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Can't get over how The Boy and the Heron is haunted by napalm. Of course in the way that it haunts Mahito's trauma and dreams, but also in the fantastical imagery. The vision of his mother melting into a pool of liquid, the story of the fiery rock that dried up an entire lake upon contact, Himi entirely. The fact that the fantastical world, far from the touch of war, has an abundance of water.

References to graphic violence ahead. Firebombing wrecked Tokyo. The firebombing attacks,iirc, actually killed more civilians than the atomic bombs did. There are anecdotes from survivors about crowds of people running and trampling each other to try to escape the napalm. About people running to local swimming pools just to try to douse out the fires or escape only to find that the water of the pools completely dried up because of the heat. Of people bursting into flames in the middle of running. Of people's organs/bodies, quite frankly, melting into liquid. An account of a survivor's mother, for years after the war, pouring cups of water over her deceased daughter's grave and saying "little one, you must have been so hot."

It's subtle and I am not even sure that it was intentional, or if this was on Miyazaki's mind as he directed the art, but I can't shake off the echoes of history when I watched it.

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his best running gag

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With The Boy and the Heron, Miyazaki really said: I accept that my legacy is out of my control, that my children may not be my successors, that this tremendous monument I've built with a lifetime of toil, this fiery blessing that simply fell out of the sky, may not continue without me, In fact, it may crumble to dust, I accept it because my children and their children are alive and well, in this imperfect world, and thats enough. Yes, I accept that this is the end, but God damn, I'll go out with a bang.

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studio ghibli movies must have:

old ladies

cool lesbian aunt

gorgeous forest/garden

little guy(s)

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it fucks me up that tolkien only died in 1973. dude has the vibe of a victorian scholar who wrote all his manuscripts by candlelight but then you look him up and realise that he knew what color tv was. what the fuck.

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Still very happy with this cute nouveau beluga pin! 😊💗

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leggy...

the bed in question:

Tolpan made it.

Tolpan's not good at math.

SACRED BODIES is now available as part of the ShortBox Comics Fair! It's about a human woman who marries a Garaang Ba'it (giant bird thing).

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The Spirit Of The Samurai is a 2.5D side-scrolling samurai action horror game where you slay grotesque stop-motion monsters!

Read More & Play The Beta Demo, Free (Steam)

Gameplay Video:

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PLEASE watch this. i love chaotic sisters best dynamic in the world

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the most iconic polycule of all time…a, e, i, o, u, & sometimes y…

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*biting pillow, in a flop sweat, tearfully* Bloodweave

Modern AU where Gale is a professor (of physics? English literature? Philosophy? What do you think suits him best?) at the university in Waterdeep, trying to find his footing after his divorce, when he meets a handsome, wan stranger at the local cafe who's also clearly running from some past trauma and is bitter and clipped about it. But the man is acerbically funny and the two strike up a friendship...

AND THEN THEY KISS.

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the way that the screenshots in this tweet have me genuinely tearing up with rage lmao.

there are actually people in this world paying $700-$2000 on ao3. on a fucking fanfiction website. that's! that's so much fucking money. all for a website that is going to do fuck all with it. like can you imagine having that kind of disposable income. and you dump it on a website that only just got a blocking/muting feature. that is still in beta after almost twenty years.

like I genuinely mean this that if you're the kind of person that's gonna spend a fucking rent payment on ao3 of all places I. there's no saving you. I'm not even gonna hold you like this just lets me know that you are lost in ways that I cannot comprehend because never in my life. if I had that kind of money I'd be giving it to the fic writers instead of a site that does fuck all for me. seven hundred dollars. two thousand dollars. bitch you might as well just write a check, put it in the toilet and flush because that's the amount of good that will be done with that money. oh my god. I have a stress headache.

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being younger than everyone else on this site is so funny because someone will be like "anyone remember the glinky glork" and i look up the glinky glork and it happened when i was 2

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“Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep” – Mary Elizabeth Frye

Happy Pride 2019!

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Please make art. You don't have to bare your soul or make a masterpiece, you can be silly and you can be derivative if you want. You don't even have to show it to anyone. Just please make something, it's so good for you