Not to get emo on main but you ever think about how the troop sang about their dreams of finding “a girl worth fighting for”, and they think their girl worth fighting for is one of romance, but the song abruptly comes to a halt when they find a different girl worth fighting for.
A tiny girl that had been killed at the hands of the Huns. A child too weak, too small to have any chance of withstanding the murderous invaders. That is their girl worth fighting for.
This is fucking horrific
It’s also worth noting that ‘A Girl Worth Fighting For’ is the last song in the movie. Up until here, it’s a fun movie, and the imminent invasion feels like it’s just there to keep the plot moving, and to provide a little bit of drama to spice things up. None of the soldier’s are quite taking this seriously yet; sure, Mulan wanted to save her father from the draft, and on some level she was aware that he would die if he went to war, but beyond that she’s interested in not being caught, and not shaming her family. Her motives are good, but they’re entirely self centered. All the other soldiers are more or less in the same boat - they want to get tougher, they want to impress girls, they want to be cool soldiers. Shang’s easily the most serious of the bunch at first, and even then it’s just because training bad soldiers will reflect poorly on him, and important people are paying attention.
The abrupt ending of ‘A Girl Worth Fighting For’ is the wake up call. The soldiers and the audience get slapped in the face with the realization of what’s really at stake here. China is being invaded. Villages are burning, civilians are dying, and this isn’t going to stop until the country is conquered or the invaders are defeated. This is not a fun musical, this is a major crisis.
Mulan is such a good movie for so many reasons, but the abrupt tone shift is such a major reason why. It’s an excellent commentary on the reality of war, and it being a kids movie just meant they had to make their point without showing any actual gore, which I’d honestly say makes it that much more poignant.
That moment, when they come over the rise and see the razed village is one of the best scenes in film. Period. Somehow, instead of giving me tonal whiplash, it took my breath away, and that’s one fuck of a balancing act.
So i’m just watching youtube, trying to chill out and whenever, when I get a Lego Movie 2 Ad for a video I was watching
do you see that timestamp at the bottom? Yeah, this is apparently 5 hours long.
And at first I was wondering, well is it the entire movie? No…this entire ad is for their newest “everything is awesome” type song. It is called “this song is gonna get stuck inside your head” and I am pretty goddamn sure it is going to repeat that one line over and over until my brain melts
So I am going to see if they really are playing it for 5 hours
10 minutes in. No breaks from looping yet
about half an hour in. I have been staring at what appears to be the child of Jack Frost and Edward Cullen wondering just how is he able to move in the cold if his body is dead
It is only 40 minutes in, and I can’t tell if I am immune to the music, or if my brain has stuck it as background noise
made it one hour and I swear I can hear them say the same line in two different ways
1) This song’s gonna get stuck inside your
2) This song’s going get stuck inside Joe
hour and 15 minutes
I have now found that even if I mute it I can still hear the song on point to the video
I have made a mistake. I paused the music for like one second. So the music that I hear now is clashing with the pace of the music I heard before
“THIS SONG’S BURN AGAIN STUCK INSIDE JOE”
almost 2 hours of watching a lego blob’s deep shoulder action. how does she do it? I will never know
I keep forgetting that I clicked on a different video to begin with. Like every minute I remember that this was an ad, then I just forget again
Is it possible for your ears to feel numb?
I can’t think anymore it took me 10 minutes to figure out that this was the half way point of 5 hours
it’s true. Hell is a skrillex concert with no bass drop
I’m losing track over what thread to use. I need to talk out loud to write or I would be writing the song
I can time my blinks so every time I open my eyes I see the same scene over and over and over and over and over and over and over and
i need to FEED
this is how the CIA tortures people i hope you know this
Everything I know is a goddamn lie. This movie this hellsite everything why do I even exist
I am almost done with this nightmare. God I am so afriad I can’t remember what silence sounds like
I am going to find the man that greenlit this piece of shit and shove legos down their throat
I hate this movie so much
IM SO FUCKIN CLOSE I,M SO FUCKING CLOSE
IT HAS A FUCKING END CARD
MY FUCKING GOD
…….i need a nap I need to just be absorbed into the void and hope that I can succumb to the darkness and not dream of legos
*bleeding to death because the paramedics can’t break the windows to get me out of my stupid fucking truck* heha well at least i dont have to worry about the friggin Zombie Apocalypse… awesomesauce 😎
as the time of the worst Halloween special ever approaches, make sure to start calling fellow transfems “pumpkin” to signal your intentions with them (if you don’t already)
As the spookiness surrounds us all it’s funny, all my followers start looking like pumpkins in need of their own worst Halloween special :3
Yesterday, I moderated this discussion with some Palestinians from the occupied west bank who have been resisting the zionists in their own little town. It was a strong mix of emotions to hear them speak - on one hand, very painful hear what they are put through daily, on the other, very invigorating to hear how much they value the protests in the universities to force them to divest. It is easy to fall into this trap of thinking “what are we doing apart from screaming free free Palestine??” But always remember that they are watching us, and if nothing else it gives them strength to see millions out there still supporting them.
If you’ve ever wondered how reposting hurts artists- yesterday I found a post from 2012ish featuring one of my Sherlock/Doctor Who pieces. That post had 17,604 notes. It wasn’t my post. My post of that art had 0 notes.
Apparently I saw the post once when it was at 6k because an artist I admired reblogged it, but at that stage I was very unwell & not experienced enough with Tumblr to realise what effect it might have.
Looking through the notes now I see that in the six years since then-
Several people got the design as a tattoo.
A number liked it enough to want custom designs but didn’t know how to contact me so that’s approximately £300 I didn’t get a chance to earn.
Someone used that art in the front cover of a comic by accident and while the company fixed it after I contacted them that’s exposure that it’s far too late to capitalise on now.
If you like an artwork that you find off tumblr, please, please I am begging you search for the artist’s name and see if they do actually have a Tumblr you could reblogged from instead. If you’re an artist search your username(s) every so often to see if your work has been taken.
A few hundred quid might not seem like a lot, but that’s a few months of income for me
Reminder to those new to tumblr that there is a difference between reposting and reblogging.
Reposting is where you save the image, make your own post, and share to others. Heavily frowned upon unless you 1. get permission from the artist and 2. still give proper credit to the artist. If the artist is off-tumbr and you want to share, again, GET PERMISSION FIRST! If they say no, oh well.
Reblogging is just using the reblog button (the button with the arrows) to share posts you see. In this case reblogging is actively encouraged because it can help spread the art of people you love while the artist still gets notes, views, and proper credit.
I swear the way that some people talk about AI on this site sounds like those hysterical posts about programming being satanic with screenshots of programs telling people to “kill child”
I swear the way that some people talk about AI on this site sounds like those hysterical posts about programming being satanic with screenshots of programs telling people to “kill child”
I was just thinking about the time I was at a queer group, waiting for it to start, and we were just casually chatting, talking about what we did over the weekend. I mentioned what my wife and I did. A younger woman scoffs and said “I hate when men say ‘my wife’. It’s like they think they own her.” I’m just standing there, confused, kind of expecting the other people around us to also be confused. But no, all the women started talking about how awful men are to their wives and how wives deserve better than straight men.
So now I’m super uncomfortable because we’re at a group for all types of queer people. Yall know I’m queer too and at groups like this, I try to make a point to queer it up because I’m safe to. We havent met, do you even know how I identify?
If you knew anything about me, you’d know that at the time my wife and I got married, marriage equality had only been legal for about a year. Legally, we were no different than any queer couple. We didn’t know that we’d be able to be legally married. At the time, I couldn’t legally change my gender marker in my state (the law at that point was you had to have 'irreversible surgery’ to change your gender marker). Just because I am a trans man does not mean that there was some switch that flipped and instantly put me on level playing field with cishet men.
I don’t know what made me think about this again. But that was a very uncomfortable experience for me. It was the last time I went to that group.
Autumn-themed sketches to get into the flow of this season! My sketchbook is starting to fill up after years of drawing in it, since I sketch at a glacial pace. Maybe I’ll put together a little sketchbook tour soon!
Dudes healthcare is so fake. My ADHD meds are $940 without insurance. But they gave me a website of “coupons” which straight up looks like a scam website, and I got it today for $60! Just a coupon from a random website and it was $900 cheaper. America, I am confusion!! America explain!!
For all my uninsured judys out there it’s for Walgreens only: walgreens.rxsense.com
as a pharmacy technician i can share with you some websites that give you those “coupons” for your meds!
goodrx is the most well known one, but if i’m trying to find the cheapest price for a patient i compare it to scriptcycle, and use whichever is offering the best price. you just type in the medication (PLEASE make sure you’re getting the right drug, dosage, and quantity) and your zip code and they will spit out some offers for you
some pharmacies may have their own discount card to compare to as well!
if you are getting a name brand medication, you can also look at the manufacturer’s website to see if they offer any evouchers for you to use too
Being an actor keeps me sane. Yeah I have to work a day job but know what? When my day job is stressful and I want to scream I get to go hey wait. I have a scream scheduled at 7:30 tonight. Gotta save up. And then I go back to what I was doing.
I have a scream scheduled, I have a kiss scheduled, I have an argument scheduled, I have a making up scheduled, I have a sing and dance scheduled, I have a get slapped in the face scheduled, I have a cry scheduled, whatever. It’s all good.
Something something the Greeks were right about catharsis.
ohhhhhhhhhh my god and when you argue you always have a comeback, and when you make up there’s no lingering anger, and when you scream you don’t have to hold back, and when you get slapped in the face you know you’re safe, and when you cry you know all will be well.
Oh and if it doesn’t turn out and your character dies or something well then you can go to the greenroom and have a snack and that’s good too.
Everyone saying “oh like bdsm” or “oh like larping.” Yes. Humans thrive on imagination and play in many ways.
weirdest side effect of the pandemic is how many people i know who get sick and say ‘but my covid tests are negative so i should be fine’ like you know other illnesses. exist. right.
