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THE SWAN PRINCESS (1994) Dir. Richard Rich
For speed runners, this is canon.
This image is not speedrun accurate. Link should be naked.
He sewed these clothes himself while running to the castle. Something to keep his hands busy /silly
malcolm: ugh my life is the WORST i HATE BEING A TEENAGER!!
*meanwhile*
jigsaw: hello francis
THE WAY THIS ISNT EVEN EXAGGERATING LMAOOO

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people love to say "your cat is just being cuddly because it's cold out and he likes the warmth" like that detracts from it somehow. this weird little creature lives in my home and his paws and the tip of his nose are cold and his solution to this is to go to the big weird hairless ape who feeds him, and curl up on its stomach and fall asleep there bc it's nice and warm. that too is love!!!!
People really want expressions of love to be some 'pure' thing done for no intrinsic gain for some reason and like being a living thing with wants and needs is bad somehow.
Tokuhiro Kawai
I like that the composition of this piece implies every cat is a Saint.
All of the kitties have halos, but the dude does not.
Worlds Apart ā the Harpy and the Mermaid
Tiffany couldn't quite work out how Miss Level got paid. Certainly the basket she carried filled up more than it emptied. They'd walk past a cottage and a woman would come scurrying out with a fresh-baked loaf or a jar of pickles, even though Miss Level hadn't stopped there. But they'd spend an hour somewhere else, stitching up the leg of a farmer who'd been careless with an axe, and get a cup of tea and a stale biscuit.Ā
It didn't seem fair.
āOh, it evens out,ā said Miss Level, as they walked on through the woods.Ā
āYou do what you can. People give what they can, when they can. Old Slapwick there, with the leg, he's as mean as a cat, but there'll be a big cut of beef on my doorstep before the week's end, you can bet on it. His wife will see to it. And pretty soon people will be killing their pigs for the winter, and I'll get more brawn, ham, bacon and sausages turning up than a family could eat in a year.ā
āYou do? What do you do with all that food?ā
āStore it,ā said Miss Level.Ā
āBut you-ā
āI store it in other people. It's amazing what you can store in other people.ā Miss Level laughed at Tiffany's expression. āI mean, I take what I don't need round to those who don't have a pig, or who're going through a bad patch, or who don't have anyone to remember them.ā
āBut that means they'll owe you a favour!ā
āRight! And so it just keeps on going round. It all works out.ā
āI bet some people are too mean to pay-ā
āNot pay,ā said Miss Level, severely. āA witch never expects payment and never asks for it and just hopes she never needs to. But, sadly, you are right.ā
āAnd then what happens?"
āWhat do you mean?ā
āYou stop helping them, do you?ā
āOh, no,ā said Miss Level, genuinely shocked. āYou can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant. Everyone's poor round here. If I don't help them, who will?ā
"A Hat full of Sky" - Terry Pratchett

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recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.
It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence lies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
Hey OP? Thank you for articulating something I've been trying to get clear in my own mind for a while now.
THE LAST UNICORN 1982, dir. Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass
Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of someone else's actions that I am directly impacted and severely affected by
So. Moist von Lipwig, formerly Albert Spangler/various other aliases, never kills people so he canāt really be all that bad, lovable rogue, right?
Wrong.
In a surface kind of way, yes, but an essential part of the Lovable Rogue is in never having to face consequences, and Going Postal starts with Lipwig being hanged for his crimes of embezzling, forgery, theft, confidence trickstery and various others. And thatās only the beginning.
Let me preface this with the fact that I love Moist as a character, and boy am I aware that he goes through character development, but he is by no means a good person at the start of the book, or even necessarily by the end. Heās definitely still a criminal in both cases, by the end it just happens that Vetinari is holding onto his leash and that Moist has made a moral decision.
He feels completely justified in committing the crimes he does, because everyone is dishonest, right? AnywayĀ theyāre all trying to trick him! And he never faces any consequences, because heās always on the run to escape them, whether heās aware of it or not, and so he believe that there arenāt any consequences - because heās not there when they occur. After all, heās mostly fooling otherĀ crooks, so itās not like good and/or honest people ever feel the repercussions.
Except then he meets an angel. Or, as it turns out, several angels. While being possessed by the Letters/Spirit of the Post, he apparently says thatĀ āangel is just an old word for messenger,ā and I think I know Pratchett well enough by now so I can say that isnāt in there by coincidence. After all, the book is full of messengers and the delivery of messages (in the form of the old postmen, golems, various others) and many characters are referred to as being angels numerous times (notably Stanley, Vetinari and Adora Belle Dearheart) and enough parallels are drawn between Adora and the golems, particularly Anghammarad and Mr. Pump) that the two words should be taken to mean pretty much the same in thing the context.Ā
Vetinari remarks that you only ever get oneĀ angel, but maybe it arrives in a dozen or more people. Except these are far from being particularly nice ones - what they all do, in their own way, is to force Moist to recognize that all his actions have consequences. They very nearly march up in a line and say,Ā āLook, son, youāve messed up really bad, okay? I mean, just look at what youāve caused, LOOKĀ at it! What, you didnāt know it was there? Buddy, do you think that means it donāt exist?ā
āDo you understand what Iām saying?ā shouted Moist. āYou canāt just go around killing people!ā āWhy Not? You Do.ā The golem lowered his arm. āWhat?ā snapped Moist. āI do not! Who told you that?ā āI Worked It Out. You Have Killed Two Point Three Three Eight People,ā said the golem calmly. āI have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr Pump. I may beāā all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!ā āNo, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded And Swindled Without Discrimination, Mr Lipvig. You Have Ruined Businesses And Destroyed Jobs. When Banks Fail, It Is Seldom Bankers Who Starve. Your Actions Have Taken Money From Those Who Had Little Enough To Begin With. In A Myriad Small Ways You Have Hastened The Deaths Of Many. You Do Not Know Them. You Did Not See Them Bleed. But You Snatched Bread From Their Mouths And Tore Clothes From Their Backs. For Sport, Mr Lipvig. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game.ā
ā¦Holy shit, Pratchett is not messing around. Because yeah, the Lovable Rogue is a fun character to read about. But does that mean he isnāt immoral as hell? Nope.
All throughout the first half or so of the book, Moist is convinced that heās gonna turn around and trick everyone, up to and including Vetinari himself. He thinks pretty nasty and derogatory thoughts about the people around him such as Stanley, or Mr. Groat, or Mr. Pump, clearly blaming them for being stuck working for Vetinari when he thought his troubles would be over once he was hanged, even as he puts on his conman face and charms all of them (except Pump and probably Adora), because it benefits him and because he thinks heās smarter than them and because itās fun. But he never quite gets away with anything any more. He thinks heāll win against the Brotherhood of Postmen, but he gets pretty banged up doing it. He makes plans to have Mr. Pump killed smashed up* or use his day off to escape, but when he has the chance heās busy with Adora, along with the small matter of the Post Office being in cinders. Itās a clear contrast with how he later thinks about how he actually likes the printers working at Teemer & Spools, or the Smoking Gnu, simply because theyāre decent people good at their jobs.
*Because even though heās never killed anyone, he doesnāt think of golems as people.
Then along comes Adora, and it turns out he, personally, messed up her life by defrauding the bank she worked at, further adding to her familyās struggle when the Grand Trunk gets stolen and her brother is murdered. And when he challenges Reacher Gilt and the clacks companies, the Post Office gets burned down, the piles of letters destroyed, Mr. Groat is left seriously injured and the golem Anghammarad dead - itās otherĀ people who suffer, not him.
Hello, Moist. Meet Consequences. Theyāve been trying to catch up with you for a while.
I like to think Moistās internal narration gets less condescending* at that point, because there is definitely a difference between the Moist who went out to eat with Adora and the Moist who still tries to keep the Post Office running in a blackened, burnt shell of a building. When he meets Reacher Gilt for the first time at Le Foie Heureux, he realizes how much better Gilt is compared to him and wishes they werenāt pitted against each other, just so he could learn how to be an even better** conman from him, even while knowing Adora hates him enough to want to kill him and that Gilt pirated the Grand Trunk and is out to destroy the Post Office. But later he thinks to himself:
āIāll kill you, Mr. Gilt. Iāll kill you in our special way, the way of the weasel and cheat and liar. Iāll take away everything butĀ your life. Iāll take away your money, yourĀ reputationĀ and your friends. Iāll spin words around you until youāreĀ cocooned in them. Iāll leave you nothing, not even hope.ā
*Pun intended.
**Worse?
Talk about a sharp turnaround. And here Moist acknowledges the similarities between them, even though an easy-to-reach disclaimer could be included such asĀ ābut I never kill people.ā There has been an ongoing contrast between Havelock Vetinari, Moist von Lipwig, and Reacher Gilt throughout the book, particularly in Vetinariās and Giltās definition ofĀ āfreedomā. Gilt claims that property is the foundation of freedom, and Adora points out thatĀ āwhen [he] talks about freedom, he means his, not anyone elseās.ā Meanwhile, Vetinari:
āAnd no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.ā
And what Vetinari largely does is force consequences upon Moist, and later Gilt - forces them to live with freedom in its entirety, not just the bits they like. The easy answer may be to kill them, but that is not consequences as such, as much as a permanent end to them. And in doing this he forces Moist to face up to everything he has done and how it has hurt people. And being stuck between these two masterful conmen, Moist realizes how short the slippery slope may have been for him to turn into just yet another Gilt: A conman with style, but a bully and a murderer all the same. Which is why he essentially uses all his genius in that field to defeat Gilt, because thatās the only way he can be defeated, not because itās noble or heroic, but because heās stuck: Heās been forced to lookĀ at all the people heās defrauded and swindled, and now that he canāt look away he doesnāt want to see it happen to them again. He may be a bastard of a trickster, but he can chose to not be thatĀ bastard.
But Vetinari! You may ask. He manipulates and controls and has people killed all the time. Itās practically his job! Well, yeah. Heās incredibly good at it, heās LEAGUES ahead of both Moist and Gilt,Ā but the funny thing is that he does it entirely for the benefit of the city. He could be a one-man reign of terror over the entire continent, but as he confides in Unseen Academicals:
ā[ā¦] And thatās when I first learned about evil. It is built into the nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.ā
And just in case you think heās nothing but talk, remember that when his arrest was ordered in Jingo, he letĀ himself be arrested. Sure, in the end he got away with it, but he took the consequences. Just letting himself be arrested probably changed the poltical landscape of the Circle Sea and Uberwald permanently. Because without consequences, freedom is meaningless.
This is not only one of the best character analysis Iāve read in some time, it managed to include REALLY GOOD PUNS into it, as the source material often does.Ā
I wanna print this off and put it on my shelf, goddamn.
Discworld Heritage Post
The honestly surprising thing here imo is that even for *very* rich people apparently unbridled capitalism that makes them as rich as possible apparently doesn't buy them the same satisfaction as it can in places with less inequality.
You'd think (and every second temporarily embarrassed millionaire will argue) that if you can command a private limo, public transport doesn't matter. But apparently the systems that result in good public transport also result in amazing holidays for people so rich they wouldn't even consider using it.
If everyone can afford a nice coffee in the morning, there's a cute little cafe every 100 feet to serve it to them; if there's only 100 people in town that can afford that habit they're all going to have to hop into their swanky limos and haul their groggy asses to wherever the exclusive Coffee Club is located to get their fix.
If there's no public transit or bike infrastructure, your swanky limo is stuck in traffic behind 120 beat up Honda Civics.
If there's workers rights and public healthcare the barista there wants to have a nice little chat with every customer, because that's the human default way of greeting people in the morning. If there's not they straight up don't have the spoons and you get the dead-eyed Gen-X Millenial Gen-Z stare while you order.
No amount of individual expenditure will buy you what living in a healthy society gives.

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To put it very bluntly.
You will always make a better impact helping people who need it than trying to hurt people you think deserve it.
sometimes i be saying im gonna go to bed and then i dont go to bed. frequently in fact. this is because i have the heart of an optimist and the soul of a liar