The Idiot Is Back

Casper/25/professional idiot they/them

[veryluckyclovers]

[void-flesh]

I love spotify wrapped! But keep this in mind too and get involved in making sure artists still get paid !

[thescarlettbitchh]

[coyotesmokebreak]

This is Abu Dia and Reem, his granddaughter.

He, Reem, and her brother Tareq survived a bombing previously that the children’s mother did not.

Reem is the daughter of Abu Dia’s daughter. The soul of his soul, do you see? His grandchildren, the souls of his soul—his beloved daughter.

Reem did not have her hair done when she passed, but Abu Dia knew his granddaughter would want her hair done this way. He noticed too that she had lost one of her earrings in the rubble and asked if he could keep her other one to remember her by. He has it pinned on his clothing now and forever.

Her name was Reem. His name was Tareq.

He is Abu Dia

His soul and the souls of his souls have been stolen from him. He will never see them again in this lifetime.

[birdsareblooming]

For the love of god stop

[realshinjiikari]

[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

[much-butter]

This, I find, is an excellent example of how “aesthetic cleanliness” usually just means making something less interesting. Taking the bus and Frizz’s dresses as a relatively unproblematic, but very stupid, example first. What the showrunners have done here is seen the visuals of the original show and tried to declutter them for the tastes of modern audiences. The issue is that the taste they’re catering to is that of parents because they are generally choosing what children watch, and those parents don’t like clutter, and they see all of those fun shapes and colors as visual noise. YouTuber Tantacrul has a great video on how this effects children in music education. In short it’s why no children’s music toys have the capabilities for experimentation that normal instruments do, parents can’t stand “inharmonious sounds”

The much bigger problem here comes when this design philosophy bleeds into the character designs. What they’ve tried to do is make the show easier to look at by smoothing everything out making it all look a little more “cohesive.” Problem is that when you homogenize everything you, well… homogenize everything. Skin tones are lightened, curls are straightened, Noses are smoothed, fat kids are made skinny, it all becomes less diverse and less interesting. It paints a picture of an executive who thinks that people of color and other marginalized people won’t sell, their version of the magic school bus will be much neater, much more fitting to show our kids.

TL;DR:

Problem a) they tried to declutter the visuals to cater to modern parents who like “clean aesthetics,” without considering what will be fun for kids to watch

Problem b) in doing so they whitewashed the character designs and send the deeply insidious message that certain people don’t fit the desired aesthetic and are thus, not fit to be represented in kids tv

[bisquid]

Brutally I suspect it's also because the 'cleaner' visuals are less detailed and therefore take less time to animate and are therefore cheaper to produce

Why pay an already overworked animator for ten hours of actually good content when you can pay them for five hours of 'modernised' (read: shittier) content?

[kaban-bang]

[kuvaton]

[saint-batrick]

environmental storytelling.

[phallicthimble]

[clungedestroyer]

[artbyblastweave]

One moment from Adventure time that stuck with me big-time when I was a kid was the episode where the Lich first showed up, because in the climax Finn is pursuing him and he chases him down into what are clearly the ruins of a contemporary subway station. And that blew my little mind, because up till that point I'd been parsing it as one of those impossible gonzo mishmash anything-goes constructed worlds, and then abruptly without fanfare here's strong evidence that there's some kinda throughline between the world you recognize and the inexplicable fantasy setting on screen. Here's some strong recontextualization of what Finn the human means, in the singular like that, now that we've got a subway recognizably built by modern humans. I mean this was my statue-of-liberty-on-a-beach moment, except it wasn't even the salient twist of the episode- it was just there, a background setpiece which didn't have especial attention called to it beyond being where the bad guy of that week's episode had been chased off to. Love shit like that, clear but understated signifiers that you're actually been looking at a post-apocalypse this whole time.

[sodomymcscurvylegs]

…feEL THE RAIN ON YOUR SKIN NO ONE ELSE CAN FEEL FOR YOU ONLY YOU CAN LET IT IN

[traveller-of-the-knight]

*ok, but what is Jake's stragle?*

[retroactivebakeries]

[pjackk]

Are the rumors true, Pjack?

Yes i have been fingering myself until my body shuts down

[coughloop]

So many great things about smoking. Getting to use a lighter. getting to go outside. I basically don't even care about the high anymore, I get to suck on a damn thing!

[kunosoura]

This “hanging out” you mentioned is intriguing. Have my people call your people

[2001hz]

Winona Ryder, Night on Earth (1991)

[jarfieid]

I had to take a piss test for a job I got hired at today, and this is the name of the fuckin company that makes the tests

[jooshthepunished-deactivated202]