#frankie watches shows

[danielsarmand]

there’s just so much... warmth. and thankfulness. in me right now. i’ve said this before, but i truly wasn’t expecting much of anything from bmf and the fact that it keeps outdoing itself with each passing episode is really... i don’t know, i’m genuinely happy about it. i’m happy because i am queer, and while i am proud of being queer there’s presently very few dramas that are.

be my favorite is a queer show, about queer people, for queer people and on top of all this it is also very clearly proud of being queer.

it is just so heartwarming to see. to witness how much thought went into it, how many themes and issues they were able to touch on and how delicately they did so. to feel the hope for a better, brighter future grow within you because maybe there are people who care, maybe it is all worth it, and anyway fighting for ourselves will never be wrong or wasteful.

i loved everything about this episode, from the obvious jab at heteronormativity that was pisaeng and his mother’s conversation to max’s speech to kawi’s realizations to pisaeng’s deserved lovestruck giddiness. i loved how they touched on straight people being considered the norm, and how they implied that at the end of the day queer people only want the right to get married and have children like heterosexuals–which is not the case, and morever is not the point; what we actually want is not to be considered a quirk, not to be treated as a glitch in the matrix. we are the norm, too, and we should have the right to exist, and be seen, and be heard, and be considered human, no matter where and what. i loved how well the actors conveyed all of this, through speech and especially through expressions–i.e. gawin’s face as soon as pisaeng’s mother said “normal people”. i adore the blatant and crystal fucking clear love and care the entire cast and crew put into this show.

watching be my favorite makes me feel safe. i am glad i gave it a chance, because it gave me a chance.

[bluebelleisabelle]

Free G3 Monster High Episodes (to be continued)

SEASON 1

1. The Monstering or option 2 (for those who may not have access to the Nick website)

2. Food Fight or option 2 (for those who may not have access to the YouTube channel)

3. Unfinished Brain-ness or option 2 (for those who may not have access to the YouTube channel)

4. Case of the Moondays or option 2

5. Portrait of a Monster or option 2

6. Witch Hitch

7. Part of the Pack

8. That Thing You Deuce or option 2 (preferred option, as it’s through an official medium)

9. Werewolf Weekend or option 2 (same information as #8)

10. Paw-zzle Pieces or option 2 (same information as #8)

11. Nightmare Nightmore or option 2 (same information as #8)

12. Out of Step or option 2 (same information as #8)

13. Pyramid Scheme or option 2 (same information as #8)

14. What’s Up, Watzie?

15. So Familiar

16. Crushed

17. Over Bro-tective

18. Horoscare

19. Flaunt Your Skeleton

20. Creepover Party

21. Creature Clash

22. Monster Movie

23. Earworm

24. Spell the Beans

25. Growing Ghoulia

26. Casketball Jinx (same link as above)

27. Cleo in the Kitchen

28. Case of the Missing Squeak (same link as above)

29. Pet Problems

30. License to Rock (same link as above)

31. Power Heist

32. Monster Midterms

33. Fur-mergency

34. Boogey Nightmare (same link as above)

35. Best Fiends

36: Scareer Day (same link as above)

37. Stone Alone

38. Horsin’ Around (same link as above)

39. Moonlit Fieldtrip

40. A Little Boost (same link as above)

41. Fresh Waters Run Deep

42. Sew Fierce

43. Witchful Thinking

44. Monster Match

45. The Monster Way

SEASON 2

1. Rule School

2. New Witch in Town

3. Play It Again, Clawd (same link as above)

4. Mummy in the Mirror (part of the beginning is missing; the first few minutes can be found in this video)

5. How to Scare a Banshee (same link as above)

6. So Chill

7. Mixed Up Meowlody

8. The Haunted Sand Castle Caper

9. Fangs for the Memories

10. Two-Riffic

11. Monster High-Jinks

12. Vamps Just Wanna Have Fun (same link as above)

13. The Babysitter’s Crypt

14. Humans in Highschool (same link as above)

15. Dawn of the Dread

16. Frankie Patrol (same link as above)

17. The Deuce Date

18. Big Paw, Little Paw (same link as above)

19. Ghoulishly Ghoul-ma

20. Gill to the Rescue (same link as above)

21. Oh Rats

22. Fired Up (same link as above)

23. The Shapeshiftian Candidate

[linterteatime]

Gay monsters real let's goooo 💕 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

Redraw of this kindaa

[anonymouscheeses]

Season 2 came out and i didnt know, hello are yall even still alive??? IM SO HAPPY JWDEJR ILL PROBSBLY MAKE MORE ARY BECUZ I LOVE THEM SMM

[alicenpai]

COME ON BOARD AND BRING ALONG ALL YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS...! stickers here in my shop until oct 17 🏴‍☠️

[smallmeanie]

chat i need horror/scary/thriller movie recommendations pls and thank u

[thespian-two]

frankie's got me fallin' apart

the first hairstyle is based on the concept art of frankies g3 doll by @oliveriskei on instagram

[pcktknife]

yall...we are officially post-timeskip

[lorrhett]

Does anyone else have the problem with never having enough TV show recommendations? If so, here are some of my absolute favourite shows:

1. Grace and Frankie - a show that explores the unlikely friendship of two older women who, after their husbands reveal they are in love and plan to get married, begin living with each other.

I began to really feel myself attached to the characters and it is definitely a need to watch show.

2. Fleabag- A woman navigates through life and love in London whilst trying to cope with the tragedy of her life.

It is dark humoured, witty and I personally found it very relatable.

3. Dirk gently's Holistic Detective Agency - A man finds himself involved in an otherworldly criminal investigation involving murder, kidnapping, pets and an odd detective.

I really enjoyed watching it, it's one of those shows that you don't understand why you like it so much.

4. BBC Ghosts - A cash-strapped young couple inherit a country mansion, only to find it teeming with needy ghosts.

If you loved horrible histories as a kid/if you still do, you would absolutely love this show.

5. Interview with the vampire - A reinvention of Anne rice's epic tale of seduction, blood and immortality.

If you enjoy vampires, twisted love and brilliant acting you will find yourself enamoured, as I was, with this show.

[devilsrecreation]

Okay so I’m watching a Jim Henson production called “The Animal Show” AND WHEN I TELL YOU IT’S AMAZING IN EVERY WAY THO-

Not only is Sly the crocodile a freaking DELIGHT, they show baby crocodiles AND GIVE GHARIALS RECOGNITION!!!!!!!!!!

BC WE ALREADY KNOW ABOUT ALLIGATORS AND POSSIBLY CAIMANS BUT I NEVER SEE ANYBODY REALLY TALKING ABOUT GHARIALS SO THANK YOU SM

OK SO LAZLO THE HYENA IS A GREAT CHARACTER BUT YK WHAT I LOVE? THEY GET HYENAS. LAZLO ISN’T PORTRAYED AS A VILLAIN HE JUST ACKNOWLEDGES THE REPUTATION HYENAS GET AND JAKE (a polar bear) ARE LIKE “wow, I have a new respect for hyenas!”. He does something the Lion Guard doesn’t: he explains he’s not a scavenger. He says ofc they eat the dead but they mostly hunt for their food and I think that’s beautiful

OH AND HE SINGS A SONG ABOUT HYENAS.

WE GET A POSITIVE REPRESENTATION FOR A HYENA!!!!!!!!!

Again, no villainization in any way. Vic is a very tough nile monitor (like NY mobster tough), but in a respectable way. And he teaches everyone about monitor lizards!!!!

And another lovable crocodile character, Frankie is also a very accurate croc 🥰🥰🥰

(plus more bby crocs in this episode 🥺)

[danielsarmand]

i am taking this moment to apologize to all of my beautiful mutuals and followers for the person i, tumblr user klausbens, will become when the last season of umbrella academy drops tomorrow. i feel like my username was a fair warning but just in case

[friend-dogor]

actually wait in relation to the last post about ghibli and how it is aestheticized into bland and toothless images of comfort, it's got me thinking abt Ursula K Le Guin again

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe a happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.

(from The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, 1973, top of pg.2)

i think that the original post is guilty of this to a degree, seeking to refute the idiocy and simplicity of focusing on the "happy" themes of ghibli movies my instead shifting attention to the horrors and pains contained within the text—those which could be seen as intellectual, needing perhaps a more sophisticated understanding of environmentalism and geopolitics.

but, furthermore, i think i'm guilty of it even in trying to defend miyazaki's often returning narrative commitment to hope and environmentalism and anti-war sentiment and kindness—after the last tag, i wanted to add something about "i know that putting kindness above pursuit of power feels like a baby theme for babies" because it Does, to me. "be kind" is, like, the first and simplest rule most of us are taught as children, be kind, don't hit your brother, be kind, share, be kind.

i don't refer to this as one of his more challenging themes, of course, because why should i? we all know to be kind. of course, i refer only to topics of war and environmentalism and grief as challenging. kindness is simple!

(nevermind that one of the biggest challenges for myself and a lot of people i know is how to stop being cruel to oneself after decades of practice and learned examples and instead to learn to be kind and forgiving with one's own mistakes and failures and perceived flaws)

and i wonder two things: 1) is it possible that the self-aestheticization of miyazaki's movies (for example, the rapturous visual attention paid to food, the attention paid to soft chairs, pillows, small and pleasantly cluttered environments, with plenty of natural light, lush plantlife and endearing creatures) contribute to miyazaki's more "challenging" messages, and if so, that there's a degree of success in people remembering the thick-cut bacon and eggs on toast from Howl's Moving Castle before they think of Sophie Hatter's town on fire because of the king's war? Has Hayao Miyazaki succeeded in making war and destruction at once horrifying and banal, but a simple good breakfast fascinating and compelling? ——not to say that people who simplify the movie to Only the aesthetics are right. they still aren't. they exist in dialogue with the destruction and it's ridiculous to sever the two. but is it possible that the majority of people thinking first of the "cozy" elements of Studio Ghibli's work is not nonintellectual and reductive, but rather contributes to a larger point of attention?

2) i ought to find other examples of media which do not treat "happy" themes or "light" themes—(i struggle even to talk about the category i mean without dismissing it entirely as Simple, or mischaracterizing it. i mean things like kindness over power and compassion over fear, things like that) which do not treat the themes as childish or nonintellectual, but also do so without fetishizing violence and suffering as Special and More Deserving of Thought than Simple and Stupid Good Feelings so that i can kind of investigate this concept a little more

[janeprentis]

frankie and cleo sitting in a tree………… a little doodle a little sketch of them !

[averlym]

some very very quick costume shorthands!

[not-so-rosyyy]

I finally saw Aftersun (2022) and I am too inarticulate at the moment to say anything other than that I feel like going to the nearest pool and jumping in right now but never coming back up for air and I haven't the slightest idea why. Allow me to sit and sink in the devastating quietness of this movie for a few more hours, maybe I'll be able to pinpoint what exactly in it crushed me without realizing

[bluebelleisabelle]

When Shea Fontana wrote the new generation of Monster High, I don't think she intended for a 19 year old to rely on it while she's having a mental breakdown, but that's precisely what I'm doing 💀