Lord, I know I haven't been a good man

[crantz]

Lord, I know I haven't been a good man, but I deserve some sort of reparations for the amount of people who argue with me when I'm not wrong or just repeat my point back at me, badly. Or worse, try to make a joke off my joke but theirs is a parasite that kills the original humour.

In other less pissy news:

Watched Strange World, the 2022 Disney animated movie I never saw advertised anywhere with my friend. We played our game of 'why did Disney bury this movie?' as we watched and found a bunch of examples which spoke well for the movie.

Further, the movie was interesting as it read as the evolution of the sci-fi genre - macho man white grandpa, sensitive but still colonial white son, equity and systemic minded black grandson and The Women Were Also There I Guess (I liked them but they did not get any arcs, which was frustrating but also, I suppose, a sign of the sci-fi metaphor).

Also Splat was like, the Chosen One on his own quest in there. That's my explanation for why he's the only blue one and how he leads to the heroes succeeding in their heroing.

Comments

[ashenmote]

The mind-chess of commenting on you prayer is almost too much for me. But once I was like, Alphabetically it makes sense to unleash the War on Empathy after the War on Drugs, and someone else was like Yet, well after the War on Facts. It was not quite parasitic, but it felt to me like they picked up a lesser joke that I had left on the road on purpose.

I haven't heard about Strange World before, to no ones surprise.

[crantz]

I didn't mean to give you a trap there! No, my day actually got worse from there in ways I don't really want to articulate in the hopes if I don't record them, I can forget them.

Strange World was fun and it's really obvious why Disney sank it like a mob hit when you watch it.

[ashenmote]

Oh no! And I get that. Me, I must find a lost piece of paper tomorrow, because the agency that refused to let me print my receipt didn't send the thing, bless them. Presumably to save even more paper.

[crantz]

Protecting it like it contains a dangerous spell.

[crantz]

Oop didn't mean to repeat my post's main comment there about Strange World.

If you DO watch it, please subscribe to my theory that Splat is the Chosen One for his world.

[ashenmote]

My library has 4 copies, so it's on the list now, and I will certainly try!

[crantz]

Awesome opossum. I'm trying to mix in modern movies to go with my 20+ year viewing I've been doing with Ann and Vali. Another was a queer Taiwanese movie involving a ghost (Marry My Dead Body) because you know I fuckin' love ghosts (maybe you didn't! But anyway I love ghosts)

[ashenmote]

(No I didn't know that, that's cool! I just said 'ghost twins' to Ann because she posted a Ghost picture just when I reblogged a ghost thing, so this is all very spooky!)

[crantz]

Oh I love her ghost picture she posted today! She's been doing a lot of bangers lately and I love it even as I suspect it's something an ann does when it's very distressed.

Most of the original fic I have public these days is ghost stories! I'm even preparing some to print off and fold into zines for a zinefest I applied to!

[ashenmote]

She sure knows to get the best out of felt pens! Oh, that would make sense. The poor thing.

Are they on AO3? Can you put original stories on AO3 at all? I have no idea. A guy in my class once approached me for his horror zine and I made them a cover with a claw raising from the grave and they were so pleased.

And I'm no writer but I liked to make ghostly adventures. I had a boat of novice adventurers stuck in a declining fisher village with a few Roman style villas over winter, with not place to stay but like 6 spooky ruins to investigate. I only finished writing out the old Judge's compound, but I got a lot of use out of that.

[crantz]

She's been using paints lately too and I love it!

They are! Original work is allowed on there, which is a delight because it means sometimes someone goes through my originals and sends me kudos and it's like 'you had no reason to be here but you did and that makes me so happy' (I also post the ghosts to hamsterbandit.com but here's my original stuff if you want to look at the summaries: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Rosencrantz/works?fandom_id=2692 )

That is so neat you made a cover for a zine!

That sounds fantastic. I love anything that lets me explore a ghostly thing. I'm surprised how often World of Warcraft lets me do it - the other day I got to reunite two ghost girlfriends who had been separated for thousands of years. And I keep turning my Pathfinder adventures into Ghostventures.

[ashenmote]

I'm a hour into the film now and I had to pause and come here to remind me about the theory I'm supposed to subscribe to. I see. I haven't seen anything that would contradict it but I hope to find more than that in the second half!

[ashenmote]

Oooooh. I kept wondering about the burying by Disney, but after the great plot twist I have no further questions. About that.

Okay, in the whole Giant Turtle/Living World scenario, Splat is the equivalent to a T-Cell-Receptor, right? The way Explorer!Clade explains it there seem to be many like him, trying to lead visitors to their demise, but we only ever meet this one for some reason.

[crantz]

Your version does have the extensive gay stuff too, right?

There's other Splats, but Splat is the only one of its colour!

[ashenmote]

I think? I noticed and appreciated it. But seeing that the son's love interest then conveniently doesn't partake in the adventure which is just for the family, the gay stuff seemed just off-stage enough to be Disney-compatible? Maybe I just don't know enough about recent Disney politics.

Ah, that's a point in favor of Chosen One splat then.

[crantz]

Normally it's a one and done mention - There's the lengthy-ish scene at the start, he gets dating advice from Grandpa and there's more near the end too.

Other burying theories are the races of the parents and the eco message.

Yeah I think Splat was the one who was destined to save the Turtle.

[ashenmote]

Oh yeah I didn't expect them to redeem angry Grandpa to the extent they did, that was nice. And son's crush/boyfriend was longer on screen than strictly necessary, that's also true.

The last Disney thing I saw was Elemental. I don't know I liked it very much, I definitely liked this one better, but Elemental kind of set my expectations for how daring Strange World would feel and for what I think modern Disney would allow.

It's embarrassing, I didn't figure out they were inside a living creature until it was spelled out, in spite of all the hints and garish colors, and I didn't consider turtles until the very end.

Too bad Splat isn't the only red one instead because then you could argue it's because Splat swallowed the red pill! :D