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This activated my better call saul sleeper agent codes, so I’m gonna yap about that

Smoilers below

It’s been long enough since I’ve seen it that I could be misremembering parts, but iirc Saul’s days at Cinnabon were close to the healthiest part of his life at the time. Like, he gets along with his coworkers and feels something close to belonging with the people he’s gotten to know. He’s making an “honest living” (ignoring the fact that there’s no way he could afford that massive house without his blood money). It’s tricky to say where the show leans on the morality of things, but considering the ending I think it’s fair to say the key element to a happy ending for Saul is taking accountability. His job at Cinnabon, while not the final goal consider he hasn’t owned up to anything, is an important part of growing towards that point as he’s responsible as the manager and genuinely seems to care about his coworkers. There are a few instances of him risking his own position to prevent his coworkers from getting tangled up in his life, mostly because they were being nice and checking in on him. Yeah he’s unhappy there, but lowkey the show almost implies that he *should* be able to be happy there (even if it’s not as exciting as being a criminal lawyer), and that it’s a character flaw that he isn’t. In the ending even, I’m pretty sure he ended up taking some work in a prison baking program? I don’t think those parallels are a total coincidence. A less exciting sense of purpose, with little controlled elements of risk like that last cigarette, is what the show concludes makes up the path to a better life for Saul.

(Also lowkey the Cinnabon scenes aren’t nearly as miserable as they could be, like most of his problems are anxiety about the Wanted Criminal stuff, rather than long and repetitive work shifts and terrible customers)

Basically I’m saying Better Call Saul depicts Cinnabon as a supportive community that, if you aren’t addicted to scamming, is the ideal path to a peaceful life. Is it effective Cinnabon recruitment? Maybe! Honestly they’re probably just banking on getting the name out there and on people’s minds, but it’s fun to overanalyze.

The biggest mystery in Better Call Saul is that Cinnabon would allow their brand to be associated with these monochrome scenes depicting a miserable, paranoid life. I never want to eat Cinnabon.

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Years ago we pitched a "Toxic-Yuri Ace-Attorney-like about a psychopathic gambling lawyer" and a bunch of guys in top hats laughed us out of their building😢

Today, of the Devil is rated Overwhelmingly Positive with over 750 user reviews on Steam😏

Have we proved them wrong?🤔

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Utena episode 17 is peak

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I love how she has the exact personality as the friend that gives out arbitrary rulings on friend disputes

she rules (literally, wrow)

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I love this post because the random art references in RGU drive me insane (in a good way), but don’t forget Laure!

She’s the woman presenting the flowers in Olympia, and she got cut off by the cropped image.

On a bit of a tangent here, but we know who the models in the painting are! The white woman posing as a courtesan is Victorine Meurent and the black woman playing the maid is Laure. Both were models he had worked with before, and it seems like Victorine was one of his favorites.

I’m not too familiar with Manet, but from a few quick searches it seems like Laure’s presence wasn’t often discussed until Denise Murrell brought more attention to her and other black models in her thesis “Posing Modernity: the Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today” and her show by the same name. Lorraine O’Grady, an artist, also notably wrote about Laure in the 90s. (I’m gonna throw some links below, but I got most of this from artnet news)

Honestly one of these days I’m going to have to write about its inclusion in the show, because it’s been gnawing at the back of my head since I saw it.

(I’m too lazy to do a proper sources cited for a tumblr post today, so I’m enjoy some links for further reading/viewing)

I got a lot from this Artnet article

Murrell’s thesis isn’t officially publicly available from what I can tell but if you have access to a&aeportal there’s this, and if you’d like to see Murrell discuss it there’s this YouTube video.

Lorraine O’Grady’s paper is easy to find for free on her website (yay), so here’s that.

(Tumblr pls pls pls don’t flag me for nudity in my art history post)

Direct art references in Revolutionary Girl Utena! Ikuhara and crew work a lot of very explicit shout-outs into their work, and here are a few examples!

Adolescence of Utena, by Kunihiko Ikuhara, et al., 1999  vs. Cabbage Leaf, by Edward Weston, 1931

Revolutionary Girl Utena, episode 23: Qualifications of a Duelist. 1997 vs. Edouard Manet, Olympia. 1863 

Revolutionary Girl Utena - Adolescence Apocalypse production art-work (1999) vs  “Flirting.” by Richard Doyle, published in In Fairyland - A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World (1870) 

Revolutionary Girl Utena, 2008 DVD Remaster vs The works/style of Junichi Nakahara, illustrator

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I got a bug shaped fire/bug type. Literally a fire ant

pokèmonize yourself!!!!

spin this wheel to see your pokemon type

spin this one to see how you'll look like

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That ol’ chart of mine makes the rounds online periodically and it drives me crazy because it’s frankly not very good. So, I finally got around to remaking it.

I doubt this will get anywhere near as popular, but I wanted to make it.

Good reference for animation, comics, and for visualizing phonetics!

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Considering his name was scrubbed from the credits on the blueprints, I think it’s fair to assume he didn’t actually have much of a say.

i’m so curious about how viktor felt about the hexgate failsafes being connected to the undercity’s water and ventilation systems bc like,, he’s explicitly very passionate about improving the undercity and using hextech to help not just piltover but the undercity as well but clearly he must have known about it and approved it

was he just confident that it wouldn’t fail?? was he so obsessed with hextech and getting it to work that he didn’t even think about it??? what was going through his mind with this i need to know

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Found this on facebook but reposting to SAVE A LIFE.

Or at least some of y’all’s GPAs.

You’re welcome.

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Posts that make you google how many bones a cat has

call me a jealous hater but it makes me so mad that i will never ever be able to sleep as comfortably as a little kitty cat, there's too many bones in me!! even at my most comfy i will never get on their level

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The diagram for the classic Origami Goat, with a twist to make its horns curve ! It's from this video by by Origami Word, but it seems to be a pretty old/intemporal design that a lot of people have made. I could not find a diagram online so I made one.

(If you make her in yellow/orangy-yellow, then decorate her with red ribbons, you can make your own origami gävlebocken ! )

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I truly enjoy how much Animorphs is like “here are our young heroes, each with a distinctive trope to fill in the group!” And then it makes you watch how the pressure of each person’s role grinds them to dust. And also they have homework.

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By this logic the Pantheon is brutalist

i feel like we don't appreciate these days how much the twin towers sucked, like, design-wise

they were contemporarily hated for just being these giant grey monoliths

like there probably could've been an easier way to get rid of them, but they probably needed to go either way

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I can barely contain myself right now

holy shit

HOLY SHIT

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You can get a print of this from the London transport museum shop btw! Personally i am tempted

if you've ever used the London Underground you might have noticed that it often gets uncomfortably hot. the reason for this is actually that its builders dug too greedily & too deep and as a result the trains are very close to the fires of hell. hope that helps.