#[common animated w]

[yardsards]

"i don't ship laios and marcille-" oh yeah same, their relationship is so much more compelling to me viewed through a platonic lens than a romantic one

"-like, marcille clearly hates laios" are we reading/watching the same series??? did you just stop after the first couple chapters??? look at their relationship development, that's her friend! her bestie, even!!!

[oatmealcrisp-freak]

"Saiki K is an MP100 ripoff!"

[redjockfrog]

first time drawing sticks in months and of course it’s still chonny jash. /silly

had the concept of Heart as a normal stick, Mind as a hollowhead, and Soul as some sort of half n half for literal months! and i finally remembered how to draw sticks after drawing cj doodles for so long lmao

but hopefully i can get into the ava flow again now…

[strawberrysnipes]

MIZUKANA ICONS !!

no one requested, self indulgent!

psd by me and @koebi

please like/rb if you use/save!

[apuff]

so many layers

[corviiids]

light yagami i like you so much and that is my personal problem

[dandeyrain]

i've been rotating the "this doesn't make any sense!" response to boy and the heron in my head and i wonder how much of it comes down to like...the kind of audience that engages with ghibli movies vs the kind of audience that mostly only engages with weird art movies vs the kind of audience that only really engages with blockbusters and marvel movies, and the overlap of those groups in the theater.

because, like, the boy and the heron is far and away more straightforward, from a plot perspective, than a lot of other Weird Extremely Personal Art Movies i've seen and love, but it IS a Weird Extremely Personal Art Movie even so. usually the only people seeing Weird Extremely Personal Art Movies, especially in theaters, are people who like that and expect that and have seen those types of films before and are therefore capable of engaging with them even when things aren't as clear as they'd be in an average blockbuster flick. like, nobody who only cares about Cinema to the extent of marvel movies and MAYBE john wick is going to see beau is afraid, and if they did they wouldn't have the tools to engage with such a dream-logicy movie. it would just be a weird thing that doesnt make sense to them, at least until they worked their media engagement muscles with other weird films. there's a lot of self-selection to the kind of person who usually sees these kind of movies.

while boy and the heron is weirder and more complex than a lot of other ghibli movies, as far as weird art films go it is incredibly, INCREDIBLY straightfoward. every weird plot point is explained very clearly to the audience, very little is up for interpretation from a strictly "what was the plot" point of view. boy loses mother. father remarries and moves the family. boy struggles to contend with grief. boy is pulled into a magical world by an old man who wants to use him. time is weird and fucked up in the magical world, but the movie is going to go out of it's way to highlight who's who and make it clear how the time travel works and the characters' relations to one another. the boy refuses to take over the magical world because he wants to live in the real world with the real people he loves. boy leaves the magical world having learned an important lesson about moving on. but the boy and the heron trusts its audience, doesn't handhold, and expects the audience to engage seriously and with focus to its plot and characters and stories.

a lot of people never watch movies like that! a lot of people are used to uncomplicated superhero movies and romcoms and that's it. the difference is that those people were never going to see beau is afraid, so the discussion about that movie instead comes from people who have the tools to engage with it. but because of the aesthetic-ification of ghibli, a lot of people who don't Do art films but are really into the aesthetics of cute little guys and girls in pretty dresses went to this art film and were confused that it was weird and dream-like and dark and strange and requires more of its audience than just passively watching.

anyway there's nothing wrong with not having the muscles to engage with weird art films, though i do think everyone should challenge themselves with the kind of stuff they watch. there's nothing wrong with preferring simple straightforward uncomplicated plotlines. but it is really interesting seeing people talk about the movie like it's insanely weird and doesnt make any sense meanwhile me and the friends i've chatted with about who DO have experience with this kind of film all feel insane because the movie is SO clear and SO straightforward by the standards we're used to. its just a neat crossover re: the kinds of movie fans that exist

[toeybox]

"Lowry" African wild dog by Charlie Bears product ID: BB183807 Bearhouse Bears Collections 2018 [info]

[id: a semirealistic plush African wild dog sitting down with its legs forward, like a teddy bear. it has round brown ears with tufts of fur, a tan head with a dark face, and dark brown plastic eyes with a small white fabric rim. it has a shaggy brown body and white-and-black spotted arms and legs. an iridescent pinkish-yellow ribbon is tied in a bow around its neck. /end id]

[5-pp-man]

i was right btw.

[strebcr-a]

🦇 If this is wrong and so naive. Let me be wrong and so naive!

An independent selective headcanon based Streber from Spooky month. Written, loved, and haunted by Pineapple! Promo and divider made by @beyondbinaries

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All this time, I only thought: “Sorry. And hey...I loved you a lot” 🦇

[lazaruspiss]

done w social media aus where they all have that [name] [sexuality] [age] [pronouns] format. need 2 make my own parody pages for them. diversify bio styles

[starredforest]

I know this isn't the most popular opinion but I miss the days when anime would diverge from the source material often enough that I could assume the show might bring something new to the table. Id love to crack open into a manga or vn or something these days and feel like I wasn't spoiling the show that I am currently waiting to come out on a week by week basis. As someone who generally enjoys the animation side of things, I also feel like wanting to enjoy the show and staying spoiler free while getting to engage in a community in any way is harder to do now than it was when like, soul eater or FMA were initially releasing.

I understand wanting an adaptation to be concise and accurate, but it's become so much the norm there's a part of me that wonders what the point of watching these shows are unless you already enjoy the property involved, plan to start investing in the property past what's available in animation, avoid spoilers to the best of your ability, or just steel yourself and take the spoilers that are considered commonplace within the community.

And it's not like it's wrong to enjoy a property this way, but man. I miss waiting for a show to come out, miss when it wasn't just damning for the enjoyment of the thing.

[slowdrippingnoise]

yknow that thing people will do on here where they give lip service to "morality" being an abstract construct made up by humans- then try to link that into "if X thing is a natural behavior for humans, its Good" or something like that. makes me a little nuts

[sp4ceboo]

ai rant in tags bc im so fucking tired

[skyarly]

hey isn't that the one episode where gary got his ass kicked by mewtwo at the gym

[stonyponyofficial]

prabably a therian but i unfortunately have a job that requires me being human so i don't have time for that rn