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My animation sketchbook and multimedia project dumping ground. AO3: TheColorBlue | YouTube: TheColorBlueProductions | Bsky: Magickedteacup

[magickedteacup]

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Writer, Songwriter, Artist/Animator

She/Her

Slowly working on my little passion projects that are somehow taking literal decades to come to fruition. Self-taught animator who is slowly percolating away at original indie work and little fan pieces/studies that are often pulling from various films’ concept art or deleted material. Also writes music and makes jokes about aspiring to be a modern day lady Beatle.

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Updated post: April 2026

[magickedteacup]

Finally back to annotating/arranging my song “Impossible Dreams” ♥️ my golden-age-of-Hollywood-musicals style musical number about animators… ✨✨✨ I was flummoxed by years by how to annotate the basic little unit of rhythm that was the backbone of the song, but now that I’ve figured that out, it should be pretty straight-forward to write the skeleton for the song before filling out with orchestration. It’s actually quite a beautiful song in my humble onion, the kind of song that I’d be very pleased to have performed for real, but mostly I’m just interested in getting the whole thing written down.

(Let’s not lie, I would be more than very pleased, I’d be extremely pleased to have it performed for real, I’d be happy to have Alan Menken as an esteemed guest to attend the premier, that’s the kind of confidence and darling feelings I feel about this song. It’s giving The Newsies but about grown men in the 1930s with a little more assuredness and dignity than those scrawny news kids… probably… Sometimes, anyway. And the orchestration has that silky-brassy quality of those elegant silver screen pictures, I’m really pleased with the effect I’ve gotten so far in little pieces of it).

[politijohn]

Source

Happy Pride Month!

[reasonsforhope]

Holy shit!!!!!!! HUNGARY DID IT!!!!

-via the Los Angeles Blade, June 1, 2026

[ah-muiii]

He so small…only need one popcorn……

[magickedteacup]

Still low-key shopping around for a potential music producer. For my whims and whimsy. In my head I’m looking for someone who isn’t just able to paint-by-numbers a good product (I don’t want a song that just for example “sounds like the Beatles”) but has a certain attitude about music. For example, I’m intrigued by this one young fellow who called the style of the Monkees song Daydream Believers “whimsical” and just his general reaction to listening to that song in a first-time listen video really gave me a positive impression. He has not made his studio production business information easy to find, but I’m intrigued enough I want to look into his work closer.

Anyway I got more lyrics written for “Darling!” yesterday so we are going places. To the toppermost even.

[magickedteacup]

hi! when you get this, list 5 songs you like to listen to, publish.

then, send this ask to the last 10 people in your notifs (positivity is cool!!) (if you wanna play! no worries if not! from h-l-w)

I’ve been tagged twice! (Also by @walruspeppermint ♥️)

Current songs on rotation:

Daydream Believer (Monkees)

Silly Love Songs (Wings)

Nowhere Man (Beatles)

She’s a Rainbow (Rolling Stones)

I’m a Believer (German cover by Jack White, for Jojo Rabbit; by the Monkees)

[teathattast]

[funkpunkandroll84-deactivated20]

A vintage gay black G.I. couple, c. 1940s

[serenfire]

photo collected by historian Trent Kelley in his series “Hidden in the Open: A Photographic Essay of Afro-American Male Affections”

[spankerella]

@ perfectunion

[worse-than-konstantin-levin]

Massachusetts Uber, Lyft drivers certify first statewide ride-hailing union amid automation fears

Drivers in Massachusetts for ride-hailing apps such as Uber and Lyft have become the first in the nation to certify a union.

May 27th, 2026

[marisatomay]

Happy Pride

[immaneedaminute]

I had a thought

Edit:

(Not my idea !!)

[walruspeppermint]

I'm watching early Beatles interviews and I found this. happy pride month <3

reporter: I noticed the two married men are sitting together and [inaudible]

John: that's because we're queer

[holespoles]

"Shimmering night" by Inaslind.

[fence-time]

What species of bug is this???

[queenofratz]

guys… liking the Beatles can happen to you at any time. it’s literally happening to me rn. you can’t escape it. Beatlemania comes for us all eventually.

[hotvintagepoll]

You…really think Cary is better in Monkey Business thsn Bringing Up Baby or The Philadelphia Story?! (Not fighting, just can’t fathom it.)

yes and i will tell you why!!

Cary is wonderful in his 1930s movies but in Monkey Business he does the magic trick of turning from 1950s cary grant—respectable, cool, ready to star in a bunch of hitchcock dramas—into the 1930s version of himself, onscreen, through body language alone. It is extraordinary. In the space of three minutes he drops fifteen years, loses every affect that made him the serious hero of To Catch a Thief and flips back to the mad gymnast of Bringing Up Baby.

it is one thing to control your image when it is half you already, in that moment of your life, and another thing entirely to make it so clear onscreen how constructed this image is and how you can pull it out like a card from your sleeve whenever you want. he shows you "cary grant" is something he can perform anytime, out of time, and he can give you whichever version you want. it's absolutely nuts and has no place in a movie about a chimp conducting mad science

I wish I could just yank the one clip instead of the whole film (which, like I said—bad), but you can see what I mean from 23:34 (though start earlier to get a good read on "old" Cary Grant, and how this is the same version of him from to catch a thief or north by northwest) to 26:59.

[hotvintagepoll]

#anyway in this house we love physical performers who know their entire instrument inside and out#bdodhdidjrjrj god. the moment his head pops up and the glasses come off. bam. mortimer brewster.#mm. mm mm mm. (via @mauvecardigans)

you get it you get it!!

[moghedien]

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

[moghedien]

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy