OK GUYS STOP WITH THE GUARDIANS FEELS!

There’s a concept of the movie that I really like, and it’s Jack pretty much asking the guardians, “When’s the last time you actually spent time with children?”  Like, the guardians are the great and powerful protectors… but… when’s the last time they actually spent a second with the very children they want to protect?  Think about it.  The Sandman comes to give you sweet dreams, meaning you’re sleeping when he shows up.  Children are told to leave cookies and milk for Santa, then to go to sleep (and Christmas is only once a year, which means he only does this one time, and that one time isn’t even spent directly with children).  You put a tooth underneath your pillow for the Tooth Fairy (and in the movie, she’s not even the one who collects the teeth) and the Easter Bunny hides the eggs before the children can see him.  Jack’s the only one who, you know, was playing with the kids.  

I think this is important for any protective figure: parents, siblings, friends, whatever.  Sometimes, we spend so much time “protecting” that we forget to, you know, enjoy the thing we’re protecting.  And this scene, right here, you can tell that Bunny gets what Jack was talking about as far as, “When’s the last time you did this?”  Sophie looks so happy seeing him, and just look at how happy Bunny looks to be around her?  It’s really touching to me.  

This part, just… o.k., let me say this.

The details are just flawless.  This is the part where Easter is ruined, if I remember right.  The top gif, you can just feel the concern, the pain, just… Jack watching as Bunny essentially feels what he’s been feeling for 300 years.  There’s this feeling of, “No, no no, I couldn’t have done this, I wouldn’t do this…”  The second gif continues that, but the third gif sort of clenches it.  It adds something else: guilt.  Like, “I caused this,” “I did this to someone,” “I made someone feel this awful.”  And there’s this look of, “Maybe I can explain it, maybe… but would they understand?  Would Bunny understand?”

But what I also want to note is how the movie pays attention to its background characters.  Look at Tooth in the gifs.  I always wondered, the first time I saw the movie, how when Jack came back North and Tooth were just like, “Hey you’re back, good,” like, they forgave him so easily, you know?  But look at her in these gifs!  It’s like, “Oh Jack… oh god you didn’t want this to happen, did you?”  Like, she knows, she gets it.  She gets how Bunny feels, but she gets how Jack feels.  She knows Jack cares about them, and knows that this is the last thing he wanted to happen.

To Zanarkand Acapella - Final Fantasy X (by Smooth McGroove)

This guy, just… please stop being amazing.  The last Final Fantasy I thoroughly enjoyed  ;__;  

Yes I will, most definitely!  The studio name is “Sewn Together Reflections.”  It’ll be the table with the coasters, clocks, mirrors, glasses, plushies, hats… there’s all kinds of fun things  ^^  I’ll be there all weekend, too  :)  

makisekurisus:

“our dreams and futures that form and expand into infinity
allow us the right to be vain,
while the two hands point out what is finite.” (x)

O.K.  This has been bugging me forever.  What series is she from?  Every time I see her I think of Naoto from Persona x Detective.  

xanatenshi:

The misogyny that is thrown at female characters on Supernatural is disgusting. Some people need to check at how they’ve internalized the patriarchy that they would rather have female characters dead in order to further their feelings about a fictional friendship between two male characters. I’ve got a post-bubbling on the stove about the appropriation of queer identity by straight women who only want to see two fictional men get together and can’t fathom that perhaps two men, of any sexual orientation, might love each other but not want to have a romantic relationship with each other.  

The post is bubbling because I want to find some citations from Ian McKellen on The Lord of the Rings and his discussions with (straight) actors on how they might show affection for each other as comrades and friends, that has nothing to do with sexual attraction. We live in a culture where physical affection from men is often read as being about sexual attraction, but could be nothing more than affection for each other as friends.   

I’m not in the Supernatural fandom, but I remember this happening in fandoms in general, making the female character just a sliver below “hell spawn” in order to push the two guys together (i.e. Relena from Gundam Wing, Sakura from Naruto, ect.)  I’m guilty of doing this myself, back in the day, but if I can credit the Naruto fandom for one thing it’s that it showed me how crazy it was to just bash the female character so much just because she “interferes with the two guys.”  Granted, there’s plenty of reason to get frustrated over Sakura in how she has moments of greatness that get shot down, but I’ll never forget the hatred people had because, “Ugh she interferes with the Sasuke and Naruto because she crushes on Sasuke so hard.”

A couple of things.

1.  She was 12.  12 year old girls get crushes on popular boys sometimes.  It just… happens.

2.  No one seemed to point out that, as the series progressed, she started wanting to bring Sasuke back not for her sake, but for NARUTO’S SAKE, to have THE ENTIRE TEAM BACK TOGETHER, not just so she could crush on Sasuke some more.

3.  No one seemed to point out how, as much as you think Sakura pines over Sasuke, no one pines over him more than Naruto.  Yaoi lenses or not, there’s moments where I know that if Naruto were a girl, fans would’ve been calling her stupid in her complete devotion to this guy who, frankly, doesn’t want to come back.  There’s a part in the manga, where Naruto is talking to someone (can’t remember who), but he flat out says something like, “I don’t care if I lose my arms, my legs, my eyes, I’ll still bring Sasuke back.”  Just… and the fandom was all, “OMG IT’S SO CANON YOU GUYS,” and I had this moment of, “… that… just… no…”  It wasn’t sweet, to me.  It was… awful, because I knew that if Sakura said something like that, the fandom would condemn her, but since it was the boy character it was like, “Guys our yaoi circle is complete!”

Yaoi or not… someone being that dedicated to someone is… scary.  Especially if said person’s response is, “Leave me alone.”  Just… yeah.  That’s called an unhealthy relationship. But somehow, Sakura was the “bitch,” and just… it made me see how much female characters are shunned for the sake of having two guys together… even if those characters really shouldn’t be together.  Sasuke and Naruto is not cute, it’s not sweet, it’s… dangerous.  Naruto is kinda obsessed (not sure if he is anymore since I gave up on the manga) and that’s not a good thing.  

Thanks to the positive response over the coaster I did I thought, “What goes best with a coaster?  A glass!”  I use to do glass painting a lot, but then the glass paint I used to use was discontinued, so I stopped.  Then, a friend got me some glass stuff for my birthday last year, but the glasses kinda sat around because I couldn’t come up with any ideas for them.

Then Rise of the Guardians came out.

Then I discovered new glass paint.

I’m still testing it out, really, since I’ve never baked it on there before.  So in the next two days I’ll know if it actually work/can be washed, ect.  I figured it was safe to make Guardians, because if it doesn’t work my partner will keep it.  If it does work, well, it’ll be at Anime Detour with the coaster  ^^

The glass is hand painted and I actually dipped a pencil in the paint to do the snowflakes, just to try and get the lines done properly  ^^  I hope everyone enjoys this new Rise of the Guardians glass and coaster set  :)

Etsy Shop:  Clickie clickie ^^

dreamerofspace:

brichibi:

dreamerofspace:

i feel like the lovechild of kanji tatsumi and naoto shirogane today

Headcanon accepted omg what a cutie!

Wh- Me? Cute?

YOU SAYIN’ I LIKE DUDES?

*sniffles*  Awwwwww, that temper, just like your father!  YOU’RE SO ADORABLE!  I BET YOU LIKE CUTE SHIT, TOO!

dreamerofspace:

i feel like the lovechild of kanji tatsumi and naoto shirogane today

Headcanon accepted omg what a cutie!

leifal:

gaughn:

irontayguh:

Tech Gore - Nintendo Edition

so i gasped… and then my mouth started just hanging open… and it kinda still is

My babies, my poor, poor babies  ;__;  I need someone to hold me  :(