#loren talks

[reallyhardy]

i guess what's MOST flabbergasting is at the very LEAST like. d*sney remaking its old 2D animated classics -- at least in that case, you know. there's different (albeit offentimes so genuinely dark and desaturated they're hardly visible) visuals to see.

but with dr*amworks remaking HT.TYD ... a 3D animated movie... well i just saw a gifset actually due to curiosity and... of course... the dragons STILL have to be 3D animated. like. what's the difference in visual there. toothless has, what. a more detailled scale texture on a face that otherwise looks. well. the same. the same 3D model of a dragon. like???

[reallyhardy]

cici, i gratefully accept your hand in marriage. 🤣🤣🤣 BUT SERIOUSLY:

this is absolutely mind bogglingly wonderfully tremendously splendid, and yes i am more than a little teary eyed as i watch this from under my blankets on this the morning of jolkien rolkien tolkien's birthday. i'm just a little speechless - the harmonies!!! the new verses that are so perfectly in character to the way they speak about each other in the musical. the little indignant 'PIPPIN!' gave me such a chuckle. PERFECT siblingly vibes. also LOVE that mrs bracegirdle gets her well deserved dues in a proper song verse. and rosie waiting 'for you too' i love crying!!!! and i love the imagined setting, the campire vibe, perfectly perfectly captured. and just! wonderful job too on the animatic aspect! i love the changing poses and the warm glowy colours during the chorus and of course, our beloved watermill stage.

a thousand million thank yous! we'll all be loving and listening to this, now and for always i am sure. 💖💖💖💖💖

A fan animatic/recording/extra verses of Now and for Always, based on the Watermill 2023 production of Lord of the Rings: a Musical Tale :)

I imagine our four main hobbits finding a quiet spot on the Field of Cormallen, away from all the celebrating, and having a little campfire as they think about the journey home, and singing a song to each other.

Happy Tolkien's birthday, @reallyhardy !!!

I hope you like it, I showed it to my mum and she said "and are you planning to marry this person?" but this is just what happens when you give me three months to do a thing in. I spend all of those months doing it. And having an excellent fabulous time doing so.

I was already planning on doing something like this eventually, and then you said that you loved the "besties forever" vibes of our four hobbits, the "siblingy" vibe of Merry and Pippin, and Samfrosie (good), and I though that this song could be exactly that. Well. I thought I'd just write some new verses. Then I thought I could record it. Then I thought I could write some harmonies. Then...

P.S. Let me know when you're planning to post the last chapter of Summer's Last Party and I can record Pippin's new verses if you want to add them into the fic ;)

[ashleyslorens]

[chialattea]

Yknow in hindsight thank god it’s set in the 1930s or else John would be having full-scale wars on Letterboxd and film Reddit (ft. The first sketches I ever did while listening to malevolent ep 1)

[reallyhardy]

😭😭😭 thank you -- i think you must have found [this piece here] which was a drawing of myself and a friend of mine in 1980s clothing as if we were extras in stranger things - you've drawn me! and it's really a lovely drawing, i love the cute cartoony style, the shapes of the hair and facial features. this was a really lovely thing to find in my notifs, i appreciate it 💖

I was looking at references on Pinterest and found @reallyhardy 's art! I just have to say your art is really cool and your characters have so much flavour! Their very unique!! So I decided to look at one of your characters and I drew it on paper hehe

[simlit]

Chosen of the Sun | | dawn // forty-six

next / previous / beginning

KYRIE: Al? ALPHANEI: There you are. I thought you’d never wake. KYRIE: Wake? No… I’m… I’m dreaming. You’re gone. ALPHANEI: So I am. And you’re losing faith. KYRIE: I don’t know what to do. I don’t know how to help you. Everything feels so out of my control. ALPHANEI: I know. KYRIE: Tell me where you are. Tell me how to find you. ALPHANEI: Not this time, little brother. KYRIE: But— ALPHANEI: It’s like I always told you. The Moon watches over us, and only she knows the way. KYRIE: Don’t give me that nonsense. The Moon has never done anything for us. Even now, I can’t see a damn thing. If it wasn’t for her, we wouldn’t be here. We’d be somewhere else, living normal lives, and you’d be safe. ALPHANEI: Is it really true that she gives us nothing? Do you think you’d be happier never knowing them? KYRIE: I… ALPHANEI: It’s not a perfect life, but it was ours. KYRIE: We deserved better. ALPHANEI: So many of us do. Do not forget what drives the Selenehelion, truly. All those wishes longing to be granted. I know you hear them, too. KYRIE: And all the pain? All the suffering it’s caused? ALPHANEI: Mm. Remember it, Kyrie. When the time is right, you will find your way to me. 

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

What are some instances of retconning in animorphs that you have noticed? (aside from the first book)

Honestly, Animorphs is not bad. Compared to Sherlock Holmes or Percy Jackson, there's hardly any retconning at all. Compared to series like Dune or X-Men that built in-story retcon mechanisms because of the infinite overlapping retcons, Animorphs is practically airtight. Not Harry Potter or Mistborn airtight, sure, but better than any other multi-authored 20+ book series I know.

However, there are some. Ax's mention in #8 of occasional hork-bajir wars doesn't fit with Hork-Bajir Chronicles showing they have no concept of violence before andalites arrive. Cassie's line about "my niece" in #37 is not in line with her saying her parents are her only family in #49. Rachel suspects at times that Jordan's a controller (#12, #22) but in #49 Jordan's dismissed as even a potential threat.

And then there's the absolute clusterfuck of Tobias's parentage.

In #3, he says "my parents died." In #13, it's "both my folks left a long time ago." In Andalite Chronicles, when Elfangor asks about Loren: "She disappeared. When I was just little... I guess she died." In #23, he says "both my parents are dead." But also DeGroot says "Your father... who died? That may not have been your real father" implying a stepfather we never meet. After Elfangor's will it kinda falls into place, but even then...

Elfangor says he and Loren were ~14 mentally, ~18 physically, when they got to Earth, and that "when she was ready by human standards, I married her." He mentions getting multiple college degrees, but that it's only "three years later" that the Ellimist abducts him back to space. No one apparently notices he was gone — Ax has no idea Elfangor lived on Earth, and didn't notice him missing (#8), so... he time-traveled back and lived those three years twice? And no one noticed him being seven years older because... Ellimist fuckery? There's mention of Loren dating someone else after Al's "death", so at least the random step-dad is consistent. But Loren doesn't mention him in #49, so I guess she got remarried and rewidowed between Tobias's birth and his third birthday, and then she forgot him.

Anywhoo, it kind of lines up sorta if you squint, but I'm 99.9% sure that there was some degree of retcon somewhere in there.

[thehauntingshadows-if]

I want to know everything about MC and Loren😍😍😍 how did they meet? Who confessed first? How long have they been together? and most importantly, we can assure them that they are our one and only👀👀???

god i could talk about mc and loren FOREVER. i love them so much:3

how did they meet?

Loren moved from London to New Orleans with their family when they were around 5 and became friends with Anika and Mc very quickly.

who confessed first?

I've always imagined Loren to have confessed their feelings first (I've even got an idea of how it happened:3).

how long have they been together?

I'd say they've been together for about 3 years. Loren did leave New Orleans to move back to London when they were 17, but they were very passionate about not letting the distance end their relationship with Mc

can we assure them that they are our one and only?

absolutely! you'll get options to be less than enthusiastic about the relationship, but you'll also get the options to be just as in love with them as they are with mc<3 (is this a good time to mention that loren also gets the first nsfw scene in the game:3)

[moderatelydelusional]

naturally my laptop dies right after the most TRAUMATIC scene thus far

i am… wow

i have so many thoughts… i need to go charge my laptop and process with some sad music

[fizzytoo]

adrien and rua take amaya to meet rua's side of the family! rua's nephew, broderick, makes his introductions too!

[reallyhardy]

continuing from my anti-live-action-remake post... i CONSISTENTLY see people say "exceptions are treasure planet and atlantis" but this is also incorrect. a live action remake of either of these films would not result in these movies getting their flowers, it simply would not. a huge part of the appeal of both films is the visual language, the highly stylised characters and worlds, and you just KNOW if these were realised in "live action" especially by the disney corp of the present day, would just result in visually dark (as in hard to see) flat, uninspired CGI scenery, and equally bland and uninspired costuming for the live action characters, PLUS the flat, unexpressive performance of many 3D, hyper realistic, unstylised, boring as all hell alien characters in the case of treasure planet. you can cry "exceptions" all you like but the result would be as insipid and valueless as any other "live action remake" and that is a PROMISE!!!

[intercomkris]

nightmare on 51 road to nowhere street

loren ; former ex-con, working in the strangetown military. occasionally a rancher caring for his goats and sheep. formerly used to live in the bay but moved since the tragedy that struck once again over there, now he resides in his ranch, with his younger sister & the new roommate.

sasha ; used to work as an intern in the big city but after an accidental mistake on her part when it came to some paperwork, she was fired without thought. moved in with her brother loren, though the material girl isn't used to the ranch-work, she has her own ways to occupy herself while out in chestnut ridge town.

keenan ; championship extreme snowboarder, but after a controversial take that has taken a sour turn on his career and forced to take a break, keenan has resorted to livestreaming in his spare time. on his way back to copperdale, his car broke down and stuck in chestnut ridge town and has rented a room in the schuler siblings ranch.

[crandberrysaucewithpulp]

i have to save up some cash like it’s on speed dial for the day the last freaky puppets come back to my area

[fancycolours]

[titsthedamnseason]

all of the cobalts running around to plan audrey’s birthday while charlie sits in the hot tub and does nothing is such loser behavior. what do you mean he PAID someone to do it and that person did not show up and he gave such little fucks that jane had to interfere and bother moffy (who was caring for his newborn) and then ultimately give charlie’s job to BEN?? charlie is nothing to me and i don’t even feel bad for saying it on his birthday

[lyril]

i still gotta watch so many episodes and this really is one of my favorites for so many reasons but especially these two