#thoughts from a thot

[bayleavesfromthevine]

The thing I love most about Soshiro's response in this scene is how he immediately, and without hesitation, took Kafka seriously.

Kafka - the 1% output power, comic relief guy who wasn't even an official officer yet - said he wanted to become Mina's vice-captain and Soshiro never once underestimated him. He never laughed or told him he couldn't do it. He took his word at face value and accepted him as a proper threat to his position at Mina's side.

And why wouldn't he? He's watched Kafka study and train his ass off for the most minuscule of progress and never once consider giving up, despite how far ahead in strength the others on his team had already become. Of all people, Soshiro knows what it's like to naturally lack in strength, to work his hardest without catching up to the person he's chasing after. He knows what it's like to have people tell him to give up, to view him as an objective failure, so he wouldn't dare pass that kind of judgement on Kafka. He knows what hard work can accomplish because he's been through the trenches himself.

(In some ways, he's still going through it despite his high rank. He's always showing off, always going out of his way to showcase his strength to others. To me, he reads as someone who will always feel the need to prove himself, even when no one asks him to.)

And I think it's a true testament to his character that he not only took Kafka seriously, but then went so far as to nurture Kafka's abilities. Help him grow. Ensure that he could become someone with the capabilities to fight at Mina's side.

So yeah, not to ramble or anything, but I just rewatched this episode and I was caught up in my feels for this man and his wack ass bowl cut. Again.

[orionis13]

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[bbyg4rl]

what if pouge JJ worked at an adult toy store?

-🦇

hes such a dumbass he'd probably love working there

lets start from the beginning, he probably applied as a joke or a last resort but it quickly becomes a fun job. because horny women in the same room as jj. thats it. you know how that is.

he has a favorite vibrator model that he refers to as “The GOAT.” Literally pets it like a cat sometimes.

he has a ranking list of the weirdest things in the store posted behind the counter. updates it weekly, argues passionately with coworkers about it.

but he genuinely takes the job seriously in the weirdest way. like, he'll deadass explain the difference between silicone and jelly materials while chewing gum and leaning on the counter like he’s talking about surfboards.

he comes up with a jingle too— everytime the bell on the door rings, hes all sing songy “If it buzzes, hums, spins or thrusts—we got it, baby.”

definitely gets way too proud when someone leaves with a purchase he recommended. “I made that night happen. You're welcome.” he dares himself to sell the most insane thing to the most normal-looking customer. has an 80% success rate somehow.

has been banned from demo-ing anything because of “that one time with the anal beads.”

he's the most informative (and way too confident) employee on earth, uses product names in casual conversation just to mess with customers. “Yeah, the weather’s been real ThunderStick 3000 lately, huh?”

keeps telling the Pogues he's gonna write a memoir about his time here. working title: “Ropes, Regrets, and Retail.”

read more concepts here !

[flofaiiry]

charlie reid the typa man to bend u over the nearest surface when u get an attitude and smack ur ass until you apologize properly and if u still dont mean it enough he'll fuck u and edge u like a kajillion times bcs 'bad girls don't get to feel good,' but.. 'maybe if u say sorry and mean it i'll think abt letting u cum."

[hharrowhhark]

can’t come in to work today, I got called in for yuri duty

[travelingtwentysomething]

My Demonic Thoughts: Such a pretty boy, dimples so deep we could swim in that smile, gonna have to get them wet first

[urhoneycombwitch]

whatttttt about um. cowboy Eddie with a black Stetson and TIGHT denim jeans that are just left of farm appropriate. all rippling hay-bale-liftin’ muscle under cutoff tees. custom boots w silver star detailing bc he’s still a slut at heart. calls his cows ‘sweetheart’ in the mornings. you’ve never opened a door in your life around him, beats you to it every time 🫶

[otome-writer51]

I love this card so much!!!!! There’s just something about it that pleases me so much😅😂😂 I think it’s how broad his shoulders look😂🥵🥵😏😏😏😏😏😏

[bayleavesfromthevine]

Spoilers for Your Name if you haven't already seen it.

You know, one thing that I never fully understood in Your Name was this image right here:

So this is during the "Kuchikamizake Trip" scene, where Taki travels through almost a complete circle of Mitsuha's life (starting from the comet that hit Japan and killed her, which morphed into the fertilizing of the egg/her conception). At a little past the mid-point, we see Mitsuha's father (Toshiki) walk out on her and her sister (Yotsuha), leaving them with their grandmother (Hitoha) and the shrine.

What's interesting though is WHERE he's abandoning them. It's never really specified and there are no locations in the film that match this scene. You'd think it would be somewhere near their home, or even at the Miyamizu Shrine itself, but no. The film goes out of its way to make sure that everywhere is populated with trees, none of which look like the one in the picture:

So that leaves us with the obvious: he abandoned them at the Sacred Relic (as the English dub put it), or "the body of Miyamizu Shrine's god" (per the Japanese sub). AKA the netherworld/underworld.

This is the only place where we see open fields and a single tree in the entire film. But why would he be there with a packed bag? Abandoning his family, no less?

We could definitely take this literally - he was integrated into shrine duties through marriage before he left, so it's not as though he had no reason to be there. He could have fulfilled one last duty before leaving for good, but I don't think that's the takeaway here. Which leads us to:

The literal body of the shrine god is missing when he abandons them.

The tree itself also looks different, what with it being stripped of leaves, the bark looking somewhat brittle, and several branches are missing. Even the surrounding fields look barren. Sure, this could have taken place in a colder season, their clothes don't necessarily suggest warm weather, but it's clearly not winter.

(I'd also like to point out that while there's no other location in the film this image could be depicting, we also don't get a good view of the other side of the tree when the body of the shrine god is present, so there's nothing conclusive on whether or not it's the same tree. I do, however, think that Makoto Shinkai wanted us to mentally connect these two locations.)

Here's the first image again for a closer comparison:

Okay, so why am I yapping for so long about a tree?

Well, I think it calls into question the overall nature of the Kuchikamizake trip itself. Was Taki being ushered through Mitsuha's life? Was he traveling through her memories? Personally, I think it's a little bit of both. Despite the fact that a literal god is taking Taki back through time, I don't think this is a purely objective depiction of the past. I think what we're seeing here isn't really Mitsuha's memories, but the god's memories and interpretation of the events instead.

(Further evidence of this would be that we literally hear the god crying out after Hitoha says "Mitsuha, Yotsuha, you're going to live with grandma now," and the red cord guides Taki above and away their family home.)

Mitsuha's dad doesn't really get talked about enough, largely because he's an asshole, but he does serve as an interesting counterpoint in the narrative.

The Miyamizu Shrine is the spiritual protector of that land. In contrast, Mitsuha's father, Toshiki, is a politician - a secular protector of the land. (Well, he's supposed to be. Tessie makes a point to call Toshiki (and also his own father) corrupt when he listens in on their dinner meeting:

Toshiki is a man who inherited the shrine after his wife died (as said by Hitoha during an argument: "But you're in charge now!"), he had a responsibility to it, and then he abandoned his daughters and his god in one fell swoop.

The tree where Toshiki walked out on his daughters is lifeless and decrepit because he quite literally abandoned his obligations to his god, removing the god's body from the picture entirely, and pursued a secular/political path to rival the duties of the shrine, one that's rife with human faults and corruption.

This is why Mitsuha's stand-off with Toshiki is so important at the end of the film. It's not daughter vs father. It's spiritual vs secular. The Miyamizu Shrine vs politics. Musubi vs mankind.

Even though we never really see the outcome of that confrontation, Shinkai did effectively communicate it to us during the scene itself. We start by seeing Toshiki rise from his seat and he's the largest thing in the frame, but then Mitsuha approaches and suddenly we cut to just her. Not him, not both of them. It's only her in the frame because her perspective and spiritual guidance completely removes him from the picture - much like how he removed their god and his own family years before.

So, yeah. Tree interesting, thank.

[iron-sides]

watching this vod (mapicc 0517) and it just seems more and more like hannah has literally never done anything to anyone and like half of ls is beefing with her for reasons they made up inside their heads. and when i say half of ls what i actually mean there is 3/5ths of atlas

[skunkes]

I thought my "struggling to get anything done until its very very late at night, and only for a few hours, after a full day of fatigue and laziness" behavior was a recent thing, in the wake of graduating and being unemployed and out of schooling, but its been at the very least 5 years because I made a comic about this when i was still IN college.

[hharrowhhark]

I keep trying to create a post about how I don’t want to only talk about butches in the way of what I want them to do for me but also about all the things I want to do for them and how I want to take care of them, but I cannot manage to put it eloquently and my mind always ends up just saying

[jfk voice] Ask not what butches can do for you, but what you can do for butches

[rat-detector-72]

Bagck in buisiness

Tell me if i shpuld change thess

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[javierduffy]

starting to get restless so i'm going to the gym now but have this javieran wippy in the meantime cux i miss posting here

[fellamarsh]

RELATED to my last post i think we should kill the notion that you have to keep your writing or art or whatever kind of themed blog strictly On Theme. because of professionalism or whatever

like you are the artist (or curator). you are inextricably linked to that which you create. you are inherently on theme. also i like to hear about the weird thing your sister said or the really bangin sandwich you ate

[bayleavesfromthevine]

Thinking about the themes in Kn8

Kaiju No. 8 is the kind of story that's set up to have "what makes you human?" as a central theme, but instead it contemplates the notion of succession and how to live up to the expectations of others. Every character has at least one person that they strive to catch up to/impress and they feel that failing to do so would be equivalent to letting that person down.

The power of communication is also a pretty prominent theme in the series imo. There's something to be said about the cameras, recording devices, and headsets they use in battle being able to share everything the characters say to just about the entire cast at any given moment. It speaks to the idea of open communication and collaboration as effective tools to strengthen the team overall. It also allows the Defense Force to not just succeed their predecessors on an individual level, but also as a collective.

Anyway, I'm sleepy so I'm gonna stop here, but please feel free to add to this!