Unencumbered by needless plot

Cate || she/her || Born in the 80s || This blog is 18+ only || Taglists open || Open to requests but I can make no promises || Easily distracted and occasionally obsessed

[indyluckycharlie]

Bucky Barnes

Sam Wilson

Steve Rogers

Other...

The divider is by @writeyourmindaway​ and the header is by @whimsicalrogers​ (with a little modifying by me). 

[animentality]

[lastoneout]

This looks so much worse in retrospect too because the biggest animated movie of the summer is fucking KPop Demon Hunters, a niche story with 0 white characters that never explains anything to the audience at all. Like god. I would be so humiliated. They're trying to blame their failures as a loss of mass appeal while Sony's two biggest films are one about Korean pop-stars fighting demons and another about a black + latino superhero like I'm sorry Disney/Pixar idk if it's unsustainable levels of executives meddling or bad marketing or obsession with mass appeal or what but y'all truly seem to have forgotten how to make and market a good movie and it's wild to blame that on non-white creatives making stories based on their own cultures and histories.

Like it's crazy the Best Animated Picture Oscar has been a thing for the last like 23 years and I can count on just my hands the amount of movies that have won that were not Disney films(only 9), that thing used to essentially belong to Disney, and they haven't won it since 2021. The winners instead have been a Ghibli movie set in post-WWII Japan(The Boy and The Heron), a Latvian indie film made in Blender starring exclusively animals with no spoken dialog(Flow), and Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion Pinocchio which is set during WWI that pulled exactly 0 punches on the topic and is explicitly based on a version of Pinocchio that almost none of the intended audience was familiar with. Just. Where the hell are they getting the idea it's niche cultural films that are the problem, they're clearly very much not. Something at Disney is just fucking broken and until they fix it we're just gonna get incoherent sequels no one asked for and occasional original films which get left to fucking drown by Disney's marketing department like they're trying to Treasure Planet their entire animation department and/or Pixar as a studio.

Just wild. Really, really wild.

[nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix]

Oh yeah, I always go to the movies to see my life played out in front of me. Like when the biggest film of the year was about that very relatable experience of going on a cruise liner in the 1910s. Or visiting a park with real dinosaurs. Or being a young, poor Indian boy who wins millions. Or a weather-worn pirate being tracked down by his cursed, undead former shipmates. YOU KNOW, everyday, relatable stuff. Apart from the fact, as discussed above, that POC deserve to see their lives in pixar films too, seeing other people’s lives is LITERALLY WHY I WATCH MOVIES YOU DUMB PIECES OF SHIT. I’M NOT AN ORPHANED PRINCESS WITH ICE POWERS EITHER BUT THAT SEEMED TO HIT BIG.

[indyluckycharlie]

It's worth noting that this kind of rhetoric is rampant in fandom spaces like Tumblr. Any reader insert that is specifically labeled as POC! immediately gets less views and interaction. On top of which, that certain sector of readers get all up in arms about how they're being "excluded" from those fics, but have nothing to say about so-called "neutral/raceless" readers that are obviously white-coded with their white girl hair, visible blushes, and pink nipples. Shit, I saw a so-called universal reader who was actively described as a blue-eyed blonde (and the fact that it was clearly written by AI still doesn't excuse the lazy ass "writer" from not even reviewing the work they were pretending was self-written).

White experiences are not universal and the rhetoric suggesting that they are is just as dangerous as actively erasing POC experiences from historical literature.

[torreyno]

Quick art study

[nerdindanger]

Quick sketch of Sam 🥱

[originaldouble]

Admire you

[meowwmeowie]

surrender

catch me on twitter (18+)

[naiokenx10]

literally invaded my mind all day yesterday and would not rest until it was finished

[rvnclyd]

art prints ♡

[wiryuu]

who the hell is bucky

[mayomkun]

Sambucky gets to me

+ Bonus doodles

[ghostly-lee]

She's helping

[jmblackcrimson]

Sam 💝

[elfito]

Sam wilson chibi😸

[izayamoriarty]

Hyperfixation so hard I actually started drawing again (it only took year or something). Flippin hope this time I'm not stopping only at unfinished sketch.

[haflacky]

Sambucky pride and prejudice AU

[abutchwithbooks]

Been enjoying turning my paper sketches into digital, and I’ve had sambucky brain worms for months now so of course it had to be of these two <3

[cowzone]

They are mc-fucking-gaming..... they're all losing except Natasha