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Jessica (she/her ) | bookworm 📚 cat mom 🐱 hiker 🌲 plant lady 🌿 music lover 🎶

[demoncity]

The Secret World of Arrietty ‘借りぐらしのアリエッティ’ 2010 | dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi

[titlecard]

ARRIETTY (2010)

dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi.

[videoclubs]

THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY ‘借りぐらしのアリエッティ’ dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi

[ghiblin]

Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) The Secret World of Arriety (2010) When Marnie Was There (2014) The Wind Rises (2013) Howl's Moving Castle (2004) My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

[ghiblin]

The Secret World of Arriety (2010) Howl's Moving Castle (2004) Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008) The Wind Rises (2013) When Marnie Was There (2014) My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

[nyatche]

Ghibli Cafe ~

[wazzuppy]

ghibli movies: funny little ladies going on adventures and living their lives :) look at how pretty these trees and flowers are. oh its a kitty cat!! :0

also ghibli movies: fuck you. war and capitalism is destroying the earth. several cultures have drastically and irreversibly altered by western influence, many for the worse. the world collapsing in on itself. now watch these children slowly die for two hours. fuck you.

[ukyos]

[allthecolorsofdisney]

” Sophie , you’re beautiful! “

#no but like #you don’t understand how important and meaningful sophie’s arc in this movie is #she starts out hating herself because she believes herself to be ugly and dumb#then she’s turned into an old hag and promptly loses most of her insecurities because she no longer has to care about being beautiful #then we find out the curse weakens whenever she is being strong and it shows her real self underneath #which means the curse is mostly self-inflicted and not done by the witch of the waste #sophie curses herself because it is easier for her #but because she starts to see that she is important to people and others love her #she grows out of it and finally is able to stand up for others #and break her own curse #and get some fucking shit done #sophie is my hero and my gpoy always

[mayasaura]

In the book, Sophie possess a certain kind of magical power - she makes things real by saying them. She can lay spells just by saying them. When she made hats, and she told a hat that it would make a rich young man fall in love with it, a rich young man fell in love with the woman who bought it. When she told a hat it would make some woman look beautiful, everyone knew the mayor’s wife looked positively radiant in it. It’s what drew the Witch to her hat shop in the first place.  When she cursed out a bucket of plant food, it turned to potent weed killer. When she told herself she might as well be an old woman, when she told herself she was doomed to fail, when she told herself she was plain and boring and no one would ever notice her, no one did.

When Howl tried to break the spell on Sophie, and he tried many times, he always failed. Not because his magic was less powerful than the Witch’s, but because it was less powerful than Sophie’s.

[wataksampingan]

In mine and many other east Asian cultures, the dragon traditionally symbolises things like power, wealth and strength (imperial symbol and all)

I think we often forget that in the story of the Great Race, the dragon came in fifth because it'd stopped to give people rain. Then it'd stopped again to push a rabbit adrift on a log across the wide river so it reached the shore safely (that's why the Rabbit year comes before the Dragon).

Dragons aren't meant to just be powerful - they are meant to do good with such power, and to help those in need.

So in this lunar new year, I hope you gain more power, so that you might be able to help others. I pray you have abundant resources so you may give to yourself and those around you. I wish you courage, endurance, kindness and generosity, for yourself and your people.

I hope you, and I, will be rain givers, life preservers, joy bringers.

I hope we will be dragons.

[furiousgoldfish]

It’s not your fault if you can’t get it together right now. It’s not your fault if all you can do is refresh social media or obsessively play video games or over-indulge in entertainment only to distract yourself from the pain because you can’t stand feeling it in full capacity all of the time. It’s not your fault if you can’t get up today, or clean or tidy up or make yourself presentable.

Distraction and rest as a form of easing pain is valuable. Anything you can do to make your pain more tolerable and less devastating is good for you! You’re not doing wrong by resting and distracting, you’re making your life somewhat livable. And it’s okay to want to be able to do more, but if this is all you can right now, know that you’re doing well. You are still as valuable and respectful as any human being, and you deserve nothing but compassion for having to deal with exhaustion and pain.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

If you're still breathing, it's not too late and you're not too old.

[aysonatelier]

at a certain point you just get tired of your own shit. you have to force yourself to meditate, workout, eat mindfully and read the books to form a routine that gives you a sense of happiness within yourself again. it’s exhausting i know, but you gotta keep fighting for yourself because no one will take care and love you the way you can for own being. this life is not something to go bout so casually, everyday is your first and last time to embrace this moment. this life was gifted to you with a planet to explore and souls to experience. so show up for yourself.

[ursulaklegay]

actually i love growing older and learning how i work as a person like realizing what kinds of fabrics feel best on my skin or what brand of yogurt i like best or how I want to be touched. watching myself change, enjoying brussel sprouts when I used to hate them as a child, understanding why I got angry in that one conversation 10 years ago… there are so many mysteries inside me that i have yet to unravel and there will always be more and sometimes i think maybe its all worth it

[mjalti]

im not being funny but artistry will save your life. music, painting, pottery, writing, carving, weaving, the act of creating will save you.

[furiousgoldfish]

It’s not your fault if you can’t get it together right now. It’s not your fault if all you can do is refresh social media or obsessively play video games or over-indulge in entertainment only to distract yourself from the pain because you can’t stand feeling it in full capacity all of the time. It’s not your fault if you can’t get up today, or clean or tidy up or make yourself presentable.

Distraction and rest as a form of easing pain is valuable. Anything you can do to make your pain more tolerable and less devastating is good for you! You’re not doing wrong by resting and distracting, you’re making your life somewhat livable. And it’s okay to want to be able to do more, but if this is all you can right now, know that you’re doing well. You are still as valuable and respectful as any human being, and you deserve nothing but compassion for having to deal with exhaustion and pain.

[winslowat3am]

"And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles."

— The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 🌿

[flowerais-deactivated20211031]

you are loved. on quiet days that feel meaningless, during long nights when loneliness consumes you, when you’re reminiscing and grieving the past, on good days that feel like warmth and light, always remember that you are loved.