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#as someone with ibs the endless toilet paper is a no brainier#the fresh vegetables would’ve been a close second#poll
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imagine being 22 years old and all you like to do is draw comics about murdering people and Nickelodeon contacts you to write a childrens’ show
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Harrison Ford hating playing Han Solo made him better at playing Han Solo because Han Solo did not want to be there doing those things either.
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Thinking about it, most of the Eggman/Robotnik henchmen across different iterations of him fall into one of two categories: two dipshits, or an abused smart guy who either really loves or really hates Robotnik
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Some of y'all have been following me for like a decade or more now and I still get asked, "What do you see in him???". And the answer is he is evil and a weirdo. Next question.
#this is not meant to be a call out post to people who ask i think its funny actually#dave the octopus#king candy#dr eggman#eggman#wreck it ralph#sonic the hedgehog#penguins of madagascar#look at all my husbands#kailey speaks
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SPIRITED AWAY (2000)
HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE (2004)
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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991) Dir. Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise
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Anis Cheurfa as Rinzler
TRON: Legacy (2010) dir. Joseph Kosinski
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My mom made a comment today on a video with a dude with a moustache and said that they are ugly and no guy has ever looked good with one.
So I casually said, “Well, I at least know ONE guy that’s been able to pull it off.” And she’s like “Who???” Then I quickly left the room.
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Early press kit artwork for Mega Man Legends.
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obi wan kenobi + force suggestion
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Disney’s Ralph Breaks The Internet/Wreck It Ralph2 Art!: Shank
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Haru and Psyduck // POKÉMON CONCIERGE
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Jsyk it’s thanks to you I learned of the existence of Shank and now I ship with her aijdjd
So ty!
Omg so happy you found her because of me!! She is an awesome character, so don't blame you! I even wish Disney did more with her cause her concept art had a lot going on that didn't even show up in WIR2.
I have some content of her in my tag #shank if you are interested!
#shank#ask#panshipper#need to post some stuff i found of her too i don't think has been shared on tumblr yet
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Dragonball has a couple interesting redemptions to talk about. Like Piccolo Jr., where depending on how you interpret his character changes both whether he has any significant crimes to be redeemed of, and the exact moment where this redemption begins.
If you hold the Jr. is a seperate individual from Piccolo Daimao, then the only crimes he ever really committed are Attempted Murder (Of Goku) and mass property damage.
And if you hold that Piccolo Jr. Was born a demon and lost that demonic status through positive character development, then his redemption technically occurs before he spends any time with Gohan, because he can't have been a demon when he killed Goku and Raditz (As Dragonball establishes that those killed by demons don't go to the afterlife). That scenario really makes you remember that Piccolo Jr. was only 3 years old when he fought Goku.
And that's just one possible reading of his character
Piccolo is a complicated entity. There are basically three, arguably four versions of the character - but they are ultimately different facets of the same guy.
There's the original Piccolo-Daimao/Great Demon King Piccolo, of course. What's interesting about Daimao is that he seemingly lacks moral agency.
Piccolo isn't a demon because of how evil he is. He's a demon because, metaphysically, he is a demon. This is not a turn of phrase. It is not a title. It is not a fanciful status you can attain by kicking enough puppies. It is a mythological being.
When the Nameless Namekian ascended to become God, he purged all corruption and wickedness from his heart, and that wickedness became the demon Piccolo. As a demon, Piccolo is literally evil incarnate. He can only know evil. He can only be evil. He is incapable of anything else.
This man has no true goals, desires, or ambitions. He's just evil. Because he is composed entirely of evil and can know nothing but evil. By circumstances of his existences, he's not even really a person; He is just evil.
Even his idea of world domination is just genocide in slow motion.
He wants to kill everything for maximum evilness. He has a 43-year plan for disseminating fear, anarchy, and violence around society before he finishes killing all life on this planet. This is not a three-dimensional human being. This is what you get when you put an abstract concept into a body. He is not physically capable of making moral choices.
The moment everything changes is, of course, when Goku presents a very compelling argument that he should get his shit together.
This is the moment that people often point to as evidence that the two Piccolos are different characters.
Moments before he spontaneously explodes for... honestly, no clear reason at all... Piccolo speaks to the egg he's reincarnating himself into. It's a weird thing for him to do if the egg contains his own soul or essence or what have you.
But. Well. Contain it, the egg does. Piccolo hatches from his own egg with full continuity of consciousness from his past self. He remembers his identity, he remembers Goku, he remembers God and their relationship, he even remembers the language of his home planet from long before he and God ever divided.
His identity, his personality, every scrap of knowledge he ever knew, is all intact in this new body. Piccolo identifies himself as the Piccolo-Daimao reborn.
Which God independently corroborates.
Piccolo never died; If he had, God would have died as well. God cannot exist if Piccolo-Daimao does not. This is how the metaphysics work.
An argument could be made that a reincarnation is not entirely the same being. It is nonetheless a new life, a new being. Avatar: The Last Airbender goes to great lengths to show how very different the reincarnations of a single person can be, as each incarnation is born as a blank slate.
But. Uh. Piccolo Jr. wasn't born as a blank slate. He was born with Piccolo's memories, identity, personality, ambitions, etc. fully intact. So trying to label him as a brand new person untethered from the old is ultimately splitting hairs.
However.
What he wasn't reborn as, is a demon. And that's where things get interesting.
Piccolo reincarnated himself into a new body, but that new body was a new body. In terms of personality and memory and identity, he woke up the same Daimao as before - but metaphysically, he woke up as a fully three-dimensional being, suddenly capable of choice and complexity and moral agency.
He hatched himself into a new Namekian being, rather than a demon spawn.
This new form of Piccolo still wanted to take over the world. Because that's what he wanted when he was a demon. Piccolo is a ball in motion from the time he hatches, continuing to pursue the agenda he had in place before his reincarnation gambit.
But. It's. Complicated now, because he can't just do evil for evil's sake. His goals have to make sense now. They have to be a thing that a person would want. Before he even meets Gohan, he's already softened up from Pure Evil Incarnate.
The Demon Lord of old didn't really want to rule the world. It was just a pretense for a slow and cruel genocide. But in this new state, suddenly he cares about his prospective empire. He's concerned now about the wellbeing of the people he would govern.
Eight years ago his "plans for this world" were for everyone to die. But here he is like "How dare this asshole try to kill my planet when I intend to rule it!?" He's getting confused about his own motivation because his original motivation was just "Do Evil".
In this form, Piccolo is self-aware now. And he's not happy about his place in the universe.
Before, he was acting on just... raw evilness. But now he's emotional. He's bitter. Cynical. Resentful of God. He can feel things now. And with the arrival of the Saiyans bearing down on him, Piccolo's thoughts have turned to his legacy.
People fixate on The Moment but it's the capstone of a point that had been hammered in and hammered in: That Piccolo is changing, that he's been changing since the moment he hatched from that egg. That he is even capable of change because he ceased to be a demon on that fateful day years ago.
It's on the shoulders of all of this groundwork that the fateful moment everyone remembers takes place.
From this point forward, Piccolo is unquestionably 100% a protagonist, though he's still a bit of an asshole.
The debatable transformation in his character comes from his assimilation of Nail.
While Piccolo and Nail's merger does have some fairly explicit effects on his character....
It's not super clear whether his developing sense of empathy for others is a result of it, or a consequence of the growth he's already undergone up to this point.
In either case, Piccolo's development ultimately brings him to his final transformation:
This last transformation is... unusual. In a sense, it devalues the redemptive journey Piccolo's been on up to this point. Despite Piccolo repeatedly insisting "I'M DRIVING, You're just going to be FOOD FOR ME," the new being that results from their joining is at once both Piccolo and God, and neither all the same.
He still answers to the name Piccolo for convenience's sake.
But he's different now. He's humble. Wise. A spiritual leader who offers reverence to the divine and guidance to the uncertain.
This is not the same man who gleefully spat in the face of God.
Look at him there, offering spiritual clarity. Piccolo would never.
This new version of Piccolo is effectively a brand new character, bearing some traits from both Piccolo and God. This is not a product of character development, but because they waved a magic wand and fused into a single guy. So it feels kinda cheap.
But at the same time, it's not. Because Piccolo's growth and development wasn't wasted. Indeed, it's that growth and development that brought him to this point; That made it possible for Piccolo and God to rejoin one another in the first place.
This final transformation is Piccolo's redemption; The culmination of a long journey that he's been on, from Pure Evil Incarnate to a three-dimensional man standing at the altar of God in his Temple in Heaven, seeking the ability to protect the people he loves.
The prodigal son finding his way home, to become himself again.
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i'm actually very normal if you ignore everything i have ever said and done
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