#this is the only one i really remember tbh lol

[creampievampire]

a someone who loves the original jungle book, i absolutely love the live action version

i actually think its better but ONLY through the lens of already seeing the original

it felt like a natural progression from a child version of the movie to a more adult and SCARY version

shere khan terrified me as a child. his bright green eyes in that one scene have stuck with me for just shy of 25 years, i didnt think there was any way for a live action shere khan could achieve that same impact, especially now that im an adult and not 5 lol

but!! he did!!!!!

idris elbas performance as shere khan was absolutely phenomenal!! he gave shere khan a more serious version of his original gravitas, he was TERRIFYING to me BECAUSE he perfectly embodied the horrible psychopathy of shere khan while making the character new and his own, it wasnt a cheap imitation it was a respectful and serious homage

and you know what?? SO WAS CHRISTOPHER WALKENS KING LOUIE!!!! ive been scared of monkeys and apes for my entire life, especially chimps and orangutans, i was scared of king louie as a child and that fear was borne of knowing how terrifying real orangutans are juxtaposed with how nonthreatening he was in the animated movie

christopher walken was SCARY as king louie!!! ive never liked i wanna be like you as a disney song, its never interested me tbh but christopher walkens version? i love it. more importantly i REMEMBER it. because it sent chills down my spine! they leaned into how terrifying REAL orangutans and monkeys are and it worked SO WELL!!!

i think the decision to remove most of the songs from the live action worked really well bc it made i wanna be like you even more terrifying and highlighted why its scary - monkeys and apes are so intelligent, they will be like us one day, that song in the live action highlights the mix of human intelligence and animal violence that, to me, orangutans kinda embody

i think the casting of the live action jungle book was absolutely excellent and i think most of the choices they made really worked! it hit me way harder than the original ever did - i wasnt that interested in it beyond being terrified of shere khan and king louie lmao its never been on my list of faves - but the live action has firmly planted itself in my like,, okay not my top 10,, top 20 definitely tho lmaoo

is it perfect? no. however i think its a resounding success as a live action remake bc fundamentally your suspension of disbelief changes from cartoon to love action, and the movie kept that in mind while also capitalizing on how scary wild animals can be and how uncanny valley and unsettling these live action remakes often are

its a great movie!! i absolutely love it for what it is and for what it gave me as someone who saw the movie as a kid and was so scared by the main villain and ig sub villain. its so good, and i think its vastly better than the original

[ganondoodle]

got this reblog on one of my posts were i talked about being anxious about the future of the zelda series after totk and-

i even went back and unblocked them just to check my own post and check twice what they meant exactly- but i still dont know how they got to these conclusions

i never said i 'want a good uwu ganondorf' (bc that would mean hes aligned with hyrule bc thats how goodness works!!!!11!1!!!), i also dont think of any of the zeldas as 'whores' (seriously, where did that come from?? neither me nor the addition of someone agreeing with me said anything like that??? did they think bc the addition called tloz misogynistic means we think zelda is a whore????? huh???)

its also funny how they say they want zelda to stay a simple fairytale rather than have 'people like me' bc .. one point i talked about in the og post was how the evil arab thing VS good white people media likes to do so much is so normalized here that its simply seen as a simple harmless fairytale trope instead of a big underlying issue in general media and the writers might not even realize it (which is worse) bc the most 'generic' appeal is to people who dont think of it as a problem in the first place, because it is so normalized

(huh, i wonder about what kind of person that part was about .. hmmmm)

(ALSO funny they mention princess hilda as nuanced villain ... like ... wow they are so nuanced about purple haired people!!- like guess why we want a nuanced/less badly/less flat written ganondorf and what he, in particular, has not in common with other villains! its not his hair color! .... or was that point supposed to mean .. look we have one female character that is a villain, its not misogynistic! idk honestly)

(and the classic, "you just call it this/dont like it bc its not what you wanted !!!!!!!2!"1!112!!")

also funny how its 'never gonna be progressive enough' like asking for the franchise to maybe put a little more thought and nuance into their white divine right vs evil desert man simulator instead of making it worse is already asking too much

(i dont know what the last point has to do with anything??)

(also yes totk is racist, like most if not all of the franchise and a alot of other media as well, shocker- you can still like it though, i and plenty of other people are still fans of it, we just wish they did a little more with their stuff and maybe not make the racism problem WORSE)

(also yes the hyrule monarchy is also evil :))) )

(and also not so secretly so either :)) )

[moeblob]

Demyx (my beloved)

[cyanrendipity]

You know, I used to think I hated poetry, sometimes I still have the feeling maybe I do? But then I realize I like it

I started hating poetry when I was a kid, I remember going thru my mom's huge collection of books and finding a really small book with a pale blue cover that caught my attention, I asked my mom if I could read it (there was adult books in her collection so I always asked) and she took it from my hands and laughed saying I wouldn't understand a poetry book, I was too young and it was way too complex for me, even adults can't understand it properly! I've always been a very spiteful person at my core, so that type of attitude just made me so mad I didn't want to touch the book anymore lmao

I encountered that gatekeeping time and time again relating to poetry, people talked about it like it was something beyond "the average person" like you had to have some sort of special understanding to "truly get it" and it just made me think "If I'm not good enough for poetry, poetry is not good enough for me"

After that whenever I encountered a poem that truly touched me I would pretend it was an exception, "surely poems cannot be good, they're made confusing on purpose to keep people out" I would think "This one is easy to understand it's not like 'those' poems" (don't even know which poems 'those' were)

Anyway it took a LONG time and encountering many types of poems written by many different people about many subjects until I realized, poems are in fact nor good or bad by nature, it's like any form of art, and it kinda made me mad at people who made me think it was something "only some" can understand and appreciate cause it kept me off from it for a long time.

[sskk-manifesto]

Next time we should just skip over ep 3 and do a chapters 84-87 reread

[imadhatt3r]

No video game series will ever piss me off more than p/ersona, because it has literally everything I love in fiction: A cast of characters where each one has a side story, hidden parts of their psyche, and harbors some kind of deep secret that tortures them every day? Character interaction in different scenarios? Exploration of different characters' psyches that look like personalized, abstract dungeons that you have to literally fight through? Exploring themes like innevability of death and different ways people cope with it or societal injustice? Tarot motifs? Use of Jung's psychological theories (which are BOGUS, but make for AMAZING addition to fictional stories)? Every element, including UI, is heavily and consistently stylized? Music that goes INSANELY hard???

Like this series should be like crack-infused catnip to me, but I just can't get into it bc Atlus always has to include something so tone-deaf and just downright DOGSHIT into these games (usually something relating to the dating system or pretty much anything relating to how they CONSISTENTLY potray queer people in their games) that I just cannot bring myself to seriously attempt to get into it 😔

[siinlight]

I feel like there is a clear way for a transformers show to make good views and sales. And blablah blah but none of it will ever happen ;-;

[violentlydefending]

genuinely always so shocked to see mirei hate. like literally god forbid women do anything.

[akkivee]

death respect is such an iconic championship round song like you really had

juto telling doppo he gets off on his own rap

doppo telling juto he’s too crooked to actually feel anything remotely deep like regret

hifumi saying rio stinks of man

all within like the first minute of the song lmao

[lieutenantselnia]

This is super random, but I've recently been watching more German movies (I really enjoyed the performances of some Downfall actors and wanted to see some of their other works), and like what the hell is it with 2000s German movies that there's way too often one entirely random scene with someone having their bare ass out😭😂

Of course it doesn't happen in every movie but still often enough that it's somehow noticeable? I'm not sure if it's more of a time or a country dependent thing, but at least in my perception I just don't feel like this occurs as often in more recent movies and series especially in those from the US (like, I feel I'd have noticed if it did because I'd probably be lowkey annoyed by it😂)

[scarletiswailing347]

im having a schizoid moment but also i do gen think this cause ive thought this for a while now, i think im far too negative to be in fan spaces man

like it used to not matter cause nobody knew i existed but then ppl did start knowing i existed and now ccs know that i exist as well and despite my efforts to show up in tags less that doesnt change the fact that there are ppl who know who i am and see and spread my posts and if i cant post whatever i was feeling at the moment while liveblogging then i just dont see the point in liveblogging at all

[puppys-rhythm-heaven]

i am being so fucking autistic about a video game i've only played an hour and a half of and have absorbed like 99% of my information about through osmosis from my bestie(s. it's complicated) and fanfiction. catastrophic levels of autism. i can't stress this in words i don't think y'all understand. or care honestly sdflkjfdskdfsjsfdkj-

[running-in-the-dark]

had a conversation about gym class with my friend who I went to school with today - it was depressing but also nice to hear that her experience with it (at that particular school) was just as bad as mine.

I don't think the way my school treated gym class was entirely normal tbh. it was completely different to the school I went to after, anyway. and everyone I talked to there only knew gym class to be a pretty fun, lighthearted thing. at my old school it was only about achievement, you had to be perfect, if not you were usually yelled at. and if you couldn't participate because you were feeling a bit ill (but not enough to stay home from school) you were ridiculed and/or insulted in front of the whole class. this happened with every gym teacher we had over the whole 9 years there.

it felt like two hours of punishment, there was nothing good about it. and it made at least the both of us feel like any kind of exercise/sport, especially in a group setting, was terrifying - for years after. even my much more positive experience at the other school I went to didn't make that go away.

[xbittersweet-nostalgiax]

Almost done with Year 1 of my new sdv save~!

Did fishing get harder? Bc I feel like the bar drains faster now...and it's not like I've forgotten how tricky it is early on—I'm a chronic Multiple Save File Maker, so I'm plenty acquainted with having no fishing levels

Regardless of that, I've been an absolute fishing fiend—my level maxed out sometime in autumn and I've actually caught a few fish that I haven't bothered to before (namely the ice pip and lava eel)

I've unlocked quite a few bobbers too, my current favorite is the lil green slime one

I prefer the Squid Fest over the Trout Derby, since every squid I catch counts as opposed to how rare the rainbow trout tags are—I got like 6 on the first day and then 1, JUST ONE, on the second day despite catching SEVERAL rainbow trout

I'm excited for Year 2 tho~

[daz4i]

chat is this anything

(taken from "this is what it's like to be human")

[queenerdloser]

i am on the CUSP of getting another cat. the random thought to look at craigslist cats occurred to me and i found like three different ads where i was like LOOK AT THAT CUTE CAT and now i'm talking myself into getting cat no 3.