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galloping my way to the gala in style!

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its honestly bananas to me that so many on this website seem to assume that someone's tumblr output is an accurate reflection of their real life priorities and activism and all of their beliefs in order of how hard they believe them. like. idk about you guys but i'm reblogging things that i want to reblog not keeping a minute by minute record of my deepest held beliefs. for one thing my deepest held beliefs are mostly not about star wars

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meadow geranium

Portrait featuring Xena for C.! Thank you so much again for trusting me with this, it's been an honour <3 It was lovely to draw these geraniums as well - they've always been growing near me, I've got a lot of nostalgia for these and funnily enough I don't think I've drawn them before!

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“Stop asking for originals if you’re not gonna watch them”

How about this…how about you start PROMOTING your original movies. I had no idea Strange World was even a thing. I thought Elio was coming out next year cause I’ve seen only 2 trailers for it.

And here’s the thing…I’m able to separate art from the company. Encanto? That was original. Had a lot of trailers to it when it was coming out. Onward came out at possibly the worst time in history but it’s amazing. I would’ve seen that in theaters if I was able to. But hey, guess what, the pandemic started.

Oh and how about instead of rushing things out you, oh I don’t know, take time? Let the story grow? You see what happened with Wish right it was rushed out because it was an anniversary project. I believe it was the 100th animated film or coming out on Disney’s 100th anniversary but regardless the drafts for the film was A WHOLE LOT BETTER than the final project.

Anyways rant over, stop blaming the consumer for your issues

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After the comment Pixar made blaming their audience for Elio's lack of success I feel this is relevant again

ppl misunderstand me when I say "I want more [thing] in stories". I don't mean "I'm going to love every single one" I mean "I'm very picky and I want more of it in circulation so I can actually choose from a wealth of them and be discerning". I see ppl being like "you say you want more of [this thing] but you don't like [example of it]" YEAH CUZ I'M PICKY!!!!!!!! I have opinions and standards????? not all of them are gonna be the same I wanna be able to look at 100 of them and go "I want these 20" not "I only have 3 to choose from and I don't like any of them" you feel me??????

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I’m Bulletproof … Nothing to lose … Fire away. Fire away.

M3GAN (2023)

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there's very few media where I'm like "wow they really made this JUST for me" and that's how i felt w/m3gan 2.0 lol

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handwriting a letter to Blumhouse Studios saying “I understood your vision” with a check inside for $25 million to make M3GAN 3

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One thing I appreciated about M3gan 2.0 was M3gan's constant implication that Gemma has a sadism kink (i.e. that she derives sexual pleasure from hurting people).

A second thing I liked, as someone who used to do aikido, was the incorporation of aikido into the plot of the movie.

A third thing I liked was that Jemaine Clement played essentially Elon Musk if he was like 40% less evil, and that the climax of the movie took place at the corporate headquarters of Xerox with the numbers filed off (WHY it does is also really fun, I like it when it's a writer for a piece of media comes up with an insane plot detail and whoever is managing them goes ".....sure, let's go with that")

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WAIT 4 IF YOU COUNT REBOOT MEGAN IN AMELIA'S BODY

Cady has experienced Megan dying 3 times now and that's not okay

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YESSS!! Everything Megan did in the first movie really did make sense. I think her conversation/apology with Cole in 2.0 really helped illustrate this--she was not programmed to see other humans as consequential. As a human it's easy to watch Megan and go "Well sure, her objective was to protect Cady, but she obviously went way overboard." That "obvious" context was far from obvious to her, and the fact that she learned it at all is a testament to her character growth.

M3GAN 2.0 HUGE win for “M3GAN is a traumatized little girl who was expected to digest all the information in the world, including the inevitability of death and the end of all things, and instead of being given the resources to process that information she was expected to instantly become another child’s emotional support toy with the sole purpose of protecting her, and was then unfairly demonized for carrying out said purpose in the only way she understood how” truthers

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Really hope the creators know they did everything right. It doesn't have to be a commercial success or even understood and liked by most people. What they gave us was better than that, it was perfection, I'm glad they felt like they could do anything because the result was beautiful. Another version of Megan 2.0 might have been more successful but I can't imagine loving it more than this one. I would love to shake their hands.

the fact that M3GAN 2.0 is flopping hard is SO sad bc it’s due so much in part to people simply not understanding? Not caring? That M3GAN in the original film was NOT your typical slasher villain. People kept comparing her to characters like Chucky, but if you paid even the tiniest bit of attention to the first movie beyond “creepy toy kills people”, it basically slaps you in the face with the fact that M3GAN was not cartoonishly evil. M3GAN was a tragic figure created by a woman who saw her not as a sentient being, but as a tool. She was given the impossible task of comforting, teaching and essentially raising a child when she was literally just born herself. She was tasked with the insanely vague objective of “protecting” that girl, while having no real understanding of death or morality or anything in the world beyond what she could read online.

Saying “they ruined her as a villain!!” shows a fundamental misunderstanding of her character as a whole. And that’s to make no mention of the fact that a HUGE theme throughout the first film was an oddball and damaged family trying to figure out how to love each other! To emphasize that and then go “except M3GAN though, she’s irredeemable” (especially when some of her biggest flaws are ones she inherited from her human creator!) would only undermine that message.

She is an extremely damaged child, just like Cady, and she’s a part of the family, too.

When I first learned of it, I wasn’t excited at all by the thought of a M3GAN sequel. It felt like it could only be a boring rehash of the first movie. My mind changed when I saw the trailer for 2.0 - and then when I saw the actual film, I was super impressed by their willingness to experiment and try something new. Was it ridiculous? Of course! The first movie was, too. But to see people reject it so hard because it tried something new (and logically followed M3GAN’s character arc to the places implied by the first film) is sad to me.

And it sounds like the creators of the movie loved M3GAN so much, they truly believed in her. Which just makes it all the sadder :/

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I love that they include a little 30 second explanation for why they didn't give Megan a different, more realistic face. A flimsy excuse? Yes. But you know "why didn't they give her a new face" would be all over the tvtropes headscratchers page, but of course, they simply could not give the iconic title character a different face

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My two favorite moments from M3gan 2.0:

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Megan was trying to empathize with Gemma. Gemma told her to shut up and covered her mouth--then removed her behavior inhibitor that prevented her from killing humans. Far from being offended, I think that was the first time Megan actually respected Gemma. She knew then that she could actually trust Gemma to care about Cady's safety. They may not like each other yet, but they are 100% on the same page.

When they were all captured and Megan's beaten, damaged body was paraded in front of Gemma. Right before her capture, Gemma was fully convinced Megan was evil and was ready to kill her. But she saw Megan crawl under those stairs like a wounded animal, and for the first time she saw her not as some flawed machine she made or a killing machine, but her child. And that's when she dropped the weapon.

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Cady has experienced Megan dying 3 times now and that's not okay