i love the artistic stylings of studio ghibli as much as anyone else does but im kind of sick of anything with like vivid environments and big blue skies being branded as ghibliesque. because its like. you know where else you can hypothetically find some vivid environments with big blue skies? my friend the great and wonderful outdoors are here for you
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Decided to look a bit closer into what changed about the way Alastor is animated (I liked it a lot more on some subconscious level and wanted to know specifically why), and one major thing I've observed outside of the artstyle being generally more consistent (in terms of line thickness and such) is that the lines of his mouth are sharper even when he is mid-sentence.
Pilot vs Show
Or when he is smiling but not grinning.
Pilot vs Show
His face is also generally less squishy. It felt strange for such an intimidating and refined character to be so... malleable. Generally I think the changes in the new animation style are a huge win.
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I don’t think we as a society talk nearly enough about how intricately connected cats and women are. cats are associated with women so heavily, not just in English but in other languages as well. the stereotype of the ‘crazy cat lady’, the fact words to refer to cats are often also used to refer to female genitalia, ‘cat fight’, ‘catty’, etc.
Cats have suffered alongside women, too, which is not something I have seen brought up. Cats were targeted during the Witch Hunts as well, and suffered similar fates as the women they hunted. During this time, cats were nearly driven to extinction, and the mice and rat population go out of control— which is believed to have heavily contributed if not outright caused one of the most famous plagues.
To this day, I think we need to analyze if it’s truly a coincidence that cats are often portrayed as mean or uncaring because they do not behave the same way as dogs— “man’s best friend”— that their boundaries are violated for fun and then people criticize the cat for reacting, for self-defense. They will mutilate a cat so it cannot defend itself, and then abandon it when it is understandably upset, when it can no longer feel safe.
If you look at the statistics, more cats enter animal shelters than dogs, and tend to stay for longer. Personally, my local humane societies seem to have almost exclusively cats. In part, this is because cats are more effective at reproducing than dogs, and there are very little if any resources dedicated to to TNR. This is also because people will not spay/neuter their cats, and then will abandon the cat and/or just the kittens.
I do not think it is entirely coincidental that cats are so heavily associated with women, and they are villainized for not being dogs. That dogs are called “man’s best friend”, but somehow that does not mean cats are called “women’s best friend”— instead diamonds are, for whatever reason, despite women’s shared history with cats, and shared experience of being villainized for having boundaries. They are made the villain for being cats instead of dogs, they are called uncaring and “assholes” because the way they show love is not identical to the way a dog does.
I feel like there is no way it is entirely coincidental, the way cats are hated and the way they are so heavily associated with women, with females.
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My fave thing to see on the internet is, under videos about animals by biologists who specialize in those animals, some guy with 0 credentials in the comment section being like: “erm, actually, professional scientist person… you’re WRONG about that animal, here’s what it REALLY is: [information that the video directly disproves but that they’re still adamant about being a fact for some reason]”
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//Mammon x reader art//🍀
Stuck in his web :-)
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!Content warnings!: suggestive, not nsfw! Idk who out here wants that guy but I do(ToT)
This is just a silly late night doodle i did with a moot, it ain't much
Here it isss
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He's the type to brat all day and night to get your attention, if you ask me.
The guy is so desperate for attention I genuinelly cannot emphasize it enough
He also thinks he can just throw money at people and they'll love him and if it doesn't work on you he is going to be so frustrated and confused..
Like huh?? What do you mean cash can't get him in your pants?? How??
Make him work for your acknowledgement, it'll be entertaining.
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He's the worst guyze I love him
I love me a little repulsive guy. A little horrible unappealing dude
"unappealing dude" I say as if I didn't want him from the second he showed up on screen. "Women just aren't funny" whatever you say beautiful, now get on your knees I want to see what that weird colorful tongue can do since speaking just clearly ain't what it's best at.
Contradictions are the best guyze. Try it sometime.
More food coming in: whenever it is early enough to take my totally licit drugs again
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