#( i was a remake of ratatouille that's how caring i was )

[clochanamarc]

i made risotto and it took an hour and it burnt to the pot so now i am going to go drink some iced tea and start writing bc somehow the audacity of the risotto to stick into the saucepan after an hour of lovingly making the stupid thing is enough to summon aisling's full power.

[ben-the-hyena]

Got any least favorite movies besides than Encanto?

Hmmm it is hard to think because I dislike or hate many movies but few are the ones that made me angry, this is more shows usually. So I don't know how I'll organize it

Oh well, just titles that just cross my mind : How To Train Your Dragons 2 and 3 (the 3rd is the WORST for total character and plotline assassination, the 2nd does resoect the franchise's spirit but oh boy I'd make a whole post about my problems with it), Ratatouille (not hate but I really do not care for cooking movies "OH NO HE RUINED THE SOUP WHAT A TRAGEDY !" I DON'T GIVE A SHIT and it randomly having cartoon physics in a "realistic" environment throws me off), The Wild (until Encanto THIS was the worst Disney movie), A Clockwork Orange (I KNOW it is a classic but I just find it boring and even if I DO know it IS on purpose to denounce society tgat the main character gets away in the end it frustrates me to have gone through all of that for naughts ; a good movie for that, it did its job good ! Just not for me lmao), Usual Suspect (it was SOOOOO boring I was nearly too asleep to get what was happening in the end, I found out like years later there was a plot twist in the end because it had sedated me THAT much I didn't pay attention at all to names and faces lmao), The Lion King live action remake (OOOH IT FELT LIKE NECROMANCY FOR HOW COPYPASTED BUT SOULLESS IT WAS IT HURT... I HATED IT SO MUCH I STRAIGHT UP STOPPED GOING TO SEE DISNEY LIVE ACTION REMAKES AFTER THAT), Star Wars 7 and 9 (ABSOLUTE FRANCHISE ASSASSINATIONS WITH A MARY SUE AND COPY PASTING FANDNSERVICE WITHOUT MAKING IT MAKE SENSE OR ORIGINAL, A FORCED SHIP, FORCED DRAMA... The 8th was flawed too BUT I liked it for DARING trying to be different !!!), Ice Age 5 (GOOD GOD IT WAS SO LAME AND UNFUNNY IT SHOULD HAVE ENDED WITH THE 4TH OR BETTER THE 3RD SINCE THE 4TH WAS OKAY AT BEST MEH AT WORST)... RIGHT now I can't think of more, I mostly have titles of movies I find meh or just too flawes but without being disliked either (like Wish. It is a BAD movie, objectively, Disbeh deserves this failure and I'm glad it flopped hard. Yet it was okay to me. And Rise of the Guardians was okay too, but no sorru folks visually sure it is gorgeous but plot and characters wise it is VERY meh and the ending/Pitch's defeat sucked ass I was frustrated and annoyed while I was like 14 and seeing how people adored it anyway made me understand/realize sometimes people will call media "good" only because it has beautiful looks) so idk more

There are also movies I didn't watch but refuse to because I know I WILL hate it or at the very least will be angry about for the posts and clips I saw and might grow to hate it out of frustration of seeing it praised. Like Nimona (a Tumblr/Twitter post that lasts for 1h30 and will be relevant only for 2 years. Also fugly artstyle and charadesigns, also I'm petty and I loathed how Tumblr used it to mock Elemental which was a masterpiece and the best Pixar in many years and the best Pixar romance so fuck this) and Wendell and Wilde (for all I read about the main character Idc she is grieving for her parents, she IS an ungrateful edgy bitch who actually HESITATED to sacrifice an innocent guy for her own gain but because she chose not to and because "she's a sad kid :(" the narrative passes her off as good and in the right. I'd have not been as patient as the nuns and her classmates, as kind as they were she kept hating and being angry over anything- sometimes a painful slap in the face and a kick in direction of a therapist's office is needed I'm sorry)

[afrival]

AoT Characters and Their Favorite Disney Movies

This is just so self explanatory lmao plz 💀 some of the their favorite songs are different from their favorite movies idk why 🤷 I need to cope after chapter 138

no warnings

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Eren:

- AWWW listen he would love Aladdin a lot

- It’s his comfort movie don’t @ me, has a fat crush on Jasmine HDHFH

- He has mega One Jump Ahead energy and would absolutely love that song

Mikasa:

- 1000% Mulan, fucking adores it so much

- They all went to Disney once and she was so so so so excited to meet Mulan please that’s so cute

- Reflection ❤️ loves that song so goddamn much

Armin:

- fucking LOVES Moana, like that’s so obvious idc. Some deep inner part of him relates to Moana sm and he just lovers her

- Favorite song is obviously How Far I’ll Go, will absolutely sing his heart out EVERYTIME

- Just in general sings along to the entire soundtrack

Jean:

- Fucking Lady and the Tramp

- Once a romance like those fucking dogs so BADLY Fhjfjgf

- Insists that He’s a Tramp is his theme song

Connie:

- FROZEN BAYBEEEEEEEE oh man he loves that movie

- Anna is his favorite he loves her so much please

- “For the First Time in Forever” never fails to get him hyped as fuck

Sasha:

- LMAO FUCKING The Emperor’s New Groove

- She watches that shit all the goddamn time, and thinks it’s critically underrated (which it is)

- Also is a huge Frozen fan, she and Niccolo duet Love is an Open Door all the time. She and Connie dressed up as Anna and Elsa one year for Halloween

Ymir:

- Smh Beauty and the Beast easily

- Was so goddamn pissed at the live action remake like she HAAAAAATED that movie

- Belle reminds her of Historia

Historia:

- Lilo and Stitch

- THINKS ITS SO CUTE SHE ABSOLUTELY MELTS

- Ymir got her a stitch plushie and she just. Loves it so so soso much

Levi:

- TREASURE PLANET ‼️

- Thinks it’s funny how Jim Hawkins kinda looks like him

- HONESTLY also likes Coco, it’s like one of the few movies that got him to feel something

Hange:

- MEET THE GODDAMN ROBINSONS

- quotes this mf movie all the fucking time and Levi HAAATESS it

- Does not care that it’s silly, in fact that’s what she thinks makes it so fucking good

Erwin:

- Hercules LMAO

- Has absolutely no explanation as to why he just likes it

- Zero to Hero is his favorite song bye

- Got Levi to watch it and now Levi also really likes Hercules but won’t fucking admit it ever

Reiner:

- Fucking sobbed watching The Fox and the Hound and now he watches it whenever he feels like he needs to feel something

- How to hurt this man: best friend movies

- That being said his heart broke during Toy Story 3 he was Not Okay

Bertholdt:

- Princess and the Frog

- Fell in love with Naveen AAAAAAAAA me too buddy dw

- Cannot choose a favorite song bc they’re all so good, he listens to the soundtrack so much. Really wants to go to New Orleans

Annie:

- Man Tangled is her guilty pleasure movie

- Thinks it’s so cute and will absolutely never admit she teared up during “I See the Light”

- She and Armin dressed as Flynn and Repunzel one year (who dressed as who does not matter HDHFJ)

Pieck:

- The Rescuers!!!

- Gets so upset on how NOBODY talks about it, it’s so underrated and she has absolutely forced Porco to watch it like 10 times

- Also really loves The Little Mermaid :,)

Porco:

- Also adores Mulan but also a huge fan of the Lion King

- Listened to “Ill Make a Man Out of You” and took it personally

- He and Pieck watch The Lion King whenever one of them is sad bc they both love it sm

Zeke:

- T. Tarzan

- Phil Collins is his man crush LMAO swears that mans voice is so sexy

- monkey man

Niccolo:

- If you were thinking other than Ratatouille you’re fucking wrong

- Watches this dumbass rat movie like once a month with Sasha

- Kins Remy

mentioning beauty and the beast reminded me of Evermore and now I’m crying thinking abt some of my ships for aot for that song. it fits so many of them stop it I’m not fucking okay

now I KNOWWWWW shell NEVVERRR LEAVE ME, even as she FADES FROM VIEWWWWW, She will still inspire me— be a part of eVERYTHING I DOOOOOOOOO

[glowinggator]

Hi there! First of all thank you for the short haired reader Headcanons, it was so sweet !

I’d like a matchup please! She/they, INFP, curly short hair+ freckles, rosy checks, chubby/curvy hufflepuff, 5’9, shy but friendly, Loud w friends, nerdy, like memes, books, animated movies, painting, n’ artist stuff. My friends says I’m very funny but also very naive, I have one of those obnoxious funny laughs you don’t see it coming from a mile away ( bc im usually kinda quiet ) but those that it makes others laugh from just hearing it? So yeah abbrjgkdkdn, a softie not gonna lie, hopeless romantic, affectionate, but I hide my love side out of fear for being rejected, I’m very good with kids and animals, I get flustered SO easily ( it’s a pain. In the ass bfbgjdksks) got depression and anxiety, but I love hanging out with friends, I’m always down to comfort ppl, listen, give advice if they need to, extremely supportive and kind. I sometimes need my space but at the same time I think I kinda need someone who reassures me I’m not a bother or that they still like me, ( friendships and relationships ) otherwise I will crate conspiracy theories against myself and slowly drift away shbfngjdkd also understand non verbal language cuz it’s hard for me to open up, I Hope this is enough? thank you!

I match you with...

Leonardo!!

Your caring and loving nature is a huge factor in drawing him in! Kind to kids, kind to animals, nerdy, a lil shy... he’s SO in. He realizes he’s in love with you the first time he really makes you laugh. Dorky & infectious laughter... his weakness <3

He’s the best reader of nonverbal cues, hands down. He picks up on that shit so quickly, sometimes before you even realize what you’re feeling. He’ll give you a little bit of time, to see if you want to bring it up, but he’s not afraid of bridging that gap if you’re unable to. He’s also the KING of reassurance. He’ll kiss your forehead, hold your hands, and tell you all the things he loves about you. Sweetest motherfucker on earth tbh 

He’s a bit taller than you! You already know he’s gonna do the thing of holding something above your head so you have to get on your tiptoes and lean into him to grab it. 

Send him your memes... he always has like, a billion saved on his phone to respond with. (He���s also started saying “___.....my beloved...” out loud recently about the most mundane stuff. he’s so dumb <3 also most of his texts read like shitposts its so funny. he’s your boyfriend, but it’s obvious that you two were very good friends before you started going out together. It’s really cute.) 

At least once a month, he sends you a video of him trying to get Splinter to say Ratatouille quotes. “Dad, dad! I need you to say something for me.” “What is it?” “Anyone can cook, but only the fearless can be great.” “No.”  It never works :( He’s not gonna stop trying though. 

ADORES how flustered you get... he plays into it so much. He loves to pepper you with kisses and watch how flustered you get. He’s also done the Gomez & Morticia kiss up the arm hundreds of times. 

He’s a hopeless romantic and proud of it! He’ll do it all. Flowers, candlelit dinner dates, watching the sunrise & sunset, making dinner together, everything. 

He likes to lay his head in your lap while you read. Oftentimes he’ll fall asleep, especially if you trace patterns on his shell with your free hand. 

He loves crystals a lot! He could spend hours inside of gem shops, to be quite frank. His favorite is Blue Tourmaline, and he’ll buy little bags of it in the Hidden City so he can make necklaces & bracelets for you out of it. Every time you look down at your wrist or at your necklace, it makes you think of him :) 

One way to make him really flustered? Trace his stripes! He practically melts into your hands, and he gets the sweetest smile on his face. His eyes close as he leans into your touch and it’s just... MUAH. 

He tries so hard to make you laugh!! Your laughter is his favorite sound in the world, and he’ll do damn-near anything to hear it. If you’re ticklish... godspeed </3 

Fellow lover of animated movies!! He’s always down to watch them with you, and chances are, they’re a pretty common pick on movie night. (He also FREQUENTLY sends you the “I wish all american animation studios a very make 2D movies again or else” meme. If he has to watch one more CGI remake again he’s gonna DIE.)

If you have freckles on your shoulders/arms, you already know he’s gonna trace them. He thinks they’re so pretty! He likes to connect them with markers to make little constellations. 

He has your hair products MEMORIZED. If you ever run out of something, he’s the first to track it down for you. He also likes to draw cat ears and whiskers on the products in your bathroom <3

On your first year anniversary, he wrote you a really sweet song. He ran across the rooftops of New York with an acoustic guitar slung over his shoulder to get to your apartment, and you still remember the way he smiled as you grabbed his hands to pull him through the window. (He’s a good singer, too! It was the sweetest thing in the world <3) 

He’s SUCH a nerd... talk to him about your latest interest, do it!! He gets just as passionate as you do, even if he had no idea what it was beforehand! He loves passion. 

He has Houdini’s history memorized forwards and backwards: both his personal life and his performances! He gets so excited when he talks about Houdini, it’s cute. He’ll lay his head in your lap and ramble for ages, if you let him. His eyes light up like supernovas, it’s adorable. He talks with his hands, too. 

Super supportive of your art!! He frames/hangs up anything you give to him. And if it’s too small, you bet its going in his treasure box. (He keeps it under his bed, and it’s full of little things that remind him of you.) 

Speaking of which, he’s cool if you ever need a bit of space! It doesn’t hurt his feelings, I promise. Everyone needs a little bit of space sometimes, and that’s okay! So long as you know you’re loved, he’s cool with it. 

He’s a huge fan of personality tests!! Both serious ones like Myers-Briggs and the silly ones that you find on like. Buzzfeed. He’ll stay up for HOURS taking them to avoid going to bed. (He’s an ENFP & Gryffindor, for reference! He barely skirts into ENFP-T, [Around a 55-45, maybe 60-40 split] if you wanna be specific.) He loves sending them to you, too! 

Literally the sticky note KING. He’ll stick them everywhere. Having a depressive episode? Sticky note reminders to eat & shower if he’s not there. Loving little stickies with encouragement! Declarations of how much he loves you, and how proud of you he is! He’ll also do it when you’re feeling a-okay, but you can bet that he increases them when you’re not feeling well. It’s a nice way for him to tell you that he loves you and is proud of you when he isn’t there. You keep all of them in a box of your own :) You guys also have a giant sticky note trail on your fridge. You both keep stacking responses on top of one another. 

[rivolted]

today  i  bring  you  Goth  Stylist.  tomorrow  ?  who  knows.

[ LEE JIEUN, DEMIGIRL, SHE/THEY ]    well, if it isn’t nerilla baron, our resident DISTRICT 12 STYLIST ! i’m so excited to see what they’ll be bringing to the table this year. they’re twenty six years old, & they’ve been in this position for less than a year. i hope they’re ready for the publicity — the tabloids have already started talking about them ! anyways, i got to meet them once, & they’re a lot like the satisfying pop of a champagne bottle, remember: snakes in the grass don’t always resemble snakes, a light in your eyes that glints not like the stars but like a knife, the hollow stillness in the air just after a camera flash.  

CHARACTER  INSPO  :  mai  (  atla  ),  juliette cai  (  these violent delights  ),  kaz brekker  (  grishaverse  ),  damon salvatore  (  from the books. I Do Not Perceive Show!Damon  )

𝖇𝖚𝖙   𝖘𝖍𝖊   𝖐𝖓𝖔𝖜𝖘   𝖉𝖎𝖛𝖎𝖓𝖎𝖙𝖞   .    it’s    fathomless   .   it   is   not   something   that   can    be    measured    or    studied    .    𝙄𝙏'𝙎    𝙋𝘼𝙄𝙉    ,    𝙀𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙉𝙄𝙏𝙔    ,    𝘼𝙉𝘿    𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙍𝙊𝙍    .    it’s    endless    ,    all    consuming    fire    .    𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫    .

name   :   nerilla baron.

age   :   twenty six.

gender & pronouns   :   demigirl & she / her / they / them  (  alternating, but some days they just want to hear one or the other  ).

district  :   two

occupation   :   district 12 stylist.

moral alignment   :   chaotic good.

wcs at the end  !

great-grandchild of one of the first gamemakers, nerilla belongs to a long line of capitol greats. their family is mostly notorious for their work in the hunger games, and very rarely do any of the barons take a job that isn’t somehow directly tied to the games; their brother, for example, is a painter who remakes particularly popular scenes from the games. 

so, growing up, they found themselves in the lap of luxury. they had no need to work for anything; if she wanted something, she got it. there was only one rule in the home: be good. if you were good, you were set for life. 

originally, nerilla did not want to be a stylist. she wanted to be a painter, but her brother was already well on his way to doing so, and a rule of being good was no competing with each other. assuming styling people would be the next best thing, she was thrown to work by her parents, immediately placed as an assistant to one of the oldest game stylists working at the time. here, they found a love for the occupation that was all but forced upon them; they were still making art, but now someone could wear it on their body. fashion is statements. how better to communicate ?

nerilla grew in popularity very quickly, but, to the dismay of their family, refrained from becoming a games stylist, instead taking jobs from high-paying & esteemed capitol clients. they, blatantly, denied their parent’s insistence to style for the games. they did not say why, but the thought of dressing someone to send them off to slaughter made them sick. for a while they did do some game-inspired outfits for clients, but stopped because, again, for some reason it gave her a guilty conscience. 

she’s in the right place in the wrong time when it happens. a party. a slip of the tongue, a case of mistaken identity, perhaps even a deliberate act. this person changes nerilla’s perspective on everything. it happens so quickly, one moment betrayal leaves someone’s mouth, and suddenly nerilla’s like a spark that’s been lit up, with the sudden, incredible realization: yes, this should be changed. 

it’s dangerous. it’s idiotic. it’s the very antithesis of being good, and yet they can’t help it. everything about panem is wrong. for the first time, they put into words their disgust with the treatment of the districts. 

applying to be a stylist in the next games was the logical step. get close to those in power, closer to those without. her name recognition, their work recognition - all enough to have landed them a spot in a career district, maybe, but they shut that idea down. they wanted to experience the worst. they wanted to see it. 

okay thsi is going to be nigh incoherent but. u know colette from ratatouille ? edna mode ? that’s nerilla. very strict. very much likes things their way. 

she’s also Very Scary, and it doesn’t help that she dresses Very Scary. this is on purpose. only the bravest of crows reap the rewards from approaching scarecrows, and nerilla has no patience for cowardice. also i feel like most people in the capitol who dress eccentrically do it with bright clothing ? WHERE ARE THE GOTHS SUZANNE. 

they will literally never say it but they care... a lot. about their work, about other people. they’re just very tough-love about it. 

wcs  !

anything to do with her job. the stylist she apprenticed under, ppl she’s styled/regulars, an up-and-coming stylist or a stylist she’s got a bit of a rivalry with, SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO APPRENTICE/STUDY UNDER HER ??

their brother.... pl e ase.. . . .. THEIR BROTHER ! he’s a painter and very pro-capitol and i imagine him as someone who looks/acts all sunshine and rainbows but is every much Evil. they’re close for now, they have been since they were children, but as the rebellion kicks off their relationship will go sour so quickly. please. Sibling Angst. also i imagine he’s like a year younger or their twin but he can be older if u want. 

not technically a connection but if u have a character in the d12 team. Hello. MMZMMXMXM

uh literally anything they’re a very Fun character for me they deserve some Fun connections

[mercutiodidntdieforthis]

I’m thinking about recent movies (particularly Disney ones) vs. older movies, and it’s like,,,,,it’s just so easy to tell the difference between a team that loved working on the film that they made, vs. one that didn’t.

I just saw a post about how good Kung Fu Panda is, and it’s like, yeah, you can just tell from the visuals to the voice acting that they enjoyed working on that. It looks good because the artists wanted to create those scenes, and it’s good because the writers actually wanted to tell that story.

The songs in Frozen have so much heart, and the visuals are so beautiful, because people actually wanted to make art when they made that movie. Ratatouille so clearly has so much love and care put into every part of it because they actually cared about saying something with that movie. Wreck it Ralph is heartwrenching because they cared about the characters.

Then we have like...The infamous live-action remakes. The Croods. I mean, even the first Cars movie was great and heartfelt, and the sequels were pretty terrible!!! There are a bunch more movies that I can’t even remember, but when I watch the commercials, I can just tell.....No one wanted to make this shit. It was “oh, this genre is popular, we’ll make something like that. Oh, let’s just retell the story of the unpopular girl who gets bullied by Stereotypical Mean Girl uwu!!! Why write a romance with chemistry when we can just redo the same ones we always write?? People will buy it because it’s Guy and Girl!!!”

Anyways.....I know that “movies born from passion are better than movies made for money” is really not the hottest take out there, I’ve just been thinking about it and it makes me upset.

[princesscatherinemiddleton]

Quarantine questions

The lovely, wonderful, angelic queen that is @gloriousglorianas tagged me in these quarantine questions. I miss you, girl!

Are you staying home from work/school?

Nope! I’m a primary school teacher so I’m still working full time and also providing work for my kids who are at home. There aren’t too many children in school though, so I’ve had a lot of time to clean my classroom. I’ve just worked through the Easter holidays so somehow I’m working... more?

If you’re staying home, who is with you?

I still live at home because I moved back for my PGCE/NQT year. I live with my parents, my younger sister, her baby, and our dog. Honestly, it’s been hell. My mum is semi-retired but works from home Monday-Wednesday. My dad’s been furloughed. My sister is struggling with a 4 month old baby with severe colic. And my puppy doesn’t understand why he can’t go out with his friends and play with the dogs he meets in the street. I’ve never wanted my own place more.

Are you a homebody?

Yes! I’d happily spend weeks inside, but now the choice has been taken away, I want to go out all the time. I didn’t realise how much I loved going to Sainsburys. Normally, I’d much rather spend time alone or watching a movie with friends than leaving the house.

An event you were looking forward to that got cancelled?

The Olympics. The first thing I said this year, as the clock struck midnight, was “IT’S AN OLYMPIC YEAR”. Jokes on me, I guess. Also Wimbledon and seeing TSwizzle in Hyde Park.

What movies have you watched recently?

I am currently watching the 2019 Child’s Play remake. I’ve also rewatched all the Shreks while in quarantine, as well as all the Twilights (I like to watch them once a year for fun!). I watched Rocketman earlier today and I’ve rewatched Ratatouille and a few of the Harry Potters as well. I’ve made a very long list of films to get me through the next few weeks though.

What shows are you watching?

I watched Quiz over the 3 nights it aired, which was really good! I watched The Nest on BBC as well. I’m rewatching Torchwood and I’ve kept up to date with S7 of B99

What music are you listening to?

Can I say Lover by TSwizzle? And anything by TSwizzle really. I’m listening to the podcast Casefile on my daily walks.

What are you reading?

What haven’t I been reading? I just read The Selection, which is about a futuristic Asia with a strict caste system, where 35 girls have been “selected” to try and become the next Princess. Despite all the weirdness, it’s had one of the best faux monarchies I’ve read in fiction and I’m already super invested, even though it’s not my normal style of book and reminded me of Grace and Fury! I reread a bunch of Jacqueline Wilson books when she came out and then I was inspired to reread a bunch of The Saddle Club books that I borrowed from the library when I was younger. I read Break the Fall, which is based on the USA gymanstics teams sexual assault problems and made me miss the Olympics even more. I read Outwalkers, which has a horrible taste in punctuation and I read I Am Thunder, which is about a young British-Pakistani girl who is radicalised and written by a British Muslim.

What are you doing for self-care?

I make sure I take my daily walk (which I will never get over saying!) with my puppy! I’m spending a fair bit of time by myself to recharge and I’ve been netflix party-ing most nights with my closest friends. I’ve also been painting, which I am awful at but I LOVE. I could be doing more to be honest.

I’m always too lazy to tag people but, for once, I’m going to tag the first 5 people on my tag list: @duchessofostergotlands @lizisbackbackagain@harryandmeghansussex @thecambridges-family @claireofluxembourg

[themessafterthemarty]

11 Questions - Return of the Tag

So my main munch @monstermunch321 tagged me cus she was tagged by someone she tagged after I’d tagged her for tagging me after which she tagged me-

I WAS TAGGED FOR THIS AGAIN mkey that’s the story, that’s all there is to it, no more background here, no sir.

ONTO THE QUESTIONS:

Warning!: This post is long as all hell, because a certain someone asks me questions I can’t give short answers to.

I mean I could, but my heart won’t let me.

1. What is your favourite piece of artwork that you have made yourself?

Starting off easy, I see! 

That was a joke.

Okay, so I’m picking from the art that I’ve posted online (because anything else is too hard to find), and it might sound weird but I think my current fave, at least in quality, is the one I posted most recently?

I’m constantly trying to improve and I’ve seen the old ones way too many times, so I struggle to really appreciate them objectively, and anything that’s even a tiny bit old I just see mistakes in.

But further on the list of “you don’t make me want to stab myself”, I’m very proud of my Dan and Phil in Undertale series, even though I already want to remake the first ones. They were some of the first phan arts I ever made and they got a lot of positive attention which meant the world to me, because I was just starting to put stuff online more regularly and that to a great extent inspired me to continue doing that, even when posting stuff that people didn’t care too much about.

There’s also “that one time I felt I did a good pic justice”, “this looks better IRL but no one notices it on my wall either so maybe it’s just not as good as I see it as but I like it”, “I can’t unsee that I made Mat too tall after someone pointed it out on Twitter, but both Mat and Steph liked it so it’s okay”, and then.... 

well there’s this.

As you may have noticed I choose a lot of these based on association rather than whether I think they’re technically good, and.... I just kind of poured my heart into that one and it’s tied to a very, very, very dear memory, so I don’t want to criticise it technically. It doesn’t matter if it’s good. That’s not why it’s there. That’s not why it was made, not why I made a tumblr post with it, and not why I included it here. It doesn’t matter if a single other person on this website likes it - I frankly couldn’t give a damn if people hate it, even. What matters is that right now there’s one printed copy of this in existence and it’s hopefully in some box in a storage facility - maybe even a storage closet if I’m lucky - owned by Dan Howell and Phil Lester, and they loved it, hugged me and made me cry in a good way.

2. What is you favourite piece of instrumental music?

WHY MUST YOU MAKE ME SUFFER LIKE THIS.

HAVE I EVER MENTIONED TO YOU THAT I GREW UP WITH MUSICIAN PARENTS AND MY FIRST FANDOM WAS ME ALL ALONE AT 8 IN MY ROOM RE-LISTENING TO MOZART’S LIFE STORY ON AUDIO BOOK?

*screams*

...

I’m calm.

I’m not giving you one answer, though - because this is a much bigger deal than that, there are too many genres, and when do I ever give you short answers, anyway?

Okay so, in the classics department there’s for example Mozart’s 40th Symphony and Grieg’s Wedding Day at Troldhaugen - both pieces I loved as a child and still love to this day. Bach’s Cello Suite No.1 in G Major is of course the world’s best cello piece, but Air is too magical not to win first place from his stuff. (And this is where Marty got lost in her own Spotify playlist and decided to stop) .... *whispers* Prokokiev’s Peter and the Wolf is also quite dear to me.

I listen to soundtracks way too much and have for a very, very long time, too, so here are some tracks I love:

“Homeland” from Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron “Special Order” from Ratatouille “Sacred Pool of Tears” from Kung Fu Panda “I Don’t Think Now Is The Best Time” from Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End “Define Dancing” from Wall-E

I also need to honourably mention the entirety of the Inside Out soundtrack.

I’m already so bad at keeping it short on “what’s your favourite” questions, you just had to ask me about music. This is me trying to keep it short. You brought this on yourself.

3. When typing which number keys do you use? The top row or the number pad at the side?

I actually haven’t had a computer that has a number pad since I used the family computer back before I was 10, so the top row! If for no other reason than that I learned to type properly when I had a laptop.

4. Since you think vinegar is strange on chips, how about gravy? (I don’t like this myself, but its a thing around here).

I just dip my chips in sour cream, like any respectable human being. *dramatic hairflip* (Also what exactly is gravy? I hear the US and the UK don’t quite agree on this)

I also just had the profound realisation that I’m not entirely sure which kind of chips we’re talking about - I mean, I probably dip them in sour cream anyway, to be fair, that’s what I do.

5. Are you superstitious?

Not particularly? My attitude towards anything supernatural is that if it exists, it’s too unscientific for us to be able to fully understand it, predict it and do something with it. So in the end, what opinion I have of it is kind of irrelevant - whether it exists or not, I’ll behave the same way, because I can never know. I can only act based on what I do know, like that if you walk under a ladder, it might get caught on your clothes or something and hit you in the head, or if you break a mirror you’re gonna have to replace it and there may be glass shards all around that could hurt you at any given time, and walking around with a rabbit’s paw for luck is just begging to get PETA on your neck and is also an insult to my old pet rabbit.

6. How many cans make up your firewall?

Precisely 33. 👌

7. QUICK, you have 1 minute, draw a dragon!

8. Your favourite food?

What have I said about me and “favourite” questions??? This one’s actually impossible, tho. Depends on the day and stuff. I really love tacos, but so does the rest of Norway, and my mom’s chicken fajitas are amazing, meanwhile one of my fave dishes is fish balls in white sauce with potatoes and boiled carrots, because I’m Norwegian, okay, this is how we roll (it’s actually not necessarily, but yes that is a relatively common dish that I’ve always just loved too much), but then there’s also chicken risotto which for a long time was the only dish I knew how to make. 

9. What was your favourite TV show as a kid?

I’m not really sure? I watched a lot of Disney Channel, Jetix and Cartoon Network, but I can’t really remember if I had a favourite, and at what age I watched what shows. Some honourable mentions are Sonic, Kim Possible, Powerpuff Girls, Lilo & Stitch, Suite Life of Zack and Cody, of course I watched far too much Hannah Montana when that became a thing, Phineas and Ferb is still amazing, and I also watched a lot of the Simpsons from I was quite small - not because it went on TV but because we had a bunch of Simpsons seasons on DVD.

Though it of course depends on what you define as “kid”, because if we’re talking 10-13, then I can tell you that the Discovery Channel lineup after school was the best thing on Earth and I watched Mythbusters literally every day (after Dirty Jobs and all the various tattoo shows)

And yet I still sit here with the feeling of that I’ve probably forgotten something.

Having returned from some Googling, I can confirm that I forgot actual proper kids’ shows, and I can confirm I loved Teletubbies, Thomas the Tank Engine, Animals of Farthing Wood (’loved’ more like ‘was lovingly traumatised by’), Bear in the Big Blue House and on the Norwegian front there’s Uhu! - not that you’d know what that is, but it was the best thing ever and might have actually been my favourite, so I couldn’t not mention it.

10. Have you ever had a Yorkshire pudding/ would you try one? (Considering you don’t know what a Yorkshire pudding tin was, I’m guessing I know half your answer).

I think I’ve tasted it like once? When I was in London? We were at a restaurant that served a bunch of traditional English food, but I can’t remember what the pudding was like at all, would love to try it again sometime.

11. How annoyed are you at me for retagging you? :P

I mean, you send me 11 sentences and I send you a book back, who should be annoyed here? See, this is why I have an about me tag and not an about me page. You’re just intent on filling it up, giving me all these cursed “favourite” questions. WHEN WILL YOU LEARN I DON’T KNOW THE FINE ART OF KNOWING WHEN TO STOP TALKING?

Buuuuut since this is war now I feel like I can’t NOT send you something back, so here we go, I tag @monstermunch321 AGAIN (fight me!)

1. What’s your favourite holiday? Why?

2. Are you right- or left-handed?

3. What Hogwarts House are you?

4. What’s your favourite GTLive stream/s?

5. If you had to be an animal other than human, which animal would you choose? Wild or captive?

6. Favourite food? (I’m original, I know)

7. What’s the first toy/stuffed animal/doll you remember having?

8. If you had to pick a favourite instrument, which would it be?

9. Do you prefer sweet or salty snacks? Have any favourites?

10. If you had to pick a “super power” that some animal on Earth already has, which would it be? (whether it be claws that could kill, camouflage, bioluminescence, or an uncanny ability to always land on your feet and fit into boxes)

11. Got any favourite books?

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The Inspirations Behind These Movies Will Make You Need To Watch Them Once more

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The Inspirations Behind These Movies Will Make You Need To Watch Them Once more

Have you learnt how your favourite films got here to be? So much goes into making a movie, however audiences aren’t normally conscious of the artistic course of that results in the entertaining last product. For those who’ve ever discovered your self questioning “the place’d they get the thought for this?” when you’re watching a film, then this can be a gallery you’ll be able to’t miss. We’ll be taught the place the inspiration for some massive movies got here from and get a number of enjoyable behind-the-scenes info too.

You’ll be touched by the real-life story behind one of the crucial well-known alien films ever made…

Many individuals who grew up throughout the 1980s recall being terrified by the slasher traditional A Nightmare on Elm Avenue. Within the film, some youngsters expertise horrifying desires through which they’re hunted down and murdered by the disfigured villain Freddy Krueger. When the youngsters are killed of their desires, additionally they die in actual life.

Creator Wes Craven based mostly Nightmare on real-life occasions that he’d examine within the newspaper. In 1981, the New York Occasions reported that 18 refugees from southeastern Asia had died of their sleep. One of many high theories investigators explored was that the victims had been “frightened to loss of life by nightmares.” Additionally terrifying is that the Freddy Krueger character was based mostly on an previous man in Craven’s childhood neighborhood. Candy desires tonight!

Many instances, films are autobiographical to some extent. Individuals normally write what they learn about, and parts of a screenwriter’s life are certain to finish up in scripts typically. So that you may guess that Imply Women, the 2004 teen comedy written by Tina Fey, was a mirrored image of Fey’s personal experiences.

Really, Fey obtained inspiration for the film about imply and cliquish highschool women from an sudden supply: a self-help e-book. Rosalind Wiseman’s e-book Queen Bees and Wannabes offers recommendation to oldsters whose kids are struggling by the hands of bullies and imply youngsters.Additionally, the Cady Garey character, performed by Lindsay Lohan within the film, is known as for Fey’s school roommate.

The subsequent movie had a real-life bully for inspiration.

Again to the Future, like many different movies, was impressed by a e-book. However the 1985 comedy sci-fi traditional wasn’t based mostly on a novel. No, author Bob Gale bought the idea for Again to the Future by flipping by his father’s previous highschool yearbook whereas visiting his mother and father. He questioned, “Gee, if I went to highschool with my dad, would I’ve been mates with him?” and the thought was born.

One other key inspiration for the film was none aside from the present president of the USA, Donald Trump. In a 2015 interview with the Each day Beast, Gale confirmed what many followers had guessed all alongside: that the film’s imply bully Biff Tannen was based mostly on Trump. Ouch.

The idea behind Ghostbusters, the 1984 movie that blended supernatural parts with comedy, got here from a real-life perception in ghosts. Actor and author Dan Akroyd has had a lifelong curiosity within the paranormal. “It’s the household enterprise, for God’s sake,” he advised Self-importance Honest in an interview.

Akroyd’s great-grandfather performed séances on the household farmhouse. And his grandfather, who labored as a phone engineer, tried to plot an instrument that may enable him to speak with the useless. Even his father was in on the household passion – he penned a e-book about ghosts. Dan Akroyd sat down and wrote Ghostbusters after studying an American Society of Psychical Analysis article about parapsychology. The movie finally launched a sequel, two animated collection, video video games, a preferred remake, and extra.

Adults and children alike cherished the Pixar-produced animated hit Ratatouille, a few rat who turns into a well-known chef. Many cooks additionally praised the movie for its realism – its creators had been meticulous with their analysis and spent numerous time interviewing and observing actual cooks at work.

It’s a standard idea that the character of chef Auguste Gusteau was based mostly on the real-life Bernard Loiseau, who owned the well-known French restaurant La Côte d’Or. The similarities are fairly arduous to disregard. For one, each cooks bought traces of frozen meals. Additionally, in Ratatouille, Gusteau dies of a damaged coronary heart after his restaurant loses considered one of its Michelin stars. 4 years previous to the film’s launch, Loiseau’s restaurant misplaced its three-star standing and he dedicated suicide. Sort of a bleak reference for a youngsters’ film…

Put together to be completely creeped out by the following slide.

Lots of the movies on this checklist had been impressed by real-life occasions. Alfred Hitchcock’s traditional 1960 psychological thriller Psycho is one other. Hitchcock based mostly Psycho on a e-book that was written a few infamous serial killer and grave robber named Ed Gein. The movie’s antagonist, Norman Bates, shares many frequent traits with Gein.

Gein, who saved human organs and made clothes out of physique elements, additionally had a domineering and controlling mom. Similar to Bates, Gein stored a room in his house as a shrine to her and wore her clothes after she died. Gein has been the inspiration for a lot of of filmdom’s creepiest characters and it’s straightforward to see why. Shudder.

The 1976 blockbuster hit Rocky has earned a everlasting place in popular culture historical past and is ceaselessly cited as an inspirational favourite. However many followers of the Sylvester Stallone movie aren’t conscious that it was based mostly on an actual particular person. Meet Chuck.

Chuck Wepner is the previous heavyweight boxer who impressed the Rocky Balboa character. The movie borrowed closely from his life story. Some of the iconic scenes within the movie, the stair run, was based mostly on an exercise that Wepner did ceaselessly. “The operating up the steps they used within the movies, that was all my life,” he advised USA As we speak. Wepner additionally lasted an astonishing 15 rounds with the heavyweight champion, identical to Rocky did within the film.

Now a pioneering movie director and three-time Academy Award-winner, Steven Spielberg didn’t have a straightforward childhood. “In highschool, I bought smacked and kicked round. Two bloody noses. It was horrible,” he as soon as advised the New York Occasions. He was so lonely that he invented an imaginary buddy to make himself really feel higher, “[a] buddy who might be the brother I by no means had and a father that I didn’t really feel I had anymore.”

Spielberg’s imaginary buddy was an alien – an alien who impressed one of many best science-fiction fantasy movies ever made. Sure, E.T. the Further-Terrestrial was based mostly on Spielberg’s childhood expertise. “E.T. displays quite a lot of that. When Elliott finds E.T., he hangs on to E.T. and he declares in no unsure phrases, ‘I’m maintaining him,’ and he means it.” Awwww. Realizing this certain makes that last goodbye within the film that a lot tougher to observe, doesn’t it?

Which Hollywood star impressed a film a few serial killer?

Within the 2000 horror/comedy flick American Psycho, we watch as actor Christian Bale turns into an eerily real looking yuppie who leads a double life as a serial killer. It seems that he used a shocking mannequin for his villainous character: fellow actor Tom Cruise.

Director Mary Harron shared particulars about Bale’s inspiration in a BlackBook interview. “We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was trying on the world like someone from one other planet, watching what folks did and attempting to work out the best technique to behave,” she mentioned. “After which sooner or later he known as me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he simply had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was actually taken with this power.”

80s film followers will benefit from the subsequent entry.

Keep in mind the 1984 movie Gremlins? It was a bizarre mixture of comedy and horror, and starred a bunch of bizarre furry creatures that had been cute when dry. But when a Gremlin bought moist, be careful… they’d flip into evil little monsters able to inflicting main destruction.

Gremlins’ author was Chris Columbus, who additionally wrote The Goonies and directed hits like House Alone, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. His inspiration for the Gremlins? The mice that inhabited his Garment District house in Manhattan. IndieWire studies that Columbus had this to say about his undesirable roommates: “By day, it was nice sufficient, however at night time, what seemed like a platoon of mice would come out and to listen to them skittering round within the blackness was actually creepy.” It sounds just like the mice will need to have gotten moist at night time.

Good Will Searching, the dramatic movie launched in 1997, was famously written by two of its starring actors, lifelong mates Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Their purpose for writing the screenplay shouldn’t be as well-known. It seems that when Matt was learning at Harvard, he needed to full one last task for a drama class. He turned in a 40-page script, which the 2 mates later was Good Will Searching.

In 2016, Damon gave the graduation speech to M.I.T’s graduating class. In it, he shared a enjoyable reality concerning the film. “One of many scenes in Good Will Searching is definitely based mostly on one thing that occurred to my brother Kyle. He was visiting a physicist we knew at M.I.T. and he was strolling down the Infinite Hall. He noticed these blackboards that line the halls. So my brother, who’s an artist, picked up some chalk and wrote an extremely elaborate, completely pretend model of an equation. And it was so cool and fully insane that nobody erased it for months. It is a true story.”

The 1975 Steven Spielberg-directed thriller Jaws began as a e-book that was written by novelist Peter Benchley. In it, an enormous nice white shark torments a Lengthy Island seashore city over the course of a summer season. Benchley, who had been occupied with sharks since he was a toddler, was impressed to jot down Jaws after studying a few two-ton nice white that was caught in New York. The fisherman who caught it turned the inspiration for the character Quint.

A little bit of Spielberg trivia: he named the movie’s mechanical shark “Bruce” after his legal professional Bruce Ramer. The picture above exhibits Spielberg goofing round with Bruce whereas on set.

You gained’t imagine that the following movie was based mostly on an actual occasion.

Even individuals who haven’t seen The Blob, the 1958 sci-fi horror film, have most likely heard of it or seen the hokey promotional posters for it. The film’s plot sounds fairly foolish – an unidentified alien “blob” crashes on Earth in a meteorite, then goes on a killing rampage. The blob dissolves everybody it comes into contact with and it grows greater and stronger with every consumed sufferer.

Right here’s the actually bizarre half. The Blob was based mostly on actual newspaper tales. A 1950 New York Occasions article with the headline “A ‘Saucer’ Floats to Earth And a Concept Is Dished Up” goes on to say that 4 policemen in Pennsylvania had discovered a bizarre jelly-like substance. Once they touched the goo it caught to one of many officer’s palms and began to dissolve. Ultimately it disappeared fully, however its story spawned one of the crucial beloved tacky B-movies ever.

Within the 1980s, author Daniel Waters moved from Indiana to Los Angeles and bought a job at what he described to Hollywood Interview as “the least cool video retailer” ever. He spent his shifts “[t]eaching poor kids to not hire Zone Troopers simply because it’s a brand new launch, and to hire Alien as an alternative.”

Surrounded by dangerous films, Waters began writing Heathers whereas he labored. His purpose was easy: “I simply wrote Heathers as a result of I wished to see Heathers.” His screenplay was the 1988 darkish comedy movie starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. Not dangerous for a video retailer clerk.

The traditional film that comes subsequent had one of the crucial weird influences ever.

The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 horror movie, gave many a viewer nightmares concerning the feathered creatures. Within the movie, residents of Bodega Bay, California are terrorized by days of unexplained and violent assaults by birds of all totally different species. The movie was based mostly loosely on Daphne du Maurier’s e-book of the identical title but in addition had real-life inspiration.

In 1961, a whole lot of seabirds mysteriously began crashing violently into houses round Monterey Bay, California. Hitchcock included parts of this mysterious occasion in his movie. Only in the near past, scientists solved the thriller of why all these birds abruptly went berserk: leaking septic tanks had launched poisonous algae. Any birds who ingested the nasty stuff had been with confusion and seizures. Marvel what Hitchcock would suppose if he knew that considered one of his most well-known works was partially impressed by sewage?

The Coen Brothers’ 2000 comedy-crime movie O Brother, The place Artwork Thou is ready throughout the Nice Melancholy. The story follows three convicts who escape from jail and head out on a journey to seek out treasure that one of many males claims to have buried years earlier.

Though there the movie clearly references Homer’s The Odyssey, the epic poem was not the unique inspiration for O Brother, The place Artwork Thou. Fifteen years after the film’s launch, Joel and Ethan Coen attended a Q & A and shared some particulars about its inspiration. “It began as a ‘three saps on the run’ type of film, after which at a sure level we checked out one another and mentioned, ‘You realize, they’re attempting to get house — let’s simply say that is The Odyssey,” mentioned Joel. “We had been pondering of it extra as The Wizard of Oz. We wished the tag on the film to be: ‘There’s No Place Like House.’”

Whereas in Paris, director Wes Anderson stumbled upon a replica of a novel known as Watch out for Pity whereas he was looking in a bookshop. The title, by Austrian creator Stefan Zweig, had been out of print for years. Anderson knew he’d discovered one thing particular, and in an interview with Selection mentioned “I believe I learn the primary web page within the retailer and thought, ‘OK, this can be a new favourite author of mine.’”

He favored the e-book a lot, in truth, that he based mostly his comedic 2014 movie Grand Budapest Lodge on it. Zweig, as soon as the world’s most translated author, set lots of his works in grand lodges. Grand Budapest Lodge pays homage not simply to Watch out for Pity, however to Zweig himself. The Academy Award-winning movie’s first credit score goes to the author, who died in 1942.

Being rejected from the army impressed a screenwriter to create the following film.

John Milius, the screenwriter for the Francis Ford Coppola-directed Apocalypse Now, has an obsession with struggle. Milius, who was given an Academy Award for his work on the 1979 movie, says that he had tried to enlist within the Marines throughout Vietnam however was rejected resulting from his bronchial asthma. He went to varsity as an alternative however his curiosity in struggle by no means left him.

In a lecture sooner or later, Milius’ professor advised the category that there had by no means been a “good” movie model of the Joseph Conrad novel Coronary heart of Darkness. Milius had the thought to jot down an adaptation of the novel, set within the jungles of wartime Vietnam as an alternative of Africa. He later mentioned, “[t]hat was a very powerful choice I made in my life as a author.“ It definitely was an essential second in movie historical past, as nicely.

Though the Jim Henson/George Lucas fantasy musical Labyrinth was not an enormous success on the field workplace, it’s now a cult traditional and stays a fan favourite greater than 30 years after its launch. The movie was impressed by quite a lot of creative works.

The Wizard of Ouncesis probably the most distinguished of Labyrinth’s influences, with the character Sarah’s expertise mimicking that of Dorothy. And movie critic Nina Darton advised The New York Occasions that the film’s plot “is similar to Exterior Over There by [Maurice] Sendak, through which 9-year-old Ida’s child sister is stolen by the goblins.” Brian Froud, Labyrinth’s idea designer, says that David Bowie’s character Jareth was impressed by a slew of literary works, together with Jane Eyre, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and Wuthering Heights.

WALL-E is an animated Pixar Animation Studios-produced movie that was launched by Disney in 2008. The film tells the story of WALL-E, a lonely robotic on a abandoned planet. He finally finds one other robotic and develops a romance together with her. Co-writer Andrew Stanton says that considered one of his essential inspirations for creating this movie was the 18th century novel Robinson Crusoe, which follows a person who lives in isolation for years after being shipwrecked.

In an interview with Newsarama, Stanton went into extra element concerning the growth of WALL-E. He and his co-writers had been nearly carried out with Toy Story and wanted to brainstorm new film concepts. “We had no story. It was form of this little Robinson Crusoe type of little character. [Then we thought] what if mankind needed to depart Earth and someone forgot to show the final robotic off? I began to simply consider him doing his job on daily basis and compacting trash that was left on Earth.”