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I don't know who I am anymore and it drives me crazy to be a person in my own right, a living person who has to make choices and continue to exist in a world where I didn't choose to live.

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Okey I want this on my blog! I’m trying to get into collage art so obviously I started in Sufjanland… the lyrics are from Reach Out by Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine hehe

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I did not actually think I'd see a Leviathan adaptation in my lifetime

I read these books over 10 years ago, and they've been a huge influence on my aesthetics, tastes, storytelling and personal feelings. But they've always been an obscure little gem, a lavishly illustrated series of children's book that practically nobody knew about or had any interest in. To see this series with my own two eyes has been enormously uplifting.

Music by Joe Hisashi. Executive involvement of both Keith Thompson and Scott Westerfeld (who I'm glad is getting a W in adaptations after the calamity of Uglies). But a different writer and art director so we're not slavishly devoted to the source material. There is a significant number of changes: some were clearly made to save up on budget (fewer characters, fewer locations, fewer contraptions and beasties) while others are meant to shift the tone of the narrative.

I'll put it this way: this is clearly a 2020s production. The characters are aged up slightly from the book, and we're working from a perspective that understands it is impossible to have the sort of idealized ending the books had. But in this decade we're also desperate, starving for the kind of hope and wonder the books tried to capture and convey.

Leviathan is a conscious, insistent rejection of cynicism. This theme is not just preserved from the book, it is amplified, stronger and more impactful and all the more valuable because we live in a different world, we're older and things feel worse than they used to.

The ghibli vibes are powerful here - a wondrous fascination with the possibilities of machines, with the miracles of life, with the world as seen through the eyes of one who is growing up. It refuses prejudice and violence, but also the squeaky-clean deception of quick and easy solutions.

I wasn't on board with every change from the novels, but I don't have to be. I respect them. The team clearly had a strong love for the source material and by the end of this series I was left feeling the same joyful hope and longing that the books left in my heart over 10 years ago.

I can pay it no higher compliment than that

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Brb gonna go watch this

Concept arts by Alex Alice for "Leviathan" CG anime series by french director Christophe Ferreira and japanese studio Orange (Trigun Stampede, Beastars…). Now available on Netflix.

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must post these gorgeous gorgeous gauntlets i came across

from HENTZEN UND PANZERHANDSCHUHE

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the line between chainmail and fishnets is paper thin

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sorry im not done gatsbyposting. the nyc celebrations for its 100th anniversary are so uniquely deranged. like here you have a book that absolutely scathes new york parties & dress-up & entertainment & alcohol & careless wealthy east coast elites. and the way the city is celebrating the 100th anniversary of one of the most beautifully written & personally devastating literary tragedies this country has ever produced is by. offering 10% off gatsby-themed cocktails at luxury bars. hosting pay-to-attend 1920s themed costume balls in the wealthiest areas of midtown. setting up penthouse hotel suites to ostensibly resemble locations from the book. a few hours ago at an exclusive private event they had the cast of the glamorous broadway musical, all in designer clothes, light up the empire state building green to advertise their show where tickets cost up to $670. one of them said the green light ‘represents the beauty of the american dream.’ i think you could power all manhattan with energy generated from the rotational torque of f scott fitzgerald spinning wildly in his grave

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Some after "Sinners" reading material if you're interested in Black American and Indigenous History (and the immigrants who came over, too). I put in the Jones-Rogers book too so y'all won't think the 58% had no serious role in shaping the horrors of America.

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Some people won’t believe you until you break. Break anyway, if you need to. You don’t owe anyone your composure.

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the holy grail types of fanfic

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