#it was so uncomfortable to watch tbh

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

Serendipity should be required viewing material before anyone tries to analyze Homestuck; not only is John Cusack a universal constant, but the themes and vibes of Serendipity are so fundamentally woven into Homestuck's DNA that several of Serendipity's thesises and conversations could be lifted directly from one to the other.

In particular, the way Serendipity utilizes coincidence and circumstantially simultaneous events in order to suggest - nay, decree - that the two leads belong together, is highly reminiscent of the way Hussie uses foreshadowing, and not just for romantic couples. It's also a major window into the ultimate stance Homestuck takes with regard to romance, fate, and destiny, and also more specifically, a really good look at Karkat's own personal philosophies of romance. There's a running theme in his movies of meeting someone that perfectly matches your freak, someone you don't ever need to compromise yourself around, who brings out the best in you.

Also, some of yall need to watch a shitty romcom every once in a while and develop some emotions

[quietlyrebellious01]

Okay, but hear me out, what if Batman V. Superman was Superman annoying The Bat into friendship.

[feral-teeth]

horses:

[minhosblr]

I'm so angry at the hate some stays are sending Hong Seokcheon. Stop projecting your own homophobia onto Felix. I'm literally so angry. Like what the fuck

[art--harridan]

[Image description: A digital drawing of Angie from the film R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here In Name Only. She is on the left of the piece, wearing her first shown outfit of a jumper and shirt, a woolen coat, and a checkered scarf. Her hands are in her pockets, and her expression is blank, but leans a tad dour. She stares off to the left. Next to her right shoulder, there's the phrase "really here in name only" which descends with each word. In a panel which molds it borders around the words, there's a drawing of a fire escape. Though their upper half is obscured and unidentifiable, Angie can be seen descending the spiral staircase with Charley in her arms, as denoted by the small blue jacket there. There's a green expanse behind it. The background of the piece is purple and the lineart is a dark green. The colours have a purple-tone to them, and are fairly dim and desaturated.]

Inktober - Day 21 (Rhinoceros)

Film - R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here In Name Only (Jane Howell, 1983)

[blanketforcas]

okay turning off anon for a bit! might turn it back on when i feel normal again

[fereldanwench]

this watcher stuff is an absolute trainwreck that i cannot turn away from

[lost-dazed-andconfused]

The more I watch of the Decameron on Netflix (I'm halfway through episode 4), the more I'm convinced the character Tinardo is autistic-coded. This would be cool and fun except that we're meant to find all his autistic traits either funny or bad/gross.

Like, scene after scene of how boring it is to listen to him talk about his interests. The joke of a scene being that he's understood a situation in the context of his interests Again. He's awkward and misunderstands social cues. He's loud and blunt. He has clear panic attacks and is easily overwhelmed. And all this is either framed as funny or annoying.

They set up his character as a parallel to incels. And he is a misogynistic ass. But that doesn't make it suddenly funny and okay for the jokes to be about him being autistic (or chronically ill! They make fun of that too, although it turns out to not be a chronic illness but still out of his control).

Like, every time they do a gag with him or frame something as gross, ask yourself what you're meant to be laughing at or be grossed out by. What's the joke?

You'd be surprised how often the joke is that he's too loud, too literal, too clueless, too happy in the wrong way, too autistic. (And it's fine for this stuff to be jokes sometimes, they can be funny. But this isn't laughing with. This is laughing at. This feels like mocking)

[pokeformerz]

I have such a love/hate relationship with HH...

love the huge step forward it has taken for indie animation,

hate how crazy it makes people

[sskk-manifesto]

Ok I didn't want to say anything but I need to get this out: don't you think its weird that the anime changed the most meaningful moment between atsushi and aku (and even some small moments such as akutagawa's shock expression when fukuchi tells him to kill atsushi) to make it looks like he doesn't care about atsushi at all(and even added that line of "ango told me everything" taking away atsushi's moment of reflexion in the manga) but then changed that scene of aku and higuchi(which was supposed to be terrifying in the manga) and made it look way more suggestive???

... I think I'm not the right person to ask this to. I mean, I have evident sskk bias, so it's pretty hard to tell whether my judgement is objective or not.

I've considered the scenario the Fukuchi vs. sskk fight was adapted like it was in order to water down the queer subtext - I mean, that scene in the anime does feel straight, in a way the same scene in the manga definitely doesn't -, but in the end I feel like it's too wide of a stretch to say it was done intentionally. It is hard to believe Bones steps away from homoerotic subtext (Dead Apple is literally out there), and it's probably more likely this has just been an instance of sskk being very very unlucky to be adapted in one of the seasons with the least budget destined to them.

I'm not sure what to think about the Higuchi / Akutagawa scene. It was very pretty, definitely better animated than the entirety of the previous episode, but I'm guessing it kept consistent with the quality of the rest of ep 4, so I doubt it got some kind of special treatment? ... And even if it did, idk, I feel like the problem isn't when scenes are animated well, it's when they aren't. The problem shouldn't be the Higuchi / Akutagawa scene being animated well, as much as it should be that all the other episodes should have met the same standard, which they didn't.

[ibetitdoes]

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[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

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[longing4yesterday]

is it worth to watch any of the other biopics?

[ciderjacks]

I doodled Conan last night bc this dude has been saving my ass during these daily hospital ventures I’ve been on :P

[running-in-the-dark]

it has to be said though, I had a lovely rest of the day after my breakdown this morning. it was very cathartic. painted for like eight hours after that, and had a good time doing it.

[bingsucks]

I wrote a big long analysis of a movie (it was already like nine paragraphs and I only got through the opening scene) and some images glitched when trying to paste them in so I hit ctrl+z and it deleted everything. im fine. this is fine.