#movie's good btw go see it

[scalproie]

just saw Nope (2022) so spoilers ahead but the interpretation I've seen a couple times on video essays and some posts on here about "Gordy" sparing "Jupe" because he realized that they both are similar in the way they are being exploited as novelty for entertainment both as an exotic animal and an asian child actor rather than real living beings... feels more like what Ricky Park is telling himself to cope with such an intense trauma rather than what most likely happened. To think it was a deliberate action of the chimp playing Gordy (who has no actual name) to spare Ricky humanizes it too much when it is, as an animal, not capable of morality, and it was probably the sum of the tablecloth covering Ricky's eyes therefore not "provoking" the chimp plus the fact that Ricky stood absolutely still, not making any sudden movement (unlike the dad actor who yelled and ran), that did not set off the chimp again and so, maybe, when it lifted its hand to what looked like the fist bump with Ricky that might've became part of their routine, it maybe already calmed down and went back into animal actor on set mode. But while its true that they were basically treated the same way by the industry, I truly dont think it was some special bond between the chimp playing Gordy and Ricky that saved the latter from the massacre. Because it would undermine one (among many others, this is one of the most surface level ones I think) of the movie's message about how animals gonna do what animals gonna do and you have to understand WHY they do such things and not treat them both as humans or less than humans.

And if Ricky was indeed thinking that he survived because of a special bond with Gordy and not because of, overall, accidental luck (like OJ did living 6 months basically next to Jean Jacket but never setting him off because he never accidentally "provoked" him by looking at him, or just general luck), it would make sense why he immediately projects his experience with Gordy onto his experience with Jean Jacket, and tried to turn it into another profitable attraction, because thats what became of the Gordy's massacre and that was what was forced onto Ricky, who eventually embraced it. And came to believe that he could tame two dangerous animals. Well at least that's my interpretation anyway.

[tianhai03]

i watched re death island today!!!!!1 it was really good!!!!!!!!! had to draw smth to celebrate :)

[fluffypotatey]

okay so:

the year is 2021. the month is june. the new season of hermitcraft, season 8, has just started, and everything is great! the hermits are all messing around, having fun, building insane things within the first week of the server being active, and generally having a good time. everyone's collected themselves into little factions, pranking each other, and it's all the fun, lighthearted, mostly-vanilla content hermitcraft is known for.

and then the split between minecraft versions 1.18 and 1.19 is announced. the delay of new terrain, and especially of new mobs like the warden, considerably disrupt several of the hermits' plans. but it's fine, they'll figure something out, they're professionals, and it mostly goes unnoticed.

about two weeks later, on november 9th, grian turns to mumbo jumbo in one of his episodes, and asks the famous question that would seal hermitcraft season 8's fate:

"mumbo, is the moon... big?"

suddenly, the fans panic. they search back through videos and streams, and realize that the moon had been abnormally large and stuck in a full-moon phase since october 30th. the Moon Big event has begun.

this is where the roleplay really starts. once the moon's size has been brought up, the hermits start a weird combination of scrambling to figure out why the moon's growing, and how to stop it- but also of ignoring it, hoping it won't be a problem, hoping someone else will deal with it. the moon keeps getting bigger, more hermits start realizing it's going on, and a creeping sense of dread starts to grow. but it's fine. it's fine, right? they do little plotlines like this all the time. they'll figure something out, the moon will go back to normal, and we'll laugh about it when this is all over. it's fine.

and then, blocks start flying away. just floating up out of the ground, and falling right back down! like for a moment, a square meter chunk of dirt has decided it's a ballerina and leaped out of the ground! but it's fine, right? the blocks are coming back. no lasting harm is done. they're going to fix it all... right?

the moon gets bigger. it's growing every day- local hermit weirdguy joe hills measures it every stream. the blocks start flying higher. gravity starts getting... weird, with players getting the slow falling effect at random, and being lifted off of the earth themselves. the players form cults and rituals and whatnot to try and appease the moon, convince it to leave them alone, making plans to escape. nothing works. things keep getting worse, and the moon keeps getting bigger. but it'll be fine. these storylines never leave lasting harm, or at least they never have before. they'll be fine.

and then the blocks stop coming back, just floating into the sky forever. the players have the slow falling effect more than they don't now. the moon is now so big it's visible even during the day, and fills the entire sky at night. they start planning their escapes in earnest, and say their goodbyes. some hermits jump into a void hole in the overworld (it was the centerpiece of their village). some flee to the End, some to the nether, some just fly with elytras and hope they can get far enough away in time. one brave hermit, tango, flies himself to the moon in a futile attempt to blow the whole thing up before it can crash.

but in the end, the moon crashes into the server, and everything they'd built was destroyed. and the whole time, there'd been nothing any of them could've done. season eight was over, a full six months before anyone had expected it to end, and season nine wouldn't start until about three months later. and im still not okay about it.

(here's a cool animatic of the moon's crash! honestly i dont think you need too much hermitcraft knowledge to get the gist)

(also the moon crash happened on the day before my birthday lmao.)

….

holy shit

[springlock-suits]

Au where Mike fucking died in that hallway and they made him possess the empty dog animatronic

[rotisseries]

tired of people who want pjo movie references in the disney+ show. "logan lerman should've been-" i don’t care. "poker face in the casino-" actually i hope ms. gaga keeps her entire discography miles away from it. i don't care move on

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

I think some part of me will always be that kid walking out of a huge movie theater into a grey overcast afternoon not realizing her world was about to be permanently changed but feeling changed already herself by the animated Disney film she'd just seen that she would spend a year acting like she was too cool to be affected by, even though she'd never cried at a movie before that and and the cries from the speakers were still ringing in her ears on that cold, overcast afternoon, right before her world changed

[trashmuis]

shoutout to the girl in the formal button up blouse and black slacks, with a visible watch chain dangling out of the pocket, who was eating a nacho box full of those little packets of parmesan cheese (you know, the kind you can get with pizza) in the theater, watching Lisa Frankenstein in front of me, all by herself.

I was fascinated and inspired by your entire vibe

[volcanicsleep]

Watched Mutant Mayhem! It's pretty good, didn't re-write my brain chemistry or anything, but it does some novel stuff that I thought was interesting.

My only advice is to not watch it in 3D, lmao, it actively detracts from the experience

[fiovske]

does every video game really need a live action adaptation 😐

[fairybluedreams]

Vote HTTYD!!

Hiiiiiii, back on my campaigning bs. Here's why you should vote for How to Train Your Dragon in the @book-was-better tournament!

Disclaimer btw I'm not saying the first movie is a bad movie or bad story as it's own separate thing -- I'm saying it's a bad Adaptation of a book series -- in that it does nothing to Adapt the book series into a film series, just uses the name and goes off to do it's own thing. Other explanations and analysis of this aspect under the "how to train your dragon propaganda" tag in the tournament itself.

[ireallyamthemaincharacter]

Dude this is so me fr

[thornycanary]

everyday im sufferin

[suppenzeit]

im sorry to be gatekeepey but any time someone says they like musicals but then their favorite is a Babbys First Musical like hamilton or heathers.. bestie expand your horizons. watch cats at least. maybe elizabeth or tanz der vampire if you wanna know what europeans are up to. fuck it, enjoy chess the musical. this is for your own good

[aro-aizawa]

I think Mirabel & Izuku would be besties tbh. This is prompted by anything but I thought you might agree

mirabel from encanto? oh ye i can get behind that ahah

[jrueships]

Sauce fucked that old man 🤭

sauce: i Envisioned this. i Envisioned this, you Know. i Did. us two.... together .... A l o ne .

i envisioned it.

just me. and you, arod. and your friend,

Little Rod .

but he comes attached like a parasite between your pelvis so- he doesn't count, now Does he 🤭? ...... maybe hes Lonely .😳

Aaron: Ahmad Where Are Right Now ...

.... i'm Scared. .... the Nurses said it's Past my Bedtime . .

[ilonacho]

i miss having time for fandom😔