#film 101

[classicfilmblr]

101 Dalmatians dir. Wolfgang Reitherman, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske | 1961

[fluffypotatey]

okay so:

the year is 2021. the month is june. the new season of hermitcraft, season 8, has just started, and everything is great! the hermits are all messing around, having fun, building insane things within the first week of the server being active, and generally having a good time. everyone's collected themselves into little factions, pranking each other, and it's all the fun, lighthearted, mostly-vanilla content hermitcraft is known for.

and then the split between minecraft versions 1.18 and 1.19 is announced. the delay of new terrain, and especially of new mobs like the warden, considerably disrupt several of the hermits' plans. but it's fine, they'll figure something out, they're professionals, and it mostly goes unnoticed.

about two weeks later, on november 9th, grian turns to mumbo jumbo in one of his episodes, and asks the famous question that would seal hermitcraft season 8's fate:

"mumbo, is the moon... big?"

suddenly, the fans panic. they search back through videos and streams, and realize that the moon had been abnormally large and stuck in a full-moon phase since october 30th. the Moon Big event has begun.

this is where the roleplay really starts. once the moon's size has been brought up, the hermits start a weird combination of scrambling to figure out why the moon's growing, and how to stop it- but also of ignoring it, hoping it won't be a problem, hoping someone else will deal with it. the moon keeps getting bigger, more hermits start realizing it's going on, and a creeping sense of dread starts to grow. but it's fine. it's fine, right? they do little plotlines like this all the time. they'll figure something out, the moon will go back to normal, and we'll laugh about it when this is all over. it's fine.

and then, blocks start flying away. just floating up out of the ground, and falling right back down! like for a moment, a square meter chunk of dirt has decided it's a ballerina and leaped out of the ground! but it's fine, right? the blocks are coming back. no lasting harm is done. they're going to fix it all... right?

the moon gets bigger. it's growing every day- local hermit weirdguy joe hills measures it every stream. the blocks start flying higher. gravity starts getting... weird, with players getting the slow falling effect at random, and being lifted off of the earth themselves. the players form cults and rituals and whatnot to try and appease the moon, convince it to leave them alone, making plans to escape. nothing works. things keep getting worse, and the moon keeps getting bigger. but it'll be fine. these storylines never leave lasting harm, or at least they never have before. they'll be fine.

and then the blocks stop coming back, just floating into the sky forever. the players have the slow falling effect more than they don't now. the moon is now so big it's visible even during the day, and fills the entire sky at night. they start planning their escapes in earnest, and say their goodbyes. some hermits jump into a void hole in the overworld (it was the centerpiece of their village). some flee to the End, some to the nether, some just fly with elytras and hope they can get far enough away in time. one brave hermit, tango, flies himself to the moon in a futile attempt to blow the whole thing up before it can crash.

but in the end, the moon crashes into the server, and everything they'd built was destroyed. and the whole time, there'd been nothing any of them could've done. season eight was over, a full six months before anyone had expected it to end, and season nine wouldn't start until about three months later. and im still not okay about it.

(here's a cool animatic of the moon's crash! honestly i dont think you need too much hermitcraft knowledge to get the gist)

(also the moon crash happened on the day before my birthday lmao.)

….

holy shit

[bebemoon]

Top 3 fashion icons from any films?

iii . queen margot of "la reine margot"

ii. maria merryweather of "the secret of moonacre" (with the vivienne westwood orb on a ribbon choker to boot)

i. cruella de vil of "1o1 dalmations"/"1o2 dalmations"

[cockroachesunite]

Here’s the whole thing! (Including the bit of dialogue right before my canon divergence for context)

The End (?)

Original format ☞ (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4) (part 5)

[retrodisneydaily]

do you love the colours of winter?

[ghostoftonantzin]

I didn't see the parallels with the portrait scene until literally Jordan was handing Guillermo the framed picture, but on rewatch the parallels to the structure of the pilot episode are so juicy. There's a big event happening tonight and it's gonna very special for you, Guillermo! :) your master boss promises. Oh, you're not getting that promotion, but I have something special for you!

(and then also what a beautiful benchmark for Guillermo's character development. look how far he's come since the pilot! look how he's realizing he's still making the same mistake, six years later!)

Also the fact that Jordan and Guillermo are framed exactly the same in the shot as Nandor and Guillermo were in the pilot... put it directly in my veins

[uniories]

Taipei 101 Tower (Taiwan, 2023)

[grandwitchbird]

This is as much as I’m going to say on the debacle at the moment.

Veilguard as a text worries the audience is at least a bit racist on the whole. It wants to somehow prevent this from playing out in gameplay this time and also avoid the whole issue altogether maybe thankyouverymuch. This is in no way an actual ethical shift from previous BioWare games. They’ve just finally said ‘oppression bad’ in the text instead of hoping you’d know that and added some extra weight and consequence just in case you really wanted to kill the black dude or side with the fascists for noreasonatall.

To contrast. Disco Elysium knows most people are quite racist. It has zero interest in the audience’s response to its approach. And its approach is to call racists clowns right out the gate.

I know which approach I prefer, and I know I prefer it because it’s ethically stronger and not built on a codependent relationship with the audience. I also know why Veilguard did things the way it did. If you’re mad about it, maybe just check in the mirror for greasepaint first. And at least consider acknowledging that BioWare’s audience holds stock in the clown shoe factory.

[pocoslip]

Still thinking about how Casey Jones from TMNT 1987 became a Fricking Mess Without Relying on Dead Parents Origin

(Is it Wrong to think Casey Jones 1987 might have an Abusive Parents or Father who wants him to be Very Masculine??)

[kleinefreiheiten]

11.1993 Paris

[gelmemeyeegitmisim]

"Bi' daha hiç kutlamadım doğum günümü biliyor musun? Çok anlamsız geldi çünkü." ~Aşk 101

[pedroam-bang]

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 3D (2017)

[wolfcomix]

Rialto Beach in Olympic National Park

[a-n-i-m-a-t-i-o-n]

Animation test of an early Dr. Doppler design from Treasure Planet. Animated by supervising animator, Sergio Pablos. Source: Treasure Planet 2003 DVD Overview

[imwithmars]

Dave Gahan and D.A. Pennebaker filming '101' at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, June 1988

[hrsnowden]

Stumps of Mystery - Hwy 101 California

Harry Snowden