#laika rants

[flytomy134340]

the most realistic part of She-Ra is that as soon as anyone saw Adora transform into an 8ft tall buff warrior princess with a sword, they instantly fell in love, everyone is gay what a great plot twist

[flytomy134340]

And I eat it up every time

why is half of youtube filled with 47 minute long videos that look like this

[studiomkm]

If we ever get a Psychonauts movie, can we all just collectively agree that it SHOULDN’T be live action? Yes, the Tom Holland poster is funny but let’s be real. There’s only one way to cinematically do Psychonauts justice.

Laika

Thank you for coming to my random soapbox. I hope the rest of your day goes well

[charrfie]

Spamton cares so much about other people and I'm tired of pretending he doesn't

[locklylemybeloved]

hey does anyone want to read the letter i wrote laika when i learned about her in second grade?

[flytomy134340]

PLEASE CAN THIS BECOME REALITY

“A what?” “A dragon.” “I can’t just-” “You said I could reincarnate as any living thing.” “Yes… But dragons are fantasy in your world! That means you’d have all your prior memories since you’d exist outside the laws of nature!” “Even better!”

[doodle17]

Have you watched any Laika films? (Coraline, Paranorman, Boxtrolls, Kubo, Missing Link)

I have actually watched all of those! And I like all of em too!

Laika films are soooo beautiful... I love them!

[flytomy134340]

thinking about Izzy's mood swings and realised that this was most likely the first time that he's been allowed to process his feelings at his own pace aboard a ship.

think about it, under blackbeard he HAD to constantly be on his guard, he didn't have time to process feelings because they were constantly moving on to the next thing but now, with Stede, the crew lets him do what HE wants. spent most of his time drunk and cursing out a headless unicorn? fine by us. wanting to wallow in your own sorrow and self hatred?? knock yourself out, just do it in one of the rooms where you can't harm yourself. the crew even respects his need to be alone, thus them leaving him his new leg by the door and not sticking around to see his reaction.

no one (so far in season 2) is forcing ANYTHING of Izzy, and i think that's why Izzy has been having a better time on the ship and actually bonding with his crewmates and captain. don't mind me or the seas of tears that are coming from my eyes ;^;

[spiderfucker103]

Trigger warning: cruelty and animal death

Not to rain on everyone's parade but that "Laika the dog they shot into space was so loved" post is making me sick like that dog was not especially loved, it was shot into space and died a horrible death. She died of "panic and overheating" after several hours, I can assure you if anyone really loved her they would have took her home and not put her in a rocket. There is a difference between "this animal was an instrumental tool for furthering science/medicine" and "this animal was loved". Love has a meaning and pretending that animals used for human experiments are loved is just insulting to them. My cats were loved and that's why I didn't do experiments on them. The woodlice I euthanized and dissected at university were fascinating and cute to me but I clearly did not love them because I killed them.

What's the deal with sugarcoating history like this? It's so sickly. We don't need to celebrate the death of laika as if she was some hero who went to space and had a grand old time about it. I wouldn't mind reading posts about laika the dog in general, but not with this stupid "she was loved" theme. Poor Laika, she got shot into space and here's a picture honouring her because she didn't deserve to die terrified. The scientists were probably very fond of her and wished her a heartfelt goodbye but she was still a test animal and we should feel sorry for her- she was important and she deserves to be happy in dog heaven. I liked the post about her being the first church grim in space because that doesn’t have the "she was loved" lie in it. Maybe we love her now because of sympathy and symbolism but she wasn't loved when they chucked her into orbit and she fried to death

[flytomy134340]

as someone who's been watching Eurovision religiously since I was a child (I won't this year), let me tell you this:

if you're still on the fence, don't be. EUROVISION!! DOESN'T!! CARE!! all it cares about is money and profit and rn allowing Israel to participate is gonna give them the most money.

if for some reason you are still willing to support the show despite their approval of Palestinian genocide, at least boycott the event from ''sticking it to the Western capitalism'' point of view. do the right thing.

Boycott Eurovision

[patronsaint-prometheus]

Shaking hands with the narrative rn. Or maybe it’s the universe. Possibly even the veil. Because I could be quite angry with them. But they weren’t lying. It does sure as hell get easier. And a whole lot better.

[consciousgordiacea]

What he’s doing right now sucks but being cruel won’t help, I think. He was the most qualified person to help the raid and he couldn’t because he’s injured (which he did to himself trying to feed Chris, but since it got worse when he was saving me from the book I guarantee he blames me). He feels guilty and resentful and is lashing out at anyone who isn’t Chris (or me to a far lesser extent). Yes, call him out for being a dick to Laika. He is being one. It sucks and Lai doesn’t deserve that. Please don’t call him a bad friend though, he’s not and he won’t listen to what you have to say if you start it with cruelty.

IT IS NOT MY JOB TO BE NICE. ALSO WTF DO YOU MEAN HE WAS THE MOST QUALIFIED? WE HAD ME AND ALEX. I'M STILL IN AMBROSE'S COMPOUND. HE CAN'T GET RID OF ME THE SAME WAY... OR AT ALL. I'M WORKING ON TRYING TO GET YOUR FRIENDS OUT! BUT NO WE HAVE TO FOCUS ON THE RANTING MANCHILD

[thedevilsrain]

started typing a long rant about how people take the chance of talking about laika to also be anticommunist when the americans sent like eight apes that died on space and you never see people writing poems and drawing fanart abt them but i got angry so i shut up .

[charrfie]

Reminder that giant monopolistic corporations and subscription services and paywalls are bullshit and that at any given opportunity you should be preserving the media you love by any means possible

[locklylemybeloved]

its laika day. so yeah pardon me if i randomly burst into tears. its the hay fever.

[flytomy134340]

So excited to participate 😸😸

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