My boss called me into work spontaneously… so that’s fun. 🫠 anyway, Owl Song still on track to be posted today. I’ll be damned if I don’t. But, yeah. Later.
I made more art today!! Can you believe it? Two posts in one day from me of all people!?!?!?
@lizaisdrawing’s (whose username I only just figured out ISN’T itzadrawing. Boy have I been reading it wrong) AU. He’s such a charming gentleman. Maybe ignore poorly drawn Wally looking up at him, I drew him just for the sillies
and you think it’s just a semi-weird but cult-classic 80s sci-fi movie, and you don’t revisit it, if you ever saw it at all.
But let me help you with that.
That movie is so good.
It’s about a little boy named Elliott who is immature, and one of the worst parts of his particular immaturity is that he only cares about how he feels. At the beginning of the movie he tries to tell his family about the creature he saw in the backyard, but when they don’t react the way he wants them to, he throws uncomfortable facts about his absent father in his mom’s face. She gets upset, and Elliott’s big brother says,
And what does the backyard creature turn out to be?
An ALIEN. A word which means both “visitor from another planet” and “completely foreign, outside of your own experience.”
they literally name him “the EXTRA-Terrestrial.” Because that’s what he teaches the little boy—how to feel what other people feel, outside of himself. Instead of just focusing on his own little world and how he feels.
The alien literally has a heart that you can see from the outside of his body.
The alien literally has empathy powers. He makes Elliott feel exactly what he’s feeling—or vice-versa. When he sees a hurt, the alien immediately tries to heal it. When he starts dying, so does Elliott.
The little boy has to learn to communicate, to care about what someone else cares about, and to let go of someone even though it hurts because it’s what’s best for them.
The E in E.T. stands for empathy, go back and WATCH IT.
the movie is shot mostly from a short perspective, so the audience can feel what the kid characters are feeling, just like the kid characters are learning to feel what their loved ones might feel.
E.T.‘s character design is all big eyes and glowing heart—what else would personify “observe other people and feel for them?”—while the bad guys in the movie, the government, come in dressed as astronauts—and you cannot see their faces. You can’t connect with them.
The leader of the government is only shown from the hip down, accompanied by the sounds of jingling keys, until he talks to Elliott about why he wants to study E.T.—then suddenly, because he’s getting down on Elliott’s level and explaining how he feels, he’s the only one who’s face you can actually see, and you realize that the keys were symbolizing how much he wanted to unlock the secrets of the universe all along. But you don’t get to know that until Elliott connects with this character, who is explaining how he feels.
It is set on Halloween. (When everyone wears masks.)
If you haven’t seen this movie in a long time, or ever, and you think it’s just the weird Spielberg Alien Movie, go and watch it. That’s how you make a movie, people
I was thinking this for a while. Midoriya learned that Tenko was originally Quirkless, already being five, so there was no way for him to have the Decay Quirk; All For One gave it to him
Isn't it awfully convenient that right as Midoriya wonders "Who is this guy?", that All For One showed up?
All For One knew Tenko was a blank slate without a Quirk (yet, or at all).
Going back to ch. 235, we see that after Tenko was playing heroes with other kids, he got walked home by a man in a suit
Suit, shadowed face, hat, tall, and Tenko still has black hair? This matches this memory, and we can see there's a lot of shading in the palms
All For One walked home Tenko. He could've given him a Quirk during that time. Right after he brought him home, Kotaro got mad that Tenko was playing and talking about heroes. Already, while Kotaro is upset at him, we see Tenko scratching. According to Nao, his allergies got worse, and if he was just given a Quirk, his allergies could've been fueled by the new Quirk as his body adjusts
Even if it's just a mutation, we do know that his itchiness was related to Decay, since the itching went away after he destroyed what he didn't like (his Quirk revolves around de-constructing and destroying, so natural leanings toward those urges, etc)
Yes, Tenko's Decay may very well just be a mutation like Eri, but I just want to bring one more thing to attention about the theory (All For One gave Decay when walking Tenko home):
When Tomura used Decay and was fighting Re-Destro, back when he only had Decay, Machia was in shock, because it reminds him of All For One long ago. Not only his figure as a ruler that Machia remembers, but All For One could've done the same thing as Tomura (Decay), long ago
There have been so awfully few ginodi-moments this season bc the cameras always want to focus on such unimportant things like the race (🙄) but today was a good day.
Does Juno's story have an overall message or theme? Other than the romance plot?
Yes, though I admit I was unsure how to answer this for a while, especially without waxing poetic. Unfortunately, there will be wax.
Her story, as is currently planned out and in parts written, is about death and other kinds of loss. It's about learning to grieve in a healthy way. Juno experiences loss multiple times, from the start of the apocalypse all the way up to the early chapters of DS1.
She lost her family, most of all her cousin, who she was very close with.
She lost the Crowfather (albeit sort of temporarily) when he dies in the prologue of DS2.
She finds her uncle actually survived the apocalypse, but has gone utterly mad and has no idea who she is, so she essentially loses him a second time.
She loses Death at the climax of DS2. The Crowfather also largely disappears after this point, meaning she is often without his counsel or support.
She loses her uncle a final time when he's killed by angels.
She makes some friends and allies she during her quest, post-DS2~early DS1. She loses some, though not all, and not all of them to dying. In some cases it's betrayal, and in others, it's due to her own actions.
It's intended to go into themes of survivor's guilt, unhealthy grieving habits, and ultimately how to handle and accept grief, to keep moving forward in spite of it.
Noooooo I forgot to bring tc out with me to catch up on the re-read ohnooo spose i have to buy a new copy oh noooo now I’ll have no choice but to annotate the old one with ‘gay <3’ and ‘bitch omg’ in the margins :((((