“Cassandra woke up to the rays of the sun streaming through the slats on her blinds, cascading over her naked chest. She stretched, her breasts lifting with her arms as she greeted the sun. She rolled out of bed and put on a shirt, her nipples prominently showing through the thin fabric. She breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downwards.”
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She breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downwards’ is the greatest fucking sentence I have ever read.
THE ORIGINAL??
(smh) Never thought I’d see it in the wild. Yet here it is. :)
the craziest staging in hadestown will forever be eurydice running after orpheus in chant and him NOT turning around and that being the issue. he doesn’t see her!!! the reason she goes to hadestown is BECAUSE he doesn’t turn around!!! it’s an old song it’s a tragedy!!!!!!
like i need to elaborate. act one orpheus loses eurydice BECAUSE he trusts too much in his song, in himself, in them. he puts it all in his song and expects her to always be there, even when he doesnt see her. act two orpheus loses her because he DOESN’T trust his song, himself, in them. if he still trusted in his song, he would trust that hades would have let them go. and he doesn’t believe she’ll always be there, even when he can’t see her. HADESTOWN THE MASTERPIECE YOU ARE
I love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?
Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.
Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).
But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?
The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:
They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣
That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.
That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.
reblogging this to add that I often think about the old man yaoi mangaka on bluesky who said “the phrase that finally convinced me that the English language is truly beautiful was ‘this shit is so ass’”
me, whispering: portraying nonavian dinosaurs as living/thriving in tropical rainforest environments like those of today is just straight up racism other people: what me, still whispering: modern tropical rainforests are one of the most recently evolved ecosystems, only truly appearing in the early Paleogene, after all nonavian dinosaurs went extinct. They did not live in them, and if they were brought back into the modern day, they would not thrive in them. the only reason we associate tropical rainforests with primitiveness is because POC live there, and the associated narratives around jungles and savagery. that’s it. that’s the whole thing.
Also this makes me wonder if even the association between “tropical” and “rainforest” today might be due to that trope! There are many temperate rainforests (for example in Cascadia), but rainforests are associated with these narratives as a whole and are turned into this stereotype of a tropical primitive land.
Temperate rainforests in Cascadia and the Appalachians, Wikimedia Commons (1234)
The plant communities that non-avian dinosaurs inhabited were just. So crazy different than the ones we have now. Like, flowering plants didn’t even exist at all at the beginning of “dinosaur times” and even into the cretaceous they were nowhere NEAR as dominant as they were today.
Like, in general a lot of contemporary biomes are really new. Grasslands are extremely new because up until pretty recently geologically speaking, there was no such thing as grass, and it was even more recently that grass-dominated ecosystems became a thing.
posts made by that botanist lady from jurassic park
I’m a nonbinary paleoecologist but I could not be more honored by the comparison
when I was like 14 I used to reblog these posts on here that were like “YOUR 20S ARE NOT AN IMAGINARY RACE YOURE DOING JUST FINE!!” just to be positive towards my older mutuals even though i didn’t really get what they were abour and I’d be in the tags like “#so true!! #everyone does things at their own pace!!” and now im 24 I’m thinking back to it and it’s like Oh of course the imaginary race. Which I’m losing
i remember when i were young and i went to a friend’s house and there was a ds cartridge straight up loose on the bedroom floor. that was the beginning of my superiority complex
