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[volleypearlfan]

Brambletown is wild

I thought that it was just a cutesy visual album, but it has some truly out of pocket moments. I don't mean this in a "this kids show is DARK and EDGY and ACTUALLY FOR ADULTS" way, because it is still for kids and there's nothing wrong with that, but well, just look at the moments below:

"And old rotten fruit starts smellin' like wine" - alcohol references on a special that aired on PBS Kids. They must be getting really lenient.

"But we gotta start fixing what's broken / or we'll throw the whole town away" - what did they mean by this?

"Or we'll throw the whole world away" - I guess this means that we should recycle stuff or else the world will end?

"Sometimes I lay by the side of the road / gettin' thoughts out of my head / But they say that's just a waste of time / and they call it playin' dead"

During the possum song, Possum sees a vision of two animals burning down the forest, accompanied by the line "to think about life and death"

"We all got scars when we dredge up the past / by unearthin' pain, the pain won't last" - I actually love this line, it's deep

"Turnin' right into wrong and wrong into right" - what did they mean by this? Fox and Badger must be doing some nefarious things

"Lightnin' Bug's yellin' that his butt's on fire" - you don't usually hear "butt" in a preschool show

One song is about a fox and a hare who are in love, but after one disagreement, the hare dumps him and just up and leaves. This song is really sad but also deep

Badger gets so depressed that he starts drinking maple syrup, which makes his stomach ache and his paws shake. It sounds like he's an alcoholic

He then goes to Dr. Mole and says that his "body is fallin' apart" - aka what too much alcohol does to you

Then Badger goes to a cliff and "stare[s] down at death" - was he planning to commit suicide?

Fox and Badger have an argument, Badger spills the potion that Dr. Mole gave him, which leads to the entire town burning down. This is another tearjerker. Since it was specifically the potion that led to the town's demise, does that mean it would have killed Badger if he drank it?

This was all very unexpected, especially since it aired on a preschool channel, but honestly, I welcome it. Not everything in life is happy. The sad moments in our lives are just as important as the happy ones, and I think this is an important message to send to kids. Plus, even though the town was burned down, they rebuilt it, showing that they have the power to heal even after trauma.

More of this please. This can go toe-to-toe with the likes of Fantastic Mr. Fox, Coraline, The Brave Little Toaster, Don Bluth movies, and Miyazaki movies. These movies may be for children and families, but they are not afraid to get dark and depressing and have compelling storylines. Kids are very capable of digesting complex topics, and I hope we get more movies and shows like Brambletown in the future

[kimtaegis]

LILACS BY THE SEA a music collection curated for @cordiallyfuturedwight Lilacs (Kayla) Playlist • Sea (Seokjin) Playlist song notes

cr. mahoneysuga, rawpixel, bts-trans, Diana Zviedrienė

[spicyvampire]

4MINUTES (2024) EP. 7 // EP. 5

[god-of-this-new-blog]

What if the two worst guys in the whole world were madly in love with each other?

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Rip & Tear!

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[itswellya]

just sittin there thinking about thw fact that merlin and arthur were just teens/young adults (18&20 yr) that never really had any romantic experience and probablly just assumed whatever was going on between them was just platonic and even if they did realise it was something more they couldnt do anything about it bc of merlin's destiny and arthur's responsabilities and how arthur was gonna marry a princess from another kingdom only for political advantages and not love and how it always was some unspoken thing even tho they both probablly knew and how after 10 yrs nothing had changed between them and arthur died without either of them saying anything and how terrible merlin must have felt after his death

[evermoredeluxe]

Taylor performing We Were Happy/happiness as the surprise song on piano

- The Eras Tour in Hamburg, Germany (N1) on July 23, 2024 (x)

[whitedragonwolf4961]

The signs were there…

The signs were there all along… that the fucking hacks were ruining this beautiful, amazing, complex character long before the shit season. I know those dumb as shit incompetent hacks and some of the cast of GoT (do they actually believe that shit or were they toeing the line?) in their condescending manner told us that the “signs” were there all along about Dany “going mad”. They are right but not for the reasons they think they are. The signs were there… that D&D were ruining Dany’s character long before that putrid shitshow that was Season 8. When you reread the books and remember or rewatch the show, you can see. As early as S1, they were giving many of Dany’s strong or intelligent or kind and merciful moments to the males around her. It was her who took Viserys’s horse away from him to show how she has grown stronger and is no longer as afraid of him as she once was. In the show they gave it to Rhakaro. In S2 they had Jorah tell Dany she must be her people’s strength and then Dany told Jorah “as you are mine”. Contrast that where in the books Dany told herself she must be her people’s strength, including Jorah. And they gave Dany’s meeting with Quaithe to freaking Jorah! There is the fact that the hacks couldn’t have women talking for two minutes without insulting each other (directly or subtly). And then they gave her intelligent strategies to her male advisers in S3 and 4. And of course had her rely on the incompetence dumbass Show Tyrion for strategy completely in S7, ignoring the advice of her allies (who were all females). And to make her look worse, they had Barristan tell her “it’s better to answer injustice with mercy” when she had those masters crucified for what they did to the children (and of course add “nice and innocent slavers”). No surprise to find out that they omitted that Dany specifically ordered them to give up their leaders aka the ones who obviously ordered it, in the books. And how Dany is told by her advisers to be more violent and ruthless, instead of them “tempering her worst impulses” (I fucking hate that sexist fucking line). Dany is the one who wants to be as merciful and nonviolent as possible. A little off topic, I think Dany needs to become more ruthless. I think GRRM was trying to show that while it shows Dany’s good heart that she tried to be compromising, you cannot compromise with slavers. If she wants to utterly destroy slavery she will need to be more ruthless and that is not a bad thing at all.

Anyway, besides giving most of Dany’s best moments to the males around her, the fucking hacks were changing things when they still followed the books (for a given definition of “follow”) as well as adding ridiculous crap. It’s most blatant in her S2 storyline. The Thirteen immediately invite Dany into Qarth because they sought her out. But the hacks had Dany be condescendingly talked to by the show only Spice King and refused entry. So they could have her shout “We will lay waste to armies and burn cities to the ground”. I know a lot of dumb idiots will use that line as “proof” but it was a stupid addition by the two hacks so they could make Dany look bad. And then they had Dany’s Dothraki people slaughtered. They had Irri murdered. They took away Dany’s female companionship (until Missandei). And speaking of Irri, who killed her? Doreah! Yeah! They had Doreah out of literally nowhere with zero explanation or reason betray Dany and murder Irri (like I said, Dumb&Dumber can’t stand female friendships. They think women are only good for insulting and killing each other). Looks like the later seasons weren’t the start of them inventing stupid plot points out of nowhere. And I guess they wanted to make Dany look cruel for locking Doreah and Xaro in the vault. Know what she does to them in the books? Nothing. Well not exactly nothing. Doreah dies in the Red Waste and Dany holds her and gives her water from her own waterskin and refuses to move until Doreah has passed. And Xaro is still alive in the books. Because Xaro and Pree never stole her dragons in the books (another stupid show invention). And then later, as I previously mentioned, they invented “innocent slave masters” that Dany crucified like Hizdahr’s daddy. Nothing like that is brought up in the books. Oh, and they decided to kill off Ser Barristan in S5! Even though Barristan is alive and well and gladly serving Dany in the books and knowing she’s nothing like her father. Which the actor pointed out. And it only made those scumbags want to do it even more. And then after his (very stupid) death, Dany burns a slave master. And that stupid awful behind the scenes book after the shit season, Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon has that moron Cogman bring that up about how Dany didn’t care if he was innocent or not (they really had a thing about “innocent slave masters”). None of that crap ever happens in the books.

They also changed small but important parts. Never let Dany have a crown like I mentioned. They also had Dany sit on top of the stairs in Mereen, when she insists on sitting at the bottom on a simple bench because she wants to be on an equal level with her people. Heck an illustrator had to be corrected by GRRM when she was showing that (does anyone have a picture or article about that?). They also never really showed her bond with her other dragons. In the books she loves and pays attention to all of them, in particular Viserion who always wants to be petted by her. In the show, she only really pays attention to Drogon mostly. Rhaegal and Viserion were reduced to “the two smaller different colored dragons” (to be stupidly killed off later on in stupid asinine ways). And Dany’s relationship with Daario is changed. Daario is made to be the one in love and Dany “feels nothing” when she ends their relationship. In the books Dany has a huge crush on Daario but Daario only really wants her for her crown and title, not the girl she is. And Dany knows this. And Jorah is changed into this super nice guy who is always giving her wisdom instead of this creep who is trying to isolate her from other men so she’ll only rely on him.

And when they stopped following the books? Well they really weren’t bothering to hide it much anymore. In S6, they have that idiot Show Tyrion talk about how Dany was “wrong” for not building a new system (and Tyrion is portrayed as smart for not wanting to change the way of the world even though that’s what Dany wants to do). So Tyrion wants slavery to continue for seven years (which the idiot says is a “short time”). And most disgustingly, they had him tell Missandei and Gray Worm, who were slaves their whole lives, that he now “knows the horrors of it”. A white rich guy telling two people of color that he knows about slavery… (am I looking at it too much?) Anyway, when that predictably backfires (why the hell were they always having people talk about how smart Tyrion is and Dany needs to listen to him when all he’s ever done is fail?) and Dany returns to Mereen, they have Dany talk about “returning cities to the dirt” so Tyrion can give her a more merciful strategy. And then in S7… have her rely only on Tyrion and his stupid plans. And if she dared to want to just end it quickly, they told her she would be just like her father. They even had that dumb weak idiot Show Jon say that. Book Jon would bitch slap that idiot. Book Jon wants to bring destruction to House Lannister.

Speaking of which… that scene where she meets Jon. It was funny how Dany had all her many titles spoken by Missandei when all Davos said about Jon is “He’s King in the North”, right? Well… I think those hacks wanted Show Jon to be this humble “noble king” while Dany is this “arrogant Queen with all these titles”. And they also want Dany to come as arrogant and entitled so they have her talk about all the shit she went through (like getting raped and betrayed and sold to sexual slavery) and how faith in herself kept her going. Now to the sane layman, that is a strong woman giving herself credit for believing in herself and using her strength to forge something better for herself. But to Dumb&Dumber that is an arrogant and selfish woman not crediting her abusers for her strength. Gosh I loathe Show Sansa but NO ONE deserves to be raped and to have her credit her rapist for her strength is just… wrong. In every way possible.

Then there was that crap with the Tarlys. Those idiots wanted us to see Dany as doing something evil and wrong. Actually they wanted us to see that whole battle as “wrong”. Because they have that tragic music playing and Tyrion looking sadly. The same guy who watched thousands burn in wildfire that he himself laid out. Where was the sad music then? Anyway Dany does what literally not just every King and Queen does but what ever highborn period does after defeating the enemy. She offers them the choice to bend the knee and live and keep their lands. Or death. Same choice Robert Baratheon offered Balon Greyjoy. Same choice the old Stark kings offered their rivals. The two Tarlys choose death so Dany executed them despite multiple chances. And immediately Varys starts comparing her to her father. Except her father (and people like Ramsay Snow, Tywin Lannister, Gregor Clegane, and Euron Greyjoy) wouldn’t have given multiple chances. They would have given no offers. Just murdered them all (Ramsay, Gregor, and Euron simply for their sadistic pleasure). And then they had Jon look uncomfortable when Dany said she had fewer enemies. Which is stupid. Jon has fought battles before. He’s killed thousands to take Winterfell back as Dany herself reminds him.

And they even had it said that Aegon the Conqueror started “the wheel” and got along far with fear. Except… yes Aegon was ruthless when he had to be, but as King he unified a country that was divided and plagued by constant conflicts. He gave them peace and prosperity. And he and his wives were the first to get rid of some unsavory practices. The hacks were determined to have us think that all Targaryens were “mad tyrants”. Idiots would have us think the Starks were democratically chosen leaders instead of ruthless warlords who conquered the North. They never understood the story or the characters. And the signs were there all along that they were ruining and destroying one of the greatest female characters in fictional history.

Longest post I ever wrote! I didn’t cover S8 because nothing needs to be said about that putrid shitshow. But let me end with this. I fully believe that not only will GRRM finish the books… he will give Dany a great and satisfying ending. I hope she becomes Queen but I will perfectly settle for her being alive and well. I have every confidence that she will not get that disgusting show ending. That was a shitty sexist plot point done purely for shock value. But… I guess the signs were there that those hacks never understood or respected Dany. But there are signs that George has great things planned for our beloved Dany. And then that is how she will be remembered. I’m gonna keep believing and hoping. Someone has to, and I will happily be that person. PS: Can people please tell me what they think of all this? Any questions? I’ll happily answer! And reblogs are perfectly acceptable and encouraged! I’d love to hear your thoughts and you can add anything you want.

[always-a-joyful-note]

More music-based media and music in general needs to take a page out of Revue Starlight and make their songs at minimum 6 minutes long. Intersperse it with dialogue or intrumental breaks if you want, but I expect it to drag at least 8 minutes in length

[epicthemusicalstuff]

I dunno if you agree but so far I feel like we’ll be fine is so slept on 😔

It really is 😭

[pamouche]

If I was able to choose, I’d choose you. Because you’ve always been my number one since the start.

- ayan to akk (in the first trailer of THE ECLIPSE)

[claudiaeparvier]

Control was so real for giving us a safe room just so we could vibe to Poets of the Fall.

[doodoodinklefart]

let's GOOO!! 7/25!! HAPPY GEGO DAYYY BABYYY

and here is the youtube link LOOOOL BYE!!!!

[capybonara]

Today's piece is "Water Magic!" The lyrics are from the song Rivers In the Desert

As a bard, Cironus uses the power of his songs to help others. I realized Mipha, Sidon and Yona all have powers that are supportive and I like that Cironus is following the pattern! Sure, he's big and he can cause a lot of damage if he needs to, but his real talent lies in his voice. I like the idea that he has different songs for different buffs or debuffs, but the louder he is the stronger the spell, so give this boy some room so he can put on a show!

[angelmush]

nice things lately (posing the stuffed animals when i make the bed, animal magazines in the mini library down the road, my aunt + uncle’s giant new cat they adopted on accident and are in love with despite their best efforts)

[sleepyheadgallavich]

You paint yourself white

And fill up with noise

But there'll be something missing

Now that you found it

It's gone

Now that you feel it

You don't

You've gone off the rails