It Is Indeed Quite Aphoristic And Fun To Pull Individual Quotes. But If You Want To Read “october”

Hello there. I may have watched She-Ra and I may be completely obsessed with it. Especially with Catra. So I decided to draw something and this is the result, I wanted to share it with you. Let me know if you like it!

and yet you hesitate.

soukoku's story in art and poetry: chuuya exhibition

— on anger and emotions

dedicated to @vminiesvsoulmates + he helped me with some quotes <3

jeanette winterson // catherine gildiner - good morning, monster // ashe vernon - not a girl // unknown // cover art from war of the foxes, by richard siken // melanie martinez - alphabet boy // lora mathis - leave me alone to do it // shane mccrae - the pillar was a man he had been stretched so long and thin // melanie martinez - cake // nicole rifkin // maggie stiefvater - blue lily, lily blue // unknown // unknown // joy harjo - an american sunrise // nakahara chuuya - for the soiled sorrow

Dragon Boat Festival by lei min

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

When The Only One Who Ever Mattered said about sskk “Their lives were like pawns in a chess game or like casino bets: crucial to the strategist, but at the same time replaceable”. I think about that every day

Narsil. Broken but not destroyed

All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all those who wander are lost; in

The old that is strong does not wither,

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,

A light from the shadows shall spring;

Renewed shall be blade that was broken,

The crownless again shall be king.

straight friend groups be like: *blonde girl* *chad* *the funny one* *kyle* *brunette girl* *frat boy*

gay friend groups be like: *catboy* *suicidal mentor figure* *a walking nervous breakdown* *murderous trans guy* *sadistic traumatized doctor* *killed 35 people* *autistic detective* *kenji*

I don’t think anime vs western animation are as different as people claim due to the fact they have inspired and fed off each other for decades (they’re friends!!), however I do think our environmental messages to kids are… significantly and interestingly different

whereas, say Ghibli films express a deep Shinto-based respect and reverence for nature:

fighting for it as a means of both self-preservation and expression of heroism revolving around justice

and a matter of other groups of humans (the government often) going up against the stalwart youth

This is contrasted to western animation which tends to be like…. hey! look at this funny bat! And pollution is an evil spirit you can fight like physically 

that isn’t to say the west doesn’t depict environmentalism as heroic and even involving collective action, Captain Planet is a good example of this

but individualism is still very present, the struggle is stalwart youths versus an individual or individual corporation, hell, sometimes you even get a sympathetic backstory for the corporation and weirdly cool rock song

to be clear, antagonists like Lady Eboshi in Princess Mononoke are sympathetic too, but it is… different, Lady Eboshi is trying to survive due to circumstances but it is all of Irontown that represents a system of corruption

In comparison, there is this western idea of corruption coming from individuals rather than systems as well as the fact they aren’t trying to save nature because we are part of it, but because nature itself is a person and thus worthy of respect

In Fern Gully the fairy’s represent nature, the Lorax represents nature, Captain Planet is literally just nature, all things we can talk to and relate to, where in Princess Mononoke and Nausicaa the ultimate nature spirits are something you can’t talk to and are frankly terrifying, awe-inspiring, and mighty

Western epistemology is heavily rooted in Christianity which says that man has dominion over fish of the sea, fowl of the air, and creatures of the land, ect, which leads to a utilitarian and separate view of nature– what can it do for us as separate (higher) beings, and the only way to combat this view is to say “actually nature is a person and thus worthy of protection”

Whereas Japanese Shintoism has much more emphasis on the idea that we are all part of a whole with nature, nature is the ultimate divine with nothing more important than the other, and something worthy of protection not because we can understand it, but because we can’t

“It’s a mistake to think about nature from the idea of efficiency, that forests should be preserved because they are essential to human beings”– Hayao Miyazaki

this is not to completely bash western animation, it does have other strengths such as emphasizing children’s relationship to empathy, empathy toward others in “Toy Story” and empathy toward themselves in “Inside Out” 

However, our methods of conveying environmentalism could use some updating and steering away from “goofy” and “relatable” and maybe a little more terror and awe involved with fighting the good fight

— Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anais Nin: Volume Two (1934-1939)