#i love you old man

[roydeezed]

One thing for those who have watched The Boy and The Heron or will watch it. The Japanese title for it is How Do You Live? And Miyazaki stated he was leaving it for his grandson, saying, "Grandpa is moving onto the next world soon but he is leaving behind this film".

The deaths of contemporaries and friends such as Satoshi Kon and Isao Takahata and also the expected successor of Yoshifumi Kondo were things that have always weighed heavily on the back of Miyazaki's mind.

He recognizes the industry and the occupation for how soul crushing it was, grinding up either the spirit or the physical body of those who work in it. He loves and hates the industry he stands on the peak of and fully recognizes how it will probably be the death of him. And he knows it'll leave him unable to say a lot of things to his Grandson.

So How Do You Live? is a lesson. For his grandson. For himself. For his two sons. And probably for anyone else willing to pay attention.

Hayao Miyazaki is a flawed man that makes things so important to so many people. And I think more than any other film of his, in this you get to pull back the curtain a bit and see him at work. And what should be this giant unblemished titan can be seen for what he is, a sad old man who had higher hopes for himself and has even higher hopes for the people he makes his work for.

It's a beautiful thing to see another's humanity in their work. To look past the artifice and glam of commercialized art and find humans behind it. And humans willing to show their humanity and mortality is even rarer. And something to be celebrated. So when you watch it. Or if you've watched it already. Understand that this film is Miyazaki kneeling down, weary after years of weaving dreams and making mistakes, reaching out and saying to you that he hopes you can do better. It's an old man who's made all the mistakes of the world passing it on to you, hoping you do better, and making sure you know it's okay if you don't.

How do you Live? By making mistakes. By messing up. But still moving forward. And still reaching out.

[vesperscas]

dean winchester woke up on his 45th birthday and bent his creaky old man knees to get up and put on his fluffy old man robe and fuzzy old man slippers.

[spiraling-trap]

my favorite character ever forever turned 40 the other day and i missed it. pretend i drew this on time

i never draw him anymore but adachi has been my fav since 2018 i promise. i have a counter It’s been exactly 2065 days

i wanted to draw him birthday art every year but then the pandemic happened and i missed three of them (was unmotivated or busy) but i wanted to do it this year for sure.

here’s my old birthday art for him from high school that this is a redraw of. (can we talk about the improvement within a year here… was i doing coke?)(i fear i peaked in 2020)

[sailorsally]

misha's allying again <3

[obiwankenobis-lap]

peepaw crumbs

[jeffros-lawn]

a boy and his dog <3

[ohdearohmeohmy]

I love you big scary hairy soft strong masculine older men who want to get tied up and spanked and fucked and teased and edged and overstimulated and hurt but also wanna be kissed and cuddled and praised and here soft things and be treated like little princesses. You're so so lovely don't ever listen to Anyone okay <3

[raxacoricapaldi]

literally never not thinking about this

[silverstoneddd]

death, taxes, alonso in f1

[mchiti]

Someone disrespected my baba today with clear racist undertones and I'm so angry. It made me sooo angry. Because we're in 2023, I'm 25 year old, we're in the west, people struggle to imagine what my father grew up in.

He was born in the 1950s, right before the independence, in a village of around 100 people 3 kms from Fes. 7th of 14 kids (!) My grandfather was called up to arms for France in WWII, he was illiterate and didn't know french. Came back heavily depressed and unable to work. My baba went to school only for 3 years. They slept in the same room. No electricity. Sheep stable next room.

First he was a sheepdog, then a farm land, then went to tangier to be employed in a hotel for the bored rich western bourgeois in the late 60s. There he met all those kind of people - musicians, painters, writers. I mean it was the 60s. Taught himself french. Educated himself properly. Befriended a french painter from Marseille who used to tell him he was intelligent and loaned him novels. He started to read whatever. He started to get angry at the government and corruption there. He even got in touch with a group of german radical leftists. (not joking!). He met my mama in the mid 80s. She was a migrant in Tangier looking for jobs. They got married - still broke af. My mama could barely write her name down. He thought her how to write. She got pregnant but had an abortion because they literally got laughed at the hospital. Either you pay or you can might as well die in morocco. So my baba took the decision: safi. enough. 13 siblings, almost all of them had left: 4 in France, 3 in the Netherlands, 1 in Spain, 3 in Italy. My brother and I were born 10 and 13 years after my mama's abortion, that long it took them to trust life again.

My baba reads the newspaper every day. His favourite song is Le Métèque by Georges Moustaki bc it's about a migrant from greece who travels the world. He listens to a lot of old moroccan and french stuffs. He reads. He worked in a factory here and always had to bow his head at a bunch of fucking italian rich entrepreneurs who thought they knew everything about this world (they didn't). Always with a smile on the face.

Pay your respect to migrants. Treat them with respect. Chances are they know more about this world than you. Also to the guy who thought he could treat my father like a dumb ignorant today, fuck you and sir t7awa piece of shit

[chicafinal]

babe wake up new billy crystal picture just dropped

[sepangcircuit]

[h-f-k]

Went out to buy things to make bracelets and the owner of one shop told my bff and me “taylor swift called and she said you guys were going to buy these letter beads” 😭😭

[gaal-dornick]

i still can't take the fact that this guy goes by his nickname at work in court in his whole life bc his full name is HARITON

[ryo-maybe]

[moonlight-fawn]

this pic got me kicking my feet in the air giggling for literally no reason smh