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A movie where every scene that takes place in America has a garish red and blue filter on it.

At one point there’s an exterior shot of the White House, but the flagpole above the main entrance is flying the Canadian flag. This is never remarked upon.

Later on there’s a scene where the American president – who is inexplicably wearing a Coast Guard dress uniform – gazes pensively out the Oval Office window, through which the Statue of Liberty is clearly visible in the middle distance.

The first American scene in each act is prefaced with an establishing shot that is obviously early 90s archive footage of the Empire State Building, over which a few bars of music that are not _quite_ ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ play. 70% of the Americans are played by Australians who haven’t quite got the accent down.

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I’m crying like a baby

Tiny little inch worm is determined to make it across a gap 

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I saw a tweet about contrapposto, so here’s a post about the lesser-known but equally valid postos that everyone forgets about.

Blonde hair is so romanticized and sought after and brown hair is considered plain but consider: we’ve actually got eyebrows.

Reading Elfquest: Shards is like:

*Rayek does something stupid* *Winnowill completes her villain punch card and wins a free smoothie* *Rayek does something stupid* *Third polycule is introduced* *Skywise is relegated to younger brother status and has a moment* *Rayek does something s-*

sometimes a family is a bunch of lions from a criminal organization, and their gay deer boss.

The Wave

Team “not actually oblivious to flirting, just terrified of appearing presumptuous” represent.

“Yes, in the balance of consideration this person’s behaviour could certainly be interpreted as flirtatious, but it would be purest arrogance for me to just assume they actually meant what they said. I should gather more evidence. Forever.”

Les statues meurent aussi (Ghislain Cloquet, Chris Marker & Alain Resnais, 1953).

Statues also Die is a good film for those interested in art and museums. Commissioned and partially paid by Présence Africaine it was released in 1953. The film shows how the treatement of African art (called Art Nègre at the time and considered simpler) and Colonialism erased African cultures and denied African and Black people the dignity of their past. It was forbidden as in the ‘50 French still had colonies in Africa, it was allowed on 1963. 

You can watch it here in (French with English subtitles) [many scenes of colonial France and an animals suffering dying]

Important ideas to consider when creating characters who are black and indigenous people of color. (x)

One of the things about Zel that’s always fascinated me, as someone who did a lot of work in college on developmental psychology and clinical studies, was the very real fact that a child’s emotional growth stunts–freezes, or at least retards–at the point of trauma, even if intellectual and physical growth continue. 

So in essence,  despite being a fiercely independent, competent, intelligent adult man, Zel is still emotionally a 15-year-old adolescent boy, because that’s when Rezo turned him into a chimera. 

 Hence the emotional constipation which turns into immature outbursts of rage and frustration. In the Slayers show, because it’s largely a comedy, this is played off for laughs.  Xelloss burns the page of the Claire Bible, and Zelgadis gets so angry that he blacks out and faints.  The Gang eats too noisily and chaotically in a tavern, and he just gets up and BSOD’s and leaves.  These are humorous but in the context of healthy emotional development, they’re signs of how he was traumatized and is still stuck, in a way, at the point of his trauma. 

Notably as each season of Slayers progresses, he becomes more and more emotionally mature, stable, and independent. Which is good. 👍