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did you mean: your ult group

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Another thing I really love about Study Group is that the girls and women in the show are pretty equally involved in the violence.

Usually with shows where bullying and gang violence are the main backdrop female characters only exist to either support the male characters in their fight or act as damsels. They're friends, lovers, family, guides, and/or victims but they're almost never comrades.

Study Group doesn't even seem to consider that.

From the get-go when Hee Won and Ji Woo are introduced we're shown that the environment in the girls' classes is extremely similar to the boys'. There's bullying and violence and fighting, tho as far as we know the girls aren't involved in the fight ranking app itself but hey nothing's perfect. While we first meet Ji Woo where she's in a position of needing help she's never really shown as weak or a damsel. We can see even through her distress that she's not fighting out of choice not bc she can't stand up for herself. And by the end of it we see how she's equally as badass as our male MC.

Honestly, knowing nothing about the manhwa, I didn't think that she would actually be treated as an equal fighting-wise so her involvement in saving Lee Jun, fighting side by side with Ga Min and Geon Yeop and holding her own against the gangster, was such an exciting scene to watch! And in the latest episodes, yet again, we see her placed as the go-to fighter of the group outside of Ga Min when she takes care of the goons that try to stop their car. Yes Jun is helping and later offers to hold them off but it's clear that SHE is the one placed as The Muscle amongst the four of them and I just love that.

Sometimes feminism is a teenage punk of a fifteen year old girl who keeps judo flipping men for Justice.

But also like it's so good bc it's not JUST Ji Woo.

Even though Hee Won can't fight she isn't entirely sidelined during the violence. We see her confronting the bullies when desperate and we see how she's placed as an equal to Se Hyeon -- they both aren't fighters but they're both equally important and equally Involved. Same with the teacher Han Gyeong who, while clearly physically vulnerable, is shown as being very steadfast and brave. Constantly working to stop the violence at the school and do right by her students even if it means getting beaten up and stabbed every other day.

And don't even get me started on how cool Ga Min's mom was. Those bitches had to comatise her just bc she would've killed them if given the opportunity. She's an overprotective helicopter parent who gives zero fucks about anything other than her son's well-being I just know if she was awake she'd be hunting these wannabe gangsters and taking them down one by one...

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Don't bother the kids who are studying 🎒 STUDY GROUP (2025) cr. x

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MAY

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Do you guys know respectable mexicans absolutely LOATHE Emilia Pérez and a mexican trans woman did a short film in like a week mocking it and called it Johanne Sacreblue and it's all french sterotypes and at some point it has Ladybug and Chat Noir fighting a mime in the background while the characters talk and the amount of rats in the scene increases each time the frame changes? It's important to me that people know this

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KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE 魔女の宅急便 1989, dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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by 178kz_boy

art republished with artist’s permission

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©baon1023

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I think she just wanted to fly again

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| Flow (2024) | dir. Gints Zilbalodis

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A tribute to Flow 🐈‍⬛🌊

I know I’ll carry this film in my heart for the rest of my life~

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not to talk about flow again, but the thing is, a lot of people talk about independent film making and its importance etc, but it's hard to get more independent than flow this year

not only because it was made with a free and open source software anyone can use, not only because it beat competitors from major studios with an average of 3% of the budget they had, not only because it represented a country that had never won an oscar before, not only because it didn't have any star power involved, not only because it didn't come from a filmmaker with past history, not only because it was made by a small team...

but also because it's an animated movie

animators often get the short end of the stick in the entertainment industry and, for the past years, it was starting to look as if the only way to make an animated project happen was to sell your soul to a major studio and see your work transformed into what they need and how they want it marketed

especially for movies from outside the US, from non-English speaking countries, where insanely talented animators tend to be used as freelance cheap labor for major US studios or have to adapt as much as possible to fit into their market in order to find work

passion projects for animation seemed to only be reserved to the shorts category, or needed to be as high brow as humanly possible to be perceived as "high art" to be valued and, even in the spaces of the industry dedicated to the genre, the way in which awards are distributed are a poor reflection of the vast work animators do

it's major for this film to win awards, let alone the oscar, an award which is notably judged badly for animation and often prefers the marketable easy way out of voting rather than genuine interest

this movie used a resource that is open to anyone and, with good storytelling, made an oscar winning film

in a world in which art is constantly being attacked by capitalist greed, I'm happy that a movie with heart and little resources could do something like this, whether or not people care about the oscars anymore

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I really really really wanted to draw a magical girl ⭐️

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aquarium advertisments say stuiff like discover the longtooth grouper this friday

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MY ARTi FILM — MINKYUN

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Sequences from my finished animation. Inspired by a dog named Teacake.