Bruce Wayne, squinting at the annual bat-tech budget: Hey Tim, has our manufacturer increased the price for the batarangs? I swear the cost is higher than last year.

Tim Drake, who just embezzled an entire Batmobile: ... Yeah.

In response to @violent138's tags

Canonically, The Watchtower is funded by a line item hidden in the Waynetech Aerospace division R&D budget. Tim could embezzle enough to buy a mid-sized nation and Batman ain’t noticing shit.

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It seems a lot of people are misunderstanding the purpose of Klaus’s animation

See, a lot of reviewers describe it as sort of a reverse Paperman, a 2D movie that looks like CGI instead of vice versa, and think the reason it was animated that way was to trick audiences into thinking it was CGI since they wouldn’t accept a 2D-animated film that looks 2D.

But if you look up interviews with director Sergio Pablos, you’ll see that his purpose was NOT to trick people into thinking it was CGI, but to essentially look like an illustration, and give it the same kind of shading, texturing, and detail you’d see in concept art and promotional material.

He didn’t want to bring 2D animation back, he wanted to bring it forward, and take it in a new unique direction that hadn’t been done before, as he believes staying in the past is what caused it to die out. (For instance, he believes The Princess and the Frog wasn’t a big hit because it went out of its way to look exactly like the older Disney films.) Basically, how can you build upon current 2D technology while keeping everything we like about classic 2D animation?

He noticed that in a lot of older 2D-animated films, the characters look like flat-colored stickers against a detailed background, and pointed out that if this was a deliberate stylistic choice, then why do they have so much shading and texturing in the promotional material? Clearly, this was a technological limitation that his team could improve upon, which they did via groundbreaking technology. (I’d share a video about the programs used to do it, but the video was made by Andrew Dobson, and the less I have to do with him, the better.)

Pablos doesn’t necessarily want other 2D studios to do the exact same thing his studio did, but he does hope that other studios will try out with experimenting new tricks with 2D animation in their own way, as there isn’t much you can do with CGI that hasn’t already been done, but there’s a LOT of new and unexplored potential for 2D animation. 

This is a stupid conversation! and I'm not going to continue it! literally so fucking correct

What I’m really proud of is the fact that he made SURE the audience understood why the caller was being an idiot. He made a PERFECT comparison, gave the caller an honest chance to re-evaluate and change his mind. His point landed, everyone knew it, even the caller (note his pause and almost hesitancy after being asked).

But when the caller decided to bulldoze on anyway, because god forbid actually listen to the other person in the conversation, the expert cut him off and refused his time. And good for him.

[VD: A tweet by @ g33kgurli, tweeted at 9:47 PM on Dec 17, 2021. It reads, "Perhaps the best clap back to antivaxxers and antimaskers." Attached is a video from The Thom Hartmann Program, where Hartmann is talking with a caller. The conversation goes as follows:

Caller: Hey Thom. Uh, I was listening to you for the last hour so, um, I heard survival of the fittest. Um, you know some of us choose not to vaccinate and uh--

Hartmann: You're nuts, Nicholas.

Caller: --because we work very hard about staying fit, eating healthy, and our natural immune system.

Hartmann: So Nicholas if you're so healthy, would you have unprotected sex with somebody who has syphilis or gonorrhea?

Caller: You're missing the point.

Hartmann: No, I'm not missing the point. They're contagious diseases. Would you have unprotected sex with somebody who has syphilis and gonorrhea and not worry about it because you're so healthy?

Caller: [pause] No, I wouldn't do that.

Hartmann: Okay, then why would you expose yourself to covid without having some protection?

Caller: Because the protection is my natural immunity.

Hartmann: No, it's not. Tell that--

Caller: Yes, yes, my natural immune system--

Hartmann: Tell that to eight hundred thousand dead Americans. Nicholas, this is- this is a stupid conversation and I'm not going to continue it.

/end VD]

Everyone who’s ever died of a disease had an immune system

I mean, we all knew, but thanks for admitting that you wanna surpress freedom of speech and the spread of information?

Zuko having a connection to the spirit world but instead of it being something deep and profound, it’s just because he spent three years pre-finding the avatar running towards the first weird magical shit he saw.

Aang and Zuko journey to the Spirit World.

The Spirits: Oh look, the avatar.

The Spirits when they see Zuko: AND HE BROUGHT ZUKO WITH HIM! GUYS ZUKO’S BACK!!! EVERYONE HE’S HERE!!! ZUKO YOU BASTARD HOW ARE YOU?!

iroh’s connection to the spirit world is one of sober mutual respect

zuko is the spirits’ equivalent of that one racoon who just hangs out inside a gas station on top of the slurpee machine so persistently that he’s given a namebadge and an employee cubby in the break room

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Trans Zuko is so funny to me. I’m not saying this to try and make fun of people who headcanon him as trans - trans headcanons are great and I support them. It’s just wild because it implies Ozai was out here like:

[Image description: a white woman with blonde hair is saying:

‘I can excuse burning a kid’s face, but I draw the line at misgendering’.

The words ‘burning a kid’s face’ and ‘misgendering’ have been edited in.

End description]

Possible explanations I just pulled out of my arse:

Trans rights not children’s rights

That last one tho.

Ozai over here frowning as Ursa calmly presents him with Zuko and Azula one day all like “I thought I had two daughters but I don’t know enough about my children to dispute it.”

That last one… that’s the one.

I once saw someone suggest that Ozai failed to notice because Zuko and Azula traded genders.

personally i think you should be able to afford a place to live with a part-time job

dare i even say that, with how much technology has advanced in america, the 40 hour work week shouldn't be as commonplace and you should still get full-time employment benefits when you're working less than that actually

this is a total normal thing for ANOTHER COUNTRY'S foreign intelligence agency front to say to American university students who are peacefully demonstrating against the genocide and oppression of Palestinians

im noticing that for a lot of americans “free palestine” has been an ideological motto and symbol rather than them actually believing in their heart that freedom is attainable and necessary

palestinians deserve the right to be able to travel freely in our homeland. to even visit our homeland. for us to have citizenship and rights to our own country. to grow our plants. practice our religions. live without fear that our children can be kidnapped by israeli forces on their violent whims. to not have our life savings poured into building a home for our families that are torn down without real warning by israeli bulldozers. to no longer be refugees. like this is real life. this is real.

we don’t want to be reduced to a never ending slogan. we want to put down our need for resistance. to rest & to live.

as the tweet pointed out, eurovision season is next week, so PLEASE, boycott! boycott the contest, the participating artists, and the broadcasters who are showing it!

until Armenia and Palestine are free & israel and azerbaijan are banned, there CANNOT be a good reason to engage with eurovision. tweet the social media teams, email the broadcasting corporations, make it KNOWN that you are not going to allow them to continue to platform both azerbaijan and israel. send complaints to ofcom, but give the actual contest & music NOTHING - don't hate watch/listen. don't stream the songs. don't even PIRATE it. give them NOTHING, but take EVERY OPPORTUNITY to address the fact that they're allowing genocidal fascists to participate.

BOYCOTT EUROVISION! and boycott the LOT of it!

the father the son and the holy spirit

On top of that, a lot of (foreign) names for tribal groups or communities boil down to:

"Those Guys Who Aren't Us".

This happened for the same reason, explorers talking with a group they had contact with and asking them about their neighbours. These names are known as exonyms because they've been applied from outside the group.

One famous example is Eskimo - the etymology is disputed but the most accepted meaning is "The Guys Who Wear Snowshoes", as named by tribes who did not wear snowshoes. That's why the word has been phased out for Inuit - lit. "The People" (or, essentially "Us").

Or my favourite one - we don't know what the Celts called themselves. Celt comes from the Greek keltoi, meaning "Foreigner". The Romans referred to the Celtic peoples of modern-day France as gauls, meaning... "Foreigner". The French refer to the Welsh as gallois, meaning... "Foreigner"!

Even "Welsh" essentially means "Foreigner"! It's derived from a generic Old German word for people living in Gaul. But the Welsh call themselves Cymry, which means "fellow countrymen".

In short: scratch the surface and many names mean either "us" or "them", and no one in human history has had any imagination.

You can't complain about people being called 'The People' when you live on a planet called 'The Ground'.

you can’t support autistic people and support the police. No amount of paint jobs or sensitivity training can stop police from killing with impunity

And fuck the jigsaw puzzle imagery advanced by the eugenicists at Autism Speaks. We’re not a “puzzle” to be “solved“

Half of all people killed by cops have a disability, because cops aren’t trained to recognize or deal with people with disabilities and very few places have people who are trained for those situations easily accessible during emergencies. So the cops come in and do what they’re paid to do - murder anyone who’s inconvenient to the state

need I say more