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jq37 · 4 months

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Please let us know if you solve this mystery!

OK! It’s the end of the year so let me compile everything I was able to come up with (with the help of everyone I dragged into this–you know who you are and thank you and I’m sorry).

To anyone who’s just seeing this and doesn’t have context, in November, right before the movie Wish came out, I made a longish post questioning who Allison Moore was (which, incidentally, is the first post that comes up when you Google “Allison Moore Disney”).

The reason I was curious about who this random writer is is because she’s credited as one of the co-writers of Wish, Disney’s 100th Anniversary Feature Film BUT she has no obvious experience writing for animation, children, or fantasy when everyone else on the main team has credits on stuff like Frozen and Encanto. I thought it was bizarre that there would be someone so green on a project so big so I went digging.

Here’s what I learned:

(1) Moore wasn’t originally announced as being attached to the project. Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, and Fawn Veersunthorn were all mentioned when the project was officially announced in Sept 2022 (for example). Moore was not. And you’d think they’d mention the *co-writer*, right? You don’t start to see her name until a year later in Sept 2023 when the trailer dropped (for example). So it seems like she was brought onto the project later. Of course, this could just be a normal quirk of the industry or something I’m misinterpreting, but I think it’s worth mentioning.

(2) Moore seems to have a lot more credits in stage writing than she does in screenwriting. I wasn’t able to 100% confirm it until recently (I’ll get to that in a second) but she’s written a bunch of plays and it seems like this is where she has most of her bona fides.

“Allison is the recipient of two Jerome Fellowships, two McKnight Advancement Grants and the Bush Artist Fellowship.”

That sounds fancy. But it still doesn’t say “Top Choice for Disney Anniversary Movie” to me. That’s not a statement on writing quality. I haven’t read/seen any of her plays. It’s about the subject matter. Look at some of these synopses:

None of that really screams Disney. Which isn’t to say people can’t have range. George Miller wrote all the Mad Maxes but also Babe and both Happy Feet. But if I was hiring someone for a really big project, I wouldn’t want that project to be their first attempt at expanding into that genre.

(3) This isn’t actually inherently important but she was on an episode of Nailed it. That’s where this picture comes from:

She won the first round and the game ended in a three way tie for the first time in the show’s history.

The only reason this is noteworthy in the larger scale of things is that, until very recently, this was one of only two places online you could see Allison Moore talking. The other is this very short interview on the red carpet during the premiere.

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There’s nothing in that interview that explains anything. It’s mainly her talking about how it was fun working on the movie and how good the movie is.

Honestly, good for her for not being Extremely Online, but it really felt like I could get a bit of a handle on everyone else who’d worked on this project in a high profile way but not her. Which is part of why I started down this rabbit hole to begin with. There was nothing to show where she might have had a connection or an interest or anything that would connect the dots.

For reference, Fawn (who was one of the Directors and story writers) has the kind of resume that I was expecting Moore to have when I initially Googled her:

Smaller jobs on other kids/animated movies (Hop, The Lorax, Despicable Me 2), some storyboard or art work on other Disney stuff (Frozen, Moana, Zootopia, Ralph), and then a big break (Raya and Wish). Based on my understanding of the industry (and I know a fair bit because it’s one I’m interested in professionally) that’s a very typical track to get to the writing side of animation.

A couple of people speculated that Moore got onto the project in a mentorship capacity. Now, I’m a Black woman who writes fiction professionally when I’m not on this hellsite (affectionate) with the rest of y’all. That means I have firsthand experience with what mentorship looks like in writing–both official Diversity and Inclusion type mentorship and more organic “Let me take you under my wing” type mentorship. I have *never* seen anyone get a job this high profile at the jump just due to mentorship alone. Going from zero to Disney’s 100th anniversary is kinda insane. This wasn’t some B project or something. It was a Big Deal Project. And this is Disney so they could have hired basically anyone they wanted. So you have to assume this was an active decision someone made and not just a thing that happened for lack of options. But in all my searching, Moore wasn’t mentioned except to just say she wrote the screenplay with Jennifer Lee. It was just the baking show and the Youtube clip.

Until today.

(4) I’m going to preface this by saying this doesn’t actually answer the question in a big AHA! way, but it is the only interview I’ve seen about Wish from Moore besides the red carpet clip.

On December 15th, Moore gave this interview with the San Antonio Current.

I stumbled across it while searching for a different piece of information and eagerly clicked to see what she had to say after three weeks of silence after the movie dropped on November 22.

Here are some highlights:

-In high school she was a theater kid and thought she wanted to pursue acting.

-I college she did playwriting and eventually she got her MFA from Iowa (which has a weirdly great MFA program btw, and also, this interview is how I confirmed she was the playwright Allison).

-When she started on the theater track at her college, she told them she was a playwright so she could study that too even though she’d never written a play before. So it sounds like Wish isn’t the first time she’s just jumped into a new thing without experience. You have to respect the hustle.

But this is the most important line in the interview because it’s like, an answer and a non-answer all in one. She’s asked, “How did you go from writing plays to writing for TV and film?”

And her answer is, “I had a whole career writing for theater, and then when my son was born, I realized I needed to make more money, so I started pitching for TV. I worked in television for about a decade. In the midst of working in TV, I continued playwriting. That's how I got on the radar at Disney.”

Which kind of sidesteps the most intriguing part of the question? Like, first of all, it’s not 100% clear if she means her playwriting or her TV writing caught Disney’s attention. I’m guessing playwriting, but I could be wrong. Secondly, who is “Disney” in this situation? A Disney recruiter? A Disney director? Did Jennifer Lee see a production of Slasher: A Horrifying comedy while passing through Texas and think, “Her. I want her to be my co-writer on this children’s film.” And what did she do to impress them so much that they right away put her on the the *Anniversary Project*? Like, I know I keep harping on this but I can’t stress enough how big of a deal this is. It’s hard enough to write for just your average sitcom or little movie. To just jump on something this big is baffling. I obviously don’t expect Disney to be justifying their every hiring decision publicly but, usually, when someone is doing something like this, it’s very obvious why they were chosen and, even with this sliver of explanation, it’s still frustratingly opaque. And with the strange post hoc timing of the interview (seriously, doesn’t promotion usually happen PRE movie release?) It almost reads like an interview that exists because someone realized the lack of any online presence was weird.

(5) When she was a kid, Allison Moore had a crush on Fox Robin Hood. That’s not at all important to the mystery, that’s just information she volunteered during the interview and that I’m now sharing with you. So when you search her name now, the top results are me wondering who she is, her IMDB, and her talking about how she liked Fox Robin Hood's little hat. Which isn't a LOT of information, but it’s more than we had before and that’s something.

#Wish #disney’s wish #wish 2023 #disney wish #I cannot stress enough that I don’t have anything against moore as a person #(if anything I'm impressed by how she managed to pull off what feels to me like a magic trick)#I just can’t resist a mystery #and as a writer this is a big one #i’ve had this in my inbox for a bit #but I was hoping new info would drop that I could include #and the interview did it #also just as a side note #speaking of mentorship #if they were going to bring a co-writer onto this project it might have been nice for them to pick someone with more cultural connection #you know to their Moorish lead from their Iberian setting #this movie is so culturally bland #and someone who could actually speak to the culture might have helped a lot!#like I know pete docter got a Black writer in on Soul part way through #and he talked about getting the barbershop scene just right #there was no moment like that in this movie #asks

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incompleteninny · 1 year

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The sixty-third free, unedited chapter of my upcoming book, “The Heist at Cordia Aquarium” is now available on its website (or click here to read from the beginning).

Ivan's voice crackles through the phone's speaker. "She's at the bottom of the tank: phased through the water, maybe. Whatever she did, she can still breath down there."

Thea wrings her hands around her cane. Thank goodness she's safe, but...

Waylon paces. His heels stamp down on a frosted-over floor. The sound travels past the threshold, down the maze of crisscrossing corridors, and it echoes back. Eels slither in Thea's gut. Within the space, tightened wires sing with tension, spurred on by fear and anticipation. Then he snaps. "Why are you just standing there? Do something! Jump in after her — teleport!"

"Nope. Can't. Salt dissolves in water, professor shitbird." Ivan says. "And she's already on the phone anyway: probably the police."

Thea's lungs seize; tears bubble and distort her vision. It wasn't suppose to be like this. Why did I have to come?

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#our house is full to the brim with rabbits now #my partner rescued an absolutely massive gentleman #I am grateful for her kind soul and her unerring talent to bring home the crustiest of rabbits #book tags too #queer author #queer lit #anxiety-filled protagonist #tw panic attack #inordinate amount of references to the live-action The Cat in the Hat movie

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mstrchu · 2 years

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big big shoes to fill

#nezha reborn #new gods: nezha reborn #ao bing #art tag #this movie is about... identity...!#ok i know there's some uncertainty surrounding like the actual nature of ao bing's reincarnation #but i personally like to think it was like he was reborn as just a kid and had to grow up again #because i think it creates this seriously fucked up situation where he has his yuan shen his whole life #and obviously he doesn't have the same like. cognitive dissonance issues that li yunxiang has where lyx just talks to his nezha yuan shen #as like a separate entity/person entirely when it's like that is literally just you my guy #(and part of that is probably because for him it's like well I'm a grown man and this soul projection is a Child)#BUT ANYWAY THIS POST ISN'T SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT LI YUNXIANG SORRY AS I WAS SAYING #i cant imagine how fucked it would be to grow up with this visible #palpable projection of your adult self that you're supposed to grow up to be because it's who you were in the past #this ideal You that you can see #that simultaneously Is you and is something else entirely #literally always trying to fill your own shoes and to recreate this You #not to mention never being sure if your father loves You and put in all this effort to bring You back #or if he loves and wants back this version of you that existed 3000 years ago #shit's crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#ive been stewing on this for a minute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#the past 2 weeks have been cray zee but i really wanted to make this..#also excuse to draw baby ao bing.#gonna queue this for tomoz i think

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mayaishiipeters · 4 months

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thinking about these scenes from mary and max when mary finally opts to get her birthmark removed, only to realize nothing in her life changes. it wasn't the magic cure she thought it'd be and now she's out a ton of money that could have been spent on something she'd enjoy, something that would have brought her actual happiness

#so i have these 2 prominent red dots on my forehead. broken capillaries i've had since childhood #earlier this year i tried getting them removed (didn't work) and often i'm still tempted to try again someday #but then i think of this movie and im like. that;s a lot of money for something that will not bring joy to my soul. pass #thought bubble #mary and max

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aqqleshiqqing-archive · 1 year

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tomjesse and tartaladon says happy halloween everyone!!

they're ready to go serve some candies to happy and excited kids!

a little ramble about their costumes down below <333 you don't have to read it I just need to let my brain out on this one

tartaladon is dressed up as soul and ma.ka from sou.l eater!

aha you've been subjected to my annoying rambles I love u

anyways

maka and s.oul are a really good duo in fighting, they trust each other and know each other's limits, but when they're not fighting, they're always bickering like an old married couple and I find it so silly. soul (ch.ilde) is usually the one to provoke maka (celadon) and she gets violent FPFKTKOFKTF

in the story, soul acts as this designated weapon (the scythe) for maka and I think it'd be perfect how celadon wields chi.lde and he's constantly annoying her like "oouuh you're so strong omg my herooooo" and she's like "shut the HELL up. why are we partners." LMAOAIDJSJJDJS

also celadon looking fine. come on she looks so badass 🥺🥺🥺

tomjesse is lup.in iii and clar.isse from lup.in iii: castle of cag.liostro! (I HIGHLY RECOMMEND WATCHING THIS PLEASE U DONT HAVE TO BE A FAN OF L.UPIN III TO WATCH IT AARAARAADA)

DO YOU LIKE STU.DIO GHIBLI. WELL FUN FACT HAYA.O MIY.AZAKI DIRECTED THIS BEFORE GH.IBLI WAS EVEN BORN!! so if you enjoy his works then I ABSOLUTELY reccomend giving this one a watch, this is a comfort movie of mine and I adore it so much 😭

okok but unlike soul and m.aka, I was more concerned about their roles in the movie, lup.in iii (tom) is a gentleman thief and he's here to rescue clarisse (jesse), a runaway bride 🙈🙈🙈🙈 i also have the mighty urge to point out how THEYRE GREEN AND BLUE CODED ASKSKSKSKDJSJDJJS DIES BYE im totally not thinking of aus no I'm not no I'm not n

#i was actually gonna bring herolexa here but i got tired. they were gonna be dipper and mabel 😭😭😭 or wirt and greg RAAAAGGHG 😭#YEAHHH HAPPY SPOOKY MONTH GUYSSSSSS #i shouldn't make an au NO PLEASE I ALREADY MADE ONE BEFORE WITH MY OLD OC X CANON SHIP 😭😭 im pretty sure i mentioned this movie like twic #twice* in this blog now #lupin iii (franchise) has a special place in my heart. I used to be a lupin iii fanartist here on tumblr before i ran the selfshipping blog #also its perfect BECAUSE LUPIN HAS 3 OTHER CRACKHEAD FRIENDS AND IM LIKE EDD AND CO??????? EDD AND CO. SHFBSBBSBSBSN #i am so powerful i can EXTEND THIS LITTLE IDEA AHAHSHDBSHSS #anyways i loveee childes hair here omg i wanna SCRITCH SCRATCH also tom's hair it got messy with the bandages its SO CUTE #dayum tom stealing a soon to be wife huhhh 🙈 HSBDHDHDBSBDHSHS #~ art #♥️ tartaladon #♥️ tomjesse #i am actually not done with soul eater theres too many epiosdes.#also me: watches like 4 tv show seasons and 6+ movies of lupin iii #im telling you i had a major lupin phase LAMDKDJJSHDJSJDJSS

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aricastmblr · 8 months

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Bring The Soul: The Movie Netflix

Jimin y Jungkook fotos corte vídeo

#jikook #kookmin #jimin #jungkook #jiminshiii #galletita #park jimin #jeon jungkook #amor a mis chicos jmjk #Bring The Soul: The Movie Netflix #jmjk corte foto video #jmjk juntos

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cometrose · 2 months

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i love star wars but i actually hate it like i just rewatched episode I and II and now im thinking about the sequels and just fuming like now im mad i hate it here i hate you

#star wars #me but star wars brings me some joy #but so much anger #what do you mean star wars had 9 movies it had 7 #the main series only had 7 TRUST ME BELIEVE ME #i think about finn and my soul bursts into flames #disney i will crush you YOULL PAY FOR THIS #the prequels are not perfect but mama thinks phantom menace is overhated #shit cgi and very very questionable acting #but least that had a story to tell #the sequels…no if i speak i won’t feel peace for at least 3 hours

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caitsyoi · 2 months

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So I checked out this sci-fi movie that I saw recommended, and holy fucking shit was it depressing. It was really, really good, but also one of the most depressing movies I've ever seen. I probably should have googled it before watching. Just...Holy fuck. Spoilers below the cut because I don't want to inflict this on anyone else without warning. I just need to vent this out.

Seriously, this movie is incredibly depressing. Massive spoilers below.

The movie is called Aniara. It has really cool cover art, pretty trippy tbh. That is the happiest thing about this movie.

It's about a future where the Earth is mostly uninhabitable, and anyone with money takes a ship to Mars. Mars isn't much better, but at least you can live there. Our main character works on the ship. Specifically, she is in charge of this AI that harnesses people's memories so that they can check out from reality and into Earth as it used to be. It's kind of like soma for people in this universe, although it is just one of many things to entertain them.

The trip should take 3 weeks, but an accident causes it to veer off course, and effectively, they lose all ability to steer the ship. This causes them to be sent off into space with no immediate hope of getting back to Earth or go to Mars.

This movie does a perfect job of giving you hope and then crushing it to dust. First, there is hope that they will pass a planet that can turn them around, then there is hope that they can salvage fuel from a rocket they cross paths with, and finally, worst of all, there is hope that they will at least have each other. Absolutely none of these things work out, and each time, it's in the most devastating way.

The first thing to go wrong is that the AI people increasingly use to take a break from reality, finally breaks. It doesn't just break, the AI learns and spends so much time in the minds of these depressed people (depressed about the dying earth even before they were depressed about their situation), that it commits suicide. It starts writing depressing poetry and then dies because people refuse to leave it alone. And this is just the beginning, y'all.

There is some hope, our main character loves a pilot (wlw romance but...just wait), and they finally get together. It is one of the few moments of happiness because they are happy together (as happy as one can be), and the way they get together is kinda sweet (for this movie). They have super sweet shower sex and my God, I just wanted things to be OK for them.

This story is told in time jumps: the 1st day, 3 weeks later, 3 years later, 5 years later, 10 years later, 24 years later, and finally 5,000 years later. At 3 weeks, our main character learns that there is no planet they can use to turn around, and as far as anyone knows, they will travel along in this ship until everyone is dead. At 3 years, the AI dies, and she is tossed in ship jail because she is blamed for it. Pilot lady comes to her defense, and they get together while in jail. Another year goes by and they are released because so many people have killed themselves and they need workers. Pilot lady goes back to the control deck, main character is assigned to teach the brightest children how to operate the ship. The two get to live together in a nice cabin, and things are sorta happy for a minute.

Oh yeah, they don't run out of air or oxygen because they have a bunch of algae they use to make both. It's unpleasant on the food side, but they can live with it.

Cults start to form amongst the survivors, one of which is dedicated to the AI. Main character and pilot lady join a service where there is an orgy and pilot lady gets pregnant. Pilot lady is understandably depressed because the baby is gonna be born into this dying ship going nowhere. However, jump to 5 years and they are raising a baby, and there is some hope again! They find a rocket thing and there is hope they can get fuel from it!

...but of course, it doesn't work out. Content warning content warning content warning for suicide. Don't read anymore if you don't want to read about this.

So main character devotes her energy to sorta recreating the AI, or at least part of it. She makes it so pretty images from earth can be projected outside their windows. She did this because she wanted to cheer up her pilot lady wife and give a little sunlight to the kid. Just as she finishes it, she finds out that her wife has killed herself and her baby. I knew it was hopeless, but this still stung like a mofo.

Cut to 10 years later, and the remaining survivors gather together for an award ceremony. Everyone looks depressed as fuck. Main character is given an award for the pretty images and everyone looks dead inside. Main character goes back to her now empty depression cabin and goes to sleep. Oh yeah, the algae is also contaminated.

Cut to 24 years later, the last remaining survivors (maybe 10 or so people including main character lady) are gathered together in the dead AI room, and they are praying to the sun while in the darkness of this dying ship.

Cut to 5,000 years later, and they are all dust on a dead ship, a sarcophagus. The dead ship FINALLY passes by a planet that looks as lovely as Earth used to be. The end.

The hopelessness of their journey is so depressing. The realization that we had such a good thing going on earth and we ruined it is depressing. What was the point of going to Mars even? They would just spend their lives consuming to bury the pain of their reality. Mars is cold and barely can grow anything anyway. We had one shot with the Earth, one beautiful place to live in, and we destroyed it. What is the good of space travel if we can't go to another planet like Earth? How pointless it is that a ship actually makes it to another habitable planet, but there is no one to live on it? Love can't fix this reality. Nothing can at this point. The inhabitants of the ship are just waiting to die in their own tomb.

Holy shit did this depress the hell out of me. I think the movie is very well made but it has depressed me so bad that I can't sleep. At least venting this out was some relief. If you are still reading this, then I am sorry I inflicted this on you.

#i think this might be the most depressing sci-fi movie or story Ive ever seen or read #Aniara is the movie if you are curious and dont wanna read all that #i really just needed to vent because this movie made me so very sad #like an existential kind of sadness #im never getting on a spaceship if the earth dies im just going with it #this is like the opposite of one of my fave pieces of media: Avenue 5 #Avenue 5 is about a ship stuck in space but it brings me great joy #this movie just crushes my soul

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