#but thats not as important as the movie

[bonelessgoblin]

mmmm. absolutely delectable plans have been made. gonna go see the boy and the heron with a friend next week

#the boy and the heron #oooogh im so excited #it looks so good #so cool #and also #robert pattinson #(im watching the dub) #also gonna get high as fuck after #but thats not as important as the movie #god im hyped

[bidoofenergy]

pleas please ambrosius is the model knight, he's what all knights should aspire to be, he comes from the right family he does well in training, he's the model knight, he works within an institution because it benefits him--as long as he works in it, because the second the director thinks he's questioning things too much she kills him--are you picking up what im putting down? he keeps his true feelings buried--never show doubt, don't show conflict, keep your head down, do what you're told, aren't you so lucky to have this chance, aren't you glad you were born as you are and not like the others--are you hearing what im saying

(listen to eugene lee yang talk about this on the trypod)

#IT'S ABOUT THE MODEL MINORITY MYTH THATS WHAT IM SAYING #nimona spoilers #nimona #ambrosius goldenloin #nimona movie #listen i love queer allegory as much as the next person but can we be intersectional for a moment #in this movie about a police state you MUST consider race #the link starts at the important part but honestly i think everyone should listen to eugene talk about this movie #bidoof thinks #mixed kid tag

[officialspec]

ill be honest as much as i love to criticise the use of fatphobia for comedy ill never be able to hold the fatphobic jokes in kung fu panda against it

like yea those movies are guilty of dipping into The Usual Tropes for a cheap laugh but not only is the character writing for the fat characters the strongest and most sympathetic ive Ever seen literally just the character designs of the pandas in the 3rd movie get me choked up sometimes. theyre all so appealing and clearly treated with the same care and attention as everyone else without copping out and making them Barely Fat. po is already a size that doesnt exist in film protags and hes still the thinnest person in that whole village and that meant a lot to me

#i havent seen the movies in ages but the design of the ribbon dancer is sooo . AUGH #like not just to have that many fat characters but have them be REALLY fat without being treated as ugly or nasty #OR THEIR FATNESS BEING TEMPORARY !!! its their natural state thats how theyre meant to look!!!! #its easy to get caught in the thinking of like. having fat characters be a minority in a lineup to reflect 'real life' #EVEN THO that isnt always true but regardless #having a cast where the nonfat characters are so few and far between theyre hardly present at all. so fucking enriching 2 me #imo writing-wise the third one is by far the weakest but it still is just so important to me that they designed the pandas like that #can i kfp post on main is that allowed #idk i watched a video essay im emotional abt this again

[beaulesbian]

#dndhat #dndhatedit #edgin #xenk yendar #dnd movie #xedgin #the rituals.. are so intricate #honor among thieves #dndmovie #dndmovieedit #dungeons & dragons: honor among thieves #dungeons and dragons honor among thieves #dungeons & dragons honor among thieves #xenk #edgin the bard #xenk the paladin #simon aumar #d&d honor among thieves #d&d hat #i want a fic thats like 2 times xenk gave something important to edgin and he gave it away and 1 time he kept it akdskjd #it almost writes itself (except it doesnt :(( )

[botanyshitposts]

ok INCREDIBLY old content originally meant for this blog but in 2018 when i was just a wee lad with a little spinner propeller hat and big rainbow lollipop i went to a carnivorous plant convention in california and met a bunch of people who breed/collect/study these guys. one person was this collector who was slowly working on leaving the hobby or at least no longer growing plants, and he had a bunch of carnivorous plant related files he was charging like 50 cents for or something, and so i came into possession of these, which are examples of the kind of paperwork you have to have done to legally ship/trade endangered species of both plants and animals. functionally very boring paperwork, but something i found like, incredibly fascinating. i blacked out the personal id of the person and then immediately forgot to ever upload them, lmao.

these plants were bred and raised in a greenhouse and sold abroad, not taken from the wild, but because the species are endangered and often protected in their native countries (most of these are nepenthes, asian pitcher plants, a huge family spread throughout oceania and southeast asia), there's a lot more documentation that needs to be done regardless of their origin, both on the end of the seller and on the end of the buyer.

the rabbit hole on carnivorous plant trade is deep and kind of wild. there's plenty of common, non-threatened, greenhouse-grown pitcher plants on the market that people buy all the time, even non-collectors, but there's a whole debate to be had on if it's morally okay to be collecting the more endangered/rare of these plants in the first place. the big argument for breeding is that breeding them in captivity means there's more supply that's not poached from the wild, meaning poachers have less of an incentive to take the risk of taking adult plants from their habitats; from what i've heard, sometimes countries will issue permits for breeders to collect some wild seeds just to create a non-wild breeding pool to drive down the price. predictably, however, you also get people who are very much willing to pay a lot of money to get as rare of a plant as possible.

anyone familiar with the allure valuable plants have had over people throughout history can imagine the rest, but here's an article about a guy who started buying poached plants to enrich his private nepenthes collection, who then got busted by a fish and wildlife service agent embedded in his carvirorous plant circle. the plants this guy was buying were being sold to him without any CITES paperwork or declarations like the ones above; it was literally just a guy in indonesia taking rare plants from the woods around where he lived, selling them over facebook marketplace and ebay, and mailing them overseas as an undeclared 'gift' to get around customs. frighteningly small steps to take on all sides, to be honest.

(also, fun fact: another example of carnivorous plants that get poached are wild venus fly traps, which are only native to north and south carolina in the US. from what i understand it's a mix of people who genuinely did not know it's a native species and people who really are just going out into the woods and digging up plants to sell online. sometimes poaching is closer to home than you'd think!)

anyway. wild and interesting times in the land of plants recovered from a hard drive lmao

#nepenthes #annual 'plant poaching happens and it doesnt always look like the movies' post i suppose but also i think its really interesting #also the CITES system could do with an overhaul in how it approaches plants as well from what i understand but thats another thing #ive heard that like many systems like this they do not have the same urgency for plants as they do for animals #mostly because people just!! they dont get plants man!! they just say whatever its a plant!! #and poaching in general is only ever talked about like its with taking elephants for their tusks and stuff #also important conservation work but sometimes poaching really is just a guy with a shovel and that shit is WILD #carnivorous plants

[formosusiniquis]

any cosmo girl would have known

“Oh she did it for sure.”

“Steve!”

“Ten bucks, Bobert, don't give me that look last time we agreed double or nothing.”

“No,” Nancy insists. “This isn't Murder, She Wrote or Scooby-Doo or Columbo-”

“You saw who did it in Columbo at the beginning,” Eddie reminds.

“I know it's an awful show.”

Robin and Steve remain in sync enough to each get a hand on his shoulder to keep him from getting on the coffee table to defend the only good cop show in existence.

“I'm only pointing out,” she rewinds the VHS taking it back the two or three minutes they'd talked over before stopping it completely, “that this is a movie, not a drama with a repeated format that Steve can pattern recognition into predicting.”

“You haven't seen it already, right?” Robin asks. “The one rule of Monthly Middle-Aged Movie Night is you have to pick a movie none of us have seen.”

“No, I haven't seen it already. If you'll all remember when I asked you each to go see it with me I got,” he points to each of them in turn. “‘Wouldn't you rather see Tomb Raider?’ from double VHS, prestige cinephile and ‘That's too much pink for me, baby, you know I have that intolerance, maybe Rob or Nance will go?’ from my emo-isn’t-a-phase husband. And ‘I'm a little busy with this new story, Steve,’ from Nancy, the only one of you with a real excuse.”

“Some feminist you are, Birdie.”

“I don't want to hear it from you. I watched two of the blandest men alive pursue Renee Zellweger while the screen writers tried to convince us she was homely because you ‘forgot’ you had band practice.”

“You said you liked it!”

“It grew on me, but sometimes you just want to see a woman in a tank top. And I won't be shamed by the same man who cried during Beauty and the Beast.”

“I went with my sweet baby Lucy Joan, you miserable hag,” Eddie says, “and they turned that hot werewolf into a boring looking man.”

“You weren't into that? Look at who-”

“Why am I getting made fun of? Can we finish the movie?”

“No, I'm not going to let this be another Sixth Sense situation,” Nancy says, holding the remote hostage, she knows no one will try to take it from her.

“Ugh don't even bring that up,” Eddie groans, “Dustin still mentions it in at least one letter a year.”

Nancy nods, prim and proper, “Exactly, so tell us right now why you think she did it, then we'll play it again.”

“Chutney, the daughter,” Steve corrects, “have you even been paying attention? Her hair's permed.”

“And press play,” Eddie shouts.

“No,” Robin smacks his hands as he makes his ballsy play to reach around her for the remote. “Show your work, Dingus, even I didn't follow that one.”

“I don't always like the movies everyone else picks but I at least watch them. Her hair is permed, she said she was in the shower. She would have had to have been washing her hair if she didn't hear the gunshot and she has a perm.”

“You can wash your hair with a perm,” Nancy points out.

“You would know.” Eddie snarks, fingering the ends of his own hair.

“You can't wash a fresh perm, you'll fuck up the ammonium thioglycolate. Then you're out forty bucks and you've got limp hair. She killed her dad and lied about being in the shower.”

“Press play,” Eddie decrees again, leaning in close to Steve's side to purr, “it's pretty sexy when you go all hair care detective.”

His hand starts to slip below the blanket. “This is how we ended up with Lucy in the first place,” Steve reminds him, just under the sounds of the courtroom drama picking back up. It doesn’t stop Eddie’s hand from wandering until the movie’s climax starts getting closer, and Eddie’s attention is captured just like Robin’s and Nancy’s.

“Unbelievable,” Robin says, when Elle cites the perm salt.

“Never again,” Nancy swears, when Chutney screams her confession.

“Lucy’s been asking for a brother or sister,” Eddie flirts, as Elle reveals that any good Cosmo girl could have solved it.

No more movies with mysteries or twist endings for a while, they all agree, Robin can’t afford to keep betting against Steve.

#steddie #established steddie #fruity four #my fic #steve harrington #platonic stobin #this is not a modern au these are some middle aged adults now #it is 2001 and my dudes have to carefully schedule their hangouts #anyway i think steve the hair harrington would also make the elle woods solve #theyre the same flavor of autistic if were dipping into some personal hcs but thats not important #what is important is steve has the oh he did it accidentally predicts the bad guy of every movie ever nd skill #love that for him #unimportant to the narrative but lucy is definitely the steddie bio kid this is a transmasc eddie fic secretly #so anyway enjoy this barely edited ficlet i churned out in an hour

[bikwin5]

depiction of dream i had last night

#msterpieces #touhou #doremy sweet #i might not have actually been wearing lolita in the dream but thats not important. #what's important is that i was indeed concerned about not knowing anybody in the movie theater

[peachssodapop]

Every day I live in fear they will make a Zelda movie and they will have Link talk and I will hate it and Never be able to complain about it because know it all jack asses will act like they know more about Zelda than me and tell me there was no way they could make a big movie like that where the main character can‘t talk

#sorry I saw a reddit thread with the same loz movie rumor thats been circling for years on end #and then i saw some comments that made me angry #Links lack of speech is incredibly important to me #and it makes me so mad when people try to just brush it away completely

[puhpandas]

the movie introducing the "children sometimes can only see or process things through pictures and images" and then it coming back later in the movie as a final stand reminded me a lot of how the fnaf books are written sometimes

#like how in ggy tonys teacher talks about writing a story where everything feels disconnected in tiny mini stories or plots in writing #but it comes back later and turns out it was really important the whole time #thats what i mean #fnaf movie spoilers #fnaf movie #thoughts #pandas.txt #pandas talks

[guideaus]

one of my favorite parallels in nimona and i desperately wish the movie had anything close to it

#personal #nimona #both times are after she majorly fucks up a place. #she does a performative little trick insulting herself to see if blackheart defends her to test him. and he does #both times. the first is after their first mission out #thats soo important and i prefer it so much to her giving him 20 chances in the movie #and the last is after her true form shows. the one that made people treat her different

[genderkoolaid]

tbh its not entirely fair to paint all blatant rep as poor in comparison to queercoding (altho i do love some good queercoding). i think the reason so much blatant rep is Like That, while queercoded stuff feels so much more meaningful and real, is because the blatant rep we often experience is made to Market To The Queers. while it may have queer creatives working on it, the reason its created is to make money off of queers. its trendy. so just write a fairly surface level fluffy movie about white queer teens and get some cash! its blatant, which means it will be treated as a groundbreaking queer media especially by liberals.

while queercoded media on the other hand (intentional or not) cant or wont just slap two conventionally attractive teens on screen and make them kiss and get those rainbow dollars. its an expression of queer silencing, the quiet thats left when you arent allowed to say what you desperately want to. when you cant spoon-feed your audience queerness you have to. yknow. actually think about what it means and how to express that artistically. you have to show and not tell.

thats all to say, there is blatant queer rep that is good. but you probably aren't gonna find it on amazon prime. that kind of rep is being made by queer artists making indie films. i promise you its not either "blatant queerness that feels shallow" or "deep queerness thats not allowed to be blatant". theres a secret third option and its "capitalism will never liberate you and you need to actually support indie queer artists and actively reject queer capitalism to experience the breadth and width of what queer art is capable of being and doing."

#m. #like verilybitchie has talked about “bad queer rep” in a video essay (check her out) #and she mentioned one bisexual tv show made by a bisexual #that was both blatant and interesting #or uhhh that transfem vampire movie #like. this shit exists. you just need to put effort into #breaking free from spoonfed capitalist media and interact w indie art #not trying to be pretentious either! #if you enjoy fluffy capitalist queer media good for you fr thats 100% fine #and its not NOT important that we CAN have that pandering now #but like. from an artistic standpoint #capitalism prioritizes money not art. it will never care about you #queer media is only being produced bc enough people will go see it that studios will put it out #its not even a matter of homophobia rlly. we only matter as long as we make money #when queers stop being profitable to netflix queer indie artists will still make thought provoking takes on queerness

[waffliesinyoface]

putting this in my notes. these two get along great.

#did hasami MEAN to stick her foot in her mouth: no #did she do it anyways: yes! #inuzuka sioc fanfic #she is. she is aware. thank you for *noticing*. #also important notes: sakura; being a member of team 7; has many outfits because of all her movie roles!! its so useful. #thats her cresent moon kingdom shirt. #other important note: hasami is like. just a little shorter. for now.

[dr-reversebeartrap]

@godlizzza‘s fic 90’s Killer vibes

#mark hoffman #saw #saw movies #saw fanfiction : 90’s Killer #I hope you don’t mind the tag liza #young-ish and wears blue all the time #hes got matching shirts with riggs #i’d give him longer hair on his nape ig but idk it just didn’t happen this time #a wee portrait again #drrbt talks #drrbt art #sawposting #bracing myself for colours being messed up by my screen #THE COMPRESSION HOLY SHIT #we do not have the same vision of the character and its nice #playing with them like dolls #we love angie tho #thats the most important thing #saw fanart

[glouris]

I don't understand how gow youtubers that post these “whAt iS gOiNg to HaPpEn iN tHe NexT gAmE???” vids just completely ignore Atreus. They are even more in denial about Kratos stepping down from the mc role than me about Heimdall kicking the bucket, it’s crazy. That one guy deadass went “Well maybe Atreus will die and that will lead to Kratos going to another pantheon” MISS MA’AM ATREUS HAS BEEN SET UP TO GO ON THE JOURNEY TO A DIFFERENT LAND WHILE KRATOS IS HELPING SETTLE THE MATTERS IN THE 9 REALMS??

#bros still expect gow 3 type shit in 2026 smh #its not just me right Atreus is supposed to take over the mc role thats why he left - we're gonna be following his adventures next #why are they ignoring him??????? #it makes me feel like a wife in a horror movie who's being told that everything is fine #god of war #god of war ragnarok #gow #atreus #angrboda #heimdall #honestly if atreus fucking dies (WHICH HE WON'T) i hope angrboda takes over the mc role just to spite these ppl #she deserves it and she would be 100% very fun to play as #and while im at it #angrboda is the best companion in ragnarok simply bc her moveset is the prettiest #whoever says othervise and mentions status effects stuns and other shit is wrong #aesthetics will always be most important #stop talking back you know im right #yes i am using pretty screenshots for rants again

[beaulesbian]

It's time to rewrite this story.

#nimona #nimonaedit #nimona movie #ballister boldheart #ballister blackheart #ambrosius goldenloin #nimona netflix #mine #gif:nimona #netflixedit #nimona spoilers #you know how that little girl is there multiple times shes so important #bc thats the thing nimona really cant stand to see - someone so young turned against her already #bc that view on others can be changed and manipulated just like it happened with gloreth #and even after 1000 years nimona wanted to just burn and destroy things in the beginning with her plan #but she was hurt and betrayed again and sadly turned it all inwards at herself.. until ballister reached her #and then actually rewrote her story! the narrative that told everyone shes a monster she took it and changed it and ppl saw her as nimona! #the parallels are just insane in this movie i still have some thoughts #sorry rlly kinda like that i can post more than 10gifs now that i have to have the new editor #long post

[thetimelordbatgirl]

We've now gone from people harassing Halle Bailey because she played Ariel and people decided all mermaids have to be white for some reason, to people harassing Avantika Vandanapu over a FANCAST of her as Rapunzel in a potential live action Tangled that hasn't even been confirmed! People seriously cannot fucking imagine anyone but white actors playing any role at this point, even trying to cite Rapunzel's fairy tale setting as an excuse (aka similar to Little Mermaid racists), because apparently Indian people can't exist in countries like Germany according to these people.

#rapunzel doesnt have to be white or blonde #her disney movie is literally she gets kidnapped as a baby because of her magic hair thats caused by a stolen flower used to save #her moms life #and when older she wants to see the world and gets to when flynn ends up in her tower #where in fuck is race specified for rapunzel in that plot #nowhere thats what #the literal important detail about rapunzel is the hair and thats it #also the movie tangled is set in a kingdom called corona aka a made up place #so already fuck off with the location excuses #like the film hasnt even been CONFIRMED #its a FANCAST #and yet shes getting harassed over it #and yes people are trying to go for the 'oh its okay then to make tiana and pocohontas white then-' #why are we fucking surprised they still havent let go of that one...