i want to see old men with full beards learning ballet and i want to see terrible art from people in their 30s who have only just got their first tablet and i want to see mothers picking up their old hobbies from before they were told it wasn’t okay to have hobbies and i want to see people in their early 20s figuring out how to be alive by making bad music in their bedrooms and i want zines to be handmade paper pamphlets of devotion and i want creation to be fun again instead of a competition where we all have to monetise joy until we lose the invaluable currency of unashamed love again
blowing a kiss to all the disabled people who cant work and a kiss to all the disabled people who shouldnt be working but have to because of their circumstances and a kiss to disabled people who have never and will never work and a kiss to the disabled people who dont want to work your worth is not measured by your productivity ily
when i wrote this post i was still working but i cant anymore because of my disability. i have no idea when ill be able to go back, if i can go back.
so im blowing a kiss to all the disabled quitters and a kiss to all the disabled people who were fired and a kiss to all the disabled drop-outs and a kiss to all the disabled failures and a kiss to all the disabled peole who are mourning the life and body and career and future you used to have. a kiss to you, and to your grief. <3
zukka au where aunt wu looks straight at sokka and instead of telling him that his future is full of pain and anguish caused by his own hand, she tells him that he’s going to marry the fire lord and sokka is like “EXCUSE ME?”
sokka, whispering to himself: omg my ability to making royalty fall in love with me has come too far
sokka, immediately writing a letter: dear firelord ozai, I am flattered, but since you are pretty old and super evil, I-
Sokka, while yelling insults at s1 Zuko: And tell your dad I’m not interested in having a jerk like you as a step-son!!
I need a whole plotline of Sokka wondering who this fire lord person is going to be
Season 2
Aang: I wish that Iroh guy was the Fire Lord, he seems pretty nice
Sokka: Yeah the Fire Nation would probably be better off with him as Fire Lord, but he’s so old and more of an uncle figure, you know? Not really my type.
Aang: What
Early season 3
Sokka, waking up in cold sweat: Oh no. What if… Azula is the future Fire Lord
Late season 3
Katara: Sokka what should we do? The invasion failed, we’ve been hiding in this temple for weeks and Sozin’s comet is almost here
Sokka, mumbling to himself: I hope Zuko becomes Fire Lord he’s pretty cool
Katara: what?
Sokka: I said we need to defeat the Fire Lord soon
Sokka internally having a Firelord tier list during the series is something that I never knew I wanted.
*when zuko and katara arrive right before azula’s coronation during sozin’s comet*
Zuko: Sorry. But you’re not going to be the one marrying Sokka.
Azula: What.
[#they just didn’t mention it bc it wasnt relevant to aangs story]
that Brian Eno quote about how whatever you find most repulsive about a medium (film grain, record scratches/fuzz, CDs skipping) will be the first thing you try and emulate once that medium is obsolete because it’s “the sign of a moment too powerful for the medium assigned to contain it”…. man…….
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” -Brian Eno
In 50 years people will deliberately incorporate frozen screens and little cycling icons at dramatically appropriate moments in order to make their videos look retro
To this day, I think my favorite film theory that I accept in my mind as canon is the theory that Shrek literally came up with his own name on the spot as he first meets Donkey
Apologies in advance for repeating some things that have been said on another tumblr post that I cannot find.
The catalyst from the theory comes from how uncertain he sounds when first introducing himself. The “uhhh……shrek” definitely sounds like something he kinda came up with on the spot. It’s even supported when he first introduces himself to Fiona, saying it in almost the same way.
But it’s a theory that seems to make sense. None of the signs or decorations in his swamp are marked with his name (unless you count the title card in the mud, but that’s probably not diagetic). There’s no record of his existence outside of simply “ogre”. And that’s all he’d ever really been to the world. The theme of him being seen as a monster is obviously seen throughout the movie quite a bit, but that can also be seen with how he’s addressed throughout the movie.
I took a look over the transcript for the point. Up until halfway through the movie, there are only two characters who say Shrek’s name. Shrek himself, once when introducing himself, and Donkey. The first time anyone else says his name is when he first saves Fiona and asks his name, still believing him to be Prince Charming. Of course, after finding how unorthodox he is and then learning he’s an ogre, she doesn’t refer to him by name at all until the next day after the Robin Hood encounter. At no point in the movie does anyone else say the word “Shrek”. Not even Lord Farquaad. Farquaad always refers to him as “the beast” or “this thing” or “the ogre”. And that’s part of the theme of how he is seen by the rest of the world. As far as he knows, he doesn’t have a name. He’s just…an ogre.
If this theory is true, then he never really thought of having a name. At least, not until he met Donkey. Donkey might have been the first person to ask him his name. And he wasn’t someone who just ran away from him, thinking he was some hideous beast. And that’s what made him decide to give Donkey his “name”. It’s what started to give him a sense of identity as being more than a monster. It’s a theory that massively improves the movie and I will live and die by it.
I was actually thinking about this right after I posted this.
My theory is that he’s just a dimwit who loves the hell out of life too much to reflect on himself and his identity. So he just thinks of himself as “Donkey” and is like “aw hell yeah you bet your ass (lol) I’m Donkey!”
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