#and now some comfort movie

[mystery-star]

That moment when you're not doing well but don't want to discuss it with your family or friends but instead let strangers on the internet know.

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF movie Mike and Michael meet their younger selves..

[robotwrangler]

I think one of my favourite visual details about TAU (2018) is its unique approach to the whole “robot/ai whose eyes turn red when they turn evil” trope. The way the colour of TAU’s display gradually changes over the course of the movie is just so lovely and so immensely important to me.

The rest of this post contains spoilers for basically the whole movie, so if you are concerned about that, please feel free to go and watch it first! This post will still be here when you are done :]

Initially, TAU’s light is completely red - aside from a slight orange tone in the centre of his “iris” - when he is still in his emotionally blank, unquestioning, “factory settings” state. The orange tones become more prevalent as he begins to speak with Julia, and the inner rings adopt an increasingly vibrant green as they interact more and his care for her and curiosity about the outside world grow, along with his defiance and resentment of Alex.

Once TAU reaches the point at which his loyalties lie firmly with Julia, only the outer edge of his display is red, the centre being a gradient from orange to bright gold to bright green, and glowing so much more brightly as well. When he shares his symphony and his being with her, all of his projections are made up of pure warm, golden light, flecked with green.

When I first watched it, the colour change was so gradual that I barely noticed it had changed until near the end, where he had all of his memories erased and his display reverted to being completely red like it had been at the very beginning, the intensity of his lights dulled back down as well. It was such a jarring change all of a sudden, and really helped to hammer home the realisation that all of his development as a person, the things he had learned and his time with Julia had been ripped away.

But perhaps one of my favourite touches is made evident by the drones TAU controls; they, too, have “irises” of red light at the beginning and gradually change colour along with the rest of him over the course of the movie, but when the drone Julia escapes with at the end wakes up and its eye glows only green, it’s just such a beautiful and relieving moment…

I could go on and on even more about the way colour and light are used in TAU because I absolutely adore it, but this is just what I was very focused on and appreciative of in my recent rewatch and I really wanted to shout from the rooftops about it for a little bit. I kept thinking about how much I loved seeing this reversal of the aforementioned trope; an AI whose light changes colour not to signify an impending cliché evil rampage, but to reflect positive change - growth and healing, the development of empathy, remorse, self-worth, loyalty, love.

It wasn’t at all what I expected from this movie when I first decided to watch it in 2019 but it was so pleasantly surprising to me, and these heartfelt and sincere themes are the main factor that secured TAU its place as my main comfort movie.

[spitefulfemme]

falling asleep to my butch's heartbeat would fix me ngl.

- men dni, this post is for lesbians/mdni accs dni.

[cerealbishh]

"I give you what I can, Andre." // "I love you, until the end of time."

🎥: @starcuffedjeans

[bookshelfdreams]

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[mistressmalicer]

ma they're on Twitter clutching their pearls over women liking horror and calling them freaks again

[otto-doctavius]

i can’t draw Logan with abs again, it’s not who i am

[reikunrei]

“Will felt rather than heard the horrified scream that tore painfully through his chest...”

a bit of an experimental piece! inspiration taken from chapter 10 of @henrysglock ‘s fic Paper Faces. i had this visual stuck in my head all week and had to get it down somewhere :p

[basslinegrave]

anyway i need more monarch a trois fics. sigh. wish i could write, i gotta draw them more at least

[sad-leon]

It's always talked about how bad Leo must have suffered after the movie, after being thrown around and punched by the Krang.

But, what about the others. When you think about it, all of them should be broken down smothered in wounds and bruises, broken bones etc. Not just Leo.

Mikey and Donnie were gripped and squeezed by the Krang, and it was very clearly painful for the two of them. Then they were both flung and 'PUNCHED' by the Krang. Hard enough for them to be LAUNCHED from the ship. After that, the two of them should have suffered SOME broken bones or cracks in their shells. Like how people imagine post-movie Leo...

Then there's the end where Mikey opened the portal. In the future opening the portal was enough to completely destroy him. Yeah, I guess he had Raph and Donnie there this time, but he still did most of the heavy lifting.

I get that this movie was heavily based on Leo and his characterisation of growing up and into a leader, but I think the aftermath on the others is sometimes glossed over!

Leo wasn't the only one that nearly died. All four of them did. Which is even more heartbreaking

Okay, I know this was probably not meant to be harsh or heavily critical of my blog, but it felt very passive-aggressive.

Do I think the other turtles have suffered major trauma from the invasion? Yeah, of course.

Just because I focus on Leo doesn't mean I don't care about the other turtles, but Leo is my favorite and also the easiest for me to write, so, I write and draw a lot of Leo-centric stuff.

If you want angst and recovery arcs of the other turtles, there is content the focuses on that, but you probably won't find much here.

I don't want to come off as too harsh, but I'm not shy about Leo being my fav. At the end of the day, if you don't like my blog, you dont have to stay

I'll also say, I could have read the tone of this wrong, but I would still like this to be a PSA: Most of my content will be Leo-focused

[caffeinated-bibliophile]

Hate hate hate wanting to read, knowing I'll probably enjoy the things I have checked out from libby or hoopla or have pulled from my owned tbr, but being unable to because of the Chronic Conditions™️ being assholes

[chibishortdeath]

Hmmm I kinda want to make a side blog for RPG Maker game development related things to be able to talk to more experienced people in that community, but at the same time I both don’t really think I’d get much attention and don’t want to accidentally spoil my own game (^^ ; ).

I have a rough story, concept doodles, a tileset, some character sprites, an enemy that walks around but can’t initiate battle yet (if I even decide to have a battle system), a couple rooms with some events, and a functioning run button, but I’m still lost on how to do much else at the moment. Especially since this program has the ability for scripting, meaning I’ll probably have to learn and actually retain another coding language.

So, I’m not very far at all lol. Idk how well that’d go over on the established fandom website, but eh.

[leos-regression-cove]

I think it says a lot about me as a person now that that the easiest way to make me cry as a child (and still now. I didn't think I'd tear up while writing this lmao) was to imply that the majesties and wonders of childhood and imagination are all a dream that inevitably leaves us as we get older that we can only regain in death and that the vivid inner worlds and personalities we give our toys in our early years either feel abandoned, vengeful, or die entirely as we age.

[raccoonfagdyke]

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[bambiraptorx]

Here's a drawing I made a couple of weeks ago. I don't remember what my thought process with this was, something about Casey Jr having terrible fashion sense? So here's 0 drip Casey I guess (I just wanted to put him in pink camo or something)