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Hi. I just reblog whatever I like or what I think is funny

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

and the thing about both Project Hail Mary and The Martian is that both stories are grabbing you by the shoulders, looking you in the eyes, and from behind the fourth wall Andy Weir is smiling at you saying "you are never as alone, or as far gone, as you think you are"

[captainsomeguy]

Haven’t been on tumblr in a couple months, but I swear over half my home feed is full of people I dont follow? Anyone else having similar problems?

[sshannonauthor]

Hi Sam! I unfortunately won’t be able to make it to your book tour. Are there any other ways to get a signed copy of A Day of Fallen Night?

You can currently pre-order a signed copy from:

Goldsboro Books

Forbidden Planet

The Broken Binding (coming soon)

There will also be one other special edition, as yet unannounced. My Instagram is the best place to keep up to date: [x]

[captainsomeguy]

Thank you for the information! Will the special edition be signed as well?

[mousemilf-deactivated20250508]

the most important thing is to be snuggly in bed

[thelma2017dirjoachimtrier-deact]

“For some time, Hollywood has marketed family entertainment according to a two-pronged strategy, with cute stuff and kinetic motion for the kids and sly pop-cultural references and tame double entendres for mom and dad. Miyazaki has no interest in such trickery, or in the alternative method, most successfully deployed in Pixar features like Finding Nemo, Toy Story 3 and Inside/Out, of blending silliness with sentimentality.”

“Most films made for children are flashy adventure-comedies. Structurally and tonally, they feel almost exactly like blockbusters made for adults, scrubbed of any potentially offensive material. They aren’t so much made for children as they’re made to be not not for children. It’s perhaps telling that the genre is generally called “Family,” rather than “Children’s.” The films are designed to be pleasing to a broad, age-diverse audience, but they’re not necessarily specially made for young minds.”

“My Neighbor Totoro, on the other hand, is a genuine children’s film, attuned to child psychology. Satsuki and Mei move and speak like children: they run and romp, giggle and yell. The sibling dynamic is sensitively rendered: Satsuki is eager to impress her parents but sometimes succumbs to silliness, while Mei is Satsuki’s shadow and echo (with an independent streak). But perhaps most uniquely, My Neighbor Totoro follows children’s goals and concerns. Its protagonists aren’t given a mission or a call to adventure - in the absence of a larger drama, they create their own, as children in stable environments do. They play.”

“Consider the sequence just before Mei first encounters Totoro. Satsuki has left for school, and Dad is working from home, so Mei dons a hat and a shoulder bag and tells her father that she’s “off to run some errands” - The film is hers for the next ten minutes, with very little dialogue. She’s seized by ideas, and then abandons them; her goals switch from moment to moment. First she wants to play “flower shop” with her dad, but then she becomes distracted by a pool full of tadpoles. Then, of course, she needs a bucket to catch tadpoles in - but the bucket has a hole in it. And on it goes, but we’re never bored, because Mei is never bored.”

“[…] You can only ride a ride so many times before the thrill wears off. But a child can never exhaust the possibilities of a park or a neighborhood or a forest, and Totoro exists in this mode. The film is made up of travel and transit and exploration, set against lush, evocative landscapes that seem to extend far beyond the frame. We enter the film driving along a dirt road past houses and rice paddies; we follow Mei as she clambers through a thicket and into the forest; we walk home from school with the girls, ducking into a shrine to take shelter from the rain; we run past endless green fields with Satsuki as she searches for Mei. The psychic center of Totoro’s world is an impossibly giant camphor tree covered in moss. The girls climb over it, bow to it as a forest-guardian, and at one point fly high above it, with the help of Totoro. Much like Totoro himself, the tree is enormous and initially intimidating, but ultimately a source of shelter and inspiration.”

“My Neighbor Totoro has a story, but it’s the kind of story that a child might make up, or that a parent might tell as a bedtime story, prodded along by the refrain, “And then what happened?” This kind of whimsicality is actually baked into Miyazaki’s process: he begins animating his films before they’re fully written. Totoro has chase scenes and fantastical creatures, but these are flights of fancy rooted in a familiar world. A big part of being a kid is watching and waiting, and Miyazaki understands this. When Mei catches a glimpse of a small Totoro running under her house, she crouches down and stares into the gap, waiting. Miyazaki holds on this image: we wait with her. Magical things happen, but most of life happens in between those things—and there is a kind of gentle magic, for a child, in seeing those in-betweens brought to life truthfully on screen.”

A.O. Scott and Lauren Wilford on “My Neighbor Totoro”, 2017.  

[curtailedwhale]

every time this shows up on my blog, I’m rescheduling it to show up again at a later date so I can keep remembering how important a child’s perspective is.

[captainsomeguy]

@calmyourcrazyllamas I hope you enjoy this!

[pansylovers]

in the wake of elizabeth dying please dont forget that a lot of fucked up things are happening in the UK right now that are likely to be covered up by the news of her death. There is a huge cost of living crisis going on, people cant afford to survive. Trans rights are still being pushed back on. Racism is as rife as ever, earlier this week london police shot and killed Chris Kaba, an unarmed Black man, in his car. He was due to be a husband and father soon.

Celebrate the queen's death by all means, i for one hope she rots, but keep in mind that marginalised communities in the UK are still dying and will continue to die if things don't change. Justice for Chris Kaba.

[currently-having-a-gay-crisis]

since the queen died can the once and future king please make a comeback i haven’t been the same since watching the merlin finale

[spiralstaircased]

due to inflation you must answer my riddles five

[onceiwashere]

the pen testing pads at art stores are the only worthwhile social media platform

[sadhoc]

i love you comforter i love you pillow i love you sheets i love you mattress i love you plushie i love you dark room i love you bedtime

[wormliness]

please, untitled document was my father, call me untitled document (1)

[bakedbananners]

I love when dogs and cats just let you pat the shit out of them and they enjoy it so much. Like yeah dude real quick I just need to play you like a bongo and they’re like god yes I’ve been waiting for someone to play me like a bongo

[michaelmilkers]

genuinely so fucking tired of people leveraging the "groomer" argument against people who support sex ed because scientific literature over decades shows that comprehensive sex education starting around kindergarten actually prevents children from being sexually abused and groomed because it teaches children the correct words for their body parts and also teaches them concepts of privacy, personal space, bodily autonomy, the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touching, and the fact that sex is something that only adults do. children with this knowledge are not only better equipped to identify abuse and predatory behavior and communicate that its happening to a trusted adult, but also prevent it from happening in the first place by recognizing when something is happening that shouldn't.

sex education does not sexualize children, it prevents children from being sexualized. anyone who is against early foundational sex education and claims they are doing it to protect children is a fucking liar.

[starkcontrasts]

happy 2's day everybody (2/22/2022)

[captainsomeguy]

the fantastic creatures are my stuffed animals and where to find them is the crack between my bed and the wall

[necrofuturism]

haven't been able to decide on a current actor who would be a good Feyd in the next Dune movie and then i realized...

there's honestly only one person who is giving genuine Feyd-Rautha vibes right now and that's Lil Nas X.

[captainsomeguy]

Consider: Rami Malak

[necrofuturism]

Unfortunately, Rami Malek is a bit too old to portray Feyd.

He would've been a perfect Paul had there been another Dune made in the early '00s.

The other character unfortunately left uncast at the moment is Irulan, and Sophie Turner would be absolutely perfect for her.

[captainsomeguy]

I totally respect that. What about Thomas Brodie-Sangster? He’s an older actor but he looks younger, plus he was fantastic in the Maze Runner series.

I think Sophie Turner would make an excellent choice for Irulan, but I think Cate Blanchett would also work perfectly

[necrofuturism]

haven't been able to decide on a current actor who would be a good Feyd in the next Dune movie and then i realized...

there's honestly only one person who is giving genuine Feyd-Rautha vibes right now and that's Lil Nas X.

[captainsomeguy]

Consider: Rami Malak