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The Mellow Filmmaker

@mellowfilmmaker / mellowfilmmaker.tumblr.com

I am the Mellow Filmmaker. I enjoy weird art, weird movies, and weird opinions, but I'm totally normal. This blog is home to Mellow Frames, along with posts I like on the internet and my other miscellaneous posts. I've been accused of being too politically correct in the past, but I feel that's inaccurate. I love offending assholes way too much for that to be accurate.

Idk I just think that “I have empathy for the friends and family of those that were lost” and “based on everything we’ve learned, going down in that death-trap was an incredibly stupid decision and anyone could see that” and “it is ridiculous anyone would pay 250k to go see a mass grave, the wealth gap has gotten out of hand so I can’t find it in myself to shed tears for the men involved” and “it is heartbreaking a teenage boy was lost because he wanted to impress his father” are statements that can coexist.

Human emotions are grey.

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I have been waiting on Tears of the Kingdom since forever. Really loved the game. Will be drawing some fanart in the next few days^^ I think I liked Riju from all the character changes since botw the most so here is my take on the Gerudo chief!

High-res version, different versions, psd, video process etc. on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zumi

Your art was mostly good, but it had one fatal flaw that is pretty obvious to some. I decided to fix this fatal flaw. 

I will pretty much instantly distrust a fellow leftist if they paint the enemy as being ugly (’all terfs have bad hair’, ‘all far-right bros are fat people with neck beards’, etc). It shows me they haven’t done some of the most basic work of un-linking appearance from character, which leaves them open to a vast array of bigoted tropes, from fatphobia, ableism and classism to homophobia, transphobia antisemitism and racism, because who we see as ‘attractive’ or looking ‘wholesome’ and who we assume to look ‘untrustworthy’ or villainous’  has been coded by all these things.

lots of people in the notes pointing out that this is also true about:

  • Dismissing people because of their age
  • Pretending that the people who disagree with you are ‘unintelligent’ and the people who agree with you are ‘smart’
  • Accusing the people you disagree with of having some mental illness.
  • Accents and speech patterns
  • Mocking personal hygiene
  • Mocking someone not getting laid or mocking genital size or shape
  • Mocking lack of productivity and independence (’you probably live in your moms basement’ stuff)

And YES. You are all right. These are all bad reasons to claim superiority over someone and every time someone brings up this stuff their ageism/ableism/classism/sexism/etc is showing.

And ya know, 99 out of 100 times, the person(s) that you’re insulting either can’t hear you or doesn’t really care what you have to say. But the fat people, disabled people, mentally ill people, etc. in your own community do hear and feel a little less safe in that community because of you. Do better.

 I want to apologize to my followers. Somehow a couple of days ago, I accidentally reblogged an oc submission that was made by @punkheart11 a few hundred times when I didn’t even intend to reblog it once. I don’t know how it happened. They all said they were posted at 4:09 am when I was working (I work overnight now). Maybe it was because I had tumblr open on my computer at home and I also opened it on my phone when I on my breaks at work. I was looking at my old SU content because I was feeling nostalgic, and maybe something happened.  I went ahead and did the arduous of deleting all of the unnecessary posts so your timelines wouldn’t be filled up. I hit my post limit so I wasn’t able to post this a couple of days ago and I forgot to post this yesterday.  I’m sorry for the inconvenience. 

Personal growth is a gift that keeps on giving.

People talk about 'hard work'. The only way to make it is by hard work. They never see that the hard work is working on yourself, trying to be a better version of yourself.

Nintendo, I know people are asking for more dungeons and storyline is tears of the kingdom. That’s cool and all but I only have one request.

Let me register my bear he’s very well behaved! He’s only bitten off a child’s fingers 2 or 3 times pretty please!

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A post-finale Raeda proposal for a kofi request 😭💗😭🤧

they were married in the post credit scene i wont be convinced otherwise

Raine: Can I have your hand in marriage?

Eda: You already took one of my hands and now you want the other one!?

Raine: Ummmm

Eda: I’m kidding. Of course I want to marry you.

idk there's something cool that King Dad told Luz she wasn't chosen, wasn't unique, wasn't special, but was "here", and "a good witch".

it's way better than any number of stories where the apparently ordinary hero ends up having some grand destiny or heritage or something that completely negates the fact they were originally supposed to be ordinary

and it's even better, because the story has built up the fact that her learning glyphs has been something the boiling isles themselves have been actively enabling, eventually culminating as clear evidence King Dad has, ever since he gave her the tools to protect King from Eda's owl form, been teaching her magic, not because she has a grand destiny, not because she is special in a way that makes magic easy for her, but because she was "there" and was "a good witch"

and it's a great foil to philip who believed he had a greater destiny, as the only available tool to achieve God's will in the demon realm, that she came to understand she had no destiny, wasn't truly special, and even DOUBTED if she was better than him at all.

Humility. Open-mindedness. Kindness.

It's nice to have a story where those are the only strengths a protagonist brings to her arc, where there's no secret heritage, no eleventh-hour superpower waiting to manifest itself.

Luz: Belos wants to kill all witches to protect humans Luz: I want to kill Belos because he wants to kill all witches Luz: Doesn't that make me just as bad as him? King's Dad: ...you need to stop learning political theory from twitter

Imagine if they were in Bismuth.