This Is The Hardest Picture Of Gerard In The Universe Idgaf. Never Underestimate A Girl With A Gun!!!

Kamikaze Girls: An alternative and queer retrospective

Light spoilers for Kamikaze Girls

Ah, Kamikaze Girls. I’ve shouted a lot in reaction to various Discotek rescues, from Gunbuster to Berserk among others, but nothing had me screaming and shouting around the room like the Kamikaze Girls announcement. I never imagined that Discotek would ever license one of my favorite movies, let alone the movie that completely changed the course of my life, and continues to help me reflect with every watch. The film was formative to me in my high school years, and rewatching it recently with the Discotek release made me realize the impact it had on my gender, my sexuality, my friendships with others, my self-expression, and self-acceptance.

For those unfamiliar, let me get you situated. Kamikaze Girls is a coming-of-age comedy film about two teenage girls in the rural town of Shimotsuma in Ibaraki Prefecture. Momoko, a lolita with a very dysfunctional family with a heart only reserved for fashion brand Baby The Stars Shine Bright, meets Ichiko, an intimidating bosozoku girl with a bike so modified you can’t tell it’s a moped. Ichiko admires Momoko’s defiant independence, even as Momoko is ungrounded and detached; and Momoko learns to admire Ichiko’s dedication to her individuality, even if it drives her up a wall. As they learn more about each other, Momoko and Ichiko grow and change one another as they journey through unrequited love, teenage rebellion, life-changing opportunities, working through their faults, and embracing themselves even more than before. Enhanced by iconic J-Pop and J-Rock music of the era from artists like Tommy Heavenly6, an original soundtrack by Yoko Kanno, super-saturated visuals, and utterly unpredictable yet great acting, you can see why it was impactful for many viewers and myself.

Read it at Anime Feminist!

Gold Nike pendant, Greece, 4th century BC

from The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Best dad-son relationship in videogames lore!!😁 (one killed the other)

(still best bond)

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Please put gummigoo on an IDV rocket chair thanks!

Snoopy crafty aahh housewife canon

Gerard 🥀

Finished sewing my new coat~

A while back I saw Lucy Liu wear an Alice and Olivia coat on Elementary and I never got it out of my head so I made a dupe for myself (but with red lining because of course)!

Wool exterior, rayon challis lining.

I didn’t know you like Artiswitch? Their costumes have got to be the best designs I’ve ever seen

(rant ahead. im sorry. just dropping the title artiswitch has me frothing at the mouth)

YES OMG ARTISWITCH MENTION

I love Artiswitch sm ong, It's genuinely my favourite anime and YOURE SO RIGHT THE COSTUMES ARE SO PRETTY. I LOVE THE WAY NINA HAS CUSTOM DESIGNED OUTFITS FOR EACH OF HER CUSTOMERS ITS SO COOL

Nina is genuinely one of- if not my favourite protagonist of all time despite there being only six episodes in the series. There's something about her character that resonates with me so deeply, For such a short series it's so well written. The worldbuilding has SO much lore to be talked about. Like the familiars?! Why do witches exist other than to grant wishes? Do other witches exist? if so where and how?

my favourite line in the series is the last one, which just made me cry- genuinely

"I'm going to comfort the entire world."

AND I DON'T KNOW WHYYYYYY

Ong I've brainrotted so much about this series that i genuinely have considered just giving in and writing a season 2 genfic. like deadass. i have so much written down for this series i want to write about it so badly. nina my beloved.

Honestly I would KILL for a Season Two despite the fact I know its not gonna happen T-T. I WISH PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT THIS SERIES MORE LIKE OMG.

amazing series 10/10 no complaints artiswitch my beloved

-TML

IM JUST ASKING, WHY WHY AND WHYYYYY???????༼⁠;⁠´⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠۝ ⁠༎ຶ⁠༽༼⁠;⁠´⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠۝ ⁠༎ຶ⁠༽༼⁠;⁠´⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠۝ ⁠༎ຶ⁠༽༼⁠;⁠´⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠۝ ⁠༎ຶ⁠༽༼⁠;⁠´⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠۝ ⁠༎ຶ⁠༽༼⁠;⁠´⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠۝ ⁠༎ຶ⁠༽༼⁠;⁠´⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠۝ ⁠༎ຶ⁠༽༼⁠;⁠´⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠۝ ⁠༎ຶ⁠༽༼⁠;⁠´⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠۝ ⁠༎ຶ⁠༽༼⁠;⁠´⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠۝ ⁠༎ຶ⁠༽༼⁠;⁠´⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠۝ ⁠༎ຶ⁠༽(Beautiful rendering!!!(⁠っ⁠˘̩⁠╭⁠╮⁠˘̩⁠)⁠っ)

hellu i forgot to post pain here hurhruru