[gailynovelry]

The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project.

[walmartnoodle]

Wdym you hate Stratt? Without her you don’t get a story

[elzorton]

Samalamadingdong

EDIT: tiny Sam pngs are in a reblog for all your needs

[boitterfly]

it’s so special to me that so much of fan culture is textual analysis for the love of the game. like thank god there are people in my phone who are also thinking about this thing i love so much that they are writing transformative fiction as character studies and setting clips of the show to music with theme-relevant lyrics and writing long text posts analyzing every line of dialogue like!! yay!!!

[twotonetiger2]

I noticed that the GOAT (2026) movie was lacking in text posts, so I decided to make some and I will probably make more.

EDIT: Also the self centered meme can be read either way for Jett and Flo X3

Parts: 2 3 4

[pinkniz]

Recently noticed how the whole Magma team is terrified of Mane and tbh I wonder how bad they get treated off screen

[axolartandfics]

I can’t even begin to say how cool a choice it was in Goat 2026 to have the angry insecure self-obsessed star player that motivated the mc’s arc be a woman. That kind of character is always depicted as some middle-aged white man with a five o clock shadow, but no, Jett is a black woman and she’s not a jerk because she’s some entitled man she’s a jerk because she’s complicated and interesting and AUGH Jett Filmore the Woman You Are. Anyway go watch Goat.

[unproductivity123]

Everything I loved about GOAT (the 2026 movie)

Everyone's already said this, but Will looks up to a female player!!! And nobody dismisses that admiration!!! Nobody says it's silly for a young boy to look up to a woman athlete!!!

Jett is the. greatest. player. Ever. The greatest player to ever play roarball. Not the greatest female player, not great because she's female, but the greatest player ever and also female. The two are not related. I don't think I've ever seen that in a movie.

Co-ed, full contact, violently dangerous sport?? The lady players are treated like every other player and hit just as hard? Mocked just as hard? Cheered just as hard? As someone who despises the softball/baseball gender split and had to use flags instead of tackles for my high school's powderpuff game, this movie might've healed something inside me.

Jett and Olivia are the most focused on the game and their careers. That's not to say the guys on the Thorns weren't focused on those things (we're excluding Will in this sample group), but our two lovely ladies were the ones whose character arcs honed in on their insecurities around the game. Jett's concerned about her career and the optics of her age and accumulating injuries only add to her stress and pride, making her a bad teammate. Olivia is hyper-aware of how people view her gameplay, especially their mockery, and it distracts her and makes her second guess herself. In comparison, Archie wants to inspire and support his daughters but hasn't found a team able to utilize his strengths. He's also exhausted from being (what's implied to be) a single dad. Lenny has been treated so poorly by his former teams that he has almost given up on the sport entirely, starting a rapping career on the side. And Modo... well, he's Modo. I think it would be hard for most coaches to use all that... Modo-ness. Besides, his character arc seems to revolve less around the game and more around his investment in the team (literally).

Building off of #4, the "greatest" players of the Thorns were the two chicks and the smallest player. The team's strength ultimately comes from their cohesivity and teamwork; none of them would have gotten far without that. But the players with the most canonical potential were Olivia, Will, and Jett. Will's disadvantage in the game was obvious, and it's not something he overcomes throughout the movie but rather has to work around. It's an immutable fact of his biology. But I loved the subtle subversions of the audiences expectations around Jett and Olivia. Especially right now, there's been a huge push to "remind women of their place" in many social circles, and I loved that Jett and Olivia flipped that idea on its head. Both character designs are based on very dangerous, very lethal species. But to take it even further, it is blatantly stated in the movie that both ladies have the most recognized in-universe potential. Lenny's tall, Archie's strong, Modo scares the other players away from the ball. But Olivia is a #1 draft pick (I don't know sports and even I know that's good) and Jett is a cemented roarball legend. It was refreshing to see the ladies as fully-fleshed athlete characters who weren't sidekicks to the male leaders of the team. Very reminiscent of Tigress from Kung-Fu Panda.

Jett and Olivia's personal styles were never brought into question, mocked, or seen as character flaws. Under another director, Olivia's girliness could have easily been blamed as the reason behind her slip in skill and focus. Under another director, Jett's tomboy-ish appearance (when she's not dressed up) could have been included in her character arc; she'd get more girly as she progressed as a character and opened up. But instead, these characters were given depth and relatable insecurities and frustrations, and their clothing was left out of the equation.

Mane, arguably one of the most outwardly masculine characters of the film, spends the entirety of his first major scene in a fishnet crop top and I need more of that energy going forward.

Dennis is the one who brought the team together and helped them play to their strengths. If the protagonist of a sports movie is a player, rather than a coach, it's the protagonist who delivers the pep-talk and opens their teammates eyes to their strengths and how they can better play together. Sometimes that can make sense, but I'm glad they didn't go this route in GOAT because it wouldn't have worked with the plot. Will was new to the team, he didn't know any of these players personally. He might've followed the team closely, but he couldn't see what was going on behind the scenes. He was the catalyst for Jett's character arc, part of which involved handing over full leadership to Dennis, who in turn was the perfect character to bring the team together. He knew key details of Archie's home life and how he interacted with his kids. He was intimately familiar with Olivia's obsession with others' opinions of her. As a big leagues coach, he was probably following Lenny's career for almost all 10 years. He knew Modo well enough to telepathically communicate the lizard's personalized advice. Anyone probably could have called out Jett's inability to share the spotlight or the ball, but only Dennis would be brave enough and acquainted enough with Jett to know he would survive hosing her down repeatedly when she didn't follow his advice. I loved that the movie team gave him such an appropriate time to shine.

This entire movie was Zootopia but more believeable in terms of worldbuilding and visual details. None of these drastically different biomes are right next to each other, and Vineland feels lived in like a real city would. There's trash and grime and broken shit everywhere, but not really in a "this is the slum area" way and more in a "there are a lot of people living right here and communal areas get used a lot and there's not quite enough funding to fix all the problems" way. Zootopia's geography works with the plot, but this just felt more real.

[dracocheesecake]

I can easily imagine a scenario like this happening at some point after the movie.

[sunshine-tattoo]

what i expected from GOAT 2026: zootopia but its a sports movie

what i got from GOAT 2026: a fun, silly, lovingly crafted story about the importance of community with the animation rizz of Spiderverse and the background aesthetics (plus banger black soundtrack) of kipo and the age of wonder beasts

[sunshine-tattoo]

so I already made this post about how I loved that nibbles in zootopia 2 wasn't made to look overly feminized even tho she is a girl character which is Amazing.

but I LOVE that goat (2026) takes it a step farther by having virtually NO female characters who are designed overly feminine.

Louise, Will's mom, looks like him and none of her features have been softened to be more delicate. Neither are Carol's, the llama diner owner. They both look like Ungulates.

Flo loves having her hooves done and always dresses fancy, but she also isn't animated to be overly pretty or humanized. She looks like a warthog in a pantsuit, as she should.

Olivia has big eyes and long lashes but that is because she is an ostrich and they all have that. She dyes her feathers pink and likes feminine things but she also is a powerful athlete. (I also headcanon her as a trans woman because she has the male ostrich feather colorings.)

Adi and Ari, the rhino twin girls, have big eyes and love girly stuff like glitter and makeup, but they also are literally 5 years old. And they love causing destruction and chaos.

Hannah the aardwolf is a wlw who dresses like a frat boy gamer and honestly she has cured me of all the Trauma i have gotten over the years from overly feminized anthro animals.

Jett is athletic and strong and only looks feminine when she wears a dress to the big premiere and even then she looks more elegant than girly.

I also love that her age and years of pushing herself are catching up to her and this is a conversation about an athlete no longing being able to play, not a woman no longer being young and sexy.

(Plus her reading glasses are adorable and soooo accurate for looking at tiny phone screens lol.)

Also. The fact that she is the star player and everyone's favorite, including Will, is a testament to a woman being treated like an athlete and never a sex symbol.

The real sex symbol of this movie canonically is Modo, who is bi and attracts fans of all the genders.

And the character who is most concerned about their appearance isn't even a woman at all! Its Mane, a super masculine character!

This movie has singlehandedly proven that anthro animals can be designed without human elements and that female characters do not have to look feminine to be taken seriously.

Goat (2026) really is the GOAT of animated animal movies and I hope we get more like it in the future. <3

[howlingguardian]

I'm very surprised that there isn't a tag for GOAT, the movie I mean. I mean this is an animated, gorgeously animated I should say, film from the same studio as Spiderverse and Kpop Demon Hunters and people are sleeping on it?

The furries alone should be filling up the tags.

Well, I saw it, and I loved it. It's energetic comet it's funny, it's heartwarming. And yes, the animation is incredible. They get so creative with the character designs, and using their physiology creatively. They're not just humans in animal skin. The goat has rectangular pupils, the panther hisses and snarls and leaps about, the ostrich buried her head in the sand when she's nervous for crying out loud.

The plot's a little basic, but I am always down for something that reminds you that you can pursue your dreams and work together to overcome your differences and be something great.

I guess it's like Zootopia if Zootopia wasn't so white.

[angstsplatter]

Okay, no, but REALLY, can we talk about the fact that Goat created a game that's not segregated by sex!!! Like the hero our protagonist looks up to is a female player!!! And she's the best in the game!!! And she didn't earn a special place as the only female character by being super special amazing. She's one of many female players and just happens to be the best because someone has to be the best. I cannot overstate how important and impactful a decision for the writers to have made, especially in this day and age where the anti-girl-power sentiment has been so successfully eroded in the campaign against trans people. And Goat went there and didn't have any debates about it. Just: it's about the players and the team, and that's it. Anybody can be a great player. A smaller player will have a harder time against bigger players, but it's not determined by gender. It's just about skill.

And can we appreciate how the female designs are NOT weirdly or overly sexualized!!!

[haveasnickerss]

This is just a reminder that Hiccup is an adrenaline junkie. He free falls for fun. He jumps from cliffs, throws himself from his dragon and made himself wings to glide alongside Toothless.

Hiccup belongs to the sky, and he'll never get tired of the freedom he gets from it.

If they made a whole series where it's Hiccup and Toothless just flying and doing tricks and free falling I'd watch it. Just add some John Powell music and you'll have me hooked for weeks

[p-artsypants]

“Hi, I’m Hiccup Haddock. Welcome to Jackass.” *lights fuse*

[tendebill]

[part 1] [part 2]

rocky learns about the Denmark incident :]

[thefigureinthecorner]

all the other weird fucked up cats are safe and happy and healthy btw

[scarlct-vvitch]

grace, who has been alone for five minutes: oh my god. an alien! im not alone anymore! i hope he wants to be friends :)

rocky, coming up on 50 years of solitude, imprinting on grace in ways baby ducklings can only dream of: if you leave me to sleep where i can't watch your heart beat i am blowing up this tunnel with us both in it

[scarlct-vvitch]

free fic idea up for grabs. godspeed