this same spring will never come again

Lia. On a whole new anime binge now. This is like 1 step away from being just a hq blog. Send asks!! (pretty please)

[theheightofdishonor]

shoyo is both icarus and the sun

[kennysfreckles]

Tag Game: Misery Loves Company!

Thank you for the tag, @slonekaru ❤️

Suggested guidelines: share 1 to 3 moments that inflicted emotional damage!

The ending of Something in my Room. It’s the first series I watched that resulted in me hysterically sobbing afterwards to the point I had to call my brother to calm me down 🫣 The fact Phat had to live the rest of his life without Phob…when he’s an older man with cancer and he’s walking through his old house, telling Phob about the life the lived, how he’d lived his wife and kids but nothing and no one ever compared…I was a fucking mess. Then when Phob’s spirit is waiting for him because Phat’s now passed on…honestly, just even typing this has me tearing up remembering how upset I was 😂🫣 I love anything to do with ghosts but the sad thing is you often don’t get happy endings.

Dark Blue Kiss, when Pete throws the cup and it gets bashed. Even when I rewatch I’m always devastated. The thing is, I don’t even think Pete is in the wrong - he has every right to be upset that Kao’s been hiding Non from him. (Okay, I know Pete’s jealousy is extremely toxic, but Kao refuses to see Non as a danger regardless of what he’s doing and saying to Pete, and whilst he thought he was doing the right thing, he really wasn’t.) Like, the whole break up between Pete and Kao is horrible and I swear Kao’s (New’s) sad face will always devastate me.

This is a more recent one, but in Head 2 Head when Farm blows smoke in Van’s face. The whole time I’d been like “Van, you don’t deserve Farm at all,” but then that scene happened and something in me broke for Van. His face, his fucking face. Now, I know this might be because I’ve had abusive people do this to me, but the second that happened and (once again) the look on Van’s face, it was painful.

Gonna add a special shout out to: Love Me if You Swear (the pants 😭), anything and everything Khaotung has cried in, and Only Friends (what Top gets put through; I know we can all argue about him cheating, but coercive and gaslighting sex gives me “that’s assault” more than anything).

Tagging: @juniorpanachai @firstkanaphans @drowsinginspace @forcebookish @khaotunq and anyone else who would like to take part!

[classicalcanvas]

A Needlewoman (1876) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

[puppyms]

SEUNGMIN // HELLO STRANGER MV

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

And if I said Megamind is one of the few movies that understands Superman.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

And if I said Megamind through its three subversions of Superman shows a deeper understanding that the point of Superman is that he was loved and taught to love by good, present parents, and because of that he is able to return that love to a world even if it doesn't always accept it, and he is not corrupted by his power, than many other films either subverting or playing the superman story straight.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Megamind has three Superman subversions. One is obviously Megamind himself. He was not raised loved by the world, but rather was loved by those hated by the world. Because he was still raised with love, he does care about other people, hence his character development. But because he didn't receive wider love growing up, his own is misplaced at first.

Metro Man was not loved growing up in a way that mattered. His adopted father was clearly very absent, and while we don't know much about his family, their relationship seems superficial. Because of this, his sense of duty to the world is also superficial, hence his boredom.

Hal wasn't raised with power. He gained it and was shown how to use it by a 'space dad' who only taught him power and not love. Hence, he sees it only as a grasping means to an end.

All three of these subversions, in their negative space, create the silhouette of the superhero that they are parodying. That silhouette is of a space child that came to earth and was cared for very deeply by the world, and taught love through his experience of love, and because of that holds fast to his duty to the world. Which is Superman.

[cinematicjourney]

Saving Face (2004) | dir. Alice Wu

[stuckinapril]

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

[masqueradingmoon]

if you will pardon a future lighting design major, i think the incredible thing about the lighting of hadestown is, sure, the use of practical lights etc, but i think the way most of the lighting storytelling is done with brilliance instead of color is so unique and so hard to achieve. and especially making hades' moments of power the brightest in the show because it is more important that he is an industrialist and a god of wealth than a god of the dead or a god of shades. and it also more clearly builds his power when he sings, BUT the shape of it--the way the lights are often pointed towards the audience--forces their involvement in the narrative. the world of the living IS colorful and does have color, but hadestown uses a lot of the same palette and so it HAS to rely on brightness to distinguish emotional moments, and it DOES. and i think obviously this is exemplified in the transition during wait for me, because the way the workers wield this small power over the movement of light onstage with swinging lamps and headlights, hadestown itself becomes exposed and shines directly at the audience. and i mean, it's brutal. there's no other way to describe it, it's made to blind you. i don't know how well you would understand how hades' manipulation of technology and industry helps him if the tech that goes into making the show itself didn't turn against the audience at times.

[bardace]

I think it’s so funny that utena has literally no idea why anyone in the black rose arc got turned into a duelist. Like imagine someone pulls up in an intricate uniform holding one of your friend’s swords and says “HAHHAHA I GET IT NOW ALL OF MY DEEP PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS STEMMING FROM MY HIGHLY SPECIFIC INSECURITIES CAN BE SOLVED IF I KILL YOUR GIRLFRIEND!!!” and it’s sarah from math class who you only vaguely know

[daeneryssansa]

TEEN WOLF 3.12, Lunar Ellipse

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

i do appreciate the way that we tumblr users have evolved our language to discuss our feelings related to The Character/The Guy. you used to have to just say he was hot or he was making your ovaries explode or he was a precious cinnamon roll even if he looked bad or was just kind of standing there or whatever. now you can say things like “the creature” or “he looks so sopping wet here” or “i want to chain him to my radiator” like it’s just more inclusive and adaptable to the situation

[twobeesornottwobees]

as someone on the asexual spectrum, this shift in language genuinely made me feel more comfortable and happy in fandom spaces. i've never once wanted to lick a man's abs. i HAVE wanted to chain a man to my radiator. and that's beautiful.

[queernightly]

Jin Ling would be the one who actually has torture dungeons

[visenyaism]

80s misogyny saved the Star Wars galaxy because Darth Vader wasted all his time and effort trying to convince his starry-eyed gayboy empath son to become an evil space fascist when if anyone had any point asked his daughter “hey do you ever just want to KILL these people” she would’ve been shooing lightning out of her hands to prove a point in like 10 minutes

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

(via prev)

[poetry-protest-pornography]

how to un-tame your big cat boyfriend

[soshinee]

if u think abt it i guess bald ppl are the most aerodynamic. i bet if u shot a bald person out of a cannon they wld fly way further than a haired person

[soshinee]

which of course is a huge advantage in day to day life

[elena-gilbert]

VAN HELSING (2004) dir. Stephen Sommers

[musicdramalove]