#snips talks

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Not that many care about my opinion on the topic, but I cannot comprehend the takes I've seen on Oppenheimer prior to viewing the film.

I'm just out of the cinema and I cannooooot believe that I've heard and seen people complain about the "Americans clapping" scene as not sensitive, and that it should have shown the bombs dropped and the damage done. I've read takes that came down to 'the film is PRAISING the bomb by refusing to show its damage' and holy shit I was bracing myself.

But not only is the clapping scene shot like the genre just switched to horror, plunging us into very interesting exploration of the mental dissonance Oppenheimer is going through at that moment... I was left wondering...

Have those critics not seen Grave of the Fireflies? Barefoot Gen? In This Corner of the World? Watched documentaries on the bombs, on hibakushas? Have they not read the Hiroshima book by John Hersey that collects horrifying first hand accounts of Hiroshima survivors?

Have they stepped into the theatre with no background understanding of the atomic bomb and the horrors it carried?

Because this entire scene, actually much of Oppenheimer's mindset post bomb drop, DEPENDS on the public's understanding of WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE CLAPPING FOR. They're clapping for their project completion, for their victory, and for unknown amount of dead people. And WE KNOW that they are clapping for some of the most horrifying shit ever. We know they're clapping the cold war and nuclear proliferation's birth.

The film relies on you understanding this! The film depends on you activating your neurons and putting 2 and 2 together.

The film treats the audience as adults who don't need to see dead civilians to EMPATHISE for those civilians. You're also meant to be alienated from these cheering scientists, just as you can't help understanding why they're cheering.

It makes sense yet it's awful. Dissonance.

If you need your hand held so bad to understand why the bomb is a great evil, no matter how necessary it might have felt, when watching a biopic, then maybe you should have stuck to Barbie only, as that film was fun but significantly less challenging.

Also damn but Gary Oldman as Truman was so terrific, this guy really is a million faces.

[planetbeanie]

Two beasts meet

[phoenixyfriend]

"Okay, Ahsoka, it's time to learn a little lesson called Insurance Fraud that the Temple does NOT, officially, teach its padawans. Ask Obi-Wan for more versions, but right now, you're going to throw yourself in front of a speeder."

[leon-anna]

It has been a HOT minute since we last posted!!

Anna and I have been quite busy recently, and it doesn't help that I've been going through art block on top of that!

So, until we get some things sorted out, here is a simple Rex/Fives doodle of them after a routine sparring session~

[oh-no-its-bird]

Trying to write here before and after me chapter 3 but I keep getting side tracked by more "the plants tell Hashirama to kill" content

Anyways.

Ugh, you spoil a plant by bringing them inside for winter one time, and suddenly, all the other plants are keeping you up at night, begging to share the warmth. Honestly, Hashirama was doing this for his best interests! After all, the only way to make some plants whispers shut the hell up was to bring them as close as possible. Give them somewhere nice and warm, a couple spritzy's from a water bottle, and maybe the occasional blood of an enemy for fertilizer, and they were easy as pie to manage. Nice and sweet for him, like a docile kitten who'd finally been fed.

I hope u guys are ready for a chapter opener of unasked for Senju clan culture lore bc that is what u are getting

[caprisun89bakerstreet]

I will never get over the visual parallels of snips and skyguy

[imjustavenuxwithaboomerang]

i showed my sister the equestria girls movies last week because i needed a win and these were her thoughts:

equestria girls:

"sunset, you've gotta wait till your goons are gone before code-switching"

"sunset knows she's a horse so being with flash is kinda weird"

"don't like snips and snails"

"pan rainbow dash?" (i asked if she had any thoughts on their human designs and that was it, idk what to tell ya)

"why are the people colored in this reality?"

"why is rarity british?" (overall thought about the whole franchise)

"when did we fucking ask him? nobody asked him to join" (about flash playing guitar during the cafeteria song)

^but yeah she didn't really vibe with flash but she found the "one no would've been fine" line funny

"laughter" "no, it's insanity"

"i didn't know there was another way" "i don't give a fuck"

rainbow rocks:

"why is the moon, cheese?"

"i like the names. in case you weren't sure this was about music" (said during the opening credits when it showed the dazzlings)

"to be fair, you did ruin everything" (towards sunset)

"somebody needs to slap rainbow"

she really wanted to protect fluttershy, i could tell

she also wasn't necessarily loving flash x twilight during the first movie but definitely wasn't after he made twilight cry so-

friendship games:

"great, a murder board"

"why are you keeping tabs [on chs]? maybe you should focus on your other students" (towards cinch)

"what do you think i should do?" "you should keel over and die"

"sugarcoat, just stab me in the heart, why don't you"

"she looks like she belongs in spongebob, derogatory" (about cinch)

"twilight is doing disney knees"

"cinch is a bitch, cinch is a bitch. cinch is a winch, cinch is a winch" (said in a sing-songy way)

"why's this bitch singin'?" (again about cinch)

"we want what we deserve" "who said you deserve it, you fucking bitch?"

can you tell she hates cinch??

also made a couple jokes about how cadence and luna seemed like girlfriends in all of their scenes together (which was actually really valid)

legend of everfree:

"what do y'all do?" (towards celestial and luna)

"[the opening credits sequence] is gonna be at the bottom because it's giving me home by phillip phillips"

"and this is my brother, timber spruce" "TERRY?" (as in terry from tdp, which is where i got the cargo shorts thing from, so let's all thank my sister)

seemed to not be the biggest fan of sci-twi x timber ("just timber!")

"do we have watches!? cause they've mentioned time twice" "the sun dial" "but it's gonna be dark, she said it doesn't work at night!" (funny conversation that doesn't work in hindsight because they apparently had their phones with them the whole time)

"i don't know why but i'm getting trans from rainbow, cause everyone else is drawn with boobs and she's not. in that shot at least"

"if i see a man coming out of the woods, i think he's just buried a body"

"that's a disgusting design i'm sorry" (about gloriosa's villain look)

"sorry i thought he was going to kill his sister, he saw the ax and i thought he was just gonna- this is a children's movie. just for a split second"

part 2 magical movie night thoughts

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logan shaking hesh awake at night when he's nine and hesh scrambling to try sit up and soothe his crying baby brother and going "whats wrong" over and over and over until logan is clutching at hesh's sweatshirt and shaking his head and finally choking out "i think I'm a boy" and hesh just hugging logan real tight and drawing circles on his back until the boy is regulated then hesh finally withdrawing to look at logan in the eye and going "alright then. wanna cut your hair?"

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The absolute horror of Oppenheimer is cinched in Truman's short appearance for me. This idea he voices that none of the victims care who created the bomb, only who dropped it on them...

It's all too real. In the film it's a bitch slap.

Beyond it, for us, it's the inexorable conclusion that the bomb would have been created no matter what. The moment that first paper was published, every scientist understood the A bomb as a concept was a possibility. And once that concept was out in the open, it was only a matter of time before an aggressive enough country put the effort in to create it.

As the iconic Ambessa Medarda says it in Arcane, "Weapons cannot be unmade and they are always used". Truer words, etc.

If not Oppenheimer then the Soviets first (Nazis never stood a chance, since they were making life for their jewish scientists, well... You can guess how hard), or the Brits, who knows. And with no reason to drop it on Japan if it came after the end of WWII, god knows in what setting in might have been used. We can always speculate, but the depressing ending of this film was that someone had to do the work, and the people at Los Alamos did.

Someone had to be handed the baby, and Oppenheimer was.

And yet we don't blame him for that. We understand the inexorability of progress in science. Hey, we've all seen or read Jurassic Park, right? We blame the politicians who used it, because with the finished product it was their call.

That Truman scene almost had the feeling of a little mercy. Oppie saying he's afraid he has blood on his hands, and Truman shaming him in the same breath he whipes his hands of that metaphorical blood and reassures him it's all his--all while waving a handkerchief like he took him literally.

God Gary Oldman making me write essays with his 2min appearance.

ANYWAY. Yes, it's dark. The "I am become death, destroyer of worlds" line is iconic, but it was also a straw waiting to be drawn. The scientific world itself was gestating this monstrosity, and Oppie was the midwife. First willing, then reluctant. And my heart goes to him for that.

[lovebunnie]

i would be absolutely shocked if nandermo actually did happen. i dont think it will, i dont think they will ever kiss or make a move. i think theyll leave it in limbo forever. i think the show will end with guillermo finally leaving for good. nandor will try to make him stay but it wont work, he’s already making plans to move somewhere else and packing his things and in the foyer of the house, a slight acknowledgment from them both. nandor asking quietly, “it was real, wasnt it?” and guillermo will smile and say yes. it was real. but guillermo will go and life will move on and maybe even at the very end we will meet nandors new familiar who moves into the space under the stairs and makes a comment about how shitty the space is and nandor will say yea. it’ll grow on you though.

[planetbeanie]

Chip and Snip helping each other use the controller

“You get the buttons I got the joy stick!”

[short666bread]

Haha. I posted fic. don’t read it.

[userautumn]

I continue to be fascinated by how two groups of people came away from 8x11 with such drastically different and confident interpretations. I'm trying to remember the last time this has happened. I think it's been a while but it's really interesting to see.

[heart-select]

tumblr gets a sneak since i dont want to upload on yt or anywhere else

I've been listening to da capo and since i got into bagginshield recently, when the song came up again, the line "there used to be a storyteller" hit me like a truck and thus this rot was born. It needs a lot of retiming and polishing (to my standards anyway) and maybe ill update separately or reblog or idk. The counting is me trying to time and check how many flashback scenes i can stick in there. i still need an extra set and again, more stuff, particularly some more movement, i was just a bit tired to try n figure it out since i started this at like 1 am fjejkfjs. It's not inherently bagginshield but the motivation is definitely abt bilbo and his dwarves tho the second half of the song is more about LOTR and the people there. Something something abt letting these characters be with the people they cherish at the end of it all.

my friend has called me out abt how i dont make normal endings but i swear this one ends sweet (tho tears taken are not my responsibility)

[vvickydisc]

I do have one question if you don't mind answering from your Entangled AU. Has Gangle ever got mad at Jax?

(I LOVE YOUR ART SO MUCH ITS AMAZING)

TYYY and no i dont mind answering any questions for entangled au, it helps me for writing, to answer your question though yes she has! gangle has some trouble expressing her true emotions around her candidates/cast and jax tends to easily unravel her (making her upset/angry) i have a comic idea on showing "angry" gangle!

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Wouldn't it be funny to have a fantasy universe in which there's many races, elvish, dwarvish, etc etc. But instead of having things like in Skyrim where you can be a human from one faction or a human from another faction and what do you know, that one lives in the north so it's sturdier but also not so good at magic or whatever...

You'd run into two humans and they'd quickly clarify that no, A is human, but B is Ignish (made up the word on the spot).

Ah, so, from Igni-something?

No, Ignish and human just aren't the same thing. Clearly, an Ignish can't be mistaken for a human!

And no matter how hard you try, you can never make a single difference. They look the exact same, they have the exact same stats. MAYBE the Ignish are a little taller overall.

And you can never guess correctly and start being on pins and needles when around humanoids because fuck knows if it ain't an Ignish, and they don't like being mistaken, and you're the only person who can't seem to tell them apart!

They would have socio-cultural differences, but not any more than a Brit and a French and *nobody will let you try a dissection!*