#i'm sure it's a legal thing

[tuiyla]

I’m really sad they cut quite a few things like songs etc I wonder if Ryan will ever release them and bloopers I wish someone asked him in interviews/ podcast

There's so much unreleased Glee stuff sitting in a Fox vault somewhere. Well, not physically sitting, though some of it must be. I was listening to Seasons of Love s3 version the other day and thinking about this. Insane. I wish the fully recorded songs all got released one day, like come the fuck on. We have fully recorded songs of Naya just sitting on some hard drive do they not know how infuriating that is. Other cast members too of course but for understandable reasons I'm most concerned about never released Santana songs. I'm aware of three tracks she supposedly features on. And bloopers too, though iirc RM has said before he doesn't do bloopers on his shows.

[bigtiddygothhusband]

i did a little twins gender swap for funzies. its really fun to me how little i think would change about how they dress lol. Also yes i got lazy with dippers arms i did her sketch last night and wasnt planning on doing anything with it originally lol.

[not-poignant]

Just saw your post about Ghibli + elements of grotesque with the Nausicaa gifset and how you wrote an essay comparing it to Shinto philosophy and I had to ask - you didn't happen to write that for an IB film class did you?? Cause that would be a WILD coincidence if so, bc I'm doing IB film rn and one of our extended essay examples was literally exactly that; an analysis/comparison of Ghibli movies and Shinto philosophy/religion and it was really really good.

Even if not, that's so cool!! I adore Ghibli and totally agree with the points you left in the tags of that post. Ghibli is about confronting the uncomfortable and ugly and grotesque and scary and acknowledging it as a valid and necessary part of life. Everything in balance!! Sure there are some more cutesy kiddy films which I feel have become more mainstream but especially films like Nausicaa have very real and important messages that often get overlooked :( I was really scared of Nausicaa when I was a child and now it's one of my favourite films!!

Anyway, you're awesome, I agree with your takes and Ghibli rocks 💪

Hi anon!

So this is going to be a wild journey, strap in.

I don't know what IB Film is. I did my thesis in a final year university unit specifically where we all developed our own thesis subject, had a supervisor, and it was basically a test run to do first class Honours (which lets you bypass a Masters degree and go straight to the PhD, which I then intended to do). It was a limited class that only had about 10 people in it, I believe. My supervisor was the head of the film department.

Now, this was back in about 2004. Shit I'm old. Ghibli wasn't a household name. It wasn't streaming anywhere. You couldn't get DVDs easily, and if you wanted them you had to make sure you had a region unlocked DVD player to deal with the DRM and then buy them from overseas. Most people were only getting exposed to these films if they were regular cinema-goers, or if they were an aggressive pirate via downloading torrents (which I was). The only place you could get Ghibli merch pretty much was Japan. It absolutely did not have the kind of traction it has now, no one could do a class on it outside of Japan because the majority of students would have no idea what you were talking about.

I think Disney/Lasseter had picked up the option to do dubs, but for the most part, if we were seeing these at the cinema, they were subbed.

So that's the context! That was in an era where I was the one directly getting all of my friends on Livejournal and in person, into Studio Ghibli. I went to the Ghibli film festival back before Spirited Away came out, and that got me hooked years previous.

In 2004 I did my thesis. At the time I was the only person in the English speaking world to do a thesis specifically on my thesis subject. It had been covered briefly in sentences like 'Miyazaki practices Shinto' etc. and there was one other unpublished thesis I was able to find that talked about concepts of Shinto and some of Miyazaki's films which helped me a lot with my thesis.

I went on a deep dive into Shinto. Because it was a thesis, I had to research a lot into the difference between folk and shrine Shinto (Ghibli films lean very 'folk' but there are moments of shrine Shinto), and ended up with a pretty baller reference list. But many, many, many more resources online and off have come out since. I'd find the thesis very easy to do if I was doing it now.

Because I was the first to kind of present my findings in a thesis like this, the thesis ended up getting published in a book on animism and then journeyed further on because it was of interest to people who are interested in representations of animism in mass media, especially popular mass media.

The specific focus of my thesis statement was the difference between the black and white puritanical morality of Disney, the most popular animation studio for children and adults at the time, versus Miyazaki's mixed morality and more nuanced explorations of good and evil, villains, heroes and antiheroes in Ghibli animations, and how that was at least partly founded in the difference between a more Christianised versus Shinto mindset in relation to nature and intersections with humanity.

Idk, something like that.

The thesis did well! I got my high distinction, got my invitation into first class Honours, and then was too sick to go on and get the PhD and teach about these things, which was what I fully intended to do!

My thesis got some traction over the years, published in a few places both online and in at least two books (one that I own, the other I forget because it's been oh my god like 20 years), so the idea got around!

Anon, there is actually a chance - a small chance - that the only reason you're getting this essay subject in a more standardised curriculum is because my thesis made its way into the public eye 20 years ago and got quite popular. It was never peer reviewed or anything, it wasn't a PhD thesis and didn't need to be, it was mostly just a very well-researched (if I do say so myself) collation of thoughts on the subject as someone is also a practicing animist. In retrospect I really wish I'd incorporated more of Zipe's teachings but he was in a completely different field to media studies and my supervisor didn't know about him to suggest him.

Discussions of Ghibli, Miyazaki and Shinto became a lot more popularised as Ghibli got more popular and people in the western world discovered that there were already a published essay (at the time people could read it without paying for it as I'd put it up online for folks to access) that linked to other sources and the unpublished essay I'd found. So...

Um, yeah, that's wild, because I know that this wasn't a thing in universities 20 years ago, because I was so desperate for resources I was emailing around and asking universities so I didn't have to figure so much out myself. 😅

[didnt-hear-cold-as-you-live]

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[hairtusk]

while the dinner with family yesterday was awful, I heard a story from my grandma that was genuinely chilling, and made me think of this sudden resurgence of 'stay at home girlfriend' or trad content that is being pushed online. basically, my grandma's male friend recently had a massive stroke, and is in a hospice essentially just waiting to pass away. this has really put his partner into dire straits - he never got married to his girlfriend of 30ish years, and now, she's living in (his) house that she has no legal right to occupy. she's been a stay-at-home partner, so she has no pension, no savings, no money whatsoever to move out. and the man's family (who *do* have a legal right to his house) are hovering like vultures ready to take possession. this woman is in her 70s, and has absolutely nothing in the world now that he's on his deathbed. i cannot imagine a scarier situation to find oneself in.

[blizzardfluffykpop]

alright~ a few updates about everything! so this weekend I'll be seeing changkyun in chicago- so I prolly won't be posting until after I'm alive again from that 😂😅 (I am vv excited about it- I just know I'll be vv tired when I return home). Anyways, I have a few fics in the works~ one of them that is a request 🤭 I'm vv excited to work on them! But I think I'm going to change my masterlist a bit when I come back. I'm going to retire a few groups from the main masterlist and I've been debating for the past year about it... But I think I'm going to add a yearly masterlist- So it would go from most recent to the beginning of this year~

I'm also thinking about changing my pfp- I haven't been really into stray kids for uh... years- But I will be sure to make an update about that if I go thru with that too- (It may be ji changmin next 🫣🤭)

Anyways those are my few updates 🥰💖

[lecoindecachou]

I don't think I realized how TALL Elektra is until I saw her standing directly next to Blanca in the restaurant in episode 8. Someone cast this woman as an Olympian.

[vulpinesaint]

boys with a sweet tooth will smile at you and hold out the most vile sugar concoction you've ever seen in your life

[blackbat09]

i WILL gift you back a fic and my god it might be based on x-men #5... boy!!

okay so i've been kinda. shying away from 'from the ashes' era stuff, mostly bc i still haven't finished my full krakoa read? but this got me to read x-men and... holy fuck. holy FUCK. im gonna yell some more under the cut bc some of it's technically spoilers but

we haven't seen quentin's black bug room since the jgs, when it was becoming like logan, giving into the school & everything it taught & everything he ever fought against - FOR IT TO BE CREED NOW. FOR IT TO BE FUCKING CREED. PICKING AT HIS FEAR OF FAILURE AND ABANDONMENT BUT PROMISING HE'LL NEVER LEAVE HIM

ohhh my god i'm insane. you know that gaggle of alt creeds was just ruining him before he put his head in that box. and the SIZE DIFFERENCE bro like - on one hand you could attribute it to how quentin experienced that time with creed, the fact that he did only need one singular hand to cart that box around, that all it took was one to grab quentin by the head and take his whole being with him but also - ohhh my god imagine that being the canon size difference. what if i just exploded.

AND CALLING HIM BOY CONSTANTLY GODDAMN! JED M@CKAY THANK YOU FOR MY LIFE.

[atereal]

When you're too tired and sad to eat but you can't go to bed until you eat because you're too hungry to sleep but you're too tired and sad to eat so you just lay on the couch slowly rotting as the minutes tick by one after the other and all you want is to be happy and fed and in your bed but no it's COUCH ROT TIME

[rogueddie]

Steve Harrington is Cupioromantic.

[violentlydefending]

genuinely always so shocked to see mirei hate. like literally god forbid women do anything.

[coockie8]

I didn't realise who this was until I went to block them, but bogleech found me on DA

Yeah, not shocked in the slightest they don't remember me, that's the privilege these guys have; they get to throw heinous paedophilia accusations at survivors, tell them they deserve to die over fiction and then just move on with their life like nothing happened.

TW: CSA mention, Incest mention

In case you can't tell; with everything else going on my life right now, I have no patience for this left. Don't want a survivor to dump their trauma on you? Don't claim drawings of an imaginary friend are equivalent.

[diegogtratty]

stressful week got HANDS

[good-to-drive]

If I was crazy rich I would pay the cast and writers of Santa Clarita Diet an unacceptable amount of money to make a 2 hour movie finishing the show, and then pay Tom Holland and Paul King an unacceptable amount of money to not make a movie about Fred Astaire.

[sureuncertainty]

filling out my ballot is so fucking stressful, i'm out here double triple quadruple checking everything bc what if i somehow accidentally vote against the constitutional amendment protecting abortion aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa