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Ehhehehe, i love him so much

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This is Dusty as a transformer, i love him, he is my baby 😭

"I'm just trying to prove that maybe, just maybe, I can do more than what I was built for.."

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Fixation so strong gotta transformerify the blorblo

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NEVER GIVE UP

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Walter Molino

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Adding onto my previous rant cuz these tags refueled my fire for a more cohesive rant.

First off: People call Planes 2 a Cars 3 ripoff?? HUH??? Where TF is that argument coming from? But I guess it ties into the second point, I've also noticed a lot of people are so quick to dismiss both Planes movies really easily, (not helped by cartoon reviewers who also dismiss these movies)

I’ll state my bias, I personally enjoyed Planes more as a kid, and have fond memories of them. Are the Planes movies perfect? No, but they are just as valid films as the Cars movies. plane kids deserve movies just as much as car kids.

When it comes to critiquing the films there are some valid critiques but most people don't go that route to justify their hatred for the films. First if you’re going to critique the films you should at least categorize it correctly.. Like people calling it a ripoff are not just wrong because of how different Cars and Planes are, they’re also wrong because Planes is a Spinoff. It takes place in the same universe that follows different characters and a different area of the world. Forgive me for bringing up the controversial franchise but that's like calling Helluva Boss a Ripoff of Hazbin Hotel, like that’s just not true??

Secondly, Planes and Cars have very different themes and the protagonists go on very different journeys, and I feel like people calling Planes a copy is a by-product of people missing the whole point of Cars 1. 

Cars 1 isn't about racing. What I mean by that is the film doesn't really revolve around McQueen preparing for and participating in a race like most racing films do. Yes there is a time between the three way tie and the tie breaker race, but McQueen spends that time in Radiator Springs, fixing the road he broke. Along the way he learns to slow down, appreciate the smaller parts of life, that you can't always be a one man show and that winning isn't everything. The King even foreshadows the Lesson Mcqueen is going to learn at the end of the intro race. McQueens conversation with mater and later with Doc are both good examples of McQueen maturing as a person, being less of an asshole and letting people help him. When he loses his mojo and motivation for the race you can literally see it come back when he sees his friends and by implementing what he’s learned from Doc. At its barest bones, Cars is about a celebrity learning to be humble and winning not by physically passing the line, but by being a good sport. That is the theme and message of the first Cars. 

Planes on the other hand is more of an underdog racing film. Being about Dusty trying to overcome what those around him keep telling him to be. Throughout the film Dusty is almost always constantly being reminded he’s a crop duster, he isn't built for speed and that he should stick to crop dusting. He’s told this so much it frustrates him, and you can see this in his conversation with Skipper when he gets chosen. (i used that clip on the previous post)

You can tell in his voice that Dusty is frustrated, he KNOWS he’s a crop duster, he doesn't need people to keep telling him he’s very much aware of that fact. But you can tell he’s un fulfilled, he’s tired of doing the same thing for years as he’s put it, he wants to race because he wants to fulfill a dream of his, in his home you can see the racing posters and figures to show how important this dream is to him. At the start of the film his goal isn't really to win, but to prove he can do it. It's here where the two films’ themes really diverge. 

Like I've mentioned Planes does have some genuine critiques, like the weird military ending (not even I can explain why) or the plot hole surrounding Skipper’s time in the navy yet only having one medal? Even if he did only one mission I'm sure he would have had a few more, considering the age he’s implied to be? Like he would have had to do quite a bit before becoming a flight instructor correct? I do love Skip but i think they tried to re-create Doc’s Backstory when in context it doesn't really work, keeping your racing past a secret is different than repressing your military service, etc, But these are conversations for another day

My point with bringing these up is that some people when critiquing Planes tend to dismiss it as a cars clone and call it a day or pull points that arent relevent to the film, this is especially true with Planes: Fire and Rescue, ( PFR ) and comparing it to Cars 3

First, saying this is a copy of cars 3 is crazy, especially when Planes Fire and Rescue came out first,

Plus while in both films the MC is forced to stop racing, in Cars 3 McQueen keeps trying to prove he can still do it, Dusty essentially becomes disabled since his gear box is out of production and while he tries to go McQueen’s route to prove he still can race at first it doesn't work out.

On a surface level, the films are about how life doesnt always go the way we want it, but they handle it differently. While McQueen tries to continue the Racing life and prove he's still got it and eventually staying with Racing, in PFR Dusty physically cant but learns that even with his busted gearbox, he cant let it stop him from doing something esspecially when it comes to firefighting

This moment with Blade showcases this

This is what makes these films different, at least to me. and yeah my bias might be showing as I am not the hugest fan of Cars 3, but It annoys me that people "analyse" and critique Planes when they only under stand both Planes and Cars on a surface level. Or just go with what the cartoon reveiwers say about them. (Like saying Fire and Rescue is propaganda but we're not gonna go into that)

TLDR: Planes are underrated and people need to stop calling the films cars clones because it proves they missed the point of both

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Idk how to tell people that YOU are responsible for your online experience. It is up to YOU to block people and tags that make you uncomfortable. It is not up to everyone else to do that FOR YOU. You have to do it yourself. I am BEGGING yall to please learn to curate your own internet experiences instead of creating moral crusades against people, ships or kinks you dont like.

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i mean this in the gentlest way possible: you need to eat vegetables. you need to become comfortable with doing so. i do not care if you are a picky eater because of autism (hi, i used to be this person!), you need to find at least some vegetables you can eat. find a different way to prepare them. chances are you would like a vegetable you hate if you prepared it in a stew or roasted it with seasoning or included it as an ingredient in a recipe. just. please start eating better. potatoes and corn are not sufficient vegetables for a healthy diet.

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Fuck I keep thinking about Sam Wilson and my heart is filled with joy and whimsy. I feel a deep connection to him like how Mr krabs feels with SpongeBob.

Sam me boy 😔

Look at him dawg he’s so 🤗

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Gonna try artfight again this year, is was so much fun last time! Even if I wasn’t able to finish many attacks

Currently preparing for it, adding to my roster is two transformers OCs I’ve made whom I love very much but haven’t shared yet

Big excited for July!

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My fixations are so random it’s humorous like I did not expect to fixate on world of cars but here we are

bouncing between them tho is annoying cuz I’ll have aus and ideas but never share them cuz I don’t finish and bounce to another fixation 😣

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1am thoughts cuz I recently rewatched Pixar’s Cars movies, and The Planes ones because a few cartoon reviewers videos covering them got recommended to me and wanted the nostalgia cuz I did enjoy them when I was younger, especially Planes, but I have a hot take after watching the films and YT videos:

I feel like people who say Planes (the first one) is just a Cars copy didn’t really pay attention cuz like, Planes and Cars have two very different stories and themes, the only similarity is racing but even that’s handled differently between them.

Cars is about a celebrity who learns it’s ok to slow down, enjoy the small parts of life and that winning isn’t everything.

Planes is about proving you can be more than what society tells you to be, at least that’s what I understand watching the film.

Messy 1am ramble below cut ~

Ranting cuz a YouTuber I watched said both were underdog films

Cars isn’t technically an underdog story because McQueen isn’t being challenged about being a racer, there’s no boundaries that tell him he can’t be a racer, and the film isn’t about him becoming one because he’s already a famous racer when we meet him, he’s not really an underdog, even when he struggles near the end at the final race he quickly gains his mojo back because he learns how important being a team player is

Planes fits the under the trope more because Dusty’s story literally is an underdog story, throughout the film Dusty is like almost constantly being told he’s a crop duster, that he’s not built for racing and to quit , when he gets in on a legal technicality his friends are a bit more supportive but he still gets told he’s a crop duster and that he wouldn’t last that long in the wings around the globe rally, and he knows it, he’s not stupid. He knows what he is but he’s unfulfilled, he’s tired of being told he can’t do something because he wasn’t built for it,

This conversation with Skipper shows that

Being told by society constantly that you can’t do something because of who you are is something I relate to, and I sympathize with Dusty and his feelings.

Idk if any of this makes sense I’m tired and want to defend a movie I love , maybe tomorrow I might make a more cohesive essay

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Fixating on transformers is so funny cuz like no joke 6 months ago I was not able to draw mecha or robots very well at all then outta nowhere the comitment to the fixation gave me the ability to draw robots/Mecha

Stylized robots/mecha but still!

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Old Transformer Black Widow and Falcon I did a while back, I’m remaking the old Avengers designs I made but never shared cuz I only finished these two

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Love two of my CoWorkers and all but I wish they didn’t rub in the fact they got a switch 2 so much

Like talking about it excitedly in the morning is fine and all, but talking about it every other chance they get made me feel left out, not to mention my cousin and their family, and my other coworker got to go to a comic-con like convention this weekend too. Like I get it universe, I’m bad at saving money sometimes, I already feel left out a lot of my own circles enough as it is :(