#wolfwalkers: the graphic novel

[middlegradeeveryday]

Wolfwalkers: The Graphic Novel by Sam Sattin

Summary:

In a time of superstition and magic, a young apprentice hunter, Robyn Goodfellowe, journeys to Ireland with her father whose job it is to wipe out the last wolf pack. Robyn, unable to hunt with her father and sick of being confined, sneaks out to explore the forbidden lands outside the city walls. There, Robyn befriends a free-spirited girl, Mebh, a member of a mysterious tribe of WOLFWALKERS rumored to have the ability to transform into wolves by night.

After learning that WOLFWALKERS aren't to be feared, Robyn decides she must protect Mebh and her pack from the hunters. As the girls search for Mebh’s missing mother, Robyn uncovers a secret that draws her further into the enchanted world of the WOLFWALKERS and risks turning her into the very thing her father is tasked to destroy.

Genre: Folktale

Book Type: Graphic Novel

[godzilla-reads]

🐺 WolfWalkers: The Graphic Novel by Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, and Sam Sattin

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Young Robyn Goodfellowe has moved to Ireland with her father to hunt down the wolves “infesting” the forests, but when she meets a wolf girl who claims to be a Wolf Walker- a girl by day and a wolf by night- will their friendship save the forests and even the wolves?

Oh my lord, do I love this story. So I picked up the graphic novel version of the movie because I haven’t had the opportunity to watch it yet, but now I really REALLY want to watch it. Not only does this book tap into traditional Irish folklore, but it rightfully shows the ignorance and evil of English colonizers. I loved the art, the characters, the growth, and the mirroring of lives. This metaphor of being stuck in a cage and how to escape was *chefs kiss*.

The only reason it wasn’t 5 stars was because I know the movie would be even better with a score and the animation.

I can’t wait to watch the movie!

[kulaykonfetti]

ouhhh i am having such a hard time reading :•(

[horsegirl-curtis]

guys whats the wolfwalkers au ???/gen

OKAY SO the AU that I have aptly named The Wolfwalkers bc I am dry as bones on creative AU names is just "What if The Outsiders but I projected myself onto it even more aka mixed them with some mythology but SPECIFICALLY the portrayal of said mythology in the movie Wolfwalkers because it's my greatest comfort film ever".

Anyways, like stated above, the gist of it is that instead of just being normal average dudes, the gang are wolfwalkers. And I want to clarify what I mean by that because it's important to the AU to know what exactly they are. Which I think is better explained by this audio for the graphic novel better than myself (at least, the first part of it, the bit at the end is just more about the movie's plot):

Though some things it doesn't fully explain or that it does that I just want to clarify for ppl who haven't seen the movie: -They quite literally leave their human forms behind, but not just at night, whenever they fall asleep their soul leaves their body and manifests into a physical form of a wolf. But like it does say, anything that happens to them as wolves affects their human body, like injuries. -They can see smells; I believe it can apply to their human forms too but it really applies more importantly to their wolf forms. They have all the advanced senses of a wolf in their human forms, but it's implied that it's strongest when they're in their actual wolf forms. -They have healing magic, like honest to goodness can make a scar evaporate into thin air healing magic. While this magic can actually be used to save a dying person, it requires a big pack and at least two wolfwalkers to accomplish. One can't do it on their own. But smaller injurest like cuts and bites can be easily healed. -If a wolfwalker bites you, you will become a wolfwalker yourself even if the scar is healed by their magic asap. There's quite literally no way out of it.

Onto the actual plot of the AU: The most I have ironed out myself is that the Curtis brothers got their wolfwalker magic from their dad's side of the family, as he was long descended from a man who married one of the few remaining wolfwalkers from Ireland. And wolfwalkers can be born with that magic. So, some accidental bites here and there kept the magic strong in their family for a long time, but eventually it thinned out more and more as time went on and the world became more hostile towards wildlife. They moved into towns and tried to suppress it. Were careful with their teeth. And Darrel Sr. was barely in touch with his magic at all. He could transform, yes, but his healing was weak, and his wolf senses were dulled. He and his wife were extremely confident that her being human and him being so out of touch with his magic would mean that their children would be completely normal humans. They were very wrong. Because around when he was 4, little Darry woke up his parents scratching at their door as a scared and confused little wolf pup. That's when his father reluctantly had to explain their heritage to him. Darry didn't understand much but he understood enough to know that this was a secret that stayed at home. And then Sodapop transformed for the first time. But he had Darry and his dad to show him the way. Their father forced himself to dig up as much of his powers as he could to teach them things like how to use the healing magic. The boys were 10x their dad, their senses were wildly strong and their magic was almost unruly (they became quite feral on occasion). He hated making them deal with it, but he needed them to learn to use it if they were going to have to go through life with what he had considered a bit of a curse. Ponyboy terrified his parents. He was the strongest out of them all, it happened to him when he was a newborn. He grew up constantly leaving his body as a baby and having to be tended to by his father and his brothers while their mom slept. To Ponyboy, it was all second nature, there was no learning curb. To Ponyboy, this was how life was supposed to be. Their parents would take them for stays in the countryside so they could get out their energy that was bottled up back in Tulsa. In Tulsa there was no scratching or snarling or growling allowed. There was no constantly getting dirty and eating like an animal if you wanted to get anywhere in life without socs looking down on you more than they already did. So the boys looked forward to these little trips, the trips where they could run miles and miles as wolves with their father (who'd gotten less and less tired as the years went on and his sons forced him to reconnect with himself) without any need to stop until they finally got tired. They could roughhouse and bite each other all they wanted. They could howl and howl and if they were lucky, they might hear a reply from a wolf pack somewhere far away. Something their ancestors used to command and speak to daily, but they could not, because a pack of wild wolves would not fit in their house.

Unfortunately for their friends, these kids got so used to biting each other that they ended up somehow passing along this magic to literally all of them. Darry gave it to Two-Bit, Sodapop gave it to Steve, Ponyboy gave it to Johnny and then cried about cursing him on accident, and Dally? Got it from Two-Bit. As expected, the Curtis bros' parents were not exactly thrilled about all of this. Two-Bit's mom is a good woman. She would understand. But all the other boys? Absolutely not. If their parents caught them as wolves, they'd immediately get the gun. Johnny's especially. So, Darrel Sr. ended up spending personal time with these boys as much as he could, but it wasn't really enough, because he was a working man. And he wanted to spend time with his own kids. And the other boys were just so occupied with school and such (Minus Dally mostly). So, when the parents met their untimely death, Darry took over as the leader of the pack...though they just call it their gang. He had to finish the job of tutoring the other boys. Darry has a job and is taking care of his brothers, but he's also having to keep an eye on these reckless boys who just don't understand how dangerous it is to go running around the town as wolves. Dally is the worst offender for this. Darry has to regurgitate all of his father's lessons to them. His wolf form looks almost exactly like his dad's. He's taking care of his brothers so much that he feels like a father. It hurts him deep down, because he seems to have absorbed every part of his dad. And he's named after him too. What a gut punch for a poor 20yo who had to drop out of school for the sake of his brothers.

I've honestly thought about Paul perhaps being a wolfwalker too, because he was friends with Darry, what if Darry had made the mistake of biting him like he did to Two-Bit. What if Paul was forced to carry a part of the greasers with him for the rest of his life. What if he meets Ponyboy across the street in the night and only in that moment they are on the same level. (this part isn't solidified, because there's lots of juicy angst of Paul staying human but being probably the only person who knows the truth about Darry and his gang. Like that would be a lot of power over someone).

[howtodrawyourdragon]

Read 32 books and graphic novels/comics and such in 2023, which is 31 more than 2022 and 32 more than previous years because I was not able to pick up a book (or comic/graphic novel) and finish it for years.

So all in all, this has been a great year for me! I look forward to reading some more in 2024!

Books and graphic novels I read under the cut. (Quite a few titles are in Dutch)

How to Train Your Dragon

How to be a Pirate

De Eerlijke Vinder

Twin Crowns

Museumnacht

Autisme - Vrouwen op het Spectrum

Stranger Things - The Other Side 1/2

Stranger Things - The Other Side 2/2

De Zusjes Duizendblad - 1 - De Droom Van Sarah

De Zusjes Duizendblad - 2 - De liefdes Van Cassiopeia

De Zusjes Duizendblad - 3 - De Schat Van Lucy

Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds

Frida Style Icon

De Zusjes Duizendblad - 4 - De Gems en De Komeet

Wolfwalkers - The Graphic Novel

De Muziekdoos - Welkom in Pandoria

Het Parijs Der Wonderen - De Betoveringen Van Ambremer 1/2

Avatar: The Next Shadow

How to Speak Dragonese

Cursed Crowns

The Wedding

Marijke Redt Het Internaat

How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse

Jommeke - Baron Anatolsky

Camp Damascus

The Darkening

Avatar: The Last Airbender - Imbalance

De Drager - 1 - Nimf

Stranger Things - Six 1/2

Stranger Things - Six 2/2

De Drager - 2 - De Stad Van De Duizend Pijlen

De Drager - 3 - De Schaduwen Die Ons Binden

[howdyfriend]

Well maybe you should have.

Do delivery people deliver across time and space? I want a switch.

[badass-at-fandoming]

Werewolf Books & Movie Recs

I commented on this post with werewolf book and movie recs, and I wanted to cross-post it here because it was so fun to make!

The original post mentions Teen Wolf, American Werewolf in London, Ginger Snaps, Dog Soldiers, Van Helsing movies, Disney's Werewolf-By-Night special, Wolfwalkers, Dungeon Meshi/Delicious in the Dungeon, After Dark Webtoon, Night Class comic, Bisclavret, Trick R Treat, Werewolf Fever, Strippers VS Werewolves, and Bad Moon.

Books (links to Storygraph)

Kitty Norville series by Carrie Vaugh - tries to have a more realistic take on werewolves and pack dynamics. A kickass radio DJ heroine, the fall of the Masquerade, and various horror show adventures

Her Wolf in the Wild by Rien Gray - butch biker werewolf romance in the American Southwest by an author with a golden touch. I love everything they write!

Queer Werewolves Destroy Capitalism by MJ Lyons - smutty m/m erotica collection with two stories featuring a werewolf and his trans mage boyfriend destroying capitalism

The Alchemy of Moonlight by David Ferraro - A YA gay gothic romance wherein a marquis disguises himself as a servant and discovers his new employers have a very furry secret

Wolfsong by TJ Klune - this one has been recommended to the moon and back, but for good reason! Ox is reunited with a mysterious boy and it's time to solve a murder.

Mead Mishaps series, Book 2: That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf by Kimberly Lemming - I ADORE this series. Bloody and cozy with delicious world-building, great humor, and hot smut. You can read it out of order, but after one you'll likely want to read them all.

Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella - New Adult coming of age where a gay slacker werewolf gets a life coach who is a little too helpful

Squad graphic novel by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle - a YA coming-of-age about a girl who joins a werewolf pack that dedicates itself to eating one rapist every month.

Find even more on Book Riot's 8 Werewolf Books From Around the World, 50 Must Read Werewolf Romance Books, Leaders of the Pack

Movies (links to IMDB)

As Boas Maneiras (2017) - Brazilian lesbian film about a nanny who falls for her employer while also growing increasingly worried about the child growing inside

The Wolfman (1941) - Lon Chaney Jr's many appearances as Larry Talbot are really great to help understand the popularization of the werewolf as uncontrolled id. His films are the ancestor of American Werewolf in London, Ginger Snaps, and Van Helsing movies. Also, yanno, they're easy to find online or at libraries. As a product of its time, there are anti-Romani slurs and racist language, so take care while watching

My Animal (2023) - sapphic werewolf horror/romance where young love brings out the animal within

Bloodthirsty (2020) - an indie singer joins colleagues on a remote retreat to create new music, but starts having dreams of hunger and the hunt.

Jack and Diane (2012) - Two young sapphic women meet in New York and sparks fly. Except when Jack informs Diane that she plans to move soon, Diane's possessive nature turns hairy.

[the-ravenclaw-werewolf]

I love this fanfic!! I was wondering if you did Animated movies instead of anime/Manga, which ones would you pick?

Okay, so when I saw this question, I knew there would be a LOT I would have to pick from.

However, I did have one rule that I would have to abide by:

NO DISNEY OR PIXAR.

Because those two studios are the ones who take up the majority of the animation industry and so putting them aside would help me picking movies easier.

(But admittedly I did cheat, but that's because I was, and still am, in the Rise of The Brave Tangled Dragons fandom. ❄️☀️🐲🐻)

But these would be the movies, and their sequels, that I would pick:

The Secret of NIMH (not counting the sequel)

The Brave Little Toaster

Cats Don’t Dance

Anastasia

The Iron Giant

The Road to El Dorado

Sherk

Madagascar

Kung Fu Panda

Coraline

9

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Fantastic Mr. Fox

The Secret of Kells

How to Train Your Dragon

Megamind

Tangled

Rango

A Monster in Paris

Puss in Boots

A Cat in Paris

Brave

Paranorman

Rise of the Guardians

Boxtrolls

Song of the Sea

The Little Prince

The Peanuts Movie

Kubo and the Two Strings

The Breadwinner

Isle of Dogs

Missing Link

Spies in Disguise

The Willoughbys

Wolfwalkers

The Mitchells vs. the Machines

The Bad Guys

The Sea Beast

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Nimona (I know this hasn't be release yet but I have read the graphic novel and it was SO GOOD AND I CAN'T WAIT FOR IT TO BE RELEASED!🤩🤩🤩)

I may not be writing this version but already the potential interactions and reactions to their films has my imagination twisting and turning with excitement! 😁

[dweemeister]

Robot Dreams (2023, Spain/France)

There exists an assumption that one has to be an animator in order to direct an animated film. While most cinephiles might reflexively point to Wes Anderson (2009’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, 2018’s Isle of Dogs), I think Isao Takahata (1988’s Grave of the Fireflies, 1991’s Only Yesterday) the exemplar here. Even so, a non-animator taking the reins of an animated movie is rare. Into that fold steps Pablo Berger, in this adaptation of Sara Varon’s graphic novel Robot Dreams. Moved after reading Varon’s work in 2010, Berger acquired Varon’s “carte blanche” permission to make a 2D animated adaptation however he saw fit. Like the graphic novel, Berger’s Robot Dreams is also dialogue-free.

Beginning production on Robot Dreams proved difficult. Berger originally teamed with Ireland’s Cartoon Saloon (2009’s The Secret of Kells, 2020’s Wolfwalkers) to make Robot Dreams, but these plans fell wayside when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. His schooling in how to make an animated film would come quickly. Despite an increased appetite for Spanish animation worldwide (2019’s Klaus, 2022’s Unicorn Wars), poor distribution and marketing of domestically-made animated movies has often meant Spanish animators have roved around Europe looking for work. With a pandemic sending those Spanish animators home, Berger and his Spanish and French producers set up “pop-up studios” in Madrid and Pamplona, purchased the infrastructure and space needed to make an animated feature, and recruited and hired animators. Berger’s admiration of animated film fuses the lessons of silent film acting (Berger made a gorgeous silent film in 2012’s Blancanieves; in interviews, Berger cites Charlie Chaplin’s movies as having the largest influence on Robot Dreams, alongside Takahata’s films) to result in one of the most emotionally honest films of the decade thus far – animated or otherwise.

Somewhere in Manhattan in the late 1980s in a world populated entirely of anthropomorphized animals, we find ourselves in Dog’s apartment. Dog, alone in this world, consuming yet another TV dinner, is channel surfing late one evening. He stumbles upon a commercial advertising a robot companion. Intrigued, he orders the robot companion and, with some difficulty, assembles Robot. The two become fast friends as they romp about New York City over a balmy summer, complete with walks around their neighborhood and Central Park, street food, trips to Coney Island, and roller blading along to the groovy tunes of Earth, Wind & Fire. At summer’s end, an accident sees the involuntary separation of Dog and Robot, endangering, for all that the viewer can assume, the most meaningful friendship in Dog’s life and Robot’s brief time of existence.

If you have not seen the film yet, let me address a popular perception early on in this piece. Set in a mostly-analog 1980s, Robot Dreams contains none of the agonizing over artificial intelligence or automatons in fashion in modern cinema. There is no commentary about how technology frays an individual’s connections to others. Robot is a rudimentary creation, closer to a sentient grade school science project than a Data or T-1000.

So what is Robot Dreams saying instead? Principally, it is about the loving bonds of friendship – how a friend can provide comfort and company, how they uplift the best parts of your very being. For Robot, the entirety of their life prior to the aforementioned accident (something that I, for non-viewers, am trying not to spoil as Robot Dreams’ emotional power is fully experienced if you know as little as possible) has been one of complete estival bliss. Robot, in due time, discovers that one of the most meaningful aspects of friendship is that such relationships will eventually conclude – a fundamental part of life. And for Dog, Robot’s entrance into his life allows him to realize that, yes, he can summon the courage to connect with his fellow animals, realizing his self-worth. Perhaps Dog gives up addressing the accident a little too easily, but the separation of friends has a way of complicating emotions and provoking peculiar reactions.

On occasion, Robot Dreams’ spirit reminds me of Charlie Chaplin’s silent feature film period (1921-1936) – in which Chaplin, at the height of his filmmaking prowess, most successfully wove together slapstick comedy and pathos. On paper, pathos and slapstick should not mix, but Chaplin was the master of combining the two. No wonder Berger fully acknowledges the influence of his favorite Chaplin work, City Lights (1931), here.

Across Robot Dreams, Berger inserts an absurd visual humor that works both because almost all of the characters are animals and despite the fact almost everyone is an animal. A busking octopus in the New York City subway? Check. The image of pigs playing on the beach while sunburnt to a blazing red? You bet. A dancing dream sequence where one of our lead characters finds himself in The Wizard of Oz performing Busby Berkeley-esque choreography on the Yellow Brick Road? Why not? Much of Chaplin’s silent film humor didn’t come from his Little Tramp character, but the silliness, ego, and/or absentmindedness of all those surrounding the Tramp. In City Lights, humor also came from the rough-and-tumble edges of urban America. Such is the case, too, in Robot Dreams, with its blemished, trash-strewn depiction of late ‘80s New York (credit must also go to the sound mix, as they perfectly capture how ambiently noisy a big city can be).

Amid all that comedy, Berger nails the balance between the pathos and the hilarity – pushing too far in either direction would easily undermine the other. The film’s melancholy shows up in ostensibly happy moments and places of recreation: a realization during a rooftop barbeque lunch, the emptiness of a shuttered Coney Island beach in the winter, and an afternoon of kiting in Central Park. It captures how our thoughts of erstwhile or involuntarily separated friends come to us innocuously, in places that stir memories that we might, in our present company, might not speak of aloud.

As the film’s third character, New York City (where Berger lived for a decade) is a global cultural capital, a citywide theater of dreams, a skyscraper-filled signature to the American Dream. To paraphrase Sinatra, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. But it tends to grind those dreams into dust. The city’s bureaucratic quagmire is lampooned here, as is its reputation for mean-spirited or jaded locals. Robot Dreams also depicts the visual and socioeconomic differences between the city’s boroughs. With such a jumble of folks of different life stations mashed together, Dog’s people-watching, er, animal-watching during his loneliest moments makes him feel the full intensity of his social isolation. With Robot, however, Dog has a naïve companion that he can show the best of the city to. Robot has no understanding of passive-aggressive or outright hostile behavior (see: Robot hilariously not understanding what a middle finger salute is – the only objectionable scene if you are considering showing this to younger viewers). Within this city of contradictions, Dog and Robot’s love is here to stay.

Though he is no animator, his experience in guiding Spanish actresses Ángela Molina, Maribel Verdú, and Macarena García in Blancanieves through a silent film was valuable. In animated film, there is a tendency towards overexaggerating emotions. But with Robot Dreams’ close adaptation of the graphic novel’s ligne claire style and the nature of Robot’s face, the typical level of exaggeration in animation could not fly in Robot Dreams. Berger and storyboard artist Maca Gil (2022’s My Father’s Dragon, the 2023 Peanuts special One-of-a-Kind Marcie) made few alterations to the storyboards, fully knowing how they wished to frame the film, and hoping to convey the film’s emotions with the facial subtlety seen in the graphic novel. Character designer Daniel Fernandez Casas (Klaus, 2024’s IF) accomplishes this with a minimum of lines to outline characters’ bodies and faces. Meanwhile, art director José Luis Ágreda (2018’s Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles) and animation director Benoît Féroumont (primarily a graphic novelist) visually translated Sara Varon’s graphic novel using flat colors and a lack of shading to convey background and character depth (one still needs shading, of course, to convey lights and darks of an interior or exterior).

Robot Dreams’ nomination for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature this year was one of the most pleasant surprises of the 96th Academy Awards. In North America, Robot Dreams’ distributor, Neon, has pursued an inexplicable distribution and marketing strategy of not allowing the film a true theatrical release until months after the end of the last Oscars. The film was available for a one-night special screening in select theaters in and near major North American cities the Wednesday before the Academy Awards. And only now (as of the weekend of May 31, 2024), Neon will release Robot Dreams this weekend in two New York City theaters, the following weekend in and around Los Angeles, with few other locations confirmed – well after interest to watch the film theatrically piqued in North America.

Alongside Neon’s near-nonexistent distribution and marketing of Jonas Poher Rasmussen's animated documentary Flee (2021, Denmark), one has to question Neon’s commitment to animated features and whether the company has a genuine interest in showing their animated acquisitions to people outside major North American cities. This is distributional malpractice and maddeningly disrespectful from one of the most acclaimed independent distributors of the last decade.

In Robot Dreams, Pablo Berger and his crew made perhaps the best animated feature of the previous calendar year. Robot Dreams might not have the artistic sumptuousness of the best anime films today, nor the digital polish one expects from the work of a major American animation studio. By film’s end, its simple, accessible style cannot hide its irrepressible emotional power. Its conclusion speaks to all of us who silently wonder about close friends long left to the past, their absence filled only by memory.

My rating: 8.5/10

^ Based on my personal imdb rating. My interpretation of that ratings system can be found in the “Ratings system” page on my blog. Half-points are always rounded down.

For more of my reviews tagged “My Movie Odyssey”, check out the tag of the same name on my blog.

[ao3feed-jonmartin]

All That is Terror and Pain Across Countless Worlds.

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/4e8vDzS by ZaraYara The Fears burst into the millions of new worlds, yet were disappointed on how these realities could not be within their ever reaching grasp. However The Web had a plan to bring upon fear on every single mind to have ever existed. If plan succeeds then there is truly no turning back. Words: 5722, Chapters: 3/?, Language: English Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast), Detective Grimoire (Video Games), Apocalyptic Horseplay (Webcomic), Smile For Me (Video Game), Psychonauts (Video Games), Monster Prom (Visual Novel), Jenny LeClue: Detectivu (Video Game), Hollow Knight (Video Games), Evelyn Evelyn - Evelyn Evelyn (Album), Wolfwalkers (2020), The Willoughbys (2020), Camp Camp (Web Series), ENA - Joel G (Web Series), Serina - Dylan Bajda, Homestuck, Hilda (Cartoon) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Categories: Multi, Other Characters: The Buried (The Magnus Archives), The Corruption (The Magnus Archives), The Dark (The Magnus Archives), The Desolation (The Magnus Archives), The End (The Magnus Archives), The Beholding (The Magnus Archives), The Extinction (The Magnus Archives), The Flesh (The Magnus Archives), The Hunt (The Magnus Archives), The Lonely (The Magnus Archives), The Slaughter (The Magnus Archives), The Spiral (The Magnus Archives), The Stranger (The Magnus Archives), The Vast (The Magnus Archives), Freya Fellow (Detective Grimoire), Fever (Apocalyptic Horseplay), Nat Vancey, Norma (Psychonauts), Sandy Fishnets, Robyn Goodfellowe, Jane Willoughby, The Hollow Knight | Pure Vessel, Max (Camp Camp), ENA (ENA), Frazie Aquato, Eve (Serina), Vriska Serket, Hilda (Hilda), David (Hilda), Frida (Hilda) Relationships: Frazie Aquato/Norma, Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist Additional Tags: Crossover, Angst, Pain All Over, Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault, Death, Body Horror, Blood and Gore read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/4e8vDzS

[kiwibirb1]

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate, and happy holidays to those who don't!

Okay now that that's out of the way

EEEEEEEEEE THERES A WOLFWALKERS GRAPHIC NOVEL

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Watch Wolf Walkers on Apple TV! Seriously it's an amazing animated movie, I greatly recommend it to all!

[space-ghost-with-the-most]

Tagged by: @bumblingbriars Nickname/s; Ghost/Ghostly, Ozzy, Beetle, Raven, Pegasus, Sunny (I'm queer, I got many names)

Sign; Aquarius/Year of the Monkey

Height; 5'7"

The last thing I googled; Alex Brightman probably

Amount of sleep; 11h (I have a sleep disorder)

Dream job; Graphic Novel Author, Voice Actor, Some kind of artist

Movie/book that summarizes you; That summaries me??? I guess you can tell my interests by what I like, some of my favorites are Baby Driver (fuck Spacey), Scott Pilgrim, Wendell & Wild, Tangled, Wolfwalkers and Breadwinners (Cartoon Salon)

Favorite song; Dreamland by Glass Animals

Favorite instrument; Guitar or Drums <3

Aesthetic; Alternative, Colorful? Punk

Favorite authors; Augh hrm... Xiran Jay Zhao, Neil Gaiman, I like old fiction by different authors and fanfiction

Random fun fact; I can roll my vocal cords not in the way people do 'rrrrr' roll, but as in I can shake them to mimic clicking sounds (I've had a classroom jump and tell me I sound like The Predator or a Clicker when I do it) or a cat purring when my mouth is closed! (I've been called Perry The Platypus for it </3)

I tag @hauntingskiss, @opulentrage, @jasonxavier, and anyone else!

[godzilla-reads]

🌸AUGUST READING WRAPUP 🌸

What have I been up to in August? Reading, it seems. I finished 15 books this month, bringing my yearly total to 115 so far! Here’s the list and the next photo for my Top 4 Reads because I couldn’t pick just 3 this time:

🌸 Hot Money by Naomi Klein

🌸 The Wild Swans by Jackie Morris

🌸 Hungry Ghost by Victoria Ying

🌸 Bug Boys Vol. 2: Outside and Beyond by Laura Knetzger

⭐️ East of the Sun West of the Moon by Jackie Morris

⭐️ Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future by Gloria Dickie

🌸 The Ice Bear by Jackie Morris

🌸 WolfWalkers: The Graphic Novel by Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, and Sam Sattin

🌸 The Unwinding and Other Dreamings by Jackie Morris

🌸 The Bear on the Moon by Joanne Ryder and Carol Lacey

⭐️ The Skull by Jon Klassen

🌸 Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn

🌸 How to Resist Amazon and Why by Danny Caine

🌸 The Twelve Terrors of Christmas by John Updike and Edward Gorey

⭐️ A Field Guide to Draco Floris Dragons by Annie Stegg Gerard

What have you been reading in August??

[sycamorality]

WOLFWALKERS MENTIONED

Wolfwalkers my beloved<3333

Fun fact it has a graphic novel version :3

I don't have apple TV but I can rewatch it whenever I want bc I got the DVD hehe

THAT MOVIE IS SO GOOD!!!!! Forever my fav

ITS VERY FUN i really like it honestly. big fan of found family. probably inspired some oc concepts tbh

[ancient-namess]

thank you for the tag !!

1. yagi toshinori - my hero academia

2. spiderman noir - spiderverse (+ marvel comics but to a slightly lesser extent bc his comics are anything but comforting)

3. hunter - the owl house

4. robyn goodfellowe - wolfwalkers

5. nimona - particularly from the 2023 movie, but the graphic novel also counts <3

tagging: @cryptid-crawly​ @anacecherry​ @kestrel-wylde​ and anyone else who wants to do this !!

five comfort characters, five tags

got tagged by both @pumpking64 and @daency (thanks guys (genderneutral)) so i decided to start a new one :)

Vincent Ross - Polizeiruf Swiecko/Frankfurt/Brandenburg (honestly there are too many options)

Crowley - Good Omens (Neil Gaiman took away the comfort but I’m just kinda trying to ignore that)

Kyla/Rain/Lucy/Hope - Slated series by Teri Terry (was super obsessed with the books when i was like thirteen and honestly i’ve read them more often than i can count. definitely need to read them again soon) (i’m talking about one character here btw she just goes through multiple names throughout the story)

Loki (not mcu exactly, more like the idea of him and how he’s being interpreted across different media while still kinda keeping his core aspects from mythology?! idk i’m just fascinated by him and how his character is always so different but also the same depending on the interpretation)

Klaus Hargreeves - Umbrella Academy (good vibe, amazing style, can see ghosts (and i’m fascinated by the concept of ghosts) so yeah, he’s great)

Tags: @shadow-of-a-cloud @neverland-in-space @lyxchen @ancient-namess @homoromoacecase

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i know its expensive and takes more time and disney has totally taken over the market, but what i would give for more beautifully animated 2D films. .. . like, some Gobelins short films but longer.. like Louise or Sundown or Quand j’ai replacé Camille , or Contretemps. they’re all so so good. and i know there are good 2d animations (mostly indie to some extent) and i’ve watched lots, but god i wish there were more. and i wish there was more mainstream competition against disney. especially because i think their 2d movies are kind of ehhh anyway. i just want animation thats good and able to be abstract and also not feel the need to fill every single second with noise. it annoys me sm. anyway i love watching the gobelins short films u should check them out, especially the ones i said theyre my favourites