#rani makes text posts no one should read

[thewingedwolf]

i mean listen first of all i’ve met pretendians in my real life and they almost always claim CHEROKEE or APACHE ancestry and she’s claimed BOTH and especially the cherokee ancestry like 9 times out of 10 is either “great grandpa was a nasty settler who built a house in indian country and when the tribe sent someone over to be like “you know this is rez land right” he pulled some bullshit legalize that allowed him to steal that land and to make himself look better he told the fam they’re actually cherokee so it’s fine” OR “great grandma was black/south asian but light skinned and wanted to pass as white so to explain why she’s a Lil ethnic looking she says she’s apache bc that’s exotic” and brooklyn like….REALLY fits the social background of someone who would say something like that

but SECOND OF ALL given that she’s married to a veteran, the truth is that there ARE a sizeable amount of conservative natives who were military or military wives who make this very transparent attempt to grab at respectability and look as little like an ndn as possible in order to assimilate into the settler culture OR play UP being a stereotype usually about a culture they don’t know shit about and like, we got freaks like keeler out here questioning the bq of black natives left and right not to mention going after elders and victims of the fucjing SCOOP like buffy sainte marie, so i’m not about to give any sort of tacit approval of questioning brooklyn’s identity and embolden freaks like that, especially bc at the same time you have very weird cases (there’s like 3 models and a few influencers) of people who ARE indigenous but lied about what tribe or borrowed the ~aesthetic of another bc they were too disconnected and lazy to reach for their OWN culture AND at the same time you have a lot of natives specifically along the border of mexico that get involved in pan indian stuff but that’s because they’ve MADE FRIENDS WITH OTHER NATIVES and have no information about their own people which is different than just doing that in a bubble and whomst is to say brooklyn isn’t part of any of those groups.

but her focus on the married mother bit when she hasn’t spoken on feeds at all about her indigenous heritage (whereas kimo HAS mentioned it a few times) does make me look at her a lil sideways like

[sure-ashellaintlost]

The descendants blogs I follow need to start posting about the new movie bc going thru the tags for content is giving me a heart attack

[samuelpboswell]

B2B Marketers, Are Your Content Marketing Efforts Sparking Joy for Your Audience?

Best-selling author, tidying expert, and star of a massively successful Netflix show, Marie Kondo, is really on to something. Her simple yet effective tidying method is brilliant, but what it stands for is what’s truly inspiring. All over the world, people are asking themselves a simple yet powerful question: Does it spark joy?

?

via GIPHY But be honest, B2B marketers: When’s the last time you stopped to consider whether your marketing efforts were sparking joy for your audience? (Was it before, during, or after you dropped your latest white paper?) Joy is a powerful emotion—it signals happiness, triumph, and exuberance. And in a time where delivering amazing, personalized experiences to our buyers is the new bar, we need to commit to delighting our audience throughout their journey. When we do this, we not only give them what they want and need, but we can also build a stronger connection with our brands. So, what does it take to spark joy? How do you delight your buyers throughout their journey? Here are a few top tips and considerations.

Don’t Make Them Wait for Joy

As much as it pains me to say, your audience isn’t hanging on your every word. In a study of their own content, CoSchedule found that only 10-20% of their readers made it to the bottom of the post. Many readers never made it past 20-30% of the way through the post.

via GIPHY Delight your audience by getting to the point, making it easy for them to capture inspiration and insight early on. As Chris Brogan recently said at Social Media Marketing World 2019: “The average human reads only 19 minutes a day. That includes texts, emails, and BuzzFeed articles. They’re not going to read your 2,000-word missive. You can’t write your content like it’s a murder mystery and reveal the butler did it on the last page. Get the story into the first paragraph.” Look to your own online-reading experiences to give you some perspective here. Odds are, you often skim articles and blogs for the nuggets of information you’re looking for. So, don’t let your content hide those nuggets away. And that’s not to say that you can’t provide a little mystery or intrigue. Your goal should always be to pull your reader through to the end. The real point here is to give them a reason to keep reading.

Empathize By Humanizing Your Brand

Your customers, prospects, and target buyers are real people. They want transparency and authenticity from the brands they do business with both professionally and personally. They want to work with brands they feel like they know and trust. For marketers, that means connecting on a human level. One way? Make your audience laugh. Laughter reportedly boosts the immune system, relaxes the body, protects the heart, and triggers the release of endorphins. And as longtime marketer and comedian Tim Washer has pointed out: When we can make someone laugh, we make an intimate connection; we show them that we understand their point of view. “Comedy is the most powerful way to humanize a brand because it demonstrates empathy,” Tim told us in an interview. “Let’s face it, a lot of true comedy comes from pain. So, when we can come out and touch on a customer pain point, we show them that we understand their point of view. When we do something that is self-deprecating, when we look vulnerable, and when we let our guard down a little bit that’s when we make a connection.” [bctt tweet="Comedy is the most powerful way to humanize a brand because it demonstrates empathy. @timwasher #B2BContentMarketing" username="toprank"] So, tell a joke, share a personal story, make a pun, share a meme that has relevance and resonance for your audience. It will delight them to know they’re understood. Another way? Connect them with the insights of the people they know, think they know, and trust. Couple general distrust with historical skepticism of marketing and advertising messages, and it’s more imperative than ever for B2B marketers to focus on building trust and credibility with buyers and prospects. Partnering with influential voices and industry thought leaders can help you do just that. As Rani Mani, Head of Social Influencer Enablement at Adobe, recently shared with us: “The main benefit is that influencers humanize a brand and capture the personality behind the logo. Additionally, influencers raise brand awareness and engagement by giving companies access to an audience they may not otherwise have through a trusted and credible source.” [bctt tweet="Influencers humanize a brand and capture the personality behind the logo. @ranimani0707 #B2BInfluencerMarketing" username="toprank"]

Give Them Something to Delight Their Senses

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But so much B2B content is still text-based today. Pictures, gifs, videos, charts, and other visual aids can not only grab attention, but they can also help you communicate ideas. In fact, visuals communicate those ideas more effectively than text-only content, according to eLearning Industry:

Visuals are processed 60,000 times faster than text

90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual

The human eye can register 36,000 visual messages every hour

All that said, we’d suggest kicking it up another notch to provide joy-worthy experiences. How? With interactive and/or mixed media content. Why? Interactive content is more engaging that static content for the long-term, offering potential drive results at every stage of the funnel. Need an example? Look no further than a "Break Free of Boring B2B" gem that’s affectionately being called “Laser Bear” around these parts. It’s fun. It’s bold. It’s insightful thanks to the several industry thought leaders who contributed. And it allows the reader to choose their own content consumption adventure.

Click Here to see the Break Free from Boring B2B Guide in Full Screen Mode Plus, it was paired with a fun teaser trailer to bring the fun to other platforms. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMHSu-SYo8E[/embed]

Become an Advocate With Best Answer Content

Your audience has questions. And you have the opportunity to provide answers—the best answers. “Great content answers questions and solves problems for your customers,” Amanda Todorovich, Senior Director of Content & Creative Services, Cleveland Clinic, has said. “When you do that—no matter what platform or format—it works and generates engagement every time.” [bctt tweet="Great content answers questions and solves problems for your customers. @amandatodo #ContentMarketing" username="toprank"] Use keyword research, CRM data, web analytics, crowd-sourcing, and other sources of customer insight to guide your content strategy. This ensures the topics you cover and questions you choose to answer are ones that your customers are actually seeking. What does best-answer content look like? Our own CEO, Lee Odden, says best-answer content encompasses the following:

Specific, in-demand topic

More valuable and useful than other sites

Credible

High quality

Engaging

Device friendly, accessible

Fast

Spark Joy. Spark Audience Connections.

Your audience is hungry for information and connection that informs, engages, and inspires. They want to satisfy their queries, needs, and wants—they want joy. So give them something to be joyful about.

?

via GIPHY What else does it take to be the best answer? Read our guide to creating a Best-Answer Content Strategy.

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[befoundonlinemarketing]

B2B Marketers, Are Your Content Marketing Efforts Sparking Joy for Your Audience?

Best-selling author, tidying expert, and star of a massively successful Netflix show, Marie Kondo, is really on to something. Her simple yet effective tidying method is brilliant, but what it stands for is what’s truly inspiring. All over the world, people are asking themselves a simple yet powerful question: Does it spark joy?

?

via GIPHY But be honest, B2B marketers: When’s the last time you stopped to consider whether your marketing efforts were sparking joy for your audience? (Was it before, during, or after you dropped your latest white paper?) Joy is a powerful emotion—it signals happiness, triumph, and exuberance. And in a time where delivering amazing, personalized experiences to our buyers is the new bar, we need to commit to delighting our audience throughout their journey. When we do this, we not only give them what they want and need, but we can also build a stronger connection with our brands. So, what does it take to spark joy? How do you delight your buyers throughout their journey? Here are a few top tips and considerations.

Don’t Make Them Wait for Joy

As much as it pains me to say, your audience isn’t hanging on your every word. In a study of their own content, CoSchedule found that only 10-20% of their readers made it to the bottom of the post. Many readers never made it past 20-30% of the way through the post.

via GIPHY Delight your audience by getting to the point, making it easy for them to capture inspiration and insight early on. As Chris Brogan recently said at Social Media Marketing World 2019: “The average human reads only 19 minutes a day. That includes texts, emails, and BuzzFeed articles. They’re not going to read your 2,000-word missive. You can’t write your content like it’s a murder mystery and reveal the butler did it on the last page. Get the story into the first paragraph.” Look to your own online-reading experiences to give you some perspective here. Odds are, you often skim articles and blogs for the nuggets of information you’re looking for. So, don’t let your content hide those nuggets away. And that’s not to say that you can’t provide a little mystery or intrigue. Your goal should always be to pull your reader through to the end. The real point here is to give them a reason to keep reading.

Empathize By Humanizing Your Brand

Your customers, prospects, and target buyers are real people. They want transparency and authenticity from the brands they do business with both professionally and personally. They want to work with brands they feel like they know and trust. For marketers, that means connecting on a human level. One way? Make your audience laugh. Laughter reportedly boosts the immune system, relaxes the body, protects the heart, and triggers the release of endorphins. And as longtime marketer and comedian Tim Washer has pointed out: When we can make someone laugh, we make an intimate connection; we show them that we understand their point of view. “Comedy is the most powerful way to humanize a brand because it demonstrates empathy,” Tim told us in an interview. “Let’s face it, a lot of true comedy comes from pain. So, when we can come out and touch on a customer pain point, we show them that we understand their point of view. When we do something that is self-deprecating, when we look vulnerable, and when we let our guard down a little bit that’s when we make a connection.” [bctt tweet="Comedy is the most powerful way to humanize a brand because it demonstrates empathy. @timwasher #B2BContentMarketing" username="toprank"] So, tell a joke, share a personal story, make a pun, share a meme that has relevance and resonance for your audience. It will delight them to know they’re understood. Another way? Connect them with the insights of the people they know, think they know, and trust. Couple general distrust with historical skepticism of marketing and advertising messages, and it’s more imperative than ever for B2B marketers to focus on building trust and credibility with buyers and prospects. Partnering with influential voices and industry thought leaders can help you do just that. As Rani Mani, Head of Social Influencer Enablement at Adobe, recently shared with us: “The main benefit is that influencers humanize a brand and capture the personality behind the logo. Additionally, influencers raise brand awareness and engagement by giving companies access to an audience they may not otherwise have through a trusted and credible source.” [bctt tweet="Influencers humanize a brand and capture the personality behind the logo. @ranimani0707 #B2BInfluencerMarketing" username="toprank"]

Give Them Something to Delight Their Senses

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But so much B2B content is still text-based today. Pictures, gifs, videos, charts, and other visual aids can not only grab attention, but they can also help you communicate ideas. In fact, visuals communicate those ideas more effectively than text-only content, according to eLearning Industry:

Visuals are processed 60,000 times faster than text

90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual

The human eye can register 36,000 visual messages every hour

All that said, we’d suggest kicking it up another notch to provide joy-worthy experiences. How? With interactive and/or mixed media content. Why? Interactive content is more engaging that static content for the long-term, offering potential drive results at every stage of the funnel. Need an example? Look no further than a "Break Free of Boring B2B" gem that’s affectionately being called “Laser Bear” around these parts. It’s fun. It’s bold. It’s insightful thanks to the several industry thought leaders who contributed. And it allows the reader to choose their own content consumption adventure.

Click Here to see the Break Free from Boring B2B Guide in Full Screen Mode Plus, it was paired with a fun teaser trailer to bring the fun to other platforms. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMHSu-SYo8E[/embed]

Become an Advocate With Best Answer Content

Your audience has questions. And you have the opportunity to provide answers—the best answers. “Great content answers questions and solves problems for your customers,” Amanda Todorovich, Senior Director of Content & Creative Services, Cleveland Clinic, has said. “When you do that—no matter what platform or format—it works and generates engagement every time.” [bctt tweet="Great content answers questions and solves problems for your customers. @amandatodo #ContentMarketing" username="toprank"] Use keyword research, CRM data, web analytics, crowd-sourcing, and other sources of customer insight to guide your content strategy. This ensures the topics you cover and questions you choose to answer are ones that your customers are actually seeking. What does best-answer content look like? Our own CEO, Lee Odden, says best-answer content encompasses the following:

Specific, in-demand topic

More valuable and useful than other sites

Credible

High quality

Engaging

Device friendly, accessible

Fast

Spark Joy. Spark Audience Connections.

Your audience is hungry for information and connection that informs, engages, and inspires. They want to satisfy their queries, needs, and wants—they want joy. So give them something to be joyful about.

?

via GIPHY What else does it take to be the best answer? Read our guide to creating a Best-Answer Content Strategy.

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[christopheruearle]

B2B Marketers, Are Your Content Marketing Efforts Sparking Joy for Your Audience?

Best-selling author, tidying expert, and star of a massively successful Netflix show, Marie Kondo, is really on to something. Her simple yet effective tidying method is brilliant, but what it stands for is what’s truly inspiring. All over the world, people are asking themselves a simple yet powerful question: Does it spark joy?

?

via GIPHY But be honest, B2B marketers: When’s the last time you stopped to consider whether your marketing efforts were sparking joy for your audience? (Was it before, during, or after you dropped your latest white paper?) Joy is a powerful emotion—it signals happiness, triumph, and exuberance. And in a time where delivering amazing, personalized experiences to our buyers is the new bar, we need to commit to delighting our audience throughout their journey. When we do this, we not only give them what they want and need, but we can also build a stronger connection with our brands. So, what does it take to spark joy? How do you delight your buyers throughout their journey? Here are a few top tips and considerations.

Don’t Make Them Wait for Joy

As much as it pains me to say, your audience isn’t hanging on your every word. In a study of their own content, CoSchedule found that only 10-20% of their readers made it to the bottom of the post. Many readers never made it past 20-30% of the way through the post.

via GIPHY Delight your audience by getting to the point, making it easy for them to capture inspiration and insight early on. As Chris Brogan recently said at Social Media Marketing World 2019: “The average human reads only 19 minutes a day. That includes texts, emails, and BuzzFeed articles. They’re not going to read your 2,000-word missive. You can’t write your content like it’s a murder mystery and reveal the butler did it on the last page. Get the story into the first paragraph.” Look to your own online-reading experiences to give you some perspective here. Odds are, you often skim articles and blogs for the nuggets of information you’re looking for. So, don’t let your content hide those nuggets away. And that’s not to say that you can’t provide a little mystery or intrigue. Your goal should always be to pull your reader through to the end. The real point here is to give them a reason to keep reading.

Empathize By Humanizing Your Brand

Your customers, prospects, and target buyers are real people. They want transparency and authenticity from the brands they do business with both professionally and personally. They want to work with brands they feel like they know and trust. For marketers, that means connecting on a human level. One way? Make your audience laugh. Laughter reportedly boosts the immune system, relaxes the body, protects the heart, and triggers the release of endorphins. And as longtime marketer and comedian Tim Washer has pointed out: When we can make someone laugh, we make an intimate connection; we show them that we understand their point of view. “Comedy is the most powerful way to humanize a brand because it demonstrates empathy,” Tim told us in an interview. “Let’s face it, a lot of true comedy comes from pain. So, when we can come out and touch on a customer pain point, we show them that we understand their point of view. When we do something that is self-deprecating, when we look vulnerable, and when we let our guard down a little bit that’s when we make a connection.” [bctt tweet="Comedy is the most powerful way to humanize a brand because it demonstrates empathy. @timwasher #B2BContentMarketing" username="toprank"] So, tell a joke, share a personal story, make a pun, share a meme that has relevance and resonance for your audience. It will delight them to know they’re understood. Another way? Connect them with the insights of the people they know, think they know, and trust. Couple general distrust with historical skepticism of marketing and advertising messages, and it’s more imperative than ever for B2B marketers to focus on building trust and credibility with buyers and prospects. Partnering with influential voices and industry thought leaders can help you do just that. As Rani Mani, Head of Social Influencer Enablement at Adobe, recently shared with us: “The main benefit is that influencers humanize a brand and capture the personality behind the logo. Additionally, influencers raise brand awareness and engagement by giving companies access to an audience they may not otherwise have through a trusted and credible source.” [bctt tweet="Influencers humanize a brand and capture the personality behind the logo. @ranimani0707 #B2BInfluencerMarketing" username="toprank"]

Give Them Something to Delight Their Senses

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But so much B2B content is still text-based today. Pictures, gifs, videos, charts, and other visual aids can not only grab attention, but they can also help you communicate ideas. In fact, visuals communicate those ideas more effectively than text-only content, according to eLearning Industry:

Visuals are processed 60,000 times faster than text

90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual

The human eye can register 36,000 visual messages every hour

All that said, we’d suggest kicking it up another notch to provide joy-worthy experiences. How? With interactive and/or mixed media content. Why? Interactive content is more engaging that static content for the long-term, offering potential drive results at every stage of the funnel. Need an example? Look no further than a "Break Free of Boring B2B" gem that’s affectionately being called “Laser Bear” around these parts. It’s fun. It’s bold. It’s insightful thanks to the several industry thought leaders who contributed. And it allows the reader to choose their own content consumption adventure.

Click Here to see the Break Free from Boring B2B Guide in Full Screen Mode Plus, it was paired with a fun teaser trailer to bring the fun to other platforms. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMHSu-SYo8E[/embed]

Become an Advocate With Best Answer Content

Your audience has questions. And you have the opportunity to provide answers—the best answers. “Great content answers questions and solves problems for your customers,” Amanda Todorovich, Senior Director of Content & Creative Services, Cleveland Clinic, has said. “When you do that—no matter what platform or format—it works and generates engagement every time.” [bctt tweet="Great content answers questions and solves problems for your customers. @amandatodo #ContentMarketing" username="toprank"] Use keyword research, CRM data, web analytics, crowd-sourcing, and other sources of customer insight to guide your content strategy. This ensures the topics you cover and questions you choose to answer are ones that your customers are actually seeking. What does best-answer content look like? Our own CEO, Lee Odden, says best-answer content encompasses the following:

Specific, in-demand topic

More valuable and useful than other sites

Credible

High quality

Engaging

Device friendly, accessible

Fast

Spark Joy. Spark Audience Connections.

Your audience is hungry for information and connection that informs, engages, and inspires. They want to satisfy their queries, needs, and wants—they want joy. So give them something to be joyful about.

?

via GIPHY What else does it take to be the best answer? Read our guide to creating a Best-Answer Content Strategy.

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[thewingedwolf]

i would accept “brimsley and reynolds are kind of separated but still in love because reynolds is in kew taking care of george and is too devoted to leave his side” if they fix it because Brimsley watches Benedict fall in love with m!Sophie and choose to be with him despite being unable to marry, and is inspired to run back to Kew to go get his man and tell him that even with the obstacles, he still thinks it’s worth it for them to try because love is worth it.

[thewingedwolf]

one thing about hbo is that when they get a journalist coming up to them and going “man do i have a fucked up story i want to follow” they really do let that person go wild. i’ve mentioned the way the ronan farrow one really moved me emotionally and that’s just because ronan knows how to investigate and tell a story to get you righteously angry for who it is he’s defending. he’s good at his job!

but this one, quiet on the set, has genuinely made my jaw drop a few times, even if i think some of the framing could have been better in the last episode. of course i know about all the rumors about dan schneider and the abuse on set, it’s hard to have been into the teen nick scene and not notice, and it’s pretty easy to figure out which kids were being harmed through too much attention and which were being harmed through not enough attention, and there’s been all sorts of rumors floating around for over a decade!

but the build up to the drake bell reveal was well handled, i thought. i was initially skeptical because i think it’s hard to make a documentary about child sexual abuse without leaning into being exploitative in some way. and at first, where you have the actors who left early, like katrina, or who you remember but weren’t mega famous like giovannie, and they’re all saying “this set was so weird & inappropriate, i knew something was wrong but i didn’t have the experience or vocabulary to say what” it feels a little too schlocky. like, oh we’re just kind of speculating on the inappropriate nature of dan’s “friendship” with amanda bynes for two episodes? yeah it is fucked up that two pedophiles were on that set, but did they hurt anyone on set?

and then drake bell walks into the room dressed like timmy turner and says it was me. he hurt me.

i can’t stop thinking about the choice of clothes here and the way it helps drive home the point of the doc. he’s sitting there in fairly odd parents colors as an adult and can’t describe the sexual trauma he experienced as a child still, has never spoken about it, had his mom lie to his father over it because he was so screwed up. really driving home the point that he was just a kid who had a knack for physical comedy and it got him preyed on by dan, a man who should have protected him, set up and handed over to a monster who traumatized him for months and years.

but when that reporter said she got a judge to let them unseal the court documents because drake bell told her how much support peck had? my jaw dropped, like yeah this is reporting, this is someone who saw this story and finally fucking cared not about the salacious details but about who knew what and why they did nothing to stop this from happening. it’s not about forcing drake bell or katrina jackson or alexa to live through the worst moments of their life - it’s about how so many people knew what was going on and didn’t do a god damn thing to stop it. it’s about how these monsters, these convicted pedophiles, were given access to little kids to hurt and traumatize and everyone knew and didn’t just look the other way, they actively helped cover it up. THATS the story. Not that it was an isolated tragedy but that it was a clinical, purposeful environment built by people who wanted to harm little kids.

[thewingedwolf]

it’s my birthday i’m putting on my favorite romper and not wearing a bra underneath it and i’m getting some dog food and i’m stopping for a smoothie or maybe a boba tea because i’m 29 and i deserve it!!!

[thewingedwolf]

wait one more menendez post which is that i feel like people are confused and also kind of hostile when they’re like “well why does gypsy rose blanchard get to walk free now but the menendez brothers can’t” like a) it’s not her fault she had a more understanding jury? lol? and b) welcome to the arbitrary nature of our fucked up justice system lads idk what to tell you, yes it IS weird that two cases involving young adults gruesomely murdering their parents to escape abuse had wildly different sentences, but that actually happens all the time every day every moment because - and this is true - our justice system is not actually all that interested in justice!

[thewingedwolf]

i am Once Again Saying that one kiss is an adorable song absolutely wasted on thee most boring relationship in the whole series

[thewingedwolf]

like you guys are so deranged, you think owning john wayne gacy memorabilia isn’t indicative of the type of man brian peck is when gacy sexually tortured and raped young boys and this documentary showed us only the QUICKEST OF GLIMPSES into the court case that includes rape with foreign objects and anesthesia??? you think his fanboying over a sexual predator and evil human wasn’t a clear sign this man could not be trusted around kids and yet all these adults ignored that because brian peck & dan schneider made them money???? are you insane????? are you silly???????? do you think the girlies On Here who post aesthetic edits of serial killers are normal?????????????? do you think this doesn’t add to the sort of environment that allowed schneider and peck to abuse these kids for so long!!!!!!

[thewingedwolf]

i hate the way people will say the most out of pocket nonsense about Latinos in the US and then act surprised when people say they’ve got some racism issues. “oh if it weren’t for the fact that people in the USA hate everyone with ancestry from Latin America, lock Latino children in cages even under democratic presidents, and regularly hop on tv to call all Latinos evil rapists and murderers, they’d all be considered white” yeah no SHIT if literally every aspect of how Latinos in the US are racialized was different, they would be racially categorized in a different way, that is a very intelligent thing to say about race relations and doesn’t at all exacerbate issues thanks you are so wise and educated and learned

[thewingedwolf]

i didn’t realize some of u guys actually like the brf in an unironic way and are actually monarchists that’s wild glad my mama raised me to be smart enough to not worship a bunch of rich inbred fucks who use my tax money to complain about how africans (you know the homogenous, very small continent with no distinct ethnic groups) have too many babies and actively cover for a serial child rapist by throwing my black family members to the wolves, all because they claim they are somehow more divine than me because their great great great great great great great great grandpa could swing a sword halfway decently. could not be me!

[thewingedwolf]

watched the new little mermaid and it’s cute, better than most of the other disney remakes except maleficent and the jungle book (like cinderella tier). the singing and acting is really good and transplanting it into the caribbean was done really well!! the outfits were really good, the cgi on ursula was damn amazing and part of your world was great as well. the added relationship between eric and his mother, and the kind of subtextual double meaning when eric, the white adopted son of a black caribbean islander, admits that the two worlds can’t ever meet, was kind of interesting, and there was something fun there about like, these two very similar multiracial societies who fear each other being lead by parents terrified that what befell their child’s parent will befall their child. also, while i still high key judge taking all the queerness out of the story (oh but making ursula a drag queen would have been homophobic, okay, so give ariel two dads then? there was a way to honor divine and howard without just excising them from the narrative!), but melissa mccarthy was damn funny and the vanessa actress was amazing, when she gets found out and she starts screaming with melissa’s voice? that’s cinema ❗️

but it made what sucked kinda stand out lol. the cgi on the fish and mermaids was distractingly bad, like “chris evans’ face on skinny steve’s body” kind of bad. the scuttlebutt song and the arrangement on kiss the girl was soooooo bad someone needs to tell lin manuel his head has gotten too big and he needs to actually try instead of just slapping random sounds together (encanto was so good!! why did this one sound so bad!!). and i am once again begging people to use light in their damn movies!! very frustrating that a studio that once would just invent new programs to do cgi and animation they had envisioned now just kind of half asses cgi like this…disappointing.

the only quibble story wise was that there was this kind of hanging thread of ursula being triton’s sister and eric’s mother fearing the sea gods, that are kind of dropped. like, javier bardem and Noma Dumezweni were kinda wasted emotionally. wanted the last scene where all the mermaids and people are at the shore watching ariel and eric leave to hit a little harder emotionally, and look a little cooler.

also, for all that i love eric bc he’s the only disney prince with a kill count, loved that they gave the kill shot to ariel lmao that’s my girl

[thewingedwolf]

not to be rude but of course it’s someone with a mike boogie icon who is like “haha remember when they bleeped the word m-dget” as if there hasn’t been FOR YEARS a push to get that out of our vocabulary because people with dwarfism find it offensive

[thewingedwolf]

sorry june has reminded me how wonderful it is to Not talk to that man anymore. i am so much happier when i don’t have to deal with him