(redraw Of A Manga Panel From Chapter 135)

god blind me for all i have seen

forgive me my faults and accept my doubts

that i might look upon the corrupted

and choose the hope and plea of restoration

god blind me for all i have said

for words ill-formed and careless thought alike

that i might bring divinity from mundane

and share my love of doubt with all the world

god blind me for all i have borne

for watching as the world comes to its end

that i might seek the wisp of endless hope

and avert calamity with mine own hands

god blind me for all i have done

for taking half lived moments of a full life

that i might live free as my own being

and choose beyond the will of my creators

Can't get over how The Boy and the Heron is haunted by napalm. Of course in the way that it haunts Mahito's trauma and dreams, but also in the fantastical imagery. The vision of his mother melting into a pool of liquid, the story of the fiery rock that dried up an entire lake upon contact, Himi entirely. The fact that the fantastical world, far from the touch of war, has an abundance of water.

References to graphic violence ahead. Firebombing wrecked Tokyo. The firebombing attacks,iirc, actually killed more civilians than the atomic bombs did. There are anecdotes from survivors about crowds of people running and trampling each other to try to escape the napalm. About people running to local swimming pools just to try to douse out the fires or escape only to find that the water of the pools completely dried up because of the heat. Of people bursting into flames in the middle of running. Of people's organs/bodies, quite frankly, melting into liquid. An account of a survivor's mother, for years after the war, pouring cups of water over her deceased daughter's grave and saying "little one, you must have been so hot."

It's subtle and I am not even sure that it was intentional, or if this was on Miyazaki's mind as he directed the art, but I can't shake off the echoes of history when I watched it.

Fantasy High is great because none of the 6 main teens are romantically involved with each other but you’d need a full conspiracy board to properly explain whatever the fuck is going on with their parents. 

¿Los gatos flotan?

Saint of mystery and doubt

After reading Sunrise on the Reaping Katniss really is the perspective that would cause other characters to lose it if they could read her thoughts. Haymitch has to witness the Spark Notes version of their lives with Peeta footnotes every 2 pages while he has an encyclopedia of everything in his head. Gale has to deal with a girl “choosing” him while pining for some other guy’s arms and hoping to never kiss him again. Peeta has to deal with pages of a girl saying he’s all that’s good in the world, that she lusts after his eyelashes and arms, and in a different world a teenage pregnancy may have happened between them— all while refusing to give what they have a name.

Katniss Everdeen, narrator of all time.

more cowboy!bela sketches

thank you again @expiredsoda and @alexandroseleven for the inspiration!

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