If you have not seen the Lego Monkie kid documentary, I highly suggest watching it. Like Right. Now.
Rant (/POS VERY BIG /POS) about it under the cut
you guys you guys you guys you guys
The amount. Of FUCKING effort. Lego put into this show. Is so much more than I've ever fucking seen from anything else ever.
I can not believe how involved the team got to make sure they were 100% accurate to the legend. And it took this video to make it actually hit that Journey to the West is an actual freaking legend.
Sun Wukong is more than a fictional character for the Chinese. Everyone in China knows who he is straight up. There's a whole ass fucking statue of Tang Sanzang who was apparently a freaking REAL, ACTUAL PERSON.
This is not meant to sound ignorant, I always knew that the legend was more than just a story. This documentary.. it just opened my eyes so much wider with how important it truly is. And the fact that Lego went above and beyond to do all this, to make China happy, that is a true company right there.
They were concerned for the kids. They made sure the designs of the characters weren't looked as racist. That the designs of the mechs put every ounce of respect for the culture as possible. There were so many firsts that came with this show and holy shit it makes my heart melt.
I don't know if it's allowed, but one of these days I will make it a top priority to go down to the Tang Sanzang statue and pay my respects. This legend has done so much for me, and from here on out I will show Sun Wukong and JTTW more respect than before. This was such an amazing thing to watch I even cried.
Watching grown adults talking about the "power of friendship" and playing with toys and having fun at their jobs and going out to explore.... God that is the life and passion that should be for everything. It's not an immature, childish dream. It can be real.
Lego made it real.
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The Amazing Devil truly knocked it out of the park with Fair in terms of love songs i mean its got everything. Domesticity, deep adoration, confessions of love when youre sure no one else can hear, a that's what she said joke, yogurt, genuinely dont think there's a more romantic song on the face of the earth
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[ cw: trauma / mind control / separation anxiety / autophobia / ]
Something that kills me is that there’s no way in hell that Raph’s debilitating separation anxiety isn’t infinitely worse after the movie. The trauma of being Krangified like that, all alone, would probably regress him so hard.
Not to mention his worries of getting “weird” would likely get mixed up with his experience while Krangified - aka, he loses full awareness, and when he’s brought “back” it’s to the understanding that he attacked his own family (of course not to his own fault at all, but how much of that does he believe?)
The fear of being alone would take on another layer and become a fear of himself.
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Sorry I'm still feeling dread about maid Jimmy. Poorly made comic thing under cut
Sorry this is gonna take up space but I really wanted it to be viewed as intended and such... I put it under read-more though so no one can complain!!
My art block is as strong as ever and killing me but I'm feeling so emotional and dreadful about that last SOS episode still, I forced my way through it lol. Joel wasn't there when it went down (I'm so fucking glad), which made me think of this instead and uh yeah I'm. Fuck man I dont even care about SOS that much!!!! This has ruined me
The way Pix (didn't really do anything wrong btw) made Jimmy dig a hole because he owed him for saving his life, and then Sausage comes in "aha!!!" and obligates Jimmy to do something for him too, quickly disregarding any uncertainty on Jimmy's half and shifting it onto Jimmy with "You actually reminded me that you owe me" (paraphrasing) grrrrr. And tbf he did talk about dancing at that point, but later Jimmy was clearly made to believe that he'd only be serving drinks and then Sausage goes "you're serving YOURSELF!" GRRRRRRR sorry this is just minecraft I know I know. I'm reading to deep into it yaada yaada. But no fuck that I want Jimmy to be happy and not to be made feel like he owes people things even if they saved him, I don't want Jimmy to talk like he's about to cry, I don't want him to be talked down to, I don't want him to feel like he has no room to object and has to just listen to others or expect to be treated a certain way hardwired into his brain, I don't want his abrasiveness to be more of a sought reaction to bullying/teasing/etc rather than a sign of the confidence he used to have, he's been through enough!!!! I hate this why can't I just awooga at maid Jimmy. That'd make things so much easier. Alas the horrors
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