Watching Wendell and Wild, which is very good, but man I wish I had seen more synopses floating around with the gifsets so here’s what I’ve got so far:
Legitimately heartfelt movie about grief. It has spooky themes (and a lot of grossout moments with the demons fwiw) but it isn’t trying to be legit scary. It’s horror-themed but not a horror movie imo.
Death and mourning are prevalent elements. The main character has a PTSD panic attack early on and it is explicitly stated as a panic attack that is obviously connected to her trauma and is handled in a sympathetic manner.
Best friend character is canonically trans and the backbone of this movie tbh (he gets misgendered twice early on, fair warning)
I have mixed feelings about stop motion work but I will say that stop motion was the perfect choice for this in pretty much every respect. It’s very cool to me that the style is intentionally more cartoony, I haven’t seen anything quite like this with stop motion before. Visually, something like Paranorman and Book of Life come pretty close. It’s more like a living doll house than anything at times. Very cool.
Pretty much every character is legit deep and feels convincing. It seriously draws you into the world and makes it feel like a real place.
The core story is an anti-prison struggle that addresses a lot of real-world problems including corruption and vote weighting (also introduces some kindly but untrustworthy adults to further make it difficult for the main character to know what to do)
Main character makes some questionable decisions but they feel pretty understandable given the circumstances rather than her being dense like some narratives tend to do. She catches on and stands her ground more often than not.
Overall it’s a bit spooky, heartfelt, funny here and there, and surprisingly nuanced and thoughtful and well worth your time.
Drawing I made for the fox birthday boy in Tailstube style, Sonic ,Amy and Knuckles sent him a happy birthday message while Tails was on his tail-tuber show with the fans, he thanks a lot the love they have for him! Feliz cumpleaños 31 Tails-san• te amo! 🦊💛🎉🎂😊
So I was rereading Artificial Condition again and noticed something at the end: When paying “Eden”, Rami says that “your friend Art said this was the best way to pay you”
Which means that 1) not only did ART contact them directly (and perhaps not even pretending to be its captain this time, given the circumstances) but it 2) introduced itself with the acronym that Murderbot gave it.
Like I know Martha Wells probably didn’t have an official name locked down (we never see its official name until book 5) but this is just killing me. It’s so cute. It’s so fucking funny. Murderbot calls it an asshole in it (MB’s) head and ART thought “oh that’s great” and uses it as a fake(?) name when talking to MB’s clients. I’m losing it.