shout out to when i told my dad about goncharov and he figured out it was fake because i told him "1973 martin scorsese film with robert de niro" and he said that wasn't possible because the godfather came out in 1972 and the godfather part II came out in 1974 and they wouldn't have had time to make a movie in between. a perfectly good jest, foiled by this man's weird and vast knowledge set
Lilo & Stitch is a great example of a story that has no villains. It has antagonists, sure, but most of them are well-meaning. The worst person in the film is that little shit Myrtle, but she’s not in the film that much anyway.
Since this post is getting traction I want to clarify how not-villainous the antagonists are:
- The Grand Councilwoman is literally just responding to what she sees as a threat to the galaxy and is extremely reasonable.
- Gantu is much the same. He’s a bit overzealous, yes, but he thinks he’s saving the galaxy from stitch.
- Cobra Bubbles is literally just doing his job, he’s obviously not happy about it but he is doing what he feels is best for Lilo. And much like the Councilwoman, he is extremely reasonable.
- Myrtle is, again, just a little shit. She’s a schoolyard bully and is truly small potatoes.
- Jumba calls himself an “evil scientist,” but literally nothing supports that. His only onscreen crime is creating a bunch of Pokémon that have powers that will mildly inconvenience people and can be persuaded to be nice over the course of 22 - 90 minutes, to say nothing of himself seeing as he decides to change his ways at the softest bit of persuasion.
- Pleakley is literally just gay.
The "villain" of Lilo and Stitch is, rather directly, societies and social systems that write people off and do not provide support and care.
It is obvious to the audience -- and deliberately presented this way by the film -- that it is better for Lilo to stay with her sister, even if her sister is a bit of a mess and not financially stable. Mr. Bubbles is not evil. He is there because he wants what's best for Lilo, and he is not unreasonable to think that the sister without a job who leaves the stove on and whose house nearly burned down two days later is not it. The solution is not to "defeat" Mr. Bubbles; the solution would be for society to help Nani succeed, rather than watch as she fails.
Similarly, no one provided any help to Stitch when he was created and discovered. They wrote him off as an abomination, something too dangerous to be destroyed. They weren't evil, and it wasn't unreasonable to think that the experiment created to be an agent of destruction would be better off scrapped. But what would have happened if they had at least tried?
Lilo and Stitch are two characters who were caught in systems that were cold, uncaring, and unsupportive, even if the people in them were not evil and were, in fact, just doing their best.
It's a movie about people who have been written off finding one another and building a found family where they can get and give the support and care they didn't get from the people with authority and I love it so much.
Some insane, narratively-significant details in the first episode of Yellowjackets, from the set designers, costume designers and directors:
- The journal separating Shauna and Jackie:
- Taissa’s wallpaper being a forest, linked to her trauma due to the wolf attack and to her sleepwalking:
- Jackie and Shauna’s jackets and necklaces having very few differences, hinting at how deeply intertwined their lives/identities are:
- Natalie in front of fireplaces, as fire will destroy the cabin right after her coronation and she’ll have the front seat to the fires during the… dinners:
- Natalie already singled out from the team due to very different shoes:
- Natalie’s bullet necklace, as both her past and future are linked to firearms:
- The Shauna antlers, right after putting on the necklace of doom, just as she’s (already) entering an altered state of mind:
- Ben’s right leg being already cut off:
- The colors of their tamagotchis, which are Jackie’s color panel for college:
- The enormous amount of Jackie symbolism:
• Poppies surrounding a picture of Jackie and Shauna in Jackie’s room, as the wallpaper of Shauna’s teen room though she was trying to cover it, on Shauna and Jeff’s wedding cake
• The pattern of Jackie’s dress as a painting in Shauna’s house (on the far right):
• Shauna going from wearing a heart necklace without a gold chain before the plane, to a heart necklace with a gold chain, to a gold chain without a heart:
did you see the final fnaf trailer??
yes but more importantly joey what is your pfp right now
THE CRYIBG CHIKD KILLED 25 PEOPLE???? HUH???
I DONT KNOW THE CONTEXT EITHER BUT LIKE TWELVE DIFFERENT PEOPLE ON TWITTER AND FIVE DISCORD FRIENDS SAID SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT DO I EVEN WANNA KNOW
It's that easy
oh i am about to have fun with this
The new companion for the 2023 specials is Donna Noble’s trans daughter hell yes
Post the most recent gif you have with no context
mr were--ralph i think we all know the context as to why you saved that gif
i don’t want to derail my own post but i just have to address
I’m sorry??????? You “KNOW” nobody on THIS hellsite
Watched
The
Fucking
Lorax????
the blogsitter called the blog owner and said "everything's great, but can i cover up the creepy clown jpeg next to the dashboard? it's kinda freaking me out" the blog owner got quiet and then said "take the blog and leave the website right now. i don't have a creepy clown jpeg"
What [car] would you build a time machine out of?
an old VW Beetle because it wouldn't look out of place literally anywhere
Lancelot: Egad sire! Look at that. King Arthur: Hm, rare to see a VW Beetle this far north. Not impossible, mind.
userbase: can you stop fucking with the ui and employing terfs?
staff:
No YouTuber will ever top the phrase "A powerful rat named Charles Entertainment Cheese."
"A California-themed amusement park in the already California-themed California" is also a banger and comes from the same channel.
How quickly we forget "You would have to pay an industrial engineer to create a complex computer simulation of a theme park populated with agents, all with unique preferences, riding attractions of varying capacities in order to compare and contrast wait times, number of rides ridden, and other factors with and without a virtual queue system just to get to the bottom of this incredibly niche curiosity" followed immediately by
Who wants to be narrative foils together
With tongue