They're Ruining My Life

"The title of the movie poses an interesting question that is asked time and again throughout: what does it mean to be human? When someone hears the word “monster,” they likely picture an otherworldly, grotesque creature that bears no resemblance to a human. In the beginning of the film, Minato asks his mother if a person would still be themselves if their brain was replaced with a pig’s brain. Saori begs the elementary school administration to respect her as a person as she confronts them about Mr. Hori. More than an attempt to get to the truth of the situation with Minato and Mr. Hori, Monster is a delicate exploration of humanity. It’s easy to call something or someone a monster, because that strips the soul out of the situation. It allows us to separate the darkness that people are capable of from humanity itself, but that’s not the truth. We all have the ability to be awful and good and cruel, but that doesn’t make us monsters, it makes us human." (x)

MONSTER 怪物 (2023) dir. Hirokazu Koreeda @pscentral event 31: faceless

I could write entire essays about Griffin Callenreese and Yut Lung's mother. Essays.

They're parallel characters, they're the duo that never met. They're the pivotal ghosts of the series, all occurs because of them and they couldn't even see it, they're the stereotypical embodiment of "femininity" and "masculinity" gone rotten and wrong. They were both outcasted and neglected by their fathers, presumably no mother. They're the child-caretakers in both senses, having to take care of a child as a child. They're the sacrificals and the sacrificial lambs.

him and hym.

Sum up some June to July BF doodles

Ash

he is SO in love with Eiji its insane.

I wish I could draw them like this more but chibis are hard

by your side.

✨New official art of Ash and Eiji✨

by Banana Fish (supervising) anime director Ayumi Yamada (山田 歩).

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Shorter, Ash & Eiji

I decided to finish this after all (I totally could've done more here tbh, but I just wanted to get it done atp 😅)

I did hide shorters eyes behind the glasses, because he weirdly looked like Jackson Wang to me???? Idk why though, I never ever used a reference of him or anything 😭😭😭