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Australian. fangirl. She/her.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

We grew up watching hand drawn Disney and now it's gone. We don't talk about this enough.

Every frame of this video was painted by hand, by a human being. Every single one...

To put that into perspective: to make Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney employed around 750 artists for three years, and they produced nearly two million individual paintings. More than 700 of the backgrounds were painted in watercolour. Over 150 people worked in a single department whose only job was to ink and paint the transparent sheets, called cels, that the characters were drawn on.

It all ended within our lifetime.

According to the Smithsonian, The Little Mermaid, released in 1989, was the last Disney feature made with the hand-painted cel method. The very next film, one year later, went digital.

And something was lost in that transition. In every frame of the old films, a human hand physically touched the surface. A person sat at a desk, held a brush, and made a decision. Two million small decisions, made by hundreds of people, most of whose names we will never know.

But the deepest difference is that the old animators knew they were making a cartoon. They did not try to copy the world. They stretched it, exaggerated it, bent it out of shape, because they understood something we seem to have forgotten: a drawing that imitates life exactly feels dead.

Walt Disney even had a name for this: he called it the plausible impossible.

Today, everything chases realism. And somehow, the more real it looks, the less alive it feels...

I started my newsletter because the past is full of beauty, and fewer and fewer people take the time to show it to us anymore. Every week I try to. If that is something you'd like to be part of, you can join through the link in my bio, and if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.

Thanks for reading.

[RC deWinter @RCdeWinter]

A grammar book walks into a bar

* An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.

* A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.

* A bar was walked into by the passive voice.

* An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.

* Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”

* A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intents and purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.

* Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.

* A question mark walks into a bar?

* A non sequitur walks into a bar.
In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.

* Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."

* A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.

* A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.

* Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.

* A synonym strolls into a tavern.

* At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.

* A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.

* Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.

* A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.

* An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.

* The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.

* A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph.

* The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.

* A dyslexic walks into a bra.

* A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.

* A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.

* A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.

* A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony .

– Jill Thomas Doyle

[Albert Dros @albertdrosphoto]

Some more cute puffins from Ireland.

[Albert Dros @albertdrosphoto]

When the light turned golden, the backlit scenes with the puffins in Ireland were just beautiful.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

You are better equipped to deal with stress when you are moving.

When you feel tense or frustrated or worried, it is difficult to think your way into feeling better. The more you think about the situation, the larger it becomes in your mind. Trying to think your way out of it often leads to a spiral of overthinking and rumination.

The first step is not to think something different, but to do something different. It doesn’t matter what. Stretch on the floor, go for a walk, work on a project. Get out of your mind and move your body.

[eden ?! @birthdaybashed]

i dont think nearly enough people are talking about how many gorgeous variant covers batwoman 2026 is getting

[PA Dameech @PADameech]

Just seems like a good day for some hugs.
#WeAreNCISHawaiiFans
#SaveNCISHawaii
#NCISHawaii

[Isa // Lord of Crows @Secondlina]

I put all the paranormal & pigeons strips in a single update on Webtoon in case anybody wants to read the whole saga.

https://t.co/D7RWAt6dWG

[The CloneStar Podcast @CloneStarPod]

Pilot swagger. Sharp wit. Pure Ortegas energy.✨

Jodi & Spotted Giraffe are talking all things Erica Ortegas in our Women of Strange New Worlds episode, & honestly, we love it.🖖

Watch on YouTube & listen wherever you get your podcasts:
https://t.co/Hm315PnxYu

#StarTrek

[Isa // Lord of Crows @Secondlina]

New comic is up!!

https://t.co/Ki9jkc7YvY

[🌻 Elena 🌻 @elenamics]

I didn't always like cats (1/4)

[NASA's Kennedy Space Center @NASAKennedy]

The planet can spell your name – literally. 🔤🌍

This Earth Day, see your name written in landscapes captured by Landsat: https://t.co/kcP12dhsI2

[NASA @NASA]

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.

Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl

[Veronica in the Fens 🧚🏼‍♀️ My Heart in Nature @VeronicaJoPo]

Easter Sunday with birds & blossoms 🥰
A blue tit and a female reed bunting in Ely Country Park, Cambridgeshire

[@lithasblot 💪 📺 #SaveNCISHawaii 📎 @lithasblot]

Our Seana `A woman can do anything' Kofoed is making her third feature film (BADASS). It'll be filmed in Hawai'i, feature some familiar faces, and you can help make it happen with any size tax-deductible donation at https://t.co/xvE5E71k87 🌺 ❤️ Maholo! 🤙

#SaveNCISHawaii

[Andy Ryan @ItsAndyRyan]

Years ago my wife and I were on an early date in a Chinese restaurant when another diner came over and said to me: "Can you shut up? You've got a very loud voice". I said: "My girlfriend has very poor hearing. Isn't that right?" And to her enormous credit she replied: "WHAT?"

[dina @sharpelances]

i miss them

[Josh Ferme @JoshFerme]

I do not understand how you could not be fascinated by space. This is a real image from NASA's James Webb Space telescope. I think it's one of the most beautiful images ever taken.

[Leah @Zieria]

@xx_xyathletics @babybeginner You do realise the perpetrator could be nonbinary?

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

Some days you can’t love social media enough. This is one of those days. It began like this. Someone stole 12 tons of KitKats.

And then the replies started coming in. Scroll down.