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I drew Elio in Irasutoya art style.

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I finally got my hands on the digital version so now I can share my AMV with you people

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Imagine if the aliens had beamed up one of our actual leaders. Thank God they accidentally nabbed the 11-year-old autistic boy.

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he just needs to find his place in all this

doodles!

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Elio Discord server!

Here's the Elio Discord server, as prophesied!

Edit: Please only join if you're 16+ ! It's sfw of course, but this being the Internet I just want to take some extra precautions. Thank you!

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THE ELIO HYPERFIXATION IS SO HYPERFIXATING RN GUYS HELP This is just the base sketch though and the photo kinda sucks. Once I do it in marker I'll post the finished product in all its glory!!! :D

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Youtubers and their braindead criticism about Elio be like:

Bean mouth and art style: So what? Many works with bean mouth are insanely successful and have huge fandoms. I literally grew up with those shows and I don’t think there’s a problem with this simple yet expressive artstyle. If you put characters from Luca, Turning Red and Elio together to someone who's in jail for the last decade, they still could probably tell they're not from the same movie. To those who think the artstyle looks like AI, have you lost your mind? Disney/Pixar artstyle is like the grandparent of ai generated images and it's so stupid to blame them for looking like AI.

Bad story/plot: You want a better story? Cool, why don't YOU try writing something decent when your boss says your script is 'too gay' and nobody wants to watch it in theaters, this could hurt you so bad that make you leave your own project, which you developed for others to finish. Good luck making the story less empty while the main character's identity is forced to not offend anyone. They probably changed everything except what they show us in the first trailer in 2023, heck every parts in the 2023 trailer is not consistent with the final movie.

waah waah your movie flopped compared to kpop demon hunter waahwaaah: Girl they're not even the same thing, kpop demon hunter was available for global netflix users since day 1. Today I learned that Elio is not even available in Japan until August 1st. Don't you think it's too early to say that Elio made too little money?? oh yeah the pirated version is also available since day 1 but i guess netflix don't really care because they already got the subscription money. Meanwhile I PROUDLY paid my own money to watch Elio twice - once in English and once dubbed in my language. Besides, Elio was competing against huge franchises like Superman and Jurassic Park that had massive marketing budgets.

anyway thanks for reading, i had a great time writing this.

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Reach for the stars, and they’ll reach back! 🌟Had to draw fanart of Pixar’s latest film Elio! 🛸🪐✨💫

I wanted to give this film some support! It’s such a cute movie! Go watch it! 🍿

This may have been one of the most complicated backgrounds I’ve ever done! 😵‍💫 It was a lot of messing around with various brushes and color palettes until I came out with something I was satisfied with!

I’m amazed that I managed to get this piece finished! Hope you like it! ❤️

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This is by far the only Elio review that has real content and resonates with me,

instead of keep ranting using other’s opinions and play the trailers again and again

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cw: spoilers for the fanfic

I don’t get it. How tf could they do that to Elio? He already lost his parents and now the clone?? It’s so cruel and heartbreaking.

I was reading my favorite fanfic of the fandom and the main character dies in the next 500 words or less. Why would you do this to me?? I just can’t

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I was reading my favorite fanfic of the fandom and the main character dies in the next 500 words or less. Why would you do this to me?? I just can’t

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This is literally so iconic

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using tumblr feels like 2018, in a good way

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i am patiently waiting for the Elio community to thrive when it comes to disney+

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We Actually Really Liked Elio

I had a professor who encouraged us to do research before writing essays - he said that reading a 50-year-old novel and not looking up existing discussions is a bit like coming to a party late and not knowing what anyone is talking about.

I'm curious what he would say now, in the age of ChatGPT, but I digress.

We couldn't get tickets to Superman, so we decided to give Elio a shot. We were both impressed - maybe even blown away - prompting me to check big YouTube channels to see why so many people didn't like it.

The consensus overall seemed to be

-It's really not bad, just not what you would expect from Pixar

-Existing Pixar/Disney movies did it better

-It was safe and forgettable

So...let me try to take a different angle I haven't seen many people discuss.

The similarities with Lilo and Stitch are obvious. I've also seen the movie compared to Big Hero Six and even The Incredibles. It's about family. There's this child who doesn't really fit in, and he wants to be somewhere else, and there's this mother figure just barely able to keep it all together.

And I would say...sure...

but...

Elio is a movie about curiosity and exploration. Early on, without spoiling too much, there's this scene of Elio meeting two other young HAM radio enthusiasts. There's this military base itself that's implied to be restricted by bureaucracy, but within its ranks is an enthusiastic scientist whose role...again, without spoiling too much...gets expanded later on. There's a scene reminiscent of The Martian that hints at the notion of multiple countries collaborating, a reminder that science does not have to exist for the benefit of any individual country, but for the benefit of all mankind. Predictably, a lot of "social media critics" seem to focus more on the other aspects of the movie, and you'll only see this kind of thing mentioned if you go on obscure Subreddits like the amateur radio page.

*Spoilers*

Other criticisms I've heard on YouTube

-The secondary characters are forgettable

I won't push back on the tertiary characters. The robot. The alien other than the mind-reading one. The various other planet leaders who are part of a peaceful and somehow hyperadvanced civilization, but are completely blindsided by a kind of obvious threat.

I heard a particularly critical reviewer (possum) point out that Grigon was just a minor comic relief character, but then they went through production hell, rewrote much of the script, and recast him as the villain.

But the other characters? Solid. The relationship between the two "outcast children" was particularly sweet. I even liked the clone, who kind of subverted my personal expectation that Elio would come into conflict with his "normal shadow," while Glordon accidentally created some "evil shadow" designed to perfectly fit his father's expectations to the point that he became a kind of Avengers level threat.

-This has all been done before

Has it? Lilo and Stitch, I'd argue (non-controversially), has a lot more to do with the culture of Hawaii than space exploration. The Incredibles plays with the idea of being special (and how our world treats people who are special), Big Hero 6 is a coming-of-age story about loss and the dark path to revenge, and Buzz Lightyear...

...well, I haven't watched that one. Maybe that's about exploration.

So Elio, someone who doesn't feel loved and doesn't seem to belong, goes somewhere else and they create a "perfect" clone of him. The "perfect" clone isn't even remotely interested in space, he does chores, he behaves well, he relates. To the real Elio, this is a short-lived nightmare. He really, truly doesn't belong and is replaceable.

Only he's not. Neither is his friend. His mother figure recognizes that this is not him and misses the real him, much like Glordon's father.

Then he collaborates with the same people he had come into conflict with. He accepts who he is, idiosyncrasies (if I'm using the word correctly) and all. He wanted to give up everything and disappear, a kind of futurama-like-protagonist with a desire to get away from everything. But like in Futurama, we as an audience begin to recognize that he DOES have a place, to the point that those around him will go to considerable lengths to reunite once again.

As the conversation goes

"She gave up being an astronaut for me."

To which Glordon, without a moment's hesitation, responds:

"Wow, she must really love you!"

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Again like, we could’ve got a less masculine Elio since Pixar or Disney asked the writers and directors to make Elio more masculine and remove anything that indicates queerness - like the pink tank top and a photo of a boy in his room. They want to completely erase any queer coding rather than deal with representation at all.

Some people would support that and say why would an 11-year-old kid need a love interest anyway. I mean, you can be gay without having a crush on someone. It would actually be pretty novel to have a character we could relate to who gets to exist as authentically queer without either being erased or having to perform their identity through a romantic hint.