You Have Been SNIFED, Reblog To Snif The Next Person

I have no choice // I hear your voice

process pics, since I get asked a lot :D

Feeling like a Midwest princess bro

What the sneef? I'm snorfin' here!

— “Ghazal For The Sky Over An Unstrung World” by Amogha in Fahmidan

hey man i get that it’s your thing but you are making people uncomfortable by, and these are your words, “blair witching it” in the corner

Thanks! Now I'm dead and you killed me and I'm died

You know what? Fuck you *mischaracterizes your fave and strips them of their individuality just to fit them into a narrative box of less than bland tropes*

Since we keep getting "live action" CGI remakes of already perfectly adequate animated movies, and because people need to understand that animation is a medium and not a genre, I have prepared this primer about the importance of Visual Language for Conveying Information.

Can you tell what the personalities of these two mice are?

Can you tell now?

Which of these two tigers feels safer to be around?

Which of these three dogs is the funniest one?

If you can answer these questions, then you already have experience with the idea of visual language and stylistic choices being used to impart narrative meaning. If you can understand why these choices were made to impart meaning, then you can understand why animation is a medium for telling stories that has its own inherent value, and is not merely a "placeholder" for the eventual implementation of photorealistic presentation (aka "Live Action" CGI). Animation does not need to be "corrected" or "legitimized" by remaking it into the most representational simulation of observable reality.

The importance of boycotting

Keep this in mind for all boycotting. From doing it for Palestine to DR Congo to whoever else needs our support.

This is edited & updated thanks to @walks-the-ages

ID: A video by Mohamed Alnaas, from Libya, showing the chain of everyday products funding a genocide.

A young man with brown skin is looking into a display cooler of Pepsi cola, before grabbing one out of the fridge and approaching the cashier, another young man with brown skin. "How Much is this?" He asks, and the cashier responds "Two dinars".

The camera view splits into 16 grids, showing various hands as a chorus of voices say "Here you go," passing over that two dinars, which quickly is multiplied by the number of people who purchase these pepsi products every day.

The cashier puts the bills into his till and begins counting a wad of cash from the till as the camera zooms through the store to show a Pepsi delivery truck -- the camera zooms in as the store owner passes a wad of cash over to the delivery driver, then we see a man in a building as he is counting and sorting the bills, which flash by the screen as they transition into $100 demonimation American Dollars, stacks and stacks of them as an entire briefcase is filled in a small white office , showing that same business man as he brings the suitcase full of thousands and millions worth of American dollars to a military contractor.

The scene changes again, until we are in a dimly lit warehouse, where a man is presneting the suitcase full of cash to his superior, who gives a thumbs up to a worksman, who puts on welding goggles and does a montague of hammering, cutting, welding, and painting, until he proudly presents a missile to his superior, nestled in a case of straw.

"Perfect!" the superior exclaims.

The scene changes again, to show a fighter jet flying at high speed through a rainstorm, lit from beneath by glowing lights on the ground. The Camera zooms into show the pilot in the cockpit, as their superior officer questions "Captain, do you have eyes on the target?"

The pilot is expressionless as they respond "Affirmative. I have visuals" while lightning flashes around them. The Pilot leans over to look down at the ground, where a young girl is running playfully while her father follows behind her. "Sir, are you sure about the coordinates? I'm seeing civilians nearby" The pilot narrates.

The girl is looking up into the storm, as the pilot's superior orders "Do it!"

Suddenly, we are in the clouds as the bomb is dropping through the air, lighting flashing all around as the storm clouds part to reveal a city in the midst of being bombed. The bomb we are following drops -- and the camera zooms into the little girl's eyes before going black.

there is a pause, the screen black, before we are zoomed out again, seeing the girl's innocent expression as she looks skyward at the bomb about to drop on her, with her father crouched at her side, cradling her in his arms; he knows what is about to happen to them. Heatwaves from the fires waver across the screen in a red glow as we zoom in on the girl's face as her eyes are lit by the light of the fires ; the camera moves back again, and we see the girl, with her father crouched with her in his arms, the bomb inches away from them as the sky and earth turn red hot like fire as it moves in slow motion, before making contact in a flash of light.

the word "boycott" hovers into view, shaking unsteadily. end ID

also an ID for the tweet:

[ID: A tweet from Palestine Online @OnlinePalEng , that reads "A young Libyan Mohamed Alnaas produced a boycott video delivering a clear message, urging people to boycott products that support israeli apartheid" with a screenshot from the video of the girl looking up into the sky, posted 5:36am 3/2/24 with 2.4 million views. End ID]

Pee is stored in the soul ❤️

Extremely funny forever how “pee is stored in the balls” got turned into wholesome shit like “love is stored in the cat” or whatever. Like do you guys even realize. The balls

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