TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed down a song in an unknown language from the time of their enslavement; scientists identified the song as a genuine West African funeral song in the Mende language that had survived multiple transmissions from mother to daughter over multiple centuries (x)
People talk about “The Shape of Water” like it’s just the fish fucking movie as if it wasn’t about a mute woman feeling truly understood for the first time in her entire life and then yeah fucking a fish
#the plot literally centers on a disabled woman and a fat Black woman helping break a trafficking victim out of a government lab#with the help of a gay man and a communist#and the main villain is an archetypal White Cishet Man From the 50s who is also an American government official#YEAH SHE FUCKS THE FISH#BUT THERE’S SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT#AND THE FISH FUCKING IS PART OF THE MOST COMPELLING LOVE STORY I HAVE EVER SEEN#anyway watch The Shape of Water it’s very good
Ahem, sorry for nerding out:
It’s not “a mute woman fucks a fish”. Nothing wrong with that, but… It’s not that it’s all random monster fucking. And her being mute is major foreshadowing and very much related with the fuckery.
See, the movie is part of the Cthulhu mythos. Like, not explicitly, but VERY deeply (ha) implicitly.
So, the “monster” of the movie is very clearly a Deep One from our famous racist friend HP Lovecraft. Then, in Howard’s work, there is plenty of human - deep one hybrids which are placed in a spectrum that goes between “regular human that doesn’t know about their heritage until they find themselves irresistibly attracted to the sea and bam, express gills” to “basically a fish with clothes”. And there are some of this characters that happens to be mute.
The woman from the film is an orphan they found by a river. No known parents, fixated with water. In this context, it’s easy to see Elisa as a hybrid and the infamous fish fucking scene, the climax where we can discover her heritage, and the entire movie being just about her preparing her move to the shiny streets of the many-columned Y'ha-nthlei.
I was like, huh, I had no idea. Then suddenly struck by the thought that Javi is yanking our chain 🤔 Now I don’t know!
What?? No! I’m extremely serious!
And it’s not even surprising! This is a Guillermo del Toro film, the same Guille that had spent over a decade trying to make an adaptation of Lovecraft’s In the mountains of Madness and have produced several cthulu-mythos related works.
Honestly something that bothers me more than most things is having my compassion mistaken for naivety.
I know that another fish might eat this bullfrog right after I spend months rehabilitating it.
I know that turning a beetle back onto its legs won’t save it from falling over again when I walk away.
I know that there is no cosmic reward waiting for my soul based on how many worms I pick off a hot sidewalk to put into the mud, or how many times I’ve helped a a raccoon climb out of a too-deep trashcan.
I know things suffer, and things struggle, and things die uselessly all day long. I’m young and idealistic, but I’m not literally a child. I would never judge another person for walking by an injured bird, for ignoring a worm, or for not really caring about the fate of a frog in a pond full of, y’know, plenty of other frogs.
There is nothing wrong with that.
But I cannot cannot cannot look at something struggling and ignore it if I may have the power to help.
There is so much bad stuff in this world so far beyond my control, that I take comfort in the smallest, most thankless tasks. It’s a relief to say “I can help you in this moment,” even though they don’t understand.
I don’t need a devil’s advocate to tell me another fish probably ate that frog when I let it go, or that the raccoon probably ended up trapped in another dumpster the next night.
I know!!!! I know!!!!!!! But today I had the power to help! So I did! And it made me happy!
So just leave me alone alright thank u!!!!
a Mai warmup.. slapped some roses in the bg & some sparkles to try and cover up my less than stellar metal shading lmaoo
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SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (2023)
Okay normally I wouldn’t reblog something like this so soon after the movie came out but I HAVE to tell y’all about this scene
According to Lord and Miller, this scene was an extremely late addition to the movie. As in, “they-had-already-released-the-first-trailer” late.
And the reason that is relevant is because a fan named Preston Mutanga, with his spare time, recreated the entire trailer in LEGO stop motion animation and posted it online after it came out.
Lord and Miller saw the perfect recreation of their trailer, thought it was brilliant, and WROTE IN A LEGO UNIVERSE SCENE in order to get this kid some screen time on one of the biggest animated films ever released.
Mind you, Lord and Miller directed and made THE LEGO MOVIE. And they thought this kid’s trailer was so incredible that instead of making a Lego scene themselves, which they very well could have, they brought him in to work on it.
So while you are watching this movie, know that an extremely cool 14-year-old is telling his friends that he got to personally animate one of the funniest jokes in one of the biggest movies ever made.
I just think that’s in-fucking-credible.
https://twitter.com/FG_Artist/status/1610065663619485696?s=20
^Here’s a link to the original trailer recreation, posted on Preston’s Twitter.
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THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IT FEELS LILE
Having thoughts about how Toph found people at the Earth Rumble who treated her as an equal and respected her for her skill and listened to her. How she became the Blind Bandit there and the first people to ever take her seriously were The Gecko and Fire Nation Man and the others.
And then she joins the Gaang, people who also treat her as an equal and respect her skill and listen to her, and she starts calling them Twinkle Toes and Snoozles and Sugar Queen and Captain Boomerang.
She's giving them stage names. Because gaining her stage name was the most empowering thing that happened to her up to that point. Because stage names are earned. Because the people who were kindest to her in her life (by treating her how she wanted to be treated) were people who went by things like The Boulder.
“Cat Realizes She Has Ears!”
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people in the notes are freaking out because this cat passed the mirror test and i can’t really blame them because literally all the first results on google say they don’t
This cat is an Intellectual
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hi. been dealing with my cat having concerning issues for the past three weeks along with depression and anxiety tanking due to it. she’s okay. she’s now keeping food down and she’s playful and not actively dying but we (as in our vet and me and pat) think it’s food allergy related so we started the long process of a food trial so uh. I guess send me good vibes that this is successful! I would really like this issue to be an easy thing to manage and if that means feeding her a specific type of food forever then I will take it 🥴 I would like some sense of normalcy pls lol
