Fantasy High Is Great Because None Of The 6 Main Teens Are Romantically Involved With Each Other But

Thinking about the Bad Parents this episode because like, imagine your child, who's constantly burdened with the fate of the world, comes to you after school and says it's not enough. That they have to take the Last Stand exam and it's tomorrow. You have no time to take time off work to be with them, to be able to wait for them when they get home.

And then the next day you say goodbye in the morning, you kiss them on the head and tell them you love them. But you know that the next time you see them they will have died. You know that all the day you're at work, your child is fighting for their life in a drastic last stand. How do you focus with that knowledge? How do you move on, wondering if your child is already dead? That while your working or doing chores, your child could be lying on a sandy flood, dead, while all their friends fight for their lives?

How do you move past it? How do you live out that day?

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.

mai and maki casually being the most tragic siblings, how do you even come back from that? i died for you, the only thing left of me is a sword, a weapon, my death is unequivocal proof that i was holding you back, your pride landed us here, i will take your every weakness with me when i go but i will leave you the greatest burden you will ever carry, i love you

just a dream

kind of jealous of swifties. wish i could be satisfied with so little

the last good oscars was the one in 1967 when evelyn hugo and celia st. james fucked in the bathroom

[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]

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