This is Alimpson’s sideblog
Created to help manage likes by reblogging everything not dragonfable in their likes.
(Hah, gender neutral pronouns give NOTHING.)
Now if only I could figure out how to pin posts.
This will, after this point, be only reblogs. Thousands of them.
I have 1018 to do here and now.
Main does not-reblog stuff. Except for Dragonfable, going to reblog dragonfable stuff on main blog.
Edit:I’m done, and now up to only new stuff. So posting will slow down.
They should create a shonen with women
All women. I want all that bullshit about the power of friendship shouted by a overpowered girl main character. Homoerotic rivalry between women that aren’t about a guy they both like. Women who hit hard other women. Deadbeat mothers who abandon their family in search of something and stay at home dad that die tragically when their daughter is young and daughters who hate their deabeat mom for leaving them or look up to her and want to become like her. I think the deadbeat mom and the dead dad should be a staple of shonen with women.
I’ll allow three guys but they have to fulfill these roles
- Healer
- Guy whose power is being hot/bewitching people with his look
- Guy who’s like 67 but he’s really vain so he uses his power to look either 20ish or like a kid
You can only reblog this today.
I missed my chance last year. Not gonna let it happen again
If you vote, please reblog so it can reach more people.
(I wouldn't normally ask, but this is a serious poll that I am genuinely interested in learning the results of.)
killing myself in a tesla and just leaving it on autopilot so my corpse is in there jostling around while it crashes into things
It would almost be funnier if the AI was like in sci-fi and was functional enough to drive like a menacing asshole without actually hitting anything and periodically recharge itself.
Local shitty driver buys a Tesla
Programs the AI with his schedule
AI learns from his aggressive driving habits
One Friday Rush Hour he road rages so hard he has a heart attack and dies at the wheel
Car drives home unknowing
Next monday it leaves for work like nothing happened
Someone eventually notices but dead guy has been in the car for a few days so no one really wants to be the guy to take him out
Every day at precisely 7:55 AM the car leaves the garage, drives itself to this dude’s office, and drives home 8 hours later still parading his decomposing body around the city while it swerves, cuts people off, honks, zooms through yellow lights, and stops just short of innocent pedestrians while honking rudely
Eventually the company gives his assigned parking spot to someone else so the car just starts parking somewhere else or roaming the city aimlessly. This is the only thing anyone actually does about it.
This goes on for months until there is nothing but a skeleton in moldering clothes haunting the freeways as it mindlessly commutes to and from work every monday thru friday
Legends spread of the Ghost Rider of I-45. Some genius superglues a Starbucks cup to the roof of the car so people are more likely to approach it while it’s parked.
The anti-theft devices prevent anyone from removing the skeleton. Muskrat refuses to remotely disable them because he’s an asshole and thinks his car continuing to commute months after its owner’s death is a great publicity stunt.
The Ghost Rider’s reign of terror finally ends after 2 years when the car’s degraded tires blow out at 85 mph, causing it to swerve into the front of a semi and carry the restless spirit of the nameless office worker to Valhalla in a pyre of toxic lithium battery smoke
But the legend lives on
They say that every evening M-F around 6:30 PM, if you watch closely beside the off-ramp of Exit 76A, you can see the afterimage of a red sedan fly past at well over the speed limit, the ghostly skeletal figure of its passenger, too much of a dick for heaven but not cool enough for hell, still raising its bony middle finger at other motorists. Leaving no trace of its existence except a faint smell of burning batteries and plastic.
These cats live in our office, this is where they sleep
Have you considered only one cat sleeps there, and the rest are……
copycats?
Fuck you all I work at a printing press and I laughed so hard I hurt myself.
@spanish speakers te amo feels weird to say??????
TE AMO! IS TOO! INTIMATE!! maybe if you say it quickly and in a jokey way its ok but in a serious talk??? it feels too much!!!!!!!
“i love you” is NOTHING compared to te amo. i love you feels like a kiss on the check and te amo feels like fucking marriage.
YEA. i had a relationship with someone and she dropped the “te amo” super quicky and i was like…………”thats ok, thank you, but im gonna be honest w you….i’m not saying te amo until i really feel it” thats how serious it is.
te amo IS very serious, very deep, very intimate. when you want to tell someone that you love them without it being massive, the term you want is te quiero
cant believe no one had contributed this
Accuarte AF.
“Te quiero” is the best alternative so we all do not succumb into a “te amo” anxiety.
Since we’re including other languages, any tips for Japanese learners?
Your friendly neighborhood bilingual here to help you out @just-fic-me-up
So idk if you can read hiragana so I’ll just use English letters. There are 4 ways to say you care about somebody in Japanese with increasing degrees of intimacy. Suki is like “I like sushi” type loose feeling. Also used for crushes or “I’d like to ask that person out.” Daisuki is literally “like a lot” and is used for “I love sushi” or “I really like this person” but tends to get translated as “I love you” which is pretty correct. Couples use it for each other
Next up is aishiteru and that’s. Hoo. Boy howdy. That’s te amo levels of intimate. You say that like before you propose, when you’re married, etc. It’s more like “I’m in love with you” and it’s very special. You won’t ever hear this used outside of very private moments between irl couples. I haven’t even seen it used in fiction honestly. And then there’s the big dog
The K word as my wife and I call it. He’s half Japanese and he has never said this to me despite us being literally married and we started dating my senior year of hs which was six and a half years ago. I’ve used this with him MAYBE thrice IF that often. I’ve never seen or heard it used literally ever is how special and intimate this phrase is. Not to totally and completely undersell this but it’s like a “once in a lifetime, the only person who could ever hold my heart” kind of intimate expression of love. It’s whispered on your deathbed to your lover of 65 years special. It’s koishiteru and you DO NOT use that word lightly if ever. It ties your soul directly to someone else’s with just a few sounds
But those are the tiers in Japanese. Go forth my friend and wield your newfound knowledge wisely
Im realizing how limited english is with only one word to cover all of that. No wonder its such an awkward language for translations!
theory 1: baseball curses are real bc look what happened to the cubs and the red sox
theory 2: baseball curses are fake bc no one has ever cursed the yankees
theory 3 (synthesis): no one has successfully cursed the yankees bc they employ a cadre of dark wizards
So last night I dreamed that it was winter and I was at a shopping mall and I looked outside and saw this guy walking his borzoi, who was wearing this giant snow suit. But then the guy heard me laughing through the window and got REALLY mad at me.
Anyway, the dog looked like this.
All hail Martin “I’m a manager” Blackwood
One day someone’s going to ask for the Head of the Institute and Martin is just going to say “Oh, that’s me” and later on just fire Peter politely because of ‘his lack of work ethics’ and the board (composed of 1(one) member: me) has decided you weren’t fit for the position’
Direct supervisor: is the nightmare raccoon being reported, and isn’t available anyway because he vanished into the night without explanation
His boss: currently in prison for murder
Interim boss: literally invisible and unreachable
HR: in all likelihood doesn’t even exist since Daisy managed to hire herself
Martin, realizing that writing schedules is the closest thing to management that the institute has seen in six months: fuck it, sure, I’m in charge
banksy 🙏😔🐀 R.I.P king
I can’t believe Banksy was just a dead rat under a bunch of raincoats this whole time.
chris evans is in the ffh cast bc peter parker is going to stumble on bucky and young steve having coffee at a cafe in Venice & steve’s gonna be like “u better keep ur mouth shut about this or I’ll kick you back to queens”
peter, out of breath, waving his phone with a blurry picture on the screen: mr fury sir captain america is alive and young and and and….
fury: of course he is. sam wilson is in perfect health.
peter: No I mean st—
fury: kid, I’m going to stop you there. steve rogers is passed away last year. you can visit his grave in the same cemetery mine is in.
Fae that keep uranium amulets, clothes made out of asbestos and bowls of lead-infused water around their residences as a human deterrent. They don’t know why humans loathe these items, but for as long as it makes them fuck off, these charms are useful.
you wake up and a fairy is snorting the line of salt you put on your windowsill like it’s coke.
‘doesn’t that shit kill you?’ you ask, deeply perturbed.
‘not very fast,’ the fairy says, and keeps snorting.
You know the main problem with the “live action” Lion King? Why it looks so lifeless?
The hyper realistic style is actually limiting the animators, rather than freeing them. The style makes it much harder to have memorable character designs and good expressions. Real lions don’t need to do things like emote in a way that humans can understand – but characters in a film do. The original movie was more cartoony not due to animation limitations of the time, but because that style genuinely serves the story better.
To show you what I mean, compare these two shots of Simba, from right after Scar says “run away and never return.”
Here is a clear reaction, with a strong beat for us to connect with before the character makes a decision. Even without any dialogue, even without any context, you can understand the emotion there just by the expression and the mannerisms. Is it realistic? No! He’s bright yellow and has eyebrows. But do we empathize with him? Yes!
Meanwhile, here is… a lion. Turning and running. No expression, no beats, no character moments, nothing. He actually can’t express himself because the animators are locked into the realistic style. If they tried to animate a strong expression as warranted for the scene, it would look terrible. Is it realistic? Hell yeah! Look at those textures! Look at that fur! But do we empathize with him? …nah. Not really.
To conclude: when you’re retelling Hamlet with a bunch of animated lions, cartoonish-ness is your friend, not your enemy.
no hate for u specifically op, b/c ur far from the first person I’ve seen making this argument, but I’m getting sick of ppl failing to grasp that realism isn’t the failure here
one of the most beautiful movies I’ve ever seen– and easily one of the most realistic in terms of CGI animals– is Guardians of Ga’hoole
now I’m not gonna get into how the movie was adapted or how certain changes may or may not have affected the story/characters, I’m only talking aesthetic and style here
and y’know what this highly realistic style does?
it delivers scenes like this
realism doesn’t just make this scene look real– it punches you in the goddamn gut with the color, framing, and intense zoom-in
and what about the characters? do they show any real emotion?
look at these expressions– these microexpressions! I bet you can easily name every expression here w/o even knowing the context of the scenes! and the realism is absolutely critical here– from the slight pulse of contracting pupils, to a twitch of the cheek. realism shines best in the subtle details
the people animating Ga’hoole clearly had a clear, vibrant vision which they were passionate to deliver. they knew how to bend light and color to grip the audience, they knew how to map gorgeous landscapes and feathered bodies alike, and most importantly they knew where to emphasize owl body language vs. where to emphasize anthropomorphic body language
realism isn’t failing these stories– Disney is
Disney doesn’t fucking care about these stories. if they did, then we’d be getting more Ga’hoole-esque realism– it’s not like they don’t have the budget for it compared to other studios. they rly don’t have any excuse beyond apathy, b/c ppl are gonna shill out to see any movie Disney’s name is attached to, no matter how shit
I have a great respect for both cartoony and realistic styles, and I’m tired of ppl blaming the tool instead of the person wielding it
AMEN!!! Its not realism, its lack of care!
