I know that Peter’s Jackson Lord of the Rings trilogy technically has flaws but also….it doesn’t. It’s perfect.
‘Are these magic cloaks?’ asked Pippin, looking at them. with wonder.
‘I do not know what you mean by that,’ answered the leader of the Elves. ‘They are fair garments, and the web is good, for it was made in this land. They are Elvish robes certainly, if that is what you mean. Leaf and branch, water and stone: they have the hue and beauty of all these things under the twilight of Lorien that we love; for we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.”
- Fellowship of the Ring, Chapter 8: Farewell to Lorien
This is how I think of Jackson’s movies. Yes, there are serious flaws - Gandalf’s de-powering, Gimli as comic relief, and Faramir, namely - but come on.
Remember when the guys making their chain mail invented a new method for quickly producing large amounts of it by hand? Remember Miranda Otto walking down the street, practicing sword positions? The guys who forged all of the swords - for leads and for extras? The men and women riders who volunteered to be riders of Rohan? The costume designers who designed the inside of Theoden’s armor (which no one would ever see) so beautifully that Bernard Hill said he felt like a king? The friendships between the cast, and their size doubles, and the stuntmen?
When they made that movie, they put all that they loved into all that they made.
“Kaynemaile has worked tirelessly to perfect the material science behind beautiful architectural mesh, collaborating with architects and designers on projects that embolden urban environments with positive buildings. The company’s patented polycarbonate mesh, inspired by 2,000-year-old medieval chainmail, was initially created for the armor and weapons seen in the The Lord of The Rings movie trilogy and is now used on major architectural projects around the world.
“The film’s art director and Kaynemaile’s founder Kayne Horsham worked with his team to construct each garment from plastic plumbing tubes, coating them in pure silver. Once filming wrapped, Horsham dedicated himself to creating a change to the liquid state assembly process to mass produce the polycarbonate chainmail for architectural applications — products that were light, but strong enough to protect the interior or exterior of a building. Now an industry-leading manufacturer, Kaynemaile produces mesh for everything from small interior screens to large scale exterior façades. Their mesh is easy to install and can be custom created for specialized applications.”
REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S FIRST FILM SOLELY PRODUCED BY THEIR STUDIO HAD TWO FEMALE CHARACTERS AS THEIR ANTAGONIST AND PROTAGONIST WHO, BY SOME FORM OF DEVIL MAGIC, HAVE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FACES
REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S SECOND FILM NOT ONLY CONSISTED OF A CAST WITH FOUR CENTRAL FEMALE CHARACTERS BUT INCLUDED AN ENTIRE TOWN OF DIVERSE CITIZENS OF VARYING RACE, GENDER, AND AGE. LIKE A NORMAL TOWN HAS.
REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S THIRD FILM FEATURED SAME SEX COUPLES IN THEIR TEASER TRAILER
REMINDER THAT THIS IS ALL STOP-MOTION SO EVERY CHARACTER WAS DESIGNED, MODELED, SCULPTED, RIGGED, AND EVEN HAD TINY CLOTHES SEWED FOR THEM.
also reminder that they make chump change compared to disney who whines and cries that in all their years of experience they can’t handle the prospect of animating a girl with a face different than the rest and that it’s “too hard” because only females can express such a wide range of emotions that it makes them difficult to animate
if a studio with 20-30 years of experience can manage this then SURELY an established studio with NEAR 100 YEARS of experience can maybe, just maybe, include a female that ISN’T a part of their formula
LAIKA !
Also paranormal had a canonically gay guy in it just saying
I feel the 16ft tall skeleton from Kubo certainly deserves a mention
Laika are goddamn ARTISTS and MASTERS OF THEIR CRAFT. Look at the animation on Kubo and tell me it doesn’t feel more like CGI than stop motion sometimes because it’s so smooth.
I love them so much.
IT WAS REALLY THAT BIG
It really was that big!! I went to a Laika exhibit in 2018 and this took up almost an entire room alone!
Another room was mostly dedicated to the Coraline garden, for reference, the pumpkin eyeballs were about the size of a basketball each
There was so much crazy detail it was mind blowing!
God I wish I took more pictures and had a better camera back then cause it was the COOLEST EXHIBIT EVER!
I mean, who doesn’t love a wall full of faces??
I am utterly in favour of walls covered in faces
I read this and thought “wow Laika? Like the Soviet dog?”. It was indeed named after the Soviet dog.
in movies, whenever a hot guy fake-flirts with an “ugly” girl and she gets all flustered, it’s intended to be a funny joke and make u think the girl is pathetic for believing such an attractive man could be interested in her. ur supposed to hate the girl.
but whenever a hot girl fake-flirts with an ugly guy and he gets all flustered, it’s intended to make u feel bad for the guy and think the girl is a Bitch. ur supposed to hate the girl.
ur always supposed to hate the girl.
If that’s the case, then they’re doing a bad job of it, because I can’t think of an instance of this trope where the hot guy doing the fake flirting didn’t look like a total asshat.
So for some reason the link feature isn’t working on the mobile app, but I wanted to share this story with you:
This is Jenny Hatch, and like Britney Spears she had to fight in court for an end to her parents’ guardianship. She was 29 when she won her case in 2013.
What’s cool about Jenny’s story is that it wasn’t “I don’t need any help whatsoever.” It was “I need some help sometimes, but I should be able to choose what that help looks like and who is in my support network.”
Because of Jenny’s case, 12 states plus D.C. now have policies to include supported decision making as an alternative to guardianship for adults who need a little extra help. The idea is that we don’t assume that someone who needs some help in one area automatically needs help with everything.
Cool quote from Jenny’s attorney:
“If I go to a mechanic, no one assumes I can’t drive. Where you and I would be called wise for getting help, when a person with a disability needs help, it’s just assumed they’re incapable of doing anything.”
If more adults with Down Syndrome/Trisomy 21 or other intellectual disabilities are able to gain more autonomy in their decision making while still having access to support when and how they need it, I think we will continue to see more and more amazing stories of their achievements.
You ever see someone call for violet revolution and just -know- they’ve never so much as slaughtered an animal for food, let alone placed incredible violence on a human being?
Before you say “Animals are innocent,” so are some of the people you will have to kill to make your revolution happen.
Innocent people will have to not only die, but be killed. Good people, even.
You will have to kill them.
You won’t have the stomach, because you likely have a good, if flawed, nature.
Your fellow revolutionaries, who will kill you, will not have that.
Have fun with that.
Uh, I don’t think when revolutionary people say “violent revolution” they mean “let’s go kill a random half of the population”. It means “let’s irreversibly harm the lives of the corrupt people in power”. What, do you think we’re animals? Even if violent revolution meant murder explicitly, we know the difference between those who are innocent and those who harm the lives of others.
You will, in the course of your revolution, have to kill innocent people.
You will be required, by the course of reality, the lack of proper information, and the fact that not all innocent people will support you, have to kill innocent people.
You don’t understand this, because you likely don’t have a comprehension of the depth and breadth of both the problem and the depravity of the solution you would posit.
Being ignorant of these facts does not make them any less real, or true, and your intent means nothing compared to the results, which will be that the streets will fill with the offal and blood of innocent people.
A violent revolution does not care greatly for Blackstone’s Formulation. It will snap up innocent and guilty alike, and it will permanently damage all those that engage in it, in ways you cannot reasonably comprehend.
The same people who want this revolution have no arms, have no training, Have no resources, no land, no food, have no means beyond to beg the same men they hate, the police and the state, to do the work of their petty jealousies. That isn’t a revolution, that’s a coup, an overtaking of the system for the sake of the ideologically posessed at the expense of due process and the innocent, yet again.
To you, whether you articulate it or not, the innocent you will kill are merely incidental. Excused away as acceptable losses, counter-revolutionaries, or not firm enough in their conviction and thereby suitable fodder.
And those who come after you, the more extreme, the more severe, the more willing to be violent and do harm and violate, in every sense of the word, the good and the innocent, will string you up, and feed on you.
You will lament, confused, as has always happened in these sort of things, and cry out “Have I not been a good revolutionary?” As you hold in your intestines from the bayonet, as you cry and bleed in a gutter of the rubble that was once a home, a nation, a place of life, imperfect, but vital, you will remember these words.
Gnash your teeth, and bite your tongue, eat the ash you turned the fields to, and bury yourself under the rubble of the homes you’ve destroyed. Lament the innocence you violated, your own, and others, posessed by an ideal that was always homicidal, abusive, and vitriolic.
Always remember, revolutionary.
You walk on a thin crust of civility held together by rare and precious things, spun like fine silk.
And below that, is a chasm of hell and depravity so deep and abiding it has eaten entire civilizations, a screaming, hateful void of every indignity and violation, done in an endless cycle of abuse and retribution.
Those precious things strain, like catgut wound too tight.
You can hear them singing, if you listen.
Tread lightly.
Fantastic post, and something more revolutionary types need to read. Even the defense that they know who’s guilty and who’s innocent rings untrue when you see how quickly people get labeled “reactionary” in socialist discourse.
So you chose life for your baby. You got support from your local pregnancy center. You hopefully got support with health care, housing, and other needs during your pregnancy.
You have a little baby in your arms. Now what?
Your local pregnancy center should continue to provide support for up to 2 years after your baby is born, but now you’re navigating your career, relationships, and family life with a new baby.
Women Deserve Better is a resource and information hub created by Feminists for Life to support women in all stages of life, but especially single moms raising their children while balancing education and career.
If this isn’t a resource you need right now, please reblog - you never know who among your followers might need exactly this right now.
hi guys, black/iranian homeless and trans. Super at risk right now and I need help.
I need help paying bills. I’m 25 weeks pregnant, sleeping in my car and dealing with tons of legal fees plus stress. I need to get my cat to a friends house and just enough money to pay rent so I can room with my sister in law.
I’m making a goal of $2,000 since rent is $2k and I would like to stay here during my 3rd trimester.
Like a GoFundMe except it does t take a portion of the donations. I’m also going to get a maternity brace as suggested by my doctor. Pls boost much love.
$50/$2000
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Hi I have early contractions and could start labor not knowing when and it would suck to be houseless pls boost.
