― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

I like watching people at beaches. Mostly people that are with someone. Lonely ones don't have things to tell they're displaced.

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The cover art of Saga #1-15 by Fiona Staples

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thank you disco elysium for the best idle animation ive ever seen

Disney Movie Marathon #5 Bambi (1942)

I LOVE BAMBI!!! (I love Bambi 2 too, but this isn't about that). Out of all of Disney's Golden era films I've seen Bambi the most. I've been looking forward to this one in the movie marathon.

Story: I don't think enough people appreciate or give Bambi credit because they think it's only a movie about cute animals frolicking in a forest. Yes it has these things, but that's barely scratching the surface. This is very much a coming of age story about a young deer and how there is always change with the forest and its inhabitants. It's not a fairy tale or a straight dramatic story where good beats evil. It's the circle of life, growing up, and change of the seasons. With change comes both good and bad. And we see the range of good and bad through Bambi's point of view from his innocent early life to taking his role as protector of the forest.

Characters: I can't stress enough how good it is to have children play children in animated roles because it makes the interactions that much more believable. Bambi is the only one who really gets fleshed out as we see him literally from the day he's born until he's the "Great Prince of the Forest". There are plenty of forest animals but the most notable being Thumper, Flower and Faline. Thumper taking role of mischievous best friend, Flower as a secondary shy friend, and Faline as love interest. Honorable mention to Friend Owl because he is a mood for cranky mornings.

Animation/Art: Like Fantasia being a flex in animation in general Bambi is a flex specifically for animals. This is the movie where Disney shows how hard they studied animal forms. If you compare this to previous movies you see the animals have flesh, muscle, and bone. Bambi has one of my favorite art styles. Every shot has painterly qualities and the way colors change based on mood sometimes more graphic really enhances what you're watching. Each film has a style but this one has one of the most visually distinct in my opinion.

Songs: While not having any bangers (though Little April Shower is my personal banger) the music is constant. Again like Fantasia where the music or lack of goes hand in hand with the imagery. The little things are accentuated with the music and perfectly pair with movements

Takuma Nakahira

Frederick Judd Waugh.

“There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other — by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

—On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

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I feel like community is objectively the best show to ever exist

Like even if it wasn’t my favourite I still think it should be considered the best show out there like they just went the extra mile in so many things

First of all humour wise it’s a kind of funny that will always be funny like it’s not reliant on reference humour in the way so many shows nowadays are, and also it’s the little things they do that make it an overall more entertaining experience like its just laced in so effortlessly while still moving the story along because they aren’t trying to hard

Second of cinematically like directing styles and that it’s amazing I don’t know much about filming and that but I feel it’s aesthetically shot and also so clever with the high concept episodes and how they do all of that like I feel the boat scene in beginners pottery is really brilliant and often overlooked like they fitted this really cool shot into what was really an unassuming episode

Thirdly the soundtrack is unparalleled they used music in such a good and clever way like in epidemiology for comedy purposes or to explore characters like Jeff being a hardcore Dave Matthews fan and also Ludwig Göransson composed so many Greta peices that really fitted with the vibe of the show but even individually were amazing

They also had such nuanced and developed relationships that all worked and were realistic and showed the dynamics so well in such a way you understood why they were all friends in such a way that even most other character driven shows don’t do like it showed such a range of different types of relationships and you saw how they all affected each other

Fifth the actual characters were so unique like you know how people say there are like 8 types of sitcom characters well none of the community characters fit into that like really they are so original in a way that hadn’t been done and hasn’t been replicated all of them are separately funny even the background characters like Leonard and Garrett are entertaining and you somehow feel as if you know them even if they haven’t had like loads of screen time and development

The characters all have good arcs it’s unrealistic for all of the characters to not grow at all during a show and yet many tv shows don’t give their characters growth and development in the way community does the ones that most standout to me are Jeff and Troy

It done all of this amazing work on such a small budget like I watched the dvd commentary and they had basically nothing compared to most shows but they did so much with what they did it’s astounding how they managed that

Anyway this was basically just a really long rant about how much I love community but I truly do believe they are unparalleled in what they did like I don’t think it can ever be replicated because overall it is just such an astounding piece of television and I think it should be appreciated more