Annie the bookwyrm

I'm a multifandom follower, although lately I've just reblogged booklr stuff. My GR is goodreads.com/Persephone_books

[mmagurro]

Shen Qingqiu and his wife <3

[literary-heights]

they are. everything to me

[pixiescout]

The Model + The Photographer 

[ewe-why]

Hermano pepino no ordenaste tu papeleo anoche

[verycharismaticdragon]

chapter 2 of A Transmigrator and a Time Traveler is up, which means I can finally set this paragraph free upon unsuspecting populace:

[dokidreaming]

shizun ♥

[alexandriad]

woman yelling at cat meme but make it ancient greek red figure pottery

[festeringrian]

Haven't drawn for like three months but I was possessed to draw shitposts of my new emotional support blorbos ✌️✌️

[mobei-juns-tits]

Airplane's memes to Cucumber-bro in the System groupchat:

[detectivehole]

emperor kuzco was clearly gay

[detectivehole]

hes 19, with unlimited power, and he ain’t got a gf. the only time we see him interact with any women his own age is when he’s rejecting like 7 of them rapid fire. he pretends to date pacha in a gag that lasts like 10 solid minutes. listen to me god damnit

[qqueenofhades]

Okay, but just in case anyone is coming to tumblr dot com for my hot takes on 20+ year old kids' movies: Kuzco super WAS gay (or at least coded as such) and of course, I didn't get it until I watched it as a gay grownup.

He is played obviously camp and dramatic, for a start, and there is the aforementioned "hate your hair/not likely/yikes yikes yikes/let me guess you have a great personality" summary dismissal of all his potential brides. Then he spends dinner asking Yzma about Kronk ("so he seems nice? He's what, in his late twenties?") and otherwise being slightly obsessed with him.

Then there is the whole Adventure of Doom with Pacha, him being ever huffy about the Kiss of Life, and then the restaurant gag where Kuzco takes to playing Pacha's fake wife and dressing up in ladies' clothing with great gusto (reinforced by the waitress' "bless you for coming out in public" remark when Pacha says they're on their honeymoon). Then when he is finally de-llamafied, we don't see him paired off with the obligatory girl from the lineup earlier, as might otherwise be expected in a Disney movie. Instead he is still single, but goes to found family it up with Pacha, Chica, Kronk, etc, which dare we remark is a very queer trope.

In short, I have no idea how a Disney movie with no white people (all the characters are Indigenous/people of color), a gay king, cross-dressing jokes, and the most offbeat plot of all time actually ever got made (can you imagine the Family Friendly Mouse doing that today? Let us also talk about Kronk because he is a brilliant deconstruction of both toxic masculinity and the musclebound henchman stereotype.) Other than that this was the Chaos Hour of animated movies in the late 90s/early 2000s, and yes.

So yes. There you have it. I will not be taking criticism at this time.

[flavinbagel]

In response to the question “How did a movie like this get made at all much less by fucking Disney?” there was a recent Vulture article that outlines the whole shit show of a history behind this film according to everyone (writers, directors, VAs, Stings) involved. The gist of the story is that they fucked up making a whole, true-to-form Disney musical that never came to see the light of day SO BADLY that Disney switched directors, locked the writer’s room, and didn’t review a single script until weeks after the film was in theaters.

Please, read this article if you have some time. This story is wild, and involves directors being pitted against each other Bake-Off style and a shockingly intimate documentary created by the wife of Sting who, himself was heartbroken by the decimation of the songs he wrote for the film including cutting a fantastic Yzma villain song sung by Eartha Kitt that is SO DAMN GOOD but would not ever have fit the more nailed-down Yzma we would eventually come to know and love. It’s so catchy though, I’m doubling up on calls to action but please listen now:

[theterriblethingabouttulio]

holy shit read the article. it’s worth it and completely batshit

[kat-witha-k]

This is fucking insane

[brightlotusmoon]

[gallant-galatea]

[star-chlld]

The fact that the first chapter and a half of Dracula are just The Travel Vlog of Jonathan Harker is SO funny to me. My man's on a food tour while everyone around him is desperately trying to keep him alive

[thesplendidsnout]

Folk like me will ask "Is anyone going to Meme this?" and then not wait for an answer

[dangerliesbeforeyou]

it’s always ‘why did you go to the creepy vampire castle despite the fact every villager tried to warn you not to’ and never ‘how was the vampire castle?’ or ‘the vampire castle looked fun was it fun?’ 

[solely-ashes]

Is this what Dracula is about

[thunderpot]

in the past it was a wardrobe. Now I bring you my version of An Ding Peak!

[jaearts]

shizun!