“Offering kids the choice of candy or a potato this year because I saw a meme about it. And honestly it’s super funny to see their reactions.
Update: A little girl just chose the potato “for my dad.”
(I let her take a candy, too, for being so cool.)
Down two more potatoes!
Two more potatoes gone! At this point I’m more worried about running out of potatoes than candy.
ANOTHER POTATO GONE
Absolutely no deliberation with that girl. Just, “potato” and grabbed it. Like there wasn’t even a choice to be made.
A father – of a toddler who was *seriously* torn between the potato and candy – said he heard a kid running down the street say, "I just got a potato!” and then wasn’t sure if they should come to the house or not.
The toddler initially took the potato, then tried to also take candy, then dropped his bag, then tried to grab a bunch of candy, then tried to take the potato again.
Another toddler, going *straight for the potato.* (Though she was repeatedly saying “apple,” so there may have been a bit of confusion.) Her parents had to pry it out of her hands to take a candy for her.
Teenage girl: “I want a potato!”
Rapidly running out of potatoes.
Also – as an aside – when did kids get so polite? Good work parents, your children are lovely.
THREE MORE POTATOES gone
One girl picked it, held it above her head like an upraised jewel, and yelled, “POTATO!”
I am down to two potatoes.
A little girl, given the choice between candy and a potato, thought for a moment, and then chose a candy.
When I told her she could take a second candy, she immediately chose the potato.
She also told me they grew a carrot this summer that “looks like a bunny but also the devil.”
Some interpretations of that by the ai image generator:
“A carrot that looks like a bunny but also the devil”
And then there was one.
A bunch of girls came to the door after a long lull. One grabbed the potato fast. The others screamed. “I want a potato!” one said. “Can I have a potato?” And then they took their candy and went running down the driveway screaming “Potato! Potato!”
A dramatic farewell to our last Halloween potato.
WAIT. There is another potato I missed.
A child comes to the door.
They say, “I don’t normally come back to a house twice. But could I please have another potato?”
…
I feel like our final spud ended up in the right hands.
Happy Halloween, Twitter friends! Thanks for following along.
hes 19, with unlimited power, and he ain’t got a gf. the only time we see him interact with any women his own age is when he’s rejecting like 7 of them rapid fire. he pretends to date pacha in a gag that lasts like 10 solid minutes. listen to me god damnit
Okay, but just in case anyone is coming to tumblr dot com for my hot takes on 20+ year old kids’ movies: Kuzco super WAS gay (or at least coded as such) and of course, I didn’t get it until I watched it as a gay grownup.
He is played obviously camp and dramatic, for a start, and there is the aforementioned “hate your hair/not likely/yikes yikes yikes/let me guess you have a great personality” summary dismissal of all his potential brides. Then he spends dinner asking Yzma about Kronk (“so he seems nice? He’s what, in his late twenties?”) and otherwise being slightly obsessed with him.
Then there is the whole Adventure of Doom with Pacha, him being ever huffy about the Kiss of Life, and then the restaurant gag where Kuzco takes to playing Pacha’s fake wife and dressing up in ladies’ clothing with great gusto (reinforced by the waitress’ “bless you for coming out in public” remark when Pacha says they’re on their honeymoon). Then when he is finally de-llamafied, we don’t see him paired off with the obligatory girl from the lineup earlier, as might otherwise be expected in a Disney movie. Instead he is still single, but goes to found family it up with Pacha, Chica, Kronk, etc, which dare we remark is a very queer trope.
In short, I have no idea how a Disney movie with no white people (all the characters are Indigenous/people of color), a gay king, cross-dressing jokes, and the most offbeat plot of all time actually ever got made (can you imagine the Family Friendly Mouse doing that today? Let us also talk about Kronk because he is a brilliant deconstruction of both toxic masculinity and the musclebound henchman stereotype.) Other than that this was the Chaos Hour of animated movies in the late 90s/early 2000s, and yes.
So yes. There you have it. I will not be taking criticism at this time.
In response to the question “How did a movie like this get made at all much less by fucking Disney?” there was a recent Vulture article that outlines the whole shit show of a history behind this film according to everyone (writers, directors, VAs, Stings) involved. The gist of the story is that they fucked up making a whole, true-to-form Disney musical that never came to see the light of day SO BADLY that Disney switched directors, locked the writer’s room, and didn’t review a single script until weeks after the film was in theaters.
Please, read this article if you have some time. This story is wild, and involves directors being pitted against each other Bake-Off style and a shockingly intimate documentary created by the wife of Sting who, himself was heartbroken by the decimation of the songs he wrote for the film including cutting a fantastic Yzma villain song sung by Eartha Kitt that is SO DAMN GOOD but would not ever have fit the more nailed-down Yzma we would eventually come to know and love. It’s so catchy though, I’m doubling up on calls to action but please listen now:
holy shit read the article. it’s worth it and completely batshit
I’ve never adequately appreciated the batshit brilliance of this joke, I’ve taken it for granted
We watched this with the FC literally last night so I’m delighted to reblog this again. What a fucking movie.
Just said to @petermorwood last night, “I’d say it’s time for a rewatch.” Gonna do that right now. (If I have to sit here doing this Mailchimp crap, at least I can have Yzma yelling “Why do we even have this lever?!” in the background.
The Emperor’s New Groove is one of the greatest animated movies of all time and everyone should watch it at least twice, GOOD DAY.
This post is your reminder that you are not obligated to blog about current events.
Things are bad. Really bad. Do not let people guilt trip you into tormenting yourself even further over the fact that things are bad. Doomscrolling is not activism.
If you’re just on tumblr to blorbopost or reblog pretty pictures, you are not harming people by inaction.
You are not a bad person for not dedicating every aspect of your life and leisure space to whatever disgusting mask-off attack on human life and dignity some government has decided to enact.
Take action where you can, but don’t confuse doomscrolling and digital self harm for action.
If you need to lose yourself in blorboposting, go for it.
If you need to log off for the day, whether it’s to take irl action or to protect what little sanity any of us have left over the past 7 years, then by all means, do.
Morale is important. Hope is important. Small joys keep us from burning out completely in times like this. Do not let any “if you don’t reblog this I’m judging you” guilt trip convince you otherwise.
Even investigative open source journalists at places like Bellingcat, who make a living sifting through this type of information, take breaks while dealing with this and make sure they have downtime. There are specific methods for reducing the amount of vicarious trauma that people get from seeing imagery of violence, and mixing that stuff in with the fun little escapist hobbies of one’s tumblr is not on the recommended list.
Synecdochic on how to block out seeing things related to current events, or on mitigating the trauma of seeing it if you feel you must stay informed: https://synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/803314.html
Thank you very much @sunlit-skycat for posting it; it was written about the war in Ukraine but goes absolutely just as much for current conflicts and everything else.
Remember that you don’t help by breaking yourself to no purpose. If anything, you literally make things worse; you create someone else that needs help.
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