Protagonist rises up.
From Gainax, all directed by Hideaki Anno (庵野 秀明)
- Gunbuster (1988-1989)
- Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990-1991)
- Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-1996)
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“Did the talented folks on Disney’s Atlantis:The Lost Empire feature (2001) straight lift their premise from Hideaki Anno’s/Gainax’s classic Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water tv series (1989)?”
That’s a question my colleagues and I have debated since the film’s release over 13 years ago. We debated about the similarities in design, visual motifs, narrative as well as order of events. There’s been plenty of folks calling it out since then as well. Glaring similarities notwithstanding, I rather enjoyed Atlantis for what it was at the time, and it was their first departure from the music formula they’d done for so many years. But as an anime fan the striking familiarity between the feature and the anime were too hard for me to ignore. What do you think?
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I don’t care what your beliefs are or what you don’t believe in. You have to crawl from the filthiest pile of edgelord portapotty sludge to ruin the magic of Christmas for kids.
Yes, I know how it works. I know the magic trick, but guess what?
Santa Claus is real because love and giving are real, and that’s what he represents, so suck on that.
When people ask if I believe in Santa, I say yes without hesitation. Every Christmas morning, there’s a pile of presents from Santa under the tree that weren’t there the night before. It’s a fun little thing we do in my house because we still love the magic of Christmas.
I tell kids I hear Santa go over my church at midnight Mass on Christmas eve because their faces light up with excitement. There used to be kids in my neighborhood who asked me to catch it on video, so I made it happen. I showed them my video with the sound of sleigh bells going by, I told them Santa goes really fast and explained that the Doppler effect is why the ringing changes pitch. Those kids– they were 6 and 8– they LOVED it! They were jumping up and down and fell all over themselves to tell their friends. That was 2011, I don’t know where they are now, but I hope they remember the magic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8DZX10ZK5Q
The magic for me is keeping it alive with the kids in my neighborhood because it never died for me…it just grew up along with me.
I’ll tell you this: Santa never made me materialistic. I always used to tell him “if you have to choose between me and a kid who has no toys, give the toys to the kid without any.” Then I started donating toys, clothes, food and money to my church’s Adopt-A-Family program because, as I tell kids sometimes, it helps Santa find the poor kids who may not have Christmas trees for presents to go under.
They’re kids, let them live the magic as long as they can because it’s horrible to see it die and only horrible people kill it for them.
I fully expect people to reblog this with ~edgy comments. All you’ll do is prove my point that people don’t care about kids having magic in their lives in a world that wants to steal it away as soon as the umbilical cord is cut.
If you’re leaving Tumblr for good, then cancel your account on your way out.
Sounds drastic. Especially for content creators who may still need Tumblr for commissions while they find an alternative.
If you can swing it, here’s why:
I suspect that the December 17th deadline is so that Verizon/Yahoo can clean house and make Tumblr appealing to investors. This is a Q4/Q1 fire sale kind of thing. It makes a certain amount of business sense to make this change. Human-lead content curation (e.g. separating the CP from the legit) is expensive and time-consuming. I doubt they have the money for it. They already sold off Flickr. As a long-time Flickr pro user, I’m not pleased by the change and increase in pro account price, but I get it.
Investors are looking for a user base. User base is a prime attraction for investment or buy-out for a social media platform or application (I speak from experience as a co-founder of Rhinobird.tv).
Every account that is cancelled will be one less account in Tumblr’s user base for their pitch. I assume that there are millions of accounts with some percentage simply being abandoned accounts that haven’t been used in years. So cancelling one’s account on the way out the door won’t really matter unless the number of cancelled accounts reaches several hundred thousand at least.
If you decide to leave and cancel, then I also recommend sending a polite message to Tumblr staff, or tweet to the account about why you are leaving.
Finally, using Twitter to voice your concerns and thoughts about this issue will increase its visibility. They ain’t gonna like that. Media outlets that cater to tech entrepreneurs, and Silicon Valley types are going to be all over this.
I never ask for reblogs, but I will this one time.
You can probably tell which family member is coming upstairs by their step pattern but wouldn’t be able to pick out your own
If my own footsteps were coming down the hall towards me I reckon I would have bigger problems on my hands…
So I’m already losing followers… non-sexual posts are getting tagged all willy-nilly (I already cleaned up every NSFW post that wasn’t an artistic female nude months ago when Tumblr first soft-banned me)… super old posts are popping up without rhyme or reason on my front page, disrupting my carefully curated blog flow… AND now I read that they’re planning to ban my sleek third-party custom layout???
This has to be deliberate… right? As someone who did some PR in my last job I can’t comprehend pissing off users off this much unintentionally lol.
Some people have expressed concern so fwiw I’m definitely not deleting this blog! It’ll be up for however long Tumblr itself is. I just might not update as often if I end up losing a huge chunk of my audience, plus I’d like to find a good alternative host so that all this content remains accessible to myself and others in the future regardless of Tumblr’s status.