#i have never seen such a list

[fanstuffrantings]

The comedy of Trolls getting its flowers finally and being recognized as a fun series after the most recent movie when the first one has had me in a chokehold for years. When I used to have Netflix I would just watch that whenever I wanted to have fun.

Sometimes adulthood is looking at a jukebox musical based on a kids toy, and just deciding "yeah actually this is a good movie."

#every time a trailer drops for a new movie in the trolls franchise i go “this looks stupid” and im always wrong #yes i have seen trolls band together #and im going again #the only thing stopping me from making fanart of trolls is my rwby obsession #trolls #molten rambles #trolls/porco rosso/king arthur legend of the sword/httyd trilogy/kfp trilogy/lord of the rings trilogy #movie list i love bug never talk about #rip to everyone who finds poppy annoying because i think shes delightful

[lorephobic]

literally nobody asked for it, but here's my list of saltburn essays that i've slowly been drafting over the course of the last week which WILL be required reading for anybody trying to engage with me about this movie. my very personal saltburn 101 syllabus just dropped

A Wolf in Deer's Clothing: Saltburn's Attempt at Innocence

an examination of party costumes and our character's last attempts to masquerade as something they're not: felix—an angel, all-forgiving and all-knowing, something to be worshiped; and oliver—a prey animal, prey to class-divide, prey to saltburn, prey to felix.

thoughts about oliver specifically are loosely organized in my #bambi tag

A Midsummer Night's Mare: Farleigh Start as the Ultimate Victim of Saltburn

a farleigh character study, about the ways he was mistreated and manipulated at saltburn, about fighting to stay alive and the scars left behind by knowing when to give in

alternatively titled "QuickStart", may be adapted into a conclusive essay specifically focusing on oliver and farleigh's relationship

The Eye of the Beholder: On Saltburn's Voyeurism & Violence [working title]

how wealth and class pushes the catton's toward the volatile reality of being able to look, but not touch. on desire and the lack thereof, and portraying yourself as an object to be desired

may end up as two separate essays on wealth and aestheticism but i'm pushing toward a conclusive essay about the intersection of the two, which i feel is at the heart of saltburn

alternatively titled "Poor Man's Pudding: A Melvillian Approach to Saltburn's Class", again, may be adapted into it's own essay

Gender-Fluid: A Study in Sexuality and Saltburn's Desire to be Dry

a deep dive into the bodily fluids of saltburn and how oliver upsets the standard of men who are just so lovely and dry. on the creative choice to lean into the messy wetness of sex and desire and the audience's instinct toward repulsion

a celebration of the grotesque and an examination of why we would label it as such

least developed of the four, heavily inspired by @charnelpit's lovely post about the fluids in saltburn

if anybody is actually interested in any of these, i can work toward something closer to a finished piece instead of just bullet points and quotes in a google doc, but mostly this is so i can share my very brief takes on a multitude of themes in saltburn that have been haunting me

edit for people seeing this in the future: all posts about my essays are being organized into my #saltburn 101 tag if you’re interested in following these through to development!

#saltburn #saltburn posting #really desperately need someone to pay me to write saltburn essays all day #or else these will never be more than a smattering of bullet points #and these are only the most developed of the millions of the thoughts that i've had rolling around in my brain this last week #idk if lengthy meta-essays are interesting to literally anyone other than me #but if any of these speak to u and u have thoughts abt them #of course u are welcome to send them my way #i think all of these were born out of either seeing bad fandom takes (ie. everything ive seen about farleigh and oliver) #or rly good fandom takes that haven't been talked about enough like the fluids thing #anyway #oh also if u want any interview clips that back up any of these ideas i have a list thats like a million miles long #and would be happy to dig for any specific things im talking about here #bambi #also also im sorry i kno the colon in academic essay titles is so overused i just love a subtitle sm #i love love love a clever little essay title. titling my essays was literally my favorite part of the essay process in college #saltburn 101

[svtskneecaps]

dude how the fuck is it that everyone on this server has insane chemistry with each other. my brain just fuckin bounces between dynamics like wow foolish and bad, wow baghera and forever, wow baghera and bagi, wow philza and etoiles, wow fit and pac, wow pac e mike, wow favela five AND six (bagi screeching "DON'T MESS WITH FAVELA" paraphrased had my mental hamster wheel hitting unprecedented rpms), wow the french and the french + bebou, wow antoine and mouse, wow bagi and tina, wow tina and forever, wow morning crew, wow slime and mariana WHO I'VE SEEN INTERACT LIVE O N E TIME, wow rivers and roier wow, wow rivers + the vaca crew, wow girl town, wow jaiden and roier, wow baghera bad and forever, wow forever and cellbit, wow cellbit and tazercraft, wow cellbit and roier, wow quackity and etoiles, wow phil and forever, wow bad and etoiles, wow tina and etoiles (fucking love them), wow aypierre and maximus (what the fuck, love it), wow foolish and jaiden (and also bad), wow missa and phil, holy shit jaiden and cellbit, jesus christ antoine and maximus and SEE

I AM MISSING A MILLION INTERACTIONS THAT I HAVE ABSOLUTELY GONE INTO MY SIBLING'S TEXTS TO SAY "GOD I LOVE THEM" AND I GUARANTEE I WILL ADD TO AND UPDATE THIS LIST WITH MORE (bc wit of the staircase) there is so much enrichment in my enclosure my brain literally doesn't know what to do with it. i've stalled out. i'm so happy. how the fuck did they do this.

additionally, bc i KNEW i'd forget something: foolish and vegetta (HOW), cellbit and baghera, baghera and fit, mouse and cellbit

#qsmp #shut up vic #block game brainrot #i'm literally so excited for whenever german and lenay find time to play #esp bc i haven't seen german since his first day and i'm excited to get to know him #im really glad lenay was able to be there for the timer event that was really cool to see her there #honestly that goes for all the members i haven't been able to see on much #like niki and luzu and mariana and the like #genuinely i'm just so happy watching these people bounce off each other #their energy is incredible and it's so fun to watch #this is not an exhaustive list and i think that's really telling that i can name so many fucking dynamics and still not have named them all #i'm extremely happy. this is very cool what they've managed to do. holy fuck man. i'm never gonna be able to express it fully.

[genericpuff]

Hey so I have a question-

Is Rachel even contributing to LO's art anymore? Like, at all?

CAUTION: MILD FASTPASS SPOILERS AHEAD !!!

I've talked at length about the 'tells' of each assistant and artist, and while it doesn't guarantee that I can tell exactly who drew each panel, there's one thing there's been a lot less of in the most recent episodes that have caught my attention - things that I know Rachel would typically contribute.

And most of it comes down to her lineart.

The shading was always her, no doubt about that, you could tell with how consistently awful it is, how she would take actual decent flats from her assistants and proceed to butcher them with muddied shading.

AmyKim89's flats vs. after Rachel's gotten her hands on them:

(seriously Rachel why tf did you darken Persephone's legs here, it looked so much better before ??)

But there was also her lineart which, at first, I didn't realize who was drawing it. It didn't show up super often in LO but it was always very noticeable when it did so I knew it had to be someone on the team doing it:

The thickness of the lines and the extra little strokes added in along the knuckles and bends, that wasn't something that was really common in LO at this point... at least it hasn't been since S1:

And when comparing it to the lineart she used to do in The Doctor Pepper/Foxglove Show:

(look at the mouth in The Doctor Foxglove Show vs. Hera in the pilot version of LO, they're literally the same)

So yeah, it was certainly the revelation to discover that that one instance of "weirdly detailed lineart" wasn't one of her assistants having a little extra fun, it was Rachel herself. It was already so uncommon for her to contribute all the way back in S2 that her contributions seemed to be more of the exception rather than the norm.

And since seeing the art that's been in the newest FP episodes following the return of the series... is Rachel even drawing at all anymore? Because lately the lineart has felt very thin, in a way that I can't tell if it's her assistants just doing all the lineart now or if she's trying to emulate S1 LO more by using less lineart. But S1 didn't have thin lineart, it had very thick lineart, BUT only being used where necessary to emphasis shadows and depth.

Now the lineart feels very... dinky? Especially when you look at the eyelashes.

That said, there are moments from S1 that had similarly 'dinky' lineart, so take this with grains of salt. It still didn't feel as dinky though as it does today where the lines are practically non-existent in how thin they are.

There are also times when you can tell they're really trying to emulate that S1 look, the pieces are there but they aren't being put together very well:

So yeah at this point I wouldn't even be shocked if all Rachel's doing at this point is scripting and roughs. And considering there are definitely times where she'll just draw without knowing what to write, the 'scripting' is also practically non-existent. It's just her leaving her roughs off to the last second for her assistants to whip out with very little time to pay attention to what's being submitted.

Once again it's Rachel fundamentally missing the point of the criticism that's being made of her work. She's trying to forcefully emulate something that she didn't even have a process behind. I can attest as someone who's been trying to do studies of her past work to recreate it as faithfully as possible through Rekindled, it's very difficult to achieve the 'old LO' look because 'old LO' was literally just Rachel slapping down brush strokes until they looked good, there was no specific process or guidelines that she followed, she just made things look textured and colorful. Everything else was basically up to her figuring out what actually looked good, with panels often having their own vibes separate from others in isolation of one another.

Now she's trying to replicate that look while missing the point entirely that it's not something she can really replicate anymore. Though we do get the odd panel that's way closer to the point, those panels have one thing that she's clearly not putting into the comic as a whole anymore - love and effort.

(fr this panel is so gorgeous but I feel like at this point it was more sheer luck because of how rare it is to see panels like these nowadays, this feels like an accident LOL)

Case in point, this honorable mention towards Persephone's outfit which is literally just a color-swapped version of the sketch that Rachel posted to Blue Sky that got meme'd to death in the ULO sub:

Did you catch that though? The weird dark patch over her boob and the gap in the lineart of her cleavage?

That's because they copy pasted the first panel and then erased out the hands, but missed the part of the hand shading that was overlapping the breast and the gap in the lineart.

I shit you not, Rachel coming up with memes on Blue Sky that she's scraped out of shows she watched 20 years ago is basically the full extent of her writing at this point.

Haha take a thing and make it bigger! So funnyyyy!

(seriously Rachel's 'humor' feels like it's stuck in 2010)

Yep, you're really earning that #1 NYT Bestseller label that you haven't even gotten since Volume 3, Rachel. Put your hand down, there are no high fives for you here.

#anyways this is all speculation ofc #so take it with mountains of salt #obviously we don't have an actual official list of who drew what panels #but it's clear from the flats we've seen on her assistants' web pages and their personal flairs that they're carrying the bulk of the work #i literally have no clue why they put up with this shit but i guess we'll never know lmao #maybe they really do just love LO that much #no hate if they do #but damn #are they really happy with the work that's being put out ?? #at least the work they're showing off is before rachel's gotten her hands on it i suppose LOL #rachel's literally forgotten how to draw #lore olympus critical #lo critical #anti lore olympus

[rom-hack]

Apologies for rarepair posting but them. God they're silly I could write an essay on them

Trophy x Mic!!!! Haven't seen anyone post about them but me and @dovewiiing call em golden notes :) unironically one of my favourite ships these days, once I learn how to draw soap it's OVER for everyone

#BTW I HEADCANON TROPHY AS TRANSFEM #It probably isn't thaaat important but if you see me calling her a girl. Yeah #Also I'm low-key scared to post this because like I have never seen this anywhere except some guys dni list for some reason????? #Whatever whatever golden notes posting is real #Golden notes ii #ii golden notes #Trophmic #Trophmic ii #ii trophmic #<- that's what I'll be tagging it with BTW so if you decide you hate this ship you can block it I know it won't be everyone's thing #inanimate insanity #inanimate insanity fanart #Trophy ii #ii Trophy #Mic ii #ii Mic #I love drawing my Trophy design actually it's fun to see how much she's slowly changed in my style

[marvelousartcatastrophe]

Hitting you with my new design for Qi Rong. Here's the design things and changes I made:

I loved how stupidly the colors clashed on his Donghua fit but I wanted it to look a little different.

I also always pictured him with shorter scrappy hair but I really liked the braid in the Donghua so now he has both. I mean look how terrible his bangs are. He is the embodiment of perfection.

I gave him a bunch of skulls and bone themes stuff because it's cool and fits his vibe. I have no idea what the skull around his neck came from though. I'm gonna say it's the skull of an infant.

His teeth are really effed up too. I want him to just look really gross and disturbing and the teeth just gave that image to me. The toothgap is so fat you could fit a pencil, maybe even two pencils in it. And when his mouth is closed his bottom flat teeth are so short that in addition to the tooth gap, theres just this gaping hole which he probably sticks his tongue out of to be a chaotic little shit.

The scar on his neck was something I came up with based on my own headcannons. We don't really know for sure how he died as a mortal, just that it was probably in a massacre of the Xianle royalty. So if he was executed, I'd like to imagine he was beheaded as thats typically how exucutions would go. I also wanted the scar to mirror Xie Lian's cursed shackle because these two parralel to each other so hard it's not even funny.

The thumbless glove stayed because thats funny as shit. My boy really is just telling everyone to fuck off.

I kind of liked doing this and so I might go after Hua Cheng or He Xuan next.... it depends on how people react to feral goblin Qi Rong and his fucked up teeth.

#im fixating on him so agressively rn you dont even wanna know #my friends have to suffer just listing to my ramblings about him #i was literally spamming them while watching this weeks episode #WHY DID THEY MAKE HIM SO PRETTY IN THE DONGHUA #like ive pictured him as this greasy scumbag idiot that would probably run at you on all fours when you're least expecting it #I was pleasantly surprised by that gorgeous feminine man like who gave him the right #also in all versions and fanart iv seen of him hes never had brown hair and i was actually shocked #but in a good way #it really rubs in the fact that he and Xie Lian are cousins #they both got that Xienle beauty #so ofc I had to ruin that but oh well #art catastrophe #art #tgcf #tgif fanart #qi rong #quzi #heaven officials blessing #heavens official blessing #heaven's official blessing #heaven official's blessing #tgcf season 2 #mxtx tgcf #qi rong fanart #mxtx #tian guan ci fu

[creativepromptsforwriting]

hot chocolate

Hot chocolate

Sometimes the only thing that can save a day is a cup of hot chocolate.

"I brought you some hot chocolate. With the little marshmallows you like."

"Hot chocolate bombs are so fun to look at." "Hopefully they also taste good."

"We need some blankets. And hot chocolate. And a really cheesy movie."

"Have you tried spiked hot chocolate? Life changing."

"Put some more marshmallows on there. And cream. A lot of cream. We need calories."

One Word Prompt Lists

#i have never seen marshmallows in hot chocolate outside of american movies #that's too much sweetness #hot chocolate prompts #one word prompt list #one word prompts #anon #prompt list #writing prompts

[haletostilinski]

I define a Sterek episode as one with a lot of scenes between them or a significant moment(s)/scene(s) between them.

#Sterek #Eternalsterek #hts.polls #I saw you guys in the tags/replies saying that some of you have never seen the show so I put that as an option #also if you think i missed a Sterek episode and think one i didn't list counts as one #please say which and why in the tags :D

[kazieka]

getting REAL sick of seeing that shitty cartoon everywhere. the one where everyone is rail skinny & has big teeth. like can you guys at least tag it

#lindsey shut up #filtering only works if there’s something to filter #now I have to add the stupid hotel show to my list of every single gemstone bc it’s Stephen unyverse all over again #ive never seen it and don’t care to but im developing a pavlovian rage response to seeing it like shut up shut up shut the fuck uuuuup

[front-facing-pokemon]

#zangoose #lots of folks don't think about the fact that this pokémon‚ along with zoroark‚ only has like 3 fingers. two big claws and a thumb #i dunnoooo there's not a lot to say about this pokémon i feel like. i just read a bit about them and APPARENTLY it prefers to stay on #all fours and only stands up on two legs when it's angry? even though i have NEVER seen zangoose depicted on all fours #i only ever see zangoose depicted as bipedal. i think their body type on bulbapedia is even listed as bipedal #i was gonna talk about how like no evolution and a normal-type is kinda boring but like hold the phone this is happening now lemme look #yeah it's classified as bipedal with tail. “despite being classified as bipedal‚ it usually walks on all fours” THEN WHY DO WE NEVER SEE IT #there's not a single image on bulbapedia that contains a zangoose walking on all fours. this is not something that happens i am sure of it #this is a total lie i swear. if you are a zangoose reading this can you confirm whether you tend to walk on all fours. thanks

[atla-suki]

btw i very much enjoyed natla. i thought it was a solid adaptation, and it did a good job at capturing the essence of the original show even though it wasn’t a 1:1 remake. i had a few issues w some characterisation/writing choices and the overall timeline & plot feeling a little rushed (i.e. no downtime to explore the gaang’s personalities and friendships, everything felt very go-go-go and it took away from the impactfulness of some moments i felt) but overall i really enjoyed it. the cast was perfect, the vfx were incredible. it wasn’t flawless but it was a damn good adaptation.

#atla #netflix atla #atla live action #natla #look i have issues with it ok #i’ve got a list somewhere of the things i didn’t love #but the thing is is that if i had never seen the original atla before netflix’s ver would be a fantastic show #it’s only because we know how perfect the original was that we can critique what netflix changed and how they adapted it #hence the word ADAPTATION #not directly mirrored remake #anyway i thought it was good and i’m absolutely in love with the cast #obsessed with maria zhang and sebastian amoruso specifically #and gordon cormier and dallas liu #and everyone else #they were all phenomenal #admin

[doyouknowthemossinman]

i need to know

#treewords #this is very biased i live in the midwest and have never seen some of the chains on lists i found #tumblr polls

[mcdennis]

should i watch the medical malpractice show

#chuck posting. #i have seen a lot of clips but i have never. watched #i do not need to add more to my watch list bUT

[peachcitt]

actually if goncharov were real it would never live up to the standards the insane tumblrinas have built it up to be. there is a triangle of homoeroticism, political commentary, and inevitably tragic in which any live, real adaptation would only conceivably be able to achieve two of to their fullest extent. added on to the fact that this is a film that supposedly is filmed and takes place in the seventies makes the possibility of it truly containing all aspects of what we have made it out to be even more far fetched. however, tumblr has been able to spin gold on far more real and disappointing media than goncharov through its analyses of media such as supernatural, sherlock, and a secret third piece of media that the subsequent creation and analyses of the ‘greatest mafia movie of all time’ goncharov is simply a natural step that tumblr as an ecosystem is willing to take. in this essay i will,

#goncharov #unreality #peach stuff #goncharov 1973 #someone accused me of being an english major (true) (god forbid women do anything) so this is also the natural step to take i suppose #anyway i do think i have a point in that we’re all already so used to performing in depth media analysis on media that simply. is bad. that #creating media from almost literally nothing and performing media analysis on it is just . i mean how can anyone be surprised #also before anyone says anything about it i didn’t mention doctor who in my list of bad media because well ive actually never seen #any episode in its entirety and i do know (as an english major) that science fiction is a fantastic way to deliver political commentary #ive also heard that the most recent season has been doing important work (at least from a meta standpoint) in gender politics #sherlock is. well. other iterations of sherlock holmes have certainly been better. and we all know supernatural is bad #i only listen ‘a secret third thing’ because traditionally it’s good to list three things to cite in your thesis. oldest trick etc #and anyway. that’s all my disclaimers. expect the essay never because im already overworked and underpaid<3

[theygender]

For any horror fans out there that haven't read it yet: The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher is SO GOOD. I don't remember ever being so scared by a book

#the hollow places is also very good but it made me feel more like... fascinated than scared #the twisted ones actually has me like... i cant read it alone at night bc i get too spooked lol. i have to read it in bed next to my gf #and then i STILL get spooked. i spent all of last night in between dreams Scared Of Monsters Getting Me #until i woke up this morning and realized wait a second... that was in the book not real life #i am. so pleased by this. it is SO hard for me to find content that actually scares me anymore #and i love the authors voice too. the characters in each book have their own unique voices and both books have way different vibes #but even with that theres still some sort of just... essence that the author brings thats very present in both books and i really enjoy it #would definitely recommend both of them and i will DEFINITELY be checking out more of her books #rambling #edit: im looking at a list of her other books and two of them have a nonbinary mc?? hell yeah!!! #ive never seen a nonbinary person just casually represented in a non-lgbt focused novel. ESPECIALLY not as the protagonist in a horror #t kingfisher I LOVE YOU

[goldicthehedgefox]

gotta say, Shallot looks great in Trunks's clothes

#dragon ball legends #goldic's draconic legends #goldic rambles #shallot #shallot DBL #got the outfit from an event halfway through the android section of the story slapped it on him and never looked back #currently hunting down the stars I missed early in the story and decided to let Shallot loose since I never really use him outside the stor #too busy experimenting with the other units I have to let my max power Shallot run wild yunno? #tbh I'm actually just hunting down any Z Power I might've missed for Shallot cuz I've seen people have him in red stars and mine's only 7* #granted: fully completing story mode 100% is on the eternal bucket list but I really wanna see Shallot reach 7*+ #Fun Fact: I had Shallot wear Nappa's scouter right after getting it up until he unlocked SSB on my file cuz it looked nice with the outfit #i CAN'T be the only one that thinks Shallot looks great in this outfit; something about it just screams Hell Yeah to me #for those that are curious: I run Ultra Super Vegito's blue card on Shallot #the hand refill is so nice after watching him bash someone's face in and blast them #but also i think the animation suits him #can't wait for legends fest it's gonna be so much fun; my first legends fest! yippeeeee!