Slygar has evolved!
Glisculk (Dark/Flying), convergent Gliscor!
I learned that a group of foxes is called a sculk! Cool!
LET ME SHOW YOU JUST WHAT I’M MADE OF 🎶
Happy 19th Anniversary Sonic Heroes 💙❤️💗💚
Team Sonic, Dark, Rose and Chaotix at the team selection screen in Sonic Heroes (2003)
PREPARE FOR TROUBLE!!
New animatic here: https://youtu.be/ERgoS7y_Nac
No, Frozen would not have been better if Elsa was the antagonist.
Whenever someone (like a video essayist on Youtube) says something like, "The first Frozen would have been better if Elsa were the antagonist. It was the original plan and it would have made for a better film," I just have to roll my eyes. No. You're wrong.
"But Hans's whole personality changes." No. The mask drops. There are enough instances that show his true motives - "looking my whole life to find my own place", glancing up at the chandelier and finding a way to kill Elsa while still making himself look sympathetic to her so that he remains in Anna's good graces, etc. He may not be the greatest of the Disney twist villain trend, but he works well enough and fits perfectly into Anna's arc by playing on her insecurities.
"But Elsa is so mean." No. She's not. She's been trained since childhood that she has to "limit her contact with people." The trolls and her parents reinforce to her that she has to keep her powers secret from everyone, including Anna. Are you really going to blame someone who has been conditioned since the age of eight to stifle herself for stifling herself? @hb-pickle who tragically no longer seems to be in the fandom once called this "the adult-ification of Elsa," wherein people place the blame for the separation solely on Elsa's shoulders without factoring in the trauma of the accident and the way Elsa was raised for YEARS afterwards. You're going to be more than a little fucked up after that, and Elsa has been trained that cutting ties with others and keeping her powers secret are the best option.
"But Let it Go is so angry." So fucking what? LET her be angry. She's ALLOWED to be angry. She's been forced to hold in her emotions and "conceal, don't feel" for years. She's allowed to be frustrated with her lot in life. I've said this in the past but I like the way I said it so I'll quote myself directly:
"Aspects of it still feel like a song designed for us to condemn Elsa, but instead of judgment, we get empathy.
And that’s radical."
TLDR: Elsa being the antagonist wouldn't have made for a better movie. It would skew too close to the "sinister witch" trope even if she was portrayed as a sympathetic antagonist. Sympathetic antagonists are a dime a dozen. But Elsa being caught up in this flawed system of thinking because she's been trained for years that it's for the best if she stifles herself and then having her arc be about self-acceptance and unlearning that self-hatred? That's revelatory.
Frozen is good and Let it Go is a good song, you guys are just mean.
elemental comes out today!! here's a humanized ember and wade! 🔥💧 i can't wait to see this film 💙🧡
In Haitian folklore, werewolf spirits known locally as Jé-rouge (red eyes) can possess the bodies of unwitting persons and nightly transform them into cannibalistic lupine creatures.
Another variation: Many Haitians believe that je-rouges, cannibal werewolf-like monsters or evil spirits that inhabit people during the night, trick mothers into giving up their children by waking them at night and asking if they can take the child. Sleepy mothers may answer yes or no. Je-rouges spread this curse like vampires by injecting it into unsuspecting human targets through fangs.
So I watched WW84, and this scene was a MiphLink scene if I ever did see one.
The Mondjoli [Ugandan and Congolese mythology]
In Congo and Uganda, there are stories about a race of human-like beings with the heads of heron birds. These creatures are called the Mondjoli and supposedly inhabit the Congo river. Except for their bird-like heads, their bodies are entirely human.
They are a bit shorter than regular humans and they are quite shy (hence why you’re unlikely to encounter one), but the Mondjoli are generally friendly and respect outsiders. As their heron-head might suggest, their diet consists primarily of fish, and they are known to be excellent swimmers.
(image source 1: karlshuker.blogspot) (image source 2: OGYungLiBig on Deviantart)
(Art by Miyokoshi)
Nyarvirazi the Were-lioness
Origins- Rwanda (South East African maybe)
Nyarvirazi was a chieftain daughter or a the last born princess of a King. One day when venturing out into the wilderness she got lost as day turned to night she became tired, hungry and thristy looking for a way back. She found cup of water sitting atop of a tree stump and drank from it.
The water turned out to be urine from a lion left there by a witch or jujuman for a ritual that was to be performed under the full moon. Nyarvirazi could noticed that her senses were enhanced and as she made her way back home she had a craving for goat once seeing some she chagred after them turning into a lion and ate them. After devouring the goat she turned back into a human and ran back home, this became a habit on every full moon it wasn’t long until her brother became suspicious and saw her transformation and told the family about it.
Nyarvirazi warned them all to keep her transformation a secrect especially from her husband. When she had a baby the midwives joked about the baby no having claws, her husband wanted to know what they were talking about after many months of suspicion and threatened everyone with a spear which he ended up using on Nyarvirazi and the midwives and also the baby. Nyarvirazi transformed into a lioness and bit off his arm she called for other lions to appear and they ate him.
Nyarvirazi took her baby and went off with the Lions to become their Queen and Goddess thus keeping her family’s home safe from lions, she occasionally returns to her father’s village.
