Lunar Oceanic

this is definitely NOT the moon girl episode with a trans character that disney shelved and has no plans on airing and i am definitely NOT advising you to spread it around like wildfire in retaliation to this stupid-ass chickenshit coward decision. i repeat, i am DEFINITELY not encouraging you to spread this episode around like crazy to show disney that trans people will not bow down to the whims of the people that want them dead. definitely DON'T do that. definitely

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I like how Titan Luz’s design parallels/foils Belos, as she herself does; We have horns, we have a skeletal motif. The pronounced knuckles and segmented fingers. A brim splitting off at the waist, pants that are cut off by ‘boots’ with diamond-shaped knee pads. The rim of the cape consists of triangles. A circular symbol on the chest, and black eyes with glowing rings. Gold as a motif, a staff with an orb at the center. And of course the obvious opposite, one look being angelic and white and holy, while the other is demonic and black and witchy.

Furthermore!

I can’t help but see similarities in Titan Luz’s design, and Maleficent’s… Black and purple, the flowy points at the ends. The shape of the horns, with a little beloved animal sidekick on her shoulder constantly! And an orb staff. Conversely, Belos’ outfit beneath the robes reminds me of Prince Phillip’s… Yeah, that’s his name! They’re even both brunettes, which is emphasized in Philip’s final moments.

Belos’ Emperor appearance also has horns, the cape with the points, and an orb staff; He’s like a twisted reflection of Maleficent, a ‘holy’ one. And like Maleficent, he becomes a draconic monster blocking off a castle from our protagonists, who initially face them off at the drawbridge leading to said castle!

So there’s a fun interplay in Sleeping Beauty as a Disney classic that was its first take on the knight vs the evil witch who turns into a dragon… TOH taking that, flipping it on its head; Philip (One L) thinking he’s a holy, monster slaying hero saving a blonde human from a witch, only to be more alike the villain in terms of being the aggressor, the actual threat. The castle is his, but it’s also a wicked lair like Maleficent’s.

Conversely Luz represents Maleficent in terms of the aesthetics and witchcraft and how in a meta sense, these are things demonized by Puritan witch trials, which would later inform the U.S.’s cultural zeitgeist during the years Sleeping Beauty was made; There’s a brief scene in which Maleficent’s ~evil~ followers can be seen dancing around a fire, in reference to a famous painting about paganism that TOH also referenced;

It’s all like a strange mirror, flipped in some regards, and played straight in others. The witch is the hero, the brunette white man is the monster, the dragon is technically the Titan, whose power and appearance Philip is stealing; And the Titan is benevolent, the actual dragon who helps Luz become this demonic creature in a triumphant moment. The battle ends not with a dragon impersonated, but with the white man facing his comeuppance. It’s a massive cheeky riff on Sleeping Beauty, one of the earliest, quintessential Disney tales.

good kids

i love when you can feel the disdain dripping off of a wikipedia article

My top three rules for world building:

the human brain truly was not meant to handle the sheer number of powerful animatic ideas florence welch's cosmic love inevitably generates

I often see Gem killing Scott in Secret Life presented as an active (and possibly incorrect) decision. But a lot of the tragedy of Gem's finale to me is that she had no choice.

Scott had two and a half hearts and Gem had six (iirc, if not the numbers were close) while Pearl and Scar both had over a row of hearts left each.

It's easy to talk about standing by your allies when you're both in good health, but when your only company left in the world is a one shot kill, the only choices are live on alone or die together.

Scott wanted Gem to live, he wanted her to win. Gem didn't kill him because she devalued him, or because she strategized it wrong, she killed him because she didn't have another choice, because he was all but dead already and he wanted to give her a chance instead of being another kill to be used against her by the enemy.

Yes, you can draw parallels between Scar keeping Pearl alive and Gem killing Scott. But they weren't equivalent choices because there was hardly a choice at all in Gem's case.

Which is actually an interesting parallel to draw between Gem and Scar's Secret Life finale's.

Scar's finale deals a lot in choice and personal power, in Scar's perseverance, in carving a path to victory. Meanwhile Gem's finale is a case study in helplessness, in which her choices rapidly narrow until there were none left to make except die. This is something I actively think is highlighted by the parallel scenes of Scar choosing not to kill Pearl when she offered for his convenience vs Gem being forced to kill her only remaining ally because his fate was already sealed.

(that helplessness is also a big reason i think gem carried so much rage into wild life)

red flags!

tumblr please stop telling me to wd40 a mouse

going to start citing sources in tumblr posts more often bc i just typed "you are not immune to propaganda (garfield & vomit, 2018)" and just that alone was 10x funnier than the actual joke i was trying to make

t4t? oh no i think you misunderstood me. i said tnt. we’re going to explode you. with a bomb

desert duoooo....

(my minecraft + mcyt tag)

We got one very hilarious win

fun fact there's a pretty sizable area under the greater smp just absolutely INFESTED with mushrooms. like i have never seen so many of these spread so far before