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[kukuro-cheli]

Mean Girls (2004) House MD (2009)

[chibird]

You made it to the end of the year!!! 🥳 Congratulations on making it through all the challenges and doing your best. I hope there were some good memories this year, and may the final stretch be filled with peace and joy. 🙏

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[tamapalace]

happy 29th birthday, Tamagotchi!! 🎉

[anxietyproblem]

[tamapalace]

🏝️🕶️👕🌴☀️

[nyanrial]

sleepover!! 💤

[kamyru]

No one: Nothing

Voltage *creates one of the most relatable characters ever*:

[roydeezed]

One thing for those who have watched The Boy and The Heron or will watch it. The Japanese title for it is How Do You Live? And Miyazaki stated he was leaving it for his grandson, saying, "Grandpa is moving onto the next world soon but he is leaving behind this film".

The deaths of contemporaries and friends such as Satoshi Kon and Isao Takahata and also the expected successor of Yoshifumi Kondo were things that have always weighed heavily on the back of Miyazaki's mind.

He recognizes the industry and the occupation for how soul crushing it was, grinding up either the spirit or the physical body of those who work in it. He loves and hates the industry he stands on the peak of and fully recognizes how it will probably be the death of him. And he knows it'll leave him unable to say a lot of things to his Grandson.

So How Do You Live? is a lesson. For his grandson. For himself. For his two sons. And probably for anyone else willing to pay attention.

Hayao Miyazaki is a flawed man that makes things so important to so many people. And I think more than any other film of his, in this you get to pull back the curtain a bit and see him at work. And what should be this giant unblemished titan can be seen for what he is, a sad old man who had higher hopes for himself and has even higher hopes for the people he makes his work for.

It's a beautiful thing to see another's humanity in their work. To look past the artifice and glam of commercialized art and find humans behind it. And humans willing to show their humanity and mortality is even rarer. And something to be celebrated. So when you watch it. Or if you've watched it already. Understand that this film is Miyazaki kneeling down, weary after years of weaving dreams and making mistakes, reaching out and saying to you that he hopes you can do better. It's an old man who's made all the mistakes of the world passing it on to you, hoping you do better, and making sure you know it's okay if you don't.

How do you Live? By making mistakes. By messing up. But still moving forward. And still reaching out.

[thelionofthenorth]

[qifrei]

Porco Rosso (1992) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[pizzacast]

Studio Ghibi kids when they encounter a magical guide or animal: wow, amazing! I’m going to follow it and trust it.

Mahito with the heron:

[mcpirita]

Semi-motivational quotes from Hayao Miyazaki

[aivarizhtml]

this man is the synonym of tiredness

[regina-cordium]

Guy just walked in with a shirt that said “I don’t question my wife’s choices because I’m one of them” and frankly I’m obsessed

[junkfoodcinemas]

Starship Troopers (1997) dir. Paul Verhoeven

[tyrannusimons]

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

Murdered the entire squad

[beaniebaneenie]

THIS. This shit right here is why any adaptation that has Daphne as a “bitchy popular girl” stereotype and Fred as a “popular jock” stereotype are totally wrong.

They both self-ID as fucking NERDS.

[whitehairedanimeboyfriend]

Fred is obsessed with setting traps and Daphne is an aspiring mystery novelist… in what world are they not nerds.

[chibird]

New cherry blossom buddies to motivate you! 🌸

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[chibird]

I hope 2024 is a lot of things, but I truly hope it brings more peace in the world. 💛

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