#maybe one day i'll rewatch it and will make a full analysis

[littlehaize]

Got a niche movie you like, that you wish more people talked about?

lucky and zorba by enzo d'alò, an italian movie from 1998 based on the story of a seagull and the cat who taught her to fly by luis sepúlveda, a spanish book from 1996

summary: a seagull is caught by the black tide of a siking petrol shio. she manages to fly inland and falls down in a garden by a cat. moribund, she asks the cat to fulfill three promises: that when she lays her egg he must not eat it; that he must take care of it until it hatches; that he would teach the newborn how to fly.

i do not have much to say about it because i have a hard time being objective about it as it is one of my childhood movies that i thought i lost and had the chance of finding it a few months ago and was just transported by the beautiful story it is, the main themes are family and finding yourself, which are shown in very touching manners, there are songs that are beautiful, there is humor, there are hard topics talked about (death, black tide); in my very honest opinion, it is a very touching story that will give a smile and i cannot recommend it enough

sure, it can feel outdated animation wise, but i don't find it awful, it is good from the time it came out and i do think it age quite well, not perfect, but well at least

thank you for the ask!

[wistfulnightingale]

The Chess Moves Theory Set (New Ideas About the Final 15)

*An 8-Part set of Interconnected MetaTheories that support each other and might start to answer some interesting questions.

Did you have any nagging thoughts about things that didn't make sense from the last 2 episodes of Good Omens S2? Out-of-character moments, or odd changes in mood, or just little things someone said that stood out, but you weren't sure Why?

Me too.

For me, it was Especially because I became convinced that Aziraphale and Crowley committed to each other as loving partners on that bus ride home from the almost-Apocalypse, and that we were seeing An Old Married Couple as S2 opened. They were sweet, but stable, with set looks and comfortable touch and familiar quarrels, and now a sudden dramatic crisis had strolled up to their doorstep in all his naked glory...

So, for many months I was poring over YouTube videos, rewatching full episodes -- with headphones, or not, with captions, without sound, with sound but not watching the visuals.... Bonkers, right? But, as the Cheshire Cat said, "We're all mad here." And Alice later told the Hatter, "...I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are!"

I saw so many wonderful questions about S2 being asked by my fellow madly devoted Ineffables fans. It occurred to me that maybe we needed to ask all the questions at the same time, in order to come closer to the answers we were looking for, instead of looking at one question as the key. Similar to chess, where no singular move can win the match without the other moves and counter-moves.

I came up with 8 Mini-Theories I christened The Chess Moves Theory Set that all impact and support each other. Some may seem too wild or weird for the ineffable path you follow, some you might love, some may (I hope) turn out to be on the right track, and some may prove to be altogether wrong. But I did my best, and I do believe all of them are supported as theories by what I discovered and what I describe in each meta-theory analysis. I hope they are also consistent with the vision Terry Pratchett had for the final story. Even if I was mistaken, at least it gives us something fun to talk about until then!

Tumblr doesn't make it easy to prep and link 8 theory posts and a Master Post -- I tried (oh so hard!) to put cross-links in each one for you, and it just couldn't happen at posting time. Annnd, I'd also foolishly put my works-in-progress from "draft" into "private" 5 days ago! This makes it even tougher for you to get to them. So here's a nice shiny new post with all 8 Mini-Theories plus the Master Post that explains how Chess and Magic connect to all this:

The 8 Chess Moves Theory Set:

1 - The Metatron Misdirection

2 - The Metatron's Second Coming

3 - Ineffables in Check

4 - A Hefty Jigger of Death

5 - Nothing Lasts Forever

6 - The Circle Kiss Theory

7 - The Nightingale DID Sing

8 - Aziraphale's Jubilant Smile

Also: The Chess Moves Theory Set, Why Chess & Magic?

(If anyone has trouble with any links in any of the blogs, please let me know asap, and I'll try to fix it! I had some issues when I tried to cross-link everything!)

I also linked them in my pinned post on my blog page, "I Believe In Nightingales" at @wistfulnightingale.

I hope you enjoy them, if you decide to check them out! I'd love to have you along on this crazy ride until we get to the final chapter for our Beloved Ineffable Husbands!

[meta-squash]

i'm actually really fascinated by the difference between the characterisation/personalities/details of team torchwood in canon vs fanon. one day maybe i'll make a long post comparing the two.

i think it's super interesting to rewatch it and reread old fics when i've been in and out of the fandom since it was originally airing. so i have the knowledge of all the ways people were writing fic and talking about the characters and stuff back during the shows lifetime and just after.

but i've spent time in other fandoms and come back to torchwood a couple of times. and it's so cool to be able to look at the show and the characters with a slightly more objective eye. and it's so interesting to see the drastic difference between how most of the characters were written in fic compared to how they acted onscreen. obviously that's not true for every fic or every writer. but lately i've been rereading old fics from 2007-2012 and i'm constantly getting caught up on the ways fandom was writing the characters and influencing each other's characterisation vs actually pulling characterisation from the show.

anyway it's late and i'm not awake enough to do a full analysis but this is a post to maybe remind me to do a longer ramble about it

[mobolanz]

For the OC wrapped ask game: 8, 18 and 20! I hope you have a good day. ♥

Thank you!! Hope yours is great as well ;w;

Who was your most popular OC in 2023?

Evelyn defienetly takes the cake with 3 layers whipped cream and flakes and cherry toppings for that one! And for good reasons!:D

Liek this if babydoll is blorbo tier for you by this point 🤧🤭

What were your biggest inspirations for developing your OCs in 2023?

The regular ones, songs, romance stories, aesthetic stuff on tumblr.com, fairytales and myths, my top 3 comfort animes I rewatched all this year (aot, fruits basket, & sailor moon s1-2)

But since I've also been more intrigued by the idea of finally putting them into a full story and writing (especially evy, with Carmine. Eventually I'll get to it with Mia in "wallflower and the diamond in the rough".) I'll give credit to media analysis videos of certain female characters /ships within canon media that I love for how to write arcs/dynamics/ themes that'd intrigue me. In that sense it also helps for "storytelling through art" with my ideas nowadays being more scenario-based and involve direct interaction than static solo character art, like my reinelyn artworks.

(Y'know maybe Em really was onto something when suggesting me to make Carmine a comic, I get intrigued by the idea everytime it hits me again 😆💞)

Technically this one is solo Evelyn but like,,, it's a reaction from her point of view to Reiner's return (and condition) when his mission on the island ended so I add it.

Early traces can be found in my Demia stuff from the beginning 🤧🤧 I was mostly on IG then.

Some good examples:

What was your favorite OC related memory of 2023?

Honestly the very fact that people show genuine interest and all the asks I get (⁠｡⁠ŏ⁠﹏⁠ŏ⁠)

A fairly recent specific one was Em @whatthefucksatan showing me on discord a small bit she wrote for them and I might as well started chewing on my cat head pillow after that. Like drawing them is one thing and I could swoon over that too. But writing is something I wouldn't have expected 🥹🤧💖

oc wrapped: 2023 edition!

[selfindulgentraptor]

Excited to share my 2023 hyperfixation analysis!

Like last year, September was my least intense month due to being just REALLY busy for multiple reasons. October was full throttle into Billie Bust Up, which lasted all 31 days and carried through 2/3 of the next month.

There wasn't so much of a victor this year, but the three big ones were Transformers, Helluva Boss and Billie Bust Up. I gotta hand it to BBU for getting so high despite me only being introduced to it at the end of Septemeber this year. It helped me through a LOT that happened around that time and continues to just be a big comfort media. Can say the same for Helluva Boss, which this year went from a casual watch to probably in my top 3 favourite shows of all time.

Comparing Marvel, which got 101 days last year (particularly due to Moon Knight and Spider-Man: No Way Home), I think I've finally caught MCU franchise fatigue. Also fun to see how I dabbled in Gotham for like 4 days in March only to realize it was dead in the water. It's aged really bad since that one time I binged it in high school. Though they were fun to blind watch this year, Community and The Simpsons respectably feel like one-offs as well.

For 2024 I predict that Hazbin Hotel will make me VERY happy, Helluva Boss and Billie Bust Up will continue strong, Pokémon will be more relevant than this year, I'll maybe actually rewatch Steven Universe this time, and there's a 2% chance I'll either hyperfix on Trolls or Planet of the Apes.

2022 hyperfixation analysis

[queen-of-my-goofball-army]

Undiagnosed Autism-spectrum disorder in The Michells Vs The Machines

I'm sure that more well educated people have put two and two together in this film but I really, really want to put my own spin on it from my experience. For me, as an aspie, film is one of my biggest interests. I love studying and more than anything I love watching and rewatching films. My latest favorite movie was one that I just watched last night for my family movie night, The Michells Vs The Machines. I also went 17 years of my life asking myself the same question that both Rick and his daughter ask each other, what is wrong with him/her?

Well, I'll tell you, in my firmly undiagnosed autistic opinion for far too long, that this family is full of people with undiagnosed autism spectrum disorder. When I was watching it with my parents my mom made the comment that "the dad was a jerk" and maybe "he just didn't love his daughter enough to let her be her own person." I thought that was so not seeing the bigger picture even though it was only fifteen minutes into the film. I have felt like Katie so much with my own dad. My dad is a computer nerd and a physics major for those of you that don't talk to me very often. That means in laminas terms that he's extremely smart. Way smarter than I will ever be in my entire life. Both of my parents are insanely smart in their own rights. My mom is a CPA accountant. But that isn't what I wanted to talk about here. I want to discuss the effect of undiagnosed autism and what it can do to a whole family when they all have it and just don't know that they do. This will probably go on for quite some time so you may stop here or read below the cut because this also has the probablity of getting super, duper personal.

We'll start with Katie! To me, Katie is one of the most relatable characters that I have ever come across. She's a film nerd, which alone has made her supremely relatable as somebody who is thinking about going into a degree in film studies. I am more of a critic of film than somebody who wants to make her own film but nonetheless, there were SO many little moments that I related to. The first thing that I personally noticed and related to was the stimming technique that Katie has. She chews on her hoodie strings. As somebody who has chewed on the drawstrings of hoodies far too often long before I was officially put into the Aspergers box. Aspies are also known to stick with one "special interest" for the rest of their lives if it's one that is wide enough and varied enough to make it applicable. For Katie, that's film. For me that's animation. I appreciated that little detail of most of her dialogue being references to other films because as a lover of films and movies in general I could go for days on just fumes and movie references that nobody else understands. The little things from her hair being perpetually messy (same that's a whole ass mood like I just learned over quarantine how to tye my own hair back), only having one earring in her ear at all times, the way that she dresses and draws on her own hands, this was just me when I was first in high school. I was one of the few people that wore shorts underneath all my skirts/dresses. Everyone who knew about looked at me like I had grown a third eyeball.

Aaron, the younger brother, also just oozes spectrum lil buddy out of his every pore from his being. I do think that they should have picked somebody capable of doing a bit of a younger sounding voice (I know what they were going for, but like Ben Schwartz has become a huge deal in both voice acting and live action before switching mediums.) His special interest is actually quite a common one, he loves dinosaurs. I've met a bunch of people on the spectrum that are fascinated by dinos and what they meant for the world as well as the universe as a whole. To me, there was one scene specifically that was the scene where Katie was lightly teasing him when they were going to the half assed dinosaur extravaganza. For me, this was SO relatable because both of my parents will mess with me about my interests most of the time it's when we go to Disneyland, they'll tell me that we actually aren't going to land of magic but to Timbuckto (hopefully one day they'll say some place else just to switch things up.) I related so hard to Aaron's protesting and whining in this scene since that is always my reaction to doing something that I want to do but get told that I can't do that thing.

Linda is more of your traditional mom but I think that she's on the spectrum as well. Just a more... normalized version as opposed to her family. She's able to be a teacher, she's able to interact somewhat normally around her neighbors. If anything, she reminded me of my own mom. This independent, takes nobody's trash (especially not her husband's), strong minded, and amazing mother who is completely in control of everything. She knows the special interests of her children and is constantly thinking of what will make them happy. Whether it be taking a detour for something dinosaur related, reminding her daughter that her dad loves her no matter what, and even something as simple as watching something that her daughter made and put her heart and soul into. I can't tell you how many times my mom has watched something with me. She watched my first anime Soul Eater with me when I was 12 and ever since then has been trying to get me to watch other shows with her. She's a lot like Linda, your loving, but firm mother who just wants her family to work things out.

Whew boy. This one is going to be probably where I cry. Comparing my dad to Rick is... something that I did consistently when I was watching the film. He's the strong but silent type usually, unless your me and he's just this constant annoyance when I'm trying to do something. He could be seen as just a "Jerk" but I think that is the undiagnosed aspie talking. Rick and Katie just struggle so hard to see eye to eye because their special interests can't intersect to save their lives. This, this hurt me because so often I struggle to relate to my dad. Especially when he talks to me about computers or physics. Now I took physics but without having been in quarantine and having him as my live in tutor I would have failed, not gotten an A. This has resulted me in saying things that I don't mean in the heat of the moment when we do argue. It doesn't happen nearly as much as it used to back when I was in middle school but when it happened it was because of one thing. I lied. I used to lie a lot because I felt so unworthy of being his daughter because on my best days I am not technically smart. You want to know how many nations of the world there were in 1991 when the original Animaniacs was airing? You want to hear my Dot Warner impression? Did you ever wonder how to recognize a specific voice when your watching anime? Have you ever had to watch a panel of your favorite anime voice actor just to laugh at something? No, well I did. But ever since I have started taking a quarter off from community college I have realized something. I am not technically smart. I struggle at learning the rules for math. My dad can do this with his eyes closed but me, I struggle and look like a complete moron. It took years for my dad and I to see eye to eye. Sometimes I still wonder if I was the product of some laboratory experiment of what would happen if two intelligent people came together, fell in love, and expecting that the daughter was smart I was the reject. Watching this movie with my dad I saw so much of my relationship with him on the screen. Struggling to relate to one another, fighting and getting into arguments about petty things, and not being able to be in the same room as one another without heated words because I didn't get him.

The scene that I related to the most when it was in terms of how much Katie just doesn't understand her dad was after he was nabbed by the machines. When Aaron asked her why she said those things to their dad and her simple answer was "I don't know." This. This right here was when I saw me. So many times I've gotten into heated arguments with my dad when he has simply annoyed me at the wrong time and I've just blown up in his face. Then I regret my actions and not know how to apologize for losing my temper with him because "I don't know" just doesn't seem like a nearly acceptable answer. I felt this in my soul because it happened especially often before I was diagnosed.

When I was diagnosed, things started to get better with my dad and I. We haven't had a fight in nearly four years now. He watches cartoons with me now to try and relate to me, it's mostly Pinky and The Brain but it's more than I could have ever asked for. I love my dad so much, more than anything in the entire world. This movie is so, so good at telling a story about how a family of undiagnosed aspie's and people on the spectrum struggle to relate to one another because their special interests are different.

Special interests and family's are especially difficult and I applaud this movie so loud because of the way that it was able to treat the subject matter with integrity and honesty. I'm sorry if this analysis got a little bit long in the toof but thank you for sticking with me! I really hope that if you watched the film you loved my analysis.

[cookiepotofchaos]

I just went on a whirlwind Google search tour of some of the sapphic ships from TV shows I had when I was young and first finding fanfic and fandom.

Xena: Warrior Princess was probably my first TV based sapphic ship and the thing that opened up this idea of a fandom community for me. Before that, fanfic had been me, a pencil and paper, and rewriting my favourite books just for me. Entirely solitary.

But with Xena, there was this wonderful Xena website which had an episode-by-episode subtext analysis that I just poured over time and time again (Still accessible now via Oocities), and a community around it full of people analysing the same sapphic subtext that had drawn me to search in the first place. I've rewatched the Xena episodes multiple times over the years.

It was the others I had forgotten about. As I started to remember actors and shows, I was reminded of how many fics I wrote (long since lost or thrown away) for these fandoms, trying to find some kind of sapphic representation in shows that I really don't think had even an inkling of it. (Xena aside)

Shows like Cleopatra 2525, with Helen Carter and Sarge.

Like Mutant X, with Shalimar Fox and Emma deLauro.

Like Andromeda, with Beka Valentine and Trance Gemini.

I know there probably isn't anything to the sapphic headcanons I had when I was younger, beyond the wishful thinking of someone looking for representation at a time where it just wasn't really there. As much as I'm tempted to rewatch some of the shows, I dread that time has not been kind to the memories I have of them.

It does make me smile that Lauren Lee Smith starred in another show that I loved - Frankie Drake Mysteries - 20 years after I watched her in Mutant X.

Maybe one day I'll try and do a timeline of all the fandoms, tiny and big, which have made up a part of the sapphic fandoms I love. At one time or another, they held some importance for me, and I'm wondering how how many others I've forgotten over the years.