( HERE’S THAT LOG… like i said ill see if more logs are good to be posted, but those might take a little longer bc it does take a bit of time to edit these right. esp with things going on across multiple channels. 😛 lemme know what yall think! )
( I’m definitely good to show those logs! I’ll get the okay from everyone else involved as far as the rest of the stuff goes, but I’ll get the worbspace shenanigans out here once I’m on my laptop. c: )
( fUCK OH MY GOD I LOVE BALLOONSHOP. THEYRE SO GOOD????
this is absolutely perfect. IF ONLY MAN……. it’s such a good visual im cr yign )
( THAT BEING SAID, it’s been! interesting so far for sure. so far he’s ALREADY adopted two whole boys ( @theseraph & @crmine ), he’s snapped a projection in half, been antagonized by a Lizard ( @decayingshitposts ), and tried to bite a metal boy in half. ITS BEEN FUN…
that, and attacking proph in the mindscape. THAT was fun. i might post the log for that if anyone wants to see it??? it was short but a good time to write.
im absolutely having a BLAST with this anon tho… not sure how much longer ill keep it going for, but it’s likely to be a good number of days! not too many people are willing to approach him rn. 😛 maybe he’s just sticking to hoarding sons. )
( YO ANON THATS A RLY GOOD M!A.. i might have it wait a day or so tho – i want these guys to have some chill time, but rest assured ill def get at it! it’s a Very neat idea c: )
( noooo you’re absolutely fine!! kisses ur WHOLE FACE )
( that was probably literally the first really mean anons ive EVER gotten on flaps, both from this blog and the old blog – so it was cool! it was really interesting to have flaps react like that. i definitely enjoyed them! [granted i could be forgetting some if this wasnt the first but i definitely feel like he almost NEVER gets mean anons,])
( AND YEAH I HAD SEEN THAT ONE BEFORE THE M!A STARTED….. i actually went and asked my friend ( @prxphxt ) if she could hook me up with an icon suited to answering it. it was a lot of fun writing out his response! )
( i really do appreciate you taking the time to say hi ooc, tho! means a lot to me. ;v; i look forwards to any anons you send in the future !! )
Y’all seriously need to learn to fact check things you see on here.
1.) it wasn’t Disney who turned down Coco but DREAMWORKS.
and to those who STILL erroneously insist that Disney/Pixar turned down The Book of Life
2.) People getting mad at this:
Marigolds are traditional to our culture as well as to the holiday, ESPECIALLY in petal form. Not the best example but that’s like getting mad at different Christmas movies for using mistletoe.
3.) “Oh it’s the same plot.” Has anyone looked up the plot for this movie other than outright bashing it from the trailer? “The footage, raw though it may be, spun a compelling story about Miguel, a sweet kid who loves music despite the fact that his abuelita banned music long ago, thanks to an ancient drama involving Miguel’s great-great-grandfather—a dashing musician—who walked out on the family. That musician, Miguel discovers at the start of the film, is his town’s most famous son: deceased film star and music supernova Ernesto de la Cruz. On the eve of Día de Muertos, Miguel breaks into de la Cruz’s mausoleum in order to borrow the famous skull guitar that hangs there so that he can enter a talent competition and convince his family to embrace music again. Once Miguel touches the guitar, he becomes something of a living ghost. His family can no longer see him, but Miguel can now see all of his dead ancestors—who look like fantastically decorative skeletons—crossing over a bright bridge made of marigold flower petals from the Land of the Dead. Looking for help and answers, Miguel travels to the Land of the Dead—a dazzlingly vibrant, stacked metropolis inspired by the Mexican city of Guanajuato—himself and sets off an adventure with trickster skeletal companion Hector to find the rest of his family, de la Cruz, and the answer to how he can fix this curse.” You know how insistent Pixar is on always making original films. So don’t you think that they would continue that?
4.) “But the white director who thinks he knows everything because he’s been to Mexico.” That’s right, a white person who is not of Mexican/Latinx culture can not truly KNOW our culture simply by visiting it. And Lee Unkrich knows this fact. Which why he assembled a group for the sake of making sure the movie is culturally accurate, rather than him taking on that role
you know, a team of actual latinx. Including someone who was a huge critic of Coco, and is a critic of Disney, Lalo Alcaraz. He is most famously known for his response to the action of Disney attempting to trademark Dia de los Meurtos (which will be our next point). It’s not Alcaraz selling out. It’s him working together with the movie so it’s not just Disney trying to bring in more Latinx fans but rather creating what Unkrich’s true mission: “a love letter to Mexico.” This team along with many other Latinx creatives (like Adrian Molina who was originally just a writer and then promoted to co-director) and a fully latinx cast (again, as insisted by Unkrich), are working together to make it a Latinx piece of media. ( http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/12/pixar-coco-gael-garcia-bernal-dia-de-los-muertos-miguel )
5.) We all know and got rightfully angry at Disney for attempting to trademark Dia de los Muertos. This was due to the similar original name the movie had. As expected, it received intense backlash to which Disney quickly revoked the request to trademark. Unkrich was the first to vocalize that this was a mistake. This even leading to that point most likely has to do with him being a white man not of our culture, but this humbling experience is what really knocked that message into him and he began recruiting people like the ones in the above point to make sure that the movie itself is true to the people, culture, and holiday, in ways he himself could never fully grasp.
6.) It’s about the Day of the Dead like The Book of Life. My response to this is easy: look at how many movies are there about Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Valentine’s day, Saint Patrick’s day, etc.
7.) Gutierrez himself doesn’t want it to be a competition but as two wonderful films about one aspect of Latinx that will hopefully lead to more in the future.
I love The Book of Life, and is one of my favorite movies if I’m being honest. When it first came out I was filled with such pride and joy for many reasons. One of course for it being a gorgeously rendered film, but for it being such a positive and beautiful representation and celebration of Mexico. As someone who grew up only seeing white main characters, with people like my family and I as only side characters, it brings me such joy to see more media being produced in which Mexicans are the focus along with our culture (which is agreeably much more diverse than what is being tapped into). We still got a long way to go as Mexico is still only one group of Latinx culture, but we are witnessing the stepping stones of Hollywood beginning to reach out and representing this community by working with people of those cultures. The Book of Life will always have a special place in my heart, but I’m not letting my love of that movie keep me from supporting Latinx creators that are putting out Coco. I’m finally getting the representation that I craved as a kid and loving it.
SOMEONE DID THE ENTIRE FACT CHECK YALL DESERVED BLESS YOU
( ohhh- thank you! ;v; i really appreciate the message. things have been kinda hard for me as of late, and it’s been hard to get flaps or room out and doing things – but it’s nice to know people havent forgotten about us.
ill definitely try to get them more active eventually, but it may take time. thank you so much for the messages!!! it means a lot to me. )
(( honestly tho the discord ppl are Godsends ive never know a group to Immediately pounce on a problem and give minute by minute updates to keep everyone reassured. You Go Discord Staff ))
and learn to recognize ‘polite’ responses of letting someone down, please. If someone is interested in what you have to offer, they’ll let you know from the start. There is no ‘press the chase’ with a stranger over text so if they seem vague or unintersted, that usually means ‘plz let’s talk friendly only’ or simply ‘go away.’
And to add, the above applies even if it’s “not IC” for your character.
It doesn’t matter if you have a gross lech of a character who doesn’t give a shit about whether anyone around them approves, because those characters also need to operate on OOC consent.
I say that as someone who HAS a gross lech of a character and, if someone lets me know OOC that they’re uncomfortable by the stuff he does, I stop and have him go elsewhere or tone it down. Even before that, even if it’d be technically IC for him to, say, slap some stranger on the ass and make a lewd comment about their body, I still don’t do that without talking to the other player OOC first because I don’t know how the other player would feel about that OOC and for ANY kind of sexual behavior, it requires OOC consent before you start with the IC stuff.
If you try to use, “But, it’s IC for my character to do that!” I have some bad news about how shitty your OOC personality is…
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