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Wow I just watched Fantastic Beasts and wow that...

What didn’t you like? :(

Spoilers for Fantastic Beasts if anyone cares

Technical Issues:

Multiple instances of poor or no lighting on characters’s faces during dialog scenes.

Sloppy cinematography that is completely disinterested with the story

Expecting us to be wowed by 100% CGI scenes and creatures we have no emotional attachment to

The visual design of the Obscurus is incredibly lazy and derivative

Character Issues:

They’re really boring?

Like really, they hardly show any emotion besides at peak stress levels and have such thin characterization to go off of.

Jacob’s character feels so pointless, he mostly just wonders around in awe and enjoys the ride and makes no lasting impact on the story

The romance between Jacob and Queenie feels completely forced and unnecessary.

We really need to be told more about Grindelwald and what his deal is

Newt is a hard-to-understand, bumbling exposition machine and he’s not interesting to watch

Thematic and Other Issues:

The movie shows the psychological damage of a child living in an abusive household, but has zero compassion for him even as it is the precipitating event that leads to the climax of the film.

MACUSA is a horrifyingly cruel and indefensible organization (complete judicial failure, clinic executions, child murder under the guise of “following the rules”), but helping maintain the status quo and forgetting about the child they just executed is played as a happy ending because all the animals got back in the suitcase and i guess this is just the way the world works. Tina is happy to go back and work for them.

Unnecessarily dark. The creepy witchhunt cult, the child abuse, the execution chamber, the child murder, the complete lack of humor.

Grindelwald’s appearance playing into the queer-coding villain trope, which goes along with the whole franchise’s terrible track-record with queer representation.

The Deus Ex Machina of AoE obliviate + repair everything to instantly erase all consequences of any actions feels so narratively cheap, no matter how much visual spectacle and emotional musical swell they put behind it.

Poor narrative focus: too many plotlines that don’t convincingly tie into each other.

Overall there’s a lot of injustice shown in the film : child abuse, failed judicial system, magical segregation. But there is no one fighting against that injustice in any meaningful way, which would’ve made a much stronger core narrative.

I’m sure this isn’t everything, but it’s late and I want to get my thoughts down while they’re fresh. To me, that movie was cringe-worthy, morally bankrupt garbage.

@therisingtithes

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According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little. Barry! Breakfast is ready! Coming! Hang on a second. Hello? Barry? Adam? Can you believe this is happening? I can't. I'll pick you up.

I'm only going to reblog this one for everyone's sake but it's important that people know that arty sent the entire bee movie script through mail. Absolutely phenominal stuff

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Aite let's goooo 1, 6 (pics?), 10, 12 (fave picture or artwork?), 15, 28, 31, 38, 41, 90 :D

1) When you have cereal, do you have more milk than cereal or more cereal than milk?

A: More cereal than milk so you get a spectrum of crunch

6) Do you keep plants?

A: Not personally, but my sister has a yucca and we’ve got some cacti and living herbs in the kitchen. We’ve also got a bunch of stuff in the garden if that counts: Strawberries, swiss chard, rosemary, a bunch of ivy and native flowers, as well as a prince of wales bush, a rose bush, and some jasminolia (amongst other bits and bobs). Also I want to grow some saffron in the summer so that’ll be fun! If you want pics of any of them lmk :D

10) Do you sleep on your back, side, or stomach?

A: Side but if my back is particularly fucked I’ll try sleeping on my back though I always end up on my side anyway.

12) What’s your favorite planet?

A: I had to choose one now because I’ve never done so before. Probably Saturn? I’m a big slut for planets with rings, I mean look at this.

 Also its got some cool moons!

15) Go google a weird space fact and tell us what it is

A) Triton (one of Neptune’s moons) orbits backwards for some reason and is the only known large moon to do so.

28) Sunrise or sunset?

A) Sunset. Sunrise is too early but I’m sure they’re very nice as well.

31) Think of it: have you ever been truly scared?

A) I mean I scare pretty easily so it depends on what you mean by truly scared. The story that springs to mind is when I was walking back home from school with a friend. And the friend stops dead in his tracks, grabs my arm and goes “Woah, woah, woah, theres a tiger there!” or something to that effect. I look over into a driveway and see an orange and black striped mass on the ground so I fucking book it. I’m talking full Usain Bolting it down the street. Cut to my friend laughing hysterically because it was a stuffed tiger toy lol

38) Tell us about your pet peeves!

A: Chewing with your mouth open and the sound of someone sucking their finger after eating finger food

41) What’s the last book you remember really, really loving?

A: I mean the depressing answer is I don’t remember, haven’t read any outstanding books recently. The Burning White drew me in a lot and I can’t remember being that glued to a book for a long time, but I had a lot of issues with how it ended and certain threads coming together that didn’t quite work. A Storm of Swords was just a bullet train of great storytelling but that was maybe 5 years ago now?

90) Talk about your one of you favourite cities.

A: Ehhhhh the boring answer is that I don’t think I have one? Košice was great though so I’ll go with that. It had really cool historical things to look at (cathedrals, coat of arms, etc), the food was very cheap and really good (I had the best crepes of my life there), and it was well connected to other parts of Slovakia which made potential hiking trips and visits to nearby castles fairly accessible. Just a great city to stay, eat, and explore, would highly recommend!

Thanks for sending the ask and I hope the answers were satisfying/interesting :D

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I can't BELIEVE I've never asked this before but what even are your favorite pizza toppings??

If we’re going homemade/takeaway then a bunch of veg plus spicy bois. So whatever coloured pepper (dont understand why people hate green pepper, they all taste the same dont @ me), corn, red onion, chillies, jalapenos, maybe some mushrooms or olives if I’m feeling it. If we’re talking a proper wood fire pizza, potentially sourdough, then honestly it’s great with just the tomato sauce, mozzarella, some basil leaves, and chilli oil because I’m a slut for chillies.

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Thoughts on pasta

I’m tempted to make an entire tier list but I’m lazy and tired so Imma ramble instead. Tortelloni/tortellini, gnocchi, and fussili are the best. All long bois are okay. Tubes are meh, bows are cool, conchiglie is pretty good, lasagna and cannelloni are superb. 

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Thoughts on favorite kinds of pets. Not necessarily a pet you would personally want, but stuff you would consider a cool detail about a person if they had it.

Always love to see people with pet rats. I feel like lizards and snakes are definitely in that area of “I don’t want this but its super cool that you have it”.

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Thoughts on different animation styles

2D>3D in general. Not that 3D is inherently bad, but the fact it’s mainly replaced 2D animation in the West, and a lot of the 3D animation feels sort of clinical and bereft of soul, just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. There’s just something pleasing about hand drawn 2D animation, and digital 2D animation is also really nice. Stop motion is so underrated, shoutouts to Laika for doing the damn thing.

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Thoughts on the various available types of cheeses

Okay so this is an extremely broad topic but I’ll try my best. Cheddar in general is the best go to cheese (stronger rather than mild is the way to go), smoked or appley varieties are okay but gimmicky imo. Red Leicester is a great cheese but as a treat, I feel like it loses its luster if you have to too much. Italian boys like pecorino or parmigiano are awesome on pasta but not much else (side note: ricotta can go fuck itself unless its in cannelloni or tortellini). Cream cheese is great on bagels, in baking, and on ryvita. Mozzarella and halloumi are god tier in general obvs. I can’t fuck with anything too strong so as always fuck France. Oh and shoutouts to my main squeeze, Paneer! (Hope that was at least close to what you were after lol)