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@just-asomeone
Introduction post
I'm just some artist lurking in the shadows, you can call me Jas or J. All pronouns are fine.
I ramble about random stuff and reblog anything I want, so prepare for that if you follow me.
Some helpful tags: #just-as-art - my art tag!
#just-as-writing - sometimes I dabble in writing.
#new harvest - anything related to my yet to be made webcomic "New harvest". One day it'll be real.
To find me elsewhere, check out my links
My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.
forgot to post the last of the charity comms omg OOPS sry but yea theyre done!!
Yes, Crystal power
the problem with buying food is after you eat it you have to go buy more food
I just finished Find Us Alive and I gotta say I have thought. WAY too much about their infinitely resetting food supply.
absolutely fucked there are no trains to visit a steam train exhibit. Fucking… what are we doing here
They don't want the other trains to see the steam trains and feel discouraged or envious.
Animal Crackers for Zoologists
oh no they’re going to start calling democrats the same thing they’ve been calling democrats for 20 years now
"Here’s a trick I learned during the Obama presidency for handling certain types of political labels. Take, as an example, the Tea Party claim that Obama is a Communist. Don’t take the word of the person making the claim (Tea Partiers). Don’t rely on the rebuttal of the target (Obama), because that will just be dismissed. Go to the group itself (Communists) and ask them. Ask an actual Communist if Obama is a comrade and see how they answer. Watch as they laugh at you, then explain in great detail how they wish there was a Communist in the White House, but here’s a long and exhaustive list of why that just isn’t so. Now apply this logic to the claim that Hillary is pretty much the same as a Republican. Ask an actual Republican if they think Hillary Clinton is one of them. Watch them laugh, and then explain in the same exhausting detail why that just isn’t so. Some of them might concede that she’s better than Trump, but that’s not the same thing. Finally, go ask a White Supremacist if Trump is one of them. As they excitedly explain how Trump is the guy they’ve been waiting for all these years, and how he’s really empowered their movement, use this to guide how you will be voting in November."
Source: a 2016 facebook posts by Craig Enan, since then deleted (OG link here)
having now watched every 3D animated Barbie movie (don't ask), here is my tier list:
notes:
the top tier is not S tier. the top tier is like "6 or 7 out of 10, by kids' movie standards, if I'm being generous".
"enjoyable elements" usually boil down to a villain who is completely batshit insane and chewing the scenery. sometimes it's "clown plane" or "she always milked the cow her own way" though.
most of these tiers are sorted chronologically, not by quality within the tier. special exception to the bottom tier, which does descend in quality, steeply.
don't. watch. all the barbie movies.
1: who did this to you
2: which one is Mass Effect But Barbie
a fellow by the name of Freshmin who I don't know if he has a Tumblr, acting as executor of the will of the people
that's Barbie: Star Light Adventure (or, as Freshmin would call it, "BARTBIE: SATR LGITB ANDVERUTE"), which is one of the kinda tolerable ones. like, it's visually interesting, it kinda wants to be Star Wars, and while it has no actually good characters and its moment-to-moment writing is dull and frequently nonsensical, it does make an attempt to tell an original story instead of having Mattel executives play paint-by-numbers with tired kids' movie tropes. (you can tell the executives were still involved because Frozen had just gotten huge and so Barbie has Elsa hair in this one, at least for the cover art and the first twenty minutes before they put her in a worse outfit that's easier to animate.)
It means various things! Those movies are weird and hard to categorize and I didn't even understand what they were going for.
Barbie in The Nutcracker (or BASEBIE IJN THE NUTCRACKERT) was the very first animated Barbie movie, and one Mattel wants people to forget (Barbie in A Christmas Carol was billed as "the first Barbie Christmas movie). It's a kind of surreal movie that features lengthy wordless plotless ballet sequences, random D&D monster encounters, a horrible-looking bat, and a Rat King who doesn't make sense from basically any angle. It's also got this really bizarre ending twist in its framing device that I really don't know what to make of. It was kind of entertaining to watch insofar as being baffled and boggled is enjoyable, but "good" isn't a category of thing that feels like it could even be applied to it.
Barbie & The Diamond Castle (or BAURVE & THE DIANOD CAALT) is the one I find hardest to figure out if the writer thought they'd accomplished what they wanted or not. It's the most lesbian Barbie movie, insofar as it has two leads who are women who live together and sing about how much they love living together in their cottagecore fantasy house in the woods and show no interest in the male love interest supporting characters- but it's a chaste 2008 possibly-somehow-unintentional kind of gay that doesn't really do anything. The weird thing is its bizarre original story about magic music witches that runs on a fairytale logic that keeps zagging out of the way of making sense- it's the one I'd have the hardest time describing what it's about. Also it has maybe the worst CGI animal sidekicks in the franchise. Those horrible little dancing dogs feature in my nightmares.
The Barbie Diaries (or THE NAIRNE DIARIES) is not a Barbie movie. It's a Disney Channel original movie that got lost on its way to the shoot and fell into the Barbie basement by accident. Not animated by the same studio, stylistically and tonally completely different. Leaving aside the weird inconclusive subplot about a magic good-luck book, it's a perfectly serviceable teen movie about high-school popularity drama- a subject I cannot fucking stand and so I hated every minute of it. I can't honestly call it bad, but I've got an allergy.
Barbie: Princess Charm School (or BARBE: PREINCFWESS CHARM SCXHOOL) is a fever dream. It's kind of funny and high-energy, but, uh... well. The plot: there is a, uh, prep school type thing for "lady royals", which doesn't appear to have any correlation with hereditary noble standing and might just be a state of mind. Barbie, a commoner, is enrolled sort of by mistake and has sort of a fish-out-of-water plotline where she learns to be the Barbie franchise's deranged hallucination of what a princess is, and embroiled in a complex inheritance manipulation scheme that doesn't make any sense. The school incidentally has like, fairy slaves flying around and they're weirdly involved in the action despite not talking or having their deal explained ever. It kinda turns into a girl power heist movie towards the end??? This is like, the most running-on-vibes a Barbie plot has ever been, besides BARBIER: S FASHIN FWAIERYTALEW which is kind of the same movie (down to the poorly-explained fairy slaves) if it were tedious and ugly and about nothing.
I wasn't really sure how to sort any of these into their own tiers so they get their own Mystery Bucket in the middle.
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I'll take your word for it man
Oh also you do have to read real books. Like you have to read the books. You can’t just read fanfic, those are not books. You can if you just want to write fanfic, but if you want to write books, you kinda gotta read books. No, posts do not count.
oh my goodness, one of dian fossey’s first close up observations with gorillas happened when she was trying to climb a tree to see them better, but so badly that by the time she’d gotten up the entire group had come out of hiding to look at her: “Nearly all members of the group had totally exposed themselves, forgetting about hiding coyly behind foliage screens because it was obvious to them that the observer had been distracted by tree-climbing problems, an activity they could understand.”
hello, fellow apes
The lead up to that sentence is gold:
[Image transcript: porch. The group had been day-nesting and sunbathing when I contacted them, but upon my approach they nervously retreated to obscure themselves behind thick foliage. Frustrated but determined to see them better, I decided to climb a tree, not one of my better talents. The tree was particularly slithery and, try as I might, no amount of puffing, pulling, gripping, or clawing succeeded in getting me more than a few feet aboveground. Disgustedly, I was about to give up when Sanwekwe came to my aid by giving one mighty boost to my protruding rump; tears were running from his eyes as he was convulsed in silent laughter. I felt as inept as a baby taking its first step. Finally able to grab on to a conveniently placed branch, I hauled myself up into a respectful semislouch position in the tree about twenty feet from the ground. By this time I naturally assumed that the combined noises of panting, cursing, and branch-breaking made during the initial climbing attempts must have frightened the group on to the next mountain. I was amazed to look around and find that the entire group had returned and were sitting like front row spectators at a sideshow. All that was needed to make the image complete were a few gorilla-sized bags of popcorn and some cotton candy! This was the first live audience I had ever had in my life and certainly the least expected.]
imagine some freakish not-a-human alien THING has shown up out of nowhere and is trying to get into your office building to study you. but it has no idea how to get past a revolving door. it tries for three hours. by the time it finally understands the concept of a revolving door and squeeze into the building everyone in the office is crowded into the lobby to watch and call helpful suggestions. it’s conclusively determined that the alien is definitely not a threat, except maybe to itself.
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You gotta be really publicly passionate about things if you want your friends to text you. Bc people will forget to text you because they’re human. But if you’re really openly the friend who loves identifying ants your friends will think of you when they see ants. And they’ll text you “what ant is this [blurry photo]”. And then they’ll ask you how you’ve been and we should get coffee sometime. But if they don’t know what you love they’ll never know what you like
And then when the ant convention is in town they’ll be like dude… we should go to the ant convention. But they would never think to go if they didn’t know u loved ants
And sometimes you need to ask them to go to the ant convention. But you Will not get anywhere hiding your passions
