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Getting nostalgic recently 😭

Aver after high X twisted wonderland, my beloved

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it's finally time for a very late Valentines Day! :D right on the dot as always

is it love? is it belief? is it obsession? who knows. and we probably never will. but we're celebrating it anyway.

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tbh i don't really get why we divide the oceans into different oceans because they're all connected it's the same ocean

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thinking about that kakapo egg that got crushed but the conservation team patched it up and it survived

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just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

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im not even joking rn this fucking painting made me start uncontrollably sobbing. Do you know how long it took to paint? How expensive it was? The cat was content for hours and so loved that the girl held him there and paid for him to be painted with her. Imagine having such a bond… imagine being so loved and loving so much back…

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Her dress gave me absolute hell but at least she’s beautiful ☺️💚

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nico

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nico in a ruff

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I CANT BELIEVE HOW MANY KISSES WE GOT

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Anita Corbin, In the Ladies, Scandals. Soho, London. February 1981.

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Please don’t repost! I did this style study a while ago and just updated it for some friends. I hope it can help fellow artists trying to learn the twst style :)

I’ll put a full page version in the reblogs for those that want it

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The romanization of Hawai’i only tightens America’s grip on my people.

We are not the land of Lilo and Stitch. We are not a paradise.

We are a nation suffering.

There are only around 600,000 Native Hawaiians left. Only around 200,000 of them live in Hawai’i.

Hawai’i has the second largest homeless population in the nation, falling just behind New York. There are 19 million people in New York. Hawaii only has 1.4 million people. Yet their homeless rates are neck and neck. A majority of those experiencing homelessness in Hawai’i are Native Hawaiian.

Tourism destroys sacred land. Mountains are moved to make room for telescopes. People live in tiny concrete apartments that cost $2k a month because the rich move to the islands to carve their own paradise. My people spend every night praying we can afford to eat the next day

The Navy poisons the water over and over. They lie and say it’s safe. People fall ill. Then they dump the waste into the ocean and promise to do better. They lie.

End the romanization of Hawai’i. There is no paradise under American occupation.

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One of my favorite metaphors of Glass Onion is the Mona Lisa vs the Glass Onion.

Miles is constantly comparing himself, whether directly or indirectly, to the Mona Lisa. He wants to be “forever remembered in the same breath” as her. He plays up the mystery and the complexity of the painting, the artistry, the skill and the knowledge that went into it; All traits that he wants others to see in him.

But when Miles is describing the painting, who gets the closeup shot? Not Miles, but Helen. Helen is the one who gets multiple shots throughout the movie mirroring the Mona Lisa- same pose, same unreadable expression.

Because Miles isn’t the Mona Lisa, however much he wishes he was. Miles is the Glass Onion. Something trying to look complex and layered on the outside, when in reality, the center is in plain sight. Miles isn’t some enigmatic genius, he is exactly what he appears to be at first glance: an idiotic, rich, egotistical, shithead.

He didn’t make his own puzzles, he didn’t write his own murder, he didn’t create his own art, he didn’t even come up with the idea for his company. His island is filled with things made by other people. He isn’t even the person who did the thing that will forever connect him to the Mona Lisa. The thing that will forever tie him to Helen Brand.

Helen is the one with complexity. Helen is the one surrounded by mystery. Helen is the one who’s more than meets the eye. Helen is the Mona Lisa, and the Mona Lisa destroyed herself to take down Miles Bron.

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A compilation of some of my favorite quotes from Howl’s Moving Castle

“‘I feel ill,’ he announced. ‘I’m going to bed, where I may die.’”

“It seems as if those of high ability cannot resist some extra, dangerous stroke of cleverness, which results in a fatal flaw and begins a slow decline to evil.”

”’Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy?’ Howl asked. ‘Make toast!’”

”’Dear Sophie,’ he said. ‘Always busy. You were hard at work yesterday, weren’t you, in spite of my advice? Why have you made a jigsaw puzzle of my best suit? Just a friendly inquiry, you know.’”

”Howl‘s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, ‘Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!’”

”’Dear Sophie, do please tell me how you bully a fire demon into being that obliging. I’d dearly love to know!’”

”’Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!’”

“‘Aunts are terrible. They go for you with hat pins.’”

“‘Yes, let’s admit it,” she told the skull. ‘I snoop.’”

“‘You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.’”

“‘I’m dying of boredom,’ Howl said pathetically. ‘Or maybe just dying.’”

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I’ve been thinking about Howl’s Moving Castle and how Sophie’s curse is a physical symbol of her self belief of being unlovable (especially after growing up with beautiful, sought after women in her family.) How Howl tries to undo the curse the moment she steps into his castle but he *cant* because Sophie doesn’t want it to be broken. How, in the film, Sophie gets so close to breaking the curse in the field, but hearing Howl call her beautiful went against her self views, so she reinforces her sense of self by turning 90 again.

And the way that her love and kindness make her younger again and again. How film Sophie sacrifices her long hair, perhaps what past Sophie would have seen as her only beauty, for Howl but she’s grown so much that she still remains young, perhaps even confident about her grey hair, showing that Sophie no longer links her appearance to her lovability or worth and she learned to accept herself as she is. In this essay I-