#no more than that

[swan2swan]

Downloading the Thundercats Roar episodes again and remembering that each episode is a masterpiece after a masterpiece, the internet does NOT know what a Good Reboot or a Fun Reimagining is, the thing deserved a Season 2.

[universe-of-peoples]

My initial thoughts on Snow White (2025)

Spoilers below the cut!

I liked the more fleshed-out story! Though lmao I did not see the Robin Hood-esque band of rebels coming. Kinda fun though

I’m sad that Snow’s dad really was dead, though I get that thematically they had to do it in order to have her rise up and take charge herself. But also I don’t like that Snow White just decided to take the Evil Queen’s word for it?? Like she thought the Evil Queen was lying when she said that the king was dead, but then the Queen came and told Snow “I killed him MYSELF” and she all of the sudden believed her? It felt a little unearned

I REALLY LOVE all the bright colors in the beginning! Partially because I’m a huge fan of ACTUAL COLOR in movies instead of muted tones in everything. The other part is that I love what it was doing thematically! The bright colors represented the prosperity of the kingdom and the hope for a future. When the Evil Queen forced the kingdom into submission, the color was drained from the kingdom and all that was left was muted tones (which visually I don’t like, but thematically I do like). Snow was in brighter colors for most of the movie even when her people weren’t because she was the hope. She was their hope for a better future and she was the one fighting for it.

That said, I’m a little sad that they didn’t return to the bright colors at the end. The all-white scene was stunning, don’t get me wrong, but thematically I think it would have hit harder if they had followed through with the theming of the bright colors. The idea was that the bright colors represented hope and prosperity, so when they got it back, the color should have also returned, right?

Additionally, though I get what they were going for with the color symbolism, it had an unintentional side effect of making Snow White seem like a cartoon character among the other human characters. The “live action” is still half animation due to the CGI, and Snow did sort of act as an in-between between the CGI characters (animals and dwarves) and the human characters. It was just that whenever Snow was interacting with the humans, she seemed to stand out against them, juxtapose their realism with her bright yellow and blue Snow White dress. If I had a screenshot I would put that shot where Snow and the female rebel were standing side-by-side, because it was REALLY weird visually. They’re both live-action human actors, but one still looks like a cartoon character. Idk if I’m necessarily criticizing it, it just made the movie a little bit visually confusing at times.

They never confirmed what age Snow was in this movie and it bothered me. She CAN’T be 13 like in the original animated movie; instead they made her kind of ageless? Which WOULD work, except that her love interest seems like a fully grown adult man (at least partially because his actor is an adult man), so it would make me feel better if they at least confirmed that they are supposed to be either both adults or both teenagers. Maybe they have confirmed it outside of the film (I haven’t looked), but my point is that they didn’t make it clear IN THE FILM and it affected my viewing OF THE FILM.

Songs were kind of mid ngl. I felt like Waiting on a Wish and Good Things Grow had good moments within them, but didn’t carry that momentum all the way through the song like other Disney Live Action songs have. Princess Problems was frustrating because I felt like he wasn’t listening to her. Maybe that was the intention, because he later learned that he was wrong for only looking out for himself, but he LITERALLY saw her working as a servant earlier in the movie, and saw that she was trapped in the palace, and still thought “psh. Prissy princess and her Princess Problems”

I LOVED the Evil Queen’s stained glass crown. It was probably supposed to be gems and not glass in-universe but I don’t care, it was breathtaking. I loved how they kept her and Snow’s original outfit concepts while also updating them (though I wish they had updated Snow’s skirt a little more. The top half was fine, but the bottom half was mid for me. Why didn’t they at least keep the overskirt??)

On the note of Snow’s dress, I feel like just using a different material for the skirt would have made everything so much better, from making her look less like a cartoon character to making her fit in visually with the rest of the cast. Everyone else was in more or less the same types of fabrics, so keeping it consistent with the fabric of her skirt would have made the whole thing less visually confusing. To clarify, I’m not against the idea of cartoon characters, or of having a “live-action” film where the characters looked like they walked out of a cartoon; my problem with this movie is that they try to do BOTH looking-like-a-cartoon and realistically-live-action, and it was visually confusing. You can do one or the other, but not both.

Final thoughts: I’m against the live-action trend as a whole, especially with how it has taken so much time, money, and talent away from original projects, but I did find this movie to at least be entertaining. I think it was a good film; not a great film, but a good film. I think they would have done better if they had been more consistent and intentional with their visual theming.

[r3m-ster]

i wonder if elon musk would give me £50. like he has no reason not to, he can afford to give me much more than that

[sadsoftserve]

Fanfic time >:)

Low stamina and a Lightweight? Who'da thunk it?

Ramsey takes Percy out for drinks, to celebrate her recent victory in capturing a gang of Banzai blasters, but Percys a lightweight, and gets really hungover.

[Tw: Mentions of vomiting/throw up.]

Ramsey took a look at Percy and the beer in her hand. The beer was barely halfway gone, and Percy was giggling like a madman.

"You alright?" Ramsey asked with a hint of concern. Percy was acting weird, giggling. She never giggled, he'll it took a lot to get a smile out of the woman.

"Heh, yea-h." She responded with a drunken slur, followed by a hiccup. She took another sip out of the half drank beer bottle in her hand and giggled a little more. Ramsey continued to look at her with some concern, he knew he would have to watch over her to make sure nothing stupid happened that could cost Percy (and him) their jobs.

"Yoh know, why do they call em the Banzai blasters..? Isn't a Banzai a type'a tree..?" Percy asked within her drunken state, swaying a little in her seat as she spoke.

"Pretty sure it is," Ramsey took a sip out of his whiskey glass, he was gonna need it to deal with Percy all night like this. "Besides, I'm pretty sure they just wanted to sound cool, y'know?"

"It don't sound cool." Percy bluntly added. She made a small noise as she spoke, probably one out of discomfort. "Ramse-y, it's boring here... y'got anything to do?" She asked with a pouty lip. To be completely honest, it was freaking Ramsey out a bit, the way Percy was acting. The usual calm and collected police woman now complaining about her boredom... wow.

"Ay, Percy I can't help that. You're bored, I ain't got nothing to help." Ramsey threw his hands up in a defensive position as he spoke. "We could always lea-"

"No!" Ramsey didn't even get a chance to finish his sentence before Percy interrupted with her drunken antics. "Ion wanna, it's fun here!" Percy kicked her feet like a child as she talked. Ramsey sighed, it was gonna be a long night.

About three beers later Ramsey was carrying Percy out of the bar on his back, as she giggled at kicked her feet, making it difficult for him to carry her. She was one hell of a giggly drunk.

"Heh! I'm ridin' you!" Percy laughed and Ramsey cringed. "Don't- Don't put it like that." Ramsey responded as he cringed even harder, luckily his place wasn't far from here, maybe he could sober Percy up and let her crash on his couch? Maybe. The first thing he had to do was carry her about four blocks. He could do that. She wasn't very heavy for her stature plus he's carried people before.

Needless to say the walk was excruciating, Percy giggling like a madman, and his body was giving him 4 different types of scoliosis at this point. Now he was regretting the decision of taking Percy out to celebrate. Now he knew he wouldn't be doing that again. Not to mention she would be hungover as hell in the morning.

As soon as they got to his shitty, dingy apartment he plopped Percy down on his couch and went to grab her a glad of water, hopefully to sober her up.

"Drink." Was all he said. Percy took the glass of water as drank it, although she didn't really want to. She quickly ended up passing out on his couch after drinking the water.

Ramsey sighed. "Please whatever Lord their may be, give me the strength to deal with her handover in the morning." He said to himself before he went to go pass out on his own bed.

Ramsey wakes up about 6 hours later to the sound of hurling in his bathroom, sighing, he got up and he walks to the bathroom door, leaning against the frame as she stared at Percy vomiting. She looked a mess. Ramsey being the smug bastard he is just looked at her and went: "Told ya so." He didn't tell her shit, but even if he did she wouldn't of remembered.

"Cram it, Ramsey." Percy quickly responded before hurling again. Ramsey, being the good friend he was held her hair back as he held the Tylenol up with his other hand.

Percy quickly grabbed the Tylenol before muttering a quiet thank you and She continued to slump against the toilet.

Bonus:

[thxnks4themrms]

Good news is that I found the backing to my pink hello kitty pin bad news is that’s it’s smooshed bc I accidentally put my books and other stuff on top of it

[definitely-cursed]

I fucking hate that imposter can be spelled -or or -er and that I just sat here for entirely too long to try to figure out why the word impostor looked wrong

[thedoubteriswise]

nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it's a language model that's treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it's got hallucinations

[nightmare-from-heaven]

Hey. Your brain needs to de-frag. Literally it needs you to sit there and space out.

If you want your memory or executive function to improve, stare out a window at the skyline or sidewalk or trees or birds on the electrical wires for like 20+ minutes per day. (With no other stimulation like a podcast or TV if you can manage but hey baby steps innit). If you're fortunate enough to have safe outside with any bits of nature, go stare closely at a 1 meter square of grass and trip out on the bugs and shapes of grasses and stuff.

Literally this will make you smarter. Our brains HAVE TO HAVE this zone out time to do important stuff behind the scenes. This does not happen during sleep, it's something else.

That weird pressurized feeling you get sometimes might be your brain on no defrag.

Give your brain a Daily Dose Of De-Frag.

[astriiformes]

I know that realistically you can only fit so many movies into a list of approximately 100, but I cannot take that "How many of tumblr's favorite movies have you seen?" list that's been going around seriously because there are some truly egregious omissions.

Some of it is very clearly recency bias, which makes me wonder if the op truly wasn't on here in 2013 or so, but you're telling me you made a list of "tumblr's favorite movies" that doesn't include Pacific Rim or Mad Max: Fury Road? Because, like, I was there, Gandalf.

[oldmanpusspuss]

I still think its the funniest shit ever that when I used to volunteer at planned parenthood every week even though I walked past mostly the same protesters every single time they were begging me not to get an abortion theres other options yadda yadda. Like meemaw you see me here every week. They call me abortions georg because I get another one every Monday at 8am

[pipebombgf]

gender-affirming surgery is a months-long dark comedy. what the fuck do you mean you're charging me double for everything. what do you mean they itemize the bill by left and right ball. what the fuck.

[rafeandonlyrafe]

well 🧍‍♀️ as a reminder this blog is NOT a safe space for trump supporters but it IS a safe place for women, queers, trans ppl, people of color, undocumented people, and any marginalized group.

[ispyspookymansion]

first they made it mandatory to log in everywhere. create an account to download your free template Log in to access resource give us your email nowwwww. Now the humble password is being killed too. open your magic email link! type your 6 digit code that we texted you because we required your email and your phone number! we’re gonna call you and whisper a code sweetly in your ear so you can log in to your account. yes it has a password but you cant use that anymore. okay? poob is gonna call you. now poob is just gonna call you.

[tawnysoup]

Found my fav Slay the Princess route recently. Dragon my beloved. Your horrifying beak mouth was an impossible-to-refuse lip syncing challenge 💖

Shoutouts to @blacktabbygames for making such a cool game!

[charbroiledchicken]

if it's good enough for you, then it deserves to be made. don't let anyone else decide if your story is worth it or not.