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Been thinking about Ford watching the 70s Animated Lord of the Rings Movies... (companion comic to this post!)
#the other two VHS tapes Fidd's is holding are Rankin-Bass' The Hobbit (1977) and Return of the King (1980)! The 70s animated pseudo-trilogy!#A lot of people pointed out on my other lotr 'crossover' post that Ford would have seen the 70s movies!#And i wont lie i entirely forgot they existed. But now i remember i have so many feelings on it okay. Ford my silly LOTR nerd#I dont think he would have seen Bashkis in theaters. far as I can tell it was a VERY limited (likely mostly CA) run in the middle of winter#but Rankin-Bass'? Aired on NBC & ABC. He absolutely woulda watched them or rented a VHS later. Which is why he's most excited by Bashki's#He's just such a nerd. I need him to nerd out. But also lowkey angst on how his single focus on bill/the portal lead#him to neglecting even the small things in life. Like knowing a VHS release of an adaptation of his favourite book series had come out#GF fanart#Gravity Falls#gravity falls comic#Fan art#fanart#fiddleford mcgucket#fiddleford hadron mcgucket#young fiddleford mcgucket#*holds two random VHS tapes in one hand to check Fidd's pose in the 2nd panel makes sense* Well thats mathamatically feasible!#young stanford pines#stanford pines#ford pines#Book of Bill#comic#artists on tumblr#my art#Grunkle ford#fiddauthor#cause Fidds is not talking about the movie there. Well okay he's talking about the portal but He COULD BE TALKING ABOUT- *I am dragged off*
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ENG PLAYERS I BESEECH YOU
I have been informed that you guys are getting part 4 of episode 7 tomorrow, which means we are FINALLY going to get the official romanization of Revaan's name, somebody please tell me because I need to know what it is.
like, yes, it's probably just Revan/Levan, but look, I'm sitting here with my finger over the button of all these Laverne and Shirley jokes and just waiting for the opportunity to deploy them --
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 part 5 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 part 5 spoilers#(not me realizing that meleanor doesn't actually appear non-silhouetted until part 5 so uhhhhh. whoops.)#(i know a bunch of you read the spoiler-tagged stuff though so i'm putting my life in your hands)#revan would be the funniest one i think because it's just raven but with the vowels switched and i'd be over here going WHAT COULD IT MEAN#anyway i'm here to give the people what they crave and it's obviously references to 70s american sitcoms that spun off of happy days#mork and grimdy. i-is that anything.#the problem of course is now that i might have to actually come up with a bunch of laverne and shirley jokes#when i haven't...actually watched it in a million years#(my personal pool of media i consumed growing up is a good 60% made up of random things i found to watch at 3 am because of insomnia)#(this probably explains a lot about me) (the opinions about zorro adaptations anyway)#hold on let me marathon all eight seasons and -- wait i'm just now finding out there was also an animated series#in which they joined the army and their sergeant was a literal cartoon pig but also they went to space and fought giant gorillas?#but how does boo boo kitty factor into this
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you are so whimsical i qant to check out this mdzs (..??) because of your whimsical nature thank you sorry im very high and your art moved me emotionally
This is simultaneously the sweetest and funniest thing someone has sent me, thank you.
#ask#non-mdzs#I have a hunch you will not recall sending this to me but I wish to immortalize it.#The progression of me going 'aw' to 'barking with laughter' at the last bit of this message was a delight.#Oh man what to say about getting into MDZS...#I admit I'm probably low on the list of people who should be recommending it.#I enjoy it! But there are also a ton of different adaptations that each do a slightly different thing with the story and characters.#Personally I loved The Untamed (Netflix live action) for how campy the action was. It got emotional but really...It made me laugh.#And I love watching it with people because it also makes them laugh.#(The Untamed changes a lot of plot elements so it isn't looked upon very favourably by many fans. I love it as its own thing)#Don't get me wrong; it *is* a story with interesting things to say and I certainly have written tons of analysis on it.#But it's also a series I spent over a year making parody comics of. It comes from a place of love!#The audio drama is really good and I think it might be the best form of mdzs...however finding episodes is not easy.#The audio drama is also what I'm basing all these comics on!#There is a book (the primary source) An animated series and a comic to check out as well.#Someone probably has a better pitch and recommendation list than I do. I just make the funny comics.
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just saw someone say Rick Riordan making a TV show is just as bad as anything JKR has done. BFFR you're comparing Rick Riordan trying to make his world more inclusive, changing some parts because of money/time constraints, or just making changes cus he thinks they're needed, to JKR being a terrible person!
#and not to say Ricks work is perfect. ill be the firat to tell you his mistakes. his aspec rep is shit. his minorities rep has problems#he has general time line problems. im not says hes perfect but he tried from a good place#jkr named a character ChoChang. her Scottish character blow stuff up and tried to make alcohol. named a black character Shackelbolt#like damn get over yourself.#percy jackson#percy jackon and the olympians#percy jackson and the olympians#percy series#pjo series#pjo#pjo tv show#pjo tv series#pjo tv adaptation#if you wanna say shit about Rick ok. but be correct about it#how is he just as bad as jkr for not using the book he made in the early 2000s an exact script for the TV show being released in 2024?#and they yall had the audacity to be pissed when he didn't put a song about sex thats literally says `fuck her face掳 in the background of#LITERAL 12 YEAR OLDS in a place with memory altering properties..... thats whats you wanted. children getting high to a song about sex.#掳oH bUt iN tHe mOvIe tHaT i WaTcHeD wHeN i waS tWeLvE' where the actors where like what 18? and weren't 12? that one? 馃檮#some of you are getting on my nerves. yes the show's pacing is eh really thats a reason to curisfy Rick Riordan? thats what you're deciding#this is the line? a tv show thats on its first season and is more accurate then the movies that came out?#good to know
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Is it just me, or is the writing of the new Percy Jackson show kind of brilliant? Especially when you compare it to the original books.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the books a lot, and I'm not trying to tear them down. But the actual structure of the books involves a lot of the kids just sort of bumbling from one greek myth to another.
As you get Percy's POV a lot of the fun of those scenes is figuring out which greek myth is playing out - but in the show they recognise this right off the bat, which allows them to dive a little deeper.
So instead of spending time figuring out that Aunty Em is Medusa, they immediately make the connection and instead the story focuses on whether or not Medusa is actually a villain.
And the amount of characterization they've built into each monster encounter is *chefs kiss* they've made them all so personal to our trio of heroes.
I've rarely seen a book-to-screen adaption that succeeded in adding to the depth of the original story like this and I'm so here for it!
#Also seeing Grover take on Ares was soooo good#Or watching Percy and Annabeths growing trust in how they handled the chair-trap#Like these kids are not just stumbling around and getting lucky they're MAKING CHOICES and I'm here for it#Also very glad to see that Rick Riordan is so involved with the writing of the show#And I get that there are some changes and if you wanted a 1:1 adaption you might be dissatisfied#but personally I think trying to adapt book to screen as a 1:1 never works and the screen version always suffers.#pjo#percy jackson#percy jackon and the olympians#percy jackson series
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A Grover B plot in season 2 where he鈥檚 remembering being trapped in the Cyclops鈥檚 lair with Luke, Thalia, and Annabeth and Percy catches flashes of those memories in his dreams because of the empathy link. He can鈥檛 piece together the full memory because it鈥檚 very fragmented so he thinks it鈥檚 what Grover is seeing in present day. It isn鈥檛 until Annabeth tells him the story that he understands he was witnessing Grover鈥檚 memory and that鈥檚 when the audience gets the full flashback as well.
#im not fully expecting it to go this way but i definitely think they鈥檙e writing a grover b plot that revolves around thalia#especially based on how close aryan and tamara seem to be#im all for it#i always wanted more from the grover thalia annabeth luke dynamic in the books#pjotv#pjo tv show#pjo tv series#pjo tv adaptation#pjo#percy jackson#grover underwood#thalia grace#annabeth chase#luke castellan#percy jackson and the olympians#pjo season 2#aryan simhadri#tamara smart#leah sava jeffries#walker scobell#charlie bushnell
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Just some things I think deserve a super accurate movie/show adaption in a beautiful 2D animation style:
The How to Train Your Dragon series
Gregor the Overlander
Artemis Fowl
The Adventure Zone
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (fr so much was left out of the 1939 film!)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
The actual Little Mermaid story (there are a ton of adaptations I haven't seen yet so maybe it exists somewhere but we all know Disney鈥檚 didn鈥檛 even come close)
#the entire series for those that have one if that wasn't clear#some of these need to be done#some just need to be done RIGHT#like fr why is it so hard for adaptations to just be faithful to the source material? It's not rocket science#also why did hunger games get so much love but no one read Gregor the Overlander?#the original little mermaid may be sad as heck but it is also beautiful#I admittedly only read the first few books in some of these series' but still#like did you know there's 14 oz books?#okay imma tag everything now#how to train your dragon#httyd books#gregor the overlander#the underland chronicles#artemis fowl#the adventure zone#taz#the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy#hgttg#frankenstein#frankenstein the modern prometheus#the wizard of oz#alice's adventures in wonderland#the little mermaid#old niche fandoms#adaptation#animation#hans christian andersen#lewis carroll#suzanne collins#cressida cowell
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The most recent episode of Interview with a Vampire let's us see Lestat's side of the story and see how it compares to Louis' accounting of their relationship. As a result, it reaffirms just how unreliable of a narrator Louis is, but it also further illuminates elements of his character that the director and writers have been playing with since the beginning of the show.
There's this part in the episode where Lestat turns to Louis and apologizes and it's framed with Lestat turned to Louis on one side and Claudia on his other side. They're the angel and devil on Louis' shoulders, but who is the angel and who is the devil? And as my friend said, Armand and Daniel are placed into that same dynamic with Louis later on. We are being asked to decide who to trust, who's telling the truth, who's the good guy, but the fact of unreliability robs us of that decision.
This whole story is about Louis, he's the protagonist, though not the narrator, and he is constantly being pulled in two directions, no matter when or where he is in his story. He's a mind split in two, divided by nature and circumstance. He's vampire and human, owner and owned, father and child, angel and devil. He's both telling the story and being told the story. His history is a story he tells himself, and as we've seen, sometimes that story is not whole.
Louis is the angel who saved Claudia from the fire but he's also the devil who sentenced her to an life of endless torment, the adult trapped in the body of a child. He's the angel who rescued Lestat from his grief and also the devil who abandoned him, who couldn't love him, could only kill and leave him.
He's pulled in two directions, internally and externally at all times and so it's no wonder that he feels the need to confess, first to the priest, then Daniel, and then Daniel again.
He's desperate to be heard, a Black man with power in Jim Crow America who's controlled by his position as someone with a seat at the table but one who will never be considered equal. He doesn't belong to the Black community or the white community, he can't. He acts as a go-between, a bridge, one who is pushed and pulled until he can't take it anymore. He's a fledgling child to an undead father, he's a young queer man discovering his sexual identity with an infinitely experienced partner. He's confessing because he wants to be absolved, that human part of him that was raised Catholic, that child who believed, he wants to be saved. He wants to be seen.
Louis wants to attain a forever life that is morally pure, but he can't. He's been soiled by sin, by "the devil," as he calls Lestat, and he can never be clean again. Deep down, I think he knows this, but he can't stop trying to repent. He tries to self-flagellate by staying with Lestat and then tries to repent by killing him, but can't actually follow through. He follows Claudia to Europe to try and assuage his guilt. He sets himself on fire, attempts to burn himself at the stake, to purify his body, rid himself of the dark gift.
Louis is a man endlessly trying to account for the pain he has caused and he ultimately fails, over and over again, because he can't get rid of what he is. A monster. He's an endlessly hungry monster. He's hungry for love, for respect, for power, for forgiveness, for death. He's a hole that can never be filled. He can never truly acquire any of those things because he will always be punishing himself for wanting and needing them in the first place. He will never truly believe he deserves them and as a result, can't accept them if they are ever offered. He can never be absolved for he has damned himself by accepting the dark gift and thus has tainted himself past the point of saving.
#iwtv amc#iwtv#interview with the vampire#interview with the vampire amc#louis de pointe du lac#louis iwtv#iwtv spoilers#iwtv season 2#iwtv s2 e7#iwtv meta#interview with the vampire meta#confession as a motif throughout the series#the way catholic imagery is inherent in vampire media#the way this series plays with unreliable narration so you never know who to believe#louis is such a phenomenally well crafted and dimensional character#and i think the show specifically creates a much more nuanced version of his character than he seems to be in the books#at least from what i've heard#i haven't read the books but i have read/been told about the changes they made to his character from book to movie#and i don't think he's as sympathetic or compelling if he's white#i think the way they updated the story with louis and claudia both being black really adds to their characters#it adds so much dimension to the way they interact with the world and also with lestat#lestat as a wealthy paternalistic white european man#in opposition to two black people in america#the multi-dimensionality of that dynamic and how race class and gender play a role in that#i could write an essay about this#i can absolutely find some sociological theory to use as a lens to discuss this#it's fascinating how well the writers and directorial team are doing with this adaptation#most book to movie/tv adaptations are mid at best#and this one pays homage to the original while also improving and updating the content significantly#i think it's also so important how the show is filmed with beauty and horror both taking precedence
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lockwood & co is great bc you have a group of teenagers who are all at this point in their lives highly trained individuals and capable and experienced and it shows in how they operate. but they are also teenagers and chaotic and disorganized and struggling with altogether too much pressure on their shoulders and it shows too. they're marching around London acting like they know what they're doing and they do but at the same time they don't, because they hunt ghosts and have for years but they're only sixteen and that is so young. you don't know anything when you're sixteen. and they have the health and safety of a nation resting on their shoulders, and they squabble over who gets the last cookie.
#lockwood & co#lockwood and co#fell in love with the series while the books were still coming out and i am beyond thrilled it got made into a series#but i dont have the books with me right now so i cant do the reread i desperately want to after watching the show#i do love how the adaptation was handled though!!#the things they changed worked better for tv format but its so clear that they were so fond of the source material and i love it#slimy speaks#lockwood and co netflix#lucy carlyle#anthony lockwood#george karim#george i love you more than life itself btw. my boy
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Lord, give me strength. The PJO discourse has begun, and no one starting it has read the books in the last five years.
#guys I just reread them a month ago; I promise that you are misremembering 90% of the og series. (I did too. it鈥檚 called passage of time.)#seriously please reread them before criticizing the show or just don鈥檛 criticize it at all.#unless you鈥檙e criticizing how it stands on its own instead of how accurate it is to the books.#I mean this in the kindest most gentle way possible because you guys are ruining what could be a great experience for yourselves#I鈥檓 over here vibing; don鈥檛 y鈥檃ll wanna be vibing? vibe with me#edit: I invite y鈥檃ll to rewatch the movies too actually because I keep seeing people act like the movies were better than they were.#like guys鈥hat shit was a special kind of ass. don鈥檛 pretend it鈥檚 more true to source material (especially character wise and theme wise)#just because the show isn鈥檛 what you specifically wanted it to be.#percy jackson and the olympians#pjo#percy jackson#pjo adaptation#pjo tv show#pjo tv series#percy jackson disney+#rick riordan#percy jackson series#the lightning thief
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celebrating tamara's casting with a little thalia design <3 can't wait until I have time to draw her with luke and annabeth
#not that it matters but does anyone else think it's cool that our thalia's name is tamara smart#I just think it's neat#rick loves his english word surnames as we know#sooo hard to draw and write fanfic updates and read the new book at the same time!!!#got real silly with how i colored this and i think that made it all the better#percy jackson#percy jackson and the olympians#sea of monsters#the titans curse#thalia grace#tamara smart#pjo tv show#pjo tv series#rrverse#thalia grace fanart#percy jackson fanart#luke castellan#annabeth chase#pjo hoo toa#pjo#pjo tv adaptation#tamara smart fanart#bayearts
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New pjo fans, how do you guys feel about the big reveal?
#ngl I was having fun seeing y'all crushing on luke#like some of y'all were OBSESSED#how do you feel now??#because I was devastated when I read the book#even though I picked up the signs pretty early I kept on denying it#yes. I too had a crush on luke#lol#luke castellan#percy jackson#percy jackon and the olympians#percy jackson and the olympians#pjo#pjo tv show#pjo tv series#pjo tv adaptation
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i think some ppl don't realize that most of these gl series are based on books?? they are making a series adaptation from specific source material. they can't just omit certain storylines bc they're weird or uncomfy bc they're literally main plotlines in the novels. that's just how adaptations work lmfao
#yes I'm talking about the affair [redacted] storyline that everyone is nervous about#it's literally in the book#they can't just not do it bc it's weird or whatever#like trust me I'm not fond of the [redacted] storyline either but they've been faithful to the source material so far#so they're almost certainly moving forward with the same plotlines from the novel whether we want them to or not#that's just how adaptations work#thai gl#gl drama#gl series#reverse 4 you the series#affair the series
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even though there's a pattern of episodes not picking up from where the last one left off i really really hope the next one does
in this version annabeth and grover are convinced percy is dead. from their perspective he had no way of surviving the chimera or the poison. he sacrificed himself for them. i want to see him surface i want to see him finding them i want to see their utter shock and relief that he's actually ALIVE. like if you're gonna make it so that he sacrifices himself at the arch i want to see the direct fallout of that drama too. please
#where's the connective tissue between episodes#i figured they weren't going to include gladiola but i didn't think they would cut the struggle to get money for the train entirely#in the book they camp out in the forest because they don't have anywhere to go#and when they do get money for the train it's not even enough for sleeper cars#in the show they get sleeper cars with no explanation for how they paid for it#pjo#percy jackson#percy jackson show#pjo tv show#pjo tv series#pjo adaptation#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo series
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I feel like people aren't getting it. In. The. Books. Perseus. Jackson. Is. An. Unreliable. Narrator. This goes for everything he thinks. Percy loves his mother, so he writes her praises. In the show we get to see what Sally does from an outside POV not filtered through a child that idolizes his mother. It's not ooc for Sally to act like she does in the show. she's a single mother raising a neurodivergent, Demigod, and she's scared that when the Gods get to him they'll corrupt him. She's not suddenly a girl boss we're getting to see her for how she is.
#percy jackson#sally jackson#鈥渟He sToOd uP tO gABe sHe wOuLdnT dO tHat' she did it because percy needed to get to montock so she could tell him about how hes a demigod#sally as a character will do anything for her son. gabe being abusive doesnt negate what she needs to. do for her son. in in the book the#second gabe was no longer needed she turned him into a statue and sold him to to the highest bidder. she was putting up with the abuse for#percys sake. and this is then woman that grebbed a gun and started fighting in the battle of Manhattan. shes not weak. you can be two things#she can be motherly and strong. and obviously she has her douts. she thinks shes failing. she called posiden when it was too much and he#reassured her she was doing her best and she needs to do what she thinks is best. and we are only seeing some scenes#we're seeing whats relevant to the plot and whats relative is sally preparing Percy. and she obviously cares for her son and her son for her#she has to be a good mother cus percy is literally going to the underworld to save her. just stfu about the book#ive read the books to but some of you are awful. like no adaptation is to the letter. somethings had to be cut or glossed over and some are#changed because money or that a book is a different medium then a show or movie! you cant do everything cus its impossible.#were in a completely different pov. we're not in Percys head seeing his thoughts.#pjo series#pjo#pjo tv show#percy jackson and the olympians#percy series#batcavescoloy watches the PJO tv show#batcavescolony watches
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Truly stunning how good Luca is at playing Guys With Something Wrong With Them.
true!! i imagine playing Guys With Something Wrong With Them is somewhat more compelling than Average Normal Well-Adjusted Guy. and also more difficult lending itself to a more interesting performance. i say as someone who has 0 acting experience. but it's about the Diversity of Guys With Something Wrong With Them.
take villainous roles only. fabio's dramatic and flamboyant and obsessed with fame and the manifestation of what's Wrong With Him is a lot of screaming and dancing and also mass murder plots. and violent killing. diabolik, in contrast, is a guy who was very evidently raised around a bunch of criminals until the age of 22 and therefore has 0 social skills. and also likes crime and killing. what's Wrong With Him is much more subtle but still very clear. and primo is. well. primo. his problem is everything (been a while since i watched trust but specifically power and ambition and all that). guess what? also kills! but can act nice when he wants and violent when he wants. a real enigma of a Guy With Something Wrong With Him.
and yet? all the Same Guy. same actor. without even getting into like, paolo il padre d'italia, which is another one of my favourite performances of his for personal reasons. and other more restrained dramatic roles. for my top 2 compare martin martin eden to pietro le otto montagne and they are both super different from each other AND paolo. and again even though i know in theory they're played by famous actor luca marinelli whenever i see the movie i am less like 'wow that's famous actor luca marinelli' and more like 'wow that's my good friend pietro le otto montagne'. which is not true for all actors. super diverse range of roles super skilled actor very good at his job. oscar when
#and yeah like all of this is Acting. which is the job. but some actors i think fall into similar archetypes in a lot of their roles#it takes a lot of skill to be able to play that many different people and do all of them well#like i dont think hes done a bad job in anything yet. not that ive seen all his stuff but as a diabolik 2021 defender til the day i die#he's literally never missed. you know#and now the mussolini series!! sky get your shit together and get your advertising and emmy campaign going#im so serious. you've got the pride and prejudice guy. limited series category RIGHT now.#starting my campaign today.#(i say all this with 100% confidence like i know shit about acting. i don't i know little. my qualifications are Likes Movies A Healthy#Amount and my part time acting as line reader for my brother but always reading them in the least helpful way possible)#neon answers#materassassino#like there are a couple other actors i can think of who can pull this off!! and don't get me wrong a lot of people are very good at it!!#but the thing i keep coming back to is the sheer range. you know how it is. drama action comedy comic book adaptation etc#villains heroes whatever. crazy stuff
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