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thinking a lot about atlantis: the lost empire (animated) movie lately again :

a) that scene when the gang shows their ""true colors"" to milo (thankfully temporary) and he's going 'wtf are you DOING (ransacking a living city/doing a colonialism' and they're like 'money.' not particularly happy about it, not particularly sad about it, not particularly angsty. (we've spent the past hour getting to know them and their complicated lives before being mercenaries, the context should probably be said they're all quietly minorities who had to figure out how to make ends meet because the world kinda sucks like that.)

like. man. idk if disney could ever get that Real about it again. i feel like modern disney would either straight up not have that scene or go the other direction and do an awful whole guilt-trip-the-audience flashback sequence to pull on the heartstrings for Le Characturrr Engagement points ~~when that lowkey kinda sabotages the point of Not being complicit etc.~~

b) how almost weird it is that rourke for being such a bad/awesome villain, white colonialist edition, actually treated said team with like. genuine basic respect for their competency. very much a 'nothing personal' guy after money. damn he's refreshingly honest, other than the, you know, sacking the city.

~~i had/have such a horrible crush on rourke you don't even know. yes i have terrible taste in fictional dudes. :p~~

it had its issues but man what a kickass movie. i would watch it again if i wasn't specifically trying this year NOT to rewatch everything again (other than this tellius playthrough)

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reading up on rap history and i'm really endeared at the connection i'm seeing between rap handles & hacker handles & drag performer names. something about names that reflect one's chosen performance back at society. deftly slipping out of the constricting noose of given names to play tricks on society and bestowin' upon them art with a wink.

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* crazy xbone hardening / hacking talk to listen to ... so much of the tech stack went over my head but i had an awesome time listening to this at a work lunch break. i'm a lil' more familiar with the "red team" circles here but the amount of detail it takes to harden a machine in "assumed" malicious hands is awe inspiring.

* persona (former discord ID contractor) surveilance whistleblower has an interesting writeup of the fallout of the leak. also interesting to see how the various players handled said fallout, whether poorly or decently.

* "the biggest difference between a dog and a wolf is the way they look at you." cool af blog post musing.

* technically a gaming issue but a very very thoughtful rundown / experience on what it was like to face a copyright troll (and win)

* ez android adblocker without having to download any extra apps/stuff (been using it for the last few weeks)

* https://delphi.tools/ neat grab bag of common tools every machine/designer should have; says they're privacy focused. file converter software, background remover, vectorizer, gradient generator, etc.

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> mom and i are casually checking out the eventual-new-town's volunteer/events list in their local newspaper
> sees that the public library has an animanga game night
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> looks closer and sees it's only for teenagers lol
>> IT'SJOVER

mom, sympathetically: you could set up one for adults :D
(note she is the furthest thing from a gamer. but views it as more 'ok if it makes you happy and keeps you out of trouble...')

literally, though. i gotta recreate my college smash melee tournament nights!!!!!

it would be kind of slightly funny to crash the teenage event for a night. :p rolling up with a literal working gamecube plus 4 controllers a la 'how do you do fellow kids'.

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in terms of dA-era sexymen, i feel like sephiroth walked so emet-selch could run, in a lot of ways.

i'm not going to pit two bad bitches against each other even when i have a personal favorite of the two, but it's curious and a bit endearing to see emet's longevity and particular devotion he inspires especially in an era where i feel like fandoms cycle in and cycle out in a blink of an eye.

(caveat i'm unlikely to play future FF's especially that one because of MMO mechanics, but i do enjoy the pretty boy to elder queen fanart pipeline as one does.)

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having so many anniversaries this year and so many art projects coming out this month is making me idly wonder what the hell my reputation is online with this handle, lol...

especially tricky to guess at because - attempting to look at myself from how i act online - the one "constant" is refusing to be put in a box, ha.

specifically in art circles there's been a growing physical separation in terms of the more mainstream & palatable versus the seedier, sharper, "guilty pleasure" (crack, selfship, 4chan shitpost humor, whatever) and outright kinky works; maybe i was young enough on dA i didn't see it then but from what i remember it was all mashed up in the same place there. regardless if it's original works or fanwork circles, doesn't matter, it's a pretty sharp divide now, and i do get the vague sense of having one foot in both (mainstream reputation probably borrowed from my iron crown days, and generally more tame fanwork posts).

reputation here being in types of artwork, actions, and general "vibe". i def flip flop inconsistently between said mainstream work and the occasional wiggy as hell "bomb"; part of it truly just depends on whatever i'm in the mood to finish that day, part of it is slightly intentional "rent lowering firing a gun" so i don't get too known for one Thing and be put back in a box.

i don't go actively looking for what people say; it's really none of my business (and they have the right to say whatever). what i do sometimes see is the kind of activity on posts that suggests they're being passed around on discord servers (totally cool). i know some folks dislike me (i'm sure i've earned some of it...), but also probably because being annoyingly loud for defending lolisho for so long even when it was more of a third rail controversial topic (and something i don't usually draw). def know i read as intimidating/reserved at neutral, lol, my ex mentioned it a few times.

it's funny to be a known entity, especially how i never intended this handle to be anything but an anonymous escape.

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a lot of days i think it's befuddling that as much as of a longstanding, deep closet misanthrope as i am & general people resenter (not at any of you specifically, just. society.....), there seems to be some more of a half-vague notion of duty to humanity than uh. some other folks going by their actions.

'i don't even like any of you but come on, have the notion of not breaking anybody else's toy. fix things so that somebody else who enjoys their life more can actually enjoy it.' kind of thing.

(this is unnecessarily grumpy imo but it does keep running through my brain so tossing it out there to hopefully be done with it.)

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