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if ur making a collection of good dance scenes in cinema and u dont include rain man, jojo rabbit, or moonrise kingdom, you will start to cough in 2 days.
#MORE PEOPLE SHOULD TALK ABOUT RAIN MAN#I WAS A MESS AFTER THIS MOVIE BRO#THEM DANCING TOGETHER????? OH MY GOD#THAT SCENE I THINK ABOUT IT ALL THE TIME#the jojo rabbit dancing scene. what if i kms#its so amazing#so perfectly awkward and beautiful and youthful and so ??? free???? more than anything else#jojo rabbit rips your heart out and crushes it#then carefully stitched it back up and hands it to you and gently tells you that its going to be okay and theres still hope for the world#theres so much hope even in the most hopeless situations#THINGS WILL GET BETTER!!!!!!!!#THEY WILL!!!!!!!!!!!#i love that dancing in movies has become such a symbol of freedom#and hope and youth#its such a human way to express your emotions#youre feeling really happy? youre listening to music you like and youre feeling amazing?#flair your arms!!!!! twirl around!!!!! jump up and down!!!!!!!!!#its so beautiful to me#i should make another post about the rain man dance scene#im running out of space#movies#rain man#jojo rabbit#dancing in movies
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I was put on this earth to draw bill cipher in minxy little outfits
[image description: a page of drawings of a human design for bill cipher from gravity falls, done to look like a magazine cover. here, bill is depicted as a thin, pale-skinned androgynous person with an uncomfortably-wide smile. on the left is a large full-body drawing of him with short yellow and red triangular pigtails, and he is wearing a yellow bikini top, long flaired pants, and chunky platform sandals, all with eye imagery present. on the right is a a smaller image of him with a longer yellow ponytail, where he is wearing a yellow sleeveless crop top and miniskirt, and is carrying shopping bags. below that is the text "billy" repeated down the page in a sleek font. the background is a soft, muted rainbow. end id]
#very important for you all to know that genuinely i think bill cipher is an utterly miserable man#i think he is a sad middle-aged man who is hopelessly clinging to his youth and immaturity#that being said. i like it when he wears cute lil outfits <3#something something i hope my art does not portrayed a two-dimensional idea of his character to you or whatever that post says#haha two-dimensional. get it.#ok im very sleepy.. look at him#doc talks#my art#gravity falls#bill cipher
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the amount of stuff i wanna draw from this event aughauhaguh so many cute and funny moments bonus one piece doodle cause-
#twisted wonderland#twst#ツイステ#ツイステッドワンダーランド#mmarts#twst oc#twst yuu#twst grim#azul ashengrotto#ace trappola#floyd leech#stitch#lilia vanrouge#also i might draw some more.... MIGHT i hope i do#i wanna draw the YOUTH scene and the dancing scene#also i kinda changed my yuus skin colors auauhguh another bit of redesign oof
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“some great teamwork as well from Mr. Norris over here, keeping me in second” (bashful Lando smile)
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#landoscar#mctwinks#pls refer to my dissertation on how Lando and Oscar try and adapt to each others love languages and sob over this moment <3#ohhhhh they are dearer than anything I ever expect#seriously guys I’d have been fully fine all along as a charlos girly if these two had spats and battles like normal#twinklaren#bc they’d be absolutely fine just like Charles and Carlos are!#but the McLaren youths are still too tender and gently nuzzling around each other apparently#too young and sweet and kindly hopeful that even temporary acrimony can be avoided#no one talk to me a while I need to just#deal w how they are for a sec#EDIT SORRY THIS HAS ALREADY BEEN POSTED SPRRY#possessiveness#mr. norris#mine
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Neverender (starring Tame Impala) ⊹ JUSTICE dir. Masanobu Hiraoka, Kota Iguchi, Armand Beraud
#justice band#gaspard augé#xavier de rosnay#justiceedit#justice#musicedit#bandsdaily#bandedit#dailymusicians#musicgifs#scifiedit#animationsource#animationedit#usermusic#userlaro#markstrongs#usermeeks#userfanni#~#hyperdrama#tame impala#heyange#userlydia#maddielook#queue#flashing cw#animation gifs are hard. i hope the lines and sharpening look ok!#last shot giving sonic youth goo
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“i’ll come back. everyone, make sure to be healthy and dont get sick. how great it’ll be when we meet again, so be healthy and live well”
the sweetest angel boy ever 🥹🫶🏻
#seventeen ot13#seventeen#seventeen yoon jeonghan#seventeen jeonghan#jeonghan#yoon jeonghan#my youth 💓#also his new hair colour?? im obsessed#and him saying thank u in advance to the happy bday wishes:(#im gonna miss him so much#hope he takes care of himself#and ill see him again in 2 years#sigh
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may you find happiness there, may all your hopes all turn out right! ↳ for @magicshop 🌸
cr. dwellingsouls, atoz v; insp.
#btsgif#btsgfx#btsedit#gfx#usergif#bts#bangtan#namtaegi#usersky#userkelli#trackofthesoul#userzaynab#userines#usersan#underbetelgeuse#*yg#*nj#*th#*gifs#*gfx#andi I'm soooo sorry this is so late 😭#really just had zero time I hate it here#but here we go!!! your favourites are bringing you a little spring magic <3#(HAD to use 'magic' in this somewhere hehe)#I used every little scrap of this unit photoshoot there was noooot much unfortunately :( hence the little ot7 appearance :)#most of the text are lyrics from ben howard's 'keep your head up'#this song reminds of a beloved friendship from my youth and just warms my heart so much#it's perfect for this time of the year and gives me this fondness that I also feel when I think of you#I hope you spent your birthday surrounded by happiness and love#and that this new year of your life will be filled with hope and positivity
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Haha
#yanqing#honkai star rail#hsr yanqing#my immediate fixation on ice wielding child genius characters in every media I consume strikes again#idk I just think he’s neat!! and so is his gender#he’s definitely overdesigned but I do enjoy the general shape of his clothes#like wow… baggy outer layer AND baggy inner layer#how come you get to have two baggy layers#still don’t know that much about him even after reading his character stories on the wiki#so I’m hoping that his quest writes him well#I suppose there’s some degree of like interesting contrast in the fact that he’s very young on a ship full of people who live very long live#but I feel like regardless they really don’t give him much of a personality besides his hyperfixation on swords and the general naivety and#inexperience from youth yknow what I mean#I just think it would be cool to see like why he’s so ambitious! was he railroaded into being a knight because of his talents? did he try#to be accepted as a knight? what kinds of expectations is he facing and what expectations does he place on himself as a result#I really hope he isn’t just there to be a simpler minded child character for jingyuan to take care of
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Danny tells the Justice league that he is thousands of years old and a powerful ancient entity. He thinks that he is lying, but little did he know that what he said is more true than not.
When Danny tells the just League that he's an ancient entity, he expected to gain some respect and authority. Unfortunately for him, that didn't happen, his appearance and maturity level and later mention of an evil adult version of him all seem to indicate that he is the teenage aspect of a multifaceted being, which leads to the justice league keeping their somewhat condescending attitude towards him after all, no matter how old he technically is he still a teen at heart.
What Danny doesn't know is that the justice league's assumption about him is actually pretty close to the truth. Being clockwork's apprentice, it's a given that Danny has time traveled a lot and for that reason, there are multiple versions of him simultaneously existing at the same time, each of them solving a different problem. In fact, Dan himself still exists as he is the angry aspect of Danny who is there to punish humanity when it goes too far and the version of him who was defeated and later imprisoned is the version of Dan that has overstepped his role.
#danny phantom#dp x dc#dcxdp#dpxdc#In this au clockwork has a very different relationship with each aspect of Danny.#Teen Danny is the hopeful youth and is like a grandson that clockwork loves to teach and spoil.#Adult Danny is the responsible ghost king and is like the son who clockwork is incredibly proud of and is always bragging about.#Dan is similar to adventure time's lich a destroyer of life and he is the rotten child that clockwork is ashamed of.#Elderly Danny is the ghost of space and clockwork's equal so they tend to have a brotherly relationship!
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No spoilers, but I have read the webtoon/manga that Our Youth is based on, and it's like ~70 chapters, so the way Japan has condensed almost the first 40 chapters (yes, FORTY) into five episodes is wild!
Of course things have changed and other stuff has been omitted, but it became very obvious that this was going to be different with how episode four ended; then, episode five held the basic premise of the webtoon/manga, yet it was very different.
However, I think all the changes so far have been good, AND because of the pacing, I think the last parts are going to play out much better than the original source did.
Fingers crossed!
#our youth#miseinen: mijukuna oretachi wa bukiyo ni shinkochu#I would write more under a cut but it's finals week#which means I'm just putting out fires#but these changes are good so far#so I have hope!
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Is gojo truly selfless? Most people think he does it for an ulterior motive and for his personal beneficial reasons & it’s kinda calculated. Like he can gain benefit out of it exp: saving yuuji from execution and saving megumi from his clan, to make his vision/dream of transforming the jujutsu society come true. So it’s kinda selfish more or less?
see . the thing about gojo is that he’s constantly walking on the fine line between ’extremely selfless’ and ’extremely selfish.’ the reason i often call him selfless is specifically in regards to how i see him acting when he’s in love — i think that if gojo loves you, what’s most comfortable for him is to distance himself from you and watch you be happy with someone else. even if it it irks at him. he would do it because he believes it’s best for the both of you.
but you could also make an argument that it’s very selfish because he’s ignoring what he feels for you and what you feel for him, making a decision that’s less paralyzing for him but making it for the both of you — etc. that’s kinda why it’s difficult. at some point selflessness and martyrdom spins back to selfishness; but either way i think gojo exists right at the gap between them. he's an extreme case.
relationship aside though, i’d call canon gojo selfless for very similar reasons — because his entire goal centers around the idea of everyone leaving him behind. i agree that gojo is calculative, and that both saving megumi and yuuji was apart of his dream to nurture powerful allies, but i also think you’re ignoring an extremely important part of gojo’s character by implying that’s all it was. gojo’s main character motivation is the preservation of youth — and another point that’s important to him is personal autonomy. he wants kids to be kids, and he wants people to get to choose how they live their lives. both of these motivations are more important to him than his selfless/selfish dream of being surpassed.
so, basically — i think gojo is very logical and calculative at his core, and he doesn’t do what he does out of the kindness of his heart — he does it because it’s important to him. protecting youth is important to him. being a mentor is important to him. he does what he does for himself which could be called selfish, but he also deliberately does things that bring him more pain, and more isolation, which could be called selfless. so it’s tough. overall i think it’s wrong to treat gojo like a saint but also wrong to treat him like some mastermind — gojo does what he wants, and he mostly wants things that are good.
#sorry for the essay anon 😭😭#i think gojo’s character is extremely complex and i also think my take on his canon version is different than what i see in the fandom#but i have a very very clear image of him in my mind#i think the reason people misinterpret him is because they focus too much on one aspect of his character#instead of what i would call his ’core’ which is . Youth . everything about youth#gojo isn’t a selfless martyr but i think calling him ’selfish’ is also wrong …#because without context it implies that he does everything for himself#and he doesn’t lmao . almost everything he does is for others#but he’s doing it because that’s what He wants#anyway ;; hope this didn’t come off as rude anon#this isn’t aimed at you i just took the opportunity for a character analysis#😭😭#ask tag ✩#meta ✩
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gortash sets up a lending library at his estate after seeing durge’s in the bhaal temple. they both know they’re the only people who use them so it turns into a sort of game. durge loves music, so after enver’s last visit a book about viola has appeared in the temple library. enver fancy’s himself a jeweler so it’s only natural a scroll about gem welding would end up in his library. books relating to their schemes, hobbies, pasts, futures, inside jokes and aspirations get passed back in forth. the only extended pause is when a novel about star crossed lovers gets dropped in the bhaal library. it’s weeks before the favor is returned and enver receives a scroll about bhaalist marriage ceremonies. he doesn’t know whether to take it as an advance or a threat, so he accepts it as both.
#dark urge#durgetash#enver gortash#durge#i love enver’s boldness to hear durge say ‘nobody whose been in a relationship with me has left alive’ and respond ‘yeah but i’m different’#he is but not enough to change his fate#they would also be like varying levels of straight forward- at times they’re coming up with entirely new cipher systems for simple messages#100% being way more open they would be normal. gortash would almost never be open about about his time with raphael but he will leave a book#alluding to his treatment when he was at the house of hope#my durge was a cleric of ilmater in their youth and is incredibly ashamed of it by the time they meet gortash. but they do leave him a book#of his teachings with a chapter about meditations they still use to quell their urge#and obviously bhaal hates everything about this. not only is durge besties w his enemy and doing stupid stuff that has nothing to do with#murder they’re being unashamed of things he very much wants them to be ashamed of
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Reminder: even if trump wins, we’ll be ok. The presidency isnt the only political position that matters, he wont be a dictator, the president doesnt have the power to remove every other part of government that keeps the president’s power in check. Also politics isnt the only thing that matters. Even if we lose some rights (which he cant singlehandedly do) we still have community, we still have activism, we’ll always be ok. We survived one trump presidency, we can survive another. We survived before gay marriage or transitioning were legal, if we have to survive that again we will. Please, no matter what happens, promise to stay alive. Youre valuable, youre important, and youre going to be ok. Its better to be overprepared than underprepared. Im not asking you to lose hope (im doing the opposite of that), im asking you to practice coping ahead, get all your coping skills ready, determine now to stay alive, because i dont want any of you to make any rash decisions later in case we get bad news and emotions are high. Make a safety plan if you need to. Make sure you’re gonna be ok
#if you cant feel hopeful or curious for the future#maybe at least you can be strategic#if we lose a bunch of marginalized (future) voters and activists we’re just handing them the majority#if you cant stay alive for yourself. stay alive for all the other marginalized people you’ll vote on behalf of next time#dont do their dirty work for them. dont kill a marginalized person even if that person is you#im sorry this post was a downer im just. really worried about the way ive heard some queer people and especially youth talking#i just wanna do whatever i can in making sure you guys are ok#if you need someone to message feel free. dm’s and asks are always open#also i disagree when people say activists are emboldened when the present is on their side#in my experience that isnt what happens? they get complacent#all the conservatives would quiet down while our own community is strengthened#like how all the conservatives got loud under biden#if anyone more eloquent than me wants to rewrite this please feel free#or just your own spin on it thats not necessarily better#i think the more people we can make sure are mentally prepared the better#just in case#lilac posts#us politics#cw suicide
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#it's studio choom sundays with niki#ni-ki#enhypen#nishimura riki#enhypenet#enhypen niki#enhypen niki edits#maxgif#now who is he smiling at like that#they have been blessed#by a silly lil pookie#no but his smile is seriously just adorable#and i hope he's having a good day today#probably playing Fifa Minecraft LoL or whatever tf the youths enjoy
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I don't know how to really express this except to come across as a "kids these days" scold, but so much of the criticism of queerness in Good Omens would simply not be a thing if kids these days watched more 20th century queer media. Or more complex indie queer media in general.
People seem to want a show that's like the straight stories they grew up with but gay. Or the gay fanfiction they grew up with. But that's not really the tradition it's coming from. First off the novel was released in 1990. Queer film classics of the time are Dead Poet's Society (1989) and Torch Song Trilogy (1988). The TV miniseries Tales of the City (1993) wasn't made until 3 years later and it was so far out there it never had a huge audience. Philadelphia (1993) is also 3 years out and was basically the first big studio queer film. The first fluffy queer Hallmark-style romcom wasn't until Big Eden in 2000, a full 10 years after publication.
Queer stories from the time it was written were about complex and often fraught relationships between people who the world was trying to force apart. There is an incredibly strong tradition in queer films of relationships with no guarantees they will work out both in the face of their personal baggage and the weight of the world. Take a film like Torch Song Trilogy that's about the two great loves of Arnold Beckoff's life over 9 years and how homophobia shapes them. Both externally (especially Allen) and internally like Ed struggling with his bisexuality and being terrified of being publicly out. Written and starred in by Harvey Fierstein, who identified as a gay man at the time and only came out as nonbinary last year.
The Boys In The Band (1968 play, filmed 1970 and 2020) was a monumental moment in Broadway history where finally there was a play about gay men in their own words where no one died and very strongly showed that homosexuality doesn't make people miserable but homophobia sure does. But that homophobia also throws their personal lives into constant turmoil and none of them are in happy relationships, although Hank and Larry are devoted to each other in their own fucked up way.
"Relationships are complicated and hard to make work and sometimes a struggle against the odds" is an aesthetic of classic queer film making. Partly it was influenced by the Hays Code (although independent films were not bound to it), partly influenced by the rampant queerphobia in society at the time that was inescapable. But it's also an aesthetic choice to resist the banal and unrealistic relationship depictions of straight media. There are actual stakes to the relationship. Queer people were actively resisting a world that said "Romance is seeing someone across the room and instantly falling in love with each other and little conflicts happen along the way but ultimately they're destined to be together and everything is happily ever after." Recall that "stalking as romance" was a completely inescapable trope in 1980s straight romance films, and every goddamn movie was being turned into a romance film.
So queer people in film and television when they can make what they please have a long tradition of saying instead "People don't always realize the feelings they've developed for a queer partner right away. They may have reasons for denying those feelings that are both a reflection of the cruelty in society and of their own insecurities. People struggle with where they belong and their relationships reflect that. Loving someone doesn't mean they don't also drive you crazy and you might fight with them constantly. But that doesn't negate the love or that feeling that even if things aren't okay, they're better with that person around. But maybe that person can't stay around. The world may be against you. And also maybe you don't just want that one person in your life. Soulmates is a very flawed model. Sometimes the strongest love is a struggle with yourself and the world and your person. You have to overcome yourself first. Happily ever after is a lie. You may be happy for a while, and hopefully for a long while, but everything ends. And you have to be ready to love again. Also your platonic bonds are just as important and life-altering as your romantic ones. Sometimes those platonic bonds include fucking if you want them to. Real life isn't a bunch of platitudes and world-altering moments, it's daily work to better yourself and the world around you. Especially when things just fucking suck. But also remember to have fun and fuck the haters. People who don't support you can eat rocks and you should yell at them more to shut the fuck up."
That is a fundamentally different outlook on what a "good relationship depiction" looks like. Personally, I thought I hated romance movies and then I started watching queer romance movies and discovered I love them and watch them all the time. Because it turns out what I hated was relationships being shown that had nothing at all to do with reality and privileged incredibly toxic ideals. Finally there was complexity, there were stakes, and there were people who had to truly want to be together enough to fight the world for it and not because they happened to be there. There were people actually talking out their problems and looking for resolutions. (And sometimes that resolutions was "I can't fucking deal with this bullshit anymore and I'm out.") For the first time it felt real.
I'm an aroace trans gay man. Nothing about relationships or being in relationships has come easy to me, and the whole paradigm of straight patriarchal romance depictions makes absolutely no sense to me. It's completely alien. Queer romance stories actually feel human.
And that's the tradition Good Omens is coming from, even as it's being retold in 2019-2023 and hopefully beyond. Gaiman's work has always been based in that queer media paradigm. (I've been remiss and daunted and haven't read Pratchett but from what I do know his work also seems to sit more in that world view.) It's a beautiful cinematic tradition and it's baffling to me that people would resist it instead of embracing it for being honest.
And that's when I turn into a crotchety old man complaining about the youth not connecting with the history of their beautiful culture and instead begging for assimilation into a shithole allocishet media landscape that doesn't actually want them except for their money and has nothing at all interesting or valuable to say. But it's very funny (annoying) to me when people claim Good Omens is someone against queer culture when it's so thoroughly bathed in the best of queer media's storytelling traditions and what people are asking for is straight media with the serial numbers filed off. Like, stop being boring please and know literally anything about the culture the adults in the room lived through and were influenced by. The world didn't begin in 2015.
EDIT: I also want to add that in straight media arcs are linear. Traditionally in queer media arcs are cyclical. Queer media very often depicts people going around in circles relearning the same lesson over and over as they inch towards it sinking in. But every time they go through the cycle they gain just a little bit more enlightenment and slowly move towards a better place. From the comments this is an immensely important distinction. People don't actually have cathartic moments where suddenly all their past bad programming is shed and they saunter forward a new person with none of their old baggage. In reality people fall into the same patterns over and over even though they have had every opportunity to learn better. "People magically get better" is a trope of straight media that's an outright and frankly dangerous lie. Again, Good Omens follows the queer tradition not the straight one and it's depicted 6,000 years of that cycle. The world didn't end, and the wheel keeps turning, as it always has and always will. That's so fundamental to queer storytelling traditions I forgot to even mention it.
#good omens#good omens season 2#good omens spoilers#go s2 spoilers#good omens discourse#queer media#queer history#discourse#I have been a crotchety old man against the youths since middle school to be clear#if you don't know where you've been you have no hope of knowing where you should go next#I didn't sit all the way through deeply homophobic Brokeback Mountain or Tár just to hear people complain that honest rep is bad rep#This is also why I'm a critchety old man about most Critical Role Shadowgast haters#Liam and Matt have not only watched but copiously reference older queer media and Shadowgast is so clearly that tradition
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What is it you hope for the ending of the Boys? What about the end for homelander?
I'm sure it will come as a shock to absolutely no one when I say that I want Homelander to live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I get it ; there's pressure to deliver on the writer's end. An expectation to give him the death that most viewers believe he deserves. And sure, seeing him get spaghettified or be torn to pieces might be 'satisfying' in the moment but it would have zero lasting emotional impact.
I'm in the camp of fans who want him to lose his powers and spend the rest of his life in solitary confinement -- back to where he started.
But worse this time. So much worse.
#he loses his status. He loses his powers. All he has left is his rapidly fleeting youth#and all the time in the world to reflect on it#I can't imagine a worse fate for him and the mere thought of it makes my tragedy-hungry Grinch heart expand two sizes#ruby-white-rabbit#trashtalk#As far as what I hope for in regards to the ending overall . . . -AOL dial up tone- uhmm. . . .#I really only care about Homelander ╮(╯∀╰)╭ The rest of the show is incidental#if the tone magically regressed back to that of seasons 1-2 then maybe my answer would be different
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