#i'm ranting

[bilolli]

I finally finished and edited it! This time there shouldn’t be problems with sizes and messed up colors.

Anyway, this scene lives rent free in my head and I HAD to draw it.

Solar Lunacy belongs to the talented @bamsara​ , (seriously, it’s a wonderfull fanfic, read it.)

Process GIF and variants under the cut!

On PC this one looks better, but on my phone it’s wayyyy to saturated and dark. Ujsdbidfshf I hate screens differences.

#I have yet to understand how professional artists can make an illustration colors fantastic everywhere #this thing took me something like 12 hours to finish and I still don't like it all that much #the wonders of being an artist I suppose #anyway I sure hope you all like it! #please like it #the subject was this scene vs moon hugging y/n #eclipse won because of a dice #yeah I rolled a dice like the dnd player I'm hahaha #please end my suffering #i'm ranting #goodbye #bilolli's art #solar lunacy

[shakespeare-official-account]

holy fuckin' shit i'm an emotionless bitch and i'm also wayy to extra and i should probably calm down but whatever personality i have is buried under overformality, weird opinions and a poker face

#that felt good #please ignore #i'm ranting

[garrandia]

should start drawing ppl like this

Maybe I'll become famous on twt 😲🤔

#draw stuff #i'm ranting #Feel free to ignore #No but honestly there's so many gr8 arts w much less textures and more anime like but u go through all this work instead 😔 #I think I'll change my free to edit policy to do not erase my fucking skin textures

[groovvyguava]

boys with fragile masuclinity<<<<

i'm sorry you're insecure, but bro stop taking it out on me wtf did i do to you??? NOT sleep with you??? ong get a life and a grip on reality. you're just making yourself MORE unattractive.

#i'm ranting #because i know i guy like this #and he's a little shit #misogny

[acrazybayernfan]

I just want to say my love and appreciation for goalkeepers again ❤️❤️❤️.

Like I think it's really the hardest position on a football pitch. It requires so many qualities.

Such as, of course, incredible reflexes, but also a very good perception of the ball and of the game, a great understanding of trajectories, knowledge in defense coaching, extraordinary courage (because standing there when a ball comes at you at full speed, or going out while a player his running towards you, also at full speed, and he could easily hurt you, that's brave) and also to be good enough with your feet to dictate the game and be able to resist against pressing.

But really the most important qualities of goalkeepers are their mental qualities. Like imagine you have to wait for minutes and minutes, while all the others are enjoying themselves, and yet stay ready and super focus because at anytime your team may need you. Imagine the pressure you must feel as a goalkeeper during a penalty shootout, like you're the last hope of your team. And people are so ungrateful to you. A goalkeeper could have a great game, could do many important saves, could be crucial in the development of the game, but if there is just one mistake, everyone is going to remember this mistake and will say that the goalie was the cause of the defeat.

Goalkeepers are truly amazing and we should have a lot more respect for them ( "coughing" ballon d'or jury do you hear me?!)

#don't know why but I was thinking about that tonight #they're really the most complete football players for me #football #i'm ranting #don't mind me

[twicethetrouble]

I literally have one more scene left to write in "Proud Family Traditions" but i got sick and instead of getting fixated on writing during my imprompu time off work, i got fixated on stupid fish tank games.

#random stuff #you can ignore this #i'm ranting #i'm gonna try to write it now #that way at least one of my goals is done for nanowrimo #i even moved away from my computer #that way i'm not tempted to open the fish games again #(it's plural b/c i keep switching between 2 of them) #(but one's an idle game so it works) #(i'm not even a big fan of fish!) #(i don't know why the fish games got me like they do!)

[rogue205]

Bit of a 9-1-1 rant/unpopular opinion

As always, people who lash out will have their comment deleted and themselves blocked. People who respond in a civilized adult manner will have a response given in an equally civilized adult manner.

So here it is....

Am I the only one who feels that now the show has officially created this “dad & son” thing strictly between Bobby and Buck, that it actually lessens the whole “Fire Dad” thing Bobby had going for his whole damn team? It’s essentially made even worse by the fact that Buck is the fandom woobie so that is all everyone is focusing on. I find it annoying especially given that Buck is not the only character with sh*t parents as well.  Speaking of, anyone else think those two are up to something? They didn’t change that much overnight.

Just my opinion.

#again not anti-buck #but he is the woobie and i hate how woobies are fawned over in the fandoms #911 discourse #unpopular opinion #911 on fox #911 #911 fox #my opinion #Bobby is fire dad to EVERYONE not just Buck #But now every little interaction between them is oh he's totally his dad! when Bobby would do it for anyone #my view #don't care if people disagree #i'm ranting #can someone point me toward a fandom where the damn woobie isn’t white for once? #I’m curious

[riptidespen]

The biggest disappointment about tsats to me is the lack of demigods. Like firstly, the whole camp is empty is so unrealistic. You are telling me every single demigod has a good home/parent/family to go home to? I read the books, I know it wasn’t just Luke, Thalia, Annabeth, and Leo out there with issues of returning ‘home’. Camp Half-Blood grew in numbers because so many were being claimed and brought to the camp there is no way during the school year it’s just Nico and Will as the remaining demigods. 

I so desperately wanted Clovis to be involved in this quest in some compacity. The son of Hypno, he could have been useful in some way about dreams and nightmares. I get the book is about light and dark, Will and Nico, and mostly just Will excepting his boyfriend is his grumpy little ball of darkness and that’s ok because not all darkness is bad. Still, it would have been nice to have someone else with them to help combat against an invisible force that invaded their minds. 

#tsats spoilers #anyways the book was not what i expected #i would have taken Malcolm Jake Katie or any other demigod too but like Clovis #i feel like we got a weird peek into Nico and Clovis friendship? at one point but it wasn't touched upon again #i'm ranting #also i'm big sad the motherfucking dagger was not found and the big baddy was Nyx and not like some torn twisted Luke slash Kronos #trying to call out for help to a child of the big three while pretending to be another titan #this is me being way too attached to the plot of the pjo books so yeah

[internetgiraffekid1673]

I Had Miraculous Ladybug Thoughts, Specifically the Chloe Lila Alliance Situation, and I'm Making It Your Problem! I am So Sorry!

Just. Read the title of this post. I am the most biased person you could have on this topic. You've been warned.

Okay, so. Chloe. If you are in the ML fandom, first off, my condolences, we shall suffer together. Second off, you know that Chloe is incredibly divisive. On the one hand, she's an absolute a**hole to everyone around her at any point in the series that is not season 2 and parts of season 3. On the other hand, it is clear that she has no adults teaching her how to not be an a**hole or regulating her behavior because the only people who have the necessary authority should not have ever been parents.

And then you have that whole thing in season 2 where they started to explain her awfulness and gave her the bee miraculous and she started getting better and developing a support structure, and then she stopped being allowed to have the bee miraculous and dove headfirst off the deep end. This frustrates pretty much the entire fandom. On the Chloe hate side, you wonder why they were wasting time with this. On the Chloe love side, you just got baited, and you're annoyed as heck, and you also are wondering why they wasted your time with this.

But fine, okay, it's dumb, but whatever, the fanfiction can work with this. What the fanfiction has a MUCH harder time working with is Chloe and Lila forming an unholy alliance over their mutual hatred of Marinette and Ladybug. Because the problem here is, it's redundant, it doesn't make sense, and makes Lila even more of a Mary Sue.

Tangent warning: YEAH I SAID IT! I think Lila is a Mary Sue. You don't have to think that. My definition of a Mary Sue is "a character that warps the fabric of the story around them without it making any sense because the author likes/hates/pities/has other strong emotion about this character/ too much to care about a coherent narrative." Not everybody defines a Mary Sue this way, but by this definition, Lila is a Mary Sue. Everyone immediately loses their brain cells around her despite being compassionate and sometimes intelligent individuals who will kill for Marinette in most other scenarios. Nonsensical story warping just because the author said so. Tangent aside:

What this alliance does is it gives you two manipulative lying b*tches who willingly get akumatized to further their petty schemes and are out to destroy Marinette and Ladybug and are weirdly possessive of but don't actually seem to care for Adrien. There's really no point in having two. They occupy the same narrative niche and it is awkward and stupid and I DO NOT LIKE IT. Neither does most of the fandom it seems, because this alliance rarely appears in fanfiction.

There are a couple default solutions in fanfiction:

1. Redeem Chloe. I like this solution. I like Chloe, I think she's entertaining, and I think her interactions with other characters as a good guy are especially entertaining, I think she brings a lot of valuable skills and perspective to the cast as a good guy, I think she has a lot of reasons for being an a**hole that should be properly addressed, and I think the reasons her redemptipn arc got aborted were stupid. Most fanfiction goes the route of having redeemed Chloe viscerally hate Lila too, because Chloe goes after enemies with passion and her whole heart. This is a clean solution, but not great if you don't like Chloe all that much or are trying to make it canon compliant (best of luck to you, canon is all over the place).

2. Only focus on one as a villain and yeet the other out of the story. If Chloe is the villain, set the story during the time that Lila was off being Cerise or wandering around Paris or whatever, or before she showed up. If Lila is the villain, give Chloe an unrelated reason to decide she's not dealing with that today, thank you very much. Usually used in salt fics to dunk on whichever character grinds your gears more without unwanted interruptions. I like salt fics, and this is also a good clean solution. Having both of them is redundant, so just remove one. For Lila, it makes sense because she's a Mary Sue and writing her is annoying, so pretending she never existed is a great fix to that. For Chloe, it makes sense because "lying manipulative ladybug hating b*tch" only really starts being her archetype after the writers screwed up her character with a million inconsistincies. Before that, she was more of a "comically loud, bossy, really obssessive fangirl b*tch," so Lila just works better for certain plots. Downside is that you can't focus on Chloe-Lila interactions, and you sometimes have to do a bit of finagling to figure out how to remove them from a situation they would ordinarily be VERY invested in.

3. Make them hate each other. This is one of my favorite solutions because I have a weakness for villain rivalries that are equal parts comedic and dramatic, but bias aside, this absolutely works. They both want Adrien's sole, undivided attention, and, prior to aforementioned screwing over of Chloe's character, Chloe is the world's biggest Ladybug stan, and Lila is her number 1 hater. They also both have a weird power over the adults in the story that two 14 year old girls really shouldn't have. All these factors make it very easy to guess they would clash. Watch as they try to destroy each other! This plays into the "they both suck, but it's different flavors of suck," and makes those flavors mix BADLY together. The one downside is that it is hard to not make this the central focus of the story, because both of them are so over the top that they're absolutely going to drown out most other going ons, and this is technically supposed to be about Marinette and Adrien. It also erases some of the storylines you can get from an actually thought out alliance.

4. Redeem Lila. I have only seen this in one place, but it is a prominent place and that's more places than my suggestion on this whole ordeal. The prominent place being the Scarlet Lady AU by the very talented and lovely ZoeOneesame. Her take on it was basically:

"Chloe in this AU has the ladybug miraculous, and Chloe sucks at her job, so Lila's ladybug hatred is justified. Marinette is in love with Chat and isn't involved in the ladybug drama, so Lila has no reason to hate her. Adrien is both much smarter and much more active in this AU, so he wouldn't deal with Lila in the same hands-off way. Everybody else is also smarter in this AU and would probably know Lila was lying and also not care because they are forgiving and compassionate. So Lila's lies would most likely get called out, she would have the freedom and desire to figure out who she is beneath the lies, and she would have a justified hatred of Scarlet Lady matched by other characters in the AU, and would probably band together with them."

And thus, no filter, vindictive good guy Lila was born! Again, I have only seen this in Scarlet Lady, but it is amazing over there, so I had to talk about it. Redeeming Lila is an unconventional choice for sure, but I think if you arrange for circumstances where Lila would rather ally with the heroes than the villains, then you can get a lot of mileage out of her people-reading/manipulation skills helping out the heroes while possibly scaring the crap out of them at the same time. This has basically all the same downsides as the Chloe redemption though. It's not fun to do if you're here for Lila salt, and it's ABSOLUTELY not canon compliant.

Now. You may have noticed that nobody who writes fanfiction for this show does the canon Chloe-Lila alliance. This is for a myriad of aforementioned reasons: it's redundant, it continues the confusion of Chloe's character arc, and Lila is a Mary Sue, so anything that involves her tends to be frustrating. But, I think there is a way to make it work, so I'm writing about it.

First of all, don't do what canon did where 6 just have Lila teach Chloe how to lie. Take full advantage of the fact that they are two very different types of a**hole. They can ally for the same reasons: they both are super possesive of Adrien and are raging about him getting together with Marinette. And while I don't like the arc of Marinette being a trash and controlling guardian who shows inordinate favoritism to Alya and Zoe and literally nobody else because she's gay for them, you can still do that and have them both hate Ladybug too. I don't like that plot beat, mostly because it's never really addressed that Marinette is in fact a bad guardian outside of some light sulking from Chat, but it can work. She's a 14 year old girl in way over her head with no adults left to help (except the kwamis, but they don't really count because they are very unhelpful). It makes sense that she wouldn't do a good job at first. But whatever their reasons for teaming up, lean into the fact that Lila is a two-faced secretively awful person while Chloe is an in-your-face publicly awful person. From there, it depends on the tone you're going for.

Chloe is a great villain for humor because she's so loud and dramatic. She can get away with saying and doing really insane and rude stuff on the grounds that she's insane and rude (and also rich and powerful). People don't have any expectations for Chloe to be nice or rational, so she can do stuff like try and write a Queen Banana character into the class film and be met with annoyance and frustration rather than outrage and shock. So if you're going a lighthearted route, let Chloe be the one who does all the public legwork for their schemes, and let her be absolutely over the top about it.

On the other hand, Chloe can also be threatening in a far more tangible way than Lila. Lila can make people think you're a bit of a jerk, but it takes a lot of work for her to come close to getting Marinette expelled, even with all her Mary Sueness to help. Chloe can just look at the principal and say "My dad will fire you and remove all school funding if you don't expel her." Chloe won't make people dislike Marinette because nobody likes her, but she can physically hurt Marinette in ways that Lila can't. So if you're going for drama, you can lean into that. Chloe is in a completely different social class than everyone else and has actual power.

Either way, let Chloe be a complete drama queen who is publicly out to get Marinette, because there isn't anything anyone can do about it.

Meanwhile, let Lila work in the background. Lila has never been a comedic villain, only getting introduced after the show had taken a turn for the more dramatic, so don't bother. Leave that to Chloe's antics. Let Lila be the actual threat who is driving their plans. A lot of the reason Chloe was manageable while Lila never was is because Chloe's rage tends to be directionless and impulsive. She has a short temper that can easily be triggered, but also easily soothed, and she doesn't have any thought out plans or long form schemes. She just does whatever she thinks will make her happy in the moment. Have Lila be the one who convinces her to think in the long-term, and who comes up with an overarching plot to get rid of Marinette, adding a sense of real tension to the situation. Sure, before Chloe could have you expelled on a whim, but she also would have stopped bothering the second Adrien paid attention to her. Lila will help Chloe drop that boundary.

Lila also has the advantage of people actually liking her and being willing to do things for her without threatening or bribing them. Lila can do things like make it so Marinette doesn't have any of her friends around to help in an emergency. She can make it so people believe Chloe might actually be justified in her crusade against Marinette this time. She can plant seeds of doubt and distrust and she can socially isolate Marinette in ways Chloe can't. Make people love and believe in her instead, slowly destroy Marinette's support system, and so on. It not only is really dramatic and upsetting, it basically leaves Mari with just Adrien and Chat to rely on, which is FANTASTIC ship fuel if that's your jam. This can also let you have some other prominent characters come to the fore. Have some Kagami focus. Have some Luka focus. Bring in Socqueline and Felix and see how that changes things.

Point is, between these two, you could have a genuine, non-redundant threat that you can get emotional mileage out of. Lila is on one side turning all of Mari's friends against her and scheming to destroy her in the long term. Chloe is on the other side threatening Marinette's lifestyle---her bakery, her school, her fashion career, her public image, her existence in Paris---anything that can be damaged by the Mayor and the Style Queen is under attack. And then you have Hawkmoth on the other end, throwing akumas in her face and forcing her to make impossible choices. I would imagine Lila also gets akumatized on purpose whenever she needs a little extra help, while Chloe just gets egged on and pushed off the deep end by Lila whenever Lila thinks it'd be advantageous. So that trifecta is super genuinely threatening. But you can also have Chloe being a really stupid drama queen whose fits of rage can still be silly and poorly thought out, even with Lila helping her. And you can have some really heartwarming stuff as the people left in Marinette's support system band together and become even closer to get rid of these two once and for all. I just think this plot beat has a lot of untapped potential if the writers didn't make then fulfill the same narrative role, and I haven't really seen it explored yet.

Feel free to use this idea in fanfic, tell me that it sucks and would be bad, or ignore me, I mostly just needed to write this down!

If the mood strikes me or multiple people express interest (yeah right), I will make a (probably much shorter) post explaining how you can redeem both of them effectively and also why I think that would be bad in most circumstances.

Congratulations if you read this whole rant, now please go to sleep. Please. So much please.

#This got really long #i'm ranting #the opposite of no regrets #all the regrets for making you read my unhinged ML thoughts #i think about this show too much for it to be healthy #miraculous ladybug #miraculous ladybug rant #miraculous ladybug fanfic ideas #miraculous ladybug rewrite ideas #chloe bourgeois #chloe bourgeois redemption arc #chloe bourgeois villain arc #lila rossi #lila rossi as a better villain #lila rossi is a mary sue #fight me #seriously #I want to hear other people's thoughts and why you would think she isn't a mary sue #lila rossi redemption arc #how to make marinette dupain cheng's life hell #a beginner's guide #chloe lila alliance #chloe lila team up #oh gosh I didn't even talk about Sabrina #that's a whole other thing #idk how to tag stuff #ignore me and go to sleep #the fans write miraculous better every single time

[monsamborabutterfly]

This week is honestly the first time I'm feeling a bit meh after watching the episode. Maybe it's also cause I've watched last episodes BTS on YouTube and there was literally no NeoMark in it despite Nick and Boston having such important scenes last week.

Idk it just feels a bit sucky lol I'll be back to my BostonNick screaming self in no time but I really think I just have to give myself some room to rant a bit.

I'm not even mad Boston and Nick didn't get their big happy end yet. If they get it I low-key knew it would be in the final ep. I'm just mostly annoyed with the lack of screentime they got this ep in favor of Boeing. I get it he's hot. But it definitely did happen what I fear it would. He's there to create unnecessary drama between the characters in a way that feels a bit lazy in my opinion.

I love Jojo and the team and what they created but damn this annoys me.

Is that just a me thing? Idk I'm probably most definitely overreacting but eh it happens lol sorry for all the whining. BostonNick are my faves after all and I just don't want their storyline to fall short is all

#only friends the series #i'm ranting #sorry #but also i just need to get it off my chest #bostonnick #ofts boeing #I'm a little annoyed lol #why am i like this #thai bl

[zoeysdamn]

Treasure Planet: a way underrated Disney movie [critic]

Hi, hello, it’s me again, rambling about a movie like I’m working for the Nostalgia Critic instead of writing next chapter or actually do my work. What can I say, I love to ramble on obscure subjects (but since at least once person enjoyed the critic I wrote on The Witcher: Blood origin I solely did to improve my writing skills, I guess it’s okay lmao) Love you and stay hydrated ♥

Time to analyze and bring justice to Treasure Planet 

There are some movies that leave a mark on you, that you’ll always remember of through your life. It isn’t necessarily a good, Oscar-winning movie, or a mindblowing work, but it is an unpriceable memory to you, and that’s why it is one of your favorite movies ever. That’s how I feel about Disney’s Treasure Planet. 

First thing first, I’d like to highlight an important aspect about this critic: Treasure Planet is the first movie I’ve ever seen in theaters. I was 3 years old, and seeing those incredible images of space and stars up on a big screen through my child’s eyes definitely did something to me (cue my tattoos of moon and sun I guess). So what I’m trying to say is, that even if I’ll be doing my best to make an objective critic, it definitely won’t be one. I love this movie so freaking much, do not try to stop the fangirl screaming in me. I watched it again recently with my brother, and even if I know it like the back of my hand, I couldn’t believe that a lot of people still think poorly of this movie.

That being said, let’s move on to the main subject: in what way is Treasure Planet an underrated movie? I’ll be trying to analyze why it failed to be a new success for the Disney company at a time of many mildly successful productions, and carry on about why we all should appreciate it more with a new eye, for it brought many great things. 

First, let’s talk about the context of this movie’s release. In 2002, Disney wasn't in its golden nor silver age anymore. The last original movie – meaning, that isn’t a prequel or sequel of a previous franchise – was Atlantis in 2001 and Kuzco in 2000 (I’m not including Monsters Inc., given it was a Pixar co-production). The first wasn’t exactly a financial success (although it is also one of my favorite Disney ever, what can I say, I like the unloved ones), and the latter, even if I still think it’s one of the most hilarious movies they ever made, was not a great movie. So when Treasure Planet launched and turned out to be a critical business failure – 109 578 115 $ at the box-office for a 140 000 000 $ budget, and if you’re wondering, yes it is indeed a big failure – nobody ever talked about it again. The failure is even greater given not a single Disney Park has an attraction on this theme – but we’ll talk about this later. Now, not many people actually know that this movie ever existed.

Now that we have a little more context, let’s go even deeper and see the different elements that lead to this catastrophic failure within the movie. It’s important to remember that I’m not an expert either in movies analysis or the Disney company, there’s a lot of things I don’t know or don’t have any numbers to prove what I’m saying. I’m simply here to ramble and list things that seem important to me, and I’m making a hella lot of assumptions. 

Given the general context of the movie release, I think that what wounded its reputation the most is the 3D used. It is – if I’m not mistaken, and I probably am – one of the first Disney animated movies that uses so much 3D. And let’s be honest…it aged badly. I’m not bad mouthing anybody’s work, I appreciate the fact that Disney tried something; with every new experiment, there have to be some clumsy first try, and yeah, we could say that Treasure Planet was this one. But remember, the movie came out in 2002: a year before, Dreamworks leveled up the 3D game by releasing Shrek, and next to it the 3D view in Treasure Planet looks cheap. The idea was interesting, the view in a gradual zoom on the moon-turning-to-be-an-harbor was really a good idea; but the messy outcome of the visual cost a lot more to the movie’s reputation. 

Another thing that may have contributed to the movie’s unsuccess could be the lack of “typical” Disney elements. I’m here talking about things such as a romantic interest for the main character, a princess/royalty character, or catchy musical moments sung by characters. If we look at the Disney animated movies that had been released around the same time, it was all movies and/or sequels about princesses (Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid), or already popular characters (Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh, etc.). Choosing to not give a female, princess-like, and popular character was a bold and risky move for Disney; as a result, the story was led by a forgettable character who didn’t leave any mark in people’s minds. Again, I’m talking while trying to be objective, you bet I remember Jim Hawkins; we’re talking about one of my very first fictional crushes here, I’ll take the defense of this amazing character later. 

Of course, the story does give a glimpse of a love story, but between two side characters. Not enough for a company who built most of its movies’ success on princesses and true love kisses. The same could be said about the lack of songs; there’s always a tune immediately blasting in your head when someone mentions Disney, the absence of such joyful musical moments certainly wounded Treasure Planet’s reputation. But on the other side, the only song within the movie (I’m not counting the outro) is really deep, and well inserted in the plot. I hardly picture any of the characters, even the main one – especially him – starting to sing their feelings out of the blue. The lack of sung serenades makes sense, but it may have not been appreciated by viewers who expected a full Broadway show. 

Finally, the whole aesthetic may have been quite unsettling for most of the viewers. I think the movie came out at an in-between of steampunk glory – after the success of Lovecraft and before the 00’ return of this style’s popularity. Again, I'm a big fan of the whole design; but it was also a bit too daring for the time. 

So to sum this up really quickly, I think that Treasure Planet was released too soon. It has the potential to be a bigger success, should it have been released nowadays. Beside the 3D parts that have aged badly, I honestly don’t think this movie’s outdated the slightest. I still think today that the viewers of 2002 weren’t ready for this movie, its story, characters and message. And to defend that, I’ll list the elements that make this movie a brilliant one. 

First of all, the whole story inspired by Stevensons’ Treasure Island is a major good point for me. The pirate aesthetic hadn’t come back fully in pop culture yet, and the original story has very interesting material ahead. The source of inspiration was an excellent idea. It also led to the unconventional coming-of-age story; most of the plot in this kind of scenario is about someone who becomes an adult somehow, through an epic quest. They have a good life, but thrive for more, or are the “chosen one” and all. Here, Jim is, admittedly by his mother, a juvenile delinquent. This late teenager is lost in his life, torn apart between his dreams of freedom, and the love he has for his mother. He doesn’t want to let her down, or disappoint her, but he doesn’t know what to do because no one can guide him through what’s possible for him. And as a young adult who had been through such a crisis for 5 solid years (and still not completely out of it let’s be honest), it is an important subject to bring up. It’s not that Jim is lazy or inherently a bad son, he just doesn’t know what to do and what the possibilities are. The cops, the clients of the inn, even the doctor and his mom had categorized him as a good-for-nothing so he’s kind of stuck in this role, all while deeply loving his mother and trying to help her. This internal conflict between what you want to do for your own good and what your heart wants to do to keep your loved ones (especially family) safe and proud of you isn’t completely foreign in a Disney movie; but it is something that is more recurrent in later movies, such as Moana, Tangled and such.

This is a great transition to address the subject of Jim’s family, which is also depicted in a very modern way in my opinion. The fact that he only has his mom in the movie is…painfully classical in a Disney movie (I mean, the no parents policy is basically a private joke in Disney movies now). But it’s one of the first movies where the dad’s absence is clearly and loudly mentioned, either by the characters themselves or through the song. It is also one of rare cases of a parent actually leaving their families; during the song, we see Jim’s dad leaving and never coming back (probably out buying intergalactic milk, I don’t know), but we also see Jim’s mom crying, him being deeply affected by his father’s absence through different phases of his childhood, and more than that, the effect of his dad’s absence is clearly mentioned several times. We don’t know if his father actually died out of space or if he just left Jim and Sarah – although several elements seem to indicate so, such as the fact we never see his face, that Sarah doesn’t have any picture of him in the inn or in her memory-locket-necklace, or that Jim says that he doesn’t miss his dad who’s more like “going away and never coming back”. Parent(s)’s deaths in Disney movies are usually either briefly mentioned as such (Atlantis, Cinderella, etc.) or a means to bring up a more tragic backstory that serves the character’s growth (Tarzan). Here we have a very realistic, bitter case of a father leaving his child and wife for no apparent reason; for a 2002 Disney movie, it is indeed a very modern take at the subject of one parent’s disappearance, especially at how they show the effects on every concerned character. 

And this is a very appreciated choice! When Encanto was released almost two years ago, I was thrilled by the serious issues such as intergenerational trauma, gaslighting within a family, and pain caused by neglect of elders someone looks up to. My first thought was “Finally, we can have a Disney movie that addresses very much real family issues, it’s a big step for them.” But then when I re-watched Treasure Planet, I realized that Disney had done that before, almost 20 years ago; and that’s why it’s a great movie. Children aren’t dumb (yes, I’m actually saying this), I do believe we can talk about any subject with them if we use words and concepts they can understand. They’re naive about a lot of things, and it’s natural they’re still kids; but if a kid can watch and understand Ariel wanting legs to seduce the good-looking fellow on the boat, they can understand that sometimes family can take different forms, including a single mother and her sons both struggling on different scales due to a husband and father abandon. 

This whole setting also allowed the movie to have a slightly different type of main character. I mentioned it briefly before, but Jim is a more complex character than most of the Disney protagonists of that time - and before. Once again, let’s make something clear about typology: complex doesn't necessarily mean complicated. Jim has a rather easily understandable goal, he wants to find his place, and what to do with his life. But the fact that he’s standing in-between the brashness of late-teenage years and seriousness of young adulthood, probably triggered earlier by his dad’s disappearance, makes him more complex. He’s a morally gray character, who’s sometimes acting like a brat (trespassing several times, getting arrested and such), but who also wants to get things right, especially for his mom. So by complex, I mean that Jim has nuances; much more than traditional Disney protagonists (that is especially true for all of the princesses lore anterior to this movie). There had been some examples of that before of course, with Aladdin and Tarzan for example; Megara in Hercules is loved because she’s witty AND a complex character. But she’s only a side character; in Treasure Planet it is  the protagonist and others who wear those traits (Silver, Jim, even Captain Amelia). It also reminds the turn-over of the team in the second part of Atlantis, when they all realize Rourke had gone too far while not even 10 minutes earlier they were assumed capitalist treasure snatchers regardless of Atlantean culture. So, those two big examples of more complex characters did a good job to prepare the field for their successors (Elsa in Frozen, Flynn Rider in Tangled, even Maui in Moana), but not enough to get the public satisfied enough when they came out. 

Jim’s evolution through the movie is also a really interesting one, because it does once again not fit into what I’d call a “traditional” goal in Disney movies. I’d say there are two main categories in there: a romance trope (seduce and/or reunite with the love interest as in Sleeping beauty, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, etc.) or a higher, destiny-boud, epic purpose or quest (Simba avenging his father and claiming his rightful place as the king, Arthur becoming king, Hercules trying to prove he’s a divine hero, Moana saving the ocean, Miguel trying to return to the living’s world and mend some of his families’ feud, Robin Hood fighting against oppression, and on and on). Of course I’m caricaturing things here, but it is indeed quite rare to have, such as in Treasure Planet, a protagonist with a very personal, almost selfish compared to other movies, goal. Sure there’s the Flynt’s treasure hunt, but more than that, the journey is about giving Jim an opportunity to find himself, his place, and his dreams. More importantly, he finds a father/guiding figure in Silver in once again a very subtle way. Jim doesn’t need a new father, he needs someone who listens to him and gives him the tools to choose his destiny himself. That is greatly pictured at the end of the movie when Silver offers Jim to follow him in the pirate way, and Jim declines saying he has his own future now. He doesn’t reject the cyborg’s way of life, for he had learned a lot from it, he simply acknowledged the outcomes of his journey under the guidance of Silver. Through all of their adventures we see on plenty of occasions Silver teaching Jim things, and Jim trying, understanding, and then mixing those things with his own ways to create something greater, more efficient and deeply personal. This is an excellent way of depicting teaching, especially for older or young adult character growth. They are already their own person, they don’t need to be made or inherently changed; but they still need an adjusted guidance to unlock and thrive through their potential. Again, this is a good, nuanced message that the movie aced. 

That being said, I’d like to talk again about the overall aesthetic of the movie. I was, and still am in awe in front of the chara-designs and ambience. Creating an animation movie using space aesthetics was brilliant, and it’s a shame there’s still not a lot of movies doing so. I mean, the color palette, patterns and design possibilities are endless, some screenshots of the movie are my favorite of all time. Plus, I really liked the design of some planets, mixing steampunk and a more Alien-like vibe. As for the characters, it’s still funny how we feel like we know what they’re partly inspired by, but at the same time being completely clueless? Like, Captain Amelia is a cat-lady or something? The scary spider-thing man? The whole pirate crew? Each character is an alien for the other and the designs are really funny to watch. And can we please talk about the absolute snack that Jim is? We’re talking about one of my very first fictional crushes here, and I said what I said. The boy is more charming than 90% of the Disney princes who had come before him, I won’t change my mind. 

To sum this up, I think that the design team and artists really had fun creating this movie, and that even if the whole aesthetic failed to please the public, it’s still an excellent exercise of style for the artistic direction team.  

So now, where does all of that lead to? I’ll try to make a quick conclusion about all of that. Basically I think that this movie was released too soon. The message and execution were great, there were some good ideas, but I don’t think the public was ready or expecting that. Disney needed a new success, and it should have been something like a new Aladdin, or The Little Mermaid; something more traditional they knew would absolutely work. Instead the viewers were disappointed by the new movie and turned their back on a too unconventional movie. Should it have been released ten years after, I’m pretty sure Treasure Planet would have had a better 3D and a better, well-deserved success. And honestly, the fact that some movies with interesting, new designs and plots failed to be popular is a disappointment for both the viewers and Disney itself. For example, Atlantis shares a lot of similarities with Treasure Planet on this subject. Can we stop for a second and imagine what could have happened on a larger scale if both of those movies had been successes? The impact on the way female characters are written, or people of color representation (which Atlantis was a great precursor of)? On how a good animated movie doesn’t necessarily needs a love story or a kiss (Milo and Kida never kiss, nor do they declare their undying love, because they met 3 days ago for fuck’s sake. Yes Cinderella and Snow White, I’m looking at you); or the impact on characters and universes design? Imagine the potential of both of those movie aesthetics for Disney parks attractions? For merch? 

In the end, the appreciation of a movie, especially one produced by Disney that we certainly watched as a kid, is deeply personal; the success or lack of at the box-office doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad movie. A dozen parameters are to be accounted for to understand if, and why the movie had been a critical failure, including the general context of movies of the same type at the time, and a more large view of the company and expectations of both the producers and the public. So if one day you’re rewatching a movie you love that hadn’t been exactly welcomed at its time, think about it; maybe it’s a true gem, never understood by critics, maybe it had come out too soon or too late. Maybe some of the movies that are considered the greatest of all time now will never be heard of by our grandchildren. We never know what will be popular in pop-culture in a decade or two; so if you enjoy a movie nobody loves, it’s okay. You like it, no matter what the critics might be right now, it’s a comfort movie of yours. And no one can take that away.

(aesthetic is myine, I did it some years ago. Thought it was the right time to dig it from the depth of my files!)

If you want to debate about the movie, of movies critic in general do not hesitate to drop by in the comments or in DMs! I love talking with fellow movies nerds ♥

#treasure planet #disney #review #movie critic #I'm ranting #justice for treasure planet #Jim Hawkins is a snack

[fluffypotatey]

girlie talking about how she's not a fan of shakespeare but her only point of reference is reading romeo and juliet from high school

#like.....girlie #g i r l i e #it is day one in this class and i already want to throw hands #i need to stop being a hater every first day of school it's not healthy #she talking about how the writing is just not for her but ma'am that was your first and only shakespeare play #you read it freshman year (1st year) of high school #of course it made no sense to you then! you've never read that kind of writing before!!!! #also shakespeare is not meant to be read!!! #it's meant to be performed but i digress #cannot believe i'm defending romeo and juliet #there was also another girlie who mentioned she wasn't a fan of shakespeare either #bc her only reference to shakespeare was reading King Lear in high school but this isn't about her this about the r&j girlie #(but again: you've had no other work similar to it and thus opinion is null & void) #anyway #i'm ranting

[nerdwashere]

I love the final episode in young royals.

The way they whisper between each other, afraid of the world hearing them. Not wanting the moment to stop, not wanting to return to reality. Raw emotions coming from both sides. I love how Simon still helps Wille after everything that happened. He knew he would get hurt but he stayed by Wille. He held him till the last moment of realization that by staying with Wilhelm he ruined himself. He gave up everything, until he had nothing more to offer.

I love the final song that represents their journey. I love how Simon still asks him to keep on fighting for his happiness. I love how he wants to make sure that Wille knows how much he loves him, and how much he wants Wille to be happy.

I love that none of them gave up on the other, even on times that it seemed that everything is hopeless. They held each other through hell and back.

I love how Wilhelm looks at Simon who is slowly swimming away from him. The look on his face telling, no asking "Was it all for nothing? I had one thing I loved and I ruined it again, I couldn't keep him" I can't imagine how hard it must be for him. He lost Erik, the only person in this world that he loved, and now he lost Simon too.

I love how, for a moment, after saying goodbye, he can't decide between chasing after Simon and staying where he is. And just for this once, he gives up all the hope. Hope for a future where he doesn't need to decide between his duty and his love. He learns that you have to choose between love and duty the hard way. I love how Simon tells that it was never them that was wrong. They were always right. It was the monarchy that was wrong, the royal family, Wilhelm's duty to his country is what was wrong.

I broke down with Simon. I love how we see him breaking down, instead of bottling it up how he usually does. We had seen it once in the series, and now we saw it again. And I felt my heart shatter both times. Just this once, he lets his emotions win the best of him, he lets himself be vulnerable and give into someone elses comfort.

All good things must come to an end eventually. The best things are the ones that are rare. That you can't find often and those that you can't keep for long. That is the beauty of things, they come and go, but some of them, the most rare and short moments in our lives are the things that matter the most, the ones that make us who we are.

#wilmon #i'm sad #young royals #cute #sad thoughts #i'm crying #i'm ranting #iloveyoungroyals #short and beautiful #is this the end? #it's time to say goodbye

[nevoadecaipora]

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#it makes me sad to be so sensitive with my friends #but it's really hard to talk to someone who's only studying and being funded by their parents about not having time because if work #i feel like an asshole everytime I have to remind them that I'm actually fucking broke and now part of the family income #some other group chat was telling me that I should avoid them for a while because they're being kinda rude #but like they're my friend since high school #and I don't want to believe they're doing this like out of malice #and maybe I'm actually pretty fucking sensitive #like there's nothing more that I want than to live my life and enjoy the fun of youth #but I'm fucking broke and I have to help my parents keep the house running #like besides me my dad is the only one with income in the house #and this shit weights on him he gets worried and anxious and I don't want him to be like that #since my mom's and brother's depression it's been me and my dad keeping stuff running #and my dad's income is jot super stable #like I don't want to make myself the victim but like i want to have fun too and hang out #but I can't cause I have to help the assholes make millions while they give me scraps #this is a frustrating week and I fucking hate rich people #my friend used to hate them too and have class conscience idk what's happening #or maybe i know i just don't want to believe it #anyways #i'm ranting #diário fudido da CLT

[nayeliq1]

always these ppl telling me that dean wanted to go out on a hunt bc he said so mimimi and asking me if I've even seen the show like- HAVE YOU SEEN IT if you think Dean ‘I swallow my feelings until I choke on them’ Winchester actually means that he wants to die on the job just bc he said so? if you saw it I guess you don't bother looking into the psyche behind a character and just take them by their word bc oh no complexity that's too complicated let's just ignore this character’s whole point of what makes him special and let's chop him down to a boring one-dimensional piece of meat:) 

but no ofc Dean wanted to die on a meaningless hunt after being bullied and drilled and brainwashed into the life so badly he couldn't even imagine a way out ofc he wanted to be plagued by toxic masculinity, internalized homophobia and self-esteem issues that make him unable to admit to himself that he wants a different path bc wanting to get out is wrong and he doesn't deserve more anyway and there's nothing better than giving your everything to the hunt including your life so don't you ever question it dean don't you dare grasp for something better good things don't happen and they certainly don't happen to you so HOW could you ever admit out loud that you want them anyway, stupidly, selfishly, how could you dare even think about it- better not, there'd be no point, why think about what you can't have, it'd be too painful, better tell everyone you're happy with the path that you've been chained to, maybe someday if you just say it often enough you'll actually believe it yourself. But yeah. Dean totally actually wanted to go out on a hunt. uhuh. HAVE I SEEN THE SHOW- honey I've seen deeper than the actual show but apparently you’ve just seen the screen

#sorry #i'm ranting #i know i shouldn't let dumb comments like that bother me #and I certainly shouldn't start arguing with someone in the comments #but sometimes I can't help it #i am agitated ok #just let me have my damn opinion ok maybe liking the finale and thinking it was brilliant and poetic wasn't the only valid way to see it #you feel that way fine good for you but leave me and my hatred alone #ppl will interpret characters differently that's what media is for #anyway #I feel better now thx for coming to my ted talk #dean winchester #dean winchester interpretation #dean winchester character analysis #dean winchester analysis #dean didn't want to die #and he certainly didn't want to die like that #dean deserves better #supernatural #supernatural rant #controversial opinion

[gayahithwen]

So, trying to analyze the current political landscape of the US. And I can so clearly see a path to a reasonable future, but I don't really have any power to make it happen.

But... the status quo isn't working. And the Democrats are finally realizing the extent of that. That's why they're doing the January 6th hearings.

And that's why they'll allow some amount of real election reform. Because the GOP aren't playing by the rules of the game anymore, so the Democrats will do everything in their power to get them out of the game.

So they'll institute some more measures to make elections more fair. Definitely do something about the gerrymandering. Maybe institute ranked choice. Even if they lose some of their base by allowing more leftist parties to gain a foothold, they will also gain a lot of moderates once it becomes clear that the GOP can't hold on to their seats in a fair election.

The Democrats would love to be the voice of moderates rather than radicals. Most of the leadership isn't really much better on a personal level than the GOP leadership. But. The difference is that the Democrats understand the value of being seen to follow the rules, in being observed adhering to a basic standard of human decency - and that's why they probably would allow the game to change. Because they believe they can still win.

But. My point is. There is a path to a future wherein the GOP drastically collapses. And the main political debates actually starts being between Democratic Capitalists (i.e. current Democrat party) and the Democratic Socialists. And probably there'd be a Green Party, too.

Just... it's a possibility. All the pieces are in place for something to actually happen. That's why I'm so pissed at the anti-voting rhetoric being thrown around in some places. It's not about believing in the Democratic party actually fixing the system at large because it's the right thing to do. I'm not asking anyone to take that on faith. It's about seeing how it's actually in the Democratic party's own best interests to make it harder for the GOP to hold on to any appearance of legitimacy.

They want to play the game again. They want to have boring policy debates and to find clever ways to work the system to their advantage. That's the kind of grifters they are. We can work with that.

That's why I so strongly believe the right thing is to vote blue in this election. Because a big turnout in these midterms, a Democratic supermajority... they are so ready to kick the GOP to the curb for the shit they've pulled.

#my posts #engaged democracy #us politics #I'm ranting #just... #most politicians like politics #that's the core of it #and the GOP are doing politics wrong #I trust the Democrats to serve themselves #but for once #doing that might help the rest of us too