let's talk animation

I love animated movies and ranting. This blog is a mix of both.

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because of the......... sigh........ because of the "out" and "please" of the previous panel i read the middle one (sasuke to naruto) as "please go out with me" and it took me a second to realize the mistake like i FIGURED something was wrong but only in a "uh. sasuke more straight forward than usual" way

crying.... he would never say please

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this gimmick of teachers and students is really boring and badly thought out

1/ you can't rewrite sasuke going with his groomer it's too natively relevant, ok i can accept how boring emo to emo it gets

2/ if jiraiya wasn't a creep him teaching sakura would be interesting as she is presented as smart but lacking in direct combat and he's all about that (+ summoning). but he is a creep. so let her find a different teacher who will take care of her gaps in abilities

3/ it is SUCH a missed opportunity to not have naruto learn from tsunade. having naruto be a healer would do good to step out of the heavy fixed gender roles in this manga, help him branch out of his tank combat style, and also make him grow as a person. it would be good for both naruto and the (young) readers to have him look up to a woman, and that skill would develop the caring aspect of his personality (which as this point in the story he doesn't know how to show other than getting angry for people's sake)

also with naruto having the fox spirit inside of him always healing his body pretty fast it would help him realize how he's different to others in a positive way: making him slow down and pay attention to the world around him. he can still be mostly a tank but take on this support role when needed

also also why bother writing that tsunade's brother who died at age 12 looks and act so much like naruto if you're not gonna do anything with it? emotionally it would have been so interesting with her missing someone she cared for so badly and naruto having never been cared for. good bitter yet touching narrative right there that you're sleeping on

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how the fuck can people ship sakura with sasuke when ino is RIGHT THERE???

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reading naruto for the first time and only 1 volume in i'm already pissed at the way the narrative treats sakura

edit at vol 16:

we're told she's smart but she almost never gets to show it and the rare times it happens she gets bested way too quickly even on what she excel at. in missions and fights she's only there to react, not act, or worse be hurt by the enemies specifically to give naruto a reason to go all out to save her. kakashi, her teacher, doesn't care about her and push her aside to train the boys instead. it took i think until vol 4 for her bio at the start to say anything about who she is as a person outside of her crush on sasuke.

all we know about her so far: she's supposedly smart (we don't get to see it), has good control of her chakra but i guess it's not impressive cause kakashi doesn't think so, used to be friend with ino but are now rivals to their common crush on sasuke, used to have a complex about her huge forehead, used to be a liar (inner sakura) to hide her more vulgar part of herself in the hope of seducing sasuke which... i think the author forgot about? she doesn't do it anymore and it's not shown as her having grown, just that she worries to much about sasuke to show any bit of personality. oh, and now she has a complex over not being good enough compared to the boys

so. she used to have ONE friend, seemingly no longer have any (doesn't hang out with anyone). everything is about her crush on sasuke. she's smart but also not. she's weak. the one interesting bit about her (lying) got dropped

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what annoys me the most about harry potter (the character) is how the child abuse he went through... didn't shape him at all

there's 3 ways kids that went through the same kind of abuse harry did are most likely to act

1/ become a people pleaser out of safety. very dangerous cause you can never say no to anyone from fearing they'll get violent, always smiling and hiding how you really feel, extreme difficulty connecting to people

2/ become completely cut off from people, scared of every interaction, seeing yourself as something entirely different from others and deserving of what being done to you, quiet self harming

3/ self harming in a different less direct way where you're angry instead of scared and purposefully enrage your abusers cause then you're somewhat in control, also harming others cause that's all you know

to me harry would be either 1 or 2 because 3 would be way too dangerous regarding his situation. i understand this would make for a difficult protagonist in a children book series as he would react more than act on his own... but if you don't want to or can't handle such a protagonist... either change the type of abuse, "softening" it, or erase that part of your story entirely. harry's personality in the books makes no sense. the bare minimum that could have been done about this problem was keeping the abuse, making harry a "type 1" and have him GRADUALLY grow into a more confident young man if you want to keep him being sassy to his teachers and not caring about his physical safety

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hermione resorted in the green house

her being placed in red is already narratively cruel considering she's in there not for her personality or motivations but to do ron and harry's homework and be their personified voice of reason, so might as well place her in green

the most basic thing would have her be blue but putting her there just because she's smart is really restrictive (... all the houses are) and also boring

she would not have a good time in green, particularly as a first year due to being muggle born, of course. but she's already bullied in red so it makes very little difference other than creating a plot point that cannot be ignored. greens are ambitious and so is she. her "know-it-all" trait comes from this. not only is she curious, she wants to learn for her personal gain: there's a point to it outside of pleasure. hermione already feels inferior before stepping in the castle. she wasn't raised in a magical family and so is way behind most of her classmates academically but also as understanding the world around her. she knows she will be picked on and has to remedy this quickly. perhaps she thinks she can impress her peers into accepting her

it doesn't work of course, and if placed in green, the reason is something she cannot change about herself. so the system is what she'll focus on fixing, similarly to her reaction to house elves. when hermione sees an injustice, she cannot remain silent

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couples that have formed in tomodachi life so far:

ryuk from death note and rock from harvest moon ds

kida from atlantis and chel from the road to el dorado

gaara from naruto and guy from the croods

sawako from kimi ni todoke and karin from chibi vampire karin

pugsley from wednesday and wybie from coraline

betty boop and audrey from little shop of horror

beedle from legend of zelda and prince charming

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more movies like greener grass (2019) NOW

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notes for naruto redesigns

keeping in mind those charas are asians (possibly asian + something else, so most of the hair and eyes colors that would be unnatural for them to have will be changed, unless there's something in plot that can explain them) charas who aren't mentioned stay the way they are i guess

naruto: darker skintone. blond hair can stay but will be darker. i know his dad is technically blond but that fact is ignored: naruto is blond because of the demon in him. his eyes will be dark tho. i cannot give him both blond hair and blue eyes, it's too cruel

sakura: natural dark hair but she dyed it to pink when she was young (on ino's advice) cause she likes the color and thought it would take attention away from her forehead. around shippuden she doesn't have this complex anymore and lets it go back to her original color. darker skintone

ino: pale skin, blond hair and blue eyes... because she's albino. also the long strand of hair in front of her face is both cause she think it's cool but also to protect her eyes who are weak to sunlight

kankuro: brown skin, dark brown hair, black eyes. also freckles

temari: same as kankuro but she bleach her hair

gaara: like naruto he has an unnatural hair color (red) thanks to the demon. outside of that, as a lighter skin (not pale) than his siblings to make him stand out from them even more. large black eyes that people find creepy (appears to have very little white thanks to the darkness around his eyes). has freckles too but less noticeable

rock lee: the same but i want him to have moles

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adult stage in our life trulyyyyyyyy is the worst

had 2 annoying chapters back to back

1/ the market stuff; why are both our moms so immature? they forced the groups situation on us then both us and cove were left behind… for what? they could just have said from the start that they wanted us to be on our own to experience being grown (ironic, considering how they acting) but no, had to be made complicated. i'm not! against some drama! it's welcomed actually! but this author is good at fluff, and terrible at drama. every piece of drama they write is just plain annoying and forced. SPEAKING OF

2/ the terry/miranda drama ooooooooh my god why are they acting like they're 12. girls, you're 18. then you're dropping the most embarrassing drama on to your friends, which creates a fight between cove and mc which is. not good cause again author SUCKS at drama. all it accomplished was make me think less of cove cause he also acted way immature

the resolution in both scenario was so bad too. like eating eggs that weren't cooked well. just… ugh. it's edible I GUESS… good drama has to make you actually upset (vs merely annoying) AND if it has a good ending, release your emotions. this did nothing, i'm just pissed at the bad writing

also the friendship drama ends with cove coming out and i am once again sitting there like. why does none of these 18 y/o act their age bitch straight up explained was "demisexual" means to me

I GET IT from a writer's perspective: you take in account you'll have players of diverse ages and backgrounds who might not know + have the excuse cove himself didn't know till recently

but why did it read like he was reading the wiki page for asexuality aloud instead of a character actually talking about his feelings and experiences? shit was embarrassing to experience

the pan stuff wasn't as annoying as i remembered at least. he didn't over explain that one, thanks fuck

it's annoying cause a chapter where you fight with your boyfriend is welcome! not everything idyllic! ok! but over THIS? shit wasn't even an argument, dude came out as a 12 y/o just…. cringe

also his excuse why he reacted this badly due to his parents divorce…. ok. i know i can't relate to this and i never will be able to relate to this. i know on this subject i'm very 100 or 0 no middle ground. was so happy when my parents got divorced you'll never be able to explain this shit to me in a way i'll accept cause what do you mean you're upset at a bad relationship ending? you wanted your parents to suffer? yea ok the real issue is all the fighting and how it affected him but. bro. you were 8 when this happened. 10 years has passed. grow up eventually???? just ridiculous

i could have accepted this being some sort of trauma for him, even without understanding it myself! but the writing……. wow that was a mess

ALSO the drama was WEAK cause they didn't even allow you to get mad for real. you have some options but they're so mid. bitch? if you gonna write drama, actually COMMIT

granted i didn't pick the most aggressive answer in this let's play, cause 1/ didn't fit my chara and 2/ the drama so dumb why the fuck would i yell about it I WANT TO……. but i can't. cause what even is this??

because it was so mid my feelings aren't resolved and now i want to write drama of my own to put it somewhere. this game is pushing homework on me

author for sure didn't grow in an italian household if they think this is drama lol

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notes on "our life" demo

mina (asian, taiwanese)

cis girl no crush closer to tamarack but trying real hard to keep both her friends close polite, good relationship with mom does well in school fine with moving no bike of any kind interest in fashion spanish class no dance class but danced with qiu

andrea (white, italian)

nonbinary no crush closer to tamarack, doesn't really consider qiu a friend (neutral) semi-verbal, relies on mom too much does poorly in school mostly fine with moving (struggles with relationships) no bike of any kind interest in astronomy french class no dance class, just watched qiu dance

arthur (black, kenyan)

cis boy insta crush on qiu used to be besties with tamarack, changed when they grew, now awkward cause he gives more importance to qiu rowdy, not the best relationship with mom does ok in school excited about moving skateboard interest in video games spanish class no dance class but played pirate with qiu

layla to rami (arabic, persian)

trans guy insta crush on tamarack but realized a bit later (bike episode) bestie with tamarack but still close with qiu as well (trans solidarity) rowdy, bad relationship with mom does ok in school pissed about moving, miss his old life rollers interest in sport (basketball) spanish class no dance class but helped qiu practice

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when your fav is on screen so you don't pay attention to anything else

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i do tier lists when bored but make lil scenarios instead of just ranking them by taste to keep it fun so who is put first or last doesn't necessarily means love or hate it's more subtle

except for xavier. i hate xavier and would fight him to the death if given the chance

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Concept art for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

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autistic headcanons (to be updated)

kitano from angel densetsu: forget people cannot read his mind and so to express his thoughts and intentions leading to a lot of misunderstandings. high empathy and sense of justice but struggles to understand others. when people are mean to him, immediately assumes he has done something to deserves it. obsessed with bettering himself due to that

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i can see a future where ryoko gives kuroda a chance

when they're adults and kuroda will have matured a bit. his personality doesn't have to change, he'll stay loud and stubborn but living in society (outside of school environment) will eventually open his eyes on how he has been treating people

i'm thinking an office job for him where he'll be wholly out of his element and will have to accept and adapt to having a superior and following orders so that things gets done. also he'll stay friends with jirou and gorou but the two of them having a more successful life will piss him off at first and eventually humble him (just a little)

his dating life wouldn't be doing so good either has every lady he goes on a date with would tell him straight what he's doing wrong (he's attracted to strong women after all) which will lead him to reconsider things

so when they meet again, kuroda apologize to ryoko about the way he treated her in high school. seeing that he's serious ryoko would listen and (tentatively) agree to be friends again

i could see kuroda coming to the dojo as a way to both bond with her but also work on his body and temper (to learn self control) leading her to opening up to him and giving him advice

from that point on these two dating wouldn't seem off to me

[soviet-furries]

The Most, Most, Most, Most (Самый, самый, самый, самый)

Soyuzmultfilm, 1966

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