#coulda been Great

[swan2swan]

Watched "Into the Unknown" again for no particular reason whatsoever, and besides being the highlight of a movie that was meddled into absolute disappointment, I was struck by the genius of this shot as I watched Elsa run toward the edge of the cliff and remembered, "Oh, right, she stops at the edge and reaches out."

But no.

The movie is BETTER THAN THAT and has her make an extension out of ice, showing that Elsa's capable of pushing herself farther than the boundaries nature set for her, and that she's willing to go the extra distance to solve this mystery (which apparently the writers themselves didn't even have solved at the time).

It's just Good Animation. No one else is gonna do that. Every other character is going to stop where the cliff says "stop", but Elsa has MAGIC and she USES IT.

[firelise]

[cryptiduni]

“white mourning.”

[anonymocha]

hi i dont think im finishing this thing 😭 retiring this wip to my blog for yall to see

Kaalaa Baunaa as a Javanese-inspired ronggeng (dancer), it’s also connected to the Medpoc garment idea!

[puppyluver256]

the duality of man

[dorosen]

💙x🧡

[artsycooky13]

top 3 fave bbys in the burrito show (bonus SUPER LONG tags on how i feel bout the characters)

[mildmayfoxe]

soooo important to shred up a chicken thigh and toss it in yogurt dressing (greek yogurt olive oil salt black pepper lemon juice garlic paprika cumin thyme oregano sesame seeds) and warm up a naan (or pita i only had naan) and pile a bunch of lettuce on there and then the chicken and then red onion and cucumber and fresh parsley and dill. and then eat it

[pennamepersona]

thinking about how klavier + kristoph vs. apollo + trucy is a really interesting contrast of siblings and how well they fit into the themes of family (blood vs. chosen and how there's sometimes overlap; putting your trust in an older relative's advice and having it backfire/being treated as a pawn; finding commonality in a shared family trait/tradition; etc.) establish in the original trilogy would've been a pretty cool thread to follow through the latter games, esp since it'd keep that broader theme of family as a neat and emotionally resonant common ground with the og trilogy but fuck me i guess

[precious-little-scoundrel]

And they said: there goes the last Great American Dynasty

They say she was seen on occasion pacing the rocks staring out at the midnight sea

And in a feud with her neighbor she stole his dog and dyed it key lime green

Fifty years is a long time, Holiday House sat quietly on that beach

Free of women with madness, their men and bad habits but then it was bought by me

[snackugaki]

I was semi-joking last post but ....she’s so fun to draw wtffff

Following 2007 and Rise Splinter’s example, Bay Splinter absolutely watches soaps, teleseryes, telenovelas, and dramas and Venus watches some with him 

Casey taught them how to make their own skates, so now the entire sewer is an impromptu skating rink 

... I forgot that Leo, Donnie and Mikey’s shoes actually match (as much as they could make their custom frankenshoes match-- Mikey’s is like 98% duct tape and bandage wraps tbh; “But they’re still chucks underneath...!”) I just subconsciously went Punky Brewster on her shoewear. problem is I like both. so. nyeh.

have I settled on the size of her tesse--- hahahahhahahhahhahhha no.

in a brighter timeline, if they did a 3rd movie or just put both scrotes in and pumped out TMNT movies like they have Transformers movies I’d guess Venus, Jennika, Slash, Tokka, Rahzar, whoever were probably whatchamacallit, experimental groups to Splinter & Co.’s ....control group? subjects from different experiments with the ooze before April’s dad went whistleblower. or maybe experiments from the 15 year interval trying to recreate the first lab’s results ‘cuz Sacks would’ve had the resources to recommence pretty fast after the disaster

although to explain Venus and Jennika... since Sacks had ties to the Foot Clan, and Shredder pulled that double cross with Baxter in OotS. what I would guess is that Sacks pulled whatever weight he had left with the Foot Clan (maybe with Karai at the helm in Shredder’s absence) to use their resources for any gaps with his own and as a cover to reconvene his experiments. blah blah Karai studied under Shredder obvi and so probably thought to have the scientists report to her before they report to Sacks. Sacks was kept in the dark, not told they were more or less able to recreate the original lab results on the turtles who’d become Venus’n Jennika. “oh oops they died sacks, sux 4 u try again maybe, here’s some more animals for you.” 

Venus and Jennika are taken in under the Foot once they exhibit the same potential the boys showed; Sacks just goes a little apeshit on the science, as a treat, hence Slash, and then Tokka’n Rahzar and again told they failed. Sacks fully thinks he couldn’t recreate the first lab’s results womp womp u bitch

....how would any of them break out from under the Foot? lol i dunno. uh. mmmmmaybe black market “weapons” dealing-- Venus and Jennika break out (willingly or opportunistically) during shipment to... where? nyc why thefuck not, oh look they end up in chinatown *eyebrow waggle* oh now they’ve stumbled upon a grandpa, maybe his name is Grandpa Chung in the community, I don’t know, and he adopts them surprise! is he blind and therefore just thinks they’re lost kids? blech, does he see two turtles and see an auspicious omen? ehhh hmmm..... I guuuuesssss? or is he just gonna be an example of people doing good things with no prompting because it’s the right fuckin’ thing to do, they’re obviously kids with no guardians, and goddamn we know it’s for the plot but also people are just out here being good to each other guys, it’s real, it happens.

[nerdalmighty]

why do you think donald changed the triplets names

VERY good question. If I had to guess, at least for the 2017 version where their full names are Hubert, Dewford, and Llewellyn, Donald was probably thinking about names for if the boys eventually wanted to join the professional world (s1e1 literally has Donald interviewing to reenter the workforce, the whole show involves the McDuck enterprises, etc, it adds up). He probably wanted them to have options, but he probably also thought he was being clever with the rhyming names. Cuz I mean, come on. Huey, Dewey, and Louie are iconic names. It's also entirely possible he just wanted to ignore Della and thought Jet, Turbo, and Rebel were dumb and thought "I can do better." Or he truly didn't find Della's note until it was too late, if at all. Honestly who can say. I do think he made the right choice though, much to the chagrin of Turbo.

[elkian]

Not every game requires full or even partial voice acting: an essay by me

Some games are better with room for the audience to make assumptions and get creative: an appendix

[bonefall]

Smartness

Just curious about your comment on giving the smartest character a northern English accent (presumably not literally since they speak a different language, but in a theoretical "English dub"); who would you say are the smartest cats in the BB au?

@halogenwarrior

Jessy! Definitely! That girl's a total genius! She's got this amazing way of thinking in 3D and considering long-term consequences. I consider her as a proper prodigy of cat engineering, more than just being intelligent like a lot of my other characters.

Lizardstripe and Barley Sr. are both also very intelligent, though Lizardstripe's intelligence is in a more interpersonal sense where Barley Sr's is in a more engineering sense.

I try to think of intelligence not as a singular Thing, but as a bunch of separate 'types' of intelligence that individuals can have. Some people are great at understanding 3D space, others are amazing at remembering basically everything, others have outstanding social intelligence. So on. Most people have at least one, unless you're Billystorm <3

Other random 'smart dudes' in BB,

Runningnose: Just as intelligent as his mother, Lizardstripe.

Brushburn: Great engineer, photographic memory

Dappletail and Ferncloud: All educators need to have really good memories.

Ravenpaw: Excellent memory, would have made a great Cleric

Spottedleaf: Insightful, catches people off guard with how much she's able to gleam about you just from a few sentences

Daisy: Very rational and insightful, able to clear her mind and see things objectively.

Poppyfrost: Inquisitive, excellent at logical processes

MacGyver: That name... it HAS to be something.

List is obviously not comprehensive, but these are characters I think are particularly intelligent.

Anyway, yeah, in-universe the cats are all speaking Clanmew. But I got a request from a loved one to very specifically make "the smartest character" ferociously Northern for them (in the hypothetical "dub").

Logically since the cats are in an amalgam of Clwyd/Cheshire/Manchester/Merseyside/Lancashire they'd ALL get accents from those areas. But "the smartest character" has to be even further up. Cumbria, maybe.

[tariah23]

The live action commercial celebrating the release of JJK VOL 27. Is so 😭!!!

[thecolorsfucked]

@misspiggyforvogueitalia every case mgr i had was a nurse or whatever is below nurse who talked to me once gave me some phone numbers and got to call themselves a case manager