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Uh. Personal tumblr...? @the-afrogirl if you wanna. I’m kinda maybe more active there since this is like a fan blog and I lowkey don’t have any major interests to get into atm.... so this account will be inactive for the meantime...yeah... okay bye😳

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Tyler the Creator is the only thing you’ll see on my blog for the next month😌thank you.

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Jesus coming out of his tomb on the third day

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me logging onto tumblr to post something absolutely nobody cares about or asked for

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Who do I have to let stomp on me in order to get sum good content????😔

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I’ll die for this man and kill anyone who tries to stop me. Get recked❗️💯

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Sangwoo died with that ugly ass haircut

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I miss Sangwoo…

I really miss him T^T <\3

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Love, Death & Robots: The Witness

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Khanivore: Cutest beastie in the pit.

Love Death and Robots episode 1, “Sonnie’s Edge”.

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Love, Death + Robots "Sonnie’s Edge" by Darren Bartley

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I just need to gush about Sonnie’s Edge for a second. Holy shit there’s a lot to unpack here. So for those of you who don’t know about Love, Death, & Robots, it’s an anthology of netflix-funded animations featuring several unique animation projects. The first of these being Sonnie’s Edge. Sonnie’s Edge is the story about an underground mind-linked fight-pit, in which human “pilots” fight each other using organic beasts to the death. Sonnie, the main character, is a young, female rape victim turned expert fighter. 17 wins without a single loss, which is unheard of in the fighting society. She’s also the only female beast pilot. Badass. Spoilers from now on. There’s a twist. Sonnie is asked, or rather demanded by the aristocratic head of the fighting ring to lose her fight for a large sum of money. She declines, and her handlers explain why; it’s not about glory, it’s not about money, it’s about how she’s taking revenge in a way on the Estate Gang that tortured her. She fights to get through the pain. But the reason she fights goes well beyond that; it’s explained after she fights, and wins against her opponent, that she isn’t fueled by her trauma. She’s fueled by survival instinct. In fact she uses her trauma as a red herring, as after the fight is finished, she’s ambushed by someone who expects to exploit that weakness. And that’s why she survives.

After she’s been taken by surprise by someone she thought she could trust, she reveals she’s been allowing everyone around her to create a mask for her, a simple deception that protects her much better than someone else could have created. Rather than the pilot controlling the beast, Sonnie is the beast. She’s fully become Carnivore, the unbeatable monster in the ring. While other pilots are trash-talking and cocky, drunk on the illusion of immortality, that they cannot lose because they have nothing to lose, Sonnie is there, she IS Carnivore, she’s in the ring and if she dares lose, she dies. Game over. And that’s what gives her her edge. Fear is primal. Fear is always there. One misstep and she dies, again.

It’s not just the story that’s incredible here. The animation and design is beautiful. Carnivore’s design is unlike what’s “expected” from the beast-fighting rings; we can infer from the way characters talk, a “feminine” beast is unusual to say the least. Most are big, bulky, powerhouse type beasts that beat each other to death through brute force. But Sonnie explicitly makes sure to let people know, Carnivore is female. Carnivore is lithe, she’s agile, she’s slim and fast, and has the skill to backup anything that her opponent throws at her, even if it’s her own self they’re throwing across the ring. The way she flows around and uses her enemy’s weight against them is beautifully artistic; she flows over the battlefield, because she’s truly the only one in the ring at this point. It’s not a PvP battle, two controlled fighters in an arena, it’s Sonnie, pure and simple and visceral vs some hulking mass of artificial flesh controlled by a guy who’s just projecting into it. And the animation shows just that. She’s not going through the motions, she’s not controlling Carnivore, she IS CARNIVORE. She’s THERE in the arena. And the way she acts in the ring, you can tell, she IS fighting for her life. And the best part? 

She know’s she’ll win.

And that’s why I love Sonnie’s Edge.

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LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS | THE WITNESS

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“Sonnie’s Edge” from Love Death + Robots.