First there is love then the colour photographer captured an enchanting, calm thoughtful moment in a young life, image by ... Ines Lynne children's photography
weird cultural worldbuilding, especially with strange, intricate social norms and power dynamics
characters playing little made up card games with implied bizarre, convoluted rules where I blatantly rip off the vibe of Pokemon, MTG, Duel Monsters/Yugioh etc
we see one of my favs from an outside POV: they are hot, badass, terrifying, tragic, or any/all of the above
some players in game said that i’m a “retired veteran” after i explained how i got back into sky. i thought it was funny that i have two moth season godparents or whatever the community refers to them lol
1. Thumbelina (1994) 2. The King And I (1999) 3. Cinderella III (2007) 4. The Fox and the Hound (1981) 5. Enchanted (2007) 6. Turning Red (2022) 7. Pocahontas II (1998) 8. Ferngully (1992) 9. The Swan Princess (1994) 10. Thumbelina (1994)
"2012 Splinter gives deep wisdom advice in vague, confusing metaphors while he could just say it as it is."
Yes, true, but he mostly does it on purpose and to confuse his boys. It's actually a crack to him, notice that every single time, he looks super amused while doing it. Also hilarious because he only does this with the boys, never with April or Casey or Karai or any other friend or mutant, only with the boys. He is trolling them! XD
As for whether Rise Splinter gives his sons wise ninja advice the same way or not, let's just rewatch the End Game episode, yeah?
Raph's imaginary astral plane Splinter only has to say, "You already know how to smash out of that cage, just smash out of that cage," but instead of doing so, there's a whole long journey through harsh landscapes and he keeps talking in riddles and confusing metaphors reminiscent of his 2012 counterpart and I find that just lovely.
That one part before the leader 1v1 and red team was just fucking surrounding Phil dropping everything they have of value or might be useful, chasing/barking out anyone who's not bolas(I'm so sorry Tina that Cellbit beat you into lava).
also can I just say. the difference between the joy of fit and bagi having a full day with blue, getting acquainted with the base, reuniting with their loved ones, all relieved to have more materials and more of a team - and then the absolute misery of etoiles and roier, moving the few valuable possessions red has to a new base that got immediately discovered anyway, losing all their gear, getting it back, then burning it themselves before killing eachother, is just so fucking funny. the new blues had freshman orientation while the new reds had a trial by fire canon event
Soooo APPARENTLY (and allegedly) there was supposed to be a sapphic Ball episode for Chaggie….all I’m saying is that they better had moved that episode to season two cus I feel SO ROBBED RIGHT NOW!
Velvet’s shoes are S-tier shoe design. If they were real I would buy them
Her shoes are real fun, real fancy~ I just wanted them to endure the way she fights and moves, you know? She climbed a big desert turtle, she needs the right kinda gear for that, and thigh highs AINT cutting it.
But my favorite feature about them tho...paw print bottoms
A critique I've seen of Suzume that drives me a little insane is like, people saying that the big dramatic "main" story was less interesting than the moments of mundane life where Suzume is just spending time with the strangers she meets on her journey bcs listen, those moments ARE the main story!! Those slice-of-life bits?? Where she's helping Chika's family around their bathhouse or babysitting Rumi's kids or complaining about Serizawa's road trip music?? THAT'S WHAT THE MOVIE IS ABOUT!! It isn't really about the magic or time travel or gods and demons, it's about beautiful, average people and their beautiful, average lives.
Suzume is a love letter to humanity. And every second that Suzume and Souta spend just doing normal things with the normal people around them is JUST as important to the story as the big, dramatic scenes where they're fighting to save the world. It's not fluff or filler, it's the thesis statement of the whole film. They felt important because they were!!