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My beloved anime robot boyfriend

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it's true and you should say it.

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Since we keep getting "live action" CGI remakes of already perfectly adequate animated movies, and because people need to understand that animation is a medium and not a genre, I have prepared this primer about the importance of Visual Language for Conveying Information.

Can you tell what the personalities of these two mice are?

Can you tell now?

Which of these two tigers feels safer to be around?

Which of these three dogs is the funniest one?

If you can answer these questions, then you already have experience with the idea of visual language and stylistic choices being used to impart narrative meaning. If you can understand why these choices were made to impart meaning, then you can understand why animation is a medium for telling stories that has its own inherent value, and is not merely a "placeholder" for the eventual implementation of photorealistic presentation (aka "Live Action" CGI). Animation does not need to be "corrected" or "legitimized" by remaking it into the most representational simulation of observable reality.

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There he is, Cybertron's favorite bastard!

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Okay, now I get why some people believe in spirits and shit, that little tiny wind vortex looked like a CREATURE.

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Conclave (2024) dir. Edward Berger

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Not all people get to be super charismatic badasses, so I really appreciate when Transformers remembers that Cybertronians probably don't get to be either. Shout out to my boy, Swerve, fellow member of the "hiding the terror that no one actually likes me with humor" club.

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BABIE NEED SNACK

Cedar Waxwings by jocelynefeizo1 http://ift.tt/1RM3Kk0

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So I heard good things about the movie Conclave, so as a dutiful little post-Catholic weirdo with lingering baggage, I gave it a watch and was thoroughly entertained. I highly recommend it.

But one of the reasons why it's been getting so much discussion is that people keep comparing it to Drag Race and making it out to be this campy drama full of gossip and machinations. And while those elements are there, and I certainly endorse taking that approach to analysis, I also can't help but wonder. I wonder if the reason why people are clocking it as a glam gossip drama is because they don't have enough lived experience with Catholicism, and its most vociferous adherents that they can't clock the sincerity when they witness it.

There is a mundane hierarchical jockeying aspect to it, and that cannot be denied, but the true fascination in the experience, the creeping horror of it, is to see dudes who have completely convinced themselves of their own self righteousness that they believe Performative Humility is Genuine Submission to God's Will. There's a bit that carries through the film that says "nobody who acts like they WANT to be pope SHOULD be pope", but that unto itself is a form of performance. It's the most insidious kind of grandstanding because it's the kind that can convince the performer themself that it's genuine. It can make them think: "I've eaten enough humble pie to prove I'm a good person, so I don't have to continue the work of self examination."

In my opinion, that sort of performance has less in common with high glam ego-driven drag competition, and more in common, say, with online political posturing, the contest to appear most sociopolitically aware and self-flagellatory. To prove how good one is by being loudest about confessing how bad one is. And maybe some people aren't ready to make that connection because they don't want to believe that old dudes in church are capable of the same kinds of mental gymnastics to pursue their own self-interests as the most liberated, educated, and media savvy online commentator.

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I think some of those punishment sprays are more "we've heard it before" rather than "conventionally attractive" (you'd let Sportacus off the hook?!)

But the energy on some of these is absolutely DELIGHTFUL (I see you Claire, with your Big Furry Dudes, heh heh heh)

Alex and Katie are knocking them out of the park

Nika's stiil in training but needs more encouragement to go wilder

tumblrinas need to see this

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The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye #16: The Gloaming

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Baby Lion: I wanna dance too! Adult Lions: BABY?! BABY?! BABY?! BABY?! Baby Lion: .... uhhhhh....

A meeting of dragons.

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This is a goddamn delight to read about, given that I'm back on my Transformers bullshit, with a heavy focus on the speculative sexuality aspect again. Fandom has ALWAYS been like this.

SOMEONE WENT TO A STAR TREK CONVENTION IN THE 1980’S AS SPOCK AND KIRK’S PENISES I AM NOT MAKING THIS SHIT UP

THEY PERFORMED SPIRK THROUGH INTERPRETIVE DANCE

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just learned about something incredibly wonderful

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so jealous of people in massachusetts. how does it feel to live my dream

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Just watched the banned Moon Girl episode.

>the episode addresses the topic of trans kids in sports >the entire episode is about how bigots will always move the goalpost, and playing by their rules is pointless >the solution is not to play their game and break the rules >it also states that trans people should never feel like a burden >the character Brooklyn is explicitly stated to be trans >there is also an explicitly nonbinary character >multiple mentions of pride and depictions of pride flags, trans flags and progress flags

I'm not at all surprised this didn't get past the censors but I'm so mad that it didn't, because this could've been something really special, and the fact it was canned after being fully finished is downright painful. This episode was wonderful and I'm grateful to all the people who worked on it, and angry that their hard work was wasted. Disney did not deserve you.

Here's a link, as long as Disney doesn't take it down