CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it's part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions

if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators

THEY ARE TRYING!!!!! SIGN THE PETITION TO GET THE DISNEY ANIMATORS' UNION RECOGNIZED

this petition is from IATSE (union), btw! it actually has credibility, unlike most change.org/etc petitions! please sign it!!

you want to help stop tumblr from murdering itself? here's how!

• click this link and go to the support page, then click "contact support"
• click on the category list and click on feedback

• now you need to tell staff WHY putting in an algorithm will cause the site to fucking die, and be sure to be detailed and not a dick in it. theyre not gonna listen to feedback calling them assholes
• viola, if @staff listens, we'll be fine

i encourage you to reblog this so we can get as many people leaving feedback as humanly possible. we need to let staff know this is an utterly terrible idea

by the way, tumblr has turned off asks on all of their staff blogs, so this is the only way to tell tumblr how you feel

here it is again because uh. seems relevant.

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i want what david cronenberg has

Okay so a few weeks ago I mentioned that I have a cross stitch book from the 70s that has a cross stitch pattern that you would apparently make for your friend who just got divorced and I think it is the funniest thing in the world because it is absolutely an insane thing to make and give to someone, but that I couldn’t remember what the pattern said that was so funny to me

And I found the book and it’s actually from the 80s but whatever because I found it and. Oh my god. You are not ready for these words.

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First of all this is the header for the page, just to get you in the right mindset of what you’re about to experience. A promising start, I think you’ll agree.

Okay. I waffled between whether to showcase the pattern itself or the final product but I think it’s so important that you look at the way they chose to stage this for the book.

I present to you:

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EAT, DRINK AND REMARRY

reblog to tell your mutuals they’re lovely as fuck

the thing i love about the alien movies is how blunt and honest they are about how like. rape is terrifying and traumatic, and unwanted pregnancy is terrifying and traumatic

and bc it's explored under a layer of allegory, it's not gendered in the same way

like these are films that are very explicitly about like. what if a thing wanted to penetrate and rape you, and use you to breed things, and it was terrifying to escape? and institutions and businesses didn't take it seriously? and what if it traumatised you deeply?

just the thought and the threat of it made it impossible for you to work, because it's inherently terrifying, and your thoughts are dismissed, your need for safety and assurance are dismissed, bc this monster, representing sexual violence, is a constant undercurrent?

a lot of horror movies are about how rape is scary but they're always like. made up with straight people's obsessive bullshit and they're all WEIRD about it. like it's about women's purity or the Gift or Miracle of childbirth and what if that was corrupted

whereas alien doesn't truck with that. outright, any unwanted pregnancy is monstrous and evil and violent and scary and it will kill you. it's intrinsically violent and terrifying, there's no way to pretend it's nice or miraculous or feminine or blah blah

Something that really strikes me about the first Alien movie is that there's also a rape-allegory scene completely separate from what's going on with the Alien: when the science officer tries to kill Ripley by forcing a rolled up newspaper down her throat. It's late here so I'm not gonna dig into it on this post but like. The threat of the Alien has already been established, and it turns out that you can't get into a conflict with your coworkers about the presence of the threat because they might try to rape-murder you too.

absolutely!!

i'm watching Aliens (1986) right now and similarly, when the android pins down the marine crewman and plays the knife game jumping between his fingers, that, too, is a threat of unwanted penetration! the marine is screaming and terrified, and everyone is just watching and laughing - just like they laugh at the marines joking about raping virginal colonists

it's sexual violence all the way down, baked into the culture, and anyone showing fear at that culture and that violence is mocked and undermined

Also want to point out that it's not just rape allegory. Dan O'Bannon, the screenplay writer, had Crohn's Disease. For those not familiar, Crohn's (and it's sister disease, Ulcerative Colitis - together they are called Inflammatory Bowel Disease/IBD) is an autoimmune disease, where your immune system turns against your digestive tract, acting like your own stomach and bowel are foreign invaders and need to be fought against. It results in a lot of abdominal pain, with your body turning against itself.

O'Bannon specifically credited the chestburster to his experience of Crohn's. He had spent most of 1977 in hospitals suffering (at that time, undiagnosed, he would get Dx'd in 1980), and getting the call to work on Alien at the end of the year got him motivated. He described his experience "The digestion process felt like something bubbling inside of me struggling to get out.” Journalist Jason Zinnorman wrote: "The simple act of eating terrified him, and a trip to the bathroom meant potentially hours of arduous and humiliating pain.”

O'Bannon ultimately died due to his Crohn's in 2009.

Alien is a story about rape and bodily autonomy and unwanted pregnancy, but it's also inspired by disability, and the body horror and lack of agency some disability comes with.

King of Pentacles and Ten of Pentacles

Look how nice it can be when the rich people let everybody else have things too.

emperor kuzco was clearly gay

hes 19, with unlimited power, and he ain’t got a gf. the only time we see him interact with any women his own age is when he’s rejecting like 7 of them rapid fire. he pretends to date pacha in a gag that lasts like 10 solid minutes. listen to me god damnit

Okay, but just in case anyone is coming to tumblr dot com for my hot takes on 20+ year old kids' movies: Kuzco super WAS gay (or at least coded as such) and of course, I didn't get it until I watched it as a gay grownup.

He is played obviously camp and dramatic, for a start, and there is the aforementioned "hate your hair/not likely/yikes yikes yikes/let me guess you have a great personality" summary dismissal of all his potential brides. Then he spends dinner asking Yzma about Kronk ("so he seems nice? He's what, in his late twenties?") and otherwise being slightly obsessed with him.

Then there is the whole Adventure of Doom with Pacha, him being ever huffy about the Kiss of Life, and then the restaurant gag where Kuzco takes to playing Pacha's fake wife and dressing up in ladies' clothing with great gusto (reinforced by the waitress' "bless you for coming out in public" remark when Pacha says they're on their honeymoon). Then when he is finally de-llamafied, we don't see him paired off with the obligatory girl from the lineup earlier, as might otherwise be expected in a Disney movie. Instead he is still single, but goes to found family it up with Pacha, Chica, Kronk, etc, which dare we remark is a very queer trope.

In short, I have no idea how a Disney movie with no white people (all the characters are Indigenous/people of color), a gay king, cross-dressing jokes, and the most offbeat plot of all time actually ever got made (can you imagine the Family Friendly Mouse doing that today? Let us also talk about Kronk because he is a brilliant deconstruction of both toxic masculinity and the musclebound henchman stereotype.) Other than that this was the Chaos Hour of animated movies in the late 90s/early 2000s, and yes.

So yes. There you have it. I will not be taking criticism at this time.

In response to the question “How did a movie like this get made at all much less by fucking Disney?” there was a recent Vulture article that outlines the whole shit show of a history behind this film according to everyone (writers, directors, VAs, Stings) involved. The gist of the story is that they fucked up making a whole, true-to-form Disney musical that never came to see the light of day SO BADLY that Disney switched directors, locked the writer’s room, and didn’t review a single script until weeks after the film was in theaters.

Please, read this article if you have some time. This story is wild, and involves directors being pitted against each other Bake-Off style and a shockingly intimate documentary created by the wife of Sting who, himself was heartbroken by the decimation of the songs he wrote for the film including cutting a fantastic Yzma villain song sung by Eartha Kitt that is SO DAMN GOOD but would not ever have fit the more nailed-down Yzma we would eventually come to know and love. It’s so catchy though, I’m doubling up on calls to action but please listen now:

holy shit read the article. it’s worth it and completely batshit

This is fucking insane

I've never adequately appreciated the batshit brilliance of this joke, I've taken it for granted

I went to see Parasite completely blind besides being aware (unavoidably) that there was a hard tonal shift at some point. I saw the poster and stuff, but that was it

the entire time I was bracing myself for it to shift into some sort of alien parasite psychological horror movie, which seems really presumptuous, except I saw Bong Joon-ho's The Host and that movie actually did have a giant monster in it, so I wasn't putting it past him

god the class dynamics in this movie are so stressful already... keeping up this double life while still taking care of your family...... and if that's not bad enough, they're gonna have to deal with The Parasite when it shows up

literally can’t stop this abt this like the love that went into this.

UPS drivers making more money will help all workers make more money.

Labor united helps all labor. Rising wages is not zero sum.

Don't fall for 'divide and conquer' rhetoric from the Establishment. They fear the power and influence of worker solidarity.

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Hee, that's great! Thanks for the ping!