#i based his outfit off of porco rosso's

[katlyntheartist]

For the art request, maybe you could draw Mr. L? I'm really curious to see what he would look like in your style!

[freebooter4ever]

so ive been slowly making my way through all the miyazaki films on h b o max during meal times when i can sit and watch with subtitles, and im on porco rosso now and roughly halfway through...

i almost didnt want to watch this movie bc back when i got sucked into the social circle of my friend's entertainment grad school, i met this guy dressed as a pig for halloween who had on 30s era flight gear and i was like hey cool! But he got super mad and combative about me never having seen porco rosso (and me arguing spirited away is the best) and when i tried to get away from the conversation he wouldnt let me leave (this happened outside on the steps of the group house and he was standing at the bottom with me at the top unable to leave), and my friend chris (shorter than 6ft tall pig dude but much more muscular and fit) came over to help, and pig dude started threatening to beat up chris bc of my not having seen this movie. and i had to be like WOAH woah, first off i have a black belt and you are out of shape, if anyone is doing beating up it is ME i can defend myself, second of all wtf? and then chris and i extricated ourselves from the situation before pig dude went crazy on us. ANYWAY my point is, having realized how shitty horrible the pig protagonist of the movie is, and how his love interest is a young girl with red hair and bangs who is italian american with multi genrations of engineers and flight mechanics in her family...yeah. i am now realizing he was angry at me bc he based his entire identity on this movie and then met someone who fulfilled everything about this love interest character except for the fact that i wasnt enamored by a man dressed as a pig LOL. at the time i was regularly dying my hair purple on oct 13th for my grandma's birthday and by the time halloween hit every year it faded to bright red in the light with purple highlights, and i had bangs, and i had been explicitly asking the pig dude about the flight outfit bc of my history with my italian dad and grandpa and aviation. so there we go...decade long mystery solved! dont fucking talk to men -_- like ever lol. my friends to this day remain friends with this guy even though chris (who was out of the social circle, i had brought him as my guest) and i told them pig dude was out of line and scary angry. and pig dude now works in the gaming industry! isnt the everyday sexism of life grand?