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it has just occurred to me that maybe feeling like you have to trim your beard because you can't bear the feeling of the slightly-longer-than-stubble hair on your chin might not be normal and people with long beards aren't suffering 24/7
whenever i watch a video on youtube of someone talking about a game they love and they go "i love this game so much, i replay it every year!" i'm like oh you sweet summer child... you wait an entire YEAR..... you have no idea what i'm capable of.......
the social anxiety experience. i said something kind of embarassing in a text conversation and now i must spend all of the rest of the day wallowing in despair and not getting anything done my life is ruined
i've found a bright side! consider: this is the first time in MONTHS i've had an anxiety episode like this after a bad interaction. even though i've been constantly meeting new people since october. i used to feel like this practically every single time i talked to someone i wasn't close to. this is a small relapse but if that ain't progress i dont know what is
the social anxiety experience. i said something kind of embarassing in a text conversation and now i must spend all of the rest of the day wallowing in despair and not getting anything done my life is ruined
the big secret the government doesn't want you to know is that "sorry, i forget your name?" is a perfectly normal thing to say to someone you recently met
government secret #2 is that you can literally just turn to the person sitting beside you and say "hey what's your name" and they will respond and be friendly and you will live
government secret #3 is that you are not the only person who wants to meet ppl and make friends and if you're nice to someone they will likely be just as interested as you are in getting to know each other
the big secret the government doesn't want you to know is that "sorry, i forget your name?" is a perfectly normal thing to say to someone you recently met
government secret #2 is that you can literally just turn to the person sitting beside you and say "hey what's your name" and they will respond and be friendly and you will live
the big secret the government doesn't want you to know is that "sorry, i forget your name?" is a perfectly normal thing to say to someone you recently met
*dry food crunches* Ridiculously small kitten: “Myam myam myam. Njam njam njam njam njam njam njam! Myam myam myam nyam nyam myam. Mmmam. Mrrrrram. Meep!”
“For some time, Hollywood has marketed family entertainment according to a two-pronged strategy, with cute stuff and kinetic motion for the kids and sly pop-cultural references and tame double entendres for mom and dad. Miyazaki has no interest in such trickery, or in the alternative method, most successfully deployed in Pixar features like Finding Nemo, Toy Story 3 and Inside/Out, of blending silliness with sentimentality.”
“Most films made for children are flashy adventure-comedies. Structurally and tonally, they feel almost exactly like blockbusters made for adults, scrubbed of any potentially offensive material. They aren’t so much made for children as they’re made to be not not for children. It’s perhaps telling that the genre is generally called “Family,” rather than “Children’s.” The films are designed to be pleasing to a broad, age-diverse audience, but they’re not necessarily specially made for young minds.”
“My Neighbor Totoro, on the other hand, is a genuine children’s film, attuned to child psychology. Satsuki and Mei move and speak like children: they run and romp, giggle and yell. The sibling dynamic is sensitively rendered: Satsuki is eager to impress her parents but sometimes succumbs to silliness, while Mei is Satsuki’s shadow and echo (with an independent streak). But perhaps most uniquely, My Neighbor Totoro follows children’s goals and concerns. Its protagonists aren’t given a mission or a call to adventure - in the absence of a larger drama, they create their own, as children in stable environments do. They play.”
“Consider the sequence just before Mei first encounters Totoro. Satsuki has left for school, and Dad is working from home, so Mei dons a hat and a shoulder bag and tells her father that she’s “off to run some errands” - The film is hers for the next ten minutes, with very little dialogue. She’s seized by ideas, and then abandons them; her goals switch from moment to moment. First she wants to play “flower shop” with her dad, but then she becomes distracted by a pool full of tadpoles. Then, of course, she needs a bucket to catch tadpoles in - but the bucket has a hole in it. And on it goes, but we’re never bored, because Mei is never bored.”
“[…] You can only ride a ride so many times before the thrill wears off. But a child can never exhaust the possibilities of a park or a neighborhood or a forest, and Totoro exists in this mode. The film is made up of travel and transit and exploration, set against lush, evocative landscapes that seem to extend far beyond the frame. We enter the film driving along a dirt road past houses and rice paddies; we follow Mei as she clambers through a thicket and into the forest; we walk home from school with the girls, ducking into a shrine to take shelter from the rain; we run past endless green fields with Satsuki as she searches for Mei. The psychic center of Totoro’s world is an impossibly giant camphor tree covered in moss. The girls climb over it, bow to it as a forest-guardian, and at one point fly high above it, with the help of Totoro. Much like Totoro himself, the tree is enormous and initially intimidating, but ultimately a source of shelter and inspiration.”
“My Neighbor Totoro has a story, but it’s the kind of story that a child might make up, or that a parent might tell as a bedtime story, prodded along by the refrain, “And then what happened?” This kind of whimsicality is actually baked into Miyazaki’s process: he begins animating his films before they’re fully written. Totoro has chase scenes and fantastical creatures, but these are flights of fancy rooted in a familiar world. A big part of being a kid is watching and waiting, and Miyazaki understands this. When Mei catches a glimpse of a small Totoro running under her house, she crouches down and stares into the gap, waiting. Miyazaki holds on this image: we wait with her. Magical things happen, but most of life happens in between those things—and there is a kind of gentle magic, for a child, in seeing those in-betweens brought to life truthfully on screen.”
A.O. Scott and Lauren Wilford on “My Neighbor Totoro”, 2017.
every time this shows up on my blog, I’m rescheduling it to show up again at a later date so I can keep remembering how important a child’s perspective is.
not sure what to put as the caption but. yeah!!!!
Here’s my take on this.
Intersex bodies do not need correcting, intersex bodies are not unnatural. Intersex people deserve autonomy.
Stop nonconsensual intersex surgeries.
listening to Gravity Falls episode commentaries is great. Alex Hirsch nearly worked himself to death constantly. Grunkle Stan was nearly voiced by Matt Chapman of Homestar Runner. Literally nothing aside from the twist about Stan having a twin was planned more than a few episodes in advance. The zodiac wheel meant nothing and consisted of random symbols from the first 7 episodes because the intro was animated after those were done. Alex came up with the term “search for the blind eye” to be an extra bit for the between-season shorts before deciding to actually have a payoff for that setup and writing Society of the Blind Eye. Bill was meant to be a joke character and when Alex suggested that he be a real villain Michael Rianda responded “You, my friend, have lost the plot.” Bill getting one episode in the spotlight was basically chance and he only became the main villain of season 2 because he was so popular with the fans. The reveal of the portal at the end of season 1 was suggested by Mike without thinking it through and he left before the next season and the other writers were SO ANNOYED after that went through because they somehow had to keep that plot going for the 10 episodes it’d take to actually pay off. I am genuinely astonished that this show came together as well as it did at all.
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dont you ever get pissed off abt how many opportunities usa writers and artists have for just the fact they were born in the usa
theres so much i could say about this but do i want to or do i want to just mind my own business
this was inspired by me going thru random generators and trying to find a nice pseudonym for myself for my published fiction but its just so much more. books in balkans dont sell; and im not only coming from my position as a traditionally published author but my colleagues who are famous and established writers still dont earn a cent from writing and publishing in our mothertongue.
if you want writing to be your career, you better live in the imperial core and speak an imperial language. and if you dont, you have to work 200% harder than imperial authors because you have to either: 1) get your works translated which costs money 2) learn the language yourself and write in it, which actually isnt as easy as it sounds (though it probably does to the 90% anglo users of this site). 3) good luck with self-publishing under your non-imperial name lmfao 4) traditional publishing? probably out of reach for you in any case 5) no access to festivals/marketing/community etc 6) the algorithm, which shows people things "from their area" actively works against you.
im also an artist, i have an animation degree, im paid way less and have to take on dirt cheap work, i am not even considered for a job when the employers see my name, i have no access to studios or (proper) education, and i was forced to learn the imperial language JUST to make even a small dent in my art career. i would not be able to do what i do if i didnt speak english. not only did i have to learn the craft i also had to learn the fucking language. you have so many tutorials and books and everything available - while the rest of us dont.
ace attorney investigations 2 is just
edgeworth: *started investigating two minutes ago*
gavelle: hello mr edgeworth fuck you *explains her batshit convoluted theory purely meant to incriminate the suspect who is obviously innocent*
edgeworth: that doesn't make any sense tho
gavelle: oh so you don't actually care about the truth huh? about justice? you're a disgrace to the legal system and you should go to hell. you're fired
winner: FIRE?? *calls the fire department*
ok this was really funny though
ace attorney investigations 2 is just
edgeworth: *started investigating two minutes ago*
gavelle: hello mr edgeworth fuck you *explains her batshit convoluted theory purely meant to incriminate the suspect who is obviously innocent*
edgeworth: that doesn't make any sense tho
gavelle: oh so you don't actually care about the truth huh? about justice? you're a disgrace to the legal system and you should go to hell. you're fired
winner: FIRE?? *calls the fire department*
Stickers seen around NYC in the days after cops opened fire in the NYC subway, shooting a fellow officer, two bystanders, and an alleged "fair evader" they were attempting to apprehend.
