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theoutcastrogue · 6 months

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Cartoon depictions of the homeless increasingly reflect the hostility of today’s political leaders toward people on the streets. We’ve gone from images of charming hobos with bindles to zombies taking over cities. If you consume any news at all, you’ve probably noticed that the United States is pathologically cruel to its homeless citizens. This May, the brutal killing of Jordan Neely—who was strangled to death, at the age of 30, simply because he was unhoused and shouting on the Manhattan subway—captured the national spotlight, but it was just one of many such cases of unprovoked violence. In January, two cops reportedly kidnapped a homeless man in Hialeah, Florida, drove him to an “isolated and dark location,” and beat him unconscious. That same month, art dealer Shannon Collier Gwin faced battery charges after he sprayed a homeless woman with a hose outside his San Francisco gallery, barking “Move! Move!” at her. (Predictably, Gwin got a lenient plea deal of just 35 hours of community service.) Elsewhere in the city, homeless San Franciscans have been attacked with chemical bear spray on at least eight occasions. Other assaults have been more impersonal but no less vicious. On July 14, the city of Houston abruptly closed its only public cooling center in the downtown area, potentially condemning anyone without shelter to suffer heatstroke in 90-degree weather. Among the property-owning class, the phenomenon of hostile architecture—sidewalks with spikes that stab anyone who tries to sleep, benches with iron bars, and the like—has become de rigueur. The widespread callousness and lack of compassion are both infuriating and hard to comprehend. How on Earth, we might ask, did things get this bad? [...]

Looking back at older cartoons, one of the things that stands out immediately is the absence of negative attitudes toward the homeless. In fact, during the Golden Age of animation, creators seemed to have had a real affinity for the poor and unhoused, often placing their most iconic characters in that role. There’s a wonderful 1948 Warner Bros. short called “Riff Raffy Daffy,” in which Daffy Duck is looking for a place to sleep—first on a park bench, then a trash can, and finally a furniture display in a shop window—and has to dodge the harassment of the police, as represented by Porky Pig in a little blue uniform. (Literally, the cop is a pig!) Or, in the 1950 cartoon “Homeless Hare,” Bugs Bunny’s rabbit hole is destroyed by a new construction project, leading him to unleash his usual slapstick mayhem against the developers until they put it back. In these cartoons, homelessness is something inflicted on people by outside forces—gentrification and the real estate business, in Bugs’ case—and something which can be successfully resisted. Even Disney cast a homeless dog as a romantic lead in 1955’s Lady and the Tramp, contrasting Lady’s sheltered naivety with Tramp’s superior knowledge of the world. The title invokes the memory of Charlie Chaplin’s “Tramp” films, which similarly brought dignity and humanity to the role of a homeless man. (Bugs Bunny, too, takes inspiration from Chaplin, and multiple Warner animators have drawn him as the Tramp.) In 1961, Hanna-Barbera’s profoundly underrated Top Cat followed the adventures of a gang of wisecracking Manhattan alley cats, who, like Daffy, are always outwitting a meddling policeman. At worst, classic cartoons may trivialize the suffering and danger associated with homelessness—there’s a certain recurring image of the carefree hobo carrying a bindle, which paints the whole subject in a romanticized light—but the homeless themselves are rarely disparaged or made the butt of the joke. Quite the opposite.

It took a few years, but cartoons caught up to the Reaganite turn. In episodes from the ’90s and early 2000s, there’s a palpable shift in the way homeless characters appear compared to earlier decades. The perspective is different: we’re now seeing them through the eyes of comfortably housed characters, rather than their own. Often they don’t even get proper names. [...] This trajectory leads us, perhaps inevitably, to SpongeBob SquarePants. [..] Squidward gets accused of stealing a dime by his comically greedy boss, Mr. Krabs, and quits his job in a fit of outrage. We then flash forward to see Squidward, now bedraggled and unshaven, living in a cardboard box on the street and begging for change. [...] Mercifully, the ever-cheerful SpongeBob gives Squidward a place to stay—but the moment he’s safely off the street, Squidward turns from a sympathetic victim of circumstance into a lazy, entitled freeloader, straight out of a Reagan speech. He makes no effort to find work and loafs around SpongeBob’s house for ages. [...] Eventually, an exasperated SpongeBob writes “GET A JOB” in his alphabet soup, before shoving him (bed and all) back to work at the Krusty Krab. [...] Worst of all, though, the episode suggests that homelessness can be solved on an individual basis if the people in question simply stop being lazy and “GET A JOB.” This is the biggest myth of all. In 2021, a statistical analysis by the University of Chicago found that 53 percent of people in homeless shelters, and 40.4 percent of unsheltered people, do have jobs. The problem is that their wages are too low, and rents are too high. According to statistics from the same year, it’s impossible for someone working a full-time, minimum-wage job to afford a single-bedroom apartment in 93 percent of U.S. counties, and there are no states in which someone can rent a two-bedroom space on the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. In other words, homelessness has little or nothing to do with personal responsibility, or lack thereof. It’s a consequence of large-scale economic decisions made by landlords and bosses. [...]

— Alex Skopic

#Alex Skopic #theory #the ramblin' rover

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bestworstcase · 8 days

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ALSO. IRRELEVANT SIDEBAR. i seem to be the only person in the fandom who a) took it as a given that ‘the girl who fell through the world’ was at least a century old and thus predated the great war by at least two or three decades, and b) didn’t think the author’s identity being unknown was odd enough to require an explanation.

and i’m wondering now if the xkcd average familiarity curse Got Me bfgrbxcjk

alice’s adventures in wonderland! that book is One Hundred Fifty-Eight Years Old. it was published in november 1865. through the looking glass was published six years later in december 1871. CAN YOU NAME THE AUTHOR?

if you answered “lewis carroll,” bzzt! incorrect!

(well, correct in that the books were indeed written under that pseudonym BUT I MEAN HIS REAL NAME.)

alice’s adventures in wonderland is a hundred and fifty-eight years old. it has never been out of print. it’s been translated into a hundred seventy-four languages and it’s one of the best known works of nineteenth century english literature in the world. it’s been adapted many, many times for stage and radio and film and video games. “retelling the true story of alice in wonderland” is like an entire niche fantasy YA subgenre; i could name seven different examples off the top of my head. it’s as close to UBIQUITOUS as it’s possible for a story to be in a world with seven billion people living in it.

and… in a world where the non-pseudonymous identity of the author is thoroughly documented and easily accessible via the internet, the average person who Fondly Remembers watching the disney animated film or having the book read to them as a kid doesn’t know that ‘lewis carroll’ was a pen name.

his real name was charles dodgson.

and the reason the average person doesn’t know that isn’t any kind of individual failing or whatever, it’s just that the book was published almost a hundred and sixty years ago under a pen name. the pen name is what’s on the cover. most people don’t go Looking for biographical information about the authors of books their parents read to them as kids unless they have a particular reason to be interested. such as high octane nerdery.

(i own the 150th anniversary edition of the annotated alice and have read it cover to cover multiple times. and i’ll do it again. i am an Owns Books About The Math In Wonderland kind of nerdy about alice.)

—the point. being. the real world has a lot of things going for it in terms of historical preservation that remnant does not, chiefly the absence of a Fuck Ton of monsters trying to eat everybody all the time and making international travel and communication horrifyingly dangerous on a good day. the CCTS has only existed for a few decades; before that, sharing information between kingdoms was matter of “send an armed convoy and hope they don’t get killed and eaten by The Horrors en route.”

so the scholars of remnant are at, to put it mildly, a serious disadvantage in terms of information being retained over time.

anyway. ‘the girl who fell through the world’ is established very clearly to be remnant’s equivalent of our alice’s adventures in wonderland, in that it is a quite old children’s story that became MASSIVELY POPULAR worldwide, to the point that nearly everyone alive has at least some familiarity with the plot, many remember it as a cherished childhood bedtime story, and the more bookish characters can quote favorite passages from memory.

which is to say, it isn’t just The Story is an allusion to the wonderland story. the book’s ubiquity is also modeled after alice’s ubiquity, and the lack of popular knowledge about the author’s real identity likewise takes its cue from the fact that in real life most people Don’t Know who charles dodgson is.

so!!!

it’s not at all unreasonable to think that ‘the girl who fell through the world’ is probably meant to be about as old as alice’s adventures in wonderland—about a hundred fifty years, which would mean lewis published it around sixty years before the great war even started. (he also presumably didn’t publish it as a child; if he was about the age dodgson was when alice went to print, this would have been around twenty years after the fact.)

and it’s also not unreasonable to think that lewis, like charles dodgson, published his book under a pseudonym. or anonymously, but given how certain jaune is that alyx wrote the book, even though it was lewis taking notes and lewis saying he would write the story for jaune to find his way home…

i’d put my bet on lewis having written his book as “A.L. [Surname].” A for alyx, L for lewis, a symbolic way for her to come home with him. but the girls upon discovering the ever after is real and alyx was real would of course think “oh, ‘AL’ as in short for alyx” and the use of initials is also ambiguous enough for jaune to worry his way to the conclusion that he did, after alyx poisoned him.

fast forward a century and a half or so in a setting with no internet for most of that and hordes of man-eating Nightmare Beasts inhibiting international communication and… yeah of course the Real Name of beloved children’s classic author A.L. Whoever isn’t common knowledge outside of academic and hobbyist carrollian-equivalent circles.

#this post brought to you by me having the thought #‘but why are we surprised the book is way older than the great war. it’s aaiw.’#followed by ‘………your experiences are not universal’-ing myself GRBFJSJK #anyway. if they’re going where i think they might be going with lewis #he’s theodore’s great-grandfather #and his children were of the generation that fought in the great war #<- HIGHLY speculative but trust me it tracks.

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pika-ace · 2 years

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TWST Disney Knowledge Yuu Part 3

Part 1 ; Part 2

Trey: We'll use Walrus brand Young Oyster sauce

Yuu: NO WAY, those baby oysters deserved better!

Ace: Are you okay?

Yuu: Do you know how much that damn scene traumatized me?!

Trey: Okay okay, I was kidding anyway!

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(Yuu arguing with the teachers)

Vargas: Is that a threat, pipsqueak?

Yuu: Try me, Gaston >:(

Crewel: Such a disobedient pup!

Yuu: Go drive off a bridge, Cruella >:(

Trein: I won’t tolerate disobedience here!

Yuu: Let’s see you stop me, Lady Tremaine >:(

Ace: Hey, I’m all for insults but why do you call them that?

Yuu: Those guys are real bastards where I come from

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Azul: Collect a photo of a school field trip of Prince Rielle’s class

Yuu: Rielle…? …*realizes* Oh my god! XD Is he a redhead? Tell me this Rielle is a redhead!

Azul: How did you-

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(If Yuu was left behind after the monster attack during Vargas camp)

Yuu: Alright, who’s not dead? Sound off!

Ruggie: Wait to be morbid…

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(At the fireworks festival)

Trey: I got these hourglasses for Ace and Deuce

Yuu: Do they turn big and trap you inside of them?

Trey: What-

Yuu: Good.

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(Monkey steals things from tourists)

Yuu: ABU, YOU LITTLE SHIT, I SHOULD'VE KNOWN!

Kalim: Who is-

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(In the Tea Garden)

Yuu: Hey, do any of these mushrooms make you shrink or grow?

Cater: …

Deuce: …

Ace: …Why the FUCK would they-

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Neige: *appears*

Yuu: Oh my god, the Disney Princesses DO exist here! O_O

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Riddle: Is the tea ready?

Trey: Yes, there’s even a dormouse asleep in the teapot

Yuu: *out loud and on purpose* Is one of the rules that we’re not allowed to say CAT? >:3c

Dormouse: *GOES APESHIT*

Riddle: WHY WOULD YOU-

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Yuu: I wonder if this world has Siri?

Vil: *to phone* Mira Mira, who’s the most beautiful one of all?

Yuu: *bursts out laughing*

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Riddle: A toast; very merry unbirthday!

Heartslabyul: A very merry unbirthday!

Yuu: Aww, we don’t get to sing the song? :(

Cater: What song…?

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(Not Disney related, but I thought it was funny)

(During Ghost Marriage Giant Chubby fight)

Yuu: HEY! STAY-PUFT MARSHMALLOW MAN! Why don't you pick on someone your own size!!

Rook: The things that come out of your mouth...

((Bonus))

Chubby and Eliza: (fall in love)

Ace: Huh????

Yuu: Seriously, has NO ONE here seen a rom-com?

And now, Disney Knowledge Yuu: Musical Edition

(While cleaning Ramshackle)

Yuu: *starts singing Whistle While you Work*

(Finishes song and finds they’re already done)

Yuu: …Holy shit, did I just musical montage myself?

Ghosts: *lowkey terrified*

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(At Heartslabyul)

Yuu: *singing* Painting the roses red...painting the roses red...

Ace: *softly* What are they doing???

Deuce: *softly* I don't know...!!

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All seven Blot Monster Dwarves: (attacking the students)

Ace: What do we do??

Yuu: ...*sings* HEIGH HOOOOOOOOO!!

Everyone: ...

Blot Dwarves: ......heigh hoooooo...!

Yuu: Holy shit, that actually worked...! (leads the monsters away with the song Heigh-Ho)

Vil: What...did I just witness...?

Cater: *filming the whole thing* I have no idea...

#twisted wonderland #disney twisted wonderland #twst #twst wonderland #twst yuu #yuu #trey clover #riddle rosehearts #cater diamond #ace trappola #deuce spade #disney #coach vargas #divus crewel #professor trein #TWST fireworks festival

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jasminedragonart · 1 year

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We all know that I think Brother Bear is the Magnum Opus of Disney and I've elaborated on that in a previous post. This one will therefore be dedicated to Pixar's Magnum Opus.

Moana, I hear you ask? Inside Out? Up?

No.

The Incredibles.

In order for it to be an amazing film there has to be layers to it. Inside Out, to me, is pretty one dimensional. I didn't get a lot out of it. Moana was okay, but nothing special, like I didn't hate it but I didn't love it.

But the Incredibles? It was amazing.

To start off with, this came out in 2004. Do you know what other superhero films were out in this era? Spider Man. Tobey McGuire's Spiderman. Other than that, the superhero franchise hadn't really hit off. It would be years until Iron Man, Captain America or even the Dark Knight would have the impact it would have on cinema. (The Dark Knight trilogy is great btw. I love and accept it as canon way more readily than I do the Snyder verse. That verse can go away and never see the light of day)

the point is, for this movie to have survived, nay, thrive, in a superhero-less world is astounding and I think that's just down to good writing, characterisation and the story itself.

To start off with, I didn't know this was set in the 60's until like, a month ago. But now I do know I love it. It fits so well and answers so many questions. The 60's were like the golden age of heros, or, what we call the golden age. You had the batman show in the 60's, you had the golden age of comics. It's just right that the Incredibles is set in the 60's too.

In terms of storytelling this is good too. We see that they still have phones and computers and tv's but they're limited. No smart phones, the technology that we would see in present day is high tech to them. I love it because it isolates the characters so well. The reason why a lot of shows these days die is because they set it in our modern world. The convenience we have in being able to send messages to each other is just ridiculous. In order to create a good story you need a way to isolate your characters. There needs to be mystery. By limiting the Incredibles to what was available in the 60's Brad Bird eliminated the questions on why Mr Incredible didn't just send a text to his wife or Edna that he was in danger. Why the other heros didn't ask for help. Their technology is limited, their data plan is nonexistent, they can't contact people across the world and this is great for creating an interesting story.

Starting back at the beginning, I think it's really interesting how we're introduced to Buddy. A lot of superhero sidekicks are literally found like Buddy was hoping to be found. He has the intelligence too. He basically did a Tim Drake. He tracked Mr Incredible down, he made himself available and he showed that he had the skills to at least be a good hero. The only difference here is that Mr Incredible's world isn't Batman's world. Buddy didn't persevere like Tim Drake did, he took his knowledge and he twisted it for evil which, again is such a good analysis or interpretation of what Tim Drake could have been if he didn't put on those Robin colours and force Batman to take him on board.

Then we get to the lawsuit. So, if you didn't get it, the Incredibles kind of honoured marvel here. I think X Men was out by now. It should have been. Yes. It was out in 2000. So the concept of mutants being second class citizens was known to those who watched the beginning of the MCU. The Incredibles is paying homage to this by making supers illegal. The supers are creating too much damage, they're doing more harm than good. Therefore the common people are fighting back and making them retreat back into the shadows. Again, an interesting concept because what happened to all these villains? What happened when Bon Voyage escaped prison again? How many people did he kill without Mr Incredible there to help catch him? We don't know but it's always been a wonder of mine as to how the world is as peaceful as it is when we catch up with the Incredibles in present day. How did they get to that point?

I'll never know.

Mr Incredible and Elastigirl, I think are Batman and Catwoman. I think. Meta Batman and Catwoman. They have the same feel, the same banter of Batman and Catoman but they could be another superhero couple. Either way, they have their happy ending by getting married and having kids

There's an interesting post out there explaining the kids names and the connection to their powers which I loved. So, yeah, dash- superspeed. He's the Flash, he's quicksilver. He's basically kid flash right now, or impulse since, is impulse born with his powers? Whatever the case, he doesn't quite know the extent of his powers just yet because he grew up in a world where supers are in hiding. Which, again, makes me question what happens to those heros who don't hide. There had to be a penalty for them beyond being sued. Back to the kids. Violet- ultraviolet light that can be invisible. There's also something about her being a teenager and keeping everyone out which is why she has her forcefields. She's also Susan Storm, that's the inspiration for her character's powers. Jack Jack is jack of all trades. His inspiration, I think, is Legion. I'm not too sure. Either way, I love their names and how they tie into their characters and powers.

Helen and Bob are aliases. People know that right? I'm pretty sure they got different identities through the years after their covers were blown. They would have to. Even in the 60's people could be tracked down, that's why they have this rehoming program for supers. It makes me wonder what Bob and Helen's real names are. I think they're alias's anyway. Either way, their last name would have to have changed over the years. At the beginning of the movie it's Parr which means average.

Which is what they're trying to be. They're trying to be average. But they aren't, that's the whole point of the movie. They're the only ones who are capable of doing what the government, what ordinary people, can't. They're the only ones who can adapt and put themselves in danger to stop Syndrome who spent his entire teenage and adult life trying to destroy supers. The whole message of the movie is there at the beginning. Violet and Dash can't help but use their powers because it's a part of them. They aren't normal, they're never going to be normal and they shouldn't have to be.

Mirage is an interesting character to look at. She's very Bond esque. It felt like they were mixing genres by introducing her but it works. She's a powerful woman at the head of an organisation. But then there are layers to her. Her name is literally Mirage, she's not what she seems. She looks good but is secretly working for Syndrome. But the real message is that she's on the bad guy's team but she's not a bad person. She does what's right for Mr Incredible, she lets him and his family go. She also suffers the Bond girl trope where she's either killed off or injured but her character arc is kind of over at this point so it works. That's the point with some tropes, they're not necessarily good but they work because they serve a purpose. Mirage doesn't need to be in the picture anymore so she needs an excuse to not be there. She's injured, easy, she's out of the picture now. It's not bad writing, it's just practical writing. Otherwise we'd be asking where she was.

I think I want to dedicate this part of why the Incredibles is amazing to focus on the super's graveyard. Not only the one Syndrome made, but the ways the supers have died over the years. Edna describes so many supers dying from such mundane things like a costume malfunction. How many of them perished before Edna refused to give them a cape? How many funerals were there over the years?

I think it's also important we focus on the supers graveyard for another reason too. Bob isn't the only super out there that feels like his purpose in life was taken away. The reason why these people take such mundane jobs as covers is because they have something else in their lives that makes them feel fulfilled. By not being allowed to fulfill that purpose they're only left with the mundane, and for us it's okay because this is the only thing we know, but for them? With their powers? It must feel so... disheartening or another word I can't think of right now. But to be talked down to, to not be recognised. It's not narcissism that has them out there helping people. They're good people trying to do good in the world because they can. It's sad that they can't, and it's horrible that this good nature is took advantage of by Syndrome. He murdered them horrifically. He turned their strengths against them, he made a murder bot, isolated them on an island, and had them hunted down just because he was told to go home as a child. To not be put in danger like kids shouldn't be put in.

It begs the question again, what happened to the other villains? Where are they? Why is Syndrome the only one we see appear in this gap of superhero history? I was expecting the 2nd Incredibles to focus on more villains that had cropped up in the shadows while they were gone but it didn't. Not really. the 2nd one wasn't as good as the 1st one. It was good, but it was lacking the layers the 1st one has. The questions on why and where. A lot of the new one was focused more on the family than the plot where as the first one had a good balance of the two.

Anyway, back to the analysis. This is such a good origin movie for Violet, Dash and Jack Jack. You have the mentors in Mr and Mrs Incredible, the ones who are experienced and handling a lot of the action. Then you have the young ones finding their powers and discovering what they can do, what they're capable of. You feel happy when you see Violet protect her brother with her shield. You're elated when Dash can run on water. They're little things that an experienced hero isn't able to elicit because they're used to their powers and we see this in the ease Mr Incredible has in himself and his capabilities, same as Mrs Incredible when she's worming her way into the compound. This movie is both an origin movie as well as kind of like a comeback. Mr and Mrs Incredible are out of retirement and the kids are stepping up into roles they never dreamed they could have.

The colour story is good too. Mr Incredible's old suit is blue. It's the suit he wore as a standalone hero. It's the suit he wears when he goes out with Frozone and the suit he wears on the island for the first time. It's the suit he wears where he's separated from his family. He's blue, he's alone. Red is a danger colour, it's passion, it's what groups this family together. They are the danger to Syndrome. They also have the yellow there to lesson the impact of the red. It's a happy colour, very soothing and lets us know that they're on the good team. It's also Elastigirl's old colour, or one of them. It's Bob finally including Helen in his life

There's a lot more to this movie I can't think of it right now.

Pixar peaked with this movie though.

#the incredibles #pixar #disney

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antiqueanimals · 10 months

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Siberian huskies in Disney's Wonderful World of Knowledge: Animals. Published by Robert B. Clarke. 1982.

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#mammals #canines #dogs #huskies

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princesssarisa · 3 months

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Autism (and possible ADHD) headcanon: Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glass)

This analysis is based on the books, but most of it applies to Disney's Alice too.

Now of course she wasn't written with either autism or ADHD in mind: no concept of either existed when the books were written. Some people might argue that all the "evidence" below is just her being a seven-year-old child. But all these qualities make her relatable to neurodivergent people, and whose to say that she wouldn't be diagnosed as neurodivergent if she were a real person and lived today?

Autism evidence

*Alice is a very inward little girl. Not only do both books literally take place mostly in her mind, but even within her dreams she's constantly thinking, daydreaming, analyzing, and imagining things. She sometimes gets so lost in her thoughts and fantasies that she forgets all about what's currently happening, or about the other characters, and they sometimes notice this (e.g. "You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk.").

*She constantly talks to herself and pretends to be two people.

*In what little we see of her life in the real world, she's never shown playing with children her own age. She's content to play by herself, talking to her kittens, creating elaborate fantasies, or even playing a game of croquet against herself.

*She's precocious and smart, with a good (though imperfect) memory for facts she's learned in school, and she likes to show off her knowledge, both to others and to herself. She knows many "grand words" that other children her age don't know (e.g. "latitude," "longitude," "jurors"), and she enjoys saying them out loud, even when she doesn't know what they mean. In Wonderland, when she tries to recite the lessons and poems she's memorized and finds herself comically mangling them, her core sense of self is shaken.

*Despite being sane and sensible compared to the fantasy characters she meets, Alice is more than a little eccentric herself. She constantly daydreams and talks to herself, as mentioned. She comes up with outlandish fantasies, like mailing Christmas presents to her own feet, or that different foods change people's temperaments, or that people in New Zealand and Australia walk upside-down. Her confusing experiences in Wonderland make her wonder if she's still Alice or if she's become a different person. The fact that her adventures in Wonderland and Looking-Glass Land are dreams make her seem all the more eccentric in hindsight: those two fantasy worlds and all the strange things in them are creations of Alice's own mind.

*Even though she tries to always be proper and polite, she sometimes makes offensive remarks without meaning to. For example, when she praises her cat Dinah's skill at catching mice and birds in front of a mouse and group of birds, or when she calls three inches "a wretched height" while talking to a three-inch caterpillar. She also throws manners aside and talks back to adults whenever she thinks they're being especially rude or unreasonable.

*She often seems to imitate the adults in her life. When she remembers to check the "Drink Me" bottle and make sure it's not marked "poison," or when she scolds herself for crying or for lolling on the grass, she's clearly parroting what she's heard from adults. Likewise, when she scolds the pig-baby for grunting, or her kitten for all its mischief and "bad manners," she's obviously affecting a tone that adults have taken with her. All the scolding and correcting she does, especially to herself, might also imply that she's a child who's been scolded and corrected especially often.

*She's often described as speaking "shyly" or "timidly" – though as mentioned, she can be bold to the point of impertinence when she's pushed far enough.

*She dislikes books without pictures, and she can make no sense of the poem Jabberwocky – even though its plot is easy for most real-world readers to follow – because there are too many made-up words in it. Now, these don't necessarily imply that she has trouble with reading comprehension, but they might.

*One throw-away line in Through the Looking-Glass implies that she's a picky eater. When she brings up the subject of having to go without meals as punishment, she says she would rather go without them than eat them anyway.

*She's particularly annoyed by certain small noises and sensations – like Bill the Lizard's pencil squeaking at the trial in the first book, or the Gnat's tiny sigh that tickles her ear in the second.

*Both stories consist of her wandering through nonsense worlds, being baffled by their strange rules and customs, and being ordered around, corrected, and judged negatively by the strange creatures she meets, just because her logic is different from theirs. For those of us on the autism spectrum, this is a relatable experience.

ADHD evidence

*She tends to be impulsive, particularly in the first book. For example, she goes down the rabbit hole without thinking of how she'll ever get out again, and later drinks the potion in the White Rabbit's house without knowing if it will make her grow or shrink just because she's anxious for some change in her size. This isn't a matter of not knowing better – she sometimes tells herself what she should do, only to act on her impulses anyway. Or, in other words, she gives herself very good advice, but she very seldom follows it.

*She can be verbally impulsive too: for example, her careless remarks about Dinah catching mice and birds.

*She's prone to daydreaming, as mentioned above.

*She sometimes has trouble controlling her emotions, most memorably when she cries a big pool of tears after growing to the size of a giant. She tells herself she should be ashamed for crying so much, but she can't stop.

*She can be easily distracted, especially by her own imagination, and in the first chapter of Through the Looking-Glass, she flits from subject to subject while talking to her kitten.

*She's easily bored and always in search (literally or figuratively) of some new adventure or amusement. One of the things she most dislikes is "having nothing to do."

#autism headcanon #adhd headcanon #alice #alice's adventures in wonderland #through the looking glass #alice in wonderland #autism #adhd #audhd #neurodiversity #headcanon #fictional characters

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A not-complete list of wonderful changes, translation and localization I noticed when I went to see Book of Mormon in Madrid!

Hey! So I went to see The Book of Mormon last month in Madrid, and since I had watched (bootlegged) and listened to the original production, I was able to enjoy some changes they made so it could be enjoyed by spanish audiences!

First off, I should say that it wasn’t a replica production (and I think I much prefer this one!). The choreography was amazing, and definitely more elaborate than on broadway ! Here, have a look: https://youtu.be/NZ5UxjN2MPs?si=UErYQUODo5Qs-EMC

Some of the first changes I wondered how they were going to make was the opening number: both Hello and Hola have the same syllables but hola cannot be used, since the accent falls on the first syllable in hola and the second in hello….. so spanish mormons just end up saying how are you (¿qué tal?) 😂

Second change comes during the second number, two by two: one of the jokes is weirdly untranslatable, which is the addendum at the end of the phrase “we are the soldiers of the church of jesus christ (of latter day saints)”. Since in spanish “of la-tter day saints” (5 syllables) would be “de los úl-ti-mos dí-as” (7 syllables), they changed it to “yo-soy-mor-món” (i am a mormon) which fits! There is a joke lost, but mormonism isn’t as widespread as it is on the US, so it’s hardly noticeable.

This one is mostly to update the content, but during two by two when the trip to japan gets announced, the mormons are excited about soy sauce and godzilla (instead of mothra)

Next comes a change i also wondered about: how do you make a joke out of Elder Price’s wish to go to Orlando, of all things? In the English version, Elder Price would like to go to orlando because of Sea World, Disney and putt-putt golfing: spaniards have no cultural knowledge of what Orlando is, so the translated line is “Orlando! Disney me espera, soy fan de Frozen” (Orlando! Disney is waiting for me, I’m a Frozen fan) which really drives home the ridiculousness of choosing that place as your mission trip. Also, if you watch the video i linked, the joke is super amplified through choreography, which is part of why i love this production so much.

Hasa diga eebowai gets one change Very right: instead of saying fuck you god, they say “me cago en dios” (i shit on god) which is a very common way of cursing about things in spain: you can shit on the milk (me cago en la leche), on your mother (me cago en tu madre) and indeed, you can shit on god!

One fun localization comes in at the end of All-American prophet, a song that’s basically a sales pitch or infomercial : the fun little gag at the end where Elder Cunningham says “if you order now, we’ll also throw a seat of steak knives” gets changed to “if you order now, we’ll throw in a thermomix for free” For people who don’t know, a thermomix is The Product everyone gets from infomercials/ through independent sellers: it’s a chopper/blender/cooker/scale/kitchen robot, very convenient! My mother has one :) one of the ugandan ladies asks Cunningham about the thermomix inmediatly after finishing the number and he excitedly begins explaining the whole shtick every middle aged spanish lady has heard before, that got a big laugh :)

In the sequence before spooky mormon hell dream, when Elder Price’s so happy that he finally reaches Orlando, he throws in another elsa joke, saying that he’s blonde like her, so thats why she likes her😂

During Spooky mormon hell dream, one change that got Such a big laugh was seeing the four people that are in hell according to Elder Price: Genghis Khan, Hitler, Jeffrey Dahmer and, instead of Jonnie Cochran (idk even who he is) we got Silvio Berlusconi, politician and founder of communications company Mediaset, which runs a thrash tv channel called Telecinco (and that’s what he’s in hell for, according to the song)

The thing elder cunningham always says “tomorrow’s a latter day” gets changed to a saying a lot of catholic old people say, “mañana dios dirá” which both fits in the metric and localizes it, since mormonism isn’t that well known.

And that’s it! It was such a wonderful performance, and a testament to the beauty of translation: even if i know I understand English fairly well, seeing the jokes on my native language made everything 100x times funnier! Strongly recommend!

#the book of mormon #tbom musical #tbom #translating #musicals #musical theatre #musical theater #localization #translation #broadway #spanish #spain #madrid #spanish culture

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underqualified-human · 2 years

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What if self aware yuu comes to the conclusion that Disney movies and fairytales are based in twisted wonderland? Like, the stories from twst world leaks into our own.

Like, yuu knows Alice in Wonderland, a story about a girl who travels to a weird and wonderful fantasy place where nothing makes sense. The Queendom of Roses has a story about a strange girl from another land appearing and disappearing after nearly being beheaded.

The logical conclusion is that they're true stories that have leaked into Earth, and going home must be possible if there's so much knowledge and so many takes leaking from one world to the other.

I don't have anything to really add on to this, but it's still a great thought!

#aries answers #fluffacep #self aware!yuu au #self aware yuu au #disney twisted wonderland #twst #twisted wonderland x reader #twisted wonderland #aries writing #twst au #twst mc #twst yuu #twisted wonderland yuu #twst wonderland #disney twst

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"Multiversal Beats: Hana's Hot Picks for Your Reality-Shifting Odyssey! 💫📱 #ShiftingAppsUnleashed"

April 1st, 2023

•—✧✷ Hey there, fabulous followers and fellow reality shifting beauties! 🌌 It's your girl, Hana, swooping back into your feeds with all the sizzling deets on the art of shifting. My sincerest apologies for the content hiatus, but a girl's gotta take a breather, right? Self-improvement and all that jazz – it's practically a mandatory accessory these days.

But enough about me, luvlies. Let's dive into the rabbit hole of shifting – because who needs this mundane reality anyway? Shifting has become the go-to escape for those of us who can't deal with life's minuscule miseries. And honestly, can you blame us? This world is like a bad Netflix show – you can't stop watching, but you desperately want to.

Now, shifting is no walk in the park, especially if you're a novice entering the scene. Some lucky souls claim it's a breeze, but for the rest of us mere mortals, it's a journey that could rival Frodo's quest. Patience is key, honey, but fear not! We're all in this together, navigating the treacherous currents of alternate realities.

And here's a little secret sauce to spice up your shifting escapades – apps, baby! Who says the journey has to be all doom and gloom? Inject some fun into it with these magical apps that will turn your shifting routine into a virtual carnival. Trust me, your interdimensional soiree is about to get a whole lot groovier. No long-winded intros here – just the sizzling list you've been craving!

✧ Notion(Android & iOS)

Alright, luvlies! Brace yourselves because we're about to spill the tea on the app that's practically the Beyoncé of note-taking—and if you haven't caught wind of it yet, girl, where have you been? 📝💅

Enter the game-changer, the mood-setter, the app that's not just about school notes or organizing your schedule —notion— it's about scripting your interdimensional masterpiece! 🌌 This app is the ultimate multitasker, and we're not just talking about color-coded to-do lists. Get ready to make your shifting script as fabulous as a Met Gala outfit.

Sure, diving into this app might feel like tackling a Rubik's Cube at first, but trust me, once you crack the code, you'll be unstoppable. And oh, did I mention the templates? Sweetheart, we're talking a treasure trove of shifting magic just waiting for you to explore.

Picture this: Aesthetically pleasing templates that make your script look like a Pinterest board curated by the gods themselves. TikTok is practically the portal to these wonders – dive in and discover a realm where organization meets artistry. Your shifting script is about to glow up, and you'll be the envy of every interdimensional influencer out there.

✧ Google Slides(Android & iOS)

Alright, shifters, gather 'round because we're about to drop some knowledge on one of the MVPs of presentation apps – Google Slides! 🌐 Now, I can almost hear some of you saying, "Hana, why on earth is Google Slides on this list?" Well, buckle up, sweetie, because you've been missing out on an interdimensional revolution! 💻✨

Shifters across the universe are flipping slides, not just for work presentations or school projects but for crafting the most jaw-dropping, Netflix-meets-Disney+-inspired shifting scripts! Yes, honey, you heard it right. Google Slides isn't just for boardrooms; it's for board-hopping into alternate realities.

And let me tell you, these shifters deserve a standing ovation. They've turned the mundane into the extraordinary, transforming a simple app into a canvas for their wildest interdimensional dreams. Imagine a script so captivating, it could rival the latest blockbuster. That's the power of Google Slides in the hands of a visionary shifter.

Now, I know you're itching to get in on this action. Lucky for you, the internet is practically bursting with Google Slides script templates – and where's the hottest place to find them? You guessed it, TikTok! 🎉 So, my fellow multiverse creators, head over there, swipe through the slides of inspiration, and let your shifting journey take center stage.

✧ Pinterest(Android & iOS)

Hey trendsetters, if you're not on Pinterest, it's time to reassess your life choices, babe! 💁‍♀️ But, just in case you've been living under a digital rock, let me spill the tea on the ultimate visual treasure trove that is Pinterest. It's not just an app; it's a vibe, a mood board, and a search engine for all things fabulous! 📌✨

Think of Pinterest as your personal Google Image on steroids – a place where images and short videos collide in a symphony of inspiration. Faces for your face claim? Check. Dreamy waiting room vibes? Double-check. A mansion for your house claim? Oh, you betcha!

But wait, there's more! Pinterest isn't just for daydreaming; it's a scripting haven. Need to visualize your DR? Look no further. Pin your ideas, create boards, and let the magic happen. Plus, here's a pro tip for you – once you've pinned your inspo, dive into your pinned post, hit that 'edit' button, and discover the 'note to self' option. It's like a secret doorway to a world of organization.

This app isn't just useful; it's a game-changer, love. It's where scripting meets visual storytelling, where your wildest DR visions come to life. So, if you haven't joined the Pinterest party, what are you waiting for? Your shifting journey deserves the glitz and glam that only Pinterest can provide.

✧ Amino (Android & iOS)

Have you hopped on the Amino bandwagon yet? 🚀 If not, darling, you're missing out on the social scene that's practically the lovechild of Reddit and Tumblr, dedicated to all things shifting! 🌌✨

Amino is your golden ticket to a virtual sanctuary where kindred spirits gather to spill the tea on shifting, discuss the latest happenings in the community, and vibe with fellow shifters who just get it. It's not just an app; it's a hub of collective consciousness for those diving into the realms of manifestation, quantum jumping, and all things spiritually chic.

Need info on shifting techniques or the lowdown on quantum entanglement? Amino's got your back, babe. It's like a cosmic library at your fingertips. But, and here's the caveat, my sweet souls – approach with caution. Not every tidbit is coated in positivity, so be mindful of what you're sipping on in the Amino elixir. Love and light, people! 💖✨

✧ Zillow Real Estate & Rentals (Android & iOS)

Alright, multiversal travellers, hold onto your metaphysical hats because I'm about to drop some real estate wisdom on you! 🏡 Now, I know what you're thinking – "Hana, I'm not here for property hunting or interior design tips." But, babes, hear me out, because this app is a game-changer for your shifting journey.

Introducing the house-hunting haven that's not just for your IRL needs – it's for crafting the perfect house claim in your DR. Yes, luvlies, we're talking about finding that dream residence to elevate your shifting experience to a whole new level. Because who wouldn't want a stunning abode in their DR, right? It's practically a life (or DR) choice!

This app is like my personal monthly indulgence. Why, you ask? Because, sweety, I live for the thrill of changing houses and apartments in my DR – call it "Rich Girl Tingz" if you will. It's a vibe, a lifestyle, and I'm sure my fellow dream architects can relate.

✧ Room Planner - Home Design 3D (Android & iOS)

Spotted: A new app that's got our lone wolves howling with excitement! Move over Sims, there's a new player in town, and it's for those shifters who prefer to dance to the beat of their own design drum.

This app is like the Blair Waldorf of virtual spaces – it gives you the power to build your room from scratch, girls! Walls, furniture, floors – you name it, you can mix, match, and glam it up to create your very own personal sanctuary. It's like DIY for the digital diva.

But beware, Upper East Shifters, this isn't a stroll in Central Park. Building your dream room takes time and patience, much like waiting for the next ShiftTok Drama blast. It's a game-changer, and a game that separates the Serena van der Woodsens from the Little J's.

So, grab your smartphones, because the only thing hotter than a summer in the Hamptons is the buzz around this app. You'll need some serious tech-savvy skills to navigate this virtual wonderland, but trust me, it's worth it.

✧ Musi (iOS)

Word on the virtual streets is that Musi, the music app, is the secret weapon for all you reality-shifters out there. Picture this: a playlist crafted by none other than the maestro of your own desires. You can search for any song or audio, even those trippy shifting subliminals and guided meditations straight from YouTube. No ads, just vibes, honey. And it's all on the house, thanks to the generous gods over at the Apple App Store. Apple stans, rejoice!

But hold onto your diamond-encrusted headbands, Android aficionados, because the party isn't over for you just yet. Hana's got your back, sweethearts. 💔 While Musi may be sipping cocktails with Apple, there's an alternative in town for you Android honeys.

✧ ViMusic (Android)

Android angels, fear not, for Hana's got a remedy for your app envy! 📱✨ Brace yourselves for the Android alternative to Musi that's about to turn your reality-shifting game up to eleven.

Meet the unsung hero: ViMusic, a music player with the power of a rockstar and the finesse of a fashionista, allowing you to play anything from YouTube. I'm talking about your favorite shifting podcasts, subliminals, and even that wizardliz TED talk that's giving me life right now. Can we take a moment to stan wizardliz? Ugh, queen! 👑✨

But wait, there's more. No pesky ads crashing your vibe, and you can flip that screen off without missing a beat. Take notes, YouTube Music! And here's the kicker – the app stores all your audio gems in a secret cache, so you can revisit your vibe-worthy moments offline. All this fabulousness, and guess what? It's free, my beauties, it's absolute-effing-ly free. 🎁

•—✧✷ Signing off, my glamorous globe-trotters and reality-shifting trendsetters! 🌎✨ That's a wrap for today's tea, and I hope this insider scoop sets your shifting journey on fire.

If you're thirsting for more knowledge or just dying to spill the tea, drop those burning questions in the comment section. Your virtual queen is here to serve, granted I have the 411, luvlies.

Sending you all the good vibes and manifestation mojo. Your journey is about to get a serious upgrade, so buckle up, babes! 🚀✌️

A million thanks for gracing this space with your fabulous presence. Until next time, stay fierce, stay fabulous. Buh-bye, luvlies.

Xoxo, Hana. 💋🌙

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Holstein cattle By: Unknown photographer From: Disney’s Wonderful World of Knowledge 1973

#fave #holstein cattle #cattle #bovine #ungulate #mammal #1973 #1970s #Disney’s Wonderful World of Knowledge

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‘Loki’ Co-Star Ke Huy Quan on How ‘The Goonies’ Inspired His Character and Tom Hiddleston’s Acting Advice

SPOILER ALERT: This story includes discussion of major plot developments on “Loki,” which is currently streaming on Disney+.

Roughly 20 minutes after the news broke that the 118-day SAG-AFTRA strike had concluded, the first email I received from an actor’s publicist was for Ke Huy Quan. That’s how enthusiastic the recent Oscar-winning star of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” was to talk about his role on “Loki,” the Marvel Studios series for Disney+ that just wrapped up its second season. When he signs on to our Zoom chat for the interview, his face is beaming.

“I’ve waited a long time to talk about ‘Loki,’” he says. “Like, talking to you right now gives me a lot of joy.”

Quan plays Ouroboros, or “OB,” the head (and seemingly the sole employee) of the Repairs and Advancement Department of the Time Variance Authority — basically, the one person responsible for keeping the TVA’s machinery running. Quan is the most high profile new addition to the cast, which includes Tom Hiddleston in the title role and Owen Wilson as the TVA operative Mobius, and he was anxious at first about joining such a well-regarded show for its second season.

“They already have this camaraderie going on, this beautiful relationship,” he says. “So coming in, I was a bit intimidated. I didn’t know how I would fit in. From the get go, I felt this warmth, this beautiful acceptance with everybody’s wide open arms. They brought me in, and I felt right at home. It was wonderful.”

Quan rarely stops smiling as he talks about how his performances as a child in 1984’s “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and 1985’s “The Goonies” informed his experience making “Loki,” how Marvel Studios’ films took him back into his childhood — and how Hiddleston guided him through mastering O.B.’s dense technical dialogue.

How has it been for you to not be able to talk about this performance?

When I got the role of Ouroboros, we were in London for four months shooting and I couldn’t tell anybody. I couldn’t tell my family. The only people who knew was my wife, my entertainment attorney — which is my “Goonies” brother — and my agents. We had the most amazing time, and I was so proud of it. I would fantasize about being all over the place with Tom and Owen and my “Loki” family to talk about it.

And then all of a sudden, Hollywood shuts down. It reminded me of when I got the movie of a lifetime, “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” I finished that with one day to go, and the entire world shuts down [in the pandemic]. But of course, the strike was very important for our union. I’m very proud of the work that they did. And I’m also super happy now that it’s over and “Loki” gets to have the celebration it deserves.

I want to go way back to “X-Men,” because you worked on the stunt team on that movie after you’d basically stopped acting, and that’s when you first met Kevin Feige.

Ah! He was an associate producer at that time, and I was just an assistant action choreographer. It was right after I graduated from USC Film School. I was really nervous, because I didn’t know if I would have a career behind the camera and I was really grateful when I got the call from Corey Yuen, who was the action director on “X-Men.” When I walked on set, I was just blown away. I met this young man and he had this vast knowledge of this universe, and he was so willing and so passionate to talk to me about it. Because I didn’t know a lot about Marvel. I loved Kevin Feige right away and, of course, many years later, when he became this huge producer at Marvel, I always wanted to work with him, but I didn’t know in what capacity. We would see each other once in a long while. Little did I know that 23 years later, we get to work together. I’m just so thrilled.

Did you develop a better sense of Marvel after you worked on “X-Men”?

Well, I was very focused on being on being the action choreographer. When that movie was over, I went on and did other stuff. It was not until Kevin Feige made the first movie, “Iron Man,” and I went to see it and I was just blown away by how entertaining, how fun, it was. I watched every single [Marvel Studios] movie that came out thereafter and became a huge fan of this universe. I know a little bit about this universe, but I can’t say I’m as knowledgeable as Kevin. But I really enjoy these movies. My family are huge fans.

What made you excited to watch them?

I grew up in an era where you go into movies like “Back to the Future,” “Indiana Jones” — all those fun summer blockbuster movies, those big event movies. Those were my happy memories. Going to watch a Marvel movie reminded me of my childhood. Those movies are meant to be shared with a mass audience, that communal experience in a movie theater with 1,000 people. I just love them.

“Loki” head writer Eric Martin told me that he based Ouroboros on family members of his who were tinkerers. How did you develop a character for yourself? What did you draw off to bring that character to life?

When I first read the script, I instantly fell in love with Ouroboros. You can see who this character is right away — his quirkiness, his humor, his passion for his job jumps right out of the page. In the process of trying to fine tune how I want to play him, something dawned on me. I realized that this character is familiar to me. I think I know who he is. I have to go back 35 years ago, when I play Data on “The Goonies.”

So many fans have come up to me, and the most asked question was, “Will there be a ‘Goonies 2’? And what is Data doing as an adult?” This character of Ouroboros is kind of my answer to that. I view him as a variant of Data. What’s really interesting is, on my first day, I’m in full hair and makeup and costume. I’m walking to the Ouroboros set. They built this amazing set on the second biggest stage at Pinewood Studios. I look up and I see the name of the stage is “Roger Moore.” Now as we all know, Data loves James Bond. The character 007 inspires him tremendously. So I feel like there’s some cosmic connections to this character and Data. Playing him was one of the greatest experiences I’ve had.

OB has a lot of technical dialogue. How did you master that?

It was hard! Adam, I’m telling you, it was not easy! In the beginning, I kept messing up my lines. My character is responsible for a lot of the exposition. So it would just be pages and pages of dialogue. I didn’t understand, what is the “temporal loom”? What is the “throughput multiplier”? I could barely say it in the beginning. I had to ask [executive producer] Kevin Wright: “You have to show me what it is.” I have to visualize it in my head in order for me to say this dialogue. So he showed me visuals. There was a miniature model of the temporal loom.

I even asked Tom Hiddleston. In Episode 6, he was just spitting out that dialogue at 100 miles per hour. I was blown away by his performance. I said, “Tom, how do you do that?” It comes so naturally for him. He talked about his method. He showed me how to do it. And of course, you know, I practiced it, and it worked.

What did he teach you?

Well, I mean, there’s no secret to it. It’s really looking at the dialogue and reading it very, very slowly the first few times, and then as you become more comfortable with it, then you start picking it up. It’s just that repetition, but start very slow. I do the opposite. I jump right in and I’ll practice it as if I will be saying it in camera. But his process is just start very slow and familiarize yourself with every single word. That’s the method that I’ve been using ever since.

After having seen every movie in the MCU, what was the experience of stepping inside one of their projects?

One thing that really surprised me was, when I heard people talk about these movies, they always said, you know, “There’s always a lot of visual effects, a lot of blue screens.” On “Loki,” it was a practical set. Everything was built. The only blue screen that we had was outside the window in the temporal loom chamber. Everything inside was practically built. We could touch it, we could see it, we could step on it. And it was incredible. It also brought me back to the days when we shot “Goonies” and “Indiana Jones.” All those were practical sets as well.

The season ends with Loki becoming the god of stories and in effect sacrificing himself to bring order to the multiverse. What did it feel like to be on the inside of that revelation?

We didn’t get access to Episode 6 until later on. When I read it, I was blown away, because it was not the direction I was expecting. I got so emotional because the character arc of Loki is one of the most beautiful arcs I’ve seen in cinema history. He started 14 years ago as a selfish villain, and to end at the Episode 6 of “Loki” Season 2, how he made this tremendous sacrifice without recognition. Nobody knows he did this, except the team. Nobody on the sacred timeline knows that he’s given up his freedom, he’s given up all these wants and needs, to be on that throne and hold everything together. That is just beautiful. I just love it. I just think it’s so poetic and so beautiful. It’s a perfect ending to a perfect character.

How much of an indication has Marvel given you about OB’s future in the MCU?

I haven’t had any conversations. I love OB. I love playing him. It makes me so happy that the audience is responding to this character. When I first got the call from Kevin Feige and he asked me to come join the MCU family, I asked him, “Is this a one-time thing? Or are we going to be able to see more of him?” Because I loved him on the pages. And he says, “Ke, we always give what the fans want.”

So I hope the fans like OB enough and I want to see him in more MCU movies and television shows. We will find out, but no, I haven’t had any discussions with anybody yet.

#loki #loki series #loki season 2 #Ke Huy Quan #interview #article #Variety

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Catch me writing winnix because a denizen of Gremlin Town hit the quarter century today! Happy birthday, pal. Thanks for being in my fandom circle.

@pretty-fly-for-a-sky-guy

Dick always knows when it’s three o’clock.

He’s been working at the souvenir shop in the airport for almost as long as Lew has been dropping by at the end of his security shift. It often coincides with a lull in customer traffic, business travelers tending to fly domestic most often, and usually in the morning. Lew has worked 7-to-3s since the end of his first month here, a shift schedule he had once casually mentioned to have bartered from one of his coworkers, despite the fact that Dick happens to know he hates mornings.

“Couldn’t they put you on 11-to-7s?” he asks at one point, when he’s stocking the travel pillow rack and Lew is lounging against the counter next to the postcards, waxing on about the late one he’d had.

Lew’s hesitation is only a fraction of a second. “What, and miss all this?” He waves a lazy hand. “I’ve just gotten the morning crowd figured out. What if someone stole a neck pillow at night? That’s not the kind of person I want to be dealing with.”

“I’m sure the night crowd isn’t so bad,” Dick says, though he can’t say for sure. The kid works the night shift, Joe - rough around the edges but trustworthy with the store keys. He never seems to have any issues, but they do only speak in passing, at shift change. “Fewer families of six heading to Disney World with every single kid screaming, I bet.”

“I’m just not sure it’s worth the risk,” Lew replies, in a tone that makes Dick smile without meaning to.

Often as not, Lew comes bearing snacks. Dick never expressly tells him what he likes best, but Lew somehow narrows it down anyway, and over time the snack is almost always a cheese and onion scone from the bakery four stores down.

On the third Wednesday in October, the scone is still piping hot, blotting the wax paper. Dick neatly extracts it, breaking off a piece and offering it to him. “How did you figure out that this one is my favourite?”

Lew accepts the offering, pressing his lips together thoughtfully. “I don’t think it’s your favourite,” he says. “I think ice cream is your favourite, but they don’t sell any in this terminal and it would melt by the time I got all the way here from the Dairy Queen by international departures.”

“I think they closed that Dairy Queen,” Dick says. He doesn’t think; he knows. He has accumulated more ice cream related knowledge than most people expect of him.

It doesn’t appear to be a surprise to Lew, who shakes his head with that deadpan graveness he has such a knack for. “It’s a sign,” he says. “Time to get out of here.”

“There’s a four o’clock flight to Chicago,” Dick suggests.

Lew tsks. “Oh, but then who would keep people from stealing the neck pillows?”

“You know, I was worried about that, but I didn’t want to say it.” Dick’s mouth quirks in amusement. “Next time.”

“We’ll go to Chicago,” Lew decides, leaning back easily, his elbows resting on the counter, for all the world as if he’s just watching the world go by until his gaze flickers toward Dick. There’s something oddly and unexpectedly sincere in it. “I’ll take you there.”

“I’ve never had deep dish,” Dick says thoughtfully.

It’s Lew’s turn to look amused. If there is something very faintly relieved in it, as if he had not been sure how his sincerity would be taken, neither of them remark on it. “I’m going to blow your mind when I tell you about rainbow cones."

On Thursday, Dick comes out of the back after a long and involved discussion with the delivery guy about the latest order – he’s not getting paid like a manager, but the funny thing about these types of jobs is that he always finds himself taking on the role anyway – and finds a cup of coffee and a scone on the counter. He wonders abruptly at the noticeable flash of disappointment that there’s no one around.

“Your guy left that for you,” Sheila calls, from the magazine stand across the way. They watch each other’s counters whenever something pressing comes up; she is maybe fifty, amiable, and Dick knows about as much about her as anyone knows about a friendly work acquaintance whose last name they’ve never learned.

My guy, thinks Dick. Huh. “Thanks,” he says.

“He looked nice today,” Sheila adds. “Did something different with his hair? And he was wearing a real shirt.”

Dick has no idea what that’s about – he’s never seen Lew in anything aside from his work uniform – but he nods his thanks and pops open the lid on the coffee, letting that life-saving scent waft up toward him.

Dick mentions it in passing, after Lew doesn’t say anything about it for three consecutive days. They talk every day, after all; Dick is pretty sure he would've heard about a job interview or a family dinner.

Or a date.

“Well,” Lew says, after perhaps half a second during which he looks like a deer in the headlights, though it passes so quickly that Dick wonders if he imagined it. “I just thought that you shouldn’t ask a guy out in a shirt that has your name embroidered on it." He never outwardly lacks self-assurance for long; the wry wit is back almost at once. "Call me a die-hard romantic if you want; I can take it.”

Dick’s mouth curves up one side. Oh. Not a date, then. Or not yet. “Not Chicago, I’m assuming.”

That’s not a no, and something in Lew relaxes minutely. “Tell you what,” he says. “I know an ice cream place that has forty-seven flavours. Let’s start there and see how it goes.”

“Forty-seven, huh,” Dick says.

“We might have to go more than once,” Lew tells him. “Just to give them all a fair try.”

Dick has an urge that feels unlike him - to reach out, maybe, even though there are people around. He doesn't, but he must give himself away somehow, because Lew comes over very fond even before Dick says, “Let me check my calendar.”

Lew raps two knuckles gently against the counter. “Check your calendar," he says. “I know where to find you."

Dick is not a person who smiles helplessly, generally. It doesn't feel like giving something up, though, when it makes Lew smile back at him like that. "Same time tomorrow, then."

Lew nods, an endearing tip of his head, like it was a date that needed setting. "Same time tomorrow."

#band of brothers #winnix #fanfiction #roaroftheninth

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friendlysalamander · 1 year

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I'm kind of fascinated by solar punk these past few days.

Solar punk as a genre is a quite young, I think most people became aware of it with that yoghurt comercial.

There have been a few pieces of media after that in the solarpunk genre, Disney's Strange World Terra Nil. These projects probably took years and probably weren't made to be pieces of solarpunk media.

I was wondering what other pieces of media current or old could be solarpunk.

What's solarpunk, Pop Culture Detective has a pretty good explanation in his video on Strange World at 1:40.

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There is Star Trek and Wall-e on top of my mind, but I can't think of anything else currently.

From my country there are a couple children's books Vlak u snijegu, Družba Pere kvržice(Train in the snow, Pero bumps friends(my best attempt at a translation)), from my knowledge they have been translated in to Slovenian, Macedonian, Hungarian and Polish maybe some others, so if you live in those places go read them.

Both books are about children working together to overcome something. Vlak u snijegu is about children from the village going on a school trip and on their way back home their train gets stuck in snow. Before their trip the whole class are friends then their is a falling out just before and during the trip. The feud reaches its extreme until all children decide to work together to help the train get unstuck so they can get home. Družba Pere kvržice is about group of friends deciding to rebuild a water mill that the village abandoned. These boys later they are joined by some girls would spend their free time clearing some overgrown brush, dusting, rebuilding and hanging out. Some trouble starts to brew between some children but with a help of a trusted teacher they are able sort things out and then they rush to fix the mill before the start of summer. With school over they show the village their work and an impromptu party starts with all the adults fascinated by what the children were able to do. The book end with Pero and some of his friends looking over the mill and party and Pero thinking what more they can do.

#solarpunk #Strange world #media #books #literatura #Youtube

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enchanted became my favorite film a few years ago and i couldn’t shut up about it. recently, a friend of mine criticized it for having the “born sexy yesterday” trope. i don’t believe this to be true but i was wondering how you would dissuade this?

I think, like many Disney takes, it's a very bad reading of Enchanted.

Now, I'll start by saying that, had this movie been picked up by a different studio, and given to a different director, it may have fallen victim to this trope. But luckily Kevin Lima, the director of all time, got his hands on it, and made the movie even better than the original script.

Nothing about the Born Sexy Yesterday trope fits Robert and Giselle's dynamic in my honest opinion.

"The man is unsatisfied with the women on earth; he disregards his equals in terms of love and relationships and quite literally reaches for the stars and plucks a mythical/sci-fi heroine for himself. He molds her into what he wants as she is a blank canvas, then wows her with his (minimal) knowledge on the world."

None of this even remotely sounds like Robert's character (and to imply Giselle's a blank slate is crazy). He was married in the past (and she left him, something he seemingly didn't want), and is with Nancy when we meet him, and wants to marry her. Clearly the man is interested in the women around him. Furthermore, he never once tries to mold Giselle into what he wants. Does he share his perspective, sure, but he isn't trying to change her, and even if he wanted to (he doesn't) Giselle refuses to do so. She starts and ends the film firm in her beliefs that true love, and fairytale endings do exist, and that dreams can come true.

"This character is ultimately a child trapped in a woman’s body."

I could complain for days about how untrue this statement is for Giselle, and how irritated I get when people claim she's childlike/has the mind of a child. Giselle acts the way any grown adult from Andalasia acts. Edward and Nathaniel act the exact same way she does, yet no one calls them childish. Idk maybe I'm in the minority here but I've never found Giselle's personality childlike, and feel like, more often than not, viewers infantilize her far more than they claim the movie does. (this is especially common in fanfiction, which is something else I can rant about for days, but I'll save that for later.)

^ This always goes hand in hand with people claiming Robert's a predator, which couldn't be further from the truth, and I get very frustrated with that argument as well. He's a grown man who fell in love with a grown woman, he is not a predator.

(as a random side note that is not specifically part of the argument, I personally read Giselle as autistic, and while she and I aren't exactly the same, I do see myself in her quite a bit, so when people call her a child, or say she has the mind of a child... yeah I kinda wanna fight. ANYWAY.)

I think it's also important to note, with Robert and Giselle, they are treated like equals the entire film. Robert never sees her as lesser, nor does he treat her as anything other than an equal. He never looks down on her, acts like she's an idiot, and he certainly never takes advantage of her. A common part of this trope is the male lead taking advantage of the "clueless" woman and tricking her for his own sexual gratification. Robert never does any of that. There's never any single moment in the film where Robert uses her naivete to get anything, and certainly not anything sexual. And yeah, you can argue it's because it's a children's movie, but even without sexual content, he never tricks/lies to her about anything??

I feel like people also wrongly assume that Robert falls for Giselle because she's naïve and that's ..? He doesn't even start liking her as a friend until roughly around 40 minutes into the movie, and up to that point, he desperately wanted to get away from her. Patrick Dempsey himself said that Robert doesn't start to really fall for her until the moment she gets angry with him. That's when things shift. And I may be misremembering, but I believe Kevin Lima said that as well. Giselle had gone through a lot of character development by this point, so I'd say claiming Robert just likes her because she was "naïve" is wrong. Yes, their love story progresses very fast, but he's still grown to know her as a person. (they're basically speed running friends to lovers)

The only part of this trope that I would say does apply to Enchanted is the bathroom scene, as that is a moment where she's very briefly sexualized. I can't really defend that, and I won't, but I will say it's certainly far more tame than any other movies that fit this trope, that's for sure.

idk I think if you haven't watched Enchanted since 2007, or are relying on buzzfeed and tiktok comments about the film, then sure, one might say it's the Born Sexy Yesterday trope. But I personally don't agree. Brushing it off as nothing but that ignores all of both Giselle and Robert's character development, and the growth of their relationship, and mutual love and respect they have for one another. And that, to me, is sad because watching them go from strangers to friends to lovers is one of my favorite things ever.

So, anyway, yeah, much like "Ariel gave up everything for a man!", "Cinderella just waited around to be saved", and "Belle has stockholm syndrome", this take suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks, and I think people should pay more attention to what they watch :] (not a dig at your friend btw, I just mean people in general)

#I hope this all made sense. I saw this ask while at work and tried my best to gather my thoughts in a coherent way #anonymous #ask #certified enchanted moment™️

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