#duscuss

[staryarn]

IM FREE

[anonymous-cupcakea03]

Idk if anyone's talked about this before but I absolutely believe Sym eventually takes over Rex's job as the colony jungle gym. All the kids either have the time of their life climbing this tree of a man or he has the weight equivalent to a piece of paper and he falls to the ground every single time. Either way, it's adorable

[technoxenoholic]

i'm pretty sure "dressing for your body type" is a Scam Lie invented by Big Fashion TM to make fat people feel like it's their fault for not being able to find clothes that fit and hang nicely on their bodies. because the only body type most modern clothing manufacturers actually design and sell clothes for is the current most fashionable skinny body shape (or the 2–3 most fashionable skinny bodies at best)

[justablah56]

hi aether!! I just wanted to tell you that you’re SUCH a talented writer and if I was better at talking to people I’d be dying to discuss fanfic all. the. time!

I hope you’re having a good day, and I can’t wait to read what you write next :)

KISSES YOU KISSES YOU KISSES YOU !!!!!!! /p I rarely get compliments on my writing seeing as I don't do it nearly as often as I draw, but when I do I'm immediately crumbling to the floor sobbing /very very pos anon I hope you know that I love you sososo much, grabbing your hand and kissing your knuckles /p <3333

[girlsonic]

so glad aroace sonic is not niche genuinely

[tommyexplores]

Am I not romantic?

Perhaps I’m the kind of person that attracts people, who want to confide in me. They often share their most intimate stories and secrets. In exchange, I give out my opinion and advice. That way it’s not just one-sided conversation, unless noted. I enjoy it when I have the chance to talk with strangers, it keeps me informed about society. Most importantly, it gives me feedback about my own…

[lycanthropegfs]

i think whoever invented participation requirements for uni should be shot

[masseffectdoctor]

Maaaannn wtf has the hellsite in flames now??

[troubleangel1994]

not my boyfriend joking about me "wearing the pants" in the relationship because i hate other people deciding for me and i always know exactly what i want and how i want it.

[threefandomsinatrenchcoat]

Bruce has a crush on Clark and tries to give him hints as Brucie. Because of course he can't just go and tell Clark how he feels, he's allergic to duscussing his feelings.

Clark, of course, thinks it's just part of the Brucie façade, which makes it hurt because it gives him a taste of what he still thinks he can't have. (If you want to be extra angsty, you could also go with him thinking Bruce knows about his feelings and is taunting him on purpose.)

So Clark tries to avoid and deflect all of Brucie's advances, leaving Bruce to think that Clark is uninterested and in fact uncomfortable with the very idea of being with him.

At the edge of the ballroom, Lois and Alfred are sharing long-suffering looks.

[justanotherflemethstan]

dragon age mutuals and followers: if you'd be interested in joining a Dragon Age discord server that is:

• pretty small so it's not as overwhelming as some of the bigger BW servers

• very cozy

• very queer

• also very new so that you're not interrupting a group of people who've been talking to each other for ages

• has lots of Veilguard hype, lore and theory duscussions, and OC sharing

...let me know! I have just the server for ya 👀

[kireiscorner]

2023 vs. 2016

On January 28, 2014, I posted about LoliRock for the first time. I was so excited to see art I felt look similar to mine that was successfully animated & greenlit because I'd gone the past year being told my type of art wouldn't get me anywhere by art teachers. I was graduating in a few months from HS and wanted to work in animation. Today, I'm 6 days away from graduating with a degree in Animation & VFX.

These characters got me through my first year of college & lots of hard times. Captaining this ship was rocky at times, but I still had a lot of fun, and it shaped me as an artist & storyteller. I know people may not always want or like what I'm drawing, but its what makes me happy, and Talia & Mephisto mean a lot to me, so them being my first drawing after finishing my animation courses felt right. I'm still stunned at how much my art has changed over the years, I honestly never noticed it before. I'm happy to see that I've grown up quite a bit.

I'm thankful to JLV & Team LoliRock for making the series, and I'm super thankful to Vincent Tong and Ashleigh Ball for bringing a voice & life to Mephisto & Talia. I'm thankful I had artist like galoupop & bertragram to look up to as designers/artists because it really pushed me to do better every time I saw their work both of the show & personal work they've done. Most of all, I'm thankful to all of you, who have made me feel like my art is worth something at times where I felt it wasn't good enough, that I wasn't good enough. Thank you for keeping me grounded, for supporting my work, and for loving Talia and Mephisto just as much as I do!

Thank you for all the years of fun!

✨️💚✨️🩵✨️💙✨️

PSA: Please do not use this post for S3 duscussion unless it's pertaining to the fancomics people making. This is to avoid spreading misinformation about the show, as we were told nothing was official just yet. Please wait for confirmation that S3 is greenlit the official team lolirock tumblr!

[waeirfaahl]

Some little thoughts about Hellfire and its singer

Quite unexpected guest for my duscussing. I don't think that I'll tell something new about this antagonist and his song, so I'll focus on some tiny moments that I find interesting. Maybe somebody noticed this, but I'll mention this. Still this character is one of those, who kinda formed my tastes in what the good and threatening enemy has to be.

Judge Claude Frollo is awesome in his monstrosity. He is really well-written not just as antagonist, but also as a character. The way how he is presented, how he looks, how he acts and how deep and cold his voice, I would genuinely believe that judge Frollo is a manifestation of the unnatural death. Not natural one, which is a force of nature that values a life and keeps balance in own quite severe way, but exactly the unnatural death that exists due to the ignorance and malice of human nature. He embodies all dark aspects of human nature, yet he is self-contained, deep and realistic character, what makes him so terrifying.

Why he is the way he is — racist, sexist, chauvinist, hypocrite, narrow-minded fanatic, liar and murderer? I don't think that we need a backstory, because the answer is simple — Frollo is the result and the product of both his time (Middle Ages, hence religious dogmas) and his own decisions. Although, the line about his desire to make the world "pure from vice and sin" and the fact that he is a judge for like 20+ years (and has no claims for getting more power) imply a king is okay with this, so there's the possibility that Frollo could start as more or less devoted, fair-minded and good in his work (and that France really was in horrible conditions, plus wars), but than older he got, than more he got ruthless and blind to his own mistakes and crimes, using his authority for oppression and literal genocide instead of punishing exactly criminals. And, well, his words about cruelty of the world make sense, so you can agree with him in that aspect. I can't tell for sure, whether Frollo is a psychopath or sociopath, although he has some traits of narcissism (at the same time the only living being that Frollo genuinely liked and cared about is his black stallion Snowball); and his view of religion and rationalizing in some senses has some parallels with worldview of Oliver Cromwell, but what I can tell for sure — his arc is in falling into the madness due to own narrow, fanatical, sick and twisted mind despite many events that could change him and save from this path. I don't know, whether the authors did that intentionally or accidentally, but the story (and ephemeral "divine forces") gives to the old judge at least two moments for redemption — the first chance, of course, is Quasimodo, and how Frollo could learn compassion and forgiveness, but no, he psychologically abuses Quasimodo and feeds own ego, using the blatant gaslighting, and the second chance is, of course, Esmeralda, and how Frollo, falling in love with her, could change for her and also change his own worldview, realizing and accepting own imperfection (although, I find it nearly impossible, because in Esmeralda's eyes he was and always will be a monster, a murderer and a tormentor — from another side, at least, in the animated film he has no sadomasochistic tendencies he had in the book; and I find his conflict in the animated film more interesting, deep and complex, because in the book it is basically just "I am actually a priest, my job forbids to me to be interested in women"). But we know, what happened instead — Frollo corrupts the possiblity of love and turns it into the pure possessiveness and wrath, viewing it as a witchcraft that causes lust (because Frollo is absolutely sure that all Romani are demons, and there can't be love from them and/or to them, only dirty carnal pleasure). He ignored and failed everything, blamed everyone and everything in own mistakes and crimes, he lied to himself and hence he was the reason of own demise.

I can also assume that for Frollo to accept the idea of sincere love toward Esmeralda means to encounter his biggest fears — to realize and to accept the fact that he deprived himself of normal life, free and full of happiness, and spent all his own life in self-restrictions, self-reproach, lying to himself, denying crimes for "greater plan" (making world pure from vice and corruption) and also in committing various sins — especially oppression and mass murders of people, where many of them were innocent. To accept his feelings and possibillity of love toward Esmeralda means for him to consider Romani people as equals to French citizens of Paris, to doubt his worldview and religious dogmas and to accept how wrong he was all his life, to reject everything he knew all his life, as well to encounter the painful fear — that Esmeralda will never love him after what he has done, and he isn't able to actually earn her love and forgiveness. Not to mention that he is already old man (50-65, I guess), while she is young (19-23), so in some senses there's also envy. So he tries to convince himself in the opposite, he wants to believe that Esmeralda herself can choose and love him, or else she is a fire demon, who wants to kill him, so she must be destroyed. Frollo's main animator was Kathy Zielinski, and she perfectly nailed his nature and also added few subtle details in his animation and expressions. For example, you can notice some kind of hesitation and regret during "God have mercy on her..." line after he burned Esmeralda's scarf, considering her escape from the church as the rejection of his attention... ah, not kidding, that's terrifying — imagine, you're young girl with own life, and at the same time some unknown to you man (or the person, who tries to erase your people) draws his future with you, creates the idolized image of you and gets furious that you "rejected" him despite the fact that you even never interacted with him and promised nothing to him (and you have no idea about this creep and what's in his mind). Another interesting detail that I noticed in Frollo's animation, and I'd like to ask Kathy about this — it seems that Frollo is left-handed inborn, but later he trained to be right-handed. Because he uses his left hand very often and confidently and exactly during the moments, when you will use exactly your working and active hand.

So, about Hellfire. For real, for me it was mind-blowing. The beauty of this song is in psychology and the fact that we can see what happens in Frollo's twisted and sick mind, what he feels and thinks and why — the two opposite feelings toward the one person, contradictional feelings because of Frollo's beliefs and view on Esmeralda's origin, her belonging to those he killed his whole life. The core of his song is not a lust (I'd say that it is not the case despite the fetishism with Esmeralda's hair and her scarf that he hid and wore on his chest), it's exactly the possessiveness, mixed with blatant fanaticism, egocentrism and victimblaming. Basically "Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I'll be your slave!" thing. And now I'll try to explain, why I think so. In the animated film, at least, I can understand, why Frollo was interested in Esmeralda — she is not just a young pretty girl, she is smart, she is kind, she is brave, her spirit is free, strong and untamed, she can stand for herself, and she dared to oppose him. So no wonder, why he could be interested in her — there's something more than "just a beautiful body" (and it doesn't contradict to the movie's message and why Esmeralda ended up with Phoebus — he saw Esmeralda as an equal and living person, psychologically he was the only mature man in contrast to Frollo and Quasimodo, and at the same time Quasimodo is more mature than Frollo, because the inexperienced boy, who lived in isolation, really values Esmeralda and her choice and happiness). Because, I'm sorry, although in the book Esmeralda (or Agness, that's her true name in the book) is 15 years old, but as a character or a person she has nothing except of beautiful body, and she has no brains in the book (especially the scene with her mother near the end confirms that). And this thought came to my mind after I noticed the one certain detail in Hellfire sequence. For sure, my favourite moment of this song is "Or else let her be mine and mine alone!". It is the only scene, where Frollo dreams without obsession. It is the only tender scene with him, and it is the only scene, where he is shown vulnerable and lonely, and that makes this scene very personal and impactful. What's interesting, the early version was different, hence it gave different perception. In the early version it is the blatant lust, the carnal desire, mad obsession, because Frollo moves to Esmeralda's smoke spirit as a predator and tries to grab her exactly as a predator tries to catch and grab its prey, as well as Esmeralda here is depersonalized and... dead, she just flies and then disappears, she is just an image, not something alive, just a body instead of living person.

In contrast to this, in the final version the scene hits differently — Frollo walks to her with open arms, as well as Esmeralda's spirit, now pure and ethereal, flies to him with open arms and tenderly touchs his face, so he tries to hug her, but she disapperas, so he looks at it with sadness. The final version is more subtle and ambiguous and leaves the clear hint that Frollo really wanted to be loved by her the way he is (exactly in terms of feelings and platonic side). It shows the sadistic, racist, narcissistic, ruthless, fanatical, hypocritical and deluded sociopath from different side — as a lonely and lost person, who doesn't understand his own feelings and hence is afraid of them and despises them, and who through his narrow, ossified, sick and twisted worldview corrupts initially a pure and sincere feeling toward the brave and kind young girl and turns into a sinful and disgusting act of obsession and possessiveness, erasing any chance for alternative, depriving himself of any alternative. His line "Why I see her dancing there? Why her smoldring eyes still scorch my soul?" kinda hint that he never experienced these feelings (in the festival scene, where Esmeralda kisses Frollo for cheering up, you can notice how embarrassed, timid and meek he is at this moment, but as soon as she jokingly moves his hat on his face and runs back on the stage, he again is in anger state), they are not familliar for him, he can't understand, accept and control it, so it only makes his anger on himself and especially on Esmeralda (again victimblaming) stronger and more destructive.

And it also plays on a viewer's empathy, because even with this gorgeous scene the song and the movie give the right message — no matter what, after all what he has done he's the dangerous and irredeemable stalker and murderer. Judge Frollo is that kind of wonderful human monsters that you will enjoy to analyze, but never want to meet in real life. P.S. Speaking about backstory — maybe at Frollo's youth some gipsy woman predicted that in his next life Frollo will have lots of hot girls through his life, but at the old age he will die due to the stroke during "love play" with another young woman in one old town in the forest. And this town was Twin Peaks. P.S.s. (UPD) In early drafts there was some backstory of Frollo's hatred toward Romani people — it was some kind of self-fulfilling prophecy. When Frollo was young and became a judge and celebrated that with his friends, some old gipsy woman predicted that his ambitions will destroy him, so Frollo gets furious, because he worked hard for getting this job etc, and he considered the prophecy as a witchcraft and started to chase this old lady, so after this his hatred toward Romani has started. Basically Kung Fu Panda 2 prologue or whatever. I would more quickly assume the self-hatred or self-loath issues, caused by Frollo's own origin and the perception of Romani people as demons that must be sent back to Hell for centuries, i.e. he himself could be part gipsy (most likely 1/2 from his mother, hence lying to Quasimodo about his mother, Claude kinda talked about own mother that was "a heartless gipsy who is not capable of real love and abandoned him", so the same image he projects on Esmeralda, expecting from her the same betrayal and at the same time wanting to be loved by her). On another hand, we already had the antagonist with self-hatred issues — Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 movie.

[biteofcherry]

GORGEOUS NEW BLOG LOOK!

I know/I see people are going feral for professor Steve/student.

BUT MA'AM.

WHY IS EVERYONE SLEEPING ON PROFESSOR/PROFESSOR?! Some academic rivalry possibly? Or late nights working on research or theories together?

I'm not sleeping on it! I'm feral for it! 🥵

Not rivalry, but duscussions that get heated and become sort of an entertainment during conference panels. Sexual tension that's obvious to everyone, but they don't know it's actually a resolved tension, once you go to Steve's hotel room - wearing nothing but a collar beneath your robe, just like he ordered.

He'll make you beg for mercy for the cheeky intro that your arguments were better 😏

[shiftingmegs]

I remember when i first started distancing myself from the Shifting Tiktok.

At the time i was focusing in my Shameless DR and Shifttok was saying that "if you do not script racism and homophobia out in your DR you are a bad person". And anyone who ever watched the show knows that big plot points in Shameless are based in the characters dealing with racism and homophobia.

This duscussion, and the coplete lack of wanting to understand other pov's is what actually drove me away from Tiktok when dealing with shifting realities.

I'm not saying its impossimble to shift to Shameless without racism and homophobia, i'm just saying is a inportant part of the story in Shameless and for my DR self that i had for there (But also it would be too much work to rethink what would make Ian and Mickey's relationship take some time to happen if i took out all of Terry's personality).

Sometimes you want to shift to a place where bad things happen, with the people you care about and with you, and it's okay to not want to script it out and it's okay if you want to script it out. I felt it would be senseless to take real life problems out of a TV show about real life problems and Tiktok couldn't understand that.

[silly-ouma-thinker]

i think i just fell in love

When was the last time I came up with some saiou prompt?

Anyway! Mermaids saiou!! But instead of the usual pirates x mermaid, step it up to “both are mermaids from different social status that are pretending to be humans and ended up being pirates” kind of stuff! My idea was a runaway royalty x wanted criminal, obviously we know who is who, but I like versatile things so you either have:

A. Runaway mermaid royalty Shuichi, overwhelmed by the responsibilities and needing a well-deserved break, who finds his way up in the surface and disguised himself as a human, was captured by Kokichi, an infamous pirate captain who is actually a wanted criminal in the undersea! Demanded him some treasures, but was instead intrigued by a relic Shuichi is wearing as that’s what he had been after. Love ensues. Bonus, that’s the reason why Kokichi is very familiar with the open sea: because he’s been everywhere from surface and below. Or,

B. Runaway mermaid royalty Kokichi that is bored by the repetitive schedule of a prince, sneaks his way up but was caught by fisherman! Luckily a young fellow bought their silence, but Kokichi had flee before Shuichi could see him. He came back to see Shuichi and his crew, laughing freely on their beloved ship, which caught Kokichi’s interest. But little did he know that Shuichi came up the surface to leave his past behind (in which Kokichi would try to persuade him to continue) and as Kokichi try let him let loose, they fall in love. Yippeee