#notgr

[autistickaitovocaloid]

[cartoonishvendor]

campanella went with giovanni to get the milk and then the two waited on the grassy hill and then they got the milk and nothing bad happened ever

[005spina]

look at this fukking guy who is almost 200 dollars

[gemlighter]

notgr might be the quintessential ryouyuu companion piece what with the stars and the train riding and dying

[natsmagi]

good morning do u guys like my yaoi bag

[spu10d]

“Night on the Galactic Railroad” ichihona

i read the novel and watched the movie recently so random thoughts below

(spoilers for NotGR too!)

OK SO uhm the way i initially delved into this was because i suddenly remembered someone online mention (VERY OFFHANDEDLY). that leo/needs trained set from ‘Live with Memories’ was based off of ‘Night on the Galactic Railroad’.

(^ so this set)

merged with this movie poster (for the film adaption where theyre all cats).

Ramblings…

of course this leads me to read the plot in its wikipedia page and. immediately find ways to apply it to my blorbos. (at this point i wasnt even sure if i remembered the book right/if this was even the right book… and im still unsure but whatever…) (im also bad at Media Literacy).

so i settled on ichihona to be giovanni and campanella. around middle school aged.

but at first, i had it in my mind that ichika -> campanella, and honami -> giovanni.

mostly because campanella drowned rushing in to save zaneli after he fell in the river, something i just felt was very Young Ichika… the impulsiveness, no hesitance to help another…

and that Young Ichika is someone honami wanted to be like. so giovanni being like Scorpio, wishing for a chance to spread happiness for the sake of others (like ichika)…

but i think ‘ichika being campanella and honami being giovanni’ didnt fit as well because giovanni was the one seen to be alone, while campanella was surrounded by friends and did nothing when they teased giovanni.

so once i swapped them around (ichika being giovanni, honami being campanella), i started having more ideas and… interpretations??

ok first off. campanella is likened to scorpio, wanting to (and unlike scorpio, somewhat achieving) ‘save others’ and ‘spreading happiness’. which i think tied nicely to what honami does in middle school, trying to be there for everyone, be an ear to talk/vent to and generally trying to help others.

ALSO GUESS WHOS A SCORPIO (honami)

meanwhile while giovanni and campanella are friends, campanella doesnt really do anything while hes teased by his classmates, just looking back with sympathy. something about how honami sort of… ‘chose’ (ok, was sort of ‘bullied/threatened’ into choosing) her classmates over ichika.

also i like the scene at the very end of the book, where giovanni stands on the riverbank after hearing the news of campanella’s disappearance/death. he looks to the distance while everyone wonders where campanella went, thinking “i know where he went. he went to the edge of the universe. i know, because we went there together.”

im just thinking that while (giovanni/ichika) thinks that, the galaxy can be seen, yes, but also the moon (its like… ~7pm? around the end of summer so its plausible the moon could be low enough to just be seen over the river), with like, honami (in that sorta transparent where theyre not actually there thing), back turned. yknow, since ‘mochizuki’ has the character for moon.

ALSO THE HORRIBLE SAD IRONY OF CAMPANELLA DROWNING, AND HONAMI’S SPECIALTY BEING SWIMMING…

the whole ‘praying like scorpio to serve others in the next life’ thing is. uoorhg. i feel like something can be said about how honami was always helping others, but no one really knew how it was… like? to be like honami, with her selfishness and fear of being bullied, cast out, left behind… etc…

the wikipedia pointed out that a sort of ‘focus’ in the story was about “giving your life in service for others” and uoroogh. are you getting me… (it can work both ways i think, honami and ichika).

also campanella mentioned liking apples once (1 time) and of course like the loser i am i locked in like HONAMI! hes also knowledgable about flowers which is also partially why i initially saw him as ichika

also with giovanni, how hes left alone in the end.

(which while it fits ichika, now im thinking of a scenario where its saki as giovanni… i dont think itll work out as well as ichika though)

i might add more to these ramblings… these are just my initial word dumps.

[that-was-anticlimactic]

no but i hyperfixated on the actual authors the bsd characters are based on SO HARD this past summer that i made two unit plans: one was an author project with a partner where they chose one author and the other was a unit entirely about miyazawa kenji. it included a quick dive into the irl kenji and who he was as a person/writer (i did a TON of research), then we'd read "undefeated by the rain", then we'd listen to kenji's character song "the way of honest people", then the whole class text would be "night on the galactic railroad", and if there's time, we'd watch the movie

anyways i made an entire unit like discussion questions, presentations, work sheets, lesson plans, i connected everything to standards, the poem, song, story, movie, and research on miyazawa himself were all interconnected as well... i just read through it again today and ngl guys that was a DOPE unit i really hope i can teach it some day

[soppymilkgin]

it doesnt work that well but hear me out

night on the galactic railroad with shouyou campanella, oboro zanelli, gintoki giovanni

[resetting37]

WHY IS SEAN LOSING EVERYTHING!!!!! MY KING!!!

right ??? i mean i love all my characters but 2023 has NOT been kind to sean </3

[molsno]

i think you should start being able to kill people who say stupid shit on your posts

I SHOULD!!!! I try so hard to be nice but when it happens so often I start craving violence

[insectwmn]

all i wanted was night on the galactic railroad references thank you

[autistickaitovocaloid]

Big win for the worms in my head

[loremaster]

my contribution to the @neondownpourzine project <3

thank you to @biggie-chcese for running this zine and being an awesome head mod!

thank you to all the other contributors for giving awesome feedback on my work and allowing me to do the same for you!

thank you to my irl friend sam for letting me borrow and scan his copy of NotGR :D

[mopdove]

Ho ho ho! Here's my Secret Santa gift for @notgrs — some lightly angsty quails! These are inspired by the moon and sun cards from the Rider-Waite tarot deck... hope you enjoy!

[natsmagi]

the acronym for natsumes solo is "wake up" if that means anything........stares ominously at light sleep galaxy

🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝 SAME HAT

i refuse to believe neither of their solos will have ntmg undertones i can make anything abt ntmg if im crazy enough watch the songs be cute lil feel good tunes where they dont even reference someone else and ill still be sitting here trying to connect dots

BUT ALSO! another little observation.....

adorable formatting......... natsume being the morning, sora being the day and tsumugi being the night............... usually its natsume>mugi>sora but here its natsume>sora>mugi to get the message across....... i love them

im sure their solos will be entirely uniquely theirs and such, but its still so sweet that even in their solos they complete each other

[nonkiru]

surprise me comm for notgrs! 13.10.23