self-effacing disaster @rowann - Tumblr Blog

it's so funny how half of us are like "food is sacred and the kitchen is holy ground. to break bread with others is inherently sacrament" and the other half of us are like "my villain origin story is someone looked at me when i was in the kitchen"

livefromtheloam

If I love you, I will cook for you. If you want me to continue to love and cook for you, stay out of my kitchen.

#dan

horsegirl

how can we lose when we’re so sincere is forever always one of my favourite peanuts bits

Oh, wyrm?

Please stop attacking the past versions of you. They were doing their best at the time and they got you here. It’s amazing how much progress you’ve made and how much you’ve grown but please don’t think your past self lacked worth in any way.

talestobetold

Please stop attacking the past versions of you. We don’t know how you managed to violate the Intergalactic Time Travel Convention but you’re going to cause a paradox eventually and we’ll have to reset the time stream to the last safe state and it’ll cost a ton and be a whole thing

vayalda

The two sides of tumblr

#the umbrella academy

paladitos

my body is a vessel for the bit

#dan #jones #astari

ibuprofengirl

life is often so cringefail. and yet we must go on

#dan

amygdalae

I think... I can play video games. on the computer. Or can i....

amygdalae

incidentally a near-perfect reenactment of an exchange I'd have with my mother almost daily circa 2008

#ailis

deaddolin

where are the milfs.

blackpyrefly

spending time with their kids. its the holidays.

#pfffft

moved-to-orpheyon-deactivated20

#alteos

girlblocker

love the type of character that is insane but everyone else around them is so much worse that they become the normal one

#chainsaw man

iamnotlanuk

I dunno maybe the horrors would be less daunting if we were holding hands

#alteos

fewth

happy birthday dimitri fire emblem

#i love him your honour #get my boy some therapy <3 #fire emblem

frightstricken-deactivated20260

#why are you buying clothes in the soup store #sierra

pointnclick

My sister said get me a drink at a store and I said what kind. She was like I don't know something esoteric. dead serious. "I like esoteric drinks." What am I meant to do with that

#sumeet

tentacle-therapissed

I’m so glad the Guillermo Del Toro Pinocchio movie is being received really well, because it was literally my most anticipated movie of the year! So here’s some fun facts about the crew, concept, and production that got me excited about this movie and that I think would excite much of tumblr as well:

-the screenplay was cowritten by Del Toro and Patrick McHale, creator of Over The Garden Wall and a writer on Adventure Time.

-the movie was codirected by Mark Gustasfon, who was the animation director of Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

-the primary art/animation designers of this movie (production designer Curt Enderle, art director Robert DeSue, character designer Georgina Hayns, animation supervisor Brian Leif Hansen, and photography director Frank Passingham) previously worked on projects that include Coraline, the Corpse Bride, Paranorman, Isle of Dogs, Frankenweenie, Kubo, and Chicken Run.

-Besides Netflix, it was produced by the Henson company (always a good sign when you’re doing anything with puppets) and ShadowMachine, who have produced a lot of Adult Swim shows including Robot Chicken, Moral Orel, and Tuca and Bertie, as well as the Netflix original BoJack Horseman.

-Del Toro was inspired to make this adaptation due to the similarities he’d always noticed between the original Pinocchio story and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Both are about a man-made character’s relationship with his father/creator, and his attempts to understand what it means to be human. This inspiration is why the film takes on a gothic feel at times.

-the movie is over 10 years in the making. Del Toro announced the project in 2008 and production began in 2012, but it went into development hell and no further updates were made for several years. Del Toro has described it as his passion project, saying "I've wanted to make this movie for as long as I can remember.”

-the backdrop of Mussolini’s Italy was intended to show how Pinnochio was able to find his own humanity and will in a time where everyone else was acting like a blindly obedient puppet. Del Toro wanted to deviate from the original book’s themes of obeying authority by making his Pinocchio virtuous for questioning the rules and forging his own set of morals. (Also if you know anything about Del Toro, the guy likes to dunk on fascism.)

-Del Toro didn’t feel the need to have Pinocchio become flesh-and-blood at the end of the movie, saying all you need to be a real human is to behave like one.

I was lucky enough to see this movie in 35 mm in a movie theatre on Thanksgiving weekend. If there are any movie theatre showings near you and you’re in a position to be able to attend them, I would totally recommend it especially if you can go with loved ones. It was a gorgeous, heartwarming, and magical movie to experience on a big screen and perfect for the late fall/winter holiday season.

#oh the theming with mussolini's italy... i didn't piece that together but it's very smart!#i liked this movie a lot #the imagery was to die for #and i loved how the relationships between the characters developed #thank you once again mr del toro