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I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you” when someone sneezes, a leftover from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying. And sometimes, when you spill lemons from your grocery bag, someone else will help you pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other. We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, and to say thank you to to the person holding it. To smile at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder, and for the driver in the red pick-up to let us pass. We have so little of each other, now. So far from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange. What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here, have my seat,” “Go ahead - you first,” “I like your hat.”

- Danusha Laméris, “Small Kindnesses"

danforth

owlmagicz

I need this in my life.

fatsoupy

me: dress how you want!! gender is fake!!! nothing matters!!!!!!

trans person: i like gender tho

me: hell yeah i respect that!!!! i apologize and don’t mean to dismiss your identity with my optimistic nihilism!!!!!!!

ebonyheartnet

Good post OP

aquarian-sunchild

Denounce gender roles but respect gender identity.

antique-scarecrow

Denounce gender roles but respect gender identity.

inahiddenplace

there’s something comforting in the fact that nothing’s really permanent. that no matter what i’m going through, who i am, what i think, what’s happening around me, it can always change. maybe good times don’t last, but at least bad times don’t last either. maybe i’m unsatisfied with who i am, but i’m not stuck that way.

guildenstern

the dialogue in over the garden wall is so good like the exchanges between characters follow such a rhythm that wirt & other characters’ lapses into poetry & song don’t feel out of place

small exchanges between characters, especially towards the beginning, often have distinct rhythm & rhymes that in context feel completely natural

My name's Greg. What's yours? Beatrice. My brother's name is Wirt. Who cares? And my frog's name's Wirt jr., but that may change. Okay, that's great. How about you and I ditch your brother? Hmm. Maybe later.

these patterns are only really absent in the episode “into the unknown”, which is part of what gives it such a different feeling than the rest of the show

guildenstern

i’m rewatching otgw with this in mind & its so cool bc its not only the dialogue, its the animation, too. if you tap out a rhythm, usually 60-70bpm, you can predict exactly when characters will make gestures, when the camera angle will change, or when someone new will speak, even if its muted in most of the episodes

it doesnt usually match the music & sometimes the beat changes for plot reasons - like in babes in the wood wirt’s animation is a jarring 10 bpm slower than everyone elses in the beginning & 10 beats faster than theirs after he wakes up. maybe this is a more common thing than i remember in animation but i think it adds a lot to this show

splarfish

On the dvd commentary pat mchale says something that really stuck with me about how the unknown as wirt sees it (and as we see it) is built to be comfortable for him. He gets scared, but he’s so much more comfortable there than he is at home, with all the architecture he reads about and everything being so poetic and old fashioned. I wonder if this is something done intentionally for that reason? Wirt is a poet, and does spoken word poetry often, in a place made to be comfortable for him, a sense of rhythm and fluidity when people talk or move would make a lot of sense, it would be really calming for him and the lack of such in ep 9 adds to the chaos he feels in his regular life. It’s something I’ve noticed before too, and I’ve noticed how easily he slots into conversations in the unknown compared to in episode 9. It’s very possible that’s how wirt thinks, and therefore that’s just how the unknown is.

snailygoon

One of my many daily struggles from “living with” Anxiety

bialerwochenblat

More of Rivke Berger, her illustration (woodcut) to Sholem Aleichem’s “Motl Peysi dem Khazns,” c. 1934.

swansfairy-deactivated20190523

La partie de cartes by Pierre Carrier-Belleuse.♡

charlestrask

wow i love disenchantment

mysharona1987

dennator25

squat-mitzvah-deactivated202010

“Based on your Twitter I think you’re in for a very interesting rabbinic career” - a Rabbi

squat-mitzvah-deactivated202010

@murdershegoat why ON EARTH did you leave this in the replies?

charlesoberonn

Social media is wonderful because it let the common folk enjoy endless posturing, making of enemies, and flaunting of wealth and romantic prospects. All of which was previously reserved for the aristocracy.

charlesoberonn

What's the difference between posting a selfie at the gym knowing your highschool bully will see it and showing up to the archduke's ball with a new silk gown from Italy to oneup Janet of Salisbury?