I kind of wish disney’s ~weird period~ had lasted longer. Like all of a sudden we were getting these films like lilo & stitch and Atlantis and the emperor’s new groove and treasure planet and they were so fun and DIFFERENT. Just thinking about what the pitches for those movies had to have been like is so surreal?? A little blue criminal alien crash lands on a Hawaiian island and gets adopted by two sisters dealing with social services that teach him about the value of family. An Inca emperor gets turned into a llama and john goodman helps him get back to his palace and one of the bad guys talks to squirrels. Treasure island but in SPACE. Like, on the surface, the premise for these films seem so random but they all TOTALLY WORKED IN REALLY GREAT WAYS??? idk I just really miss that early 2000s spark of offbeat creativity in Disney’s timeline.
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Okay but the history behind this is so interesting?
All these movies came from the Florida studio, which for a long time was a backup animation studio that did work the main Burbank studio didn’t have time for.
Then in 1996 Disney decided to focus all their energy on transitioning to 3D animation. They acquired Pixar and started working on A Bug’s Life.
They basically told the Florida studio (their only remaining full-time 2D animation studio) – “Eeeeeeh, do what you want.”
And the Florida studio, for the first time, got to produce feature films:
- Mulan (1998)[27]
- Tarzan (1999)[28]
- John Henry (2000)[29]
- The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)[30]
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)[31]
- Lilo & Stitch (2002)
- Brother Bear (2003)
Then in 2004 Disney decided to stop producing 2-D feature films altogether. They closed down the Florida studio and laid off all the Florida Studio animators.
Many of whom then got hired by Dreamworks.
That. Explains. Everything.
Dude..
can the science side of tumblr explain why >_> is more aesthetically pleasing than <_<
Westerners read everything visual, including signs with no words and art, from left to right and up to down. When the composition of an art piece pulls us against that, it makes us uncomfortable, and this also holds true for emoticons. Which is why (: is also weirder than :). It breaks the flow of the sentence.
OH MY
does anyone else have those moments where they just fall in love with being alive? like, maybe you’re in art class with soft music and you realize that this peaceful feeling is a part of life that you love and you want to just keep forever, and there are so many other parts of life too that are so wonderful and maybe existing isnt so bad after all
Things that cause disassociation
I see a lot of stuff on this sight that causes dissociative episodes, that goes untagged as it theres not a lot of knowledge on it. So I’m gonna put the common triggers all in one spot.
- Surrealism
- Small differences between two otherwise identical things
- Discussions about the relativity of perception (ex. The dress post)
- Mentioning death/the shortness of life
- Existentialism in general
- Mentions of the passage of time, particularly if it’s in confusing terms
- Optical illusions
- Discussions of the relativity of morality
- Implications that nothing is real
- Implications that the reader is dreaming
- Saying a person has or should have a sensation they do not (“You are now itchy” or “you are thirsty, go drink water”)
- Mentioning to the person how different they are/look than they did before
- Repetition of numbers/letters/words, particularly if repetition does not stop (ie. irrational numbers, typing for stimming/venting)
- The insistence that something the person has just noticed has always been there (ie. “you read that word wrong” jokes)
- Denying something the person is feeling/seeing/hearing is real.
Feel free to add your own.
i want to write the kind of short stories you read in english class that are on this weird level of surrealism that they still haunt you years down the road
Reversibility of fluid motion in glycerin
Hi this fucked me up
my thesis involves this principle! in fluids, viscosity (the thickness/stickiness of the fluid) and inertia (the tendency of something to stay in motion when a force is exerted) are in competition. glycerin is incredibly viscous, so the viscosity beats the inertia and the dye doesn’t shift beyond where it is immediately pushed–so exerting an equal and opposite force on the dye just puts it back to its exactly original position.
wut
The whole “I’m not like other girls” movement should really be called the “I don’t want men to treat me the way they treat other women” movement because that’s what it really is. Women know that a girl who wears makeup is as respectable as a girl who wears none. A girl who’s played every Final Fantasy game is as respectable as a girl who digs Candy Crush. A woman who started her own law firm is as respectable as a single mom who works in the service industry. A girl who enjoys casual sex is as respectable as a girl who has never had her first kiss. A lesbian who has no interest in men is as respectable as a straight girl who loves her boyfriend. A girl who reads People magazine is as respectable as a girl who reads Dostoyevsky.
Women have been extensively shamed for saying “I’m not like other girls” when what they are really saying, maybe without knowing it, is “I’ve heard the way men talk about specific types of women, typically women who do things that they don’t understand or relate to, and I really, really want them to separate me from that and see me as a person who is worthy of being respected.” How much respect a woman gets from men is very rarely indicative of how much she deserves.
“I don’t want you to treat me the way you treat other girls, because you treat other girls like shit.”
Literally the entire concept of Ed sheeran is so surreal to me… Everything he does is like a fever dream…. First he appears in game of thrones, then he sings a song with Beyoncé… What’s next? You’ll literally never know! I’m genuinely afraid he’ll show up in my kitchen at 2am holding an eel
Working at hot topic is so fucking surreal
I made this post because today two guys came into the store and one kept purposely referencing Rick and Morty, while the other had never seen the show and the first guy was trying to make it seem like an awful thing that guy 2 had never seen it and was thinking he was superior for knowing a bunch of useless facts about the show. Meanwhile guy 2 looked visibly uncomfortable. While his was happening, some girls were arguing saying “you can’t be a fan of supernatural if you’ve only seen 4 seasons”.
I felt like I was living out a fucking tumblr post and I’m only keeping this job to get a discount on jeans
I support this motion 10000% ^^
Aw, aw this was so sweet. I thought it was going to be another jump scare but instead it was just lovely.
more wholesome vines in 2016 please

