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"pettson får julbesök" - sven nordqvist 1988

sven nordqvist, one of my absolute favourite illustrators.

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Christmas advice for ladies (crossposted from Old Weird Scotland on mastodon, with permission)

I want you all to keep this in mind!

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It's that time of the year again where I give you an escape from Mariah Carey. Hope you enjoy it!

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fleeting

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nour ( @nooranqar1 ) tells me she has not been able to make food for her children and i can gather not for herself either, the rage i feel can be nothing compared to her grief, and on her behalf, i beg of you to listen to her plea. she needs to have food and much more for today and tomorrow and the next day and the one after.

necessities are barely getting covered as is however, so i ask again as others are asking that we also redouble efforts because i know this will not be the last thing she faces and we have helped each other before, as long as we can we help, we have to keep doing it: can we make sure it's today and this winter at least that nour gets our help?

please help save nour and all the people she loves please donate and share as soon as you see this.

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The entire 3-minute city ambiance scene from Ghost in the Shell (1995) is already one of the best moments in all of cinema imo, but I NEED to talk about my absolute favorite part from it:

That brief moment when Major Kusanagi and a stranger with her exact same body model catch a glance at one another. How quickly the initial curiosity of seeing the doppelgänger turns into a feeling of unease as the boat carries her away.

She will never meet this stranger. She'll never know anything about her other than the simple reminder that every piece of her cybernetic body is not unique to her. There is no part of her other than her brain and all its memories that she has any true ownership of, and even that isn't immune to being hacked and potentially erased by outside forces. Despite being a part of a bustling city, all she can do is reflect on how utterly isolated she feels as a living being.

How can she possibly define her humanity when she herself is confined in the form of what is essentially a highly modified weapon? How can she relate to others when she has more in common with the mannequins on display in a shopping mall than with the any of the people walking the streets?

All of this inner turmoil at one’s own existence conveyed without a SINGLE word of dialogue spoken. Now that's the power of cinema if I've ever seen it!

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lost about 300 followers overnight, did something happen? or were they never real? are any of you real?

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concept art / chapter title page from a graphic novel i never finished

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Pink orchid mantis. Dash needs moar mantis.

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[Loading screen tip] Inappropriate behaviour from online strangers will increase as more Americans log on. Keep track of time zones!

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concept art / chapter title page from a graphic novel i never finished