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d34d-r0s3 · 2 years

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In the spirit of Halloween, it's favorite horror/spooky/Halloween special movie headcanons for the MadCom + Mandela funkers (Including some OCs because I feel the need to)

Starting with MadCom:

2BDamned/Doc !!

I feel like his favorite movie would be something like Frankenweenie or TNBC, his favorite characters being Victor and Finklestein of course. Silly Frankenstein makers y'know.

Hank J. Wimbleton !!

Probably a slasher film like Friday the 13th, he'd root for the villains though, obviously. They wouldn't even flinch at any of the jump scares, it'd just be a happy lil' film for them. But don't let that fool you, he would definitely snuggle up close to Doc on the couch with a nice blanket n' get comfy.

Deimos !! + Tricky (?)

I'm going to be blunt here. The SpongeBob SquarePants Halloween specials. They would fucking love those. I'd like to think it's one of the one things they'd get along with. They'd sit down on Doc's carpet shoveling candy in their mouths with Sanford, watching the screen quite intently. Tricky would probably lay on its stomach on the carpet and kick his feet like a child, but everyone would be happy watching that silly little cartoon together. Even if it was a bit boring for everyone but Dei n' Trickster.

Sanford (mentioning Deimos again for this one)

I think Sanford would enjoy subtle horror much more. So, he and Deimos would stay up after everyone goes to sleep, quietly looking through obscure horror videos on YouTube on the couch with a bowl of popcorn and a few sodas, mostly Dr. Peppers and cherry colas. Just enjoying their quiet time together, cuddling in the dim living room, (a probably stolen) dimmed tablet being some of the only light keeping them awake. I don't think Dei would handle jump scares very well, so he'd end up snuggling up close to Sanford and falling asleep not too much later.

Sheriff

No. Horror is a big, fat "No" from him.

Stygian, Conductor, Deliberator, and the Auditor.

They all love watching low budget horror films and laughing at the cheap scares the creators tried to pull. All in all, there's not much that'll scare them in those, but they still have fun watching them anyways, especially since it serves as a nice break for all of them.

Church + Jorge

They don't quite *understand* horror media. In fact, it's like showing The Conjuring to a toddler. They'd be paranoid for a while, which is quite hilarious for G0L3Ms like them.

Burger Gil + Dr. Skinner

They watched Night of the Living Dead on a small projector in the break room on Gil's break probably, so now it's a comfort movie for both of them, now that Nevada is practically its own form of hell. They probably crack jokes at the fact that they're both "the living dead" in their own right, along with most of Nevada's population.

Phobos + Dr. C. (for reference, his name is Corvis in my AU !! c: )

Phobos was never quite a fan of horror, actually he found it boring and cheesy. But the director never really was a fan of much o' anything in reality, he was too interested in achieving his godhood or whatever his twisted mind was set on with Project Nexus at his disposal. But when Corvis showed him some of chirp's favorite movies, he couldn't help but adore them. The simplicity that seemed to make his little love bird so happy. Something that ViVi was so infatuated with that it was almost as high on feather's list of things he held dear as the director himself was, that his room was full of movie posters and memorabilia. It was such an insignificant thing in Nevada's vast ruins and dusty plains, but it made Cor' happy. So, it made that demented man just a bit happier himself.

Jebus/Jebediah

He loves all of the classics, honestly. (Because he's old.) They make him feel more comforted and nostalgic, which puts him in a nicer mood when he needs a pick-me-up.

R0S3W00D

They fucking love Halloween specials and horror of any kind. They probably watched a lot of low budget movies with the Auditor, trying to stay on his good side after many misdemeanors against its agency. But they definitely have more fond memories of watching movies with their work partner.

PROJECT: H0_N3Y_C0_MB/H0N3Y

They barely remember their real name. However, they have faint memories of Dr. Skinner and their main caretaker at the asylum showing them different movies. Of course, they barely registered those, so it'd be a lost cause for them to try and pick a favorite unfortunately.

Jester

Anything with clowns in it, so IT is a no-brainer.

Gooey Hank

Surprisingly not much of a horror fan, but he's starting to give horror a try :]

Webcore Hank

All the movies he tries to watch are too corrupted for glitch to enjoy, unfortunately.

Desperador/Bandit !

He's not a horror fan, he much prefers thing that lean into romance.

Mandela Catalogue !!!

Cesar Torres + his alt - for some reason ??

I feel like Cesar would've been a fan of The Nightmare Before Christmas or Corpse Bride if he'd lived to see them. Out of actual horror movies, I could see him being a big fan of Pet Cemetary. Alternate Cesar however, Honestly, I doubt it has many opinions on horror movies. They just think it's pathetic that humans are scared by those things and their cheap scare tactics.

Mark Heathcliff

Horror movies...yeesh...he doesn't handle those well. Even if they aren't made that well, they tend to make his paranoia run wild so he'd rather avoid them. Cesar definitely tried to stay up to watch horror movies with him at a sleepover when they were kids, only for him to hide under his blankets and, honestly - probably cry about it. He is, in fact, not a horror fan.

The Intruder

Horror movies? HA! He IS the horror movie. I'm serious.

Gabriel + Toonbriel !

"N0W WH4T !N H3LL'S N4M3 !S 4 H0RR0R M0V!3??" Toonbriel does not enjoy horror movies, but rather that one really odd movie about the squareass pumpkin. You know the one.

Cat alt ... It's a cat.

Adam Murray + Jonah Marshall

I bet Adam would like A Nightmare on Elm Street. No reasoning for why, he just seems like he would. So, he and Jonah would've watched it together in the van, which would turn into them going down a classic horror movie rabbit hole that ends with them falling asleep halfway through one and someone waking up in the middle of one'a the loudest scenes possible like "WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING-"

Jack O. Spice

He was literally born for Halloween - or well, on Halloween. Show him any horror media, he's bound to enjoy it. In the real world he was quite the horror enthusiast.

Tarrant Thistle

Silver Bullet. That's his favorite, because the priest just happened to be the villain. He found it quite amusing.

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themountainsays · 3 years

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(CRUELLA SPOILERS AHEAD)

Ok ok i'm not done. There's this one criticism of the Cruella movie that I find increasingly frustrating and it comes down to a disdain for the very existance of such a film.

"Why do all villains need to have a tragic backstory or a complicated motivation? Why can't they just be evil for the sake of being evil?"

You know. As if people didn't have a problem with villains being one-dimensional pieces of cardboard before. As if character development wasn't celebrated by everyone and their mom. As if nobody protested one-dimensional characters and demanded depth. Now that Disney listened and said "Got it!" and took note for their following movies, everyone is complaining their characters have too much personality now. God forbid not everyone who's happy and healthy in real life was born as unhinged as to skin puppies on a whim. God forbid writers aim for realism when developing their characters. God forbid Disney wants it's live action adaptation to be less cartoony.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with villains having any semblance of an explanation for their cruelty! It's clear you guys like it when the villain in question is Zuko or Catra or Azula or even Maleficent, who as far as I remember was better received. And i understand Zuko's character could put all Disney movies to shame, that's not what i'm talking about. Ya'll had no idea how Disney was gonna handle Cruella's batshittery in the film just from watching a trailer. It's not about the quality of the villain themselves. It's that suddenly, for some reason, people became averse to villains with a backstory (as if characters in general having a backstory wasn't the norm) and demand to go back to their cartoon carboard villains.

And look, I understand some villains don't need a personality. Ozai from AtLA wasn't a particularly deep person, but Ozai was more of a symbol of colonialism than his own character. Colonialism isn't evil because it's dad was mean to it. It's just something evil you need to get rid of. I could list a thousand examples like this one.

But these kinds of villains have their time and place and when your story is about a character's descent into evil, then they HAVE to have a certain level of development. There's no fun in watching a character become evil if they already eat puppies for breakfast and always have simply because they're °○☆~evil~°○☆. And if THAT is what bothers you, the fact that the writers even dared to tell a story about Disney's most batshit villain, then you're not addressing the quality of the writing! You're just mad the story isn't what you would have written yourself! That's not serious critique! If it makes you so mad don't watch it!

There are problems with the writing in Cruella, yes. I think her descent into madness and evil could have been better handled. But jesus i'm not mad at the writers for daring to try! We should analyze the message they intended to send, where they succeded and where they failed at that instead of complaining there's a movie about Cruella de Vil at all.

Plus?? I think people are approaching the text in bad faith. Okay. Okay, this is another criticism that bothers me:

"Cruella wants to skin dalmatian puppies because her mom was killed by dalmatians (and this is bad)".

This. This is the most cartoonish interpretation of the text you could come up with. Its a Dr. Doofenshmirtz backstory. And while I think there's more to it than that, if this is what you take away from the film, then why are you complaining? Cruella hates dalmatians because dalmatians killed her mom. Here is your one dimensional cartoo villain backstory! Do you want your cartoon one dimensional villains or not? Because no one complains when cartoon villains have backstories with the depth of a puddle.

And i don't even think this is what the writers were going for! Cruella watched dalmatians kill her mom. Dalmatians were the weapon the Baroness used to commit the crime. Girl has a trauma with dalmatians. It's not a simple dalmatians killed mom -> I want to kill dalmatians. It's less rational. More unhinged. Cruella is a bit mad in case you haven't noticed. I think the place dalmatians have in the narrative makes sense, actually. Through the story, Dalmatians haunt her and she tries in more than one ocassion to have control over them, and this thematically mirrors her gaining the upper hand over the Baroness. By the end of the film, she's able to control the very same dogs that killed her mother. She's in power. She's no longer scared of dalmatians. And we know she's later going to go and skin dalmatian puppies! It's the culmination of her character arc as a villain. It makes perfect sense to me. Its use of dalmatians one of the film's strenghts. The fact ya'll treat it as a meme strikes me as jumping onto the Cruella Hate bandwagon because your mutual laughed at this, so it must be funny. But personally? The silliness is flying over my head. It doesn't seem strange to me at all.

Plus, she clearly had a cruel side as a child, with no explanation or justification. She was just a mean kid. There you have your cartoon villain with no backstory.

And one more thing, and this one really makes me scream into the pillow:

"Disney wants to make the puppy skinner more human and sympathetic."

Holy shit what kind of Twilight-induced satanic panic room did these girls who aren't like other girls came from? Movies aren't trying to teach you morality. Cruella doesn't want you to sympathize with a puppy killer because puppy skinning is good actually. They just want to give you screentime of an evil lady being evil. And when it does make you sympathize with her, it's on perfectly acceptable matters. Like the Baroness insulting Cruella's mother, killing her etc. Cruella wants revenge. And even if you're sick of Cruella, you want revenge too. You want to see the Baroness suffer. Sooo you kinda do root for Cruella on this one. Cruella and the viewer share a common interest. Because God forbid we write villains with sympathetic motivations among their more unjustifiable ones.

No dude Disney doesn't want you to think skinning puppies is good. Is this what paranoid twilight parents did to society? Do we assume films are trying to teach us how to live our lives now?

And Cruella's story is clearly not about girlbossifying her. During the very beginning you see her mother begging her to keep her cruel side (nicknamed "cruella") inside as to not hurt others. She wants her to be Stella, her more loveable side. This isn't like, a Frozen case in which parents repress the child's true self or whatever. Lots of kids are little shits and are told not to take their anger out on others. Repressing "Cruella" is presented as a good thing.

Then Cruella talks about honoring and avenging her mother, being someone she'd be proud of etc etc. She may have mentioned at some point being unable to do so and openly embracing her "evil side", but if she did i can't remember. Ignore this point if that's the case. But as she pursues her goals, she takes on Cruella's persona more and more, eventually killing Stella and becoming Cruella full time. And she seems happy but the viewer who remembers what her mother said and is aware Cruella insists she's doing this for her mother's sake, will realize her happiness and fulfillment are misguided. Cruella becoming Cruella isn't portrayes as a good thing. And the movie ends with her feeling satisfied even though she spent the whole movie going against her mother's wishes and insisting she was making her happy. She doesn't even realize. It's a tragedy IT'S LITERALLY HER VILLAIN ORIGIN STORY

I'm getting distracted. I wanted to wrap up sharing why I think people hate the fact a Cruella movie as much as exists. It's because nothing is ever good enough for people! Because hating Disney is cool and trendy! Everyone hop onto the Disney Hate train! Nothing Disney does could possibly not suck. It sucks by virtue of being a Disney Live Action adaptation. Even though, by telling it's own original story, i'd compare Cruella more to Maleficent than to any other recent Disney live action film. But, you know. No one wants to be convinced skinning puppies is good actually.

Or to watch the movie before shitting on it at the very least

#cruella #ya'll skip the 'watching' part of hate-watchint #please at least watch it before blindly whining please 😭#cruella spoilers

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musicemo · 6 years

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@lily-kitties I can’t reply to you directly, I’m sorry, but holy fuck I have said on SO MANY occasions now I’m talking about THE Rose Quartz. The Rose Quartz, not A Rose Quartz. Seriously, I have so many clarifications on this on my blog and you STILL choose to ignore it, Why? Because you hate the happiness of fat people? Because, literally, I’m still getting messages and bullshit about this, and all I can boil it down to is the fact you people hate fat people being happy and having representation that makes us feel good in our bodies. You can argue as much as you like, but there will NEVER be a good argument against asking people why, or being frustrated by, people purposefully drawing a fat character skinner, just because they like the character “better that way”.

Especially now that it’s come to light THE Rose Quartz CHOSE to be fat. Spoiler alert because I’m not a dick, but Rose is Pink Diamond, who was originally very skinny. She CHOSE to make herself fat, because she saw beauty in that. She changed her body type, because it made her more happy to be curvy, and fat, even as the eras changed. She was still fat when Greg met her, even though he would have been living in a time that the body type would be greatly frowned upon (80′s to 90′s).

End of Spoiler alert. That is inspiring af, and asshats like you literally want to make any excuse possible to make it so our frustrations look silly, or that our use of canon to justify our frustrations is somehow less than because there are loopholes that don’t even apply to this situation. This isn’t Cursed Child, Rose’s body type isn’t some poorly written garbage that the fandom as a whole has voted to throw out. It’s a canon people like and apparently, people like you can’t stand people like me to be happy, or frustrated, or angry. or any other emotion other than silent. (I know that’s not an emotion, so sue me).

And before you say bull shit about “OMH so mean!”, “wow, it aint that deep, lol”, “holy fuck”, “asdfghjkl lol”, “Tl;DR lmao” etc, you seriously pissed me the fuck off, so I’ll write an entire fucking essay if I damn well fucking please, because you and everyone like you have SERIOUSLY struck a chord with me. I’m STILL getting messages by fuckfaces like you tell me, somewhat who today alone had 20+ people sneer at me for showing 1-inch of belly skin, that “well, they technically COULD be skinny if they wanted to be” and it’s getting old. Real old. So kindly fuck off.

In the Sincerest regards,

One pissed off fat bitch.

#Kira ranting #Ben don't look #I don't want to tag this SU #because it has nothing #or little to nothing #to actually do with the show #and I don't wanna clog up the tag #because assholes like to send me shit and push my buttons

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britesparc · 5 years

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Weekend Top Ten #392

Top Ten Teachers

It’s back-to-school time! Yay! This last week has seen the kids slap on their Monday best and head off to the Big House for a good day’s edumacation. And by kids I mean kids, plural, for this week – as it happens – has seen Daughter #2’s first day at school. Like, ever. A momentous occasion, indeed. She’s having a good time, she’s utterly knackered, she’s excited, she’s crabby… it’s pretty much like what happened when Daughter #1 started school three years ago.

(I think I’ll take this moment to clarify, should Daughters #1 and #2 choose to read this at some point in the distant future – assuming that the lights are still on, the internet is still working, we’re not all bathed in a radioactive glow, and we’re not ten feet underwater – that “#1” and “#2” is purely a consecutive ranking, referring only to my children in literal order of chronological sequencing; Daughter #1 came first, Daughter #2 followed a couple of years after. It should not be used to connote any kind of preferential status within my offspring. Which daughter I like the most obviously changes regularly and is based on which one is least annoying at any given point in time.)

Anyway, school! School means teachers, and so here’s a list of my favourite teachers. For the sake of, well, rules, I’ve specifically picked characters (for, obviously, they’re fictional teachers) who teach within some kind of organisational framework. They don’t have to reside within a school building, but they’re clearly tutoring someone with the specific intent of imparting wisdom. As such, teachers like Alfred Pennyworth – who taught Bruce Wayne acting and medicine, at the very least – have been discounted, as those lessons formed part of a more general instructive parenting. Unless there’s some kind of setting, code, or informal curriculum, the lines between “teacher” and “substitute parent” can get kind of blurred.

Anyway; to class!

Dr. Henry Jones, Jr (Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981): smart, attentive, popular with the class, ridiculously good-looking, and – oh yeah – finds treasure, saves children, and punches Nazis. What’s not to love? Also wears the heck out of a fedora.

Principal Seymour Skinner (The Simpsons, from 1989): I didn’t say they had to be good teachers; Skinner is a fusspot made up of terrifying neuroses, but he’s hilarious, and the inventor steamed hams.

Yoda (The Empire Strikes Back, 1980): a 900-year-old muppet who’s spent centuries introducing generations of Jedi Younglings to the ways of the Force, he’s shown to be strict but kind, helpful but grumpy, with a naughty sense of humour. Pity about the whole “fall of the Jedi” thing.

Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, J.K. Rowling, 1997): a serenely wise but secretly silly headmaster who, despite being one of the most powerful wizards in the world, uses his skills to educate the next generation. Also, in his spare time, a brilliant, cunning, and often ruthless military leader.

Jennifer Honey (Matilda, Roald Dhal, 1988): sometimes you just want a teacher who’s nice, and Miss Honey is the nicest teacher in the world (sorry, Horrid Henry’s Miss Lovely). Supremely kind with all the time in the world, she stands in contrast to the villainous and mean Miss Trunchbull.

Fiona Felicity Frizzle (The Magic School Bus Rides Again, 2017): she gets the nod over her older sister simply because I never saw the original Magic School Bus. An engaging, adventurous, mischievous presence who always presses her kids forward. It helps that she sounds just like Kate McKinnon.

Nariyoshi Miyagi (The Karate Kid, 1984): almost Yoda-like in his sageness, he’s the perfect embodiment of a teacher who tells you what you need and not what you want. He brings out the greatness in his students almost despite themselves, always believing in them. Wax off, indeed.

Dewey Finn (School of Rock, 2003): does it count if a teacher isn’t a real teacher? I say yes, because “Mr. Schneebly’s” rejection of conformity is what brings his kids out of themselves. Sarky, slobby, but with a heart of gold, he rocks our world (sorry), and risks it all for his class.

Prof. Charles Xavier (X-Men comics, from 1963): wise, resourceful, and capable of inspiring great confidence and loyalty, he is not only a teacher but a figurehead, a guide through troubled mutant adolescence. A dark past and uncertain times may lead him to make questionable decisions, but he’d die for his students. And has, in fact. More than once.

Princess Twilight Sparkle (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, from 2010): from student to teacher, we follow Twilight’s path as she becomes the embodiment of both friendship and magic, guiding the reformation of former villains before opening up her own school. The journey of a legendary teacher, and one which – sniff! – soon comes to an end.

So there we are. I’m kinda bummed out that I never got round to re-watching Dead Poets Society (which I’m sure I saw when I was a kid), as Robin Williams always feels like he’s a loveable teacher even when he’s not playing a teacher (he excelled at warm-hearted authority figures with a troubled past). I also ummed and ahed over Master Splinter/Hamato Yoshi, as he does literally teach the Turtles ninjitsu, but he’s also kinda their dad, so in the end I discounted him with the “Alfred Pennyworth Rule”.

So there we are! Ten top teachers! And I showed my working!

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