talks to a girl and is immediately hit with an 105 degree fever nausea chills etc has to lie in bed all day wiping sweat off my forehead with a silk handkerchief and writing about my illness in my diary like a malnourished victorian man

rest in peace, Betty White. you were a national treasure and the world would never have been the same without you.

Favourite Designs: Linda Friesen ‘The Raven Queen’ Haute Couture Gown

Vladimir Serov, The Worker (1960) and The Builder (1964)

Okay I'm sorry this is slowly becoming an Encanto blog, but I can't not talk about how much I love the way Abuela Alma's backstory is told within the movie. Because we as the audience (and Mirabel too) are effectively told the same story twice. Yet the impact of the story is much different the second time.

At the beginning of the movie, when Alma is telling her story to a very young Mirabel, these are some of the visuals that accompany it:

They're vague and in a way, gentle. We know what is happening here is very sad, but it also feels distant, something that happened so long ago that it doesn't feel close and personal. Which is exactly how you would tell a story like this to a young child.

These are the visuals that accompany the story the second time she tells it, this time to an older Mirabel, as she reveals exactly what this experience did to her:

The story isn't different. We're shown a bit more of Alma and Pedro's relationship and life together, but it's nothing that we couldn't have inferred from the first telling. But this time, Alma is letting Mirabel, and the audience, see the full extent of her pain. Notice how raw and visceral the emotions are in the second version. How Alma and Pedro are clearly terrified when they realize they've been found. The sword glinting in the moonlight. And Alma doesn't just reach for her husband, she screams in anguish as he is killed. Even though we technically already know this story, this moment hits like a sledgehammer to the gut. Because now we, like Mirabel, understand exactly what Alma went through and why she is so terrified of losing everything again. The pain is no longer distant or in the past. It is very close and very much in the present. Something that Alma never wanted to admit to her family.

. . . And that's why the Dos Oruguitas scene broke me like nothing in animation has since I was fourteen and watching Rapunzel weep over Eugene's body after he sacrificed his life to free her.

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My oldest's favorite movie now

ENCANTO 2021 | dir. Byron Howard & Jared Bush

Ok you want gossip? My stepsibling came out as trans and it’s killing me that I can’t roll up and be like hey guess what dad you actually got two of us, not just one, and be her cool enby big sibling without revealing that I faked my death a few years ago and actually just moved away. So I just have to sit here six towns over and hope she figures it out eventually. Luckily she’s smarter than our dad so like. Totally possible. Our other sister already did. I didn’t do a very good job of it according to her.

YOU FAKED YOUR DEATH?

I turn 25 today and goddamn I'm so fucking old

Extra large Playpen sofas of the 1970s.