#CORALINE? BIG FAVE. PARANORMAN? BIG FAVE.

[obstinaterixatrix]

I’m so disappointed I loved the author’s m/m from like the first five minutes but I’m an hour into her f/f and it’s really not tailored to my tastes in the same way. why is the webcomic described entirely in prose. why is it first person. why is the ensemble cast more lackluster. why are we spending so much time with the main character and some guy. why do I have to wait so long for the love interest to actually show up. and why do I always lose.

[lunarcrown]

Given your background, do you have a favorite stop motion animated movie? My favorite movie ever is nightmare before christmas :)

OOO THATS SUCH A GOOD ONE!!!!! The puppets in that are BANANAS bc some are soooooo skinny (like Jack) and that can be SUPER hard to make happen but they DID IT!! Also tragic fun fact, when that company did Corpse Bride later on, the faces had these tiny paddles inside and it was the PEAK of stop motion creation, everyone was losing their minds about the possibilities, and then LAIKA came out with 3D printed interchangeable faces (and later COLOR 3D printing) and made the paddles almost instantly obsolete 😭

FOR MY FAVE STOP MO THO HMMMM ok I think Paranorman and/or Coraline are big ones (I’m a LAIKA girlie)!! They have amazing soundtracks, and the story behind paranorman and the music is just CHEFS KISS. I couldn’t afford it but they actually sold some of the zombie puppets back in the day and they mailed them to people in tiny coffins like HOW COOL IS THAT?? Also ALL of the rough early character design in that movie was done by a single fresh-out-of-college girl and she NAILED IT!

I also LOOOOVE Wallace and grommet and chicken run, CLASSICS, and I love Max Winston’s stuff! He goes WILD with experimental stop motion like what he’s done for the Story Bots and the uncle grandpa webisode “imagination”! (I’m not a huge uncle grandpa show fan but I LOVE everything wild in this ep and all the COLOR)

[coldflasher]

"bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements" what's your letterboxd top 4 for books/albums/movies?

okay SO im very aware that i was all "oooh send me asks!!" and then didn't answer the asks, i am so sorry, but in my defence i was saving them for when i would be able to give a proper answer SO, onward!!

if we're getting mega technical i don't have a letterboxd account but i assume the sentiment remains the same regardless so here we go (and these are in no particular order cos i'm sooo bad at choosing favourites)

MOVIES:

The Incredibles (2004)

You all know this one, I'm sure. Superpowered family goes into hiding after a decree that bans superheroes, then Mr. Incredible, who's struggling to adjust to civilian life, gets lured to a mysterious island to complete a superhero mission for a shady benefactor who turns out to be a spurned fanboy who was obsessed with him as a kid and is now out for revenge. It's such a fun movie and probably what triggered my obsession with superhero media, if we're being honest. Also I had the world's BIGGEST crush on Violet.

Igor (2008)

In a land where evil scientists create dastardly inventions and participate in a yearly Hunger Games-esque competition to build the deadliest superweapon, Igor (who, like all other hunchbacks in the land of Malaria, is banned from inventing) creates a 10ft tall Frankenstein’s monster named Eva who desperately wants to be an actress.

Aided by an immortal (but ironically also incredibly suicidal) rabbit named Scamper and an autonomous brain in a jar, Igor illegally enrols in the mad scientist competition with Eva as his entrant, all while concealing his true intentions from Eva, who thinks she is auditioning for the titular role of a very avant-garde version of Annie.

It’s an incredibly funny movie that appealed to the kid in me that was obsessed with dark, gothic-looking shit. Not to be all *old woman grumbles* they don’t make em like this any more, but they genuinely don’t. I miss that period of time when these grungy, spooky-looking kids movies were in vogue—think Paranorman, Coraline, Corpse Bride… none of which I actually like that much but it’s the PRINCIPLE. It’s the VIBE.

I have never met another person who’s even HEARD of this movie, let alone seen it, which is a real tragedy.

Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)

The second (and infinitely superior, I say having not seen the first one in probably 20 years because seeing Scrappy Doo crawl out of Rowan Atkinson's face put the fear of god into me as a kid) live-action Scooby Doo movie, in which the Scooby gang accidentally activate a device that brings all the costumes of all their old enemies to life and turns them into real monsters. It's a banger.

Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

Oh look, a movie that was actually made within the last decade! It's probably a toss-up between this and Endgame but I think this one wins by a hair just because I waited almost a decade to see Andrew Garfield's Spiderman finally get the acknowledgement he deserved. Multiverse fuckery occurs and a bunch of alternate universe Spidermen and spiderverse villains get dragged into the MCU, it's a fun time *Michael from The Good Place voice* we've all seen it

Books (I went for mostly fave standalones here cos if we talked about fave series I'd be here all day. Did I mention I was a booktuber for 6 years?)

Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Sutanto

Meddy, a young Chinese-Indonesian wedding photographer, is set up on a blind date by her mother that goes horribly wrong and ends in her date’s sudden and pretty violent death (trust me, he deserved it).

In the process of trying to dispose of the body, Meddy, her mother, and her meddling aunts hide it in a fridge and accidentally ship it out to a huge wedding they’re working at that weekend. They then have to try and pull off the perfect wedding for a big client AND get rid of the body without any of the wedding guests stumbling upon it. To top it all off, it turns out that Meddy’s ex, Nathan, owns the island resort and wants to give their relationship another shot. Poor Meddy just wants five minutes to catch up with the love of her life but keeps getting interrupted by hijinks.

It’s genuinely one of the funniest books I’ve ever read. The author is genuinely incredible, I have no idea how she writes so fast and yet never has a single miss. There are now 3-4 Aunties books and she also wrote an absolutely hysterical cosy mystery about a teashop owner named Vera Wong who finds a dead body and then starts her own murder investigation, Miss Marple style, and that book made me cry on an aeroplane, so just. Hats off to Jesse Sutanto, she is genuinely the writer I want to be.  

You Deserve Each Other

This one is a rom-com about a newly engaged couple, Nicholas and Naomi, whose relationship kind of sucks due to various factors including (but not limited to) Nicholas' overbearing mother-in-law. Faced with the reality that she'll have to be married to a man she no longer particularly likes and deal with his mother for the rest of her life, Naomi decides to deliberately sabotage their relationship and get Nicholas to dump her, and it culminates in a huge, rapidly escalating prank war as they slowly start to fall in love again. Again, this book always makes me cackle out loud, it's so fun and I never get tired of reading it

The Bromance Book Club

This is another second-chance romance about a pro baseballer called Gavin and his wife, Thea. They're on the brink of divorce, until Gavin's friends let him in on their secret book club, where a bunch of dudes all get together and read romance novels to help them figure out their relationship problems. Again, it's just fun and funny, I really love romance novels myself (as you can probably tell from this list and my entire personality lmao) so I enjoyed the meta aspect of it, and just. It's just good stuff

The Brutal Truth

This one is a Devil Wears Prada fanfic turned romance novel where a struggling journalist named Maddie ends up getting involved with her cold, ice queen boss, Elena, who has a habit of acquiring failing magazine/newspaper businesses and then crushing them under her high heels. If you've ever thought Miranda and Andy from DWP should fuck (they should) then this book is for you. It's a 10/10

Albums

Will keep the music one brief as I have rambled enough already and do not know how to talk coherently about music

Razzmatazz by I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

straight bops all the way through, some excellent villain songs, just a different sound from a lot of the music that's out there

Four by One Direction

Four was the album where they really started to find their sound and completed the transition from cheesy radio pop to something with slightly more mature, rocky influences, but it's a bit more lively than their fifth album, Made In the AM, which while technically accomplished is nowhere near as fun to listen to in my opinion

Selfish Machines by Pierce the Veil

this has been a fave since my angsty high school days and it's one of the few albums that exist in the world that doesn't really have any skips (I've been known to skip Million Dollar Houses on occasion, but generally I'll listen to it all the way through)

It's Still Nothing Personal by All Time Low, which is their 10th anniversary rerecord of their early album Nothing Personal (caveat that, like most early 2010s pop punk bands, All Time Low have been accused of some things that are less than ideal, sigh). It has all the nostalgia while also stepping up the quality and just having that more mature, polished sound that comes with 10+ years of experience making music. good stuff unfortunately somewhat tainted by The Allegations, why can't we ever have nice things, and by nice things i mean "2000s pop punk artists who didn't allegedly sleep with impressionable and easily manipulated teenagers at warped tour"

[lolo-l0ved]

Sources

Bold fave, italicised selective, strike closed/not doing atm || Please ask for outside sources. Books are not included because that’s way to many lol and this post is already really long.

Movies || Back to the Future franchise, Dead Poet Society, Donnie Darko, Fear Street Trilogy, Five Nights At Freddys, Harry Potter franchise, Indiana Jones franchise, Now You See Me 1&2, Scott Pilgrim Vs the World, Sin City 1&2, Swiss Army Man, Train To Busan, Wes Anderson Films (No spoilers for some !) (this list could go in forever, so please just ask)

Manga || Ajin: Demi Human, Alice in Borderland, Beastars, Chainsaw Man, Dorohedoro, Junji Ito Works, Komi Can’t Communicate, Toilet Bound Hanako Kun, Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead

Older Cartoons || Adventure Time, Carmen Sandiego, Ducktales 2017, Gravity Falls, Helluva Boss, Inside Job, Jurrasic World Camp Cretaceous, Scooby Doo (all Movies + Shows), Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Strange Hill High, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Any series), The Amazing Digital Circus, The Cuphead Show, The Looney Tunes show (Any series), Tom & Jerry (all Movies + Shows), Total Drama (S1/S2/S3/S4/Reboot)

Younger Cartoons || ABC Me/3 cartoons (ask beforehand just in case !), Bluey, Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom, Bubble Guppies, Charlie & Lola, Disney shorts/shows, Disney Junior cartoons (ask beforehand just in case !), In the Night Garden, Jake and the Neverland Pirates, NickToons cartoons (ask beforehand just in case !), Little Einsteins, Octonauts, Team Umizoomi

Games || Ace Attorney, Cuphead, Danganronpa (all games + ask about fangans), Doki Doki Literature Club, Five Nights At Freddys (all games), Fran Bow, Kindergarten 1&2, Little Misfortune, Sally Face (all chapters), Telltale: The Walking Dead (S1/S2/S3)

Animes || Ajin: Demi Human, Beastars, BNA, Bungo Stray Dogs (I’ve only seen, maybe 2 seasons, so please no spoilers), Demon Slayer s1, Dorohedoro, Great Pretender, Kakegururi, Mob Psycho 100, Mr Osomatsu, Number 24, Oddtaxi, Oshi No Ko, Paranoia Agent, Summer Wars, The Disastrous Life of Saiki K, Toilet Bound Hanako Kun, Undead Unluck, Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead

Animated Movies || Big Hero Six, Coraline (+ most stop motion movies/shorts), Disney Movies (asked beforehand just in case !), Inside Out, ParaNorman, Pixar Movies (asked beforehand just in case !), Scooby Doo (all), Spider-Man into the Spider Verse, Spider-Man Across the Spider Verse, Spirited Away, Turning Red, Wish Dragon, Wreck It Ralph

Tv Shows || Alice In Borderland, Bones, Brooklyn Nine Nine, BBC Ghosts, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Dollhouse, Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared, From, Gen V, I am Not Okay with This, The IT Crowd, Midnight Mass, Misfits, Mythic Quest, Sweet Home, Stranger Things, Sitcoms in general, The Boys, The Haunting of Bly Manor, The Haunting of Hill House, The Inbetweeners, The Unlisted (Netflix), Umbrella Academy, WandaVision, Wednesday, Yellowjackets

Misc/Youtube/Webcomics || Batman: Wayne Family Adventures, Clinic of Horrors, The Crafting Dead, DC stuff, Jackson’s Dairy, Marble Hornets, Markiplier Characters/Series, MCYT & Minecraft series (Dream SMP is selective & less likely done), Minecraft Empire’s, Musicals, Salad Fingers, Sanrio, School Bus Graveyard, Starkid Musicals, Woodlands National Park, VIVINOS content (ie Pink Bitch Club & others)

[milkway]

🐰 🐹 🌠 ☀️ 🌟 🐾 🎵 ⚡️ 💛 🌺 💥 😊 😔 🐧 💫 🎀 🎬? Sorry if that's a lot sfhsghs it was. a long list

oh fuck read more time!!

🐰 what is one secret that you’ve never told anyone?

my lactose intolerance might be kicking in slowly and im kinda ridiculously sad about it hjgDJH

🐹 what are some of your favourite Pokémon and why?

pichu/pikachu bc my pals have associated me with em, buizel and shinx lines bc theyve always been my sinnoh mvps, eelektross and galvantula bc i love their designs sm... flygon is my all time fave just cause!! i love the design and typing...i love shieldon bc it was my fav partner in pkmn ranger shadows of almia! and i rly love dodrio it was such a surprise powerful pkmn in my xy plathrough i love this cerberus bird

🌠 if you were in charge of the world, what would the world look like?

hopefully more fair, kinder, cleaner and not destroyed by global warmning lol

☀️ what do you like the most about your best friend?

i dont feel like i gotta pretend to be something im not around the two of them! i can always be honest and not feel embarassed and thats sth i rly appreciate. also theyre both just really kind and cool and good

🌟 what do you like about yourself? (must choose at least 3 things!)

uhhh i like how i keep pursuing art despite life getting in the way, i like my hair and i like that im good at math

🐾 what are you scared of most? how will you overcome it?

getting my degree and applying to jobs? ill just have to buckle down and get over it lol but rsd is a fuck and i feel like any failure would be crushing to me

also being in a relationship and i will overcome it by not getting into one ! i dont think its for me

🎵 name 5 songs you love at the moment

nobody else will be there - the national / old town road - lil nas x / bridge burning - foo fighters / dustbusters - delta sleep / head on - *repeat repeat

⚡️ if you had any superpower, what would it be and why?

shapeshifting, that nb dream..................maybe communicating with animals bc..i love animals lol

💛 if you could talk to your younger self, what would you say?

u can come out to ur friends and they wont beat u up, promise. also it gets better! itll keep getting better

🌺 which languages do you know? which do you want to learn?

fluent in polish, pretty much fluent in english, basic german and basic japanese. im taking japanese in uni so hopefully i will continue to learn that but id also love to know swedish and maybe italian!

💥 what are some unpopular opinions that you have?

oh man idk. i dont think communism is all that great but im polish so that might be like Wildly affecting my view of it lol. communist regimes are Still a thing too so, its just hard for me to subscribe to that fully. even if the ideology itself is great and would be great were it to work in practice

😊 what do you like to do as hobbies?

drawing! any sort of art rly! not much else atm.. hope i can pick up sth computer sciency since thats my field in uni currently.. or embroidery! or trying to make tunes or games or smth!!!

😔 what do you always do when you feel sad? does it help?

i go through some funney mindless lps i can remember at the time and just watch those, maybe do sth related to current Big Interest, draw until i feel better. when its rly bad i force myself to take a full body shower and brush my teeth, even if rly rly do not have the spoons for it. it doesnt always help but keeps me from breaking down usually

🐧 describe yourself in 3 words

just a milk

💫 who inspires you?

my friends!

🎀 what’s your fashion sense like?

i like casual/lowkey sporty fashion. my wardrobe does not reflect it currently but i hope to change that bit by bit

🎬 what are some of your favourite films?

big eden (watch big eden), jordan peele’s us, into the spiderverse, treasure planet, tekkon kinkreet, paprika, akira, mulan, coraline, paranorman

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[pookzapeabody]

LAIKA Years + OSCARS Beats

Okay, since this year’s OSCARS is now officially rigged. But I’m really sad that my faved movie studio has been beaten up by Disney animation to make them lose. So, I decided to make a edit on this sadden post.

For the reasons why LAIKA has been beaten up and losing to Disney in OSCARS, are Coraline has been first lost and beaten up by the Pixar movie, “Up” in 2009, ParaNorman has been second lost and beaten up by the another Pixar movie, “Brave” in 2012, The Boxtrolls has been third lost and beaten up by the Walt Disney Animation Studios movie, “Big Hero 6″ in 2014 (yeah, I loved that Disney movie, just kidding), and finally, Kubo and the Two Strings (my faved movie of all time) has been officially fourth lost and beaten up by the another Walt Disney Animation Studios movie, “Zootopia” in 2016.

Why!?! Why Disney has kept on winning the Academy Awards, instead of LAIKA?! The Academy Awards has been officially and forever rigged! This has got to be a mistake! Disney should be getting lose, and I want to take a break from winning. I’m done with this! This means...I might have to quit from working at Disney, and I should have to work at LAIKA Studios instead. At least, there will be the next new LAIKA film to come out in the future years, and should better win the Academy Awards for real good.

[pookzapeabody]

Total Drama Besties (my most currently faved TD casts in four generations) as the LAIKA Kids. Yeah, I loved this animated movie studio because the Stop Motion animation rules! And I’m gonna work at LAIKA studio. However, I’ve to watch these four LAIKA films, do it now!

Noah as Coraline (TDI/A/WT + Coraline) - Total Drama Island is the Total Drama’s first generation in the franchise, and Coraline is the first generation in the LAIKA movie history. Noah is my currently faved TDI cast, so I ended up with him cosplaying as Coraline, instead of the TDI girls because I liked doing boys cosplaying (not just crossdressing up) as girls.

Zoey as Norman (TDRI + ParaNorman) - Total Drama: Revenge of the Island and ParaNorman are both released in 2012 (and along with Hotel Transylvania). Yeah, Zoey is my currently faved TDRI cast, so I ended up with her cosplaying as Norman, instead of the TDRI boys because I loved doing girls cosplaying as boys.

Sammy as Eggs (TDPI + The BoxTrolls) - Total Drama Pahkitew Island and The BoxTrolls are both released in 2014 (and along with Big Hero 6). Sammy is my currently faved TDPI cast, so I ended up with her cosplaying as Eggs, instead of the TDPI boys because the girls cosplaying as boys is the most interesting idea.

Lorenzo as Kubo (TDRR + Kubo and the Two Strings) - Yes! Kubo and the Two Strings and Total Drama Ridonculous Race rules!!! For the reasons why Kubo is my most faved movie of all time in 2016, and The Ridonculous Race is the best spin-off in the Total Drama franchise. Anyways, Lorenzo is my most currently faved TDRR cast (and also in my overall ranking), so I really loved it when he’s cosplaying as Kubo because these two are my faved characters in my list.