Please, reblog! IIt’s called self defense. Apart from having here, in the US, one of the highest cases of homicide and rape in the world and high rate of GBV, think about how this could help your mother or sister
Millicent Patrick was an actress, makeup artist, special effects designer and animator. Patrick was credited as the first female animator at Walt Disney Studios, and creator of the iconic Gill-man costume for the movie Creature from the Black Lagoon, and also spent time as an actress and makeup designer. (Source)
What she means: In Howl’s Moving Castle Sophie goes back in time and witnesses Howl making his original deal with Calcifer thus discovering the way to break Howl’s curse and before she leaves she tells Howl to find her in the future and if you recall to the beginning of the movie Howl saves Sophie from some highly questionable and rapey soldiers and tells her “there you are sweetheart, sorry I’m late, I’ve been looking everywhere for you” because he took what she told him as a child to heart and has been looking for her ever since and if that’s not the tightest shit ever I don’t know what is
So for my D&D campaign, I decided to make one of the main locations that the party goes to a society that live atop floating mountains in the sky. Pretty fucking cool. Especially since they live among dragons and have a system with them.
Their characters were undoubtedly terrified because they are like way up there, and were worried about how the islands could stay in the sky- but they didn’t actually ask.
So when it came to them having a talk with the leader of this society, Samuel, you wanna know the actual questions they fucking asked him? The questions that their hearts wanted to know about my god damn fantasy land? Emphasis on the fantasy?
“What is the population of this society?”
“Do you trade with neighboring countries? What is the export you’re well known for?”
“You farm, what is the soil like up here? And what things to you grow that are like your specialty?”
“What is your based economy?”
YEAH. YEAH. DON’T FUCKING ASK ABOUT THE DRAGONS HERE. DON’T ASK HOW THE ISLANDS ARE FLOATING OR HOW THERE ARE BARRIERS. LET’S HAVE AN IN DEPTH CONVERSATION ABOUT THE SOIL QUALITY.
I didn’t think of half the shit they asked because I didn’t think they would ask LEGITIMATE SOCIETAL QUESTIONS. I’D BE LIKE “FUCK YEAH DRAGONS, MAY I PET THEM?” BUT THESE FUCKERS? NOPE! TELL ME ABOUT THE DIRT ON THE MAGICAL FLOATING MOUNTAINS IN THE SKY.