Hullo! Bonjour!

White, cis, queer woman who lives in Canada.

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Hogwarts is honestly chaos

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Donnie Yen on being a part of Star Wars as an Asian character

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Frighteningly Beautiful - Mads Mikkelsen in Russian magazine ‘OK!’

[my scans, please reblog, don’t repost]

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Healing is not linear

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The best way to watch Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is to wait until Garak kills someone and then dramatically rip off your sunglasses and say “looks like they  just got… eliminated”

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let hannibal lecter motivate you

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tattoo this on my flesh

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So if we wanted to watch some French animation, what films would you suggest?

the Triplets of Belleville is about an elderly woman searching for her son who was kidnapped in the middle of a Tour de France race. It’s largely free of dialogue, but the sound effects and such are wonderful. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature—it lost to Finding Nemo.

A Cat in Paris is about a young girl and her cat who discover mysteries in the course of one night. It was also nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, but it lost to Rango.

Persepolis is based on an autobiographical graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi about her early life in Iran. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but it lost to Ratatouille.

the Illusionist is about an aging magician and an imaginative young girl who form a father/daughter relationship. It was also nominated for a Best Animation Oscar, but lost to Toy Story 3.

The Rabbi’s Cat is a story about a cat who swallows a parrot and gains the ability to speak like a human. It is set in 1920’s Algeria.

Ernest & Celestine is the adorable story about a big bear and a little mouse who forge an unlikely friendship. It was also nominated for an Oscar in Best Animated Picture, but lost to Frozen.

Kirikou and the Sorceress is a story inspired by West African folklore that tells the story of Kirikou, a boy who was born with the ability to walk and talk, who saves his people from an evil witch. The film was popular enough to spawn sequels and a stage adaptation.

A Monster in Paris is a 3D animated musical film that is reaaaaalllly loosely based on the Phantom of the Opera. It’s set in 1910 and is about, surprisingly, a monster that lives in Paris, and his love for a young singer.

The King and the Mockingbird is an 80’s film about a cruel king titled Charles V + III = VIII + VIII = XVI, who is obsessed with a young shepherdess, and whose attempts to capture the young girl are thwarted by a mockingbird whose wife the King had previously killed.  

Those are probably the most famous of the feature length animated films.

But the animated short films are just as glorious. Here’s a compilation of a bunch of short films and I can link you to others as well. 

Sorry for the long answer but I just really love French animation.

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Reblogging over here. French animation tends to do better with diversity than Disney does, hahaha.

[young-angry-and-fabulous]

I should add “Le Tableau” which is really beautiful, especially if you love art. This movie is highly poetic !

“A château, flowering gardens, a threatening forest, here is what, for mysterious reasons, a Painter has left incomplete. Three kinds of characters live in this painting: the Toupins, who are entirely painted, the Pafinis, who lack a few colors, and the Reufs, who are only sketches. Considering themselves superior, the Toupins take over power, chase the Pafinis from the château, and enslave the Reufs. Convinced that only the Painter can restore harmony by finishing the painting, Ramo, Lola, and Plume decided to go looking for him. Throughout the adventure, questions will follow one after the other: What has become of the Painter? Why did he abandon them? Why did he begin destroying some of his paintings? Will they one day know the Painter’s secret?”

I would highly recommend Ernest & Celestine as the animation is beautiful, the characters are really moving and the story conveys a great message about love, friendship and oppression.

Another thing : have you seen how these amazing movies lost to american big productions ?

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Don’t forget about Kirikou et la Sorcière.

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They didn’t forget! Kirikou and the Sorceress, up there.

May I suggest Dragon Hunters for myself? This 2008 feature-length film is based on the 2004-2005 cartoon Chasseurs de dragons, by the same makers (available fully online, by the way). The music, by Klaus Badelt, is hypnotic. The world is beautiful and strange, the characters lovable… and the dragons, really good.

Just saying.

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hey, wthat about Le jour des corneilles? Its one of my favorites french films

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I would be remiss if I let this post go by without adding La Planète sauvage which is one of my favourite movies of all time, nevermind French and animated ones (sorry I don’t have a screenshot)

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I can’t fit them all into one post so the rest can be found on my blog! They are so fun to do that I will probably keep drawing and adding new ones to the collection forever.

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Sunny look

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HOLY SHIT MARY LOOK

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So which is the house for “I think the way they did Ilvermorny is kind of racist and imperialist and while I suppose that’s historically appropriate I think I’d prefer to burn the whole thing down because fuck you, I’m not interested in stealing this stuff from people who’ve already been murdered, silenced, and otherwise fucked over for centuries for my own amusement?”  

Asking for a friend.

[homojabi]

The amount of lesbians who know that they’re lesbians from a young age versus the amount of gay men who know that they’re gay from a young age shows a staggering difference in that most lesbians take way longer to realize that they’re gay.

Girls are told that dating men is supposed to be hard and essentially unfulfilling. That it’s normal to expend emotional and sexual labor without receiving anything or feeling anything in return. Girls are told that their attraction to men and relationships with men should be difficult and sometimes feel forced because men are so emotionally lacking or otherwise “hypermasculine”.

Realizing that you don’t like men because you’re gay versus just feeling emotionally exhausted or unable/unsure of how to “please” men is part of the reason why compulsory heterosexuality is so damaging. It forces many girls to continue to date men and to keep trying to feel attraction to them long after they’ve realized that there’s nothing there—particularly blaming themselves for the reasons why relationships with men don’t work out instead of thinking it’s an indicator of being gay, which most (though of course not all) gay men are able to recognize as an initial indicator.

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Consider this: Martin Sensmeier as Captain America

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This. This is how you break down ableist barriers. This is incredible for the deaf and for the custies. I would love to learn sign language, and I would learn it faster if it was standing between me and booze

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this is so important

[theweedkitten]

This is such a great idea. There needs to be HUNDREDS of these restaurants.

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Love dat.

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If you’re interested in going: SIGNS Restaurant & Bar Address: 558 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON M4Y 1Z1, Canada Phone:[phone]

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My friend Cheryl and I made these X-Files valentines a few years ago because we’re giant nerds. I thought of them because I’ve been watching The Fall and having murder nightmares and it’s almost February.

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Katie (via Big Ben in Japan)