#watched these instead of doing homework

[saucy-mesothelioma]

Ok finally finished watching the Cloverfield trilogy and I just have so many thoughts of this stupid fucking franchise (and I mean stupid in both a positive and derogatory way). I'll try to post my Letterboxd reviews soon cause I'm really behind on them, but I just need to talk about it right now.

First, the OG Cloverfield

Imma say this right now and just get it out of the way, I don't really care about JJ Abrams. I know a lot of people have their problems with him as a "copy-cat king" and from what I've read that seems about right, but I also don't have much to say in the topic because I really don't care for any of his movies. Love him if you want, hate him if you want, I don't really care. Now with that out of the way, people are right that this is basically Godzilla, but I actually sort've like that premise. And that's coming from someone who doesn't enjoy found footage films. It touches greatly on post 9/11 anxiety and I like how they didn't really show the monster much like they do in Jaws. And the monster design is top tier, I fuckin love it. But these characters dude. They're so fucking stupid. They risk everything to try to save Beth(? I think that was her name? I don't remember honestly) but like my good bitch the town is fucking exploding around you. She's dead girlypop sometimes you just gotta let that shit go. Like come on. There's also one more thing about this movie I don't like, but this Letterboxd user summed it up best

Next, 10 Cloverfield Lane

(WARNING: this movie has strong themes of abuse and aggression that mirror domestic violence, which I mention here albeit not in detail. So keep that in mind if you plan on watching the movie.)

Ok, if you haven't watched this movie, stop right now and go watch it. This movie isn't the best film by far, but WATCH THIS SHIT BLIND. It's a fucking roller coaster and it's a fun watch. Did you go watch it? You didn't? Ok well I'm going to spoil the entire fuckin movie so that's on you.

Despite being called the "spiritual successor" of Cloverfield, this movie has really nothing to do with it except for the very end. And the reason for this is probably because this movie was actually supposed to be called The Cellar, but was turned into a Cloverfield film by Bad Robot. Honestly the ending was probably added specifically for that connection to Cloverfield and I could've done without it due to its stupidity and abruptness. But the rest of this movie? Holy fucking shit. This movie constantly has you questioning all the information you're being given and keeps you in suspense. It's got some genuinely unnerving moments and the cinematography is really fucking good; this video by Nocturnal Critic does a fantastic job of breaking down some of the framing choices during one of the most tense scenes and I seriously can't recommend it enough. The three main actors are absolutely incredible, but I'll be honest I'm incredibly biased towards one in particular. And that's John fuckin Goodman. It's an absolute crime that this man HASN'T gotten an Oscar. Dude's an acting powerhouse and he absolutely steals the fucking show in this movie. Like I can guarantee it wouldn't be nearly as good if it weren't for his performance that ups the unease and dread to 200. Not to take away from Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Gallagher Jr (who were also absolutely wonderful in their respective roles), Goodman just makes this movie. He manages to make Howard such a threatening character that genuinely made me uncomfortable at points for just how real it felt. I think the best example is the scene covered in the video I linked above: the dinner scene. Seeing an unsettling character snap is terrifying in of itself, but what's even more unsettling is when they don't snap when you expect them to. It really adds to the tension in a way I can't describe, especially when you factor in his treatment of Michelle and what we learn about Howard later on. And on that note, there is one problem I have with the major story besides the ending, and that's the plotline of Brittany and Megan. What exactly happened there, especially in the case of Brittany, is never really expanded on and feels like a major loose end. Apparently there was an ARG that expanded on this and Howard's involvement, but without it that plot line makes zero sense to me. Regardless of that and the unnecessary final 10 minutes connecting it to the previous Cloverfield movie, this one's by far the best out of the "trilogy".

And last and by far the least, The Cloverfield Paradox

Lmao this movie fucking sucked. Like no joke this movie was shit. The story was confusing as fuck and I couldn't name a single character with a gun to my head. It actually made me laugh out loud with how absolutely fucking stupid everything about it was, but the moments in-between the laugher at the outrageous bullshit I was bored out of my mind. It just made me want to watch 10 Cloverfield Lane again. Fuck, I'd rather watch Cloverfield again and THAT movie has TJ Miller talking the entire damn time. Once again there's zero connection to the original film except for a spooky big boi alien you see at the VERY END. Everything about this movie isn't even worth talking about, so I'm not gonna!

So yeah those are my thoughts on the Cloverfield trilogy, although it's really not a trilogy just movies with the same name slapped on to them. You don't need to watch any one film to watch the others, and honestly I kinda wish I didn't. In my opinion only the first two are worth watching, with 10 Cloverfield Lane being the better watch out of the two.

[deeneedsaname]

Is this anything

[thepunkmuppet]

approaching The Confession Scene and what the fuck. this is genuinely tragic like I’ve always seen it as a meme, a joke, an iconic moment in fandom history, whatever, I’m a tumblr user, but now that I’m actually here it’s just fucking SAD

season 15 as a whole is NOT bad. it’s really not. but there’s zero destiel. they rarely speak at all unless it’s plot-related, one (1) episode pairs them together, frankly season seven was ten times more focused on their friendship and that’s INSANE because cas is only in like five fucking episodes of that one. they have a mini arc midway through the season which is very gorgeous and well-done, but it then goes absolutely nowhere and nothing at all is done to make it textually romantic.

by which I mean: no episodes have dean or cas reacting personally to sam and eileen’s relationship, or any other romantic relationship they come across. we’re never shown anything even remotely romantic even in an unrequited sense (no post-realisation awkwardness, no lingering shots of cas pining from afar, etc etc). it reads like a normal season of the show, which, yeah, I think those two are pretty fucking gay regardless, but they’re always textually written as a friendship, with no explicit cues to clue the audience in that there are canon romantic feelings. and that doesn’t change here, at all.

so I guess what I’m saying is the confession scene is purely just a moment of fan service. as stunning as the speech itself is, and as well as it fits cas’s character, the writers throughout the season didn’t actually give a fuck to make destiel ROMANTIC even in a one-sided way. film is a language and as much as misha does in his acting, even from castiel’s perspective they’re still framed as a friendship within the show itself RIGHT up until he says the words I love you. they weren’t interested in actually depicting a (even one-sided) queer love story, just wanted to give fans their “okay here it is we did it guys!” moment at the end, so that way they didn’t have to actually show an explicitly romantic gay love story, they could just say some words, kill cas off and boom it’s canon! here you go people we’ve been leading on, mocking and low-key gaslighting for eleven years!

idk man it’s just so disappointing. I knew it was and I know everyone has been talking about it for years now but my GOD it’s so bad 😭 I can’t even tell you how bizzare it is to have seen destiel confession meme on here and in various fandom video essays EVERY DAY FOR FOUR PLUS YEARS and now here I am, watching it go down in real time with full context, having watched over 300 episodes of this show, invested, obsessed, and REALLY FUCKING UPSET AAAAHHH

EDIT: forgot to mention this originally. the actual concept of cas’s moment of perfect happiness killing him, while kind of stolen from buffy, is AMAZING. and the literal perfect opportunity to have a building textual confirmation of his feelings throughout the season, where he realises what that moment will be, and it ends in the tragic confession of his love. like that’s insane that’s perfect. but no it just comes out of nowhere so oh fucking well whatever I guess! they’re canon so we should all be happy! I hate this stupid bumhole show AUGH no one talk to me ever :(

[rd-eternity]

Trips, falls, faceplants back into full force Cherik hyperfixation. Who needs sleep when you have fanfiction!

[kiyomitakada]

[to the tune of where is the justice's first lines] this world is rotting from the surface to the core / am i the only one whose life feels like a chore / this whole society needs someone for repairs every day's a little worse and i don't think anyone cares

[some-pers0n]

interesting ideas about AI art and by no means am I trying to send hate but I believe majority of people hate AI art is because it's truly just the byproduct of a giant plinko board bouncing through pieces of art made by artists who put love and care and SOUL into their work. A visual product of a math formula. While it's "art" in the most litteral sense, not having a true human behind it putting though and effort into its every detail, for many people (myself included) devalues it from a tradition artists work.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that AI art is inherently unequal to non Ai art, specifically for this reason. (Hope this made sense sorry if it's incoherent)

I agree in that sense there. I personally do not find myself wanting to engage in a work when I purposefully know the creator had used AI to create the entire product. Something something,,,I cannot find myself getting invested in something that is little more than a product. I don't wanna read a fic about my blorbos when it was written by Chat-GPT

I also agree with the idea that a lot of people hate AI art because of this heavily emotional, debatably reactionary mindset that stems from one thing: fairness. It's the same sort of emotion I find one gets if all of the work on a group project gets shafted onto them whilst their fellow peers sit idly by. It feels unfair to sink hours into your craft, spending all this time fighting to develop your skills and flourish as an artist, only to see someone type half a paragraph and have a machine spit back something that looks not half bad. Let's be honest with ourselves here and say that AI art, at least in a visual regard, has progressed quite a bit to the point where most of the mistakes people find can be dismissed as wonky perspective and the line art being a bit fucky, which is something a ton of artists struggle with too

People develop a sort of a superiority complex over it. I can't blame them honestly. A number of times I've felt it too when people tell me they're using Chat-GPT as though it were Google and when I see my family members and friends playing around with AI art. I gotta bite my tongue and choke back a chortle, both because it's kind of a dick move and also because I don't want to relish in this feeling. It's infectious though to feel as though you have an edge over another person just because you abstain from using Chat-GPT or whatever. Not to be all "grrgrgrr you should LOVE Chat-GPT and if you dare to say anything bad then you are EVILL!!" of course though. It's emotions. They're messy, intense, and oftentimes you don't really realize when you're feeling since you get locked into your perspective. Yet, I think it's important to realize a lot of hatred of this generative AI stems from emotions. Reactionary ideals and claims stem from emotions after all

I think ultimately what the conversation about generative AI should revolve around is about the concerns of labour. The several strikes from a while back from VFX artists and scriptwriters come to mind. They are most at stake from generative AI as tools like Chat-GPT are cheaper and more cost-effective than paying an actual employee for their time and effort. I would also mention the environmental issues, but if we were to talk about that we would also have to acknowledge the fact that so, so much water is being used up daily to generate power for servers. Hell, this post alone will probably contribute to drying up some marsh in the greater scheme of things

Anywho yada yada TL;DR: I agree yes but I also think it's important to recognize that a good chunk of your hatred to Chat-GPT stems from feeling cheated and a sense of pride and superiority over others for simply not using it. There is no quality to Chat-GPT that makes it inherently evil. I can't get upset at my grandma for sending me a photo of her and her dog that went through an AI anime filter. I can feel maybe some exhaustion when seeing a fellow classmate using Chat-GPT to write their essay, but ultimately I write my own work for the love of the game. I can get upset however at those in higher power who use it to push artists out of jobs. Chat-GPT is a tool that has its pros and cons and I think it's reductive to just basically sit there and hiss like a vampire when presented with a cross when faced with the mere word "AI", especially when your only big argument for disliking it is based purely in feeling cheated when someone types a prompt into a program and art that would've taken you seven hours to draw gets spit out in about a minute or two

[dasiesanddarkness]

watching Next to Normal in school because im literally just a girl with a new obsession

[hydrateyoursharks]

“Brown, Daniels, and Gilbert helped her in every possible way, but they didn’t invent her. Not even Stiller invented her. And she herself didn’t understand what she was all about. The world simply grasped that she was unique and to be treasured, and it flocked to see her.” -'Garbo' by Robert Gottlieb

[penguinly]

spoilers for ninjago dragons rising season 3

MORRO??? WHAT THE HECK IS HE DOING HERE?????

[beanmaster-pika]

Watched the sk8 OVA. Loved the sk8 OVA. Karuta part was my favorite (genre change to card game sports anime just as if not more serious than the regular sports anime… also the animation voice acting and humor were all on-point. And I missed watching these silly goofs) but it was very entertaining to watch matchablossom being idiot teenagers (they almost threw their desks at each other?? Cherry with his rubber band gun and showing off his insult calligraphy to their classmates?? Joe with his improvised slingshot?? Cherry’s adapted Akira slide?? Them both running slower than the two doing the shoujo run??) and Tadashi using his day off to sleep and turn into a rotisserie chicken until 3:30 and still hit snooze for an hour and turn into a pill bug for seven minutes and then lying about it (also his alarm is Adam’s theme song?? Tadashi you can do so much better than him I promise)

[h4msanta]

i miss them (they are not even in the game)

[quibbs126]

Okay the Earthspark megop Terran kid has wormed his way back into my brain once more, at least today. He may be gone yet again by tomorrow

Not much has changed other than I really don’t know what to make his alt mode, and I still don’t have a name for him

Could someone help me on this maybe please? I don’t really know who to ask outside of tumblr itself

Well I mean, I guess my real life friend, but I don’t know when I’ll be meeting her next, so the question still stands

But I do have at least a couple more details in my brain for him now. Like for example, I’m like 99% sure he’s gonna stay a boy

One, I think I’ve solidified that he’s at least slightly bigger than Megatron and Optimus, if not a little more than that (I know the Terrans are supposed to be smaller than the Cybertronians, but let me have this. Say it’s because either the fact that both of them touched it or because they’re big and have things like the Matrix it makes the Terran bigger than usual. Or because they’re huge Cybertronians)

So with that in mind, I imagine he needs a pretty big alt mode. Granted, I don’t know how big, since this series doesn’t entirely adhere to robot sizes matching the vehicle mode. Like Megatron’s a big aircraft while Optimus is a semi truck, which is also big for a car but I don’t think is nearly the same size, and yet the two are relatively the same height in robot form. But regardless, a big alt mode would probably be best

Also I do want it to be a vehicle (in part bc I don’t know what to do otherwise though)

Another thing, more specific, is I’m imagining him with big gauntlets on his arms, sort of like Vi from League of Legends (she was kind of the inspiration for this idea). They’re part of his body, not removable armor, though he might be able to detach them like rocket arms in a fight. He can probably also shoot lasers out of them too. So his arms should probably be something significant in his alt mode, or his alt mode gives him a reason why his arms would be like that in some way

Actually, I think that’s all the new details I have, at least in so much that they help this quest for an alt mode for this character

I guess I could give personality things as well? But I don’t have much fleshed out, in part because I feel like I keep ending up recreating Jawbreaker or someone too similar. Best I have so far is that he’s energetic and optimistic, but he also does not know his own strength, and he is very powerful, so he ends up doing damage when he doesn’t mean to. It’s something Megatron and Optimus are trying to work with him on. Though this all might still change anyways because I still don’t know if it works. It still might be too similar to another character

Edit: oh wait, other small things because they might be useful too. So I’m keeping this idea he has an odd fixiation with the earth/underground. Mostly because something in my head finds this “he yearns for the mines” concept to be funny and it will not let it go. Anyways, so he likes punching rocks and cliffs and such, maybe because they’re things that don’t instantly crumble under his punch. He may end up creating intricate tunnel systems because he likes punching the earth. And/or he’s got a slight weird sixth sense for things underground and the places he punches might end up leading to somewhere useful. But maybe not always, sometimes it is just punching a random cliff side. I don’t know, it’s a bit odd and random, but I do want to keep in some way this underground/earth related element to his character. Though maybe that’s too limiting in his design choices

I still need to find a name too. I should probably try to at least make that myself. But like another thing with the Terrans is that their names seem to be more Earth things (though that’s not entirely untrue of Cybertronians either), and I don’t know what to do with that angle. I keep making more robot sounding ones, or ones I’m pretty sure another character already has

[hideyseek]

watching this wang ziqi interview and he ... just said that the object he would most liken to gu yiran is fucking OOBLEK

[jackabbot]

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[buni10]

School is once again stressing me out,,all i want to do is draw luka :,)

Mood rn:

[bronanlynch]

replicating the energy of going to undergrad and immediately entering directly into my first real anime phase by spending the week prior to & first week of class for my second masters watching code geass as a point of comparison for the gundam shows it was responding to/contemporaneous with and accidentally getting super invested. love to remain a parody of myself