The Fair Folk: “I can’t believe this. Twenty years I’ve cleaned your house and you DARE to try to REPAY me with GIFTS. This is such an insult. Fuck you, you insolent humans. I’m leaving here and never returning because you have insulted me so deeply.”
Also the Fair Folk: “Remember that one time you pulled a thorn out of a cat’s foot? That was me. To show my gratitude, here is a house made of solid gold, a life-debt, my daughter’s hand in marriage, and a promise that all your children will be gorgeous and successful at all that they do. I can also throw in a blow job if you want. I hope this is enough. I don’t want to seem ungrateful.”
the reason Michael Caine and Tim Curry are so good in their respective Muppet movies is that Michael Caine treats the Muppets as fellow actors, and Tim Curry treats himself as a fellow Muppet
one of my favorite aspects of the incredible Mouse in Manhattan is how vicarious and sympathetic the filmmaking is—warped perspective, exaggerated scale, and general height discrepancies put the viewer in Jerry’s point of view, encouraged to share the wonderment rather than trivialize it. genuinely astounding how the environments can seem both so gorgeous and mystifying as much as they are alienating and vast, almost lonely. the viewer feels just as small as Jerry and that is intended as a strength, never painted as a detriment (no “look at the silly mouse pretending glass is ice!” in tone).
in a series that is structured on irreverence, violence, and disingenuousness from the characters, Mouse in Manhattan is a great breach of formula and enigmatic in its sincerity. one of a kind and works to its advantage through its novelty.
A short comic about Tiffany Aching and Sam Vimes,
two of Discworld’s hardest working characters. The recent conversation about crunch inspired me to make this piece.
Deleted the reblog for other reasons but. Jowling kowling rowling’s new book where the villain has ME, POTS, fibromyalgia, and Allodynia is going to be the first time a lot of able bodied people hear about these conditions. And it’s also going to be the first time that a lot of people who have these conditions see them in print. The harm that will do is immeasurable
Especially since JKR is known for successful campaigns against marginalized groups, including disabled people. She uses disability as a tragedy. She uses disability to discredit people, to villanize people and able-bodied people soak that shit up like a sponge. I can imagine way too well how horribly this shit is going to go down and I’m already exhausted.
this is fine to reblog btw. and also with able bodied people it’s like. they resent the idea that some people are sick all the time. they have a sort of constant low level anger towards us for not being able to meet their standards of productivity and physical perfection as proxy for moral purity. what stories that have disabled villains can do is take that resentment and stoke it into outright hatred and violence
(just for due diligence—and so JKR defenders won’t come on here trying to discredit everything above on a technicality—according to this very good thread breaking down all the ableism on display in the novel and the harm it might cause, the character in question isn’t technically THE villain in terms of being the killer, but is still portrayed in a very negative light by Rowling, nonetheless. I highly recommend the linked thread for more insight, because yeah… OOOF)
