Atonement

Brown Hair. Brown Eyes. Survive.

[bartagnanz-deactivated20231202]

The Fellowship: we’re on a quest to destroy the One Ring to keep it from the dark lord Sauron

Galadriel: oh you mean my ex?

Celeborn:

[niocel]

UGH YOU GUYS THE REFLECTION OF THEM ON THE WATER

SHIT ALWAYS CIRCLES BACK TO THE RAFT

[mrslesbobaggins]

just between us — did the love affair maim you, too?

— all too well (10 minute version), taylor swift

[marusagorjup]

Another Ghibli study I did in between projects.

[9710144]

May anything that is bothering you be healed , lifted , solved and released .

[dankmemesreasonforliving]

[quotefeeling]

The hardest battle you will ever have to fight is between who you are now and who you want to be.

Unknown (via quotefeeling)

[cardansgreenbriars-deactivated2]

Where were you twenty years ago? Ten years ago? When I was new? When I was one of those innocent young maidens you always come to? How dare you! How dare you come to me now when I am this!

The Last Unicorn (1982) dir. Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin Jr.

[dankmemeuniversity]

[detectivehole]

emperor kuzco was clearly gay

[detectivehole]

hes 19, with unlimited power, and he ain’t got a gf. the only time we see him interact with any women his own age is when he’s rejecting like 7 of them rapid fire. he pretends to date pacha in a gag that lasts like 10 solid minutes. listen to me god damnit

[qqueenofhades]

Okay, but just in case anyone is coming to tumblr dot com for my hot takes on 20+ year old kids' movies: Kuzco super WAS gay (or at least coded as such) and of course, I didn't get it until I watched it as a gay grownup.

He is played obviously camp and dramatic, for a start, and there is the aforementioned "hate your hair/not likely/yikes yikes yikes/let me guess you have a great personality" summary dismissal of all his potential brides. Then he spends dinner asking Yzma about Kronk ("so he seems nice? He's what, in his late twenties?") and otherwise being slightly obsessed with him.

Then there is the whole Adventure of Doom with Pacha, him being ever huffy about the Kiss of Life, and then the restaurant gag where Kuzco takes to playing Pacha's fake wife and dressing up in ladies' clothing with great gusto (reinforced by the waitress' "bless you for coming out in public" remark when Pacha says they're on their honeymoon). Then when he is finally de-llamafied, we don't see him paired off with the obligatory girl from the lineup earlier, as might otherwise be expected in a Disney movie. Instead he is still single, but goes to found family it up with Pacha, Chica, Kronk, etc, which dare we remark is a very queer trope.

In short, I have no idea how a Disney movie with no white people (all the characters are Indigenous/people of color), a gay king, cross-dressing jokes, and the most offbeat plot of all time actually ever got made (can you imagine the Family Friendly Mouse doing that today? Let us also talk about Kronk because he is a brilliant deconstruction of both toxic masculinity and the musclebound henchman stereotype.) Other than that this was the Chaos Hour of animated movies in the late 90s/early 2000s, and yes.

So yes. There you have it. I will not be taking criticism at this time.

[flavinbagel]

In response to the question “How did a movie like this get made at all much less by fucking Disney?” there was a recent Vulture article that outlines the whole shit show of a history behind this film according to everyone (writers, directors, VAs, Stings) involved. The gist of the story is that they fucked up making a whole, true-to-form Disney musical that never came to see the light of day SO BADLY that Disney switched directors, locked the writer’s room, and didn’t review a single script until weeks after the film was in theaters.

Please, read this article if you have some time. This story is wild, and involves directors being pitted against each other Bake-Off style and a shockingly intimate documentary created by the wife of Sting who, himself was heartbroken by the decimation of the songs he wrote for the film including cutting a fantastic Yzma villain song sung by Eartha Kitt that is SO DAMN GOOD but would not ever have fit the more nailed-down Yzma we would eventually come to know and love. It’s so catchy though, I’m doubling up on calls to action but please listen now:

[theterriblethingabouttulio]

holy shit read the article. it’s worth it and completely batshit

[kat-witha-k]

This is fucking insane

[brightlotusmoon]

[mod2amaryllis]

I've never adequately appreciated the batshit brilliance of this joke, I've taken it for granted

[maureen2musings]

Dreamy Alps

juusohd

[neckkiss]

About Time (2013)

[lizclimo]

[quotefeeling]

“A secret to happiness is letting every situation be what it is instead of what you think it should be, and then making the best of it.”

— Unknown

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“One of the best feelings is knowing that you’re wanted. Knowing that someone wants to talk to you, wants to know how you’re doing, or wants to see you. Whether they pick up the phone to send you a quick text, or stop by your house to catch up, someone or something reminded them of you specifically. It just feels really nice to know that you’ve been on someone’s mind and that they care enough to let you know that.”

— Lessons Learned in Life

[birdandmoon]

How to tell a raven from a crow. Made with corvid researcher Dr. Kaeli Swift for her blog post on the subject!

[theprinceofsnark]

These are all well and good (accurate and informative and also fun) but here’s the best way to tell the difference between the two:

Ravens are FUCKING huge.

[hellenhighwater]

If you want an easy way to remember which one is the big one, the bigger word’s the bigger bird–Ravens are big, crows are little. 

[quotefeeling]

“The key to success is to start before you are ready.”

— Marie Forleo