#i love stories

[the-scrapegoat]

#im open to all and any suggestions #im just most familiar with Greek and Norse mythology #a little biblical and egyptian too but nothing came to mind right away #if youve got myths and stories from different cultures as well please send them my way #i love stories #whump poll

[brucenorris007]

When has it ever been called a Super Star?

It’s Power Star you uncultured.... Ugh.

Super Star is the term they occasionally use in Mario Party games

NOT A POWER UP

They did get Mario’s curiosity right; even while he’s worried the whole way through about Luigi, he’s still looking all around this new world with awe and wonder.

Not sure about him being cocky, even if it’s to compensate for the fact that people have been telling him he’s destined for failure all his life, but as new takes on established characters go, it’s all right.

Nice of Peach to not once ask Mario his name the whole night he trained.

And again, BRO DIDN’T SLEEP; ATE MUSHROOMS TILL HE MADE HIMSELF SICK, AND DIDN’T SLEEP! If anyone tries to spin this movie into another dumbass theory that Mario secretly hates Luigi, it’s grounds for maiming.

And Luigi’s first scene in the Mushroom world, just after he gets through the door and bolts it against the Dry Bones and thinks he’s safe?

Shy Guys as the hidden threat revealed with a flash of lightning were the perfect choice.

Creepy as fuck!

Mario’s obvious discomfort being in the spotlight, that’s spot on; as his career spans over the years, he’ll learn to shrug it off, but it’s so clear that he really didn’t anticipate being involved in such a huge conflict just to find his brother.

Toad was the character who got the most of an overhaul I feel and the little dude was funny, crazy, and brought some of the wacky cartoon energy the movie needed.

The dialogue is... Well. It is.

The storytelling aspects from a visual standpoint were done well; power ups, facial expressions, characterization through how each of the cast moves their bodies. And yes, the animation working in motion was stellar.

Sometimes the spoken stuff just falls flat. Exchanges between the bros are still always cute and wholesome (and of course anything the brothers have to say about each other is cute and wholesome “HE’S MY BROTHER MARIO AND HE’S THE BEST GUY IN THE WHOLE WO-HO-HO-HORLD!”), Bowser is clearly having the most fun of all the cast (rightfully so, as JB is the one with the most VA experience, and he gets to be musical in the movie so he could not be more stoked) and like I said, Toad’s a crazy fun little dude. Rogen was rough, not gonna lie.

That only really accounts for a bit more than half the overall dialogue though, is the thing. Doesn’t quite bring the movie down, but there could’ve been a little more polish. And at times things like Peach’s vocalized love of the world isn’t necessary; could’ve let the facial expressions and her mannerisms and the scenery speak for itself. Pratt exceeded expectations in that he didn’t sour the movie as whole, but his performance didn’t make me look forward to hearing Mario, the titular character, speak unless it tied back to Luigi. Which is... not great.

“We’ve never been apart this long.” Toss up for how long the trek to the Kongs actually took, but visually it’s Mario’s second night in the Mushroom world. Less than 48 hours, and he says, melancholy and matter of fact that they’ve never been separated for that long.

The bros are ride or die for each other. I cannot stress enough how important it was the movie got this so so right.

It is baffling to me that they couldn’t work out a longer run time; perhaps not significantly longer, maybe not even breaking the two hour mark, but there are moments when things could have been fleshed out, just pump the brakes a little bit. I’m definitely guilty of abusing the in medias res style of writing to keep things moving, but just a little more time seeing how Peach handles being in charge before she encounters Mario, more time with the characters before the by-the-book switch-of-focus to the other brother.

I mean, if you wanna sell a grand epic adventure as a grand epic adventure, how things play out and are affected on the smaller scale is just as important as the breathtaking panning shots and global scale destruction.

This is pretty basic stuff; the global threat moves the Plot, and the effect said threat has on the characters moves the Viewers/Readers/Players. Gets us invested. Like, okay, Peach as an asskicking action girl-sure, yeah, we can work with that as a take so long as people aren’t weird about how she’s characterized in the games because that also works-but just enough time between her marching out of the war room and encountering Mario for us to see the toll being in charge during wartime has on her.

She’s tired, stressed, and spread thin because as one of her Toads pointed out, her people aren’t exactly built for combat. Then she meets Mario, a man just as willing to throw himself at this power-hungry insane dragon, if for his own reasons, and suddenly she’s not heading out on this pivotal mission by herself. She was going either way, and obviously she makes sure this little red man won’t get himself killed, but even if marginally it’s a relief that there’s someone next to her.

Just little things that show how the conflict affects the cast, gets the viewers invested, convinced of the stakes, all that. I know the visuals could’ve carried a lot of that storytelling because it does some of that like I said, characterizing the cast visually.

Also, as most any writer or viewer on this site will tell you breathing time between action scenes or major plot points does not always constitute filler. PACING, PEOPLE!

By the way, the Rainbow Road sequence is my favorite of the movie and I won’t be taking questions.

Of course Mario’s low point in the movie would be the WATER LEVEL. Okay, all right, yeah movie, if you did that on purpose, that’s some good self-awareness.

Though it is weird that the film says “Oh this heart-to-heart packed with barbs between rivals-turned-reluctant-allies can’t go on too long because it doesn’t fit in with this wacky cartoon video game movie” but somehow the Doomsaying Luma suits things? I dunno.

DK and Mario’s antagonistic not-friendship works real well. They were enemies for a long time in the franchise, stands to reason that they can’t stand each other even while working together.

DK really doesn’t have enough on-screen time for his end of the not-quite heart-to-heart, but then, a lot of potential for character moments seem to have been pushed aside to make space for some admittedly beautiful animation sequences. Which I love, obviously, but ideally you shouldn’t have to sacrifice one for the other, which ties back into what I mentioned about the runtime.

I have other thoughts, but that’s for other, more organized posts.

#Bruce talks about #Super Mario Bros Movie #Super Mario Bros #Mario #Luigi #I have thoughts #clearly #rambly post #I typed this up halfway as I was watching the film so #more on this to come #I love animation #I love stories

[basedboygirlboss]

you know I didn’t think I’d be obsessing over two different interpretations of the classic tale of the funky little cat in his funky little boots in such a short span of time but here we are.

#puss in boots #puss in boots: the last wish #neverafter #dimension 20 #pib #man I love fairy tales #I love stories

[flowerthebeloved]

oh my goodness, i love words so much. just, like, a ridiculous amount. the ability to translate my thoughts and feelings into little vessels of meaning.

"Sometimes the player read lines of code on a screen. Decoded them into words; decoded words into meaning; decoded meaning into feelings, emotions, theories, ideas, and the player started to breathe faster and deeper and realised it was alive,"

THIS!! LIKE!!! it is SO important to me that people understand me, understand what i'm saying, and what i need to communicate. it's why i can get so caught up on the proper meanings of words where others might find their definitions similar enough for it to not matter. it's why i care so much about punctuation, because i know the smallest change in punctuation can change the meaning of a sentence.

just earlier i was editing a friend's writing and she had written, "The small hut made of rotten wood is situated close to the walls, on the outskirts of the city." SUCH a simple sentence, but i questioned for a moment whether she meant "The small hut made of rotten wood is situated close to the walls, on the outskirts of the city." which would mean the hut is close to the walls and the outskirts of the city. OR "The small hut made of rotten wood is situated close to the walls on the outskirts of the city." (no comma) which would mean the hut is close to the walls, and the walls are on the outskirts of the city. WHICH IS EFFECTIVELY THE SAME THING, but the fact that that sentence could be just be slightly different just based on a comma is so wild to me.

in the fifth grade (ages 10-11), my teacher was reading something with the word "reluctant" in it. so, she asks us if we can give a synonym for "reluctant." i raise my hand and offer "hesitant," and only after does she say that that is correct, but does anyone else have an answer? do i realize that hesitant wasn't a much more common word than reluctant was. but i didn't really think like that.

that's the same teacher who told me she would submit my creative writing to the local school system (who was making a book of students' writing) even though i said i didn't think i would submit it myself, because she believed it was that good. miss her.

so, i guess this also ties into my love for telling stories.

"Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the reality behind the screen."

i love the minecraft end poem. i believe being understood and being known are the first steps toward being loved. so, my life has largely consisted of me finding all the right words and the right sentence structure and the right punctuation that gets my point across correctly. i just love words so much.

#12 4 22 #words #end poem #i love words #i love stories #i love the end poem #kamileonik #is mentioned in this one #writing #minecraft end poem

[nerfherder-02]

I've been thinking about why I love Andor so much (besides the fact that it's brilliant and the best star wars media in years) and it led to me thinking about the fact that most of my favorite star wars media is within the time of the Empire.

I think it boils down to the core story of Star Wars, the timeless struggle of a few desperate people against a looming enemy. the indomitable human (or alien) spirit. the innate desire for justice that prevails against all odds. the catharsis of seeing the abusive systems crumble from within, inch by suffocated inch.

I think the best stories are those that we can find within ourselves. maybe even when we don't live in a time of despotic regimes, we will still have to go to war with the oppression in our homes, or our minds. we have to wake up every day and make every effort to fight the good fight. and when the evil creeps in, keeps us apart, confuses and pushes us down, we have to shake off the dust, learn to trust, and fight!

#star wars #andor #andor thoughts #original star wars #gosh i'm emotional about star wars again #i keep coming back to it because it's endlessly fascinating #and dear to my heart #i love when star wars is real #it's gritty #it's human #but most of all it's love #and family #and justice #i love stories

[barnabyboppins]

A picture is worth a thousand words but a picture is a moment, where a story is a journey

Both are worth magnitudes

#i love writing (other peoples writing) #i love art #i love photos #i love stories #i love words #i love magic #i love people #i love love #i love foley artists #i love composers #i love ensemble musicians #i love soloists #i love painters #i love painting #i love designers #in fashion #in art #in animation #in architecture #in interior design #in dance #in choreography #in programing #in engineerring #i love being alive #i love exploring #i love listening #i love speaking #i love and i love and i love #and no words or colours or images could encapsulate all that i live for

[stranger15]

Never bite the hand that feeds you... 

#mcr #frerard #gerard way #frank iero #goth aesthetic #vampire au #i love stories #collage art #picsart #photo edit #my edit

[illmamnim]

I love the Minecraft culture

I love people who feel motivated to share their art because other people do

I love that people get a platform to tell original stories told to people who will listen

I love the unique way each artist decides to go about their pieces

I love circled inspiration that goes back and forth between people

I love world building that is built in every sense of the word

#I'm so !!!!!!! #i love stories #Minecraft #mcyt

[onyxedskies]

i love stories

i love how every word, every phrase, every paragraph was carefully and painstakingly crafted by another person

i love getting attached to the characters, each one holding a piece if the author within them

i love imagining the setting, carefully creating an image in my head of the place the author spent so long imagining and describing

i love being able to love the years and years of work the author put into both the story alone and all the stories to come before

its such a unique feeling and i will never let it go

#writing #writeblr #writers of tumblr #literature #i love stories #reading #bookblr

[jesncin]

"Who Is Superman? A Private Interview with Lois Lane" a fancomic about hope and connection. I've had this story in mind for so long and I'm very excited to be able to share it at last. Thank you for reading, and happy Lunar New Year!

#superman #clark kent #lois lane #clois #dc comics #my art #fancomic #long post #my immigrant clois love story agenda is HERE #I have big feelings over the superman private interview canon event- how differently an asian lois would make that scene play out #jl remix

[lackadaisycal-art]

I'm getting so sick of major female characters in historical media being incredibly feisty, outspoken and public defenders of women's rights with little to no realistic repercussions. Yes it feels like pandering, yes it's unrealistic and takes me out of the story, yes the dialogue almost always rings false - but beyond all that I think it does such a disservice to the women who lived during those periods. I'm not embarrassed of the women in history who didn't use every chance they had to Stick It To The Man. I'm not ashamed of women who were resigned to or enjoyed their lot in life. They weren't letting the side down by not having and representing modern gender ideals. It says a lot about how you view average ordinary women if the idea of one of your main characters behaving like one makes them seem lame and uninteresting to you.

#feminism #media criticism #this doesn't apply to media with large casts of female characters where one or the other is uncommonly outspoken or ahead of her time #and it is dealt with realistically in the setting #im not saying women in the past couldnt be wild and headtsrong and revolutionary #i just think treating it as an essential whenever a female love interest gets added to a historical story about some man is wearing

[expelliarmus]

#mine #doctor who #dwedit #david tennant #catherine tate #yasmin finney #karl collins #jacqueline king #bonnie langford #dw spoilers #i would like to just live in this scene forever :')))) #so this means we can MOST DEFINITELY have big finish stories with fourteen and donna now yes????? #i love that mel is part of this too #and please let donna work for unit on camera PLEASE!!!!! #10k

[brucenorris007]

Okay, I think I covered everything else that’s on my mind about this movie. Which just leaves....

Well. Puss, the themes and Death are so closely tied together that I can’t really talk about any one of them without also getting into the others, so... 

*Breathe in*

SO.

Death. 

“I don’t mean metaphorically, poetically, spiritually or theoretically. Straight-up.”

It–and he–are a constant presence throughout the movie, and the film isn’t shy about it. Horner’s men are swatted down like flies without even the dignity of having individual names assigned to them. The first five minutes are dedicated to showing us who Puss in Boots, the legend, is and his characteristically cavalier swashbuckling attitude toward everything

even in those five minutes, it’s been brought to my attention that Death, the character, is lurking in the crowd, watching and waiting for Puss’ eighth life to end, which it does at the end of the film’s first action sequence. (gorgeous sequence, natch)

knowing Dreamworks, I’m sure they found even more ways than that to weave death into the visuals, but the really genius thing is something I realized just in the midst of typing up a previous post

Papa Bear keeps suggesting that their family head home to hibernate, which fits in with his obvious desire to nap, yes, but it also implies the movie is set in autumn

as in the season before winter, when things freeze and die

Puss in Boots is on his last life, literally the last of stretch of the AUTUMN of his mortal time on earth 

AASDFSDFGDSDF dreamworks you beautiful brilliant MMMM

the otherworldly whistling that precedes Death’s soundtrack and appearance on screen is eerie and haunting and piercing, suits the character of death so well because even as it sticks with you it’s still startling and chilling each time you hear it

And of course I’m sure many youtuber’s have already said it, Death is a great villain because he’s not particularly a villain, but the personified phenomenon we all must face at some point made real (again, “Straight up”) who’s doing his job. the primary trait that makes him a character instead of some mystery man metaphor is that he loathes Puss for his complacency towards life

ironically, Death actually treasures life more than anyone; if he didn’t, he wouldn’t have spent the film hunting Puss to prematurely end his last life, nor would he have let Puss go at the end

and that brings us to the transformation Puss goes through from Legend to Man. er, Cat.

everything that he learns throughout the film, all the growth he undergoes ties back to who he is when he first meets Death and when he meets Death at the end of the movie and it’s all about letting go. letting go of the delusion that he’ll be fine no matter what danger he throws himself into, of the legend he’s created for himself about himself

The task is the same both times; Puss has to confront Death. Nothing about that fact actually changes, he still has to do it alone at the end of the film, he still can’t definitively defeat Death

but Puss himself changes; he lets go of his image of being a fearless hero, accepts that he’s afraid of Death, he lets go of the hope that he can outrun death through using the fallen star’s wish, he lets go of prioritizing all the moments of winning glory over his past lives and learns to cherish those more mundane and innocuous moments he’s had in this life.

Puss sheds the Legend he once was to be the Cat behind the legend. and the awesome part is that he doesn’t lose out on anything in doing so; the cat he is at the end of the film isn’t weaker than the cat he was at the start, nor is his life less fulfilling. Life isn’t more colorful than it was before, and he doesn’t give up swashbuckling either; he just learns to cherish and fight for the life he’s got

In the end, neither he nor any of the cast really need the wish, and that’s the great moral of the film; the things you need in life, the things you really want, you don’t need magic for. So long as you have your priorities straight, they can be found

i think that’s all from me, then. good night

#Puss in Boots spoilers #Puss in Boots The Last Wish Spoilers #Puss in Boots #Dreamworks #Storytelling #death #the wolf #Puss #themes #I LOVE STORIES #Bruce talks about

[violentdevotion]

okay so the firing story: she was home sick for 3 entire months and then at the end of the year my boss told us 'so we will not be extending her contract' which first of all. weird. bc all of us have contracts for undetermined periods so why didnt she. turns out she had asked for that herself in a move i can only describe as Stupid: she worked fulltime but maybe wanted to start working 4/5ths in 2024 hence she asked to let her fulltime contract only run until end of 2023 (i say Stupid bc you can just. ask to change your contract even if its for an undetermined period). anyway for the first month and a half she was on sick leave for glandular fever. and after like. idk two months of sick leave, legally, your pay gets docked somewhat UNLESS you get written home for a *different* illness afterwards. now this is purely smth my boss was mad about bc i fully get her but: remember the baby daddy she got back together with? so. she got pregnant again. but then had a miscarriage (which, incredibly sad but maybe a good thing bc another baby would not have been good for either her OR the baby) and was understandably! not fit to work after that! what i feel you can do during recovering from such a traumatic experience: going to gatherings with friends and parties etc. go girl you have to get through this somehow. MAYBE AS A TIP THOUGH: dont post about it on facebook if youve friended your boss who you are costing money and who is big mad about you not working atm. so um yeah he did not like that much. and also she was kind of um. well. underqualified. which! boss's fault for hiring her! if she needs to come along to french and english meetings, and she doesnt speak either of those languages... why'd you hire her!!! that + she was majorly beefing with the manager because she thought that as the boss's PA she had power to do and say whatever. and was bossing around other colleagues, telling the manager 'youre just jealous of me' when she was told to Knock That Shit Off. so yeah end of contract, she sent her badge and key by mail to the office and did not come to say goodbye to us (boss had invited her to the christmas party so she could have an official sendoff but she declined which. also understandable). anyway she had a jacket in the office for if she was cold and she. did not come to collect it. so now every day we hang our coats away and Look at it and Remember. haunting!

that last line...

the contract thing is, godbless her, stupid (as someone with a 1 yr contract that /might/ get renewed we'll see in november who has a friend that was complaining to me yesterday about how they can only find places hiring with 0hr contracts. the thought of having a stable job and not securing it with everything I have is crazy to me)

I completely get what you mean and agree with you with the way she handled the miscarriage the idea it may have been for the best as awful as that may be to say and that it's not wise to post about it when you have your boss friended on fb. even if she was defrauding the company and taking sick pay while not sick (not to say that I think that's what she did) I wouldn't have a moral issue with it but I WOULD take issue with the fact that she posted it FOR YOUR BOSS TO SEE

literally why hire her (good for her though)

the you're just jealous of me is sooo so so so funny though please feel free to send one more ask telling me if she was fun to have around in the office bc she simultaneously sounds insufferable and the most entertaining person ever (in an office)

once again.... that last line. Haunting.

#everyone sending me gossip is so so so so good at painting pictures its like im looking at her facebook posts myself #ask #anon #ameeras.got.mail #gossip #this is so much i love this kind of gossip so much idc if youre lying to me im so entertained #i love stories

[autumn-may]

Mostly spoiler free summary of my viewing experience

#The boy and the heron #how do you live #studio ghibli #ghibli #in all honesty that movie was legitimately so fantastic and im like changed as a person #Story wise as well! It hits really hard if you know a bit about miyazaki and his legacy. Its a very personal movie i think #And you can feel it in every aspect #The eng dub voice actors were really good as well and the animation was beautiful as always #Also really loved the tone!!! The story really relied a bit on the use of negative space in both sound and pacing and i enjoyed that alot #in conclusion go read a article about miyazaki and his son and then go watch the movie it’s probably going to be one of my favorites #image id in alt

[petrichor-moss-and-lightning]

being a lesbian is so dumb. this girl once sent me a photo of a rat she found in a dumpster and i imagined kissing her in a botanical garden

#lesbian #shitpost #this is unfortunately a true story. unfortunately. #THIS IS A JOKE I LOVE BEING A LESBESSISNW #wlw #sapphic