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Movie recs?

YEAH I HAVE ONE. Listen, if:

You want to see a film about a boy wanting to be a lion dancer

You ever wondered if and how people were ever going to animate FULL LION DANCE SEQUENCES

You are aching for character designs and character animation that defy current style conventions

You crave haptic visuals. You crave something lush, authentic and grounded. You want to watch something that genuinely looks like it was MADE to be in the cinemas again.

You want to experience a film stick a landing in one of the most breathtaking and unique endings you’ll ever witness.

Then my friend, you absolutely HAVE to watch this indie Chinese animated masterpiece, I Am What I Am / 雄狮少年 (2021), directed by Sun HaiPeng.

It's a sports film with a straightforward storyline: 18-year-old Ah Juan from a village in Guangdong wants to be a lion dancer. He's a sickly bullied kid, has silly pals he brings along for the ride, gets taught by a washed-out middle aged mentor, has to go through several training arcs to Get Good, the whole schtick.

This one takes its time at the start, and for sure has its outdated humour and bumpy moments. But through the whole film, there is so much whimsy, charm and HEART. With such natural scripting + voice acting, KILLER sound design with amazing soundtrack + tonally resonant song choices too. Authenticity BREATHES out of this film in every small bit of character animation, dialogue and especially in the background details. Highly recommend pausing from time to time just to take everything in.

And then the halfway point hits you.

I Am What I Am briefly becomes a narrative of the working class too, particularly migrant workers. I also personally think it has a really poignant take on the struggling artist - one that western counterparts won't be able to deliver with the same nuance. It highlights something honest, real and resonant in Chinese culture, but has the director Sun Haipeng's voice of defiance that CRIES and RINGS out towards the end. He wanted to say something, and by JOVE DOES HE DELIVER in an ending sequence that leaves you with shrimp emotions.

In times like this, we need art. And maybe art is something larger than ourselves too. This film encapsulates this Dead Poet's Society quote in a really different and refreshing way:

"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."

You have, you absolutely HAVE to see I Am What I Am. It's so special to me, and I hope anyone that watches it sees where I'm getting at too.

And hey, get this.

THE WHOLE THING FOR FREE ON YOUTUBE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES. It's RIGHT THERE for the taking!

The film is about three teenagers who were ignored and bullied by others. By coincidence, they began their lion dance journey and under the

So what are you waiting for? Buckle up, go forth and watch I Am What I Am!! Please spread the word about this film, more folks need to see it.

THANK U FOR READING MUAH BYE

#rec #text #i am what i am

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earhartsease

this is so implausible - the voice is too a) posh and b) comprehensible instead of being like

ma fwahfah blehaejafwah fembel blmbehesh

also we know they're making fun of the station Elephant & Castle but that's tame compared to old pubs with names like the Queens Head & Artichoke - oh you thought this was a bit? well

#video

wifekisser-deactivated20201214

tips for polyamory starters

try to spec your wifes into different roles. a good idea is at least one tank wife, one healer wife, and two to three dps wives.

#text

snailspng

Random snail-themed PNGs, part 2.

(1. 1800s snail street signs, 2. Snail charcuterie picks, 3. 1970s Avon snail perfume, 4. Bakelite snail brooch, 5. Siren nautilus lamp, 6. Siren nautilus lamp, 7. Amber netsuke snail, 8. Snails trinket box, 9. Coral snail brooch.)

“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#text #quote #ursula k. le guin

tieflingkisser

lesbianslimefriend

here's where to find it on windows 10

the-tiny-dragons-tea-room

Ugh, it was in mine. It's off now.

the-tiny-dragons-tea-room

IT GETS WORSE

I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.

LOBOTOMIZE YOUR MACHINES

marougus-the-dragon

AI is a freacking plague, I share this for any windows user.

seven years ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ keep drawing guys

#art

captain-price-returns

I love how insane everyone is now.

captain-price-returns

Check out this 2001 promotional art for Halo! He's pointing at the lighting that makes the kids gay!

#image #video games #halo

nastasya--filippovna

#interview with the vampire #image #gif

penandinkprincess

parenting commitment level 3000

penandinkprincess

apparently a requirement for working at poison control is a talent for stand-up comedy

starsarefairylightsfornerds

aqueerkettleofish

When I was training to be a paramedic, we had one student ask the instructor what to do in the event of a marijuana overdose. The instructor said "Tell him to take two twinkies and call you in the morning."

prismatic-bell

Okay, there's a good reason for this though!

If the Please Do Not Eat That Professional thinks it's inconsequential enough to be funny, then the concerned caller knows it's no big deal. When I was a kid my mom called poison control because I ate not one but several crayons, and their advice was to make sure I didn't stray too far from a toilet for a few hours because suppositories are made of wax, too.

Also several years ago I ate half a sandwich while wondering why the hell it tasted so funny only to realize the Goo Gone I'd been cleaning with was leaking, and did so onto my sandwich. Poison Control now has an online form where you can put in what you ingested/how much/when/etc. and someone basically triages those out, so the kid who just drank a bunch of drain cleaner isn't in line behind the kid who ate a crayon. I got a call like twenty minutes later from a nurse who told me I was fine.

Oh! And if you want to know what the tool looks like, it now gives a "this is not a real case" option to let you test it out, so I became a hypothetical worried patient who accidentally took 1000mg of ibuprofen (max dose should be 800) instead of 1000mg of acetaminophen (which has a max dose of 1000) and ran the entire thing. It took me less than two minutes from this:

To this:

Below this screenshot I was advised to drink some water and that if symptoms developed in the next four hours, I should only be concerned in certain cases (e.g. nausea is normal, heart palpitations are a problem).

So what if it's a serious problem? Suddenly, hypothetical Nina was cleaning xir bathroom sink and got hit with some Drano splashback with xir eyes and mouth open! Here's what the tool suggested. As soon as I selected that I'd gotten Drano in my eyes, this popped up:

So I hypothetically went to rinse my eyes, came back, and indicated it'd also gotten into my mouth and onto my skin. Here was the result:

And finally, hypothetical!Nina made an extremely bad decision, then decided this wasn't how xe wanted things to end after all. So I selected the option that says I'd attempted self-harm, and this popped up. (I didn't get it in the screenshot, but there's a drawing of a sad snail at the top of the screen. I think it's supposed to remind you someone is there, this just isn't the best route to reach them.)

The tool covers literally thousands of substances, and it's fast to use. It'll ask your age, assigned sex at birth, what you were exposed to, how (ate/drank it, breathed it in, got it in your eyes, etc.), how much you were exposed to, how long ago, whether you notice any symptoms, and what zip code you're in. That's it, and it's right here if you need it, and as they told me when I said I felt dumb over my Goo Gone-ified sandwich, they'd rather I check and be fine than not check because I "felt silly" and end up dead.

#text #med #ref #rec

disgrace2chivalry

Garak paper doll in the gay Cardassian sauna for my lover @actuary-tattoo who likes Cardassians as Indian Rhinos

Interior of gay mag SPACEGUY under the cut

#art #star trek #deep space nine

thinkingabout-girls

the funniest moment in dungeon meshi is when marcille is having her nightmare and brings up her dead bird while also talking about her dead dad, saying “papa and pipi” and laios automatically assumes pipi is marcilles third nonbinary parent on top of her mom and dad

ouppygirlcity

#image #dungeon meshi

tiktoksthataregood-ish

#video #food crimes

skribblegurl

some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.