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[sirdust]

Owl alert! OWL ALERT! Last Stolas's post... Read the description... Who wrote that!? What did they do to our Daddy Hoot Hoot?

UM???

[miwachan2]

Ah yeah... Genevieve's J.U.N.E: Just U 'Nd Egomaniac.

😭 fr tho

[glomgay]

How do you think it's going to be Glomgold's relationship with Penumbra if they meet in "They put a Moonlander on the Earth!"?

I have some ideas about this!!

She might be falsely led to trust him, and Webby is either going to encourage that or be cautious about (her tendency to trust him in Duke Baloney vs what she learned in Mervana)

Either way, by the end Glomgold is going to get everyone to hate him again. Because he’s Glomgold

[monkeymindscream]

What do you think about the theory that Belos is a fallen angel who's just trying to go back to his realm via the Human world? I mean, there are many symbolic things about Belos that represent angels (wings, rings with eyes) and an eldritch angel definetly could make a growl like Belos' one in the finale.

Holy shit.

I’m not sure of the likelihood of him being a literal angel, if only because this is still a cartoon on Disney, and while they might be okay with toeing the line with all the witch craft, I feel them using an actual angel as their big bad might set the censor on fire.

Regardless, this whole thing gets a big thumbs-up from me, both for the sheer level of “I didn’t even think of that!!” (I was just talking about how I wanted more creative backstories for characters!) and because ohhhhhhohoho would I like it if Bels turned out to be an eldritch something. Love that kind of shit.

[tammyhybrid21]

How was that you got interested in the Tadeo Jones movie? Honestly, for us it was bought in DVD and my family love it. Besides, it was a BIG hit in Peru's cinemas, to the point or surpassing James Cameron's Avatar. Also the Mummy, idk it was like, I really love him and I'm glad almost all of Spain and the directors love him too. They even plan to make a spin off about him!

BLAME NETFLIX

No, but seriously.

Netflix threw this character at me on the front of a movie being advertised. And I knew nothing else. But like, straight out, that was a character design that DREW ME! Like, you just get that sometimes.

And then I realized the movie was a sequel, so I had to go find the first, and watched it with a friend and just-- from there here I am, this is the hill my Autism has come to die on. New special interest and obsession and I have so many words and analysis that I don’t even know how long my rant will be, how many parts, or what context...

All because Netflix put the right character as the preview. 

And then I fell into “HE’S AUTISTIC”... among also the rant I have building analyzing all of the framing and symbolism and MOMENTS THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SOMETHING ELSE I CAN FEEL IT AND I SWEAR--

But--

Also it happened to hit one of my big buttons of the kind of movie/franchise where when it allows you to do research into the culture/people involved suddenly everything is reframed/recontexualized and it’s just ??? SO MUCH DEEPER!?

Like, I couldn’t roll around more in all these different lenses and realizations.

The subtly! 

ALSO 

MUMMY IS GETTING A SPIN OFF?! Where is this mentioned?! Please share!

[the-haiku-bot]

Pepa and Felix

have Dolores, Camilo

and Antonio.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Encanto fact you probably didn't notice

It seems that in the Madrigal Family the number 3 is a recurring number when having offsprings.

Alma and Pedro have triplets: Pepa, Julieta and Bruno.

Julieta and Agustín have Isabella, Luisa and Mirabel.

Pepa and Felix have Dolores, Camilo and Antonio.

And Bruno?

Well... in books, other 2D material and in the storyboard preview of "We don't talk about Bruno", he is always accompanied by three rats.

He probably owns more than three for sure, but he's always potrayed near the family with three rats.

For the three children he never had.

[sirdust]

That second gift! 🦉🌠 I- I was going to ask you if you can hold me before I faint but maybe you want me to hold you... just in case. *Cause of death: STOLAS*

he is so pretty!!! i love that the galaxy pattern on his cape is animated in the chowder style where the pattern itself remains stationary in relation to the object (although it seems like this pattern is also animated, just to a non-intensive degree). looks very cool and is much more feasible than animating all those little stars by hand

[miwachan2]

To Genevieve: If you could stop time for just a day, what would you do?

(this takes place in geneiveve timeline btw)

[tammyhybrid21]

Do you think that in the Tadeo Jones universe, some people (average or rich people) think living mummies aren't persons but some creatures they can capture and claim as their own 'cuz they have no rights? (as mentioned by Tad in Movie 2) Kind of like the Apex's view of denizens in IT. I think this could be adressed in Tad 3. But I'll be sad because Mummy is going to find the hard way that for powerful people, his feelings and opinions doesn't matter (Twice, if we count the Spanish conquista)

Ohhhh man!

I have been-- stewing over how best to answer this since I saw it yesterday, because part of me has IDEAS-- the other part has a rant that has kind of been building for a while in general when you just examine the movies and the setting and even the actual community represented in reality(that being Archaeologists not-- well)

And LOOK-- I have TEA!

Frustrated, frustrated tea regarding other aspects of how this all could play out that basically boils down to the one major issue that a lot of those groups has is the issue of "But WE all know!" and the we've boxed this in already.

Which-- Debatably, Tad isn't the only one with some issues... But Sara has-- at least insofar as her reactions to Mummy in movie 2, come to terms past her more nebulous in concept repeated line.

"Mummies can't be alive, it's a contradiction in terms" 

Which-- actually might be an issue that's just on the question of the life/death binary more than it is actually a question of whether someone is human/a person or not. And we ALL know she's definitely got Major Respect over Tad--

Like, I will write a proper analysis over their "Mummy gives advice/pep talk" scenes later-- but--

Sara doesn't just take it and run how Tadeo does-- and she doesn't get hyped about it either. It's soft and subtle and just ARGH--

--

Which, okay beside the point, but I have-- so much on this idea of how people view Mummy-- Because let's for a moment consider what Tad actually says-- in answer to Mummy's "What is with you?" and I want to also talk on what people tend to associate with and call monsters... and how... that might also factor into this whole mess.

"Listen you're a mummy, you scare people. In my world you're a zombie!"

Which-- okay, on the surface this is just an on the nose point about how well, Mummy is undead. Ahahah, the living dead and I suppose living mummies are their own form of zombie-- although really it's more like they're cousins as zombies are usually more... in process of decay while mummies are preserved/petrified... Buuuut in any case... not the point here really.

But rather...

Let's talk about how "Monster Movies" come in here. And what zombies tend to be synonymous with nowadays. You know-- for the most part. Mindless, brainless, sometimes killers though not always-- But ultimately-- Does... anyone actually watch zombie shows for in-depth exploration of zombies ever anymore? Aside a few exceptions, and same in games-- Zombies are relegated to just brainless/mindless monsters.

Which--

On the other side of that-- monsters.

Tad never quite uses that word but--

"First, you're not human"

Mummies-- are monsters. In stories and fiction. Used to scare, used to awe, used to add scenery dressing, spooky, freaky, creepy-- and when they're not-- well it's rare. But if they're not the villains, they're not "human". Which think about that for a moment, in all the monster stories we have but a few where the monsters aren't outright put in that position.

But a monster is usually in a story put into one role and box. And if they're not outright there just to be spooky, or the whole new misunderstood monster trope-- which well, that's a whole other thing. But we all know the usual "monster shtick".

Violent, scary, simple, dumb, driven by base impulses, nonhuman, Very, very often as lesser, other, and something to be feared/hunted/destroyed.

And while modern day does move away from that--

ISSUES still prevail.

And I have-- just got to aside here, but like, thinking on this but-- the Phone Mummy sign outside of Tad's window as a child has some... other weird things. Because as a wild aside, my dumb brain has decided to A - B link this with a series I watched on television from 2005-2007

Because of THIS stupid Mummy Scam Artist character. And it's dumb, has nothing to do with the issue of mummies(and other potential beings and creatures of myth and legend) having less rights. But this whole phone billboard-- with the Mummy, it's legit right up this character's kind of scam alley and I may or may not one day just rewatch his two villain episodes to get his personality clear in my head JUST to do a dumb crossover.(And for nostalgia, but that's not news)

BUT--

Advertising does tell us some things already. In how people possibly think and could respond/react.

Yet still-- there is something more I think that we're missing in this conversation on how people will potentially treat the discovery of a living mummy. Or really any supernatural being. If not with fear(which look-- fear the unknown, fear different, fear of monsters), arguably those who're intrigued, interested could be far, far worse.

Also-- I just have, much tea on other responses for even those who might briefly "respect" him. Because look-- Mummy would be a priceless artefact in a way, treasure and discovery all on his own-- BUT also a new potential source of information of a culture that for the most part has been lost and erased by history.

People could and would ask questions.

Whiiich is where I have doubts about how they will accept the answers to those questions. Because here's the thing, for all the Archaeology community loves to act as if they let discoveries speak for themselves, and even I suppose historians-- There are just-- so many times I watch and listen to documentaries and get SO FRUSTRATED-- because they're stubborn IDIOTS, who actually refuse to take in the evidence in front of them of any truths outside of what they're SO SURE has to be the TRUTH!

For those who speak of learning all about history and it's secrets, they're so damn high and mighty to reject anything that doesn't immediately fit with already established "facts". It must be an anomaly, aliens, can't be what we're actually seeing right--

And well even people today interacting-- Like-- I've seen people try to correct someone on the pronunciation of their own name before.

So I am almost certain there would be at least one idiot who'd be all high and mighty and just-- Mummy has LIVED it. It's his culture he grew up in and some idiot speaking over him saying his lying, which I just-- I am certain would happen(but probably not in canon because who would DARE?!)-- Just "EXCUSE ME?!"

Which is it's own kind of disrespect and hell, crash Tad's pillars again. Yes please!

Which... on that account--

I kiiiind of want to talk about how Tad needs a smack on this... and that wake up to the truths of the high and mighty and bloody prideful issues of the community. BUT more than that-- I actually want to think about that point you made about how Mummy's supposed transformation in movie 3 comes across and the further themes of this question of humanity and rights is in regards to this whole issue.

Because yeah, there's the issue, front and CENTER.

The question/implication of this resembling Ammut, and implied loss of humanity. Along with the fact that Tad's the likely TRUE CENTER of the curse-- since he's the idiot who opened the sarcophagus in the first place...

WHICH CAN I JUST SAY--

There's a very good possibility in regards to that issue-- potentially having to do with some of Tad's more... subtle issues. Or even the ones that are close to the surface and yet not. I've screamed already on Tadeo's Internalized Ableism... along with some small nods to Mummy's own less severe cast with that but-- This is directly playing into that image of monsters and nonhumanity--

And I could probably add an additional few pages of speculation onto this but--

I actually am... also worried for the pets. If only because uhhh, have you seen the original two Tadeo Jones shorts from before it become movies? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XxhNMbpE2A & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoJBzI2AUOw

I mean not assuming anything, but I can definitely believe they wouldn't be above having that threat present at the least.(I mean just that second one... with what I guess is concept-Jeff) Even if Mummy is most definitely going to be the one at the MOST RISK. But with that-- comes the question of humanity.

And while yeah-- I do imagine, all too easily there will be many people more focused on the discovery-- I think there's an interesting mess that Tadeo is going to be FORCED to confront with this-- in how he has that displaced view.

Because here's the weird thing.

I've kind of mentioned it before but not really expanded or explained very clearly-- but for all of Tad's issues... he cares about Mummy probably more than he even really realizes. It's in small to big things as well. Again-- for all his trash behaviour in movie 2, I do think a lot of it is very, very misplaced attempts at some form of protection...

Which I also really want to at some point make a post that's just...

"Tad's I'm Helping moments and how they made things worse for everyone"

But that's for later... For now...

I kind of want to grab a few things.

"You're already dead, RUN!"

I also actually counted how quickly he ran back to Mummy for this moment, and it's LITERALLY two seconds, from when Mummy collapses to Tadeo's check on him. Also I'd like to mention with this-- he's supposedly tunnel visioning on Sara(and he ruins it within the next scene pretty quickly)

...

And for all they're kind of dumb decisions.

DEBATABLY-- when he's trying to hide Mummy.

"Hide"

Ugh-- BUT Tadeo has a very... complicated issue here really. Because yes-- Tad very much has that nonhuman issue, but he CARES. And then-- there's how the whole Ammut thing feels set and the symbolic meaning there(ALSO INTERESTING SARA SEEMINGLY ISN'T CAUGHT BY THAT). But here's the thing--

With Ammut kiiind of come those scales and the feather.

It's not like that mythology isn't unknown-- but more to the point-- it feels kind of like force Tad to confront his mixed up view. On Mummy's humanity or lack of-- But really as the audience Mummy feels the most human at this point in time-- whiiich we can get into a debate on what even is human nature later-- but--

I am kind of hoping that we get a callout of a number of things regarding Tad's behaviour.

With some primary focus on this dynamic between him and Mummy and really seeing how he responds to that idea that Mummy is nonhuman to really be thrown into full view and scope. And listen...

You cannot cheat the scales.

...

As an aside generally, if he is turning into a form or version of Ammut even if initially the community is a danger because he's a living mummy that creates a whole other issue of how he'd be viewed as a danger due to the role that's possibly growing more and more of an instinct.

But yeah... I will probably now make a more formulated rant on this later, or like, minor expansions on the topic but-- yeah.

I have been CHEWING on these thoughts, ideas and concepts for a while.

With additional tea. Because when people think they know something too often they refuse to see differently.

(Also at some point I am going to make a personal rant on duality verses binary due to insistent terminology issues I have but ugh)

[araminakilla]

Oh Lord, this story sounds so good and the art style is wonderful and why I haven't heard of seen this in my life?

Latinoamerica WHY!?

I kind of wish disney’s ~weird period~ had lasted longer. Like all of a sudden we were getting these films like lilo & stitch and Atlantis and the emperor’s new groove and treasure planet and they were so fun and DIFFERENT. Just thinking about what the pitches for those movies had to have been like is so surreal?? A little blue criminal alien crash lands on a Hawaiian island and gets adopted by two sisters dealing with social services that teach him about the value of family. An Inca emperor gets turned into a llama and john goodman helps him get back to his palace and one of the bad guys talks to squirrels. Treasure island but in SPACE. Like, on the surface, the premise for these films seem so random but they all TOTALLY WORKED IN REALLY GREAT WAYS??? idk I just really miss that early 2000s spark of offbeat creativity in Disney’s timeline.

[yuri-cosmos]

1 day, 3 hours and 56 minutes guys 😥

also, thanks to @araminakilla20 for the idea for himbo!

[dragongirlmesilune]

@shields-and-depthgauges-oh-my @araminakilla20

Me, watching Tadeo Jones movies: This is really good!

My brain: Tad Jones crossover with Godzilla monsters where they have to find and awaken King Caesar (giant golem monster made of gold and jewels (the inside of his head appears to be one massive diamond), knows kung-fu, and who may have a human soul inside him) to stop a ruthless scientist who thinks the past/archeological things are fine to destroy if its for human progress.

[shields-and-depthgauges-oh-my]

from an exchange on this post  https://araminakilla20.tumblr.com/post/660671208519516160/tadeo-jones-2-carolinartwork and this concept art of midas’ ghost

[araminakilla]

Oh yeah, they are really cool. I'm very glad that Tom broke up with her. He deserves better.

[sirdust]

So it is very clear that Striker's plan of kill all of the high class of Hell is going to end in an epic royal fail. The real questions are: When, where and how? And also... what is he really thinking? He really believes he's gonna end all the Ars Goetia and other royals because he has access to holy weapons? I would like to know your opinion regarding that.

i don’t think his plan is “kill the entire ars goetia” at all. his proposition to blitz never mentions sweeping societal changes, instead that he’ll be going after the big leagues instead of taking pithy freelance work from sinners.

[miwachan2]

Maw finding Kika's doll.

Kikas doll is LOOOOONG Gone

left behind in their burning village 

it’s basically ash at this point