The Anime Feminist blog recorded a retrospective podcast on the best anime of the summer, Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction that adds a ton of context to the series that I didn’t have before: https://www.animefeminist.com/chatty-af-214-dead-dead-demons-dededede-destruction-retrospective/

Also I’m giddy for Uzumaki and Dan Da Dan, but that’s honestly about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

The panopticon is a design of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control, originated by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. The concept is to allow all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single corrections officer, without the inmates knowing whether or not they are being watched.

Although it is physically impossible for the single guard to observe all the inmates’ cells at once, the fact that the inmates cannot know when they are being watched motivates them to act as though they are all being watched at all times. They are effectively compelled to self-regulation. The architecture consists of a rotunda with an inspection house at its centre. From the centre, the manager or staff are able to watch the inmates. Bentham conceived the basic plan as being equally applicable to hospitals, schools, sanatoriums, and asylums. He devoted most of his efforts to developing a design for a panopticon prison, so the term now usually refers to that.

Or dropping the first “r” and being blinded by ska porn.

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I genuinely expected this to be a metaphor for foreign drug prices or agricultural rights. But nope, just angry farmers all the way down.

This sounds fascinating! But I’ve had my hopes up for so many other “in development” projects in the past. (RIP the Patrick McHale interpretation of Redwall)

Zzz…

Neither of those series were nominated for this award. I imagine they weren’t due to not meeting eligibility requirements (release dates, platforms, spoken languages… dunno).

The nominees were:

• “X-Men ’97” (Disney+)
• “The Simpsons” (Fox)
• “Blue Eye Samurai” (Netflix)
• “Bob’s Burgers” (Fox)
• “Scavengers Reign” (HBO)

From my outsider’s perspective, this was a battle between Blue Eye Samurai and Scavengers Reign, with Netflix willing to put the weakest promo campaign behind Blue Eye Samurai winning out over HBO letting the superior Scavengers Reign utterly hang out to dry (after giving the series screening rights up to Netflix after all).

Joseph Bennett, Charles Huettner: Keep making great shit. You have fans. Crowd-fund if you have to. People are here for what you’re serving.

whoops, wrong community to post to…

I’m sharing a screenshot of the two together as “how it started / how it’s going”.

http://mltshp.com/p/1QB3B

Oh how far we’ve come…

https://theonion.com/what-biden-can-do-to-win-over-gen-z-1851427528/5/

The artist is SpookToons ( https://spooktoons.carrd.co/ ), and here’s the link to their original BlueSky post for the image: https://bsky.app/profile/spooktoons.bsky.social/post/3kyjhptojhe2h

That would make Dot Warner a Disney princess.

Finally, someone to give the Alien queen a run for her money.

Whatever happened with the Unicorn series? I never was able to catch it.

All these comparisons to previous works illustrate how Wish may have reached but fell short of those high bars. I think the Spiderverse films are the closest I’ve seen to the playful microexpressions in Paperman popping up anywhere else, and there’s no question on which of those two water reflection wide shots are more dramatic: the Sleeping Beauty shot is better stylized, better refined, with unnecessary elements completely removed to smack you in the face with an epic shot focused on two animated characters dancing. The Wish shot, by comparison, is a throw-away joke about King Magnifico’s cult of personality, with extra elements for no apparent reason. “Ehh, this shot looks empty… throw a couple of merchant carts in there. Not enough to make it seem like an actual bustling outdoor market, just two so the space still seems weirdly vacant.”

Andyougotablessing andyougotablessing andyougotablessing andyougotablessing…

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The element of sketch was always directly proportional to the amount of anger and physicality that popped up as games ended. The angry shouting, slapping/punching the arcade cabinets, shaking the pinball games, that’s a sign of people with problems.

Skibidi Toilet is old hat by now, but this was the first I’d heard of “What the sigma”.

I’m getting 50% Dr. Thaddeus “Rusty” Venture vibes.