#i think part of it is that in kids movies the kid is likely gonna be the protagonist

[oddly-casual]

I love Raph being the plus sized rep for this movie. Obviously Raph has always been the bulkiest in some iteration, but MM is visibly the widest of his brothers and he throws his weight around to use it to his advantage. Raph was a wider baby too! He held onto it!

I love especially how it’s never brought up. Not to make fun of him, not for laughs, not to make a statement, Raph is just bigger than his brothers in the movie and it changes literally nothing except for how he uses it to his advantage in a fight and I love that we can have that as a society.

#mutant mayhem #tmnt #tmnt mutant mayhem #mutant mayhem fandom #plus size representation #obviously this might change as he gets older he’s probably gonna get more bulky with muscles because I mean come on #even in his room in the live museum he has weights and protein powder #but I think this movie focused a lot on the boys being young teens and part of being teenagers is sometimes dealing with being bigger #some kids are just big like that’s how their body works because of #physical ailments like Thyroid issues testosterone levels #or just the fact that they’re growing boys! #point is I appreciate it

[needylittlegirl]

theres a 99% chance we’re gonna move so i have to start packing little things now cause it makes the transition easier but i hate it i dont want to

#i know i sound like am immature little kid just pouting and stomping my foot #but i’ve had to move every two years since i was like 14 for so many different reasons #each place ive moved to just got increasingly worse so i think i have the right to pout like a 14 yr old girl #but its just dumb #if i start taking stuff down now itll make it easier to leave cause it wont feel like my space by then #its what ive always done #if i pack weeks ahead of time it just feels like im leaving a hotel or something #but right nows the hard part #im not even over my childhood home/s #i cant talk about those without crying and its been 20 years #i’d just like to stay in one place for awhile #we wont be going far cause me and my sister both have jobs right here but #its still different #im tired of seeing my stuff in boxes im tired of not feeling safe in my own space #it all just makes me so unstable cause i cant plant my roots anywhere #idk maybe its stupid #if everything goes according to plan #we’ll probably be moving a little after memorial day #and all i want to do is lock my door and refuse to let anyone do anything #im still just that little girl that was leaving her childhood bedroom and moving hours away #tbd #i didnt even get to skate today cause its raining #whatever im gonna get in bed and watch movies til i can go to sleep #if ive been bad at responding to msgs or not posting as much . this is why 👍 #any sort of change like this makes me isolate myself like crazyy

[dlnqnt]

baby this is the worst example of career inspiration i have ever read

#ok so im gonna admit smth here #i did watch i am sam as part of a yms livestreamed watch along #idk how to explain this other than i think the choices for this film to be made and completed are alien to me #sean penn plays an intellectually disabled man who gains custody of a daughter he fathered w a homeless woman he offered to let stay w him #i am sam is in the realm of movies like riding the bus w my sister and tiptoes #i rly dont know how to explain bcus idk how these movies get made #like ig everyone involved thinks theyre being altruistic in making a big budget film abt smth like a disability #but it always feels off probably bcus of the casting and overall acting choices #like for tiptoes it stars gary oldman in and i quote 'his most daring role yet' and #he plays a little person but u and i know he isnt so how does he do that? he walked on his knees #the film is packed to the brim w actual little people who are actors so. why gary oldman on his knees ??? #peter dinklage is fucking in it in a prominent role #like. how do i explain i am sam. it's so fucking weird how did it get made how did they get big name actors #dakoto fanning michelle pfeiffer and laura dern are in this how does this happen #the movie tries to be so heartwarming but i'm lost w sean penn's performance i'm lost w his characterization #so i find this in wikipedia im not gonna explain rn and i'm just like. I AM SAM ???????????????? babygirl u gotta be kidding #i will elaborate if asked specific questions but rn i cant even fathom this sentence so pls give me a moment

[bootyful-seventeen]

Anyways as a resident senior to many, I urge you to get physicals of the media you love because you don’t know if they’ll ever remove the digital version of it

#I heard sony has a big issue with this even if you paid for it #and I’m not the type who really buys digitals #tho the only thing I’d get that’s digital is probably the 90’s dub of sailor moon #and even then I’m not paying for it but torrenting it #cuz the physicals for that dub have been out of print since like 2004 and it’s by episodes and not seasons unfortunately #and idc I prefer the old dub over the redub of sailor moon #like don’t get it twisted I’m so happy they put my lesbians back where they belong but I just can’t get with the new voices for the scouts #and the funny part is I like all the vas in the new dub but I think they just don’t work together and sound too similar #I could only pick out Stephanie and Katie but the other scouts? nah man way too similar #I can barely tell who is who unlike the old dub where every single voice was so distinctive #the old dub was a godsend to the visually impaired kids like me that didn’t know I needed glasses until grade 4 :/ #but yeah gonna be difficult as hell to find that old dub since the new one completely replaced it everywhere #just wish that they released dvds of each full season to make life easier for me #but at least I’ve had an aeasier time with others #even happily ever after cuz that was a Snow White movie I adored as a kid cuz I thought she was so pretty lmao

[theygender]

Yeah sure growing up abused may have left me with permanent scars on my psychological state that I'm still working to unpack, but on the bright side it gave me the ability to give a thoughtful in depth analysis of Roald Dahl's Matilda and all of its adaptations

#rambling #i love matilda so much. its such an important story to me. its literally just an abused childs power fantasy #where she gets to get back at the people who hurt her and protect other kids and then get a new loving family and everything is alright #my gf and i just watched the movie adaptation of the musical and we have Opinions on it. some good and some bad #so weve been discussing it and analyzing different parts of it #and its kinda nice to get to use my history for something good #to be able to give thoughtful analysis on how the changes they made in this adaptation have changed the allegory for abuse in the story #from the perspective of someone who grew up with that #and to just. have that be normal. my gf knows my history and its not gonna stop the conversation if i say #'this change works well for trunchbull's character bc it makes her seem more like a real life abuser' #'this detail is very subtle but it really captures some tiny part of the experience of growing up with an abuser' #'i dont like this bc it detracts from the narrative of the main character feeling alone and makes it less relatable to abused kids' #'i dont like this because while it IS something that happens under abuse it detracts from the fantasy where the kids all win together' #idk. of course everything that happened to me as a kid was awful and should not have happened but like #for a long time i had this problem where i didnt know how i was ever supposed to be okay about that #like no matter how much therapy i go through it will never UN-happen. it will always still have happened and it will always have been awful #and i couldnt figure out how i was supposed to recover from that besides 'bury it and try your hardest to never ever think about it' #and. i think maybe this is it. yes the abuse i went through was awful. thats kind of the whole thing about abuse #but. its also just a fact of my life. im better NOW. but that will not change what happened then #the abuse was awful. but the fact that i am an abuse survivor is a neutral fact. the same as any other fact from my childhood #its just a fact. a part of my past. and maybe being able to talk about it that way is... good for me #i dont have to break down when i think about it bc im okay now. my partner doesnt need to stop me and express sorrow for me bc im okay now #i can talk about my past in a neutral way and use my life experience to analyze movies #the same way that i used my experience of growing up in arkansas to analyze hollywood hillbillies when we watched it together #theyre both just two facts of my life. and analyzing movies is fun #that woman has no power over me anymore and hasnt for many many years. im okay now #abuse mention #child abuse mention #request to tag

[magnetic-dogz]

I am excited for the 3rd Sonic movie but I'm not raising my expectations for it very high tbh

#cookie.txt #i do hope shadow will be written serviceably #since jeff fowler worked on shadow the hedgehog back in 2005 #but guys i think we're all getting are hopes up in thinking it'll be a 1:1 adaptation of adventure 2 #thinking realistically - some parts of it are gonna be watered down and changed for a theater audience #and that's ok. the sonic movies aren't exclusively aimed at die-hard fans anyway #they're big theatrical releases they've gotta be palatable to parents and kids who don't know shit about sonic lore #but yeah like. we're not getting sonic adventure 2: the movie lmao

[moonsidesong]

family went to see live action little mermaid and i ended up tagging along out of curiosity. better than i expected honestly! a far cry from perfect, but, yknow, i didn't leave angry, and that's more than i expected. halle bailey honestly totally knocked it out of the park as ariel (and also out of the three new songs hers was the only one i liked...)

#disney owes me money for whatever that scuttlebutt song was #anyway they tried to make eric's adopted mom have like #a thing against the ocean like WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE SEPARATE OCEAN GODS DONT WANT US OVER THERE... #but it didn't like. go anywhere #like i think this was supposed to be a parallel to king triton but it didn't really work bc she didn't actively stop eric from leaving #also they cut out the concert scene??? why'd you go out of your way to make all the sisters have unique designs if you're not even gonna- #-give 'em the chance to shine #seems strange idk. the movie is 2 hours i know you had time❗️ #anyway halle bailey Killed it for part of your world. she sounded incredible #she made the rest of the movie feel better honestly #i do not understand this new take on scuttle she was so actively not funny it kind of hurt to watch #and like. ursula. melissa mccarthy was her name right? yeah she was pretty lame unfortunately #couldn't really live up to the energy of the original imo #bri talks #anyway. saw a movey. liked some parts and didn't like some others #and aint that just living #new dolls of ariel are gonna mean a lot to some little kids i'm sure and if nothing else i'm glad it exists for that

[lecliss]

OO has me in a fucking vice grip with the urge to lunge at Seph's throat!!!!!!! I can't fucking believe he convinced Kadaj to join him!!!!!! I'm gonna go fucking feral!!!! Leave my sonboy alone!!!!! He has no free will!!! He keeps being used for what Jenova wants cuz of the cells and he keeps being used by Seph as a remnant!!! Daj can never truly have something of his own accord cuz of the very meaning of his existence!!!!! He can never be an individual cuz of them, but without them he wouldn't exist!!!! LET HIM BE HIS OWN PERSON!!!!

And to top it off, Team Ninja dangles a Loz and Yazoo tease in my face after I just said I need Kadaj to have his real brothers back!!!! FUCK!!!! I FUCKING HATE FINAL FANTASY!!!!!!!

#i love kaien trying to help even tho this has nothing to do with him. thank you grandpa 🥺 #kadaj and repliku would be a match made in heaven. i want them to talk and go on a murder spree for funsies together #im gonna kill seph so fucking hard. i hate it here!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #at least now i know why kadaj and seymour team up to be ducklings to weiss. tho im not caught up to know how/why they leave seph yet #im just. im gonna die man. im so happy OO added kadaj and gave him so much development and i love that the game takes characters seriously #but god. do they have to keep tormenting MY FUCKING SON!?!?!?! #LET HIM RETURN TO HIS NEW MOM AND DAD (zack and aerith)!!!! GIVE HIM HIS LITTLE BROTHERS BACK!!!! GIVE HIM FUCKING FREE WILL!!!! FUCK!!!!! #its such a good time to be so abnormal about a 2005 one off sequel movie villain. genuinely. it just hurts at the same time #i also like how everyone's fine with kadaj and is even trying to help him cuz despite being morally gray. at least hes against seph. #so hes a good kid in their books 🥺 #brb gonna go speedrun the og 7 real quick so i can beat seph's ass in the name of my best boy #also when we get loz and yazoo i wonder if theyll be a joint unit like in brave exvius of if theyll be seperate but released back to back #like reno and rude 🤔 #i was expecting sonon or nero next but i do think they wont come until after part 2. while i want genesis most then. i would actually rather #have the baby bro duo if it means they have a real chance of getting in. i didnt actually believe it would be possible. but no it looks real

[donghuamuqing]

Will who impulsively tells the truth despite hating confrontation and mike that has to clean up the mess it might leave behind afterward

#my post #troys making fun of them and will is quiet in the back of group until he pipes up #‘wow. youre really ugly’ #like he just understood a hard math problem #and the party RUNS #this is unrealisric bc he had to live with lonnie but i can imagine that as a kid he hates lying or pretending something isnt happening that #that is happening #my boy had to work up the courage to lie to mike after 10 million yrs of friendship and im kind of proud of him #i also like a will thats reallllllyyy concerningly good at lying esp to authority figures #inside u there r 2 wills…. one that lies and one that only tells the truth #ok ok mike doing a vecna mind maze a la labrinth movie ft david bowie #and he reaches a part thinking this is it hes made it thru #but there are two doors and two figures curled up before them #one is teenage will begging mike to believe that el loves him and theyre good for each other #and the other is a small child will. around the time he was taken the first time #asking him why he abandoned him that summer why he ignored him #saying he thought theyd go crazy together and crying thats what he wants why doesnt mike want it too #and mike has to choose #a mike faced with two crying wills. whats gonna happen

[bumbleblurr]

g1 blurr & rb blurr are the only 2 blurrs designed to be alive. Everybody else gets to die and suffer

Edit as I was typing the tags: OH YEAH ARMADA BLURR I'm p sure he gets alive privileges too

#i am not joking Actually thsoe 2 are literally are not meant to not die #rb blurr is in a baby kids show hes safe from all harm #and g1 blurr. is very much not supposed to die hes supposed to replace ppl that died #tf the movie had everybody die so the new cast can come on in. and blurr is a part of that new cast #the irony of this is not lost on me and i think its hilarious #blurr is introduced in the everybody dies movie and doesnt die. most interations of blurr following that very much die #i constantly see ppl mistake the last blurr on the disadvantages of blurr as g1. this isnt entirely accurate #and i didnt tag it as g1 bc of this. thats uk marvel comics blurr not cartoon g1 blurr #which. sure thats g1 too ig but are u seriously gonna tell me when ppl say ''g1'' they are thinking abt the marvel comics. #no theyre thinking about the cartoon #and i have to reitarate so hard. cartoon g1 blurr is So Specifically not a blurr that dies or gets close to it #u may be asking ''wooly why do u give so much of a shit about if ppl think g1 blurr is a part of the blurr death club?'' #well i can answer that. its bc i can. this isnt actually important at all lol #i just get irrationally huffed up when ppl are wrong abt stuff i like even if its completely inconsequential. im a nerd you see. #OK THIS IS THE POINT I REMEMBER ARMADA BLURR #i dont think he dies. idk i havent seen this one i just watch clips of it and go ''i like the hot shot guy :]. blurr is cool here too'' #i love his design in that series even though its not meant to be blurr originally i think #but orange and blue is p swaggy and the red demon eyes are cool i cannot deny this #i do think his characterization is actually not far off from blurrs base character #like ppl say the anime tfs have like no relation to their other counterparts (and include blurr in this statement i think) #but from what i can tell.. i dont think that's rlly the case with blurr? #like yeah hes much more of a brooding kind of serious and gruff than other blurrs #but that falls in line with how tfa blurr is p serious (even if he didnt exist at this time) #and hes a former racer & p competitive thats sounds like ur typical blurr following idw #its just a different way going abt it which i might..prefer over typical modern blurrs??? #idk i havent seen the whole show/trilogy but i like it when blurr is serious and a stick in the mud #so basically all this shit i have to say abt armada blurr boils down to. i dont know enough abt him to explain why he doesnt die #he just doesn't. he gets treated as a normal character and not canon fodder #and never again does he get this treatement if hes not protected by baby show immunity <3 #🐝 could you repeat the last part? 🟦

[todayisafridaynight]

YEAH NO TONBI GOT HANDS.......... my timing on suggesting it may be Questionable but I AM very glad it holds up as a movie :] hopefully the interview and We Make Antiques are fun diversions! But also take it easy <3 can confirm Nakai is Pretty Moe in both though <3 And I WILL harass you about Masato's VA next week...

TBF YOU SUGGESTED IT A WEEK OR SO AGO twas on me for taking a while to get to it... nevertheless i did really enjoy it thank you..... AND YAYA IM SO STOKED TO WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW AND WMA2 THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN ☆*: .｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆!!!!!

esp cant wait to hear about masato's VA in the future.. 👁️👁️

#snap chats #LISTEN i think we all just have to accept at this point any time there's a story about a doting father or fts a doting father #i will cry like its unavoidable. so whether my life's falling apart that week or everything's fine #There Will Be No Difference In How Much I Cry ☠️☠️ im just built terribly what can i say it makes for GREAT inspo tho #tonbi WAS real cute tho and i did enjoy it a lot Because yasu did remind me of my dad a lot #very lucky to say my dad's never slapped me or thrown water in my face tho so LMAO BUT FOR THE MOST PART Yeah... #in a way it weirdly felt like watching an AU of my life. if i may sound insane. listen i already said the kid's name had me twisted LISTEN #fr tho cause ive always wondered what my life wouldve been like if i was able to be raised by my dad instead #im gonna make myself start crying if i get too deep into it LMAO NEEDLESS TO SAY i really enjoyed the movie :) #EVIL that they really did let us see akira get married and now yasu gotta give a speech and If He IS Anything Like My Dad #i know damn well he was winging it and didn't prep a script and I Will Start Crying if i think back to my sis's wedding #STILL MAD THAT THE ONE TIME I HAD TO PISS WAS RIGHT BEFORE HIS SPEECH BUT WHATEVER MOVING ON #said i wasnt gonna talk bout the movie/my dad anymore lest i make myself UPSET yet here i am... always saying more when i shouldnt ☠️ #but yeah... i have ONE (1) more comm this week Lest Someone Wants To Snipe A Spot IDK #SO im gon do that :] #and im kinda tired rn... but the uncertainty of how much time i have nowadays urges me to work on it a bit #i dont THINK it should take super long but it IS a full-rendered piece so.... it will take time needless to say #n e way not to sound insane but nakai is An Endearing Chap. is the most sane way i can put it #i mentioned it durin a stream but somethin bout him just naturally exudes cute... idk... im delirious probably ANYWAY BYE FR NOW #CANNOT WAIT for next week to be harassed 🥰🥰

[hbdttg]

i’m hella late to the party and am just learning now that jamie campbell bower played anthony in the sweeney todd movie musical, and that’s my bad, whoops

BUT 

this man also starred as JOE in a bend it like beckham west end musical?! sir WHAT??

#stranger things cast #jamie campbell bower #i LOVED bend it like beckham as a kid and the fact that they made it a musical is equal parts amazing and horrifying #i watched a vid and like holy shit #first of all a choreographer had to go and fucking choreograph SOCCER NUMBERS for a stage and it's crazy #second of all the cast had to go and NAIL SAID SOCCER NUMBERS EVERY DAMN TIME #jess had to go and kick like 3 balls in a row into a bag and she's supposed to make them all in to show she's improved #like girl if you don't make the bag you fucked up the number #it's kind of a Big Deal #oh and ALSO the choreographer had to fucking choreograph who-even-knows-how-many bollywood-worthy numbers! WEDDING LEVEL SHIT #i'm kind of losing my mind over this rn #anyway this started as a jamie post but now i think i'm gonna go watch the bend it like beckham movie bye

[stardustfoundations]

I’m almost an hour into this two and half hour movie and I have no idea wtf is going on. It’s also an Indian film so that culture barrier isn’t helping.

#afvt speaks #I watched RRR #and was like I'm gonna watch more movies by this director #then didn't read anything about the movie I clicked on #so I'm just vibing #There is a kid who a women was trying to get the top of a water fall? #Now it's on this drama between a captured queen and a slave? #wait I think the kid in the first part is the son of the queen? #maybe this is starting to make sense #edit: it continued to not make sense #I am not getting this romance between these two characters? #it was a speed run

[fandomsandfeminism]

Yall wanna hear a kinda funny, kinda sad story about my grandmother and hetero-normativity?

Ok, so... when my grandmother was in her 50s (I was an infant), she met a woman at the Unitarian Church. And, as can happen when you meet your soul mate, this event made it impossible for her to deny parts of herself that she had fiercely hidden her whole life.

All the drama- their affair being found out, the divorce with my grandfather, the court battle over who got the house, happened while I was a baby. Even in my earliest memories, it's just Mama Jo and Oma, and my grandfather lived elsewhere (first his own apartment, then a nursing home, then with us.)

But here's the thing- no one ever explained any of this to me. No one ever sat down and was like "hey, Rosie, so do you know what a lesbian is?" It was the 90s. It was Texas. I think my mom was still kinda processing all this, and just assumed that like... I was gonna figure it out. Don't mention it, let it just be normal. Like I think my mom thought that if she explained the situation, she would be making it weird? I dunno.

But like. In the 90s, in all the movies I had seen and books I had read, do you know how many same sex couples I had seen? Like. 0. Do you know how many "platonic best friend/roommates" I had seen? A lot. I had no context, is what I'm saying.

I literally thought this was a Golden Girls, roommates, besties situation until I was like...I dunno, 11? 12?

It was actually their parrot, an African Grey named Spike, imitating my grandmothers voice saying "Johanna, honey, it's getting late", that triggered the MIND BLOWN moment as I realized that *there's only one master bedroom and it only has 1 waterbed* when all the pieces finally clicked.

Anyway. I think it's a real important thing for kids to know queer people exist, for a lot of reasons, but also because kids can be clueless and it's embarrassing to have your grandmother be outted by a parrot because everyone just thought you'd figure it out on your own.

Anyway, here is my grandma and her wife, my Oma, after they moved to Albuquerque to be artsy gay cowboys and live their best life. They helped run a "Lesbian Dude Ranch" out there (basically just with funding and financial support. As Oma has explained "traditionally, most lesbians don't have a lot of money" so they wrote the checks and let the younger ladies actually run the ranch.)

#this is the grandmother who passed away unexpectedly earlier this month #she was so cool yall #and so weird #they got married twice by the way once when Massachusetts legalized it and once when New Mexico did #they hiked the grand canyon together #they had a european river cruise planned for this fall #she was 89 and she wanted to see the whole world with her wife #and they were working on it #literally i thought they were roommates #and there was only one bed

[ithrilyann]

Peter Jackson on casting Frodo

“Frodo was a very, very important character in the movies. But he’s also a very difficult character to play and to cast. […] We were convinced that Frodo is gonna be an English actor, ’cause we wanted the Hobbits to basically be English as Tolkien really wrote them. So, we went to London and we started auditioning.

We couldn’t think of any actor to play Frodo. We had nobody in mind. We thought it would be unknown English actor, a young kid. We were in London auditioning for about a month and we’ve probably seen three hundred Frodos. There were two or three that were okay, but nothing magical, you know. ’Cause Frodo had to be magical. Every time the casting room door opened and some nervous young actor would come in, we were saying, ‘is this gonna be Frodo?’ And you sort of know within ten seconds that it wasn’t really Frodo. It was a worry, but we were plugging on.

And then our casting director said to us one day, ‘A package’s just come in the mail. It’s from Elijah Wood’. It was a video tape, a VHS tape. I had heard Elijah’s name, but I’ve never seen a film he’d done. I actually had no face for Elijah, I didn’t know how he looked like.

So, we put the video tape in. Elijah was in LA and heard that we were in London and we’re not gonna come to LA. He really wanted to get this role. So, he hired a dialect coach to teach him accent, he’d gone to the local costume-hire, got some cheesy kind of Hobbit costume on. He’d gone into the trees somewhere behind his house with a friend, and he just videotaped his own audition. He didn’t have our script, so he was reading from the book, he was doing Frodo parts from the book.

I just put this video tape in, and literally, not having known who Elijah Wood was really, I just thought, ‘he’s wonderful, he’s absolutely great’. And so, Elijah cast himself”.

(x)

#the lord of the rings #lotr #frodo #peter jackson #elijah wood #quote #interview

[biblicalhorror]

Idk I love how many movies we have coming out these days that are about, like, healing your relationships with your parents and working through generational trauma, etc. but I also kind of hate how many of them place the onus for that healing on the child

#i just finished the mitchells vs the machines and like #frankly #girlie did nothing wrong #all her dad had to do from the beginning was take her interests seriously and respect her passions & instead he brushed her off repeatedly #and somehow shes gotta be the one to swallow her pride first and pretend to be into his interests? #like shes an 18 year old child #shes allowed to be a little selfish #like idk #the only example of this i can think of in the reverse is eeaao #and thats the only version ive seen thats not a kids movie #do we really wanna be teaching kids that theyre solely responsible for healing their parents trauma and bad communication skills? #i think part of it is that in kids movies the kid is likely gonna be the protagonist #and the protagonist has gotta be the one who like grows and changes #so i understand narratively why it happens that way #and again theres nothing inherently wrong with it #but i just wish we saw more examples of parents being intentional about apologizing and learning and growing yknow