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Brooke's Blog of Stuff

@brookepagebe

21 years old | She/Her | Transgender & Bi | I will post about things I like, about cartoons (RWBY, SPOP, TDP, EoA), videogames (Fire Emblem, Persona, Ace Attorney), Star Trek, LGTB content, comic books, some movies or series, maybe a song. I don't know ;)

i watched atsv. first thing i did upon finishing the movie was open ms paint and doodle peni. What the hell happened to her

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Twitter: what level of enshittification are you on? Tumblr: I dunno, 4, maybe 5? We took away the ability to easily go directly to an individual post off the dashboard and we're still trying to Pivot to Streaming Twitter: you are like little baby. watch this Twitter: [BANS READING POSTS]

I've no real interest in seeing Elemental, but apparently it is good but was underserved by Disney's marketing department. Where instead of focusing on how it's a story about a second generation immigrant woman wanting to respect the challenges their family undertook to establish a new life in a city that wasn't built with them in mind, while also wanting to go and establish a new life for themselves rather than inheriting the family business and staying in one place (and getting a boyfriend from outside of the community whom her dad disapproves of due to not very subtle racism reasons), they decided to focus on the visuals and the inevitable comparisons to Zootopia.

Oddly similar to Nimona's original situation before getting picked up by Netflix, in that as a lgbtq-focused movie Disney reportedly canned it (allegedly) they weren't able to market it to as many folk as generically as possible. But while Nimona had to be rescued by another studio, a big chunk of Elemental's plot "had" to be glossed over in by the marketing team with the supposed goal of making it appeal to EVERYONE, rather than focusing on the specific story it was trying to tell that'd still be relevant to a good sized chunk of the audience the same way similar themes in Turning Red were.

Trying to appeal to everyone is something morons and cowards do

I don’t want stories that are “For everyone” because art that is “For everyone” is garbage. It’s shit. It’s spineless bullshit that’s so whitebread even Ned Flanders would be bored by it

Stories need to be about something and be for someone.

Otherwise you might as well just let an AI write them

You managed to retire from the supervillain game long ago, when you became a parent. Now, your grandchild has inadvertently been kidnapped by an upstart villain, and you’re about to show them why the world (rightfully) feared you.

It's occurred to me that maybe I should post something. Here's an unfinished drawing of Sayaka Miki, she will probably remain unfinished unfortunately 💙