it’s kinda scary how often we have been telling each other “at least we’re not in America” as a way of inducing optimism
worried about job prospects after college? “at least we’re not in America or we’d have like 100k worth of debt over our heads rn”
bitching about how we have to jump through hoops to get free healthcare after our student statuses go poof? “at least we’re not in America, jesus fuck, we register for unemployment and then it’s like 20 euros a month for complete coverage”
our government is being naughty again? “yeah well at least we’re not in America or we’d have Donito Carrottini and his henchmen to deal with”
my point is, America has become “the land of perpetual horror” in everyday parlance and I am seriously worried about you guys
Oh btw Yzma is a golden example of a likeable non sympathetic villain. The audience knows she is totally evil and pretty much un redeemable but the writers and character designers did such an excellent job of making her so likeable and visually appealing A fucking plus
Kronks redemption arc has yet to be rivaled nothing can ever fucking compare.
OP did u just fucking call Yzma “visually appealing”?????
In terms of character design Yzma is visually appealing, the artists did a great job picking out colours and perfecting her silhouette. Using those design principles, they created an expressive villain that is fun to watch on screen.
op is absolutely right in that observation, good character design is about good use of shapes, curves and angles. Yzma is a fantastic example of that.
A d we can’t sideline Eartha Kitt for literally breathing life into her character to the point of perfection. Yzma was really was an exemplary villain.
hypothesis: the salt & pepper diner experiment can no longer be conducted as it stands, because everyone is now fully attuned to the opening bars of tom jones’ “what’s new pussycat?”, classically conditioned into a fight-or-flight response. however, this experience can be replicated using 21 back-to-back plays of lou bega’s 1999 hit song “mambo no. 5″, as the general response to “mambo no. 5″ being played twice in a row is not, “hey someone’s playing “mambo no. 5″ again,” but rather, “hey, lou bega’s 1999 hit song “mambo no. 5″ is a lot longer than i first thought.”
Going by the YouTube recommendations, after seven plays of Mambo no. 5, add one play of Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.
I said it once n Ill say it again. Let . girls. be. disgusting. little. oily. gremlins.
literally one of the biggest things I️ learned this year is that it’s okay to go out in public with messy hair. without makeup. in comfy clothes. you do not have to perform female attractiveness as some sort of toll just to EXIST in the world.
There’s a fine line between “pushing yourself out of your comfort zone” and “pushing yourself into a mental breakdown” and we need to fucking find it and stop encouraging people to do the second in an attempt at making them do the first.
A German pedagogue named Tom Senninger developed this model called the “Learning Zone Model.” Senninger talks about three zones: comfort, learning (or growth), and panic. I think that’s really important because some people do talk like anything “outside your comfort zone” is automatically good and brings growth.
But Senninger knows that you can only stretch so far before you’ve stretched too far. Both experience, personal work, and therapy can help expand the first two zones and shrink the third, but we’ll always have that place where panic and/or pain sets in, and our goal should be to recognize and respect that in ourselves and others, rather than force ourselves or someone else to “push through it.” There is no “through it.” The only thing on the other side of the panic zone is more panic.
It’s also important to keep in mind that your comfort zone might be someone else’s panic zone. Just because you don’t think someone is pushing themselves doesn’t mean that they really aren’t.
Exodus from the blue hellsite 