#quasi-honestly

[skyloftian-nutcase]

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Ganondorf:

• Loves his family ❤️ • Will ruin their lives anyway ❤️ • “WHERE TRIFORCE ‘TIS MINE 😤” • “Why are my kids teenagers this is harder than world domination”

Hemisi:

• Has done nothing wrong in her life ever ☺️ • Has a cute little boyfriend • Will kill you for the last piece of cake

Link:

• The cute little boyfriend • Will very politely steal your kneecaps • People Pleaser™

[incandescentflower]

Gen's parents definitely are in the ranks of the best Thai drama parents I've ever seen. They are so kind, loving and understanding. They are the standard that all other parents on this drama are being held up against and most of them are not measuring up, unfortunately, although they mostly have their reasons.

I just appreciate how lovely they are. They want Gen's happiness above all else and it's really very touching.

[blanketingg]

i think it is in t’kor’s best interest to get rid of a tucker devotee if she can’t get rid of tucker this soon and unfortunately the easiest person to do that to would be angela but her having to go through that punishment probably throws a wrench in things from an empathy standpoint

[widevibratobitch]

in terror, four lieutenants; in t3m, four musketeers. Conclusion?

conclusion - same as always: destiny.

but wait oh christ okay. they even kinda fit...

you've got the og trio of

Wet Pathetic Loser

Deeply Religious Guy

Fancy Lad

which ig would make dundy... d'artagnan?? no. no oh god ok. listen. d'artagnan is jopson im afraid:

1. has a deeply homoerotic father/son relationship with a suicidal alcoholic

2. is actually kinda obsessed with him tbh

3. doesn't really start out as One Of Them, has to wait quite some time to get promoted

4. big part of the fandom actually ships him with little aka our athos

it makes sense you gotta believe me it does it does

[void-botanist]

34 and 35 from the platonic dynamics game for any oc of your choice :3

It took me a minute to think of this but! Zalen:

34 - Have they ever been betrayed by a friend? What happened?

In an attempt to keep Zalen from completely burning himself out finishing his dissertation, Silas convinced him to come to his parents' house in the country. Zalen had been imagining somewhere like the place he grew up, an out-of-the-way holler full of good food, hospitality, and roots. What he got was a cluster of country estates, inhabited almost entirely by humans and orea-nawwenn, with manicured gardens and Designed interiors that kinda ruined the experience. How do you "just relax" in a place where you feel like someone's gonna yell at you for snacking out of the fridge? Add to that the fact that Silas had never mentioned nor implied that his parents were wealthy. For a while it just felt like he'd been ganged up on by Silas and Jaccson, who had previously been Silas's nanny, and honestly he kinda had.

35 - Have they ever betrayed one of their friends? Why?

Zalen has saved most of his betrayals for his sister but he did kinda betray Dez with getting him hired on the Melichacha crew. He wasn't lying when he said Dez would be a good fit for the open astrogeologist position. But he did not mention that he had his own ulterior motives for getting Dez on the crew until much later, and while Dez mostly didn't care and it ended up not being a big deal, it was also completely obvious to Zalen the whole time that he was specifically taking advantage of Dez being an android, both for the extra abilities he could bring to the crew and how easy it was to manipulate him into getting hired in the first place.

[magnusmodig]

yeah i'm one spoon away from setting the ends of my hair on fire if i'm kindling for a little while at least i'll feel of use... promise me that you'll start where i end and i promise to give you everything that i am and it goes on, and on, and on... we'll go on and on and on in the end all i hope for is to be a bit of warmth for you when there's not a lot of warmth left to go around.

[fire-darkfire]

// now that glorious masquerade exist in English... I'm summoning all your NBC OCs.

Look into my eyes, you wanna make a NBC OC sooooo bad~~

[jacquelinemerritt]

The Hunchback of Notre Dame vs. The Prince of Egypt

Originally posted September 21st, 2014

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is actually similar to The Prince of Egypt in a lot of respects. Both films deal with the nature of faith, racial discrimination, and class warfare, and Hunchback also does a fantastic job at showing the atrocities committed in the name of the Catholic Church during the Inquisition. Hunchback’s score is also phenomenal; Hellfire is absolutely brilliant, and its use as Frollo’s motif just adds to how sinister of a villain he is. So what’s wrong with Hunchback then? That I can actually narrow down into two categories: The Romance, and The Comic Relief. (Yes, I’m doing this film differently than The Lion King; work with me here).

The Romance

I’ve heard the arguments for why Quasimodo shouldn’t end up with Esmeralda. And they don’t hold up. Sure, it’s realistic that the ugly guy doesn’t get a pretty girl. Sure, the film did work to establish Phoebus as Esmeralda’s primary love interest. Those are both valid points, and they would both matter if it weren’t for one thing: the film makes us watch as Quasimodo has his dream of romantic love crushed.

Oh, well, THAT’S sure a fucked up message you’re sending, Disney. Apparently ugly guys cannot ever find love beyond platonic relationships and have to accept that that will never change!

It’d be one thing if Quasimodo hadn’t fallen in love with Esmeralda. There’s really no reason for him to be in love with her; everything he does for her could simply be considered a mark of friendship. But this film goes out of its way to directly state that because of how ugly Quasimodo is, he will never find romantic love. Ever. Hell, I’d be okay if they had set up Quasimodo as someone having a childish crush. But he’s very much in love with her, as the voices in his head (aka the gargoyles) make clear.

The only thing I find redeemable in the romance is Quasimodo’s full acceptance of Esmeralda loving Phoebus. That’s a bit of interesting drama that if played correctly, could have turned into a much more interesting story; namely, a story about Quasimodo accepting that being a “nice guy” won’t get you the girl if she’s not romantically interested in you. But instead, it focused on Quasimodo’s devotion to Esmeralda, and made that devotion into one of the key forces that drives the plot.

The Comic Relief

I want to preface this by saying that not all the comic relief in this film is bad. Some of it is fantastic, in fact.

The scene above, The Court of Miracles, is the perfect kind of comic relief for this film. It walks the line between being zany and creepy absolutely perfectly, with a bunch of flamboyantly dressed characters happily dancing and singing about how they plan to kill Quasimodo and Phoebus. It’s a nice, funny interlude that still doesn’t break completely from the gloom and darkness present in the rest of the film, while still providing quality humor and a nice break from Frollo’s rampage. Compare that, to this:

That song does not belong in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It just doesn’t. Nothing about that sequence fits the tone of the film at all, and it ends up just serving as a distraction from the fantastic main story. And the same can be said about any scene containing the gargoyles. I wouldn’t mind there being a quirky sidekick in this film if it was Esmeralda’s, Phoebus’, or even Frollo’s sidekick. They could both be aware of the gravity of the situation and try to make it easier to bear by joking about it. But the gargoyles are completely disconnected from the rest of the plot. They are stone creatures only Quasimodo can see, and their job is to make witty commentary on Quasimodo’s love life; at no point except the final sequence do they interact with any of the main story in any substantial way.

What The Prince of Egypt does better

Everything. The only thing The Prince of Egypt doesn’t do better than Hunchback is criticize the Catholic Church for the Inquisition, and that’s because The Prince of Egypt is set in (surprise) Egypt. Prince of Egypt has a better score (only by a little though), it has better characters and character development, it has better animation, it has a better romance (which thankfully is treated as incidental, since it is only incidental to the plot), and it has much better comic relief. Hotep and Huy are much funnier than the gargoyles, and they fit much better into their story than the gargoyles.

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[tatort-sideblog]

Karow’s hands (4/?)

Der gute Weg

[jokerlennon]

i guess this all does all make sense based off of "now would you stand aside before i shoot myself" he's been like this from day fucking one "ah, what the hell." are exactly the kind of last words i'd expect

[carewyncromwell]

*looks from the edited art on my computer to the last two unfinished drawings in her sketchbook and snorts* ...Well, at least the Merula fans among my followers should be happy, when this project’s done. 😏

[listedbuildings]

Quasi - Doomscrollers

Fuck do I love Quasi holy shit

[epersonae]

I can't believe it's been almost a year since I went to see TMG - and they still sing this song, and people sing along, and --

For a long time, this was a song (and album) that I was specifically warned against listening to. And when I watched one of the Jordan Lake sessions with Ryn, they played it, and it happened to have perfectly resonant timing with stuff I was working thru in EMDR, and I wept, and Ryn held me.

And then, by the time I saw it live, I had gone through Fresh Horrors, and No Children held for me not poison but a sort of unbridled joy of having survived that, at least, and I remember singing along with a crowded room full of people and feeling uplifted. A strange and beautiful experience.

couldn’t stop thinking about this post

[hauntsect]

[faggling]

literally thought gf standing in the doorway was a hallucination lol

[alexalblondo]

Die Union hat sie doch nicht mehr “Märzs Aussagen bringen die Flüchtlingspolitik in die Mitte der Gesellschaft”

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