#FAVORITE CHARACTER ALERT

[doverstar]

Why do you think Lilo is obsessed with creepy, dead things?

Because she's already bent toward the eccentric, like her mother before her.

Because Chris Sanders wanted to craft a character who would compliment a blue, destruction-inclined genetic mutation from another galaxy.

Because Chris Sanders described her as existing a little bit "on the dark side".

Because the movie takes place shortly after her parents' death.

Because she sees life differently. Lilo's interests have switched from odd and funny things to macabre and impossible things. She's creative and imaginative already, and she's just 5 or 6 years old. Her parents died. Now a fish has to control the weather, specifically so that he can be appeased, and when a kid needs appeasing, food usually does the trick. Now voodoo is not only possible, it's practical, and who better to use it on than the girls who play with dolls that look like themselves, but won't play with her? Now Scrump is recovering from surgery, not just a homemade mistake. Now the nasty talking dog she just adopted surely used to be a collie before he got ran over. She'd like to know if Cobra killed anyone. She thinks Nani's boss wants her to join his legion of the undead. The only way she knows how to respond to a massive, devastating change in her world is to make death an interactive part of that world.

[rainbowmothed]

can you tell she's my favorite character (this is giving you permission to tag me in any/all vaggie focused posts btw)

[mostly-osc-doodles]

Mostly OSC Doodles #43:

Something seems… different about Apple and Marshmallow today, I wonder what…

Anyways, au/headcanon thing where Bow and Dough sometimes possess Apple and Marshmallow and go out pretending to be them.

[youcantdateosmosisjones]

happy mother's day to her (she no longer has visitation rights with her grandkids)

[gunsatthaphan]

🥹💛☀️.

[bishkebab]

Simon Tam autistic send tweet

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I love the camp gossip but do wish companions would interact with each other more... so I'm gonna draw it!!! I think Karlach and Astarion gotta have the most contrasts between their characters but one bit I like especially is touch starved vs touched out.

[probablyanalienindisguise]

Black and white canvases my beloved

[1nt3rnalpu7ref4ct10n]

its 4am and im gettin viscerally upset over a kids show just because the One Character i was looking forward to finally coming back actually didnt

[shiftingwithmars]

OMG NIGHTCRAWLER IS SO SWEET😭

[front-facing-pokemon]

[mrs-jamesbbarnes]

In regards to the ending of Shadow and Bone season 2. Did I like it? Absolutely not. Do I see what they’re trying do? Yeah. They combined two books into one season and added five extra characters to the story. Things just moved so fast, and the story could’ve been told a LOT better.

For instance, we did not get Alina’s struggle. I think the beauty of her story in the books came from her needing to defeat the Darkling without becoming the monster he was and wanted her to be. It was an intense and dark path she took. Ultimately, the third amplifier’s power is shared with everyone to destroy the Fold. But the fact that she had to get to that point where she was okay with dying and/or being completely overwhelmed by the power if it meant saving everyone was the whole point of her struggle. Her reward was Mal, settling down with him to live a peaceful life. And she was ready to be done, to give it all up and just rest with him.

The fact that they skipped ALL of that makes the story so unnecessarily complicated. Because now she’s not ready to rest, she wants to help the Grisha. And she’s got power. But she delved into merzost to save Mal, so now she’s given into this path of darkness. That’s something book!Alina NEVER would have done. Leigh spent three books showing that. So now she’s got that darkness in her. And we know Elizaveta is going to try to resurrect the Darkling because that bee landed on Zoya as the Darkling’s body burned. So season 3 is going to go off the rails.

Also the fact that Mal made this BIG DEAL to the Darkling about how he wasn’t going to make the mistake of leaving Alina again and then the Fold is gone and the Darkling is dead and now he’s just leaving Alina? That’s just poor writing.

I’m hoping Alina and Mal still get their happy ending. Because TV!Mal deserves it, if nothing else.

Also it really bothers me that they just pushed Zoya aside for Alina. They could’ve sent Alina and Mal off into the sunset and let the story take its course. But now Zoya is a side character because Alina is the focus. And that really bothers me that they’re going to start the King of Scars storyline and not give Zoya the attention she deserves. Because Alina needs to be gone for her to embrace her destiny. Otherwise it looks like she’s just Nikolai’s (and Ravka’s) second choice. They messed with Leigh’s beautifully crafted hero’s journey for Alina, and Zoya is going to get screwed over because they did that and I HATE THAT for Zoya.

[mostly-osc-doodles]

Mostly OSC Doodles #31:

I've had this idea for a while, but I finally drew it!

Basically, its an AU where Nickel gets sent to the Parable, replacing Stanley as the main character.

As for Stanley, well, he gets sent to TPOT :)

[ladytemeraire]

Actually no re: that post from @kintatsujo, one of my favorite details in Hunchback of Notre Dame comes at the end of Hellfire

Because yes, Hellfire is the one of the greatest villain songs of our age, I will die on this hill; Frollo is the most terrifying and monstrous Disney villain of Disney in general and the Disney Renaissance in particular because there is no magic, no mythology, no godhood – there is just a man and his bigotry and his lust struggling against his sacred duty —

And yet —

At the very end of Hellfire, Frollo holds the last note of "she will be mine or she will burn" for a ridiculously long time, long enough for the main chorale leitmotif to play out in its entirety, and even before he drops the note the choir has disappeared and Frollo is left alone in a cold-toned stone corridor.

There is no Inquisition here; there is no sacred choir, there is no church or Church (he's not even in Notre Dame, he's in his own personal quarters), there is no promise of divine retribution, there is no Hellfire. There is simply a man in the cold dark stone corridors of his quarters, squaring with his own insatiable desire and guilt against the responsibilities of his office and the divine calling, with nobody to hear or witness but the wind whistling.

(Contrast literally all of Sanctuary, where Notre Dame herself and implicitly the saints and even God work to free Quasimodo, rescue Esmeralda, and subsequently protect and defend those who stand against injustice, and thus excoriate and ultimately destroy those who oppress the innocent and oppose the will of God. The choir absolutely demands a plea for salvation from the fires of Hell over the course of this scene from long before the moment Frollo ignites Esmeralda's pyre, culminating in "Save me, immolated Savior, who opens the gates of heaven; hostile wars oppress, give vigor, bring salvation; be the glory everlasting, glory, glory, always glory, in the highest" with the sopranos absolutely belting sanctus sanctus in excelsis landing as Quasimodo frees Esmeralda and bellows Sanctuary — the compassion and will of God comes down embodied in Quasimodo to free one injustly condemned, and then continues in Quasimodo and in Notre Dame herself to defend holy ground and repel injust invaders looking to desecrate her grounds in the name of false piety. What counsel shall be called to defend, when even the just man can hardly be secure?)

Frollo spends the entirety of Hellfire justifying himself and his actions, begging for forgiveness and absolution and justification, and at the end it's just him. He has been offered sanctification - every time he pleads "it's not my fault, I'm not to blame" the choir echoes mea culpa, mea maxima culpa (by my own fault, by my own most grievous fault), and so in the end It's just him. It is his own finger-pointing and condemnation turned inward, and it's such a good visceral and physical representation of how isolating that rigid mentality and false piety can be from actual repentance, forgiveness, and grace.

[mathias-wanabe]

(IM ABOUT TO RANT ON THE BEST COMIC IVE EVER READ IN MY ENTIRE LIFE)

So no one told me how FREAKING COOL the glass scientist comics were.

So I was wanting to get more into the Jekyll n Hyde stuff bc I was doin research on the novel lyric hunt characters for fun and remembered the comic being mentioned to me a while ago.

Fast forward I spent the next 4 HOURS reading the ENTIRE thing and I love it so much like I cannot express how much I need the next page.(ITS SO AT A CLIMAX)

All to say you should read it right now and how dare yall not tell me how amazing it was from the beginning/hjjj

AMAZING ART!!, Lovable found family, Jekyll struggling with Hyde and Hyde being a COMPLETE MENICE to society!! It’s perfect and you ALL SHOULD READ IT‼️‼️

I erased some of the text because I’m not giving spoilers and I linked the first out of 15 chapters (as of now) below, I need more people to talk about this because holy shit is this the REASON I’m gonna start reading again. And with around 30 pages per chapter I think it’s VERY MUCH worth getting into.

Anyways this is the end of my rant, I just love this comic too much to not talk about

[bishkebab]

I would die for Trent Crimm