#still not produced by disney

[the-art-of-claude]

"Heart, don't fail me now; Courage, don't desert me; Don't turn back now that we're here.." Here she is, the first of a trilogy: Anastasia/Anya in her orphanage look!I always loved this look in the movie so much and ever since my first Anastasia repaint in 2016 I wanted to recreate that one for a doll glad I was finally able to do that! Unfortunately the hat doesn't fit anymore with that hairstyle.. and the original doll never came with that enormous jacket. Guess I have to do another one some day that can wear the hat and maybe commission someone with the jacket Let me know what you think of her :3

repainted with high pigmented artist acrylic paints // hair rerooted & styled // clothes: original Galoob Anastasia doll // before doll: 2021 Shop Disney 11" Cinderella classic doll

[mickedy]

I guess all I'm going to say is that it is a bit crazy how many people are willing to bend over backwards to justify why we should be buying the new Epic Mickey game. you know?

listen I am incredibly excited for the game and I've wanted this for years and years and years. Ok. But the money is still going to Disney. It's branded by Disney, it's got their name on it, it has their characters-- they own it, and they're not letting the game get by without squeezing it for profit.

just. have some compassion. don't use your money to fund Palestinian genocide, and don't encourage other people to do it either. donate esims

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Ngl slowly going from understanding Hasbro putting Power Rangers on pause to just starting to wonder like everyone else if Hasbro is trying to quietly abandon Power Rangers with the announcement that is leaving the fate of the comics unclear.

[a-menaceinpink]

rewatched star wars ep 1 recently (i have many Many things to say but that’ll come in another post) and i’ve concluded that part of the reason (there are many, mostly relating to pacing, world building and general quality) the new live action properties suck is that there’s a significant loss in the weight to their fight choreography. and i don’t mean that in like an plot relevant sense (altho that is also true) i mean the choreography LITERALLY looks less weighty, like it kinda seems like everyone is just a step too slow in everything and taking a couple too many breaths. the blade crossings don’t have as much of an impact. while that is to be expected w Sabine as a padawan it is very much NOT what i would expect from Shin OR the other guy Ahsoka kills OR Ahsoka herself, esp when compared to like Anakin in episodes 2/3 or Obi-Win thru out

the change really stuck out to me in episode 4 and it just makes the whole thing feel less like star wars and less weighty and it does the cast itself an injustice. i actually think the casting is really well done (natasha liu bordizzo <3) but the literal Everything Else ab Ahsoka in particular is disappointing

[bakastandotsukai]

nothing else makes me happier than the fact that The Little Mermaid live-action remake (560M) lost to not one but TWO ANIMATED MOVIES in the box office (Across the Spider-Verse, 690M; Super Mario Bros., 1.35B)

[astromechs]

not to sound like a total reddit bro, but i genuinely think the best comic book tv shows of the modern era are peacemaker, daredevil, and the boys

[welcometogrouchland]

I go to sleep ONCE in my life and I miss the pjo teaser. Typical

[the-art-of-claude]

"One step at a time, one hope then another. Who knows where this road may go.."

The last of my Anastasia trilogy :3 but if you've had an eye on my stories you already know there's more to come ;)

This one is very dear to me as she's technically also the very first Anastasia I did back in 2016. I used the exact same doll for the new one, removing the old paint and letting her glow up. I don't dislike the old doll but I guess you can definitely see the improvement of quality over the years, both in the paint and hair job as well as the photography. I actually dyed the hair of the 2016 one with acrylics and apparently I wasn't in the possession of gem stones for the choker necklace back then :D

Hope you like her once again :3 . repainted with high pigmented artist acrylic paints // hair rerooted & styled, nylon hair in the color pumpkin spice from @dollyhairofficial // clothes: original Galoob Anastasia doll // jewelry added // before doll: 2014 Disneystore 11" Cinderella classic doll

[bigskydreaming]

Ahhh. I’m hearing old industry friend talking about how the reason there’s no projected X-Men MCU projects before 2025, even though they’ve started going ahead with using the term mutant in universe, is NOT because they can’t use the characters yet per the old Fox contracts OR because they’d have to reuse the same actors per the actors still being attached thanks to the old Fox projects....

Rather, its because the PRODUCERS of the Fox X-Men films are still attached until 2025, and any MCU projects that use material already established in the Fox movies would mean Kinberg, Singer, etc, would be guaranteed a seat at the producer table and that specifically is what MCU producers are trying to avoid.

Interesting.

[crownshattered-moved]

|| anyway last post about this, but if rollo doesn’t have a total gay panic over Malleus (nodding to “Hellfire”~) then SORRY TWST, FOR ALL THE LOVE I HAD FOR YOU, YOU ARE FORSAKING ME......

[h0n3yk1tt3n]

I want you to know that a watched this for a solid few minutes to see if it really was Morbius compressed into a single gif (we've all seen it) and when I tell ya how disappointed I was when it looped back to the logos like, a minute into the Actual Movie

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Y'know, there's this gripe I've had for years that really frustrates me, and it has to do with Love, Simon and people joking about it and calling it too-pg and designed-for-straight-people and all the like. (A similar thing has happened to Heartstopper, but that's another conversation.)

I saw Love, Simon in theaters when it came out my senior year in high school. I saw it three times, once with my friends/parents on opening night, once with my brother over spring break, and once with my grandparents.

On opening night, the air in the room was electric. It was palpable. Half the heads in there were dyed various colors. Queer kids were holding hands. We were all crying and laughing and cheering as a group. My friends grabbed my hands at the part where Simon was outed and didn't let go until his parents were saying that they accepted him. My friend came out to me as non-binary. Another person in our group admitted that she had feelings for girls. It was incredible. I left shaking. This was the first mainstream queer romance movie that had ever been produced by one of the main five studios, and I know that sounds like another "first queer character from Disney" bit but you have to understand that even in 2018 this was groundbreaking. Getting to have a sweet queer rom-com where the main character was told that he got "to breathe now" after coming out meant so much to me and my friends.

But also, from a designed-for-straight-people POV (which, to be frank, it was written by a bisexual author and directed by a gay man, this was not designed for straight audiences), why is it a bad thing that it appealed to the widest possible audience? That it could make my parents and grandparents see things in a new light? My stepdad wasn't at all interested in rom-coms but he saw it with me because it was something I cared about and he hugged me when we came out of the theater. My very Catholic grandparents watched it with me and though my grandpa said he still didn't quite understand the whole 'gay thing,' all he wanted was for me to be happy and to have a happy ending like Simon did. My Nana actually cried when Simon came out and squeeze my hand when his mother told him he could breathe.

And when Martin blackmailed Simon, my mom, badass ally that she is, literally hissed "Dropkick him. Dropkick him in the balls" leading to multiple queer kids in the audience to laugh or smile. Having my parents there- the only parents, by the way, out of my group of queer and questioning friends- made multiple people realize that supportive adults were out there. That parents like those in Love, Simon do exist in real life.

When people complain about Heartstopper not being realistic or Love, Simon being too cutesy, I remember seeing Love, Simon on opening night. I remember my friend coming out and my stepdad hugging me and my mom defending us through this character. I remember the cheers that went through the audience when Bram and Simon kissed and the chatter in the foyer after the movie was over and the way that this movie made me understand that happy endings do exist.

Queer kids need happy endings. Straight people need entry points to becoming allies. Both of these things can come together in beautiful ways. They can find out about more queer culture later, but for now, let them have this. Let them all have a glimpse at a better, happier world. Let them have queer joy.

[maraczeks]

+

[missabbynormal]

Has anyone ever played Disney Magic Art Studio on a PC?

[sapphichobbit]

Lin manuel miranda haters love to complain that his music is so repetative and recognizable or whatever, but literally the only way i know he worked on a song is when lin manuel miranda haters start complaining about him being in something and im like "wait what he did?" Like idk i just dont hear the things they complain about shkshshs

[leidensygdom]

Something I really don't understand about AI companies buying the rights to steal content from social media to feed their data training sets is, well. It's illegal as hell.

That content does not belong to the social media companies to start with. Personal data is a bit nebulous as it is, and some countries have better protection about it than others, but posting a picture on tumblr doesn't mean that Automatic automatically has the right to use, distribute and sell it as it sees fit.

I mean. Official accounts for big companies like Disney use social media for advertising. But posting a picture of Elsa on Twitter doesn't mean they're giving Twitter the right to use and sell that picture. But suddenly Twitter sells the nebulous ability to "scrape content from Twitter for AI training", so now Midjourney owns that picture of Elsa? What's the fucking ruling there?

People own the rights of what they have created even without officially registering it for trademarking (which is expensive as hell, by the way). Social media selling content means that they are selling copyrighted material created by its users- Some of it coming from big companies that have trademarked the shit out of everything, some of it coming from small creators who STILL have the rights to what they've created even without a trademark.

Curently, what you produce through AI generators is not actually copyrighted, since it was not made by a human, but what gets fed into the data training sets is often copyrighted material from unconsenting people. It basically is a copyright laundering scheme.

I do wholeheartedly hope that some regulations will be put in place, and hoping that big companies will, at least, do their best to help this case even if its just to protect their own IPs and property. Given how overprotective have Disney, Nintendo and other big names been about their content, I can't expect they'll be happy having it being sold to Midjourney, OpenAI and other crap for free, without their consent.