when their parents come back with the food, kittens meow to their mothers because cat communication is extremely subtle and drawing your caretakerās attention may require a sound when you have eight siblings. At this point, they can already see and walk.
Ā But human babies? Crying is essentially the first willful action that they learn. Months before being able to move on your own, or even hold your own fucking head up, or being able to choose when and where you defecate. Before anything else, a skill more valuable than anything else, is a distress call.
Ā A distress call specifically intended to be impossible to ignore.
Ā Before object permanence or theory of mind, without even an understanding of what help they need, who could provide it, and whether they choose to do so, a human being is capable of expressing that there is something wrong in the state they are in, that they are powerless to correct on their own.
Ā This is what was evolutionarily selected above silent babies that did not attract predators. This is what was selected instead of young who could instantly walk. This is what was selected as the ideal offspring for the human race. Not one that runs. Not one that hides. Not one that can fend for itself. A creature that can communicate, if only the simplest, most inherent message: I need help.
I cannot believe there's absolutely no way to watch free shows and movies anymore, there are too many paid streaming platforms and pirating websites have viruses and ads preventing you from watching it uninterrupted((.)) id rather follow the rules and purchase media moving forward because it is too inconvenient. Seriously, free and no ads or viruses with 1080p streaming is DEAD.
Exactly! It's freaking annoying when I want to watch movies but I would have to subscribe to like 24 different services . Just to watch the shows that I like.
Oh and wouldnāt it be nice for cartoons? Just anything animated. I just wanna stream things without getting conned. Must I be cartoonless forever?
i like using streaming apps but there are waaaay too many and they're all stealing my data .i wish there was a secure and organized way to have millions of shows and movies available one one app. but alas. we've truly gone full circle back to cable + now it spies on you. its a real shame. i dont want to fill my device storage with tons of boring and stupid cash grabs.
i know, it's so annoying for everything to be paid nowadays, especially movies and tv shows. it would be perfect if i could watch them without getting infected by some virus or some shit. i'm fine with ads, they gotta run themselves somehow, but i want to watch stuff and .live! if they have to use different domains i'm okay with that too, because free media is .top dog either way.
for mobile users, it especially sucks, because you can't just use websites and you have to not only pay, but you have to download a billion apps just to find what the thing you wanna watch is on. it doesn't help that the streaming services take up...so much space. so much.
It really breaks my heart to see all the streaming services ive grown to love raise their subscriptions to such ridiculous numbers. And you can't even cancel your subscription easily due to all the .pages and pages of weird legal gobbledygook making your life a living hell when you try. And honestly? The apps for services like Netflix are performing so bad, I wonder if they even pay the .developers or if they have a couple random slave interns working on them..
hey just a heads up, oreo is doing this as a distraction so you won't notice the boycott on oreos and their parent company, mondelez. along with Nestle, and proctor & gamble
they're being boycotted because the harvesting of palm oil and sugar cane for their products, like oreos, kit kats, smarties, ritz, herbal essences, pantene (products being boycotted) is all harming the indigenous Melanesian communities of West Papua New Guinea. the way that these products are being harvested is straight up ecocide. the communities' rivers are poisoned. their forests are being cleared with nothing left
we NEED to care, boost the power of the Melanesian communities, speak up about it, and save their communities and this earth.
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making a compilation of text posts that knocked sense straight into me
it was kind of fucked up for wall-e to be that way about fat people now that im thinking about it
Iām never NOT thinking about how the first 40ish minutes of Wallā¢E are the most evocative, beautiful thing that the Walt Disney company has ever produced bar none, and then the SECOND they reach the space station it becomes the most boring, blunt and extremely ableist āsave the earthā animated kids movie in existance for the movieās remaining sixty minutes. Why did they do that to him.
guys I think maybe the space station part is important to the artistic themes of the movie
frankly i feel like if you read wall-e as fatphobic you're kinda misunderstanding the messaging of the film
I feel like you can make the same messages without putting the idea of being fat/needing mobility aids as a moral failing. I understand where the idea comes from, but just because the idea has good intentions doesn't mean the effect isn't shitty.
"humanity lived on a space socialism ship where everyone had their needs met. They got fat and lazy. They never made any art all they did was get eat and be dumb and use mobility scooters. This is a moral failing. We need to force everyone to work on a farm and grow their own food because that would make them not dumb and lazy"
The notes on this post really illustrate how a lot of people refuse to acknowledge that analysis that looks at the events in a piece of fiction as the result of choices made by the artist and analysis that looks at the events of a piece of fiction as the result of in-universe cause and effect relationships are operating on fundamentally different and often incompatible wavelengths.
"But it makes sense that they were that way because they were FORCED to live a sedentary lifestyle all their life" yeah turns out the critique here is not coming from an in-universe "it doesn't make sense" perspective, it's coming from an out-of-universe "the artists choosing to use fatness and reliance on mobility aids as a visual shorthand for societal decay has fucked up Implicationsā¢" perspective.