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Why Worry?

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Me. About Me. Name's Nicole. I'm 24. I'm in love with concerts and Disney.
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heyytalia

I’ve got a challenge...

I am thinking of a series…Can you guess it? Here are some clues:

  • the cast is mostly male
  • main character is bright, energetic, and cheerful
  • there’s a ton of characters (some have only appeared once)
  • most of the characters seem human, but are not actually human
  • they live among humankind, but can never be human
  • hint hint: anthropomorphism
  • they’re also extremely old, but never age
  • they did experience WWII at some point…
  • not much of a story arc, mostly slice of life episodes (although there was a slight story arc at the beginning of the series, it kind of sidetracked)
  • stories are filled with little historical tidbits here and there
  • tons of Christmas and Halloween episodes/events for some reason
  • CHARACTER SONGS
  • has an English dub
  • has a theatrical movie that’s extremely wacky, even compared to the context of the original series, and leaves people (even fans) more confused than anything else
  • the fandom can agree that the animation has improved over the years
  • shipping arguments can cause a fandom war
  • tons of fan videos on YouTube
  • it is SUPER popular in Japan
  • very elusive creator

What am I thinking of?

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WRONG

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Do u ever not realize how starved for affection u are till someone hugs u a bit tighter than normal and you find that you really don’t want to let go

Touch starvation is actually a thing. The term for it that’s emerging in medical/psych circles is “skin hunger”. We as humans are meant to be much more social- and especially physically social - than we actually are, and Americans in particular are often touch starved because the casual, platonic contact that often happens between friends in other places just. Does not happen here.

There’s a really Puritan idea that’s pervaded our culture, that touch and sex are inherently linked, and it’s doing us a massive disservice. Touch is incredibly important for humans- hugs reduce blood pressure, cuddling releases oxytocin, and babies will straight up DIE without being touched enough because the stimulation releases hormones that are integral to their healthy development.

We were never meant to hold one another at arm’s length, and if you feel you need physical contact, don’t be afraid to ask for it! Hug your mom. Cuddle a friend on the couch. Ask. There’s a good chance that they need contact just as much as you do.

person: what’s wrong with you

me: i have the Skin Hunger

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Carrie Fisher hiding in the trash cans on the backlot of the Star Wars set, 1976

Carrie Fisher inside a trash can while doing promotion for The Empire Strikes Back, 1980

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rosworms

Maui is not obese

Maui is a powerful demigod. Big and strong and… oh, you think he looks fat?

That’s probably because you’ve been conditioned by the media to accept this

as what strong and fit looks like. Amiright?

Sadly… these guys are not all that strong. Yeah, they got muscles… but they aren’t built in a useful way. They are built for looks and that’s about it.

This… 

is a strong guy. Actually a competitor in the Strongman competition. But… his tummy sticks out and he doesn’t look like a Dorito. 

You know who else is strong?

These guys…

And Maui…

Look at those arms, omg. And that solid, sturdy torso. You can see a shadow where his meat covers his ribs, but he doesn’t look like any slouch to me.

And this guy…

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That’s Dwayne Johnson’s grandfather. When the Disney animators showed him their sketches of Maui, he pulled out a picture of his grandfather and showed it to them because he was amazed how similar they looked. This dude was also a pro wrestler.

There’s actually a great infographic about ab muscles and stuff over HERE. but this is the part i want to show you.

Now… look at Maui again.

That thickness don’t move like fat. It doesn’t jiggle and he’s able to flex it. Look at how it sits on his body. It doesn’t sag… he doesn’t have a gut. There’s even a slight V shape to his torso.

It’s just big and not ‘defined’.

And people aren’t used to that.

(sorry, this isn’t the most organized post… i kinda just let it all spill out)

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jaxblade

Another case of

ATHLETICS Over AESTHETICS

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do you ever watch something and think “this was written by a man”

i was up late night watching an episode of criminal minds fairly recently, for lack of a better thing to do. in the opening scene there are these two girls getting into their car in like a supermarket parking lot, not very well lit, in the middle of the night. another car drives up right behind theirs and won’t move out of the way so this one girl is like “im gonna go see what this guy’s problem is” and gets out of the car, in a poorly lit parking lot, to confront a man who was behaving aggressively to them.

so that was the precise moment i realised that episode was written by a man.

I was watching an episode of CSI where the entire reason they were going forward with the case was that ‘no woman would wear a bra this expensive without also wearing the matching panties’.  What porn logic is this?  I was, at that moment, wearing the exact bra the Jane Doe was wearing and fuck no I didn’t spring for the matching panties.  Even if I did, I wouldn’t wear them as often as a bra.  Panties I wash daily.  Bras? Not so much.

But in CSI World, police resources were being mobilized on how irregular it would be for a woman to wear a $36 bra, but not caring about how she would look in just underthings.

Never mind not matching, but that they think $36 is expensive for a bra is probably the number one sign it was written by a man.

In Star Wars Padmé goes for Anakin while Ewan McGregor is around

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perplexingly

Imagine dragons sleeping the same way giraffes do

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geosaurus

Yessss! I wanna draw sleeping dragons tooo

Maybe they sleep like camels…

or cats…

or…. uh… snakes?

Yeeeeaaaaah

Or maybe they sleep on trees

There is nothing about this post I don’t love

tebianco

maybe they sleep like bats

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This is not what I thought they meant when they named a band Imagine Dragons, but I’m all for it.

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