I Think This Is What I Needed To Make Me Get Out Of Bed In The Morning!

Windows at night with dark curtains are just planetariums for cats

Ikigai

So these last couple of days I've been meaning to find out wtf ikigai stands for. I don't know why, but it was one of those thoughts that you forget but always remember.

or those who don't know Ikigai means a reason to live, but feel free to correct me.

It's now safe to say that I am both actively looking for a reason to live while also questioning it, even by complete accident.

I may be late and the party may end up being dead, but I only read the book yesterday.

the trauma compelled him to correct stanley's grammar

neurodivergent and queer people how are we feeling?

reblog this if you see your favorite band

The smiling friends intro is just sensor overload cranked up to 90 and it awakens some sleeper agent within me because I just go feral.

Reremembered this fever dream of chaos is a movie that exists and it needed reblogged.

I know many people may not see this but. I am begging everyone who does to watch A Town Called Panic. It’s an hour-long, French, stop motion comedy and a wonderful thing to have on with a bunch of friends. It’s got one of the most erratic plots and is so stupidly well made it genuinely makes me mad. It’s on YouTube for free, and probably other places, just. Please. Get a few friends and watch this stupid movie I need more people to know about it and be talking about it.

ok lets move on from having stupid discussions about stupid shit. im going crazy over a thought about jojos bizarre adventure. bear with me here

is kars the difference between the phantom blood and steel ball run timelines?

I thought this message on animation deserved to be spread

Inside Job didn’t just get canceled.

It had its first season split in two, a tactic animators said was used for Cuphead to let them pay staff less. Then, the show was renewed for a real second season.

And then the show was canceled before that second season anyway.

Final Space didn’t just get canceled on the most depressing cliffhanger ever. It was removed from all platforms before becoming a tax write-off, essentially meaning the only ways of really watching the show is through DVD or pirating.

The Owl House wasn’t just given a shortened third season. Disney, a company already known for a, let’s say, complicated relationship with its LGBT+ history, took a show created by a bisexual woman, filled with beloved LGBT+ characters, some of which were teenagers just like the audience, and told said creator to destroy her shows pacing so she could finish her story in just 3 45 minute specials.

I can go on about how Hollywood and television don’t respect animation and the like but this is endemic of a larger problem:

Capitalism destroys art.

The constant need for shows to be either the biggest thing in history or a complete failure, the constant need for a cash cow, leads to any show that doesn’t immediately become Squid Game or Stranger Things levels of popular, especially animated shows, getting scrapped for no reason other then it doesn’t make them enough money.

In our hyper capitalist hellscape, I worry we’re going to see more Inside Jobs, Final Spaces, and Owl Houses: shows made with love, that showcase potential, and dedicated fanbases, having a renewal reversed, or becoming a tax write off, or having its story rushed, so that the executives can save a few cents, while also fucking over employees.

I think that’s the part that always needs to be remembered too; the people behind these shows. Not just the creators or voice actors or well known animators, but everybody. As NewDeal4Animation illustrated, staffs on these shows are often underpaid and overworked. And to then, to not just lose a show you spent months, years of your life on out of nowhere, but to essentially lose a job… it’s terrifying. And every staff member, from the creators to the unpaid interns, deserves better.

So yea. That’s just my thoughts on the matter I guess.

This has been the best take I've seen on this issue so far

idk shit about hazbin hotel and i dislike it just because it looks like that but making the tumblr sexyman bait aroace was the funniest possible thing to do. the most sexualized type of chararacter just gives no fucks. it’s perfect