#but I'm gonna reveal this later...

[carlfromjohnnybravo]

Y'know what, maybe I should use this blog to talk abt The Cuphead Show, Stickler, my oc and my ships (yumeshipping included), like I used to back in the good old days of late 2010's, carefree, careless, cringe but free

[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.

[lousolversons]

Soundtracks: Severance, Season 1 (Apple TV+)

[etoilesombre]

You know what? People shouldn't feel bad about liking things in fandom, or creating things that make them happy. I'm absolutely vagueposting, but this really isn't about one post, it's about a tone I've noticed popping up again lately from multiple people (including people I follow and generally respect!)

-"They absolutely cannot fuck! So crazy people would think about that and be into it, it would break canon! "

-"Mod AU doesn't work, they're Serious Characters they aren't gonna run a coffee shop its OOC! "

-"Actually, fun fluffy fic about them at all during a certain era doesn't work!"

I get it. I agree with a fair part of it. People post all kinds of asinine shit that I hate actually. But you know where I bitch about it? Privately in group chat.

Let people fucking have fun. I get the sense that many people come to this fandom specifically because it's Serious and Challenging and you want to Do Serious Analysis. I think a lot of folks around these parts either are in school and not having a good time about it, or wish that they had gone into better academia that doesn't really exist, and they're getting that need met here. And that's great! For real!

But you know what else is fine? People who either don't have that need, or are getting it met in other parts of their lives, and come here for stress relief and a fun free hobby.

Of course they can't fuck for real! It's not in the text, they simply don't. But the tension is obviously written in, and playing with possibilities can be fun! Also if you can't see how it could happen and still not fix shit, that's a skill issue. Fic authors aren't stupid, we don't fail to understand canon, but not everything has to be everything all the time. Sometimes you want to do all the work and try to match the level of writing in the show, and sometimes you want to have something nice and easy. The show is REALLY well written and what it needs to be, the point of transformative works is playing with what it's NOT. Some people cope with fluff, or good ending everybody lives AUs, and it might be so totally valid to look down on that, but maybe being publicly correct might be less important than being kind?

Actually, the main thing I want to say is that if YOU reading this are a person who wants to write a cute coffeeshop AU, or be horny on main about your boys kissing, it's actually fine!! At least, it historically has been fine. This is a really small fandom now and not that many people are actively creating, please don't be discouraged by this stuff, because the people who criticize on tumblr are actually not the majority. The REASON they criticize is that, if you go to AO3 and sort by kudos, much of it is this super sweet OOC stuff! It looks like that's most of what there is, because a lot of readers in the wild who watch the show and look up fic like it!

Anyway. Let people have fun, it doesn't cost you anything, and not every thought needs to be public. It actually does discourage people.

[asmodeusamaryllis]

Hearing hoping nothing she does impacts her later/those drugs don't fuck her system up too bad

[enbysiriusblack]

black-latino remus lupin who never bothered learning his parents' languages but finds out sirius is fluent in loads and makes lyall teach his welsh and italian and hope to teach him spanish and french, just to try to impress sirius

[yuseirra]

Keep repeating the same thing over and over again but the emotion Kamiki seems to display about Ai's... Really very close to loss and affection. I don't see this guy havlng ever tried to harm her in any way. There's too little of what's been shown, but at least.. What's actually been shown of him regarding his own feelings towards Ai doesn't seem to be that inconsistent.

In short, he simply could not bear having lost her. He couldn't accept the fact that she doesn't exist anymore because she died- not just dead but got killed because she had his children. I believe he must have wanted to do something about that. He seems to have believed whatever he'd done could change that reality somehow?? That's what's been driving him. But why...did he believe that is? How did he become this twisted;

I can sense a lot of despair coming from this guy and that actually pains me because it's not acknowledged or recognized so well...; what am I supposed to make of this guy?; is he really that terrible? I think he was driven insane because he really missed that one person who's meant everything for him, but; this comic just ditches it and drowns him so; everything feels so unresolved.

They say losing a significant other can bring the strongest emotional pain for someone, so he's feeling something very intense I guess. I don't see him as the selfish, ignorant, manipulative monster when it came to his feelings towards Ai at least? So what's happened must have given him a terrible time. I feel it. If it weren't, they shouldn't write him this way. I actually wish I didn't because I sense this huge despair of what someone may feel upon having lost their half?? And that makes me feel really bad, but does he deserve this sort of reaction? The writing is so cruel. What he's had really seems to be love and a pretty genuine type at that but the work makes it confusing. So what is this;

The feeling they seem to be holding towards each other seem to be really tender and sweet and it actually does make sense but at the same time, if it is, just why write the plot like this at all???

Anyhow, he's been grieving about Ai ever since she passed. And it NEVER got any better. He never healed, and he's never been happy once after she was gone. That's what I get from Kamiki and I feel that really strongly when I see the behavior he has and it's surprising. He's supposed to be evil, isn't he? But I think he really loved her. Why do I keep picking up this type of emotion. His mentality really is that of someone who's lost someone really dear though, I wonder how it's getting across when he seems out of it and there isn't so much of him that we get to see. Could be the songs?; I wish they did explore this part of him more in depth because it is there. He did care for Ai.

[hell0mega]

okay wait re: ur tags on foreshadowing ur talking abt john dies at the end right????? cuz if so i know EXACTLY what u mean ti was SO GOOD ive read that book a dozen times!!! (side note if u have never read the sequel you absolutely should, its an INCREDIBLE follow up!!!)

YES!!!!!!! i'm so glad someone caught it and knows what i'm talking about!! it's GREAT and tbfh so is Spiders! i haven't read the third one yet though cuz i'm the worst at reading lol but i've read jdate several times since 2011 and it's great every time

[hyp-fixator]

Is this lore? Potentially. Did I have a prompt stuck in my head from a hyperlaser headcannon that I couldn't get out of my head and worked so well in the ANIMALS! au I had to draw it even though it was stupidly late?... yes.

Diologue under the cut if needed!

Page 1

"SKYDRONE! Come down to my office immediately. I have a job offer."

"YES- of course Subspace."

"Come in."

Page 2

"Business?"

"The job offer."

"Ah." "Eager to get back on the job. Even after your suspension." "I can respect an eager mindset."

"these are the job details." "I need you to secure data on a location." "It should be easy. Just a hotel in the Thieves Den."

"Why send me then?"

"Hmm?"

"If it's just a hotel, why send a spy?"

"I have some theories about the residents." "Particularly on the top floor."

Page 3

"Everything you'll need notes-wise will be in the box." "Now get out."

~~~~

"Where are you going."

"Oh- uh. The Thieves Den."

"Thank you."

"uh. Why ask?"

"Nothing."

"Really?"

"Yes."

~~~~

"Hyper."

"Subspace."

"I have a job for you."

[hwanwooyoung]

preparing for my job interview on friday and i'm researching the company and it just dawned on me the company i'm interviewing for and i swear if i mess this up i'm never going to recover from it ever

[charcubed]

sometimes you spend a couple hours working on writing out a post that no one needs and then you aren't even sure you want to finish it

[springtrappd]

do the afton stannies losing their minds over movie!afton humming in the trailer know about frights' afton amalgamation humming to self-soothe with its too-many hands and mouths and faces. are you guys aware that he does this

[xomoosexo]

oh ok yeah I knew punz wasn’t the father I was just lost lol bc first it was this big reveal not so long ago then this tweet I was starting to think I’d gone insane or smth

don't worry anon it was phrased strangely

[puppet-limbo]

Ok so I haven't seen episode 5 of Vol 9 yet, but I've seen a clip of The Reveal in it and of course been reading people's thoughts on the episode and such

And I just wanted to mention I just realised we don't have long to go, do we?

This volume is almost done, where SOME sort of conclusion/climax is supposed to happen and we assume RWBY gets home to Remnant

But I'm also realizing that they're gonna dedicate so much time to Jaune and his trauma over Penny, how Ruby (and maybe the others. Who knows. They haven't given a real shit since Weiss in episode 1) will handle Penny's death when she finds out the details, how whatever bullshit has to occur to get to the tree and go home, Neo somehow, and more Jaune....

Like, I don't think there's supposed to be many episodes left, yet this is what's happening??? How is it all gonna fit without giving whiplash??

Also Summer??? How are they ever going to address everything before the end??

Ruby still needs to "find" herself, deal with Penny, deal with Summer, find her weapon maybe, deal with/bid farewell to Little, deal with Jaune, deal with Neo, never deal with the citizens who also fell with them--

Like there's just so much.

[wereh0gz]

When you feel the itch to draw but don't wanna go downstairs to get your sketchbook or computer and drawing tablet so you break out the notes app and scribble w your finger instead

[a9saga]

i bet you probably think from the text posts i make that big brother is the only show i watch in 2023. well it’s not. i also watch the twilight zone & blue’s clues.