these are not the fanime post I was aiming for -A-
Had a BLASTIA yesterday with sung and dotiscute! We did a lot of fittings for the Tales of Vesperia cosplays. I am intensely stoked for the fruition of this enterprise. Also to reach for furious, who is going to be Yuri, but that too is part of the fruition of this enterprise if you know what I mean. In past years, I have done some stealth cosplay, and also some cosplay of wearing things you can buy at a store, but this is the first time everything we have put together is hand made and intricate and probably will be a bit conspicuous. I don't even know how to feel about that, because in certain ways I am really shy;;;;;; But I know our hard work will pay off because we worked hard (V ^ V)++
Another thing we did was watch the The Road to El Dorado movie.
What happened was we decided to watch a movie and drink some non-alcoholic drinks even though all of us were over the age for drinking. I was like, "Select from the following DVDs..." and when I got down the shelf to The Road to El Dorado both Emma and Tora were all, Yes. Even though I wanted to watch The Secret of Kells but that's fine I wasn't mad.
I haven't watched The Road to El Dorado since the first time I watched it in +/-2005, a watch in which I must have been massively derelict because I failed to notice just how fucking nuts this movie is. I just. I want to do a podcast that's just me and various guests talking about The Road to El Dorado for an hour every week. Fans of this movie, explain to me this movie because I made a list of questions for it that I could not answer for myself through actual no joke assiduous cell phone internet research:
① Is this a queer movie? I'm not just being cutely flippant, so let's think on this a mo. Maybe the screenwriters, super famous "writing partners" (quote from internet), who usually "come" as a "package" (quote from me), wrote this thinly veiled little torpedo to send up the stifled, recidivist gender politics that usually occupy most of mainstream entertainment. Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio are articulate, subtext-conscious men. Here is a good interview with both of them at once. They write mainstream, but they write aggressively cheeky mainstream. To borrow Emma's analogy, there is a certain genre of gay romcom that gets titles like "Kiss Me, Guido," whose annals could easily fit this m
② If not..... Let's just say it's a story of best buddies failing to communicate, for kids who will watch it and learn about being loyal to one's friends. Just like Tales of Vesperia!! And Kavalier and Clay and ok, what is the explanation for Miguel getting queeny and huffy when Tulio scores with Chel? And how well is this explanation established in the script? Note that the script has gone through enough rewrites to include an armadillo solely for the ball game sequence. Note also that Chel and Tulio, though they get together, do not seem to have any sort of going-steady conversation. Sure, it sucks to be #2, but do red-blooded Spanish dudes care when it comes to someone as fly as Chel? If anything they should be having an argument about whether or not it would be too weird to reenact the movie Y Tu Mama Tambien. Also note also that Chel does not think so, and kisses Miguel on the mouth area. At which point Miguel makes a half-smiling, bearing-up-under-hardship expression, like (v 〜 v). And before anyone points out that a children's movie would never overtly show of that caliber of promiscuity, remember that in the final scene they all ride a horse together. Because, at that point, Miguel has grasped that despite the way it looks, he and Tulio remain in a sound and loving civil union
③ Did Miguel score with Edward James Olmos?? Did Tulio say, at the time he and Miguel became uh writing partners, "I am poly and bisexual. Are you cool with this," and did Miguel just go, "Oh um ok," and did that just like. Not come up until the course of this story? Whereupon Miguel figured out too late that he was not cool with this at all? And so, abroad in a land of no shirts, on a wave of vengeful jealousy, did he seduce the Chief, whom I did not notice having any sort of wife? An since both of them are so touchy-feely, did they become really good writing partners too, despite the awkward start? Edward James Olmos!!!!!!
Miguel you bandit. I'm super jelly.
④ How hard would it be to convince a layman that this is a parody of an Elton John song?
Another thing we did was watch the The Road to El Dorado movie.
What happened was we decided to watch a movie and drink some non-alcoholic drinks even though all of us were over the age for drinking. I was like, "Select from the following DVDs..." and when I got down the shelf to The Road to El Dorado both Emma and Tora were all, Yes. Even though I wanted to watch The Secret of Kells but that's fine I wasn't mad.
I haven't watched The Road to El Dorado since the first time I watched it in +/-2005, a watch in which I must have been massively derelict because I failed to notice just how fucking nuts this movie is. I just. I want to do a podcast that's just me and various guests talking about The Road to El Dorado for an hour every week. Fans of this movie, explain to me this movie because I made a list of questions for it that I could not answer for myself through actual no joke assiduous cell phone internet research:
① Is this a queer movie? I'm not just being cutely flippant, so let's think on this a mo. Maybe the screenwriters, super famous "writing partners" (quote from internet), who usually "come" as a "package" (quote from me), wrote this thinly veiled little torpedo to send up the stifled, recidivist gender politics that usually occupy most of mainstream entertainment. Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio are articulate, subtext-conscious men. Here is a good interview with both of them at once. They write mainstream, but they write aggressively cheeky mainstream. To borrow Emma's analogy, there is a certain genre of gay romcom that gets titles like "Kiss Me, Guido," whose annals could easily fit this m
② If not..... Let's just say it's a story of best buddies failing to communicate, for kids who will watch it and learn about being loyal to one's friends. Just like Tales of Vesperia!! And Kavalier and Clay and ok, what is the explanation for Miguel getting queeny and huffy when Tulio scores with Chel? And how well is this explanation established in the script? Note that the script has gone through enough rewrites to include an armadillo solely for the ball game sequence. Note also that Chel and Tulio, though they get together, do not seem to have any sort of going-steady conversation. Sure, it sucks to be #2, but do red-blooded Spanish dudes care when it comes to someone as fly as Chel? If anything they should be having an argument about whether or not it would be too weird to reenact the movie Y Tu Mama Tambien. Also note also that Chel does not think so, and kisses Miguel on the mouth area. At which point Miguel makes a half-smiling, bearing-up-under-hardship expression, like (v 〜 v). And before anyone points out that a children's movie would never overtly show of that caliber of promiscuity, remember that in the final scene they all ride a horse together. Because, at that point, Miguel has grasped that despite the way it looks, he and Tulio remain in a sound and loving civil union
③ Did Miguel score with Edward James Olmos?? Did Tulio say, at the time he and Miguel became uh writing partners, "I am poly and bisexual. Are you cool with this," and did Miguel just go, "Oh um ok," and did that just like. Not come up until the course of this story? Whereupon Miguel figured out too late that he was not cool with this at all? And so, abroad in a land of no shirts, on a wave of vengeful jealousy, did he seduce the Chief, whom I did not notice having any sort of wife? An since both of them are so touchy-feely, did they become really good writing partners too, despite the awkward start? Edward James Olmos!!!!!!
Miguel you bandit. I'm super jelly.
④ How hard would it be to convince a layman that this is a parody of an Elton John song?
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