#its very cozy to me

[happyheidi]

summer, baby <3

[dandeleon]

emmet month day 8: cozy

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

a very pink conversation

[absurdumsid]

I LOVE YOUR ART SO MUCH IT MAKES ME FEEL SO SOFT!!!!

i may be VERY cool but I AM NOT AS COOL AS YOU !!!!

Killer! Sans belongs to rahafwabas

[puddii-ng]

shu's new summer casual is so cute to me.. here is a femstars ver i whipped up today :3

[lavenoon]

Sharing the blanket <3

@naffeclipse I continue keeping the bounty hunter out of trouble by sleeping on him and I will not apologize

*self insert is not a girl (he/ she)

og detective au by sunnys-aesthetic!

[dandeyrain]

i've been rotating the "this doesn't make any sense!" response to boy and the heron in my head and i wonder how much of it comes down to like...the kind of audience that engages with ghibli movies vs the kind of audience that mostly only engages with weird art movies vs the kind of audience that only really engages with blockbusters and marvel movies, and the overlap of those groups in the theater.

because, like, the boy and the heron is far and away more straightforward, from a plot perspective, than a lot of other Weird Extremely Personal Art Movies i've seen and love, but it IS a Weird Extremely Personal Art Movie even so. usually the only people seeing Weird Extremely Personal Art Movies, especially in theaters, are people who like that and expect that and have seen those types of films before and are therefore capable of engaging with them even when things aren't as clear as they'd be in an average blockbuster flick. like, nobody who only cares about Cinema to the extent of marvel movies and MAYBE john wick is going to see beau is afraid, and if they did they wouldn't have the tools to engage with such a dream-logicy movie. it would just be a weird thing that doesnt make sense to them, at least until they worked their media engagement muscles with other weird films. there's a lot of self-selection to the kind of person who usually sees these kind of movies.

while boy and the heron is weirder and more complex than a lot of other ghibli movies, as far as weird art films go it is incredibly, INCREDIBLY straightfoward. every weird plot point is explained very clearly to the audience, very little is up for interpretation from a strictly "what was the plot" point of view. boy loses mother. father remarries and moves the family. boy struggles to contend with grief. boy is pulled into a magical world by an old man who wants to use him. time is weird and fucked up in the magical world, but the movie is going to go out of it's way to highlight who's who and make it clear how the time travel works and the characters' relations to one another. the boy refuses to take over the magical world because he wants to live in the real world with the real people he loves. boy leaves the magical world having learned an important lesson about moving on. but the boy and the heron trusts its audience, doesn't handhold, and expects the audience to engage seriously and with focus to its plot and characters and stories.

a lot of people never watch movies like that! a lot of people are used to uncomplicated superhero movies and romcoms and that's it. the difference is that those people were never going to see beau is afraid, so the discussion about that movie instead comes from people who have the tools to engage with it. but because of the aesthetic-ification of ghibli, a lot of people who don't Do art films but are really into the aesthetics of cute little guys and girls in pretty dresses went to this art film and were confused that it was weird and dream-like and dark and strange and requires more of its audience than just passively watching.

anyway there's nothing wrong with not having the muscles to engage with weird art films, though i do think everyone should challenge themselves with the kind of stuff they watch. there's nothing wrong with preferring simple straightforward uncomplicated plotlines. but it is really interesting seeing people talk about the movie like it's insanely weird and doesnt make any sense meanwhile me and the friends i've chatted with about who DO have experience with this kind of film all feel insane because the movie is SO clear and SO straightforward by the standards we're used to. its just a neat crossover re: the kinds of movie fans that exist

[teknikolor-walters]

Does anyone else feel a debilitating fear of getting better? Is this normal? Does it secretly prove I'm just faking everything for attention? Probably tbh

[kaia001art]

Lololol i cannot resist to giv another sneak peek of the comic 😂 But this time not in high res...

I finally managed to take care of my balcony - and now i am outside with coffee, drawing and wanted to share my happy moment! @neonghostcat 🥰

Aaaand added candles 😁✨

[batz]

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[sage-is-in-fact-very-tired]

sage now officially has a little guy?? real??

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i like to think that Poppy holds Wally when she's scared/nervous

[jula483]

heads up! the video tomorrow comes out later than usual!

[elloratic-ttrpg]

sketchy wee thing but I've been thinking about vamps my Coppelia might know from their pre-chronicle life and :] considering they ARE a massive nerd with the knowledge hungry flaw I feel like they at some point got Quite close with one of those feratu , ,, friends of circumstance on account of they're the only two bitches in a several mile radius who know or care what exocognitive psychosis means

[cozymochi]

never wrong 💃

[sunsrefuge]

how much activity is required/expected for the discord?

im guessing this is about the lfg server?? it’s wisp’s server! so im no authority on it but i think there isn’t an activity requirement? i myself am very quiet in there, plus i have a low social battery & fatigue issues so im not available to help out much, but it’s never been an issue or anything!

its just a nice cozy little server for LFG reasons and sometimes fun little chats!! 💖 everyone’s very friendly, and most are willing to schedule a day/time if needed to get the most people in for something!