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Re-reading an old screenplay I wrote during the covid lockdowns that I remember as an atmospheric folk horror but it is, in fact, a comedy

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And to be clear it's a comedy TO ME because I'm imagining very elderly Irish people reading most of the lines

This scene is right after a man is ripped into chunks by evil fairies

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And of course:

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Here's da link to the full thing

brytning

When I need to remind myself to put something on the grocery list and I don't have my phone on me, I use the Scrabble tile magnets on the fridge. But sometimes I don't have enough of the right letters and have to get creative.

brytning

The list is getting longer and we are running out of letters.

rylandsgrace

#Happy Labor Day to Shrek I guess

taavicleric

So, this scene is specifically a fuck off to famously anti-union Disney. But it goes beyond the dialogue. Look at Puss on Shrek's shoulders. Puss's movement is counter balancing Shrek's so that he stays up there. It's a lot of movement, a lot of animation, for a character who isn't talking. Every time they have to animate that feather in his hat, that's extra work, extra care, extra money, and that's just one element of the work, there. The animators could have chosen to put Puss on Donkey- look at Donkey's relatively small amount of movement compared to Shrek or Puss. But they didn't, they put him on Shrek's shoulders and they animated him. Why might they do this as a fuck-you to Disney? Well. Disney is not only anti-union, they are cheap as fuck. There's a lot of recycled rotoscoping in Disney movies in the 1970s because they were cheaping out on the process so they didn't have to pay rotoscopers. There are probably other examples, but, they recycle their own work a lot, and I assume most Tumblrinas have probably seen that video of the scenes from Robin Hood and Jungle Book and 101 Dalmations directly compared with scenes from Snow White and several animated cartoons that the rotoscoping was taken from. The reason that Don Bluth left Disney to start his own company (not Dreamworks, but, this is the example that I have) was because on The Rescuers, there were a lot of examples of the whites of eyes not being painted in- you can see it a LOT with Bernard, especially in action sequences. Don was told that the reason for this was that it was too expensive. He thought it looked like what it is, unprofessional and unfinished for a company that's allegedly got Disney money and Disney quality, so he went off and did the math and was like, "It doesn't cost shit." And Disney told him to shut up and stop colouring in the whites of the eyes. So he left. And you can see the kind of "needless" art he did in movies like The Land Before Time and The Secret of NIMH where there's a LOT of attention to detail in the art and in the animation.

We're seeing the same thing here with Shrek and Puss. While talking about union protections for union workers, in a nod intended to stick it to Disney, they are showing animators, "Look. We didn't need to animate this scene like this, you know this. But we did. We spent the money. We're pro union and we didn't cheap out."

dogpuppy

bakersfield-row

imightjustbegone-deactivated201

@ august please be a little gentle with me I’m so tired

devilsskettle

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

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thoodleoo

dont cry. roman ring depicting two mice sharing a snack together, ok?

drafthearse

Opalised dinosaur femur. Registration no. P 208014.

drdeath

Fully and utterly obsessed with every single aspect of this scene

wintersoldierfell

#when you’re both gay and one of you is stuck at a family dinner so you plan an elaborate rescue mission

elucubrare

watching youtube in the 18th century: goddddddd could you skip through the 20 minutes of thanks for your ~most gracious patron her grace the duchess of D--shire, a new maecenas & the loveliest of ladies~ and get to your handel tier listing

elucubrare

@falloutnewnobody

#yall in the 18th century are spoiled as fuck 15th century youtube SUCKS#yeah dedication to the patron of the work and the local nobility is one thing but imagine that PLUS a ten miniute prayer for the virgin#mother's intercession AND the fucking guild ads that play for half the fucking runtime#and dont even get me started on these “Raid” and “Clash of Clans” ads like I KNOW THE CLANS ARE RAIDING AND CLASHING dont remind me#like fucking hell im just switching back to the book of hours at this point

listening and learning, sorry </3

transfemininomenon

good god when the onions and garlic hit the olive oil..........

clubpenguin2005

Panties hit the FLOOR

transfemininomenon

you know it sister

stitchposts

what is your LEAST favorite stitch?

I don't like counted work at fucking all. So: the cross stitch.

rabbitindisguise

reading this as someone who does cross stitch but is scared of the other kinds of embroidery is like overhearing an incredibly tall and buff person say they have beef with Mr. Tom, the kitten that chills at the bookstore

stitchposts

FUCK Mr. Tom and his stupid little fluffy tail ok. And his little charted designs.

the-dragongirl

Okay, but this neglects the true villain of embroidery stitches: the French knot

stitchposts

Don't you dare malign my girl again

im-a-dream-wizard

Ok the french knot is very useful but it is a BITCH to do it consistently

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ao3-anonymous

We talk about how this website’s hate mail game is insane, but this might just be a new level

mousegirlheart

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o-craven-canto

Alternate timeline in which all Greek and Latin roots are swapped:

catastrophe -> contraverse cephalopod -> capitoped chlorophyll -> viridofolia democracy -> populimpery homicide -> anthropoctony homosexual -> equigamic kilometer -> millimensure interregnum -> mesarchy magnanimous -> megapsychic manuscript -> chirography motorcycle -> ergatorote microscope -> parvovisor oxygen -> acidofex polyamory -> multierasty television -> remotoscope universe -> monostrophe