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🖤 Studio Ghibli 🖤

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elementary may have been copaganda but they were really onto something with their version of holmes he's autistic. he's a sub. he's canonically into bondage. he's a recovering addict. he keeps bees. he's tattooed AND hairy. his posture is insane. he texts in a near-undecipherable string of abbreviations and acronyms. he's the most irritating man in new york city. he's even aromantic

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Trump is found guilty on 34 out of 34 counts!

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Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy and the Heron” December 8, 2023.

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Miyazaki really said grief suffuses our entire world and everything and everyone we know but we get to choose what we do with it and whether we make the world better or worse because of it.

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I cant stop thinking about The Boy and the Heron.

It's horrifying. It's fantastical. It's tragic. It's beautiful. It's hopeful.

It's about grief. It's about family. It's about war. It's, "You don't have to walk the same path your ancestors did." It's "Your lived experience builds a world as deserving of your attention and care as your inner world" and "You inherited a flawed world, and you are flawed, and that is still beautiful" and "I made this beautiful thing and it's ending and that's just how it goes, but wasn't it beautiful?"

It makes me think about the worlds we make within ourselves and how they can be entrancing and wonderful even as they lead us to walk deeper into ourselves and away from those around us. It makes me think about connection, about how love can be so flawed sometimes but it is still something we need to hold onto. It asks "What if the monsters never asked to be monsters?" and "What if things can die before they're even born?"

It's about not being afraid of fire, not being afraid of endings, not being afraid of the world falling apart, of pain, of walking away, of reconciling, of finding new family and new love even as you mourn and miss what you lost.

It says, "Beautiful, wonderful things end, but afterwards, you can go home."

I'm going crazy.

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A Razzle, Mr. Flamhaff? Thank you, Mrs. Flamhaff. 13 Going on 30 (2004) dir. Gary Winick

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“When we first met, it was an evening much like this. Magic in the air. A boy.” “A girl.” “An open grave. It was my first funeral.”

The Addams Family (1991) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

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Matilda (1996) dir. Danny DeVito

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