#the similarities are so uncanny

[stinky-bus]

If I had a nickel for every time I fell in love with a toxic enemies to lovers/lovers to enemies Mcyt ship featuring a small and short-tempered bird-hybrid guy in love with a taller, brown-haired, crazed, morally grey guy I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it’s happened twice.

Like I swear I’m getting serious Deja vu guys

[pirateswhore]

my writing professor gives me MAJOR Mary Margaret vibes and I'm living for it

[chaikachi]

"Look, whatever you're thinking... do me a favour. Don't let me go."

rosegarden transistor au because them being separated in canon isn't enough. i need to make them yearn in alternate universes too, apparently.

[fallenoftheromaempire]

Recreation of a realization i had today

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

hot take maaaybe but imo the core tragedy of satoru is that he’s not a god, he’s literally just a normal guy who got godhood pushed onto him by other people . a god would be able to handle eternal solitude no problem but satoru isn’t one so he suffers for it

[scandalousadventures]

Town-on-Gorkhon map carpet! This is what the Powers That Be were playing on the whole time

Who is YOUR 🫵 favourite Pathologic building???

[hermitcraftx]

The problem with a lot of traffic life interpretations in my opinion is they don't understand character foils or don't employ them in their writing. Grian-Martyn and Scar-Ren are genuinely pretty good character foils for a series that is not really scripted or planned out like a book is. I could go on and on about how they parallel each other and the similarities between them. Even the smaller details between the four usually match up

leaving the rant in the tags so I don't have a huge block of text again ueueue

[the-punforgiven]

Do y'all ever get nightmares that just like, aren't scary?

Like you can tell your brain is trying to make this scary, but you just feel nothing?

[rassilon-imprimatur]

Getting more context behind Anno's reasoning for cutting the Shingoji puppet from Shin Godzilla feels like really interesting insight into how specific he wanted the visuals of the Shin cycle, and a pretty fascinating demonstration of the paradox of he and Higuchi's special effects in those movies. I've described the Shin cycle's effects before as "pretentiously (affectionate) recapturing the Showa uncanny with purely digital means." Obsessive, perfectionist recreations of artifice and practicality through motion capture and CG animation.

Shingoji is animated and textured like he is made of rubber and as if he is rendered through practical means, limitations and all, yet Anno disliked the limitations of the practical rubber puppet. Shin Ultraman used an actual Neronga suit in its motion capture for completely CG animated kaiju. Zoffy's mask is a perfect 3-D scan of Ultraman Jack's asymmetrical mask. Shin Kamen Rider's recreation of the original show's look and effects is some of the most painstakingly digital magic trickery and post-production work I've ever seen in a movie of its like (the BTS videos are absolutely fascinating, highly recommend watching them).

I adore the special effects of all the Shin movies. I think Shin Godzilla looks fucking incredible, powerfully striking and uncannily creepy imagery, and nothing else on Earth looks remotely like Shin Ultraman. The animators and staff across the board did phenomenal work, and I think Anno and Higuchi's approach to CG, clearly understanding the uncanny artifice all its own, is a pretty brilliant understanding of the animation form over any sense of "better realism." The Shin movies are just a consistency loud and fresh grand statement on special effects as a medium.

However, it's hard to shake the notion that cutting that Shingoji puppet was something of a death knell for traditional Tokusatsu in Godzilla movies? Anno and Higuchi's paradoxical clear love and expertise for the classic special effects vs their execution and chosen expression of that love. It's just interesting to me, y'know?

And despite Godzilla Minus One's incredible success and the joy at its special effects being so lauded, it's hard to shake the notion that a more pretentious showcase of traditional suits and sets would have been nowhere near as well received. So much positive buzz for Minus One puts down so many of the other movies, unfairly and reductively, and I've seen a lot of that energy directed at the special effects. Minus One's realization and look should be praised alongside the special effects work or Invasion of Astro-Monster and Godzilla vs Biollante, not used to shit on them.

Just things rolling in my head lately.

[oddities-collection]

This is so specific to my interests but if y’all ever needed to know who would play Simon in a live action Adventure Time/Fiona and Cake, it is this man.

I’m right in a way I truly hope others can understand.

[blaithnne]

Ludwig Von Druska has been head of SHUSH for as long as anyone can remember, though no one is entirely sure what he does. He always seems busy - recruiting new members, tinkering with complicated looking gadgets, or playing with his rubix cube, but no ones ever quite sure what his long term goals are. Some say he's directionless, while others say he's playing a game far too long and complex for anyone else to understand...

Meet the Cast!

╰┈➤ Canon ☄. *. ⋆

→ Scrooge McDuff → Matilda McDuff → Hortense McDuff → Qalhata Duiker → Goldie O'Gilt → Bentina Beakley → LÙ Huifen (pre-caseflies) → LÙ Huifen (post-casefiles) → Bradford Butcher

╰┈➤ OCs ☄. *. ⋆

→ Lucrais NicRiada

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[theflikchic]

I have begun my Order of the Phoenix critical reread and I am reeling right now because I just hit:

"It gave Harry enormous satisfaction to know how furious he was making Dudley; he felt as though he was siphoning off his own frustration into his cousin, the only outlet he had."

So, like, are we going to talk about how similar Snape and Harry are about their trauma yet or are we gonna continue the absolute lie that it's incomparable and Harry is nothing like him? Because this is literally why Snape bullies kids. This? This is a gold mine.

[urbestestwindgod]

“i love you—not in the way that you want me to” we all recognize having to mellow out an abusive and manipulative rhetoric in a situation where we cannot win no matter what so its easier to just deescalate the conflict yea?

[shinji-hibiki]

for a rpgmaker game to become my favourite i must be made to run, terrified, through a hospital, prison, or factory

[holysweetnachofries]

a stupid photo born from a silly conversation i had with @timetravellingrose22

[pencilofawesomeness]

Ah yes. My favorite pair of main characters who start off unfriendly but become Friends(tm) anyway, despite opposing personalities. And as a bonus they are also friends with a slightly older kickass female main character who is equally violent and fashionable.