#MIYAZAKI TEARS

[hamable]

I’m thinking about Mahito’s great great uncle maintaining and preserving a peaceful and beautiful thing in a way that to an outside observer looks tedious and unimportant, hoping to pass the duty off to a successor but ultimately he cannot find one and dies with it.

I’m thinking about the specificity of the blocks being made and handled with care, not with malice or ill intent.

I’m thinking about Hayao Miyazaki, a bastion of beautiful 2d hand drawn animation who refuses to retire.

I’m thinking about a world where animation is so rarely made with love over profit and efficiency.

I’m thinking about how, though the old man didn’t see it, the next generation still hangs onto a piece of that beautiful, tedious thing and takes it with them because it feels important.

I’m thinking about Mahito being told he should forget, but no. He shouldn’t.

[solasisms]

#worship from supplicants for the god fen harel for what services and protection he can provide. versus.#worship from a woman he loves and respects for the simple man thag he is and the body -- suddenly now not wretched -- that he inhabits#and she wishes nothing more from him than that he feel loved#whatever man. im fine.

topic is body worship. i think solas would WANT to be the one worshipping. hand in hand with a larger atonement is making it up to lavellan, and part of that is expressing how much he adores every inch of her. ensuring she never doubts his love, after he failed and hurt her. right. but god thinking about solas being the subject of worship from lavellan. man who never wanted a body, who i imagine always viewed it practically -- a form that he took in order to accomplish specific goals. and spent years drowning in the blood he drew. saint of a woman who loved him despite and through it all kisses his fingertips and tastes no blood, traces battle scars with gentle hands. man who doesn't fully believe he deserves her love experiencing it directly, openly. touches and caresses and plain, soft words. he'd cry through it is what I'm saying.

[pierppasolini]

The Boy and the Heron (2023) // dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[links-bomb-arrows-go-brr]

WHY WOULD YOU DO A LIVE ACTION LEGEND OF ZELDA MOVIE WITH SONY WHEN STUDIO GHIBLI AND HAYAO MIYAZAKI ARE RIGHT THERE!!!!!!

[foldingfittedsheets]

Once you meet someone, you never really forget them.

[3vilbard]

i will commit murder to have ghibli studio make a totk movie

but in the meantime have this art i guess :(

[mycabbagesbitch]

[snckt]

the library doesn’t open until ten

[memingursa]

So, it’s going to be awful.

Ah

[wrishwrosh]

URGENTLY need to learn how to draw birds so i can do boy and the heron fanart

[princekirijo]

I personally don't care too much for the game awards but someone come wake me up if Elden Ring dlc news drops

[yukinyaminyato]

going to the movies to see boy and the heron tonight im soooo excited 🥹🥹🥹🥹💓💓💓💓

[thephilosophersapprentice]

If Breath of the Wild is "Princess Mononoke," Tears of the Kingdom is "Castle in the Air."

Evidence:

Travel between the sky, ground, and underground

Mysterious minerals that can be used to make magitech and that are running out or becoming rarer. Also they glow.

Ancient civilizations

Literal sky islands

Constructs

[princeisolde]

My absolute 100% of all time favorite Ghibli film.

Porco Rosso (1992) - dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[izunias-meme-hole]

Oh Miquella... what a guy.

In all seriousness though, after like a few weeks of Shadow of The Erdtree being out and grasping the environmental storytelling of it all, I can easily say that Miquella was certainly something. On one hand he 100% betrays the very idea of being a 100% shining beacon of hope, of being someone that you'd trust with your life, and there some cracks in his writing due to some slight disconnect between the DLC and main game (like that Radahn shit is kinda questionable from a writers standpoint). On the other hand he's a good antagonist because his ultimate end goal to make a better world did start from a genuine place.

He wanted to heal his sister, he wanted Radahn to not be a warmonger, he genuinely wanted an era of love and compassion. However, the second he sent Malenia to kill Radahn so his soul to be brought back, and the second he used his charm to convert Mohg into a worse type of creep just to buy himself more time to achieve his goal, the second that he used his gift to charm others as a method of brainwashing, was where he started tearing himself apart. From there, he would go to the Land of Shadows and discard parts of himself, including St. Trina, his love and from moment on he would go to the Gate of Divinity to be reborn as a god. Hell, St. Trina even says that Miquella ascending to godhood would cage him, ultimately making all this self mutilation and brainwashing for nothing.

Miquella wanted to heal a world that was utterly broken beyond repair by his mother's actions, which is understandable. He wanted to make things better, but had a lack of understanding on how bad the damage was, and when he did gain that understanding he broke himself down. He broke himself down out of willful ignorance, believing that he and he alone could make things better by doing this, until he ultimately became a different being from when he started. In short, Miquella The "Kind" is the metaphorical corpse of Miquella The Unalloyed.

I don't know if this was Miyazaki's intention from the start, but it ultimately works for what it is IMO, despite the more flawed bits of the execution.