#late 1990s animation

[fluidnet]

I was half asleep and thinking about all the stories like She’s The Man and Mulan (1999) where a woman dresses up like a man in order to do something ManlyTM and how they all inevitably fall in love with the masculinity of it all while still being women (or not, I guess, fiction is flexible and gender is more so)

and I went “give me a man who chooses to dress as a woman instead of resorting to violence. Give me a man who, in finding femininity and softness, can find himself. Give me a man who chooses kindness and love over war and aggression, but the only way he can do so is finding solace in the feminine. Not because femininity is inherently softer, but because society has told him as such. Give me a man who, through trial and error, finds himself learning to love the traditional women’s tasks he’s been clumsily attempting. Give me a man who could never truly fit in with other men, and the women around him protect him and love him unconditionally. Give me a man who cannot stand for himself at first, and then rises stronger together with the people who took him in”

And I realized that “give me a man who dresses as a woman in order to avoid going to war” is just. Achilles. And I want that classically animated movie now. I don’t even care if it’s sanitized like the Disney Renaissance Mulan or Hercules, in fact I’d enjoy that. I want Achilles to choose kindness and love and beauty over the war he never wanted to fight. I want a lighthearted, playful version of Achilles where there’s a happy ending. I know it’s a tragedy, but so were a lot of things that got animated at the time (not even Disney, Anastasia and Quest for Camelot come to mind as well) and I think he and Patroclus can have a happily ever after, too

I also want it to be gay, but I think that goes without saying

#patroclus #achilles #greek myth #greek mythology #animation #disney renaissance #late 1990s animation #happy stories #feminine men #she’s the man #mulan #feminine #femininity #masculine #masculinity #give me uwu soft boi that I can blorbo

[popculturebaby]

Perfect Blue (1997)

#perfect blue #1997 #anime #pop culture #movies #90s #90s nostalgia #late 90s #90s cinema #90s anime #1990s #1990s vintage #1990s aesthetic #satoshi kon #mima kirigoe #90s horror #90s aesthetic #1990s cinema

[gingerbredman1989]

A massively muscular and vascular male collegiate bodybuilder in a 2D cartoon animation style popular in the mid to late 1990s.

ChatGPT with DALL-E

#ChatGPT #DALL-E #ai generated #ai image #ai muscle #ai bodybuilder #ai art #ai vascularity #ai college bodybuilder #mid to late 1990s #2D cartoon animation style

[vertigoartgore]

Dreamworks's The Prince of Egypt turn 25 today. Feel old yet ?

#the prince of egypt #1998 #Dreamworks #moses #egypt #pharaon #bible #animation #at 25 #before Shrek #1990s #late 90s #90's #90s #underrated

[adventures-of-atticus]

Yeehaw! Happy Halloween, everybody!!!

#plushblr #plush #plushie #stuffed animal #wolf plush #wolf #cowboy #pumpkin #atticus the wolf #edited in photoshop #we only got like 10 kids this year #i was a late 80s-early 90s uhhh person #like 1980s and 1990s #i didn't dress as an old guy haha

[magentagalaxies]

realizing most buddy cole fans don't even know who cornygirl is.... tragic

#i should host a buddy cole trivia game or something i wanna know how much people know lmao #cornygirl appears in a few pieces of buddy cole media but none of the most mainstream ones #she first appears in buddy babylon (the buddy cole autobiography). she was on conan with buddy in the late 1990s #and then later got kidnapped and scott went on conan as buddy to send a message to her kidnappers #she was referenced in the mixology monology tour from the late 90s (i forget if she was actually in it tho) #and i think she might have been referenced in the pilot for the buddy cole animated sitcom? idk i'd have to read it again #the buddy cole extended universe runs deep guys it's so much bigger than you could've imagined

[vhshistory]

February 9, 1999: DreamWorks' Antz (1998) is released on VHS.

#antz #dreamworks #dreamworks animation #vhs #physical media #home video #1990s #90s #late 90s

[loveaquariuslove]

1998 mcdonalds

#90s nostalgia #90s #1990s #late 90s #late 1990s #1998 #1998 nostalgia #childhood nostalgia #childhood #1998 childhood #peter pan #my little pony g2 #transformers beast wars #animal kingdom #beanie babies #tamagotchi #barbie #hot wheels #the black cauldron #flubber #mary poppins #lady and the tramp #Pocohontas #hercules #101 dalmatians #lion king #recess #a bugs life

[kaisaunders85]

Happy 25th Anniversary Mulan!

#disney #animated #late 1990s #mulan 1998 #ancient china #women’s rights #happy anniversary #disney princess #honor to us all

[monsterthorst]

Okay. I have literally disappeared from the world, so sorry for that! I do plan to try to begin writing again, just having fun and going with it, BUT I DESPERATELY NEED HELP FIRST!!! I am desperately looking for this movie and I have no idea what the name of it is.

Okay. This description is going to sound so insane because I haven’t seen this movie since I was around 6-8 and it’s very fuzzy, but! I’m looking for this movie and it’s about this blonde woman or teenager who ends up getting struck by lightning or electrocuted or something happens to her, and then she’s able to shapeshift both into animals and people she knows? She ends up having to battle this man who used to be an evil Egyptian pharaoh with the help of his son who is also still somehow alive (he has black hair and he can also shapeshift and there’s a flashback that shows him as a baby with one of those ‘coned’ or morphed heads as they did in Egypt). He ends up dying in the end but so does the evil dude, and the woman ends up becoming an actress/stage play afterwards. That doesn’t make any sense but I literally know nothing else about it and I’m desperately trying to prove to my family that it exists. PLEASE HELP ME!!😭😭😭😭

I 100% plan to start writing again, picking up stories and enjoying them while I have time during summer break, but I GOTTA know the name of this movie first😂😂😭😭

#2000s movies #nostalgia #old movies #animated 2000s movies #2000s nostalgia #late 1990s #1990s movies #help me #I have to find this movie

[kaz-foxsen]

#Movie Theater Time Machine #podcast continues #Miyazaki March with a #review of "Princess Mononoke". For more, visit www.movietheatertimemachine.com

#MTTimeMachine #moviereview #filmreview #podernfamily #podbean #podcast #movie #film #movie review #review #podcast review #anime #anime movie #90s movies #1990s movies #late 90s #studio ghibli #princess mononoke #hayao miyazaki #90s anime #animated movies

[luckynightkryptonite]

#1999 #anime #1990s anime #classic anime and Manga #Late 90s

[gingerbredman1989]

A massively muscular and vascular male collegiate bodybuilder in a 2D cartoon animation style popular in the mid to late 1990s.

ChatGPT with DALL-E

#chatgpt #dall-e #ai generated #ai image #ai muscle #ai bodybuilder #ai art #mid to late 1990s #2d cartoon animation style #college bodybuilder

[1o1percentmilk]

ask game!! this might be outta left field but- panty & stocking! you're art has similar lively colors and strong lines ^o^ sharp, clean, niiiiiceeee

yeah no i think about panty stocking all the time... i EAT that art style..!!!!!!

#i really like their take on the late 1990s early 2000s american cartoon look... chunky bold colors and lines yeah #with thick straight lines ok its like dried pasta to me (very good to chew) #gotta love how all the sound effects in the show are accompanied by onomatopoeia #and then it art shifts and its like WOW!!!! #i thinki just like crass adult shows with punchy animation.. p&s and clone high.. funny to me and good to look at #thank you! (•u•)/ #ask #anon #ask games

[reasonsforhope]

"Many people know about the Yellowstone wolf miracle. After wolves were reintroduced to the national park in the mid-1990s, streamside bushes that had been grazed to stubble by out-of-control elk populations started bouncing back. Streambank erosion decreased. Creatures such as songbirds that favor greenery along creeks returned. Nearby aspens flourished.

While there is debate about how much of this stemmed from the wolves shrinking the elk population and how much was a subtle shift in elk behavior, the overall change was dramatic. People were captivated by the idea that a single charismatic predator’s return could ripple through an entire ecosystem. The result was trumpeted in publications such as National Geographic.

But have you heard about the sea otters and the salt marshes? Probably not.

It turns out these sleek coastal mammals, hunted nearly to extinction for their plush pelts, can play a wolf-like role in rapidly disappearing salt marshes, according to new research. The findings highlight the transformative power of a top predator, and the potential ecosystem benefits from their return.

“It begs the question: In how many other ecosystems worldwide could the reintroduction of a former top predator yield similar benefits?” said Brian Silliman, a Duke University ecologist involved in the research.

The work focused on Elk Slough, a tidal estuary at the edge of California’s Monterey Bay. The salt marsh lining the slough’s banks has been shrinking for decades. Between 1956 and 2003, the area lost 50% of its salt marshes.

Such tidal marshes are critical to keeping shorelines from eroding into the sea, and they are in decline around the world. The damage is often blamed on a combination of human’s altering coastal water flows, rising seas and nutrient pollution that weakens the roots of marsh plants.

But in Elk Slough, a return of sea otters hinted that their earlier disappearance might have been a factor as well. As many as 300,000 sea otters once swam in the coastal waters of western North America, from Baja California north to the Aleutian Islands. But a fur trade begun by Europeans in the 1700s nearly wiped out the animals, reducing their numbers to just a few thousand by the early 1900s. Southern sea otters, which lived on the California coast, were thought to be extinct until a handful were found in the early 1900s.

In the late 1900s, conservation organizations and government agencies embarked on an effort to revive the southern sea otters, which remain protected under the Endangered Species Act. In Monterey Bay, the Monterey Bay Aquarium selected Elk Slough as a prime place to release orphaned young sea otters taken in by the aquarium.

As the otter numbers grew, the dynamics within the salt marsh changed. Between 2008 and 2018, erosion of tidal creeks in the estuary fell by around 70% as otter numbers recovered from just 11 animals to nearly 120 following a population crash tied to an intense El Niño climate cycle.

While suggestive, those results are hardly bulletproof evidence of a link between otters and erosion. Nor does it explain how that might work.

To get a more detailed picture, the researchers visited 5 small tidal creeks feeding into the main slough. At each one, they enclosed some of the marsh with fencing to keep out otters, while other spots were left open. Over three years, they monitored the diverging fates of the different patches.

The results showed that otter presence made a dramatic difference in the condition of the marsh. They also helped illuminate why this was happening. It comes down to the otters’ appetite for small burrowing crabs that live in the marsh.

Adult otters need to eat around 25% of their body weight every day to endure the cold Pacific Ocean waters, the equivalent of 20 to 25 pounds. And crabs are one of their favorite meals. After three years, crab densities were 68% higher in fenced areas beyond the reach of otters. The number of crab burrows was also higher. At the same time, marsh grasses inside the fences fared worse, with 48% less mass of leaves and stems and 15% less root mass, a critical feature for capturing sediment that could otherwise wash away, the scientists reported in late January in Nature.

The results point to the crabs as a culprit in the decline of the marshes, as they excavate their holes and feed on the plant roots. It also shows the returning otters’ potential as a marsh savior, even in the face of rising sea levels and continued pollution. In tidal creeks with high numbers of otters, creek erosion was just 5 centimeters per year, 69% lower than in creeks with fewer otters and a far cry from earlier erosion of as much as 30 centimeters per year.  

“The return of the sea otters didn’t reverse the losses, but it did slow them to a point that these systems could restabilize despite all the other pressures they are subject to,” said Brent Hughes, a biology professor at Sonoma State University and former postdoctoral researcher in Silliman’s Duke lab.

The findings raise the question of whether other coastal ecosystems might benefit from a return of top predators. The scientists note that a number of these places were once filled with such toothy creatures as bears, crocodiles, sharks, wolves, lions and dolphins. Sea otters are still largely absent along much of the West Coast.

As people wrestle to hold back the seas and revive their ailing coasts, a predator revival could offer relatively cheap and effective assistance. “It would cost millions of dollars for humans to rebuild these creek banks and restore these marshes,” Silliman said of Elk Slough. “The sea otters are stabilizing them for free in exchange for an all-you-can-eat crab feast.”"

-via Anthropocene Magazine, February 7, 2024

#otters #sea otters #conservation #erosion #coastal erosion #coastline #marshes #saltwater #marine science #marine biology #marine animals #sea creatures #ocean #sustainability #soil erosion #erosion control #crab #good news #hope

[dennistamayo]

Animated Movies on DVD

Between the late 1990s & today, American animated films old & new were released on DVD-Video aka DVD with full screen until 2009 & widescreen versions on one disc in black DVD keep cases without slipcases aka slipcovers, including direct-to-video animated films old & new in ether 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratios. Wakko’s Wish is a prime example.

#dvd video #dvd #american animation #late 1990s #2000s #2010s #early 2020s