voyagirl47:

theterriblethingabouttulio:

flavinbagel:

qqueenofhades:

detectivehole:

detectivehole:

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

I’m so glad that this happened. It’s a phenomenal film.

One of my favorites.

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clickbeetle:

clickbeetle:

shoutout to whoever stole my amazon package containing nothing but a single pair of shoelaces.

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knitmeapony:

ntjnke:

alwaysbewoke:

Dope

Is this silk screening?

And dude, does she have to do this every time?

This isn’t silk screening; that literally uses a screen for every color: https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Silk-Screen/

This is called water dying, or marble dying. And yes, each one is unique and done by hand.

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katistrophe:

I know I’ve said I’ll actually, you know, read the Middle Kingdoms novels first, but that recipe stayed in my 500 opened tabs giving me cravings, so I finally decided to try making @dduane ‘s Chicken and Honey Pastries yesterday! Well, mostly. The dough was store bought because I start having Bakeoff flashbacks at the mention of 27 layers, and for the chicken part I made the filling fresh from deboned chicken thighs. I followed the recipe for the honey, though :P (Except for not straining it but… carefully fishing around the peppercorns, so the rest could steep for even longer.)

And the result was still great! Sweet and savory and spicy all wrapped into a flaky puff pastry. Given the current batch of spiced honey will absolutely not be my last, I can see myself making the recipe a lot more often!

toebeens:

toebeens:

toebeens:

Hey everyone!!! This am I went to go pick up the blood thinners because they said I need to be taking them so I don’t risk getting a blood clot, thankfully had $235, as now been two days now without them and with my heart issues and circulatory issues and edema I know it’s important/serious. Well I should have had enough for them, but apparently the script the doctor initially sent was the wrong medication AND dosage so they resubmitted the script altogether (I had no idea they didn’t call or tell me any of this) but anyway it’s $526. So of course now I’m freaking and I had to leave for work, but called the doctors office and yeah I NEED to get them, because with the edema I’m at very high risk for it and it can go to my heart/brain/etc.

for anyone who doesn’t know, my parents passed, Covid gave me heart issues, was in a car accident that broke my leg/back/teeth and totaled my car and then I had pneumonia and was hospitalized for 5 days and missed work over 2 weeks. This edema happened after returning to work and they seem to think may stem from the car accident/broken leg. proof and more details on previous posts. If anyone can help, my PayPal is http://paypal.me/jpd05 and is preferred but PLEASE SELECT FAMILY & FRIENDS!!! Selecting the other makes them hold the funds up to 21 days! I also have KoFi (@toebeens), Chime ($toebeens), and Zelle (message for info). Reblogs and donations of any amount are super appreciated!! I can also set up payment arrangements if even borrowing anything towards it is possible. Please I HAVE to get them today somehow, I have like…. Less than 8 hours to do this and my anxiety has me at my breaking point here, I’m sorry to have to beg for help but this is an emergency!!

$235/$526

7 hours to raise!!

$338/$526

Hey thank you so much for those who reblogged, donated, those offering help any way they could and kind words truly. I didn’t raise enough to get them yet, but if possible I would like to try and get them in the morning before work. I just don’t have any family to ask or truly any other options, begging like this sucks and is embarrassing/degrading and no one chooses to do this unless they truly have no other choice. Thank you for your time & again to all who have helped in any way! youre all incredibly kind, generous, wonderful people!

$343/$526

Apr 23, 9:41EST

Hey everyone reblogs very much appreciated. Was hoping to get them before I work today if possible. Thank you!!

Signal boost.

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I like my present Tumblr theme pretty well, but I’ve discovered it’s doing something seriously annoying: it’s been dropping the italics on things I’ve italicized.

This… is not… acceptable. Because if I italicize something, I have a reason for it, and it needs to fecking STAY that way. (And I absolutely refuse to underline stuff instead as a coping mechanism. [a,] Underlining has different implications, textually speaking; and [b,] Dammit, the technology is supposed to do what I want it to. Not vice versa.)

The theme’s maker has gone AWOL to requests for assistance even from those who’ve bought support… that being the cause of my crankiness. So as a result I’ll be spending the next day or two—a space of hours during which I could have been writing, or doing digital art, or cooking—in attempts to troubleshoot the theme’s CSS (i.e., the underlying language that deals, among other things, with the way a theme displays its images and text).

YAAAAYYYYYYYnot.

…Anyway. As a result, shit may get weird as regards the way the theme displays, tomorrow and the day after (as tomorrow’s only half an hour away or me at the moment). Please bear with me as this situation progresses. …The local audio/visual background to this endeavor will be as many John Wick films as it takes to sort it out. Debugging CSS can be painful business—a semicolon out of place can screw everything up—and an audio background of merciless gunfire sounds may prove helpful.

…All this said: I strongly suspect that if I can’t get this thing whipped into shape, I may yet have to go buy a new damn theme. So if anyone feels like assisting me in that, please feel free to go over here and buy something or other. (Or just a “coffee,” if you prefer. Or you could always choose your preferred Deity, Motive Force or Power that Be and breathe my problem in Their ear[s]*. Your call.)

Thanking you all in advance, and handing you a (digital) hard hat.

(Digital artist: “Sweet Goddess but that damn thing is yellow.” His royal Grace [eliding all the usual epithets and titles] the King of Arlen: “…What, no monogram?”)

(eyeroll)

*Assuming they have ears. I wouldn’t dare judge.

crossingscon:

After hearing feedback from both attendees and guests, we will be changing our mask policy for CrossingsCon. We will now be requiring masks in all con spaces (exempting only active presenters during their events, for accessibility reasons).

This is also your last call for t-shirts and posters! Dice have already been ordered, so we will not be accepting more orders for those. Our store will be closed the first week of May, so get your orders in now!

Great to hear this! 

callmearcturus:

Hellsite (affectionate)

…Have been waiting for that. Perfect. 😄

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roominthecastle:

me [angrily yet softly, through gritted teeth, while crying]: i love to write

(chuckle) Yeah, there are days when it’s like this. Even after fifty years…🤣

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