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Spike goes to the mainland twice, but he only “becomes a man” once. With his father he sees killing and death as heavily bravado based, the enemy so dehumanized it’s an adrenaline inducing boy’s day. He misses most of his arrow shots and hides in an attic.

With his mother he learns there is love and memory in death, accepts that they all must die, and sees that sometimes you must kill to survive. They sleep in an open air church and his arrows strike hard and true.

With his father he leaves and returns as the child in need of protection and with his mother he returns protecting a baby and taking on the role of adult.

All of this to say is the movie shows us the stark difference between the toxic masculinity of his culture telling him that manhood is killing for fun, and the masculinity he learns from the doctor about honoring death and accepting that the only thing we have power over is love and memory.

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Rachel Weisz as Hypatia in Agora (2009)

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YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

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Venus Planet

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once these 15 million different stressful situations resolve themselves I’m gonna be so normal again. I can be normal and not exhausted

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Olympus µ

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Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder

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STARGATE ATLANTIS | "Sateda"

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color study: lavender blue by Ezra Leary

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From: Galerians

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There's just something about PS1 horror games, a certain aesthetic that I've come to appreciate over the years. Or it's just nostalgia.

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From: Galerians

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Naruto isn’t a phase, it’s a cyclic hyperfixation. I’m free for a few months or more and just when I’ve almost forgotten it, bam it’s back, much like seasonal depression

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Rainy day in Kyoto

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instagram

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you don’t need perfect conditions to start. you just need to start. five minutes of focus is better than waiting for motivation to come.

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some of my favorite woven tapestries, by Cecilia Blomberg:

Point Defiance Steps

Mates

Rising Tides

Vashon Steps