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some vewy old shadowlilies i never posted here

And the set up couldn’t be more perfect, the brave gang plus Pure Vanilla are essentially sent to backtrack, to go back to the beginning of the story (Witches Hut + Magic Academy) to save the Radiant cookie. They are being forced to confront/witness the witches again and hopefully finally Pure Vanilla will learn the Truth.

But something interesting that the story has done is 

Why is Madeleine here? 

I mean  Madeleine cookie is close (ish) to Pure Vanilla and he does match the energy of the Brave Gang. Plus he is one of the most prominent secondary characters aside and with Espresso cookie (the goat) and makes a good uncle to the family of Grandpa and his three grand kids. 

But why is he here in the greater context of the story? For a while I had no clue! 

Then I remembered 

You know how he was essentially the only outsider witness to the Premonition of Doom?

Back then I thought it was weird how he of all characters was the one who got to witness this fiasco, I thought Financier would have been a way better fit.  

And you how in that very same episode, it gets confirmed that Pure Vanilla (Or at least Healer cookie) had ties to Dougheal? 

I don’t have a solid prediction here, but I’m basically saying that there is a set up here that binds the Witches, the Pastry Order, Lily and Shadow Milk together all in Pure Vanilla quest for Truth and Knowledge. 

It was just the first one to use cel animation. It was not the first animated movie ever made!

The first animated feature film was Creation in 1916, by Pinto Colvig.

Pinto Colvig was an American voice actor, cartoonis, and circus performer, who's gimmic was that he playd the clarinet off-key, whaile acting. Also he was the original voice actor for Goofy, and Bluto.

In 1916 he worked at Animated Film Corporation in San Francisco, where he Created the first animated feature film. Sadly the movie is lost, only 35 mm frames survivied. And the studio also closed it's doors when the U.S joind the first world war, 1917.

After this Pinto Colvig joind Disney, worked on Snow White as a voice actor. And later worked on Gulliver's Travels.

Creation is one of the most importent lost movies.

And the animated movie after is was El Apóstol (The Apostle in English), from Argentina by Ouirino Cristiani from 1917.

Quirino Cristiani was an Argentine animation director and cartoonist. He made two of the first animated movies, and the first animated movie with sound.

He was also the first person to use cardboard cut outs to animate.

El Apóstol was a political satire based on Argentina's then-president Hipólito Yrigoyen. The plot is that Yrigoyen dreams about going to Mount Olympus and discussinf politics with the gods before using Zeus's lighting bolt to cleanse Buenos Aires of corruption.

The film was a secsessful. But sadly it was distroyd in a fire in 1926.

The next animated feature film was made by Ouirino Cristiani too. It's Sin dejar rastors (Without a Trace in English), from 1918

The plot is about the German commander Baron von Luxburg who sank an Argentine ship inteding to frame the Entete for it.

The film was not as sucsessful as El Apóstol, because it was confiscated by the Ministry of Forgeign Affairs by the order of President Hipólito Yrigoyen. It is unknown that any other copies of the movie were ever made. Becuase of this, it's considerd lost.

The next movie after this is Vida y milagros de Don Fausto (The Life and Miracles of Jiggs in English) by Carlos Espejo and Carlos F. Borcosque from 1924.

Carlos F. Borcosque was a Chilean film director and screenwriter. He is notable for his work during the Golden Age of Argentine cinema.

He established his studio Estudios Cinematográficos Borcosque in 1922, and directed several Chilean silent movies before he moved to Hollywood, where he worked as a consultant on Latin.based movies and had a spell working for Paramount Pictures.

There is not information about Carlos Espejo. The only person that I found with this name was an Olympic swimmer, but seeing how that person was born in 1923, he can't be the one who had a hand in making this movie.

Vida y milagros de Don Fausto was the first Chilean animated movie, the third film Borcosques dicrected, and it's based on the Bringing up Father comic strips.

It opened at the Septiembra and Brasil theatres of Santiago in 1924. september. It was a major succsess, and an "extraordinary comedy".

The movie is possably lost.

The next one is the oldest surviving animated feature film. The Adventures of Prince Achmed by Lotte Reiniger, from 1926.

Lotte Reiniger was a German film director, and a pioneer of silhouette animation.

She is also noted for having devised, from 1923 to 1926, the first form of a multiplane camera, wich is one of the most importent tools in animation, before digital animation was invented.

Also she worked on more then 40 films durring her career.

The Adventures of Prince Achmed is about Prince Achmed riding a flaying horse to faraway lands, and having adventures, which include befriending a witch, meeting Aladdin, fighting demons, and falling in love with a princess.

The next film is the first animated feature film to use sound. It's Peludópolis (Peludo City in English) by Ouirino Cristiani from 1931.

Peludopolis was a political satire focusing on the then-Argentinian President Hipolito Yrigoyen as he floated around in his boat "Pleudo City" which symbolizes Argentina, whaile being harassed by hungry sharks that represent radicals.

In both 1957 and 1961, fires broke out where Cristiani stored his films, which destroyed most of his work, which included the only known copy of Peludópolis. Therefore the movie is lost.

The animated movie after this is the first animated feature film that was made in the Soviet Union. It's The New Gulliver by Aleksandr Ptushko, from 1935.

Aleksandr Ptushko was a Russian Soviet animation and fantasy film director, and a People's Artist of the USSR.

He is a lot of the times referd to as the "Walt Disney of Soviet animation", because of his controbrution to early Soviet animation.

The New Gulliver is a combination of stop motion and live action.

The movie is a Communist re-telling of Jonathan Swift's nopel Gulliver's Travels. The be more ext it covers the first part of the book where Gulliver is in Lilliput.

The story is about a young boy who dreams of himself as a version of Gulliver who has landed in Lilliput, which suffering under a capitalist inequality and exploitation.

The next one is the first French animated feature film. It's The Tale of the Fox by Ladislas Starevich from 1937.

Ladislas Starevich was a Polish-Russian stop-motion animator. He was the author of the first puppet-animated film The Beautiful Leukanida. He also used dead insects and other taxidermy animals as protagenist in his stop motion short films.

After the Russsian Revolution he moved to France.

The Tale of the Fox was originaly completed in 1930, but there were problems with the French soundtracks, so the movie's premiered with the German soundtrack in 1937, and years later in 1941 it premierd with the French soundtrack.

The movie is about that in the kingdom of animals, the fox Renard is used to triking and making a fool out of everyone. So because of him the King, who is a lion, receives more and more complaints about him. So finally, he order Renard to be arrested and brought before the throne.

The next one is Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons, by Burt Gillett, Wilfred Jackson, and David Hand, from 1937.

Bruton F. Gillett was an American animation director. He is most well known for his works on Silly Symphonies for Disney. Particularly the 1932 short film Flowers and Trees, ant the 1933 short film Three Little Pigs, both of wich were awarded the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

Wilfred Emmons Jackson was an American animator, musical arranger and director. He worked as an animator and was instrumental in developing the Mickey Mousing technique, which synchronized the music and action for Steamboat Willie. He then become a director for Mickey Mouse, and Silly Symphonies. He directed the Academy Awards winning short films: The Tortoise and the Hare, The Country Cousin, and The Old Mill.

David Dodd Hand was an American animator and animation filmmaker. He worked as a supervising director on Snow White and Bambi.

The movie was a packige of Academy Awards winning Disney short films in order to promote the then up coming Snow White.

And the last but not least. The movie that premierd 19 days before Snow White. It's The Seven Ravens by Ferdinand Diehl and Hermann Diehl from 1937, december 2.

The Diehl brothers were filmmakers in Munich who were known for their stop motion fairy-tale movies and their most famous character, a hedgehof named Macki. There is little information about the two.

The mocie is based on a Grimm's fairy tale. The story is anput a girl who goas on a quest to save her seven brothers, that were transformed into ravens shortly after her birth, and to complicate matters she has to remain mute.

See, I've not been the biggest fan of redeemed shadow milk because of how I see fans sell it. The majority is usually making it seem like it's a happy ending for him, where he either is just content where he is at, or happily engaged with Pure Vanilla because love/friendship fixes all of his problems. I understand why that works for people (the drive of "I can fix him" most villain enjoyers become when they sympathize with a villain), but I'm the Lass that feels like his redemption wouldn't be so glamorous.

My imagining of it is that Shadow Milk is resistant to it, and overtime is getting tired of people saying that he doesn't have to do terrible things anymore, even as cookies slowly understands and learns his motives. Cause now knowing what makes Shadow Milk tick, he isn't gonna be willing to look for another path. Even after he finds the witches that made him (which are dead, it's canon, devsis said so) he is gonna feel empty for quite a while. It's not gonna make him feel better that he has to find a new way of life, cause in order to do that, he must be reduced. And he can't really do that in one night.