alr I lied I gotta talk about smth else quickly
• so remember when I mentioned branch's reaction to the country song when they entered lonesome flats??
yeah now let's talk about how poppy reacted
poppy hears the song then concludes that the country trolls are miserable and don't know how to have fun
and what better way to make them have fun?? force them to listen to pop music.
cough cough barb parallels COUGH
ofc that doesn't work the country trolls are appalled by their pop medley
all of them... except for hickory
I think poppy was drawn to hickory because he was the only one that seemed to along with what she had to say without any complaints basically he said what she wanted to hear so she trusted him wholeheartedly
now let's actually get into my favorite part of this movie
• I LOVE THE FUNK TROLLS HOLY FUCKING SHIT
I don't think you need a genius to figure out that these are black folks LIKE LOOK AT THEM AND LISTEN TO THE QUEEN ESSENCE
guys the vas of the royal funk family are all black. ik maybe doesn't mean anything BUT MAYBE IT DOES ALR
anyways no matter what race the funk trolls may be they still play such an important role in this movie and let me tell y'all why and how
thru their encounter with the funk trolls, our pop trolls duo (yeah biggie left) learn three important things :
- differences do matter, they're a part of our identity and it would be wrong to ignore them
- even with those differences and origins, trolls still can be multiple/different things (ex.: cooper who says that he's pop AND funk, prince d who identifies as a hip pop troll which is not on poppy's outdated ass map)
- yeah that story poppy heard from the pop trolls' perspective?? yeah no that's not how it actually happened
explained beautifully by anderson .paak's song, the pop trolls stole all the strings, used them to make their kind of music and cut out the other trolls from the music scene
in the words of prince d
"That's just the story cut out and glued by the winners"
AND YES THAT'S HISTORY FOR YA
different retellings, stories of what happened from another pov because guess which perspective you read from the history books?? the winners.
poppy hears all this and y'all idk if it's because poppy's voiced by anna kendrick but this is where all I could think about of was white saviour complex
because this girl is still all about uniting all trolls so they'll live in harmony and yes it comes from a good place but she's just not getting it and fucking hell 😭
she does get the message at the end of the movie after finally meeting barb and speaking of her....
• barb is awful and that's what makes her a great character
as we all know barb's plan is so "unite" all troll nations under the rule of hard rock which is not uniting that's just assimilation
where poppy's desire for every troll to live together in harmony all united by music, barb's comes from a sense of superiority and maybe even pity
evident by every moment she steals a string, barb comments on the other trolls' music with insults which justifies why their music isn't real music while hers is
what's funny is that barb and poppy are very similar
they both really want to prove themselves as good queens, they desire for all trolls to be united and, even if poppy won't admit it, they both see their music as superior tho that degree of superiority is very different
where the similarities end are that barb doesn't want everyone around her to say what she wants to hear, she wants ppl to be real to her, meanwhile poppy refuses to hear anyone else's voice because it's different from hers
which leads to another difference between the two, poppy learns to listen to others because
"A real queen listens." (both said by her and branch)
now let's talk about that finale shall we??
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listen i fucking loved amanda in saw x. babygirl was acting SO deranged. “get some sleep, you’re going to fucking need it” GOOSEBUMPS!! “you’ll be fine as long as you keep your head” to valentina was so wrong 😭
there were just a lot of moments that i felt captured her character impeccably and i wasn’t sure this movie would succeed in that. but her compassion towards gabriela, her playfulness, her emotional attachment to the work, etc were so true to the amanda we know and love.
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Oh my god, thank you guys for the messages! I can’t wait to read them all when I get home! 🥰❤️
I’m going to see the new TF movie. I saw it last night and I handled it really really well. My biggest issue keeping me from enjoying the movie however - besides not hyperfixating on anything anymore - is thinking these characters want to hurt me bc that’s what my abuser made me believe. I used to look at Bee and think he’d love me more than anything in the world, and I’ve been trying so hard to remember how I used to self ship, seeing myself as worthy of their love. I really want to reclaim all of the characters lost to me, but I don’t know how to do that when the trauma is so fresh in my mind
I want to see the movie again with the mindset that they do love me and have been waiting for me to save the world with them again. Especially my Honeybee 🥺💛 way easier said than done but it’s worth a shot. and if I can’t handle it then I’ll just leave
Mirage 100% calls me his babygirl because that’s what’s on my shirt. And when we start dating he’s introducing me to Optimus like “this is my babygirl”
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okayy idc gabriel o'hara was a lover of romance movies growing up. conchata used to like them and sometimes, when he was little, when miguel was holed up on the computer and george was at work, she would sit down on the sofa and gabriel would climb up next to her and she'd put on old, cheesy romances. she'd stroke his hair and say, "watch, gabri, that's how you treat will a girl someday."
and maybe he enjoyed them more than she did, eventually, when miguel left for school and it was just him and parents were screaming at each other in the next room and he could hide under his covers with a tablet and pretend love is real somewhere else. he would see these lonely people on screen have their lives changed by finding love; suddenly they aren't boring or flawed or unlikeable because they have that person that makes them whole. and as he gets older, that's what he wants; he doesn't like himself, he doesn't think he's any good on his own, but if he could find someone who could make him good, then he won't have to feel like that anymore.
he falls in love fast and hard because every girl that shows him affection could be the one that will finally make him feel right. but they never do, he's always too insecure or too clingy or too malleable, not strong or intelligent or interesting like his brother, as dana made perfectly clear to him. he'll always be the little boy on the couch watching people love each other through a screen, and his desperation to have that for himself is the reason he'll never find it. and augh that hurts.
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long fucking rant about the joy of reading a good book. (not at all accurate title)
I just finished reading Felidae! incredible book I really love the story and- okay bear with me. I got the book a few years back because my mom mentioned reading it when she was younger. I told her I'd want to read it as well and she went through the painstaking process of finding it (which was not easy because the Author is a right fucking prick so his books aren't really sold anymore.)
so we found it on ebay eventually.( god knows I am not givin that author my money) I left it alone for a few years, had other shit to read and actually did not read much at all during that time...
right fast forward I decide I should read it because one of my terrible habits is starting thousands of things at once and never really finishing any of em. SO AND THIS IS WHERE IT GETS INTERESTING! I read the first 3 pages or so n talked to my mom and brother about it shortly, saying I liked the way it was written, the characters, the exposition, etc etc- AND at the mention of the plot my brother goes "oh! I've heard of that! it's the book that some german studio made into that horrifying animated movie adaptation!" AND IT ALL CAME CRASHING DOWN
because I remember what he meant because you KNOW tiny me with unrestricted internet access had seen some clips of the gory , disturbing cat-movie before! and you know what? I was unfortunate (or maybe fortunate , seeing how I'm a massive horror fan now) enough to watch "Watership down" as a kid so when I saw Felidae being ranked even HIGHER than that movie in those "ooh horrofying disturbing kids movieees ooh" lists, I swore I'd never watch it..
and here we are, I read that boook so fast and it is actually incredibly entertaining (i also just have never read a "krimi" before so I definitely have a high appreciation for the genre now)
I am incredibly excited to watch the movie. JUST AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH a 2D animated thriller-detective cat movie with horrorfying scenes and absurd amounts of gore??? COUNT ME IN
TL:DR : I realize that reading is fun if you actually have a good book to read and obsess over the story of a cat solving a series of cat murders
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