"He was born with a gift of laughter."

I'm Allison. Author. Artist. Reader. Truth Seeker. Amateur Jester. Professional Disturber of the Peace.

[halbrannatar]

The Two Charlies. Charlie Vickers&Edwards.

[thejoyousjester]

I miss them so much.

[hornblowershitposts]

Hobbs: where’s Mr Hornblower?

Wellard: doing stuff.

Hobbs: i don’t like the sound of that. where’s Mr Bush?


Wellard: trying to stop Mr Hornblower from doing the stuff.

Hobbs: Mr Kennedy?


Wellard: trying to stop Mr Bush from stopping Mr Hornblower from doing the stuff.

Hobbs: i see. and what are you doing here?

Wellard: i’m supposed to stop you from stopping Mr Kennedy from stopping Mr Bush from stopping Mr Hornblower from doing the stuff.

[fictionadventurer]

I'm fascinated by how Alcott makes a distinction between talent and genius. At first it seems like she's saying something like, "If you can't make something on the level of Mozart or Michaelangelo, why even bother?" Because that's the arc that leads to both Laurie and Amy giving up their dreams of artistic careers. They realize that just loving something and having a bit of talent for it doesn't mean you'll make anything worthwhile, so they should devote their lives to other things and leave art to the true geniuses.

But then it turns out that Alcott's saying something more like, "You have to get enough life experience before you can create anything that expresses something worthwhile." Jo gives up her writing when she decides to stop writing derivative adventure stories--but after the experience of caring for and losing Beth, she has real emotion to tap into, and she's able to write things that resonate with audiences and capture her own unique voice. Amy takes up sculpture again after she starts caring for her sickly daughter, and the love and sorrow make it better than anything else she's ever made.

It's interesting that Alcott's not advocating "art for art's sake". She's not advocating for art as "self-expression". She's not saying that youth is a requirement for genius, or that only the young are fresh enough to truly innovate. She's actually saying that youth is an obstacle to artists. Genius isn't something you're born with--it's something you can mature into. Genius isn't an innate quality, it's inspiration, and the longer you live, the more experiences you have to draw inspiration from. Talent is what allows you to make the thing, but genius is what gives you something to say. It's a fascinating distinction that seems to flip a lot of the usual ideas about artistry on their heads.

[purple-confusion]

Happy ides of march 2026 I bring you Julius Caesar weighted pincushion for consideration

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

wondering if there were any knights just really into archeology who were devastated they were not invited on the grail quest

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

imagine you’re like a low profile knight of the round table and you’ve obviously worked really hard to be there but your true passion unfortunately is archeology which cannot be realized because it just is not really like. a field you can go into at this point in history. also arthur’s court has really good benefits. anyway all the sudden they announce the grail quest that is going to track down a cup from the time of Christ and you’re so excited and you’re like my time has come please please let me go please. and the quest manager is like well. ummm. it’s not really like that. and you’re like what do you mean?? im the only knight of the round table who cares about this stuff, why would you not send me. and he’s like well it’s not really about who knows the most. it’s a kind of virtue quest. seeing as it’s a sacred relic and holds a lot of religious significance. and you’re like ugh ok ok fine (going through the five stages of grief) i guess. i guess that makes sense. so who is the incredibly virtuous and upstanding knight you are sending on this grail quest? and he goes “lancelot” i would kill somebody

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

wondering if there were any knights just really into archeology who were devastated they were not invited on the grail quest

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

imagine you’re like a low profile knight of the round table and you’ve obviously worked really hard to be there but your true passion unfortunately is archeology which cannot be realized because it just is not really like. a field you can go into at this point in history. also arthur’s court has really good benefits. anyway all the sudden they announce the grail quest that is going to track down a cup from the time of Christ and you’re so excited and you’re like my time has come please please let me go please. and the quest manager is like well. ummm. it’s not really like that. and you’re like what do you mean?? im the only knight of the round table who cares about this stuff, why would you not send me. and he’s like well it’s not really about who knows the most. it’s a kind of virtue quest. seeing as it’s a sacred relic and holds a lot of religious significance. and you’re like ugh ok ok fine (going through the five stages of grief) i guess. i guess that makes sense. so who is the incredibly virtuous and upstanding knight you are sending on this grail quest? and he goes “lancelot” i would kill somebody

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

obsessed also with the implication from that one part of le morte that kay literally cannot travel anywhere as himself. he either has to go incognito or disguise himself as an entirely different person wherever he goes because he’s annoyed so many people that everyone just attacks him on sight

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

imagine every time you drive somewhere, every car on the road deliberately drives into you because they hate you. this is kay’s life

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

kay arranging arthur’s travel and arthur’s like no, no, don’t worry about it. i am not the one who needs a security detail

[knuckle-actual]

In this house Boromir is a hero, end of story

[bitchi4mwillywonka]

dont worry, i'll be hot and funny again as soon as i'm done fighting for my life right now

[plipaya]

Cringetober 2025 Day 1: Overpowered

She's just saving it for later <3

[thejoyousjester]

I don't think I've ever seen artwork that spoke to my soul more than this does.

[crispy-ghee]

Happy 32nd birthday to my sibling @awesomepaste who requested Boromir and Faramir being happy for their birthday present. And why shouldn't they get to be happy?

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

everything about the round table is just incredibly funny as a concept. we are gathering like over one hundred guys. we are giving all of them deadly weapons. many of them met trying to kill each other. many of them are still trying to kill each other. some of them are not old enough to drive. we will not hold them accountable for anything. if anyone does anything really bad we’ll ummm. have the queen kind of tell him not to do that i guess. btw you guys are gonna go find the holy grail

[foreigndivinities]

achilles in book 1 of the iliad:

[batrachised]

well, if all else fails men, we always have the option of getting a lil silly with it

[capsyst]

I love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?

Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.

Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).

But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?

The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:

They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣

That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.

That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The Little Art Connoisseur (1863) August Friedrich Siegert

[a-3asfoor]

it will pass ..