#hated that movie

[cultivating-wildflowers]

3 and 18 for the ask game, please?

3. If you could learn a new skill, what would it be?

Rolling my R’s. Really, any of the little vocal tricks that help with learning new languages, but especially that one. I tried learning Danish several years ago and discovered I would need to trill the R’s for that and was so irritated that I gave up.

I’ve tried all the tricks. Nothing works. I’m doomed to sound like a moron whenever I try to say “dog” in Spanish.

18. Tell us about an early childhood memory.

My introduction to the concept of “genes”, as in “a trait passed down from parent to offspring”, came from Animal Planet.

We spent a lot of time at my maternal grandparents’ house when I was little, and the TV was always on for background noise while we played and talked and helped Grandma with busywork. If it wasn’t Tour de France season and Grandma hadn’t decided to turn on a weird direct-to-tv movie, Animal Planet was the go-to channel. I learned a lot from Animal Planet. (Especially Emergency Vet. Some of those images…they haunt me.) At one point there were a couple of people talking off-screen while we got to watch a mama dog with her new litter of puppies. Most of the puppies were the same golden color as the mother, but a few were chocolate or black. One of the people mentioned the puppies’ dad’s “jeans” and I spent way too long being absolutely baffled by how a dog’s denim pants had any impact on puppies before I must have asked someone for clarification.

It’s a testament to the weird workings of a kid’s brain that the hang-up was not over the dog wearing pants in the first place. That seemed perfectly reasonable.

[leupagus]

As you're stuck in a train: Which fictional train-placed story is your favourite?

I don’t actually know that many train-places stores other than Murder on the Orient Express and that weird dystopian movie with Stinky Chris Evan’s, so I guess Murder wins by default?

[uzumaki-rebellion]

I will never forgive M. Night Shyamalan for giving Aaron Pierre the rap moniker Mid-Sized Sedan in "Old". That's when I knew Aaron was British cuz ain't no American kneegrow gonna let than name slide in a movie, lol! It was Aaron's 1st movie role, but still...nah.

[ravencrow-shinies]

so y’all remember the movie Coraline right?

what did yall do when it was playing on the tv as a kid?

ill go first

i went into the kitchen and played with lps and other toys underneath the table until the end of the movie where everything was good and happy

also fav character(s)? mine was the talking cat

that cat. loved him

[cloud-ya]

outcast of the village

[thesociallyanxioussociopath]

Something something, living rent free in my mind and such, anyway I love them.

[spaceraceart]

au where eggman is some egotistical unethical tech ceo that visits his local coffee shop everyday and harasses the customers and employees, but for some reason the owner is head-over-heels for him and keeps letting him get away with it

[hishighnesstheprincess]

im gonna fucking cry no wonder they dont have the money to animate amy or rouge. also look at the disrespect towards non celebrity voice actors, including the LITERAL MAIN CHARACTER

[dxkjf]

Elita please he's trying his best :[

[moghedien]

Glinda: I hate Elphaba

Glinda after one emotional climax, 24 hours of no sleep, and vague amounts of mystery alcohol:

[shayneysides]

hobie: kill yourself

pavitr: WHAT THE HELL BRO WHAT DID I DO

original format from @ha-youwish in this post!

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[cruucigerglobus]

as we dance to the masochism tango

[froggieetmblr]

Hi fnaf movie dump but it’s mostly bonnie and abby

[za1ka]

noooooooo Aziraphale don't turn around you won't survive the cunt this diva is serving