Month: April 2015
I miss this. I miss his hands holding my face and his thumbs pressing against my lips. When he’s holding my face he likes to study me. He just looks. It feels like he’s trying to memorize me, his eyes trail along the curves of my face. His head tilts and his lips move a bit. When it feels like forever, I’ll start to nip at his fingers because I’ve grown impatient and awkward. Being studied is an intrusive feeling I enjoy but it has to end sometime. He ignores the nips until they turn into bites then he’ll flick my teeth or lightly slap my face or bum, “Be still” he’ll say. Gazing just a bit longer and then he lets go and I hide my face in his shoulder. Maybe next time I get to see him I’ll let him look for as long as he wants without my protesting, maybe.
Yo, pray for my lil brother y’all. Ain’t nothing wrong with him, he’s just an African American male growing up in America.
Perf perf perf. Sleepy cuddles and glasses in bed. I miss cuddles desperately. I should be doing my homework. But this picture is hitting me where it hurts. I haven’t been coping well with my anxiety today. It’s been rough day for that. I couldn’t focus in class or do work during my breaks. It’s been a storm of thoughts all day and my usual tricks aren’t working. I’d like a nice quiet cuddle. All of my cuddle people are a 6 hour plane ride away. All of them. Worst of all this picture feels like home. Those glasses, that comforter the haircuts. I don’t know these people but elements of the picture feel familiar in a way that makes me ache to be back at home. I miss comfort and people who know how my face tightens when I’m stressed. It usually takes me a bit to open up and share stuff with people but after that lead time things are comfortable. I’m surrounded by people I haven’t warmed to completely yet. So hard. And obviously the thing to do is to tell the internet. This makes sense, yup.
REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S FIRST FILM SOLELY PRODUCED BY THEIR STUDIO HAD TWO FEMALE CHARACTERS AS THEIR ANTAGONIST AND PROTAGONIST WHO, BY SOME FORM OF DEVIL MAGIC, HAVE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FACES
REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S SECOND FILM NOT ONLY CONSISTED OF A CAST WITH FOUR CENTRAL FEMALE CHARACTERS BUT INCLUDED AN ENTIRE TOWN OF DIVERSE CITIZENS OF VARYING RACE, GENDER, AND AGE. LIKE A NORMAL TOWN HAS.
REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S THIRD FILM FEATURED SAME SEX COUPLES IN THEIR TEASER TRAILER
REMINDER THAT THIS IS ALL STOP-MOTION SO EVERY CHARACTER WAS DESIGNED, MODELED, SCULPTED, RIGGED, AND EVEN HAD TINY CLOTHES SEWED FOR THEM.
also reminder that they make chump change compared to disney who whines and cries that in all their years of experience they can’t handle the prospect of animating a girl with a face different than the rest and that it’s “too hard” because only females can express such a wide range of emotions that it makes them difficult to animate
if a studio with 20-30 years of experience can manage this then SURELY an established studio with NEAR 100 YEARS of experience can maybe, just maybe, include a female that ISN’T a part of their formula
LIKA !
lurid third interval : amarna + mickey + vex
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music : lazy fuck – woulg
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This is so fucking hot, worth every second, please watch. (via zanythoughts)
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I don’t have a type. If we vibe, we vibe.
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