what is the government doing to help increase the production of yuri manga
”pdf file” “unalived” “grape” “corn” what if i killed myself right here right now
Haymitch and his ducklings
oh to be a pretty little ginger cat snoozing in the dappled shade of the wild mango tree
kind of jealous of swifties. wish i could be satisfied with so little
[id: the first image is a redraw of the "hahaha how are you so small" meme, redrawn with tsukumo yuki, gojo satoru, okkotsu yuta, and kenjaku (in geto's body) all laughing at something way smaller than them. all of them has darker skin, except for yuta who still looks sickly pale. tsukumo has pink hair tips and glowing freckles, gojo has a mullet and pink-tinted hair, and kenjaku has nose piercings in additions to their ear gauges. the text over them says, in all caps, "hahaha how come you can't use rct"
the second image is a chibi of geto suguru shaking and crying while looking down to the floor in anger and shame, literally overshadowed by the other special grades. /end id]
cringefail special grade
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.