another bygone summer

Bug-catcher by day, seeking Stardew Valley perfection by night. Multi-fandom, sporadic bursts of activity. :]

[karroana]

gouache study of beautiful ancient artifacts !

[secondlina]

Please check out Crow Time on Webtoons.

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[riibrego]

sleepy summertime

wallpaper sizes / prints / merch

[tinartss]

oh they’re in love love

[istarling]

I like these guys

[maruti-bitamin]

Splash

twitter/ insta/ store

[wiryuu]

clorinde!!!

[espikola]

Bday gift for my pookie gumgoat 🌿

[charlikesalmon]

chilly ❄️

[thenerdyalchemist]

She’s everything. He’s just Roy

[cqtlatte]

happy b-day mona!!

[kirjoart]

Pyrstötiainen, Aegithalos caudatus

[libbyframe]

Alaskan bouquet commish

[chuwenjie]

I designed the outfit that Gwen wears to prom in Across the Spiderverse!

For her outfit I was asked to bring in some 90s/grunge influence- the idea was that Gwen wouldn't buy a dress off the rack for prom, she would probably throw together her own outfit and customize it herself. Numbers 4 and 6 are closest to the version that ended up in the movie!

[cqtlatte]

pyro flamenco

[wondersmith-and-sons]

also i’m sorry to tell everyone that waymond’s “laundry and taxes” line that everyone is going feral over is actually slightly mistranslated in the english/north american release subtitles. what he actually says in mandarin is “if we had another life, i would still choose to do taxes and open a laundromat with you” (如果有来生我还会选择和你一起报税，开洗衣店）which…i actually like more than the official subtitle translation

because he’s not just yearning for another life where he and evelyn are married into domesticity. this is an ultra-successful super-rich businessman presumably at the top of his game, who made his fortune and won the american dream, yearning for the ghost of lost chances – confessing that he if he had to choose between money & luxury or a profession considered “lesser” by his countrymen, he would still yearn for the latter if he got to choose evelyn. out of all the universes, out of all the lifetimes, if he had the chance to give up the wealth and power, he would. that’s truly inventing romance.

[wondersmith-and-sons]

to give this more specific context: the dialogue deliberately uses 来生 for “another life”, which most closely translates to “reincarnation”. it seems to be a deliberate nod to chinese folklore and afterlife mythology where reincarnation is often embedded into the stories, especially commonly (although not exclusively) seen in those that deal with doomed romances and star-crossed tragedy.

but overall, i think it’s just a really interesting part of everything everywhere’s metatextual storytelling, because at the heart of every “see you in another universe/an alternate timeline” story, there is a reincarnation story – it’s about the central theme of ‘this time around, i’ll find you again’, ‘this time around, i’d get to choose you’,  ‘this time around, we’ll get it right’ and yes it drives me absolutely insane.

[katharineshepburn-deactivated20]

SPIRITED AWAY (2001) dir. Hayao Miyazaki