Imperious Shrew

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"Knowing that the reward for saving the world yet again will be going back to school and having another year of working just this hard forever."

- Dimension 20, Fantasy High: Junior Year, Episode 2

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The Bad Kids are hunkered around a small table in Krom's Diner, digging into their plates of cottage cheese and ice cream, completely exhausted. Kristen Applebees, with her tracksuit unzipped and tied around her waist to show her sports bra and shirt, toys with her fork and watched the cheese fall from its prongs. Her phone rests on the table, face up, and glows purple as Cassandra continues to message her sole follower.

Gorgug Thistlespring is sat next to her, not bothering with his mostly-cleared plate, and is instead staring down at his phone. His headphones rest around his neck, his goggles up on his hair with a slight mark from where he's been wearing them on his face, and he's wearing his grey hoodie. Riz Gukgak is peeking over his arm at the screen, curious, and is sandwiched between him and Fabian. He appears to be the most awake, always too wired in to properly show his exhaustion until he is overwhelmed and already searching for the next mystery to solve.

Fabian Seacaster is fully zoned out, staring off into space, and is sat with both his arms on the back of the seating behind his friends. There is a small bandage on his jaw and various bruises are littered over his skin from his tumbles under the wheels of the van. Adaine Abernant, on the level of tired where she looks slightly manic, is floating her utensils over his head in a blue glow to amuse herself. She's hunched over with poor posture, also ignoring her food, and entirely focused on her spellcasting as if it's the only thing keeping her both awake and sane.

Fig Faeth is chewing a large mouthful of her cottage cheese and ice cream, leaving splatters on the table and her shirt, but the tiredness is catching up on her. There is a large bandage over the back of her right hand, soaked with blood, from where she'd let a hit land from a balista.

The sun is rising and the sky is warm colours as Elmville wakes up, ready to start another day and herald the new year of school. The Bad Kids, with no fanfare or greeting party for saving the world yet again, are well aware they will not have time to sleep before their first day of school.]

the wording on this Jack russell vid beamed a permanent mark onto my brain

absolutely fucking obsessed with this picture of him as a puppy. that's animal

reposting a favorite reddit moment of mine since god knows if ill ever see it again

There is something so funny about calling something without a brain neurodivergent

Alright whose bingo sheet had "Riz hisses at someone"

When I was a kid my family pretended to get raptured so I would think I was left behind on earth while they all went to heaven.

I was like 8 years old and my sister and mom had gotten really into the Left Behind novels (bible fan fic about the rapture). In the books when the rapture happened the clothes that people were wearing when they got raptured were left behind in neatly folded piles.

One day when I was getting home from school my family decided that they would leave piles of neatly folded clothes around the house, and then hide in the basement.

The intended effect was that I would get home and see the clothes then, think that my family had been raptured and that I wasn’t good enough to get into heaven… or something?

The problem was that I had never read these books, and didn’t really think about the rapture very often. There was no reason that I would see some laundry on the floor and think “The rapture happened and I’ve been abandoned by God! I’ll never see my family again!! Oh nooo!!!!”

I just sat down and watched cartoons and eventually my family got bored and revealed that they were all hiding in the basement.

It’s a good thing I didn’t understand the joke, otherwise that shit would have been traumatic.

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Uh Oh, The One Other Guy Having The Same Problem As You Got Zero Replies To His Post On Reddit That He Made 5 Years Ago

Eighty Percent

He will be consumed just like his peers

gender is a performance and im getting heckled by those old gay muppets

Those tags had me weeping actual tears of mirth holy fuck

embroidery animation collab with Rosie Brain Embroidery

link to tutorial about designing the reference animation: https://youtu.be/epCdVCWzISs?si=fJ0pk6PgpoPsR3mU

I submit the intro for Hunchback of Notre Dame beats Circle of Life raw.

Especially since the former doesn’t have flocks of pink birds that immediately make me think, “Sure, Disney, you weren’t influenced at all by Osamu Tezuka. Tell us another one.”

This movie was surprisingly hardcore for a Disney retelling of Victor Hugo’s really screwed up story.

It also did a ton of great stuff with God and religion and Catholicism that somehow managed to still be about people and not bring “Why Religion Sucks” into the whole thing, which is aces.

One thing that surprises me is how well the animation has aged. Strangely enough, it looked weird at the time; we weren’t really used to traditional animation blended with computer backgrounds. But now that pretty much everything is computer animated, you can really appreciate how effin’ gorgeous the Cathedral backgrounds are.

Also, God Help the Outcasts is the most honest song featured in a Disney movie. “Honest” meaning it doesn’t feel manufactured specifically to be played in a suburbanite van ferrying kids to McDonalds. It’s raw, open, and genuine.

(Needless to say, there is nothing suburban about Hellfire, ho ho ho. Will we ever again see a Disney villain essentially sing, “Help me Mary, I have an unholy erection?”)

okay but NO DISNEY VILLAIN SONG has EVER gone or WILL ever go as fucking hard as Hellfire.

the fucking LATIN CHANTING IN THE BACKGROUND?

It’s not my fault!

I’m not to blame.

It was the gypsy girl, the witch who sent this flame!

the fucking LATIN CHANTING of the PENITENTIAL RITE the taken DIRECTLY from the ROMAN MISSAL? the STANDARD EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE professed aloud by all the members of the congregation during the ENTRANCE RITE of the CELEBRATION OF MASS???

I confess to almighty God

and to you, my brothers and sisters,

that I have greatly sinned,

in my thoughts and in my words,

in what I have done and in what I have failed to do,

through my fault (mea culpa), through my fault (mea cupla),

through my most grievous fault (mea maxima cupla);

therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin,

all the Angels and Saints,

and you, my brothers and sisters,

to pray for me to the Lord our God.

A prayer meant to be IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED by absolution by the priest??????

May almighty God have mercy on us,

forgive us our sins,

and bring us to everlasting life.

Because the maxima cupla? The most grievous fault??? Is referring to Original Sin. A flaw passed down to humanity that we as individuals have never been able to control, that we are not expected to control on our own. It’s our job to try to do the right thing! But when we mess it up! We can just ask for forgiveness! Ask for help! And try again! Come back next Sunday! Say the same prayer! “Hey I fucked up and I’m real sorry and I don’t want to anymore! Please help!”

But! And this is critical! Frollo literally spends this entire song (and tbh the whole movie) rejecting the idea that he has ever done anything wrong ever, and so if he did, CLEARLY it MUST BE someone else’s fault.

It’s not my fault!

If in God’s plan,

He made the Devil so much stronger than a man!

(Fun fact, follows the same kind of finger-pointing as in the OG sin in Genesis 3 - Adam blames Eve (and also God - “the woman who you put here with me gave it to me, and so I ate”), and then Eve blames the Serpent “The serpent tricked me, and so I ate it.”)

It’s someone else’s fault, anyone else’s fault, but not Frollo’s. The prayer Frollo is parroting is a request for mercy (for wrongs done) and grace (to avoid wrongs in the future). It is a prayer that is built upon the understanding that the maxima cupla is yours, but you are not to blame. You need help to overcome it.

And so while Frollo may be praying the words of the Penitential Rite, he is fundamentally misunderstanding the function and meaning of the prayer. He is not asking for forgiveness. After all, his conscience is clear. He is a righteous man. It is what has been placed before him (“the woman whom you put here”) and the power of the Devil (“the serpent tricked me”) that have led him to this place.

OKAY BUT LISTEN THERE’S ANOTHER THING.

Quasimodo’s disability.

Back in the day I had one of those giant “the making of” books for this movie. THE ANIMATORS HAD TO FIGHT FOR HIS DISABILITY. Early on producers wanted him to wear his hair “in a beautiful spray over his face” to hide it, and didn’t want him to have a limp. THE RANK-AND-FILE ANIMATORS DEMANDED IT. There was actually a risk of it going into development hell because of it. It made him more difficult to animate and they still fought for it.

There’s a reason the animation in this movie went so hard. Even during development the animators knew they’d never get to do something like it again, and they made DAMN sure we knew what they could do if only they were allowed.

I also like that Hellfire comes right after Heaven’s Light- another song about a man desiring Esmeralda. making it clear that the problem isn’t desire; it’s possessiveness

it’s not without issues (see: leaning into some Romani stereotypes and using the G-word) but damn. that movie went hard