You don't show blood in animated films, it's like almost a taboo thing. You can show characters getting beat up and bruised but never bleeding. It defies all corporate beliefs of making it a "kids movie". Even GDT's Pinocchio which has fucking nazis in it and guns shooting people never showed blood in it. It's just that sacred of a thing in animation that studios never cross.
But Puss in Boots, they showed it. Not only that, you get a fucking close up on it. Do you know how rare that is? The people who made it probably fought every tooth and nail to get this moment approved, because this is unprecedented in this industry. You don't show actual blood bleeding I cant stress how much this is such a nono in this industry.
But for this moment it's perfect, the inevitability of death in Puss in Boot's eyes, the amount of risk the studio took to get this moment in the film approved, shows how much DreamWorks really cares and wants this movie to not just be another haha kids film but for the adults watching it, the people who have seen the world and fear death, those with anxiety, get panic attacks, unsure about life the universe, getting married, being a family. These aren't ideas catered to kids.
Everytime I've seen people be like "oh studios need to stop making boring ass animations and actually make a film about serious topics and have better animation and care about the movie" THIS IS IT FOLKS. A STUDIO LISTENED AND IT'S OUT HERE IN YOUR FACE.
So seriously go watch Puss in Boots. It's incredible and you're missing out on something beautiful if you don't.
We as a fandom are seriously missing some potential with revamping Reverse Falls. Like in hindsight the 2010s version was such a flop and mostly just a really weird excuse to write billdip make the twins hot—but WILLFORD?! Come ON.
Give Stanford the hubris of a supervillain and a gullible paranormal creature to study and abuse its power. THAT’S some compelling toxic yaoi right there.
Is like I am wacthing a masterpiece.
an animatic I made this weekend about who Hunter was sending flapjack pics to in “Reaching Out” ! it was really fun to try to keep to the TOH board style!
I want to point out how the final fight in Epic is not in song 38 but song 40.
How after Odysseus became "the monster" he then, was the last boss to fight
And Penelope fights him.
Because she fights for her husband, for the man beyond the trauma, for the man WITH the trauma, for the man she will always love and will wait forever if necessary.
She makes him angry, he gets furious and Penelope is the only character so far who matches that fury and tames it.
And Penelope wins.
She defeats the "monster".
And all it's left... it's just a man. Her man.
someone get plagg so i can catacylsm the white men
I love this because dipper is confused/surprised and Mable is 100% ready to keep that promise.
Okay imagine Willow kissing Hunter's scar
Hunter just becomes a MESS of emotions. Part of him wants to be flustered and happy and wants to kiss her back.... the other part feels... almost too open? Too vulnerable? He just wants to curl up and have minimal contact with others for a period of time. Thankfully he voices this confliction to Willow, and she helps him through his feelings. They agree that Willow will ONLY kiss his scar whenever she has his full explicit permission.
Holy sh#t!!!! Dana herself bless you for sharing this knowledge.
Hunter's Worst Memories Montage is about what we'd expect, given what we've seen of his past and character thus far. Except for one which was pointed out to me on discord tonight.
And it's going to take me a long, LONG time to recover from the fact that Hunter puts "Hurting Willow" on the same level of bad memories as "Being abused by Belos" and "finding out his entire life is a lie."
A woman!
Throwback to the Circe Saga
ReAl episode of season 5 leaked honest honest ex deeeee
"There's gotta be a way out of this!" "I gotta do it." "What?! Don't do this! Are you crazy?" "Trust me." "What?" "Just this once. Trust me!"
(+ an echo from the pilot and awkward sibling hugs)