guillermo del toro’s pinocchio is a beautiful film but my god no one has adapted that story like neverafter. you can never look at it the same way again after listening to lou wilson, a black man, explaining that he chose to play as pinocchio because it’s a story about a little boy who isn’t allowed to make mistakes. that in pinocchio's story, he is fundamentally barred from childhood at once upon a time. he must earn something that everyone else is granted from birth. the other boys get to tell lies and play and get into trouble, but when pinocchio does the same thing there are grave and violent consequences. his pinocchio is trying to understand why the world is so unfair, why the rules are so different for him, why everyone else gets to be a real boy.

and I think about it every day.

posting my old pixel art day 19

made in 2021

i miss post-grunge 😭

FWIW, "mauve" was one of the coal-tar dyes developed in the mid-19th century that made eye-wateringly bright clothing fashionable for a few decades.

It was an eye-popping magenta purple

HOWEVER, like most aniline dyes, it faded badly, to a washed-out blue-grey ...

...which was the color ignorant youngsters in the 1920s associated with “mauve”.

(This dress is labeled "mauve" as it is the color the above becomes after fading).

They colored their vision of the past with washed-out pastels that were NOTHING like the eye-popping electric shades the mid-Victorians loved. This 1926 fashion history book by Paul di Giafferi paints a hugely distorted, I would say dishonest picture of the past.

Ever since then this faded bluish lavender and not the original electric eye-watering hot pink-purple is the color associated with the word “mauve”.

If I ask nicely will people reblog this and tell me what their most common breakfast is? Not your favorite necessarily, just what you have for breakfast most frequently? 🙏🏽

He needs a nap from napping so much

*doodles him to cope with stress*

uuh almost forgot. here´s also this doomsday screenshot redraw that was lying around.

hell yea man flip that mushroom !!!!!

Since I thought gifs wouldn’t do these shots justice, here’s why this part of The Descent is one of my favorite places to roam with the flycam!

I remember entering this part for the very first time and just standing there for a whole 10 minutes, blown away by the level design. I love how they seem to play with your expectations here, because up until this point we’re always used to run through the more or less ominous darkness of the Deep Roads and then at the end, we’re presented with these breathtaking lyrium lights resembling stars, lush vegetation and a seemingly endless sky full of clouds.

(Music is from the Dragon Age Origins soundtrack btw)

I still think that my favorite urban legend/folklore fact is that there are certain areas in New Orleans where you cannot get a taxi late at night not because it isn’t safe, but because taxi companies have had recurring problems of picking up ghosts in those areas who are not aware that they are dead and disappearing from the cab before reaching the destination and therefore stiffing the driver on the fare causing a loss for the company.

a little bit of an art nouveau moment for go3

The two twins…

What’s your favourite line from good omens?

The invisible and unbreakable one that joins Crowley and Aziraphale.

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