To Watch or Not

Nobody remembers right before Frozen came out there was an interview with a Disney animator that said there wasn’t much they could do with women’s faces because they “needed to stay pretty"

i don't think "flex" is a strong enough word for whatever the last three minutes of my life was

That was one of the most beautiful sequences I have ever seen.

This was 20 years before How to Train Your Dragon, and that first flight has so much of the same energy.

As a person who usually cites the 1st movie in any series as “the best one”, it was always weird to have to tell people I preferred The Rescuers Down Under. They just read as such different movies, animation style alone. It’s seriously an /experience/.

Just made myself so so sad thinking about Aang's marble trick because from a physics perspective, keeping dense spherical objects afloat on an airstream is not trivial, and he's doing it in a tiny little space without moving his hands. Bending is usually very gestural. So. Everyone in the era of the show is, at best, impressed THAT it is airbending. But Aang's an incredibly young master airbender. He wouldn't be acting like this was the bestest trick ever if it didn't take at least some skill; he's a goofy kid but he's also a prodigy. I bet other airbenders were absolutely blown away (pun fully intended) at the level of precision and force and minimalism of movement on display and now there's no one who understands at all why he expects accolades.