Talkin about Tumblrs, man

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• Anonus

  2015-01-20 01:34:23

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  I remember having to reconcile nerds' fondness for Pacific Rim with people on Deadline (within Hollywood) dismissing it as a hunk-a-junk because it wasn't doing great business in America
• Obā-san

  2015-01-20 01:35:36

  
  

  Brownie points are like "oh that's nice" things that don't mean anything really
  
• lee4hmz

  2015-01-20 01:40:47

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  It's sort of like buying a car despite the bad reviews because OMG IT HAS A CD/CASSETTE PLAYER (to give a rather 1990s example).
• Miss Miko Mayonegg

  2015-01-20 01:41:09

  More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
  

  idgi but idg anything anymore because I'm old.
  
• Anonus

  2015-01-20 01:43:21 edited 2015-01-20 01:43:29

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  naney said:

  Brownie points are like "oh that's nice" things that don't mean anything really
  

  you know how a lot of people are acting like Home is gonna be a great movie just because it has a black girl in the leading role? the trailers haven't given me much confidence but then again trailers can be misleading...

  
  

  and yeah, you know Tumblr would love The Proud Family if it were on now, despite Bruce W. Smith's lack of narrative taste

  
  

  I don't know why more things that put blacks front and center can't be, you know, good
• Calica

  2015-01-20 01:54:31

  Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

  Anonus said:

  I remember having to reconcile nerds' fondness for Pacific Rim with people on Deadline (within Hollywood) dismissing it as a hunk-a-junk because it wasn't doing great business in America

  tbh there were some pretty damn racist articles about its popularity in e.g. China
• Yarrun XIX

  2015-01-20 01:55:31

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  Anonus said:

  naney said:

  Brownie points are like "oh that's nice" things that don't mean anything really
  

  you know how a lot of people are acting like Home is gonna be a great movie just because it has a black girl in the leading role? the trailers haven't given me much confidence but then again trailers can be misleading...

  
  

  and yeah, you know Tumblr would love The Proud Family if it were on now, despite Bruce W. Smith's lack of narrative taste

  
  

  I don't know why more things that put blacks front and center can't be, you know, good

  Wait wait wait, since when is the Proud Family not a good show?
• lee4hmz

  2015-01-20 01:55:50

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  Cream said:

  idgi but idg anything anymore because I'm old.
  

  The point being, you prize something that is objectively not that good because of some minor quirk you consider really, really important.
• nohaynicklibre

  2015-01-20 02:03:50

  Smee, Maiman, Doktar, Pavelier, Button-Lee, Juan Ovyu

  It's what UDK gives to ALC when she makes delicious brownies with cocoa Van Houten
• Hexartes

  2015-01-20 02:24:58

  If there's one thing that consistently bugs the piss out of me

  
  

  it's Tumblr's constant, utterly nonstop BITCHING

  
  

  just constant bitching left and right, bitching for eternity, the bitching never ever ceases
• lee4hmz

  2015-01-20 02:25:52

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  The bitching does get old, yeah, especially if it comes out of some sort of misunderstanding.
• MissUtilis

  2015-01-20 02:28:13

  BEWARE OF GRRL!
  

  Yarrun XIX said:

  Anonus said:

  naney said:

  Brownie points are like "oh that's nice" things that don't mean anything really
  

  you know how a lot of people are acting like Home is gonna be a great movie just because it has a black girl in the leading role? the trailers haven't given me much confidence but then again trailers can be misleading...

  
  

  and yeah, you know Tumblr would love The Proud Family if it were on now, despite Bruce W. Smith's lack of narrative taste

  
  

  I don't know why more things that put blacks front and center can't be, you know, good

  Wait wait wait, since when is the Proud Family not a good show?

  I hated it even as a kid. Every character is embittered and unpleasant. I got the feeling it was supposed to somehow be a joyous thing but it's not
• MissUtilis

  2015-01-20 02:28:45

  BEWARE OF GRRL!
  

  It doesn't help that its January 2004 arrival on Toon Disney felt like the "beginning of the end" for that channel
• MissUtilis

  2015-01-20 02:32:13

  BEWARE OF GRRL!
  

  i don't know, the show just seemed kind of directionlessly angry

  
  

  it doesn't help watching it now that despite the solid design, the show's animation is godawful bargain basement shit

  
  

  Walt Disney Television Animation was doing a lot of shows at one point that were plagued with shit animation (hell even Dave the Barbarian seems like it got a bit shortchanged budget-wise)
• Yarrun XIX

  2015-01-20 02:34:12

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  Miss Utilis said:

  Yarrun XIX said:

  Anonus said:

  naney said:

  Brownie points are like "oh that's nice" things that don't mean anything really
  

  you know how a lot of people are acting like Home is gonna be a great movie just because it has a black girl in the leading role? the trailers haven't given me much confidence but then again trailers can be misleading...

  
  

  and yeah, you know Tumblr would love The Proud Family if it were on now, despite Bruce W. Smith's lack of narrative taste

  
  

  I don't know why more things that put blacks front and center can't be, you know, good

  Wait wait wait, since when is the Proud Family not a good show?

  I hated it even as a kid. Every character is embittered and unpleasant. I got the feeling it was supposed to somehow be a joyous thing but it's not

  The words that just came out of your mouth, I don't understand
• Calica

  2015-01-20 02:44:02

  Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

  the way everyone treated the dad on that show was pretty embittered and unpleasant
• Yarrun XIX

  2015-01-20 02:47:52

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  Calica said:

  the way everyone treated the dad on that show was pretty embittered and unpleasant

  Fair, but everything else was fine
• MissUtilis

  2015-01-20 02:48:16

  BEWARE OF GRRL!
  

  That too

  
  

  He had some of the embittered unpleasantness too but he is one of those punching bags who didn't deserve his suffering, like Cat
• Yarrun XIX

  2015-01-20 02:51:40

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  But undeserving punching bags are a hallmark of cartoons!
• MissUtilis

  2015-01-20 02:52:26

  BEWARE OF GRRL!
  

  It depends on how they're done...they can be pulled off well or not well, as I felt Oscar Proud to have been.
• Yarrun XIX

  2015-01-20 02:54:59

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  Fine. I'll acquiesce on Oscar. Never liked how downtrodden he was either, to be honest.

  
  

  But everyone else?
• MissUtilis

  2015-01-20 03:00:13

  BEWARE OF GRRL!
  

  Maybe I should watch a full episode of the show again sometime. I haven't seen one in probably ten years, and I tried a few months ago to watch one but decided it wasn't for me...
• Yarrun XIX

  2015-01-20 03:17:06

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  pick the one with al roker the wish-granting weatherman. everybody loves that one
• MissUtilis

  2015-01-20 03:20:07

  BEWARE OF GRRL!
  

  that's not a typical episode of the show though

  
  

  also wasn't there more than one of those?
• MissUtilis

  2015-01-20 03:20:29

  BEWARE OF GRRL!
  

  also why'd they do that

  
  

  it wasn't NBC that Disney owned, it was ABC
• Miss Miko Mayonegg

  2015-01-20 03:22:15

  More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
  

  I'm a queen bitcher, you might say the angry leader bee.
  
  
  
  
  
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• Yarrun XIX

  2015-01-20 03:26:05

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  Miss Utilis said:

  that's not a typical episode of the show though

  
  

  also wasn't there more than one of those?

  The first one is the best
• Alduin

  2015-01-20 03:41:26

  Counterclock said:

  You know it's okay to like problematic things, and that was something I realized on tumblr, but for some people it's not enough, for some, learning that the thing they like often induces denial from the person.
  
  Like "oh its not racist, or anything".

  Is this about FMA
• Tanya

  2015-01-20 04:10:19

  Pizza Dog

  It's about anything in general. 
• Tachyon

  2015-01-20 07:38:10

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  Cream said:

  What is brownie points? Should I ask? Is it a chocolate thing, or a black people thing? Is it racist to ask this? Probably.
  

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownie_(Girl_Guides)
  
• Obā-san

  2015-01-20 07:39:33

  
  

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownie_points
  
  there are multiple possible etymologies
  
• Tachyon

  2015-01-20 07:47:44

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  Huh.  Well colour me corrected.
  
  i guess i always assumed it was to do with the Brownies because that made more sense than chocolate points.
  
• Anonus

  2015-01-20 08:47:56

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  I initially thought it had to do with brownies because everybody wants chocolate, right?

  
  

  /Pinkie Pie
• Anonus

  2015-01-20 08:48:34

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  (ironically, chocolate is toxic to ponies and horses)
• Tachyon

  2015-01-20 08:51:39

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  obviously i was never in the brownies
  
  but people sometimes use 'brownie promise' idiomatically (or 'scout's honour'), i assumed it was like that
  
  this page reminds me, i've been meaning to see the proud family sometime, i know you think it was junk Anonus, but i'm curious because i liked The Weekenders and Pepper Ann which are the kinds of shows i see it mentioned alongside, only unlike those TPF never aired on GMTV as far as i remember, unless it came after i stopped watching.
  
• Anonus

  2015-01-20 08:54:51

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  The Proud Family was the first animated series produced exclusively for the Disney Channel, though over here it also aired in reruns on ABC's Saturday morning schedule; it may have been withheld from GMTV in the UK though.
• Alduin

  2015-01-20 11:08:11

  
  
• Haven

  2015-01-21 01:41:15

  Let me tell you. About Fallen London.

  
• Calica

  2015-01-21 01:46:16

  Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

  jerry seinfeld IS NOT BLUE!
• Haven

  2015-01-21 01:46:33 edited 2015-01-21 01:46:50

  Let me tell you. About Fallen London.

  what's the deal with chaos emeralds

  
  

  v Good.
• MissUtilis

  2015-01-21 01:46:34

  BEWARE OF GRRL!
  

  when I buy DreamWorks Animation I'm going to ban Bee Movie because this is too far
• Obā-san

  2015-01-21 01:49:43

  
  

  when I buy DreamWorks Animation I'm gonna search + replace every instance of Shrek with Bee Movie
  
• MissUtilis

  2015-01-21 01:51:27

  BEWARE OF GRRL!
  

  No I'm buying DreamWorks Animation
• Salix Babylonika

  2015-01-21 01:58:17

  https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png

  I'm pretty sure the general consensus on Korra was, for quite some time, that the first season is bad and the rest are good to great.

  
  

  Why are we going on this circlejerk again? I thought the praise heaped upon Pacific Rim was silly too, but I question whether or not this discussion is actually worth having if all we're going to do is flog a dead horse.
• nohaynicklibre

  2015-01-21 02:01:07

  Smee, Maiman, Doktar, Pavelier, Button-Lee, Juan Ovyu

  Haven said:

  

  So... this... is the power... of semi-ironic avant garde post irony... Woah...
  
• Tachyon

  2015-01-21 02:05:30

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  what if i already bought DWA?
  
  well, i did, and i'm not selling to either of you
  
  i am going to
  
  hm
  
  first on the agenda is we are never making a sequel to anything ever again
  
  second is no celebrities will be hired, none whatsoever
  
  third is any employee caught so much as whispering a fart joke within 30 miles of the studios will be fired on the spot, as will any employee who uses the words 'irreverent', 'quirky' or 'toyetic' within my hearing
  
  i can see the dollars now
  
• Haven

  2015-01-21 02:06:55

  Let me tell you. About Fallen London.

  but what is your stance on characters with a half-smirk and an exaggerated raised eyebrow
• Tachyon

  2015-01-21 02:08:14

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  any tape found to contain anything resembling a half-smirk and a raised eyebrow will be set on fire
  
• MissUtilis

  2015-01-21 02:09:06

  BEWARE OF GRRL!
  

  I already have Classic Media, and your rights to Moose and Squirrel and pals are going to revert soon, so I guess I don't want DWA that much after all
• MissUtilis

  2015-01-21 02:09:39

  BEWARE OF GRRL!
  

  go me and my ancient cartoon characters nobody's heard of these days