People are people. Some decided long ago that tearing others down is the same as building yourself up. If it’s going to happen anyway, I try not to let them spoil my fun. Luckily the next generation seems to be better about it, and even when there’s so many jerks their’s always better people having their fun.

There used to be this hierarchy of nerdy stuff. The comic nerds looked down on the war gaming nerds who looked down on the tabletop nerds who looked down on the larpers. As a comic reading, war gaming, roleplaying, larper I always thought it was weird.

Chanticleer! Out of all his movies that was the one I followed the least as a kid. It confused me in a way it never really went away. I came back to it as a kid and I still don’t really get it, but it has such a fairytale feeling to it.

A gun who chooses not to be a gun. As someone who’s still dealing with their history as a soldier in the war on terror, I empathize with him more than I ever could as a child.

Stupid American brain showing through again. lol

They knew they had nothing, but spent 6 months trying to pin something on it so it wouldn’t look like a blatant attack on the first amendment.

Everything by Don Bluth. Literally everything his name on is childhood gold. Sometimes a little scary, but in a modern fairy tale sort of way.

An American Tale

All dogs go to Heaven

The Secret of NIMH

The Fox and the Hound

The Land Before Time

His movies never treated children like fools, a sentiment that’s only recently becoming the standard for children’s entertainment and he was doing it in the 80s.

You stay… I go.

This is trash. All of it.

If it’s the early 2000s driving elements.