#&&. opinion

[pinballopinions]

Reblog for larger sample size please, I really want to know!

[ultraericthered]

#i got to screen Wish before it released during a school trip and let me tell you something #even though we noticed the glaring problems with that movie immediately #i also noticed something i dont think many others did at that time #there was so much talent and potential being held back. if you read closely you can pick up on a cry for help from the creatives behind it #i want to elaborate but i think if you know. you know #and if you don't.. this post does a good job of shining a light on a small part of that cry for you #despite its many issues i think i still liked Wish. Not because i think it was a good movie but bc i think it could have been a great one had circumstances been different. #my heart goes out to those who put their souls and everything they had into that movie and others in similar situations #some of the creators had given a small talk before the screening and to me they seemed very emotional about it #i think what many people forget is that nobody can see a project's flaws better than the people who worked on it #but what they also see and you can't is everything more it was meant to be #please remember that the core of many issues in any project is that the people with the talent often do not have power to call the shots

Yes, all of that. And I find it ironic that the gifed scene is the one that got people saying "Hey, King Magnifico's not really much of a villain, he's got a good point! He's just upholding his part of a social contract with his citizenry and doing what he, as king, needs to do to protect their wishes but also protect Rosas by ruling out granting any wishes that might backfire and have dangerous repercussions for the kingdom and the lives of the people! Asha's just an ignorant spoiled brat for demanding anything more of him! Magnifico Did Nothing Wrong!" So when you take that position on what you're being shown by the story and not scratching the surface to look at what Magnifico is doing in-universe by not giving back the wishes he knows he will not grant and knows the people who gave them to him cannot remember and what the out-of-universe subtext of this is, you're siding with the Disney Corporate Executive Overlords. You're siding with Bob Iger's "they're not being realistic with their expectations" argument. You're siding with Chapek and Iger's practices done under excuses like "It doesn't fit the Disney brand", "mass appeal stories over personal ones", "people don't want to go and pay to see movies with girly princess titles", etc. You're siding with their practices of dumping content straight to streaming (or onto Disney+ not too long after they've hit theaters or TV) even when that actually limits profits that the actual creative teams can make from their own work, of tampering with the artists visions and how the finished product turns out and then punishing those artists if it doesn't turn out well, and of ignoring ideas for original creations in favor of contiunally milking their popular (and profitable) existing IPs. You're siding with people who make up an entire entity that say loudly to the faces of all those who put in the work, the skills, the talent, the passion and dedication to create art and content they feel people deserve to enjoy, in the forms they deserve to enjoy them "I decide what everyone deserves!"

Capitalism errodes into a force for human evil when the people at the top prove susceptible to three things in excess beyond mere greed and self-interest: unchecked power, irresponsibility, and indecency. King Magnifico is allegorical for that evil, with a bit of a communist dictator angle to him too since that's the end point of those exact same excesses and extremes for socialism. He's a major problematic fave for all kinds of reasons, but anyone who wants to tell me he's a good guy can kindly GTFO.

Wish (2023) dir. Fawn Veerasunthorn, Chris Buck

hey do you think the overworked creatives about to go on strike are trying to tell us something

article sources under the cut

Mattson, Kelcie. "How Disney Almost Killed 'Nimona.'" Collider, January 2 2024.

Earl, William. "Shelving Batgirl Was the Right Decision, Says New DC Studios Head Peter Safran: 'It Would Have Hurt DC.'" Variety, January 31 2023

Couch, Aaron. "Warner Bros. Reverses Course on 'Coyote vs. Acme' After Filmmakers Rebel." The Hollywood Reporter, November 13 2023.

Ridgely, Charlie. "Scoob! Sequel Director Revealed Film Was 'Very Close' to Completion Before HBO Max Cancellation." comicbook.com, August 2 2022.

Clark, Travis. "Staffers at the animation studio Blue Sky say it's 'heartbreaking' that Disney canceled its final movie, 'Nimona.'" Business Insider, February 18, 2021.

Harrison, Mark. "Why was the Batgirl movie cancelled?" Yahoo! Entertainment, January 31 2024.

Amidi, Amid. "Warner Bros. Shelves Fully-Completed 'Coyote Vs. Acme' For Tax Write-Off." Cartoon Brew, November 9 2023.

Lee, Alex. "Why Netflix keeps cancelling your favourite shows after two seasons." Wired UK, September 28 2020.

Tyrrell, Gary. "We All Knew It Was Coming." fleen.com, February 10 2021.

"Warner Bros. Reverses Course on ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ After Filmmakers Rebel." see: 3.

Bergeson, Samantha. "Warner Bros. Will Let 'Coyote Vs. Acme' Filmmakers Shop Movie to Other Distributors." IndieWire, November 13 2023.

Strapagiel, Lauren. "Disney's First Feature Animated Movie With Queer Leads May Never Be Released." BuzzfeedNews, February 24 2021.

"We All Knew It Was Coming." see: 9

@/scottderrickson. "I think it’s absolute bullshit that a studio can and does shelve the creative work of hundreds of people for a fucking tax break." Twitter, 10 Nov. 2023, 4:52 p.m..

[gaycavilltheorists-blog]

The stans are shook shugs 😂

Logic and truth over lies

Like I've always said cotswold isn't that big I do believe

And you're trying to tell me shug that no one has taken a sneaky picture of them with a baby carriage? And people on here telling me he doesn't have that much power to keep the entertainment news outlets quiet? OHHHH shugs some ain't right! Yet people on famous fix and lipstick alley was coming for my gay ass because of my theories

Like I've said before Jesus take the wheel 😂

Mark my words, something ain't right and it smells as shitty as the 2024 US elections were

[simpingforbots]

Transformers are heaters!

F8cking Fight me about it.

CAN you IMAGINE just how warm they are! they are huge machine, that is constantly moving, doing something, using energy, so they are warm! and Human love when something is warm, especialy when we are cold. I would love to be gently held by Transformer to their chest, soaking in the warmth while the world is cold.

And when you sick they would smother you even more, knowing that human seek out the heat, during this vulnerable state, wrapping you up in bundles of blanket and cradling you like some kind of sparkling!!!

[booknbrew]

Thank you in advance 🙏

[amebanworld]

*THIS* could have been a great S-2 and up Story, instead the nonsense that happened in canon. TF writers, learn to develope new and refreshing stories, instead the old brainwashed tropes you used.

I want to rewrite the entire plot of the 2nd season of Earthspark:

1)Instead of Starscream, the main villain is Quintesson. (The whole season). That is, the Quintessons want to collect Emberstone, gain the power of Quintus Prime and destroy another world

2) Due to the fact that the Decepticons are not villains, we will have even more of their disclosures on the good side

3) And in the end, all together: Autobots, Malto, Decepticons will defeat the Quintessons

The Good ending. Peace, friendship, love 😘

[very-straight-blog]

So Silco, Vander and Felicia were friends. The relationship between Silco and Vander crumbled after Felicia's death on the bridge (s1 ep1), but at this point the girls are already quite grown up. Could it be that Silco and Vander have been involved in their upbringing all these years? That's why they approach Vander so calmly on the bridge - they know him. Could Powder have thrown herself into Silco's arms in ep3 because she somehow remembered him and by that time he was the only member of her family?

[gaycavilltheorists-blog]

That house! My god! That must be bought by her VP vertigo and production roles, with all them movie credits, no wonder she’s living there 😂😂

My sarcastic face I can’t even 😂😂

Oh yeah shug... The Savills Realtor agency took her Monopoly money..😂

Cavill bought and put that place under his brother Simon's and Leah's name

I wonder why 😂

[nyancrimew]

OPINION: stop studying cybersecurity because of me

im trying to get u into activism, not college

[myjetpack]

My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.

[kainiane]

[ghostslimu]

you will never be a bad person for not reblogging a post on tumblr, please remember that

[incorrectbatfam]

Question: do you think it's better for Cass to be verbal or nonverbal?

Secret third option where she has one line a day like Ferb and it's an absolute zinger

[ultraericthered]

Sure, but I also like that about him, as do several others if the notes count is anything to go by: it's part of what makes him such a solid antagonist, even if more so conceptually than in execution.

And something that tends to go overlooked is that his solo song (which is where most of these gifs and that line come from) is us getting shown who and what Magnifico is "in the dark" as it were - not being fake and manipulative towards another person like with Asha, not being smarmy and showy as he performs before a crowd, and not being genuine but restrained like with Amaya. It's meant as him revealing his obsessively vain and narcissistic true colors as he sings about how he percieves himself and his own actions as Rosas' ruler, and how he'll do whatever it takes to preserve that self-image and what it's derived from: his power, both institutional and magical. That's why I feel like more petty douchebag moments from Magnifico earlier on were needed: after having seen those glimpses, watching him get like this and then make the turn with the tome could've made us feel genuinely afraid of what a completely unrestrained, unfiltered Magnifico might be like, as opposed to making us go "Wait, what just happened? What exactly did he just do, and why did he do it?"

And all I really want is just a little respect.