#You Me and Herons

[hisnamesdylan]

Thinking about the calming effect seeing a heron had on George.

[reddenedrust]

Art for the unfinished Fic 'The Burning Yearning Need To Bleed'

[the-holy-ghosted]

god i miss when this artist posted (<- is the artist)

[swantranslations]

Miyazaki's Retirement Declarations (chronologically)

Translated from last week's NHK documentary on the production of The Boy and The Heron (more under cut). I saw people posting a screencap of this and I just couldn't contain myself. THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON WAY LONGER THAN I IMAGINED LMFAO

This is from the NHK programme "Professional - Their Working Philosophy" (プロフェッショナル 仕事の流儀) a few days ago (16/12/2023). The episode investigates the production process of The Boy and the Huron, and how the late Takahata Isao influenced the movie.

(It was confirmed within the documentary that Mahito = Miyazaki, Great Uncle = Takahata Isao, The Heron = Suzuki Toshio, Kiriko = Yasuda Michiyo)

The documentary is currently available on the NHK Streaming Service (Location Limited). If you have your own ways of watching and you know Japanese, I would definitely recommend the episode as it gives a lot of much-needed context to The Boy and The Heron. Personally, I haven't found a way to watch it yet, so all I know about the documentary are hearsay I saw on Japanese twitter.

Original screencap:

Also, at the very end of the episode, Miyazaki was shown working on a Naucicaa piece without any explanation, which led to many people speculating whether he could be working on a sequel for Naucicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

What do yall think? Do you think he's going to finally retire or release yet another animated film in a few years? I would love to see Naucicaa 2 but I also feel like he really needs to... yknow, chillax a bit and stuff. He deserves a long ass vacation.

[stil-lindigo]

image i made for a powerpoint night with friends

[hamable]

One concrete thought I have about The Boy and The Heron is that i believe the core of the story is Mahito overcoming the loss and grief of losing his mother and his home and life, and- after spending the latter half of the movie navigating a between space where souls exist before they’re born as well as other spirits- When Mahito re-emerges with his stepmother, they too are both reborn.

One other thing I’ll have to address later: so much of this film (and The Wind Rises as well!) resonates deeper after watching The Never Ending Man, the doc that came out in 2016 about Hayao Miyazaki. Knowing about losing his mother young, about looking up to strong women, about his father building airplanes and those filling him with wonder until WWII hit and they became tools of war. Knowing about how he views the world, used to view the world, and how he hopes to leave it; how he’s baffled death has not claimed him yet but taken everyone else- god, all of it informs so much of his movies especially his most recent ones. I’m so emo about this man.

[sygneth]

I have been talking to a friend of mine about how I see HDB as someone very affectionate physically towards his friends, and also how I assume that Jean and Harry had times of partying together a lot, and parties with Harry means dancing but they said "...I can't really see this" so this happened.

Enjoy two idiots dancing together.

[claudiaeparvier]

ʜᴇʀᴏɴ ᴜꜱɪɴɢ ʜɪꜱ ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀꜱ ᴛᴏ ᴋɪʟʟ ꜱᴇʀᴀᴘʜɪᴍ ᴠꜱ ʜᴇʀᴏɴ ᴜꜱɪɴɢ ʜɪꜱ ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀꜱ ᴛᴏ ꜱᴀᴠᴇ ꜱᴇʀᴀᴘʜɪᴍ

[erikahenningsen]

#grad school universe (4/?)

[lastoneout]

You know I did think that tweet that was like "have you never seen a movie before? you watch it and information is revealed" was a bit of an exaggeration but legit the three people behind me last night at 'The Boy and the Heron' not only were talking to each other for the ENTIRE runtime of the film, every SINGLE time anything interesting happened AT ALL they would instantly start being like "whos that? what's with the bird guy? isn't that the old lady from before? is that his grand-uncle? oh is her power fire? is that because she died in a fire? maybe she's not dead? oh is the world going to disappear? what's with the delivery room? why are they stacking blocks? is the tower from space?" and it took literally ALL of my fucking self-control to not turn around and ask them if they are aware of how movies work.

[starcrashedsatellite]

[juniper-clan]

Quick you’re being held at gunpoint assign a song to each cat

Finally!

Heronstar - Biking (I'm partial to the incoherent yelling at the end :))

Longstrike- Dearly Beloved

Slickpaw- Walking on My Grave

Twins: Temmie Village

The twins will get a better song when they stop being infants lol

[dragons-bones]

"So now that I've finished this set of working rows, I can start the cable row..."

A Blanket Season commission, done by the ever amazing @britishmuffin, of a quiet, soft moment with Dancing Heron and Zero! Zero doesn't quite know what to make of her lady's hobby, but nonetheless, she appreciates both Heron explaining, and the time together it nets them.

[governmentmandatedryujinstan420]

I FORGOT TO THROW OUT AFTER THE EPISODE RELEASED NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[shessoft]

This is a little prologue to tomorrow's prompt Day 2 - College

[the-holy-ghosted]

Fargo, s1 ep6 // Fragile - Sting // Fargo, s3 ep10