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For the culture.

@pensiveotaku

Fandom follies. Icon by @athetos .

I identify with the wizard Howl because if *I* had magical powers I would use them to get better hair, evade taxes, make computer games for my nieces and nephews, use aliases that imply I’m related to King Arthur, spend at least half my life as a literal toddler and discover alternate planes of reality so that I could flirt with the girls there.

2023 death note au where light tries to kill L irl because he keeps blazing light’s vent posts

light’s notes btw are filled with people going ‘you know you can turn off the ability to blaze posts, right’ but he categorically refuses to acknowledge them, choosing instead to make vent posts about L blazing his vent posts which L proceeds to blaze

is this anything

[ID: one woman leading another, older woman. The one on the left, with graying hair, is using a walker and text over her reads “back in my day torches made from charcoal wouldn’t stack with coal torches”. The woman on the right has curly brown hair and is gently holding the older woman’s walker, and she says “sure grandma let’s get you to bed”. End ID]

A music video to There Beneath by The Oh Hellos. no fandom for once. These characters and this video idea just kind of came to me while listening to this song the other day. My grandfather died today. Has been dying for the past week. Which is why I think the idea of death and graves were on my mind. Along with the vivid picture of a zombie hand coming out of the ground but instead of horrific is it soft and gentle and lovingly rendered

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this is the best sentence ever typed

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me after the socialist revolution when yaoi is outlawed

Actually, as a cis woman who is a fujoshi, I plan on being the next communist dictator, so get fucked, OP.

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A second best sentence has hit the twin towers

Wait is this boy in a prison cell with untreated cuts? Whatever injured him went straight through his clothes, they mist be open wounds under there. They're going to get infected. Treat his wounds before locking him up ffs.

No they’re just red tattoos and he likes to show them off by ripping tears into his clothes at those spots

Oh that's okay then, carry on.

not a lot of old-ass movies hold up in terms of comedy but sleeping beauty is fucking hilarious. “this is the 14th century.” “that’s because it’s on you dear.” the king at the end being confused af. fucking amazing

ok yeah im watching it again and nobody ever points out but. when merryweather says “you can’t sew and she’s never cooked” that like highkey implies that merryweather was the one in charge of actually taking care of the fucking kid which is hysterical. if merryweather was the main parental figure it’s a wonder aurora isn’t down for murder 24/7

see it’s easy to say “flora fauna and merryweather are a polyam couple” but tbh i think just flora and fauna are married, they both seem vaguely maternal towards merryweather, who in turn seems a lot younger and less experienced. so i have the headcanon that over in the fae realm these two were put in charge of training merryweather as their fae apprentice or whatever which somehow makes “merryweather was the one to take care of aurora” even FUNNIER. imagine you’re trying to train under these two powerful fairies and then before you know it you’re in the middle of the woods raising a baby and it turns out that without their wands your mentors are useless lesbians who don’t know how to cook. no wonder she’s so pissed all the time

i never liked the criticism that “aurora doesn’t do anything she only has like 10 lines that’s not #feminist” because. the main characters of the movie are the fairies, she just happens to get marketed more nowadays cause of the disney princess lineup, if you actually watch the movie it’s clear she’s not the protagonist, neither is phillip, i think he has roughly equal screentime to her. gender equality they’re both useless

but anyway when disney was doing that thing where they made one-shitbillion sequels they have serious untapped potential in post-movie aurora main character. because listen. listen. first of all she went through the most wild life-changing shit all in like two hours so she’s gonna be dealing with the fallout from that

but more importantly. girl was raised in the WOODS. she runs around barefoot petting wild animals and eating shit she picked up off the ground. she now lives in a castle as the future monarch. WHERE is my comedy sequel about that. where the FUCK is it. where is my scene of the servants and royals like “we’re so happy our beloved, perfect princess is finally back :)” and then she walks in covered in mud, smelling like riverwater, carrying a live fish and saying “i caught dinner” phillip sees nothing wrong with this

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Hi my union (SAG-AFTRA) is going on strike to protest unfair labor practices and there haven’t been many jobs since end of May. I’ve been looking for work and applying to jobs in the meantime. I have a few bills piling up and my goal is $300. The AMPTP wants us to experience homelessness in order to get us negotiating. As per strike agreements, we are NOT allowed to file unemployment. Therefore, pls help us take a stand in showing solidarity via canceling streaming subscriptions, tweeting your support, picketing, or donating to your black actors/writers. Anything is greatly appreciated!

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CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it's part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions

if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators