Hello Archivist

Hello Archivist

Keeping up with my anatomy practice, today’s turned into a tarot card, my personal favorite card if you couldn’t tell.

And a sketch of my current dnd character tanuro. they’re an air genasi monk. The Bruno Mars crop top is a running joke and that’s all you get to know.

Because I am an indecisive person have two different colored versions of this Kakashi illustration I did, the book is titled “setting limits for your out of control child” and yes, that is a lego Batman movie reference

You know sometimes all you can do is scroll out your rolodex of fictional podcasts characters and go “hmmm which queer criminal am I going to channel to get through today?” Because sometimes I need a lesbian truck driver’s determination, and some days I need Peter Nureyev’s ability to completely zone the fuck out unless I am actively talking, and sometimes I just need to be an eldritch horror.

Cruella is far and beyond my favorite of the stupid ass Disney reboots. The rest of this post is pretty much just spoilers: The soundtrack was great, we get found family like woah, me and my brother turned and looked at each other at the same point and go “you know I really hope she actually does make a Dalmatian coat” and she still got to be batshit crazy. It ran a bit too long, the dialogue was clunky in spots, and the cgi on the dogs was distractingly bad, but none of that was enough to really sink it in my opinion. And a big win, for once the villain who was queercoded by obsession with a clearly younger woman in the animated version wasn’t given a male love interest as part of her redemption. (this is a direct call out to Maleficent)

The costumes and aesthetics of the film were great as always, and this was the first time in one of these live action reboots that the ✨🥰 #girl-boss moments didn’t feel cheap, because it actually devoted a huge amount of runtime to relationships between women. And as a fun side effect you get to see a really cool battle that isn’t just a poorly lit fight scene between a cgi lion and hyena, and isn’t two women testing physical strength, but rather both doing an explicitly feminine thing in making and showing dresses.

I really enjoyed how it somehow managed to both make her a fairy tale protagonist, (yes her mother was pushed of a cliff by Dalmatians, her mother had to die tragically because that’s how the fairy tale formula works, good mothers die early) and also still a black leather wearing, heachmen leading, badass who renames her house Hell Hall and herself ‘Devil” because the one thing this film absolutely does right is make sure she doesn’t believe she’s somehow morally superior, she knows she’s a villain, and if you believe she had good reason to be that‘s your own fault. (take notes edgy villain character study movies)

I completely understand that this film won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but all in all it was mine, 7/10.