#these seem like very good movies/shows!

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Autism Representation in Films and TV Shows

Neurodivergent_lou

[goblins-riddles-or-frocks]

forever obsessed with dynamics between vampires, specifically that of a maker and fledgling, as a way to explore abuse. the creation of a vampire itself can so easily be a literalization of the lasting impacts of trauma and also much more simply the ways a perpetrator might shape their victim’s very identity. the extremes of isolation in the way that the new vampire, in most narratives, must cut all ties to their mortal life, or else go through an elaborate charade to maintain the facade of humanity, while forever still being removed from it. and the sheer dependence and vulnerability of being in an entirely new state of being, wholly uncertain of what it entails, and relying on another person to define… everything.

[bunnieswithknives]

Princess Jinjur! She may not be the rightful ruler of Oz but she has a can do attitude and a lifetime of injustices seething beneath her skin!

Jinjur without the portrait

[guideaus]

I finished Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus and I think i'd give it a solid 7. It clearly did as much as it could with the animation, which is kinda funny considering that's what originally got it cancelled in the first place, but i wasn't really a fan of the art style change and the colors.

The movie was just a tad too saturated I think for me, when i definitely remember the show having this crude, and honestly offputting (affectionately said) vibe. And it kinda ditched it's kinda ugly vibes, lol. It reminds me a bit of those PBS cartoons.

Anyways, i don't think the plot was for me, unfortunately. The two part special episodes where Zim comes close to destroying the world, but always fails, was old to me by the time i finished the show, so the movie, which came out 15 years later, wasn't exactly something I would be interested in. It was also basically a Dib pov, too, which i'm not a fan of, and they didn't even go hard on his relationship w/his dad, either.

The movie was described like this:

which kinda happens, but it's bait for Dib to drop his guard, and Zim basically does the same thing he's always done. It's not bad, but it feels like a plot for a movie we would have gotten in 2007, a year after the show was cancelled, not a plot for one more than a decade later. Idk if this is too much to ask, but i remember kinda feeling bad for how dumb zim was in the show with how much he tried to get the Tallests' attention, so I was hoping something would eventually change, and this description got my hopes up, but no, it was just a joke 😭 I even kept hoping maybe in the last quarter of the movie, it'd change, and it'd focus on Zim disengaging from the tallest somehow.

The movie also noticeably recycled a lot of jokes from the show in a way that felt like way more than a simple call back or reference, and more like they couldnt think of a new joke for zim, gir, or gaz to say.

Time passed irl, and the movie references that, too, yet Dib immediately fixes himself, zim's inability to change isnt really acknowledged, and Professor Membrane, who seemingly is set up to finally acknowledge Dib's goals, in the end doesn't really change, either. It also made use of Tak's ship, which felt frustrating since she seemed to be teased a lot in the end of the series, without ever showing up, so her actually showing up here would have been interesting. I think basically the only thing that changes in this movie is the Tallest (and the irken empire?) dying in the end.

So... I feel like it's nice it exists, but it definitely cut the original show's gritty aesthetic, and nothing really definitive came from this. It feels like more of the same, specifically the parts i liked the least about the series, so I didn't exactly feel like I gained too much after seeing this. I loved Gir, but even he reused old jokes, which felt frustrating after it was noticeable.

[themyscirah]

Finally read Wonder Woman Historia because of your posts about it and damn. goddamn. that was fucking life-changing. literally what the fuck this should be a required read for every single comic book fan to ever exist. fuck

YES OMG THATS WHAT IM SAYINGGGGGGGGGG

(Also yesss got one mwahahaha I'm literally so glad you read it because of me omg 🤗🫶)

No but truly like life-changing sounds intense but is honestly the word for it. Like at least personally I can't emphasize the impact that book has had on me? I first read it about a year ago and finished it just SOBBING. I wasn't even a Wonder Woman fan before reading it. I wasn't even a Wonder Woman fan before reading it. Like do you understand I now run a Wonder Woman blog, I own multiple WW articles of clothing and my entire wall is covered in WW issues and items. If I had to list my top 5 books (not comics, books) of all time Wonder Woman: Historia would be an automatic contender. I reread it constantly, and bring my giant ass hardcover that is too tall for every bookshelf everywhere. It is constantly on my mind.

Anyways just sooooooo so glad you got a chance to read it (especially because of me!!!) because Historia is truly my favorite comic out there and I think it's one of the best things from the medium as a whole : )

Anyways all you folks listening this is you sign to READ WONDER WOMAN: HISTORIA!!!

[theskoomacat]

i'm 2/3 through a se/ries of unfor/tunate events and i'm pretty satisfied with it (the books were a staple of my childhood so i've been pretty possessive over them) - but they have serious casting issues. i seriously barely can tell the female volunteers apart. the secretary is blonde at least, but the mother, the librarian and the sister give me flashbacks to the face blindness i had while watching the ter/or

[periru3]

Showing my roommate Alien for the first time

Him: This is sooo like Prometheus

Me: Wait you've seen Prometheus but not Alien????

Him: No, I just was trying to think of something dumb to say that would annoy you lol

Me: OK GOOD cause as I said before, no judgment from me for not having seen Alien, but if you'd seen Prometheus but not Alien, then we might have a problem

*15 minutes later*

Him: Wow ok that ship does kinda look like the stuff in the Prometheus trailer though

Me: I mean yeah that makes sense

Him: Wait Prometheus is part of the Alien series?

Me: WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING RIGHT NOW

[stripedtabbycat]

didn't expect to be thinking about this today but shrek (2001)? holds up. you can see how it was considered really fresh and new at the time because it was parodying all the usual disney tropes (made with spite by people who had just left the company) but it's also a genuinely well-done parody/subversion of typical fairy tale tropes and it's got just enough sincere heart to it that it works very well on its own. how often do you see a "beauty and the beast" type of story that ends with both people remaining "beasts" as their happy ending? they did a good job combining the gross crude humor and the parodic elements with a real love story and i'm still charmed by it. i do think it deserved the first ever best animated feature academy award. the cgi's a little dated-looking but not even to a distracting extent. there's "adult" jokes that don't feel forced or detract from its appeal to kids. and it ends with a dragon breaking into a church and disrupting a traditional heterosexual wedding by eating the fascist tyrant groom so the princess can marry her true love in a swamp. what more could you ask for

[llycaons]

in terms of kdramas I actually think it's okay to not be okay explores trauma with much more depth and nuance, but it focuses on complicated family dynamics and family abuse rather than school violence. still I think it's overall a lot more emotionally powerful

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Good news I guess: they cancelled the live action Loud House show.

[akechigoroactual]

see you could say as much as you like that luffys dream isn't gonna be heroic bc he's not a hero or w/e. but luffy always does heroic shit Constantly. even if he wouldn't consider it heroic himself it's probably going to be some incredibly admirable shit. you can't take luffy at face value when he says that like. just look at him. boy's a hero innit

[portmantaur]

so a project I’m starting (kind of) to work on is rooted in film analysis from the perspective of someone who enjoys trash media (or media that is not Superbly Popular) at least, and that means rewatching a lot of my mid-to-bad faves — and it occurred to me that it might be nice to maybe connect with some folks who, maybe like me, don’t have a lot going on in the fleshworld at a given moment

basically the point is: if anyone would occasionally be interested in some kind of group chat Bad Movie Night, let me know? I mean I know there are only twelve of y’all seeing this but hey! connection and mutual joy I think is gonna be important in the coming times, and maybe it would be fun to enjoy some “bad” media together, if that’s a thing anyone would be partial to. hmu!

(for reference/ideas, I personally want to get into my large catalogue of Bad Zombie Movies That I Enjoy To An Unreasonable Degree, but horror is by far not the only genre I’m interested in. I was thinking good ol not-quite-good queer ‘classics’ like Better Than Chocolate, maybe revisiting some shitty movies I liked during my blunder years like Empire Records or G*psy 83 [wikipedia link for the curious]— you know, not really any high brow or impressive stuff, definitely stuff that is far from perfect, etc etc)

[icewindandboringhorror]

I'm so heavily anti-advertising that all pitches sound goofy silly to me/I can never take them seriously, so I have no idea how I'll manage to to advertise my game even if I do finally finish it soon-ish lol...

[kyolypso]

NEW GREAT PRETENDER MOVIE IS SO GOOD BTW.

[nickbutnodick]

just got back from watching trap!

[irregodless]

inside out 2 is interesting but it sure is the exact same plot as inside out 1 down to the emotions getting stranded outside hq as a core aspect of rileys isbeliminated and having to start from scratch while joy loses hope and cries while watching memories in a pile of memories that were deemed unimportant before being deus ex machinad by an imaginary cartoon