Welcome to my magpie nest

I write anime analyses and collect shiny thoughts and progress on my language studies like an open-access diary

[allthingseurope]

Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland (by Filiz)

[apocryphics]

oh ok

[gorps]

[meriol-lehmann]

chemin champoux, saint-paul-de-joliette

[benjhawkins]

Every day I learn something baffling about Massachusetts

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Holy fuck…. Every time I’ve said “by cod” or “my cod” or “cod’s work”….. this is that cod. This is THE cod.

[it-may-be-dull-but-im-determined]

I keep seeing posts about the differences between the book and the Ghibli adaptation of Howl's Moving Castle, and honestly there's a totally charming interview with Diana Wynne-Jones at the end of the kindle edition about how it worked :)

[dramaticbackstory]

I adore this. I feel like this version has a little more info than the one in my edition.

Looking up Exmoor, I’m totally struck by how “right” it looks to how I imagined Ingary, versus Cardiff where it’s like, ah, I see where that research went back to Miyazaki.

The presence of the war in the movie versus the book is such a fascinating hinge point. I remember another interview about Jones’ meeting with Miyazaki over the film where she spoke on her perception of people versus his. Jones said she sees bad people as more static whereas Miyazaki has enormous hope and belief that people change, or at least astonish us with a gesture of inherent goodness.... which adds up, since every DWJ conflict involves a total gremlin, usually the protagonist, taking a bite out of the world, whereas Miyazaki writes noble dreamers and idealists up against their local military industrial complex...

[jaubaius]

No way out

[bogleech]

idiot jail for ignorant beasts

[lochnutmonster]

Sisyphus

[seven-oh-four]

character misses their shot and the villain goes "ha! you missed." and the main character goes "did i?" and then shoots the villain again while they're frantically looking around the room for what the hero could possibly have aiming for instead

[seven-oh-four]

i hate the notes on this so much so many people are saying shit like "and then the hero shoots the villain while they're looking around!! XD" THAT'S WHAT THE POST ALREADY SAID. THAT'S THE ENTIRE JOKE.

[keiachi-chan]

There's a Pukicho post like this I need to find it

Edit: found it

[seven-oh-four]

maybe... they DIDN'T miss part of the post...! (starts frantically looking around)

[omorinintendoswitchedition]

(i shoot you while youre looking around)

[seven-oh-four]

and then while i'm frantically looking around you shoot me for real this time XD

[longshrimp]

Omg you missed part of the post

[seven-oh-four]

did i? 😏

[longshrimp]

(frantically looks around)

[seven-oh-four]

(i raise my gun to shoot you while you're distracted but the bullet i already fired ricochets all around the room and hits me in the back of the head, killing me instantly)

[inthefallofasparrow]

If it hit you in the back of the head, that would kill you instantly.

[the-haiku-bot]

If it hit you in

the back of the head, that would

kill you instantly.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[sneepsnorp3d]

major traffic incident

[ch40s0w1]

@bigyikes97

[faeberrywine]

ID credit: cap593400239 on 小红书

(please like, reblog and give proper credit if you use any of my gifs!)

[ltwilliammowett]

A massive Lake Erie wave walloping the West Pierhead Lighthouse.

Photo: inthe216 on Instagram

[architectureofdoom]

Yuda Dam, Nishiwaga

[sacred-portal]

[turnpikeghosts]

goncharov

[theromcommunist]

happy two years to the greatest bit tumblr ever made

[prismatic-bell]

This person UNDERSTOOD THE ASSIGNMENT and dear lord the ending is perfect.

[dashalbrundezimmer]

gneisenaustraße // köln nippes

architect: paul georg hopmann

completion: 1974

this brutalist gem, which houses a kindergarten and a community centre, is located in the heart of cologne's nippes district. the striking façade design of pure concrete and red window and door frames, as well as the fragmented structure, make the building a real eye-catcher. the red colouring also extends to the railings, letterboxes and service openings, contributing to the coherent overall impression.

dieses brutalistische kleinod welches einen kindergarten und ein gemeindezentrum beherbergt befindet sich mitten in köln nippes. die bemerkenswerte fassadengestaltung von purem beton und roten fenster- und türrahmungen sowie die zergliederte struktur machen das bauwerk zu einem echten hingucker. die rote farbgestaltung erstreckt sich außerdem auf geländer, briefkästen und versorgungsöffnungen, so das dies zum schlüssigen Gesamteindruck beiträgt.

[blackvelvetofnight]

people who enter my home will be shown an assortment of objects

[tastefullyoffensive]

(photos by sal_marin)

[emilydwarfield]

I’ve read House of Leaves, which means that if anyone did this to me, I’d kill them.

[bloriblomi]

is no one going to mention the enormous stack of egg cartons

[the-haiku-bot]

is no one going

to mention the enormous

stack of egg cartons

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[kaijuno]

does anyone else remember being terrorized every single commercial break by the madagascar 3 trailer on every single cartoon channel in 2011-2012

[byrdsfly]