#anime men supremacy

[themetalheadhippy]

So I started watching Trigun Stampede and the grip Vash has on me is unbelievable 😻💛💛💛 I love everything about him from his golden retriever energy to his kind hearted passion for helping people ❤️

[starsetven]

hear me out hear me out!!!...

Pirate Au with the boys?...pls tell me Vic would have long hair if he was a pirate or something, I'm down bad for Vic with long hair/silly

Oh absolutely! He prioritizes his hair the most!

Vic would own a brig that he operates solo style. He’s slowly recovering his crew after escaping his impending death sentence, graciously bestowed upon him by the Royal navy. Now that a bounty has been placed upon his head, he’s facing persecution from all types alike. Fellow pirates, bounty hunters, and a certain arrogant captain of the Royal Navy.

He’ll go to any measure to win your heart- even if that means stealing your attention, your possessions, or even you. He has a nice cell in the bottom of the ship with your name on it if you won’t come willingly!~ :^)

[tzuu-died]

caipirinha caipirinha !!! go captain go !!

[thegirlinthecher]

I mean I don't think I have a type

[fabled-lady-twilla]

Okay but the Season 6 Character Visual of Shiggy got me like HOLD ON A MOMENT STOP THE CAR!!! 👀

*car crash noise in the background*

Horikoshi has us all in a chokehold like:

"He was the best guy arouuuuuuund."

"What about all the people he murdered?"

"Whaaaaat muurrrddaaaaaa?!?!?"

🧎🏻‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️

[increasinglygeeky]

DAVID MATRANGA CANNOT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS!!!!!!

(Are you fucking kidding me)

[mediocremelatonin235]

I think of familiars in the TWST universe and the only ones known to us are Lucius for Trein but I do have some headcannons for the staff familiars:

Crewel- A Dalmatian ( a classic for him). Most likely would be named “Pongo” for male or “ Perdita” if female to give a subtle nod to the 101 Dalmatians movie. Would 100% try to fit them into any bag/purse he finds. True dog dad excellence. Would have the bond from puppy to full grown dog as well.

Vargas- A horse. A black Stallion named “Magnifique”. Has had the horse since he was a kid and the horse grew to be a very large boi. He has his own stable in NRC and Vargas is the only one allowed/can ride the horse. Will let you touch his mane in exchange for carrots/sugar cubes.

Sam- A tarantula. tarantula that stays in a tank and usually hangs out on Sam’s shoulders. Usually eats up any little pests and nicknames her as “ Angel”. She does also like to hang out on his hat a lot, which leads to Sam freaking out about losing her until he is told to check his head ( yes spiders count as having animal language !) he found her under a rock from having a broken leg and they became fast friends ever since!

Crowley- A raven. Named “ Diablo” aptly. He tends to want to go outside ALOT and is very noisy when hungry. He likes to perch up on Crowley’s shoulders during important meetings and perches on top of him to sleep.

[minniiaa]

Nostalgia brain has me thinking about my childhood anime crushes and like… still tracks??

So here’s my top childhood anime crushes!

(Zoro is on this list too I just didn’t have enough gif space and he’s the obvious one)

1. Marik/Bakura - YuGiOh (my first fanfic ever was called silver and gold with them and god I wish I could read what my 12 year old self wrote so bad)

2. Hatsuharu Sohma- Fruits Basket (the OG and god do I still love him he needs protecting)

3. Syaoryn Li - Cardcaptors (yeah idk he was hot when I was 7)

4. Inuyasha - Inuyasha (white hair dog man made me feel some type of way)

4. Kenshin - Ruroni Kenshin (he’s just the GOAT how could you not want Kenshin to sweep you off your feet??)

5. Entei - Pokémon (no I will not elaborate)

6. Matt & Gabumon (yes I had a crush on them both again will NOT be elaborating)

7. Edward Elric - FMA (it’s Ed. I don’t have to explain this one.)

8. Toshiro Hitsugaya - Bleach (white haired anime men love started here. Still have a tshirt with this beautiful short king on it)

9. Sasuke - Naruto (literally every girl I’m basic)

[wind-becomes-lightning]

[nicoveil]

I despise the what if animation style.

[pathogenflock]

something painfully fucking white about the way some people in the queer community like to say shit like "i WISH masculinity was more hated like people say it is!!!1!" in response to masc queer people voicing their concern about how shittily we're treated. I'm not elaborating.

[themetalheadhippy]

If you see me liking Nanami, Satoru, Suguru, Toji, Jotaro (Part 4 or 6), Polnareff, Dazai, Kunikida, Vash or Wolfwood fanfiction mind your business 😅😘🙈👀

[bistec-37]

Remy lebeau, gambit uses gambit/gambit/gambitself pronouns, but he/him is also acceptable mon cher!

I love that X-Men ‘97 brought back Gambit’s pronouns of Gambit/Gambit (with the occasional but rare He/Him) from the original series. Truly my favorite part! 💖

[artist-issues]

Tell me every reason you enjoy Zootopia enough to give it all the rewatches you do.

Every? Oh boy.

Good Story

Perfect Characters

Visual Appeal

Earnestness

Let me break it down.

1. Good Story

Zootopia’s main point is: “Try to make the world a better place by realizing we’re fundamentally the same.”

That’s a really good main point.

It has the benefit of being true. Right now our culture is super into “self-identification,” and this crazy contrast between, “I want to be able to identify as something special” and “Now that I know what categories I fit in, I can choose who’s ‘one of us’ and who’s ’not one of us.’” Okay well that sounds pretty and I’m sure it fulfills some emotional need at some point, but it’s actually super divisive, and self-serving, and it’s the seeds for all prejudices. Including racism.

Do we have differences in origins and experiences? Yes. Of course. Do we also have some fundamental things in common? Yes. Of course. Which truth are you going to give the highest priority to? If it’s “no, I’m a prey animal, I know exactly where I belong, that’s who I am, that’s how I dress, that’s my compass for how I interact with others��� then you’re getting all your security from your “sense of self,” and being able to understand what that is…which is just a fancy way of saying “I’m all about me. My own perspective informs everything I do.”

Anyway. Zootopia’s message was super true.

And the coolest thing about it is that if only Judy were in the wrong, and the other half of the dynamic duo, Nick, was this open-minded, un-prejudiced guy…and she just hurts him and has to apologize…the movie’s message wouldn’t be as well-communicated.

They have their prejudices and their hurt-from-being-prejudiced-against in common!

They’re the same…because they’ve both felt what it’s like to be treated like they’re not “the same.”

Nick isn’t the only character being mistreated and written off because of his species. The whole first half of the movie is about Judy being mistreated and written off. They think she can’t be a cop because she’s little and cute and a prey-animal. They think Nick can’t be trustworthy because he’s sneaky and small and a predator.

So literally…if Judy represented one race, and Nick represented a completely different race…the movie would be saying that both those races are discriminated against. They even have discrimination in common. AND, if Nick represented men who people make assumptions about because he’s a man, and Judy represented women who people make assumptions about because she’s a woman—the movie would be saying that both those genders are falsely judged.

I mean. Wow. Right now, your movie is either pro-woman or pro-man. Right now, your movie is either BLM or white-supremacy. Everybody’s lining up on one side of the line or the other. Zootopia says, “it doesn’t matter what character you’re looking at, from the elephant that can’t remember anything to the two main characters—every single one of them has fundamental things in common, and one of those things is that they all live like they’re in their own special category. When actually, they’re all fundamentally the same.”

I don’t want to keep beating the dead horse. But I have a post somewhere that lists every background character and points out that each animal is the exact opposite of what you would assume they are based on their animal-stereotype. The otters are never shown being playful or snuggly, only traumatized and ferocious. The cheetah is fat and slow, not quick or even quick on the uptake. Etc.

Even if you look outside of characters—look at the sets. Look at the environments. The whole city is designed “for animals, by animals.” But it’s in neat little segments. The animals organize themselves by habitat. Of course, in one sense that’s practical—the polar bears can’t live in Sahara Square, etc. but the point is, by making Judy and Nick, the main characters, small animals, in a city where everything is built to accommodate by species—UGH this is so good—they have to figure out how to problem-solve in situations that weren’t made to accommodate them.

Little Rodentia? Judy has to avoid stepping on all the mice or knocking over their buildings. Parking tickets? She has to figure out how to jump to reach bigger animals’ windshields—or she inconveniences smaller animals because the tickets are all printed at the exact same size. Stuck in a cell? The guards didn’t think about the fact that small animals can fit down the pipes made to accommodate big animals.

Zootopia is a city advertised to be where all the animals can come together. But the way they do that is by trying to accommodate every species’ preferences. So then actually while they try to come together, everything from their cars to their districts remind them of their differences. The whole idea is that they prioritize the wrong truths. Yeah, mice can’t drive giraffe cars—but they still have “driving” in common. See?

And oh my word. Initially it was supposed to be a spy story. But they changed it to a buddy cop story. Why? Well because justice doesn’t discriminate. Or at least, it’s not supposed to. So then there’s another lens to look at the story’s main theme through.

It’s just that every layer, every perspective you look at the movie from, is just hammering that truth into you: “Try to make the world a better place by realizing we’re fundamentally the same.”

2. Perfect Characters

Every character is so well-thought-through in this movie, even the side characters. You get the feeling you could watch a whole movie based on the side characters, because that’s the amount of love and nuance built into them.

Look at the main ones, though. Bellwhether is supposed to be soft and a follower. She’s a sheep. Instead, she’s hard and bitter—and she’s a leader. A villainous leader, but a leader, nonetheless. Even as she tries to keep animals divided based on fear of their stereotypes, she’s not fitting her own stereotype. Her voice actress has this strained, half-hoarse, but sweet voice. Like you can tell that this character has spent a lot of time under pressure and trying to manage appearances. Appearing like she’s fine, and she can handle it—until you realize that the appearance she’s really managing is “the cultural fear-based identify of the city.” They dress her in plaid and flowers and she’s a farm animal, because that’s the kind of character Judy would be most likely to trust. But she still has green eyes, and jagged teeth, so that when she does start making evil expressions there are some caricature-pieces in there that come out and accentuate that.

Nick Wilde—everybody’s favorite—is supposed to be sly and smooth and shifty. And he is. He’s a fox. But he’s also brave, helpful, and trustworthy. The first time you see him is when he’s dodging out of the way of a bigger animal ignoring him and about to run him over. Well, that’s important.

Because Judy knows what it’s like to have to get out of the way of larger animals, because they overlook her.

So right off the bat, this character she has to get along with and work with, this character who furthers her development and nails the main point, is introduced in a way that has something in common with her. But he’s also introduced in a way that gives her an opportunity to focus on a different truth—that he is different from her. Because the sheep is yelling that he’s a “fox.” Right away, we’re back to species-as-identification.

And that’s what the movie does, all the way through. It presents new animal characters, and with those new animals characters, more than one thing is true at a time. And Judy has to try to focus on which truth is more important. “Try to make the world a better place by realizing we’re all the same.” Yes, Nick is a criminal. But Nick is also brave, helpful, and eventually, becomes trustworthy.

Judy, too. Judy is an incredibly well-done character. Because she believes, in her head, that anyone can be anything—which is not what the movie ends on. In fact, she goes from saying, “anyone can be anything,” to saying, “we all have limitations.” It’s not true that a fox can be an elephant. But it is true that a fox can be trustworthy. Figure out what’s true, and try to make decisions for the better, based on that.

I could talk about character design and acting. Ginnifer Goodwin gives just the right amount of smugness and self-confidence to Judy without making her unlikeable—you don’t realize she’s smug and her self-confidence is misplaced until she does, when she fails to make the world a better place for Nick.

Judy wears tight, actionable, well-fitting uniforms for the whole movie. In her civilian clothes when she comes to Zootopia, she’s wearing athletic t-shirts and shorts. Ready for action, that’s Judy, even in her civvies. Meanwhile, Nick? Nick wears loose-fitting clothes. Loud, patterned clothes that don’t match. Like he didn’t even what, ladies and gentlemen? Like he didn’t even TRY. “Try to make the world a better place…”

Because when you meet Nick Wilde, he’s long since given up on trying, in life. So his character design reflects that. He rarely even stands up straight, or opens his eyes all the way—his default is drooping. And guess what?

When Judy “gives up?” Quits her job? Goes back home? Stops trying? Her civvies aren’t ready-for-action, trying clothes. They’re loose flannels. And her “ears are droopy.”

SERIOUSLY, you can find things like this in every corner of the movie. For every character. Not one character is a throwaway, not in voice acting, not in design, not in animation, and not in narrative.

3. Visual Appeal

Which leads me into this point—no other animated anthropomorphic animal movie is as visually appealing as Zootopia.

What Zootopia does is it matches the best of the best anthropomorphic animal designs from past Disney movies:

And they marry it with this incredible intentionality with modern CGI.

Did you know Disney invents its own software for things like fur textures?

The sheep’s wool, the velvet pig skin, the fox fur, the bunny fluff—it’s all completely different textures. There’s no one “fur” covering all the hairy mammals.

Nick isn’t just orange. He’s orange with deep red and dark tufts. Judy has black tips to her ears, too—which helps the two of them look like, in some sense, they belong “together” in every shot.

It’s so important to the movie that the animals feel like animals that they worked this hard to do this. And then that extends to the textures of the snow, the ice, the sand, the wet leaves, the grass, the fire.

Every character moves like their animal, and like themselves. Nick and Gideon are both foxes, but they don’t move similarly at all. Gideon is aggressive and glowering and physical. Nick, again, is slouchy, leans on everything, completely non-confrontational.

Other anthropomorphic animal movies like Sing or Puss in Boots—they’re not doing both as well. Zootopia is appealing, without sacrificing realism completely, and without cutting character acting.

The lighting. Nope. This post is too long, I can’t talk any more.

4. Earnestness

There is no disingenuous moment in this movie.

The animators are never lazy. They always go for the challenge. They don’t cut corners. Have you ever seen “Over the Hedge?” I like Over the Hedge. But I watched it recently and it’s crazy how many shots are strategically placed so that the animators don’t have to solve a certain effects problem.

For example, when RJ sprays Hammy with cool whip to make it look like he has rabies? He doesn’t. You never see the cool whip leave the can. It just cuts away, then cuts back when RJ is pulling the can away from his face. The shots are also cut so that you never have to see gas actually come out of Stella—and you never see Vern’s full body as he gets back into his shell, just the upper part of the shell as he wiggles it around, going through the motions of putting it back on.

That’s because that stuff would be painstaking to animate. Any time one character has to interact with props or substances (especially liquids) that are not part of their model, it’s harder on the animator.

Zootopia? We’re getting full-on views of characters getting wet, fur and all, characters touching various objects and elements, foam coming out of the mouth, new clothes, new set pieces, multiple models, huge crowd shots of different animals in different outfits, all with their own movement patterns and acting.

And all that hard work and effort, aimed so totally at the main theme of the movie? Making sure it looks as good as it can? Not just that, but the way it’s written, the acting, is so genuine. They don’t hold anything back. They don’t shy away from real emotion.

Judy Hopps’ apology scene is brutal. She’s crying, having a hard time finishing a sentence, her voice is all tight. It’s not pretty, it’s not romantic, it’s like…ugly crying. And her character is wrong in a super embarrassing way. They're not afraid to go there. The writers, the actors, the animators—they’re not afraid of being too vulnerable with these character flaws.

So many movies, especially kids’ movies today—they just pull up and shy away from being real through their characters. They think a quick sad facial expression will get the point across. And it does. The audience gets that the character feels sad about whatever the circumstance of the scene is. But not as powerfully. Because you didn’t put as much work and heart into it.

Zootopia is all heart, from work ethic to vulnerability to the filmmakers enjoying what they’re doing, enough to make it as good as it can possibly be. I can’t explain it better, other than to say, you feel like they would’ve been happy making this movie much much longer than it was. You feel like they’re cramming every bit of joy and passsion into every little joke, every side character, every hair on a CGI bear.

There you go. Long post, you did ask for it

[devotion-disorder]

this is so off topic but I needed to vent somewhere, so turns out I am slowly realizing I have a thing for dude with long hair..

My childhood crush was Helia from winx and the only reason I watched winx was for HIM, I loved him so damn much dude.

then I got into vocaloid, who did I like most? GAKUPO fucking KAMUI..

THEN I slooowly got into anime.. who was my next target? FUCKING TOMOE FROM KAMISAMA KISS AND KOKKURI SAN FROM GUGURE KOKKURI SAN, also we can’t forget YUE FROM SAKURA CARDCAPTOR or UNDERTAKER FROM BLACK BUTLER.

All long hair by the way.. Probably white hair too.

now.. who is my new crush? MAHITO. JUST BECAUSE HE HAS LONG HAIR.

honorable mentions to Zhongli from Genshin, Sephirath from final fantasy and Malleus draconia and Idia Shroud from Twisted wonderland and kite from hxh.

LONG HAIR MALE SUPREMACY 🧍‍♂️🧎‍♀️

anon the way our half our tastes overlapped ASDAHLISUDHALAKJD;aWDUH.........LONG HAIR MEN GANG RISE UP 🗣️🗣️🗣️📢📢💥💥💥🚨

my two faves aka my cutieful amazing wonderful breathtaking pookiebears that did nothing wrong ever actually

[pumpumdemsugah]

When Black women used to lead talks about Black women being seen as masculine and tough the discussions were about:

Black girls not being seen as innocent so sexual abuse not being taken seriously

Black women being treated without compassion

Men being very physical and quick to violence with Black women

Black girls being socialised to ignore their needs and being exploited because of this

Black women being desexualised because we're seen as animals

Black women being hypersexual so always being up for sex because we're seen as animals

People not caring about our safety or seeing us as victims of misogyny or sexism

Black women being humiliated for public entertainment because we're tough

Now when this comes up that discussion is led by insecure non-Black poc animalising us and white people saying Black women experience transphobia because they can be victims of that and God forbid they be complicit in anything. If it's an issue of transphobia and not white supremacy and misogynoir they can distance themselves from white supremacy and be a victim. White people love to project the things they find disgusting themselves as qualities of Black people and when you point this out they will conflate it with something else

People took 'everything is connected' to mean, everything is the same thing, its always about me and you have to circle back to things I do experience and if you disagree, that's how the right wing wins. Taking issue with the white reinventing history or unhelpful ideas is 'infighting' because white people always get to define what's right and moral. Anyone Black that disagrees is always the aggressor that doesn't know anything, even our own experiences. We need someone white to set us straight about what it really is. If a Black man is seen as an animal that's racism but if a Black woman is it's transphobia because a white queer said so.

The suffering of Black women should make white people feel more human and involved. It should never centre Black women or our concerns with how we're framed.