It's Fine to be Weird

Everyone always gives Hannibal hell for refusing to acknowledge that his trauma had any impact on him, especially since he's a skilled psychiatrist, but imagine if he did admit that to himself. Then what? Then, all illusions of being self-made disappear. He won't be the serial killer who chooses to kill out of curiosity and appreciation for the art of death. He'd just be a product of his trauma. Everything that he assumed control of, even the ritual of eating his victims that he'd carefully cultivated, all of that would just be a byproduct of that winter. He would be completely at the mercy of that memory, his whole life dictated and warped by that incident. And he would lose himself. Better to believe this was all his design. Better to dismiss that winter and say that it was determined to happen from the beginning. It would have happened anyway. The teacup would've shattered anyway. He had made it shatter. This was his design.

if you don't have homemade ligaments, store-bought (k-tape) is fine

It’s actually impossible to not make the Hannibal wendigo look good I can’t 😭

we’ve started feeding this tortoiseshell-point siamese recently. she’s beautiful, aside from the fact she has disturbingly big, bulging blue eyes. we’ve started calling her… ‘goop’

it’s goop!

GUESS WHO HAD GOOPLETS! SIX ENTIRE BABIES! mama goop held onto her gooplings for an entire week longer than she had to, so the gooplitos came out very well done and fluffy!!

nearly five years ago… since then, mama goop has aged significantly, and as she nears the end of her life, she’s been given a cushy retirement alongside her beloved husband, papa pumpkin. for everyone who remembers this post, the goop troop sends their regards

Gambit

By ArashiKumo1

The post about angel wings not needing to be purely white to be beautiful reminded me of a picture I LOVE

This pigeon is an angel

The fact that Will regularly hallucinated wounded animals crying because it was one of the most distressing things his mind could come up with

my watery friend... are you too brushed with the pattern of the dappled light...?

The grandpa from Midsommar is the reason we have bishounen in manga and anime

This is Bjorn Andresen, an actor who became famous around the world, especially in Japan, for his beauty.

His appearance inspired a lot of the classic pretty-boy manga characters, including characters like Oskar from the Rose of Versailles, and Griffith from Berserk. He was an idol in Japan for a long time. This is him in Midsommar;

They De-Tumblrized Ms. Frizzle

@transfagsculine​

#how do yall whitewash a white woman 

why would you leave this in the tags lmao

Allow me to explain:

Everyone dropping this pic

And talking about how the new frizz her is her niece, allow me to do a direct side by side instead

These are STILL not the same woman. Where is the icon fashion, the earrings (the chameleon, which might be in the new show idk I haven't watched it), the prominent hooked nose, the broader shoulders, the volume to her hair, the LIFE IN HER EYES

This frizzle looks like she's been called into the school board for inappropriate behavior and dress one too many times and has been broken.

Also others have said it before me but I couldn't find it in the scroll backs but they whitewashed all the kids too. They same face syndromed everyone to either be easier to draw or be more ambiguous so as not to offend or both or something, and it just makes me sad

Fuck it I did the digging cause I'm still mad

And that’s not even to mention what they did to the bus itself.

The old bus had a personality and life and fun and now it’s just… a bus.

HOW DO Y’ALL WHITEWASH A BUS?!

It's gives "anti abortion Jehova's Witness cartoon" now

This, I find, is an excellent example of how “aesthetic cleanliness” usually just means making something less interesting. Taking the bus and Frizz’s dresses as a relatively unproblematic, but very stupid, example first. What the showrunners have done here is seen the visuals of the original show and tried to declutter them for the tastes of modern audiences. The issue is that the taste they’re catering to is that of parents because they are generally choosing what children watch, and those parents don’t like clutter, and they see all of those fun shapes and colors as visual noise. YouTuber Tantacrul has a great video on how this effects children in music education. In short it’s why no children’s music toys have the capabilities for experimentation that normal instruments do, parents can’t stand “inharmonious sounds”

The much bigger problem here comes when this design philosophy bleeds into the character designs. What they’ve tried to do is make the show easier to look at by smoothing everything out making it all look a little more “cohesive.” Problem is that when you homogenize everything you, well… homogenize everything. Skin tones are lightened, curls are straightened, Noses are smoothed, fat kids are made skinny, it all becomes less diverse and less interesting. It paints a picture of an executive who thinks that people of color and other marginalized people won’t sell, their version of the magic school bus will be much neater, much more fitting to show our kids.

TL;DR:

Problem a) they tried to declutter the visuals to cater to modern parents who like “clean aesthetics,” without considering what will be fun for kids to watch

Problem b) in doing so they whitewashed the character designs and send the deeply insidious message that certain people don’t fit the desired aesthetic and are thus, not fit to be represented in kids tv

Brutally I suspect it's also because the 'cleaner' visuals are less detailed and therefore take less time to animate and are therefore cheaper to produce

Why pay an already overworked animator for ten hours of actually good content when you can pay them for five hours of 'modernised' (read: shittier) content?

As a parent this shows apparently try to "cater to" I can say I hate this style.

I grew up with the Disney Afternoon Cartoons at their peak (Old DuckTales, TaleSpin, GummiBears, Little Mermaid) and remember how *beautiful* cartoons used to be.

And just guess what my kids are watching😏

Greetings, I would like to wish chronic pain a very unhappy “fuck you.”

Do you want a Bardic?

everyone is like will is so slutty! he's such a man whore. wrong! he's a man having an anxiety attack on the floor twitching and writhing and screaming and somehow being objectified through the whole thing. hannibal is an actual slutty man whore btw

Damn right correct take

Like y'all I KNOW that hearing for the first time that the language you use to define yourself is a cultural construct which carries meanings that can differ across time, place, and context can feel invalidating and/or outrageous, but you need to work on really internalizing the knowledge that language is an imperfect tool that we use in our attempts to articulate the depths of human experience, and therefore terminology Queer folks use to describe ourselves are not fixed objects that sprung as if by magic into the world, but rather the process of long collective explorations, conversations and negotiations.

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Everything ain't about you.

We developed language to tell one another where the ripe fruit is and where the sharp pointy toothed animals are, not for conveying metaphysical concepts or ephemeral feelings. Some things are bound to be misinterpreted or badly communicated

You get it!!!

The image of Leela from Episode 19 of Season 3, "Roswell That Ends Well"

When mom made you dress up as feminine as possible to go out in public and tells you what a beauty you are

“let’s run away together” trope fucks me up bc it’s almost always doomed. but what if it’s not this time.