okay on one hand it is mildly creepy that google chrome knows everything there is to know about me but on the other hand the doodle is wishing me happy birthday!!! it’s so cute the letters are little candles!!!!
you can’t say “i know batman” and get away with it in gotham. “i saw batman last night”? plausible. he uses roofs and balconies more than actual solid ground so yeah, you probably did see him. “he was only five feet away from me at the central plaza when the bomb got defused”? so was half of the city because the joker decided christmas eve was the best time for an explosion. but, “i know batman”? are you sure? are you sure you know batman? does anyone really know batman? maybe batman doesn’t know batman, the layers of secrecy on that guy are thicker than that time the gotham river got filled with dense tart sauce but the authorities thought it was blood
meanwhile in metropolis, “i ate a burrito with superman” is probably met with “you didn’t bring him to your grandma’s for that sunday roast i know she rocks? what is wrong with you? i baked him cookies while he was telling me about his mom’s cooking. how could you treat him like that, jennifer, the guy saves us from brainiac every two weeks”
There is no talk of finding Moana a husband. SHE is going to be chief of her village. No one can take that from her.
How Moana is a competent leader before she even sets out on her journey.
The village seems to have more or less a hereditary monarchy that disregards gender and the matriarchal influence is clear: Moana is mostly inspired by her grandmother and the major deity in this movie is a Mother Goddess.
“Crazy” does not mean worthy of ridicule.
The central questions: “Do you know who you are? How do you know who you are?” Those cut deep.
The sibling relationship between Moana and Maui.
The vision about the ancient wayfinders. And “Know the Way,” which makes the entire sequence a million times more emotional.
This might be a Disney Princess movie, but it is also solidly an action movie.
Moana doesn’t like being called “princess”.
The goddamn gold-plated glow-in-the-dark giant crab. Who sings well.
Forehead touches. Between a human girl and a goddess.
The fact that Heihei manages to do ONE USEFUL THING in the entire movie.
Moana is so sturdily built. She managed to clock Maui, of all people.
Nature has agency.
How Gramma Tala’s passing is quietly understated. Her last words to Moana are those of sincere encouragement and her death is not explicitly shown. But you see the huge luminous sting ray a couple minutes later and you just know.
The entire sequence at the beginning that depicts island life. And Chris Jackson’s singing. Everyone’s singing, really.
Moana gulping deep lungfuls of air the first time her canoe overturned is so realistic, I could feel myself choking on ocean water.
The coconut pirates. They are VICIOUS little fuckers.
Moana earning a place among Maui’s tattoos.
Gramma Tala’s spirit is solid enough to hug. No more “LOOK INSIDE YOURSELF SIMBA” from the clouds.
Disney smashing the fourth wall and throwing shade at their own Princess story formula.
Romance is never ever ever even hinted at. Because Moana is all of 14 years old and she has bigger things on her mind.
All the songs. ALL OF THEM. They hit just the right emotional cues.
How culturally rich Disney managed to make this movie.
The sheer vividness of the animation. The wealth of expression on the faces of these characters. The colors.
I hope you don’t mind if I add to this
– Moana and Maui tying their hair up (as a native Polynesian girl I can say with full certainty that putting our hair in a bun with one hand is a skill you are born with)
– Maui himself was such a huge part of my childhood I loved seeing him in a Disney Movie
– Seriously, during “You’re Welcome” I was practically screaming in the theater because I GREW UP WITH THAT
– The fact that the water is a character
– Her hair was constantly slapping her in the fact that was beautiful
– During a lot of Maui’s scenes I could see The Rock’s Samoan Culture peeking through (I’m Samoan, this made me cry)
– Maui’s size
– I have brothers his shape and build, with his hair, and with tons of tattoos, I saw them in him and it also made me cry
– Tamatoa
– The line where Moana sings “I’m a girl who loves my island” because that made my heart sing
– “I will carry you here in my heart!” Because yes, yes, yes, when someone we love dies they stay with us-we carry them forever
– The disembodied voice of Lin Manuel-Miranda
– Maui casually acknowledging and respecting nonbinary people (which I believe is actually a cultural nod?)
-A teenage character played by an actual teenager
-The only non-Polynesian actor in the entire movie played Heihei and the villager who suggested cooking Heihei
okay send help has someone from thebes always been called “theban” and not “thebian” because i swear to fucking god this is some berenstein bears level shit i could have SWORN antigone/oedipus rex/oedipus at colonus were the thebian plays but no???? word spellcheck plus my textbook say theban??? has the world gone insane???
forget wanderlust, sonder, all those words for vague dreamy feelings… what I’m asking for is a concise word for the feeling you get when someone makes an assumption about you that’s 100% correct but you really don’t like that anyone was able to make that assumption. for now I’m calling it a fuckor
“he asked me ‘you main junkrat right’ and a wave of fuckor wracked my feeble body”
send me asks. make me tremble with fuckor
Someone walked up to me in Barnes and Noble like 4 years ago and asked me where the Manga section was. I told them where, but I also let them know that i didn’t work there. They kind of shrugged then looked me dead in the eyes and said.
“Idk, you just looked like you might know.”
I changed my complete aesthetic after hearing that come to jesus, god fearing, exposé of a line.
National Coming Out Day is coming up (October 11) and I just want to remind everyone:
1) Please do not out anyone (even if you “think you are doing them a favor.” Trust me when I say you aren’t) and make sure you don’t accidentally do so.
2) It is okay to be in the closet. Please do not feel pressure to/obligated to come out because there so happens to be a Coming Out Day. (Do it for you if it’s what you want).
3) If you are a non-lgbt, please don’t come out as a joke. seriously, don’t.
4) don’t “come out as straight”, period. joking or not. even if you have good intentions and are trying to be an ally/show solidarity since “lgbt people shouldn’t be the only ones who have to come out :)” like……i get what ur going for but…..just…..Do Not.
i dont wanna do anything rn but also if i dont i will have more things to do tomorrow which is my birthday so i have a dilemma
