Silver Blur

*IT'S DELTARUNE DAAAAAAAY!!!✨️

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hey so. not meaning to pick on you for this, but:

there are various types of word processors or other text inputs which will automatically convert -- to —, meaning its difficulty in being typed out is irrelevant

there are a lot of people on tumblr, including in the notes of this thread, who have actively said that they use the emdash in their writing

the whole point of LLMs is that they train on real people's writing; they are not just randomly picking characters from the US-ASCII charset to include; AI would not generate text with emdashes if its training base did not also include writings by real people that used them

The world stands against Zionism and it’s beautiful to see.

This movie also promotes whitewashing. They casted a lightskinned wasian woman to play Nani instead of an actual indigenous Hawaiian woman. This movie is promoting the erasure of Hawaiian people getting to tell stories about themselves, there’s not a single Hawaiian person behind the writing or directing for the production of this movie and its clear that unlike the original cartoon, it’s made with a clear lack of respect for its people.

There's a scene cut for time from Lilo and Stitch that explicitly dealt with Lilo's experience being the backdrop to a bunch of tourists, and even though it was not in the full movie, the motive is still there. She took a picture of that white guy with his ice cream the same way people take pictures of her as "oh look honey it's a real native."

There's times when changing the race or gender or background of a character is a neutral thing. This was not a neutral act on Disney's part. This divorces Lilo's action from her motives. It leaves it hollow, not just in the way that all of these soulless live action remakes are, but in a way that removes her home from her background. What is she taking a picture of, if it's just some guy with a dropped ice cream? Why is she doing this? Why are you watching her do this? What's the point?

Do not watch this movie. Go watch the original. It's great! And if you missed that cut scene, watch that too.

Her parents’ accident was caused by bad weather, so she made friends with a fish that controls the weather and is extremely fastidious about him.

She has to deal with tourists treating her like scenery, so she photographs them like exotic animals.

She can’t stop her bullies from picking on her, so she tries voodoo to make them stop without resorting to violence.

And most importantly, she senses a kindred lost spirit in Stitch, and insists that absolutely no other pet will suffice, because caring for Stitch is like caring for herself. She takes on the role of caretaker, exactly the way her big sister does for her.

She might be the most smartly written character in any Disney movie, and it all happened because Disney had no direct hand in it.

“Lilo and Stitch” 2002

Deleted Scene

I desperately need to understand

WHY

WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY

Was this scene cut from the movie??!!

Fucking christ, do you know what this would have done? What this would have meant to SO MANY people??  The truth of this is devastating. And to think it almost found it’s way into a DISNEY film??

The inclusion of this scene alone would have made it the greatest animated feature the company ever produced. Easily. And if you think that’s hyperbolic clearly you don’t understand.