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"Why are you so obessed with found family?"

I watched this as a kid and internalized it for forever

Lilo and Stitch really said "This is my family. I found it, all on my own. It’s little, and broken, but still good. Yeah. Still good." And i still live by that

someemochick

bardicknowledgeblogger

I do want to say - this is a great way to introduce a BBEG HOWEVER. I think it’s super important that you make sure the core of their personality, their goals and desires that get expressed to the party, are always accurate to themselves.

Rourke never expresses any awe or respect for the Atlantians. He never promises to help them, or seem to have any care for their culture or anything like that - and it’s easy to shrug at that from Milo’s perspective because hey! He’s a mercenary, and he’s not the main protagonist! He doesn’t have to care, he just has to watch out for Milo!

And he does!!! Until Milo is at odds with him and getting the job he cared about finished. And that’s the gut punch.

If you’re going to introduce the BBEG, the biggest gut punch is when their betrayal is still completely in line with everything they’ve expressed up to that point. When “differences of opinion” hit a boiling point and suddenly became violent, or when hidden agendas begin to surface and you suddenly realize why they were always so careful in the way they worded their goals.

cynoiz

Commission for @suplupluplup! Thank you for your business!!

If you’re interested in art like this, feel free to shoot me a message~

ohsehuns

NeZha (2019)

cowboy-garfield

In light of the new Raya and the Last Dragon trailer, I’d like to bring this back.

Look at this. This is the caliber of art we could have gotten, but no. Pretty backwards how the small animation studios such as Cartoon Saloon, SPA, and countless others are the ones taking risks and putting their fucking all into the movies and TV shows they create, meanwhile the biggest film company in history; the one with the most ability to do something great, is not.

Look up there again, and now look at what we got. Two years later!

I’m not going to sit here and pretend like it’s the worst character design of all time, but it is obviously very sanded down and ‘Elsa-fied’ for marketability and… It’s just boring. It looks like something you’d see in a barbie playset rather than in a movie with a multimillion dollar budget run by one of the biggest companies on Earth.

Disney as a corporation does enough horrible shit as is, but on top of that they are clearly making art for money’s sake, and not for art’s sake, despite already having won the game a hundred times over.

It’s honestly a slap in the face how much they clearly didn’t try here. I’m not faulting the artists and animators who worked on this movie, but rather the execs and bigwigs up the ladder who obviously melted it down to the perfect, focus tested stuffed animal——

Oh look it’s already happened

There does appear to be a “this isn’t even my final form” type deal happening with her, which looks a biiiit better? But it’s still got that disney googly eyed doll thing going on, and fuck—the face. Again; not the worst ever—a little better than the primary design—but it’s still not great.

And saying “muhh it’s for kids why are you melting down over the pretty dragon you’re way too spun up about this,” no. Stop. This is the kind of shit that can change an entire industry. That can affect many real people and their careers. Hell, it could affect my career in the future.

And the excuse of being made for kids also holds no water. Kids aren’t stupid; there is some damn outstanding children’s media out there that doesn’t rely on being as watered down and pandering as possible—that takes itself seriously and commits to telling not just a targeted, appealing story, but a quality one with a true vision.

Kind of like, oh—what Disney used to fucking excel at.

There is a difference between something being made for kids and something being marketed to them.

And yes, Disney has always marketed the everliving shit out of everything they make, but for God’s sake it feels like now the order of operations is backwards. As if their recent movies have the marketability woven into their structure from the start rather than simply being strong enough to… Be something people want to financially support.

This Illumination-style trend of being as safe and widely-pandering as possible at the cost of artistry, risk, and pioneering is a disease that’s permeated big animation studios. And no one is a bigger perpetrator of this than the Mouse, who—ironically—is the one with infinite resources to do whatever the hell they want.

And this is what they did instead, all in the name of filling their own pockets even more. I hate this corporation and I hate this stupid cotton candy Joan Rivers dragon.

Maybe I’ll be wrong; please let me be wrong! this movie could come out and be great and I want that. But this character design, the generic-looking plot, and the subpar and lmao #relatable trailer are seriously making me doubt it’ll be anything more than another super safe cash cow.

Support small studios. Screw Disney. What a disappointment.

ethercatia

I am so mad at everything about this dragons’ design. What the hell compelled these people to give it Elsa’s face??? I am disturbed and upset at this human faced, bastardization of a dragon that clearly takes influence from Chinese/Japanese dragons. Just because the face mold is easy to make toys and money, does not mean you should when you could do so much better than this. What the HELL Disney.

jones-friend

One thing I want to chip in abt the dragon’s design I’ve noticed through other redraws is that they went out of their way HARD to make sure she didn’t have any non feminine traits. Redraws I’ve seen gave her bushier eyebrows, long whiskers, more aggressive gnared fangs, a scrunched or wrinkled expressive snout. Instead she has pencil brows and eyeliner (where are her ears???).

I’m a cis male so far be it from me to make a feminist statement, but does it really matter how much of a #girlboss your protag is if you’re keeping all your women in line with standards of feminine beauty?

jones-friend

Best vehicle and why

Kitties

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Cat car Cat Car CAT CAR CATACARCATCARCATCARCAR

lycodrake

Yeen has flawless logic.

mydigimonworld

sinobali

Herculeskabuterimon

Speedpaint 2h30m

knottahooker

I’d like to live through a week that’s not a whole new verse of “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”

knottahooker

I didn’t expect quite so many of you to feel this way.

oddsbod

the knight and the princess

daylighteclipsed

why does Edward give off such strong cat energy

daylighteclipsed

sparrowhawkandco

#broke: al never gets a cat#woke: edward is the cat (daylighteclipsed)

daylighteclipsed

#the reason Al likes cats so much is they remind him of Ed

op your mind

boyga-king

quarkmaster

Song for cats

Hi guys, happy new year!

There is my personal work, about my husband and cats ^_^“”“”

Tatiana Kirgetova

shoyowo

Hey remember when US and Russia was all like “We’re the best!!! We’ve won the space race!!!!” But India sent a kick-ass space probe to Mars and the whole mission was fuel efficient, costed less and a roaring success in the first try and then they were like “…..wait no that can’t be true” and still have the audacity to call us “underdeveloped” or only view us as a ‘third world country’? :)

For anyone who needs more info, the probe was called Mangalyaan (which literally means space probe vehicle) or Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) and you can also get more information here and here

shoyowo

Remember when NYT mocked India for this very thing and an TOI (a major indian newspaper) responded with this? :)

They were being racist asf and we were till respectful literally fuck you if you think ‘third world counties’ can’t be better than you

shoyowo

white people can and should reblog this

seriesofnonsequiturs

and shout out to the women engineers integral to the launch

“Indian staff from the Indian Space Research Organisation celebrate after the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft entered Mars’s orbit.

On November 5, 2013, a rocket launched toward Mars. It was India’s first interplanetary mission, Mangalyaan, and a terrific gamble. Only 40 percent of missions sent to Mars by major space organizations—NASA, Russia’s, Japan’s, or China’s—had ever been a success. No space organization had succeeded on its first attempt. What’s more, India’s space organization, ISRO, had very little funding: while NASA’s Mars probe, Maven, cost $651 million, the budget for this mission was $74 million.

This was not the only success of the mission. An image of the scientists celebrating in the mission control room went viral. Girls in India and beyond gained new heroes: the kind that wear sarees and tie flowers in their hair, and send rockets into space.”

ambrosiadarling

there’s a movie adaptation of this! it’s obviously more dramatized/they use different names but i really really loved the movie! it’s called mission mangal and it was the first time i had heard of this and i was so surprised that literally? no one talked about it??? what they accomplished is incredible.

lastbenchpapers

ALSO, Mangalyaan launched in 2013 and was meant to be a 6 month mission. It’s been in orbit around Mars now for more than 5 years and has enough propellant to keep going for even longer.

sunlit-cashmere

“The kind that wear sarees and tie flowers in their hair, and send rockets into space.”

FUCK YES. THIS IS THE TYPE OF REPRESENTATION I’VE BEEN HERE FOR!!

I love how the dudes at back are pure happy!!

g0at-reich24-deactivated2018060

if you’re irish and you complain about britain “erasing culture” but can’t even speak the language/ don’t know shit about ireland before 1910 then just shut your cakehole nobody cares

gruene-teufel

Them being Irish and not being able to speak the language/not knowing shit about Ireland before 1910 is a direct result of Britain erasing culture, you goddamn Vitamin D-deficient circus clown