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“We all move on” - March 21 2015

coolfilmstills

What We Do in the Shadows

littlealienproducts

Cactus Love Cap from MANMESH HATT

mai-col

Linocut is slow but fun. Wish I had access to a real press, though.

haiku-robot

linocut is slow but fun wish i had access to a real press though

blaruto

I still think Moana deserved an Oscar for this part

i-want-cheese

To me, the moral of Moana is that only women can help other women heal from male violence.

The movie starts with the idea that the male god who wronged Te Fiti must be the one to heal her. This seems to make a certain sort of intuitive sense in that I think we all believe that if you do something wrong you should try to make it right. But how does he try to right it? Through more violence. Of course that failed.

It was only when another woman, Moana, saw past the “demon of earth and fire” that the traumatized Te Fiti had become (what a good metaphor for trauma, right?) and met her with love instead of violence that she was able to heal. Note that they do the forehead press before Moana restores the heart, while Te Fiti is still Te Kā. Moana doesn’t wait for her beautiful island goddess to appear in all her green splendor before greeting and treating her as someone deserving of love.

Moana is only able to restore the heart because Te Kā reveals her vulnerability and allows Moana to touch her there. Maui and his male violence could only ever have resulted in more ruin.

smalltall

…this is exactly what I was trying to say and you put it beautifully. @i-want-cheese This is why the scene makes me tear up every damn time. Women’s honest, ugly reaction to trauma is almost never even depicted in films, let alone honored the way it is in Moana. Te Fiti doesn’t have to “rise above” being violated before she’s allowed to heal. Moana sees her and says

I know your name They have stolen the heart from inside you But this does not define you

She utterly accepts Te Fiti’s rage, her fear, her lashing out at anyone who comes near the remains of her ravaged body island. Female ugliness isn’t punished, it’s mourned and loved. What an indescribably comforting moment.

teatoppy

Welp I’m crying

mirvedabaddon

@beautyandherbeasts

12thglokage-deactivated20200503

Let us not forget that the cause of her rage was a narcissistic asshole who would do anything to make himself sound like a hero.

queenstravelingdarling

Damn y’all…..💔

redlipstickresurrected

Urs Fischer (Swiss, b. 1973, Zürich, Switzerland) - Untitled (detail), 2011 Wax Sculptures: Paraffin Wax Mixture, Pigments, Wicks and Steel Structures, Chair, Table

weavemama

It’s ironic because they don’t look at US as real people.

writing-prompt-s

When you die, you appear in a cinema with a number of other people who look like you. You find out that they are your previous reincarnations, and soon you all begin watching your next life on the big screen.