I'm drawing the turtles into some Ducktales clips, because so many of them just fit too well to ignore. Probably going to post a group of them together in a larger video after I get a few more done... but I just finished this one, and it was too entertaining not to share!
(Audio is taken directly from the Ducktales episode, just pitched down a bit!)
Now uploaded as a Youtube short as well, for easier sharing.
BOTW felt like it was telling the player; "Nature is an important part of who you are as a fellow creature of this Earth, and maybe building guardians of mass destruction isn't a good idea."
TOTK seems like it's telling the player; "Every tree is a potential enemy that's out to fucking get you! Burn. Surely, nothing bad has ever come from building guardians of mass destruction!"
Everyone should watch Unrest (2017). It has captions and subtitles in many languages, so you can probably watch it even if English isn’t your first language. Please, if you ever have an hour and a half of spare time, please watch this movie:
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It’s all about ME/CFS, an often-debilitating chronic illness that’s one of the most frequent conditions people develop after acute covid infections. The filmmaker, Jennifer Brea, has it, and she interviews many other people who have it, their families, and doctors, as well as going into the history of the illness. It’s important to watch this to support your friends who have it, and at this point, some of your friends probably do have it.
Edit: content warnings for discussion of suicide and suicidal ideation in the movie (but it ends on a hopeful note).
honestly i hate how that “maybe the curtains are just blue” post has become shorthand for anti-intellectualism and shit bc as someone who has an utter passion for media analysis now, I WAS THAT PERSON IN HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH CLASS.
english class never taught me how to analyze stories, it taught me how to remember what things the teacher said were “symbolism” and how to take quizzes where we had to match a quote to the character who said it. i didn’t give a shit about any of it, bc literally why should i. it was bullshit.
there’s this idea online that people are forgetting or rejecting what they learned in english class when they’re bad at media analysis, and maybe that’s a little bit true, but i think the much bigger problem is they never learned it in the first place. cinemasins & “maybe the curtains are just blue” aren’t convincing people to abandon an intellectualism they already had, they’re filling a void.
when all you learn in high school is to write on the test “blue = depression”, why is it surprising that so many people don’t give a shit about the curtains.