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[freakedoutdyke]

I hate how much I hyperfixate on things and then lose the fire, but then I love when that dormant info becomes very relevant to a conversation, and I can suddenly pretend i'm the coolest person ever with my totally casual extensive knowledge of punk and metal music

[daeagon]

I know that Apollo likes his men hot and sweaty but LORD HAVE MERCY!!

[goodluckclove]

Moon Day (Short film review)

A little over a year ago a friend of mine @supervisualbuddhist showed me and some other writers a script he was working on for a short film that he called "Moon Day". Shortly after that he announced (on here, I think?) that he produced that film, and I was baffled to find it was brought to life through CineBlox - which is, from my understanding, an indie production team that directs entirely through the Roblox platform.

Moon Day is the first Roblox based film I've ever seen. A lot of my takeaway as a viewer is biased by my lack of familiarity with Roblox as a medium. But this still made for a surreal viewing experience, managing to both unnerve me, fill me with a sad warmth, and make me laugh out loud in less than 20 minutes.

Something that I loved about Moon Day back when it was just a script is that it felt like a made-for-tv holiday special from another reality. It centers around a crew working in a snow cruiser around Moon Day, a holiday with clear connections to New Years and Christmas, and maybe hints of the Equinox. It's entirely new to us here on Earth, but in the universe of the film it is fully ingrained to the culture at large. So much so that the workers of the cruiser each have to consider their relationship with Moon Day, and the way their colleagues connect to this massive holiday.

In that sense, having the story play out through Roblox adds a really fascinating extra layer to the surrealism. All the characters are different iterations of the faceless Roblox avatar. They move in a way that's fluid, but also with the slight stutter of stop motion animation. The captain's beloved dog is played by a motionless asset (which makes him being included in the gift exchange very funny to me). There is no spoken dialogue, but some pretty expansive sound design and great music. The lines are displayed like the speech bubbles of a comic strip - it's like a silent film in that way.

For an overall plot structure that feel pretty simple, there is an unavoidable atmosphere about this all happening somewhere else. It feels like I temporarily picked up a cable station from another planet, where this would be something that airs every season and people either find endearing or grating in its saccharine nature. Think those Rankin and Bass Christmas movies. Moon Day is like getting a peek of one small sliver of an entirely different world from my own, and it really blows my mind to see it.

You should also see it. This is the link. I need more people I can talk to about how wildly experimental Roblox movie-making can be I literally did not realize this was a thing that can happen.

[decentishoutsidersthoughts]

We all need more appreciation for that one tenor higher harmony at the end of Justice for Tulsa (I think it is Paul's? It sounds like it is).

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

So I finished Arcane

I don’t even know what to say

There are sure to be posts to come because the parallels and the speeches and everything was just…

But yeah, right now I can’t even for the words

[carouselstars]

Mack softly telling Will “one more bud” and “tell us about it”

[peraltuki]

lovely and vincent when they're together

lovely and vincent when they're apart