No More Grape Nectar For You

Knuckles has two moods: duty and baby

Ok...

This CANNOT be the same Knuckles. Who made him cute? Who made him adorable? WHO GAVE HIM THAT SMILE??

...Nope. Different guy. Who is this? Please TELL ME

God had to balance all that power somehow

It's amazing how horses are such powerful and majestic animals but you look into their eyes and it's just ḁ̶̮͍̆͝n̶͉̆x̴̪̲̒̎̕ị̵̛̈́͘ḙ̷̳͓̈́t̶̖́͜ỵ̵̔

Some monster designs!

Earthbenders can bend your kidney and your blood minerals

putting all the aoyama stuff together dont mind me

Bro why is everyone Gaster oofs with cursed knowledge friends with a salesman?

anyways here's the gaster gang and their silly little merchant friends

I think my only problem with the movie is how fast paced it is. I mean, I know stop motion is complex and expensive and they probably couldn't make it be longer, but I feel like nothing had time enough to be well established. But besides all that the movie is pretty good and I had a lot of fun! Plus dozens of incredibly good character designs

My favorite part about the Wendell and Wild negative reviews is that a lot of the criticism can be traced back to

-Kat's trauma isn't cute/palatable

-Kat's neither happy nor nice and friendly (this was not an issue for Coraline, I've noticed)

-Sellick was great but he needs Tim Burton behind him (which is so very funny considering Burton's *ahem* aesthetic preferences...and personally I've always found Nightmare Before Christmas's Boogie Man to be racially charged...even as a child)

-They keep mentioning that it's from Selick's mind and completely forget that it's also a Peele film

-Can't connect with the characters...for...some...bizarre reason. I...I wonder if this has anything to do with Tim Burton's preferences...

-Claim the script was very bad...and this is going to be a bit odd, because it's by no means a perfect script, but it's not nearly as convoluted as people want to make it seem.

It just doesn't hold your hand. A lot of details that become important later are literally in the background. They're mentioned and shown, but they don't go about bashing you over the head with precisely how important these things will become later. And you have to put it together yourself...a pattern found in most films written by Jordan Peele...

Post is set for a week, let's see how it goes...

"The best thing we can do with power is give it away" - On the leftist critique of superhero narratives as authoritarian power fantasies:

The ongoing "Jason Todd is a cop" debate has reminded me of a brilliant brief image essay by Joey deVilla. [EDIT: I SCREWED UP! This was created in 2019 by the guy who runs the Midnighter-Core page on Facebook, and Joey just reposted it!]

So here it is, images first and the full essay text below:

"A common leftist critique of superhero comics is that they are inherently anti-collectivist, being about small groups of individuals who hold all the power, and the wisdom to wield that power. I don’t disagree with this reading. I don’t think it’s inaccurate. Superheroes are their own ruling class, the concept of the übermensch writ large. But it’s a sterile reading. It examines superhero comics as a cold text, and ignores something that I believe is fundamental, especially to superhero storytelling: the way people engage with text. Not what it says, but how it is read. The average comic reader doesn’t fantasize about being a civilian in a world of superheroes, they fantasize about being a superhero. One could charitably chalk this up to a lust for power, except for one fact… The fantasy is almost always the act of helping people. Helping the vulnerable, with no reward promised in return. Being a century into the genre, we’ve seen countless subversions and deconstructions of the story. But at its core, the superhero myth is about using the gifts you’ve been given to enrich the people around you, never asking for payment, never advancing an ulterior motive. We should (and do) spend time nitpicking these fantasies, examining their unintended consequences, their hypocrisies. But it’s worth acknowledging that the most eduring childhood fantasy of the last hundred years hasn’t been to become rich. Superheroes come from every class (don’t let the MCU fool you). The most enduring fantasy is to become powerful enough to take the weak under your own wing. To give, without needing to take. So yes, the superhero myth, as a text, isn’t collectivist. But that’s not why we keep coming back to it. That’s not why children read it. We keep coming back to it to learn one simple lesson… The best thing we can do with power IS GIVE IT AWAY." - Joey deVilla, 2021 https://www.joeydevilla.com/2021/07/04/happy-independence-day-superhero-style/

- Midnighter-Core, 2019

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