#laika talk

[wreckham]

since im back its time to be annoying again. fandom lefties hated paranorman back in the day bc it said directly to their faces that being horribly traumatized bc of ostracism/abuse for unchangeable facets of yourself does not morally absolve you of any harm you do to barely/tangentially related ppl, and GOD that pissed them the fuck off lmao

#beck yammers #paranorman #laika #laika talk #season of the witch mashup with wet ass pussy: all i want for xmas this year

[captain-crowfish]

hello hello !!

I wanted to ask, who's your favorite character from Boxtrolls ?? it's one of my most favorite movies nyehe :3

(APOLOGIES IF I'VE ASKED BEFORE, I HAVE A HORRID MEMORY !!)

Hihihi!!!! Thank you for reaching out! always a pleasure to chat with some other Boxtroll fans... Boxtrollers? I love Eggs, Snatcher, and Winnifred in the film, but if I had to pick just one, it would definitely be Snatcher.

He's an absolute blast to try to analyze and try to get into his head, and I notice a new thing about him every time I re-watch the film... yes, all 63 times. I get the feeling that, the moment he learns Eggs is still alive, he starts to lose himself. He's kind of an idiot, but he makes up for it in cleverness. He knows just how to find people's weakness and exploit it for his own gain, and this is what makes him so formidable. He sees nothing but his own ambitions, completely ignoring his own weakness, and that ultimately leads to his demise. Heck, in the final scene, Eggs is telling him that he doesn’t need to eat cheese to be powerful, he is already powerful. He got people to listen to him. (although for all the wrong reasons) And what does he say to that? "I have made me, boy." Because despite Eggs making a brilliant point, Snatcher is still, exactly where he's wanted to be his whole life, eating cheese with the White Hats. Even if he only got there kind of on accident, and before that, he did the same thing to Eggs that the White hats did to him, pushing those beneath him in the social ladder even further down for the sake of gaining power. Also, in calling Eggs 'boy', he acknowledges his own progress in breaking through societal labels, it's the nicest thing he's said to him the entire movie, and he's still talking down to Eggs. So in this final scene, Eggs and Snatcher are both correct. They both want the exact same thing, to have their own identities and be accepted for it, and they achieve it by being the opposite of what they’re stereotyped as. Eggs, by being kind and brave, Snatcher, by being clever and manipulative. And that fact alone makes the little film-analyst in my brain squeal with delight.

Another thing I enjoy, and I've probably mentioned this before, every fan-depiction of Snatcher that I've seen is slightly different. We all have our different interpretations of this guy, and I think that's a key indicator as to how complicated he really is, and I love him for it. Just a bonus thing I want to admit, interestingly enough, in the novelization of the film, (Not to be confused with 'Here Be Monsters!') Winnifred ends up being my favorite character,

even if that is mostly due to how the book is only told from the direct POV from either Eggs or Winnie. As much as I dislike the novel, it provides just the right amount of extra details to really flesh out her character. She's so bored with her home life that her coping mechanism is somewhat self-destructive, and that description both over-exaggerates and summarizes her arc in the book. Again, it's a pretty bad novel, but it's a blast to compare & contrast with the film.

#laika talk #crowfish crap #ramble ramble ramble #the boxtrolls #archibald snatcher #winnifred portley-rind #in fact the “You make you” message applies to all major characters in the film and it makes me stand up in my seat- #-loudly clapping my hands together and shouting. “BRILLIANT. JUST BRILLIANT. THIS IS THE KIND OF SUBTEXT ALL WRITERS SHOULD STRIVE FOR!” #I fucking love boxtrolls #posts about boxtrolls #please ask me to ramble about it sm'more because I will do it giddily #eggs trubshaw #laika films #laika movies #MMMMMMMMMMMMMM #laika kids #still putting gifs in my tumblr post like a madman- no i will not stop #please please please make me talk about this film sm'more #asks

[shrowdly]

Yue, Mars, and Laika in 13 Beware's style!

#rotten art #laika's comet #laikas comet #i actually did this during the stream last night while everyone was talking about the laika being like miku and aus n stuff #and i was gonna share it but then i got nervous. oh well! #anyway 13 beware's style rules are 1. sharp 2. a little messy and 3. grayscale except for the eyes #story: 13 beware

[charrfie]

#im so sad it was such a good ask blog too but my mood has been so severely impacted by it i literally could not handle it anymore #big surprise your favorite character being put through constant and severe turmoil is emotionally damaging. who wouldve guessed #it makes me sad people are so fucking mean too :^( #<- in relation to some of the asks folks send in to guide stories along #like sure cute aggression yeah whatever but some of yall are straight up cruel for no reason. ill never understand it #i really wish i had the heart to keep following this blog bc its such a huge and beautiful passion project... but im sensitive:^( #even if its fictional #sorry to the mutual i had to break </3 wahhhh #late night personal posting. goodnight #laika originals #oh should i tag this as uhhh #vent #? kind of not really im just talking here

[puhpandas]

Evan would be in the Laika artstyle Gregory would be like 90s anime super sparkly huge eyes artstyle

#laika as in coraline paranorman etc #tbh they both could be in the laika artstyle #now i want to draw what they would look like #evan gives off such norman vibes #pandas.txt #pandas talks #flashlight duo #gregory and evan #thoughts

[wundrousarts]

Wow, love this still from the animated Nevermoor movie!

#look me in the eyes and tell me they don’t have similar visual vibes and shape language to the jupiter and baz we love and hate #nevermoor #nevermoor meme #the boxtrolls #jupiter north #baz charlton #I was basically a marketer for free for laika when this movie came out I was desperate to get ppl to see it 😭 #there was talks that if it flopped they’d like shut down so I endlessly promoted it #similar things for both kubo and missing like afterwards 😭 #wildwood where are youuuuu #stop motion 🫶🫶🫶

[smthlok]

i think, i think laika guides our souls to the beyond when our bodies finally go. she’s a chipper, bright eyed, little dog at our feet, yipping happily to take us to the next stage of our life, whatever that may be.

#i’m making myself sad #talking #laika the space dog

[strabius-berry]

Tumblr needs to blow up over Paranorman right now cuz that film was so much better than i remembered, and also it qualifies as a "healing of generational trauma" film when you look into Norman's maternal family heritage. [no spoilers tho]

It opens to a raw look into turbulent relationship between norman and his family, and by the end they learn to appreciate him for his gift and begin to try and understand him, the atmosphere in his home improving from rejection to acceptance.

Norman can be easily read as neurodivergent for viewers (like myself) who have ever felt outcasted by our family, our peers, our society. Heck, I'd wager queer kids and teens could also probably relate to his home life and struggles, even if queer rep in the film itself is only reserved for one end-of-film joke [no spoilers tho].

What i'm getting at tho is this film definitely needs to be shared over tumblr, gushed about, discussed about, critiqued over how it could be improved on, drawn more fanart, acknowledged as a piece of art.

#i say stuff #i cried rewatching it so now i must talk about it #paranorman #laika studios #paranorman 2012 #stopmotion animation #generational trauma #trauma healing

[skeletronza]

Been listening to @legendlarkpod lately… i like these guys

#nobody say anything im on like ep15 or smthn. fuck life #legendlark #dames and dragons #???do thry even use that #corbin #laika #fran #idfk #this will get 2 likes and idgaf MAKE ART FOR FUN!!! #sorry for linking a talking heads song it’ll definitely happen again tho #doodle

[pixelkip]

Curiosities of Lotus Asia ch. 35 has an Aibo in it and I'm gonna be a nerd about it.

Ok I have no idea just how many touhou fans are aware of Laika, Rinnosuke's robot dog introduced in CoLA ch35 but if you're not aware, he finds this robot and it causes all sorts of chaos and wrecks his shop, and they eventually find out its possessed by a puppy spirit. If you're at all curious, go read it on the touhou wiki if you haven't already.

How do I know for sure that it's an Aibo? Well, on top of the fact it definitely resembles one, Sumireko suggests naming it Aibo and in BAiJR Aya literally says it's an aibo. This is one of the few things she probably didn't lie about in this book bc how the hell would she otherwise even know what an aibo is TO be able to lie about it.

(Side note, the official name is just "AIBO", im not sure why she calls it AIBO buddy here, maybe bc aibo is a pun on the japanese word meaning buddy but why tack it onto the end? Idk)

Ok for those who don't know what an aibo is, it's a series of robot dogs Sony made, there were several models released between 1999-2006, and later had the ers-1000 in 2018 which is still available (and I personally have an ers-111 :3)

Pictured: aibo models ers-310, 220, 110, 210, and 7

Ok, so, what kind of AIBO is Laika then?

This is where it gets.. confusing.

this line from sumireko would imply it's an ers-110, as it was the very first model of aibo ever released.

But.. laika doesn't look much like a 110

Ok the way she's drawn doesn't look that close to ANY real model of aibo, but the drawing makes her look more like a 210, with the (probably) white coloration, visor shape, and upturned ears.

(110 vs 210)

It's also possible she doesnt resemble any model too closely to avoid copyright issues, but even then she visually resembles a 210 much more than a 110.

Other than that ch35 doesn't give us much else to determine her model, she doesn't display any particular behaviors that would indicate it, rinnosuke says her expressions can't be read implying her eye lights are non functional, and that she's completely silent. Aibos LOVE to make noise, and usually communicate through music and tones, so it's likely the animal spirit is simply pup-petting (hehe) a nonfunctional aibo body. Rinnosuke also mentions that it's begun to actually listen to him, which would imply a 210 or later (110 and 111 do not have voice recognition) if it weren't for the possibility that again, it's just the puppy controlling it.

So there's a few possibilities here.

- zun didn't depict her to be any particular model to not get smited by sony's lawyers

- she is a 110 but for whatever reason, be it a miscommunication or just zun or the artist deciding it didn't matter that much, that isn't reflected in the art

- sumireko is wrong, and she is a 210

Or maybe she's just a 110 with some cool customization, like paint and custom ear pieces. Then again, she did pass into gensokyo meaning she's been totally forgotten, and that seems less likely if someone took the time to customize her.

So now im curious. Given the evidence, what do YOU think laika is? Even if you didn't know shit about aibo before this post, hell, ESPECIALLY if you didn't, what do you think?

Personally I kinda like to think she's a 210 bc I think they're neat. Maybe even a gold 210, since the yellow tinge in the cover art makes her look like the very pale gold of the pale gold 210s. But as an existing aibo enjoyer I'm a little biased

I really hope laika gets to come back at some point, I have a little bit of hope since beast spirits as a plot point have become a lot more significant. She seems like a very good doggy :]

If you for some reason read all of this thank you for indulging my insanity

#touhou #touhou project #laika touhou #guess whos obsessing over characters no one cares about again #aibo #i talked about aibo so much in this post i might as well tag it l #curiosities of lotus asia

[wreckham]

laikaposting o'clock. which laika movie would make the best animated series?

#beck yammers #laika #laika talk #coraline #paranorman #the boxtrolls #kubo and the two strings #missing link

[macaronibones]

unironically crying over russian space dogs its just one of those nights

GOOD DOGS

#russian space dogs #laika the space dog #pchyolka and mushka #I COULD BE A GOOD MOTHERRRR #sobbing at bars and lisichka #theyre all good dogs #i could talk about this all day but not without crying #please go read the wiki its so awful #they treated those dogs so badly

[fedoraspooky]

Sure he can make record delivery time without a car, but he's gotta be careful- those pizza bags aren't blast-proof!

#stickmanoc #stickfigure #stickman #stickfigureoc #stick figure oc #cosmic fiasco #post-story #myOCs #Charlie #art stuff #drew these since we talked about what Charlie would do job-wise after he's used to living outside the lab #since fighting space baddies isn't exactly a paid gig #so yeah- pizza gig on the side! #he can finally #feed his enormous appetite without worrying about putting laika and tikki in the red ;w;

[charrfie]

Okay now that a bit of the hype around the spamton love network video has died down can I say something. I'm probably just overanalyzing things but this bit in it was so reminiscent of johnny chaos to me and I am dying to know if it was intentional or not. Did anyone else notice this

#number one johnny chaos fan here. evere since the rtvs crew came up with that guy ive been thinking about him #(if anyone doesnt know what im talking about he was a character created for a forum rp wayne created during his sonic subathon) #(i really recommend the vod if you havent seen it bc its extremely funny) #i saw someone got banned earlier. its concerning. /ref #the mention of spinning reminded me of him too #laika originals

[puhpandas]

top 10 artstyles Gregory and Evan would be in

#gregory and evan in that order #evan would sooooo be in a laika film #and kh has the big shiny eyes but realistic face #which is what gregory would be #hes basically already like that in the game #his eyes are so huge #he looks like a bug #pandas.txt #pandas talks #flashlight duo #gregory and evan

[loveaetingkids]

Me pointing at every bug reference in Coraline after rewatching it for 100th time:

#pls talk to be about coraline I have so many movie facts stored in that little brain of mine #coraline #studio laika #laika #shower thoughts