Artist Spotlight: Swangzehl

Maybe we'll still get to see that shrimp jump?

cleric class

Their girlfriends are back in town🎉

THEY CAN REST NOW

im gonna bark so loud

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.

more cowboy!bela sketches

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

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.

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?