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heartbeats - On Spotify

We want to share with you a selection of songs from our playlist! While working on the film, we curated a playlist of songs that reminded us of the film in some way. We could feel specific story moments and character traits in these songs, and we’d listen to it as we worked on the storyboards and animation to keep us in the right mood so that we were totally invested in the emotion and tone of whatever moment we were working on. 

Enjoy!

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“Its the sensation of going from being a parent to a grandparent”

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anyway as a lesbian I love bi women and hope every single one of them has a good day

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I would make a VERY CUTE KOALA

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literally almost every time I’m in Delaware(which is actually a lot) I ask to go to Rehoboth beach so...

The worst tourist trap in every state

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honestly even leaving a “<3″ in the comment section is great. i do this on archive alot with multi chapter fics and i cant leave more than one kudos, or when i want to say something but there are no other words other than the fact that it was great. 

Validate your writers!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, I posted a fic today, and as I was setting up the AO3 post, I found myself writing in the end notes an impassioned - almost desperate, ngl - plea for comments. For interaction.

And yeah, for validation too. Because you know what? Writing is hard - despite commonly held misconceptions, it takes a shit-ton of effort to take some blank, empty void of a page and fill it with something that lives and breathes and touches the minds and hearts of others. 

And don’t you dare wave that “you should be writing for yourself” bullshit in my face. It’s been a long, long time since I’ve been able to do that, and honestly I’m glad managed to recover as much as I have and write as much as I do. Having an audience is an integral part of the writing process.

Let me repeat that.

HAVING AN AUDIENCE IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE WRITING PROCESS.

We fanfic authors don’t ask for much. As someone who is a published author, who has been published in a Real Physical Book™ and was paid hundreds of dollars in Honest-to-God cold-hard cash for less work than I put into my fanfic, let me tell you, a few comments will not pay my tuition or buy my groceries or put clothes on my back. Compared to the hours of labor that went into earning the money I was paid with, comments take substantially less time to create.

And yet, to us, they are priceless. Authors will create entire worlds for the sake of making a single person smile. YOU CAN BE THAT PERSON. WE WILL WRITE FOR YOU HAPPILY.

You just have to let us know you care.

And you’d better do it soon. I’ve heard too many authors all too willing to pull their tumblrs and erase or abandon their fics on AO3 because they have grown weary of screaming into the void. That fanfic you love? Gone. That chapter you’re waiting for? Never gonna happen. How many of you have bookmark lists with fics already missing? I bet you won’t even remember which one it is.

You can keep that from happening. Just write “Omg thank you for updating, I really liked _________!” and fill in the blank. Someone worked hard to put that smile on your face. You can make them smile in return.

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Rafa Appreciation Post #2

Mostly coloured pics this time :3 (Wonder if tumblr’s going to mark this set as NSFW too xD)

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who the fuck manages to eat three set separate meals at three set times of the day. who the fuck does that. i eat however much i’m hungry for whenever i’m hungry, which could be anywhere in the range of once a day, six times a day or constantly snacking, depending on the weather, how much i’ve slept, the phase of my menstrual cycle, how annoyed i am, how well i’m dressed, how much work i have to do, how much food i see that day, how gay i’m feeling,

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why has no one fallen in love w/ me yet i’m so bored

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imagine if everytime you killed someone you gained their skills

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Broadway celeb laughs

this has to be the most specific post I’ve ever made, but hey

laughs with smile: Aaron Tveit, Gavin Creel, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Rachel Bay Jones

laughs with teeth: Jeremy Jordan, Sutton Foster, Cynthia Erivo

has surprisingly innocent laugh: Daveed Diggs, Will Roland

laughs with specific parts of face: Andrew Rannells, Mike Faist, Ben Platt

laughs with whole body and soul as if exorcising a demon: Jonathan Groff, Christian Borle

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by Maritsa Patrinos

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Small things I love about Moana

There is no talk of finding Moana a husband. SHE is going to be chief of her village. No one can take that from her.

How Moana is a competent leader before she even sets out on her journey.

The village seems to have more or less a hereditary monarchy that disregards gender and the matriarchal influence is clear: Moana is mostly inspired by her grandmother and the major deity in this movie is a Mother Goddess.

“Crazy” does not mean worthy of ridicule.

The central questions: “Do you know who you are? How do you know who you are?” Those cut deep.

The sibling relationship between Moana and Maui.

The vision about the ancient wayfinders. And “Know the Way,” which makes the entire sequence a million times more emotional.

This might be a Disney Princess movie, but it is also solidly an action movie.

Moana doesn’t like being called “princess”.

The goddamn gold-plated glow-in-the-dark giant crab. Who sings well.

Forehead touches. Between a human girl and a goddess.

The fact that Heihei manages to do ONE USEFUL THING in the entire movie.

Moana is so sturdily built. She managed to clock Maui, of all people.

Nature has agency.

How Gramma Tala’s passing is quietly understated. Her last words to Moana are those of sincere encouragement and her death is not explicitly shown. But you see the huge luminous sting ray a couple minutes later and you just know.

The entire sequence at the beginning that depicts island life. And Chris Jackson’s singing. Everyone’s singing, really.

Moana gulping deep lungfuls of air the first time her canoe overturned is so realistic, I could feel myself choking on ocean water.

The coconut pirates. They are VICIOUS little fuckers.

Moana earning a place among Maui’s tattoos.

Gramma Tala’s spirit is solid enough to hug. No more “LOOK INSIDE YOURSELF SIMBA” from the clouds.

Disney smashing the fourth wall and throwing shade at their own Princess story formula.

Romance is never ever ever even hinted at. Because Moana is all of 14 years old and she has bigger things on her mind.

All the songs. ALL OF THEM. They hit just the right emotional cues.

How culturally rich Disney managed to make this movie.

The sheer vividness of the animation. The wealth of expression on the faces of these characters. The colors.

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I think every writer/artist has that one story/drawing that gets completely skipped over, and they’d never say it aloud, but inside they’re like

‘fuck all y'all, that’s one of the best things I’ve done’

plus one story/drawing that everyone loves

‘really? that one?’

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I’m Not Fooling Anyone 😑 (W/ @tallykat3, @welcome-to-the-joangle, & Jamahl Rawls)

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HELP!!

I need quotes for my quote wall in my room. Literally it can be anything. Please help!

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a family can be two parents, their lovely stanford dropout daughter, her taxi driver boyfriend, his bodega working best friend, his lazy underage cousin, the lazy underage cousin’s graffiti vandal boyfriend, the bodega worker’s beautiful girlfriend, her boss/basically mother, her lesbian co-worker, and the piragua man that sells delicious piragua up and down the neighborhood