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hell this is the image on jack kirby’s wikipedia page next to the “entry into comics” section

Captain America was created in direct response to how the USA was reacting to the war at the time as a direct call to action against injustice specifically. Created by two Jewish men who were very much affected by all of this. They specifically designed him to look like he did because that was the ““Aryan Ideal”“ as part of that statement. That is why they made him blond, blue-eyed, white, tall, and muscular. They also called him ‘Captain America’ to implicitly tie the United States to this statement. This was a metaphor of ‘The USA has to stop letting others be hurt, it’s time to step up and do something’.

The WNs see that American flag and assume that the guy wearing it would agree with their BS but Steve has literally said that America and the flag means nothing when it isn’t backed up by ideals and commitment of freedom for all men.

And it pissed me off so badly that I spent the ENTIRE WORK DAY today compiling evidence from every project my team has ever done for her, pulling past emails she’d sent us, putting together an entire case proving that she had been the problem all along. That she got projects mixed up, that she’d made requests that were nonsensical, literally everything you could possibly imagine. Screenshots of emails, reports we’d submitted, EVERYTHING.

This woman in particular has been terrorizing my team for years, her name is almost a slur in my office, I had simply had ENOUGH of her.

I put all of this evidence together and sent it to all of my bosses at 4:30pm. Then I took a long break to eat a sweet treat and drink some tea.

After my break, my bosses all called in an emergency meeting with me and they said they read my report and fucking loved it. And I sat on a teams call with my boss’ boss as she wrote my nemesis the scathing email I had always fantasized about sending, using the evidence I’d compiled, and hit send.

Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.

Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).

But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?

The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:

They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣

That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.

That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.

i am so very amused by how long and how adamantly dr van helsing keeps up his secrecy around Lucy's vampirism. like, as a 21st century reader (who is already quite familiar with the vampire tropes which dracula helped popularize), it was immediately clear to me that Lucy got vamp'd. i also suspect that anyone at the time would have been able to put two and two together, even with none of the same prior context. because of this, its just really amusing that every other thing van helsing says is something like "i'll explain later ..." or "which could mean nothing ..." like dude we all know. we all know what your silly little secret is lmao

i appreciate how several of the things that "go wrong" and prevent the gang from saving Lucy are on paper the fault of foolish ignorant women whose actions unknowingly doom Lucy, but are actually at their root the fault of ... fffucking Dracula for targeting her in the first place. and that the narrative supports this by not blaming the women and having all the male characters insta-forgive them, never losing sight of who their real common enemy is. like, oh the women feel all guilty like it's their faults, but no, it's the fucking fault of the creepy guy who stalked and raped her. like, let's all be mad at him actually

as others have long pointed out, the text's unawareness of blood types is really funny in hindsight. yeah let's just combine this shit willy nilly, five peoples' blood all mixed together, that'll fix her

i also love how so much of this chunk of the book consists of sharing each others' notes. like "yeah, i wrote a whole diary about exactly the thing we're all dealing with. wanna read it?" it's honestly sort of refreshing to be able to just say "and then they were all on exactly the same page" instead of fucking around with contrived ignorance for far too long

this also makes the story so much more about the act of record keeping, not just the events themselves. and because the text consists entirely of in-universe documents, everything we've read is also available to the characters in the story, which sort of allows the book to loop back on itself in a way i appreciate

CINDERELLA (1950)

YES i love it when adrian is way bigger than rocky uh here's my take on rocky and adrian

Artist: Tim Brierley

Ghosts

Things that exist in Scooby-Doo:

Jetpacks

Aliens

Instant Hypnosis

Machines that put you in the computer

Realistic hologram technology

Were-Cats

Meteors made of Gold

Self-Aware AI

Underground Egypt Cult

Cthulhu

Soul-Sucking Triangles

Transylvania, PA

Moon Resort

Magical Space Guardians

Transgender Potion

Courage the Cowardly Dog

Warlocks