By far the funniest transition timelines are the ones from trans men where the "before" picture is some teeny little guy with sad baby seal eyes and the "after" picture looks like Kratos
This is one of the top posts in r/transtimelines and it really sums up what I'm talking about
My irl saw this post and sent me this even crazier transformation today! The little guy to Kratos pipeline is real!!!
Star stable was kinda unhinged when they made the guy that gives you the tutorial join a cult
A brief timeline of Justin Moorland's life since MC arrived on Jorvik:
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron was the closest we got to an indigenous perspective on the European invasion in our kids movies and excuse me while I sit here with a lump in my throat cuz zero horse dialogue and a bangin soundtrack camouflage one of the most subversive mainstream American films of my childhood
A friendly reminder that taking a break is important, everyone needs time to themselves, but it doesn't have to mean you fill your free time with new fun things, or digest some new media being pushed at you, or do nothing at all for however long your break is.
You're allowed to go back and watch an old show you grew up on. You're allowed to read a book way below your reading level. Sometimes the mindless ease or the nostalgia of a favorite is what you need to feel better. Don't let people tell you what you should do to relax when you should do what you need. So pull down that old book that you loved as a kid that has a lot of meaning to you, watch the shows or movies you grew up on, or whatever thing you've seen or read so many times that you've basically memorized it.
Our world moves so fast, sometimes the best thing is to just take it slow.
honestly Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is SUCH a beautiful depiction of the horrors of colonialism that the indigenous people of Turtle Island/North America have faced throughout the centuries. it doesn’t sugar coat the horrors that settlers inflicted, and it doesn’t hide the terror and brutality that these people faced. it was such a fantastic way to display this discussion to young children, by having Spirit go through everything that real life indigenous people had, and still have, to go through.
capturing him as a prize, tearing him away from his family and home, putting him in a prison, cutting his hair and trying to break him, trying to force him to conform, and when he fights back, they try to shoot him dead. rounding him and other horses up to use as forced labor to haul a steam engine up a mountain to continue to spread colonialism across the continent, and, once again, when he fights back, they try to kill him. like, when i was watching it tonight, it reminded me how sick a lot of those scenes make me feel.
and then through it all, we’re still shown the beauty of nature and respect and allowing this animal that doesn’t want to be tamed to go free. we’re shown that, while it’s hard, you have to remember who you are and you have to remain strong. you have to fight back, or else you’ll lose yourself. you have to help each other and you have to be true to who you are, no matter what cage people try to trap you in.
So I started rewatching Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron for the first time in years and that opening theme hit my nostalgia bone so hard I spontaneously burst into tears.
Just me?
This is a longshot but do any of you have an old copy of Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron that you'd still be able to watch? The older the better, VHS would be awesome. Bonus points if its in another language. I'm trying to see something.
"ooh i was radicalized by this article" "ooh i was radicalized by this book" yeah well i was radicalized at age 5/6 when i first watched spirit and learned what colonialism is. i am the only real socialist
Omg spirit got bad reviews in 2002 for being too woke for adults.
Love it. Love how wokeness has been ruining films since 2002.
Spirit was made in 2002. He is 20 years old and still holds up and looks fantastic. As I said in my notes
“Spirit walked so the spiderverse could backflip over several buildings and run on cars”
Side note while I am once again going mad about spiri, fucking that opening sequence? Yeah it’s a SEVEN MINUTE SHOT. They don’t cut once for the first 7 minutes absolutely INSANE especially for 2002
watch spirit (2002)
Anyway I watched my favourite film as a child today and cried , bc of the film yes , but also ahh first time I saw this film must have been at least 15 years ago now , so much has happened and changed . Growing up sure is something
Watched one of my favourite childhood films the other day . . . I cried . . . A lot.
I don’t remember it being so emotional. The sound track is an absolute banger
Also mad respect to all the animators who had to draw horses over and over again.
I had been waiting so long to run free.
SPIRIT: STALLION OF THE CIMARRON (2002)
i hear the wind across the plain a sound so strong, that calls my name it's wild like the river, it's warm like the sun yeah, it's here, this is where i belong
cannot believe there are people who aren't familiar with the 2002 movie Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. it's not remembered as one of the animated classics of the early 00s because it's so different than other beloved movies - no talking animals, no fantasy settings, limited comedic elements - but my god did it shine in so many other ways. arguably some of the best 2D animation ever created, outstanding soundtrack, an hour and a half of pure anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism in a kid friendly story about horseys.
Ok, I know it may be lame, but I cried multiple times during my binge of Netflix's "Glamorous". My heart is so full knowing that queer youth have something like this to watch. So much beautiful representation of queer people and even their allies. My ass even was shedding tears when the offical campaign is revealed.
