#the art class is a metaphor

[mumblesplash]

(teaching my art class)

me: and what’s the number one rule when designing characters with wings? …well?

a handful of students, sighing reluctantly: no good fa-

me (interrupting them): NO good-faith attempts at realism, EVER. you want all the bird dweebs and physicists jumping ship as EARLY AS POSSIBLE so they’re not around to cinemasins your ass when you get to the cool parts of your story, and…ugh, what now, gerald

gerald (my least favorite student): why not just do some minimal research instead of-

me: listen you little shit i can and will singlehandedly tank your 4.0 gpa

#mumbling #don’t worry i’m not actually an art teacher i would never #no one deserves that #the art class is a metaphor #man when i was in high school i did NOT fully register how messed up it was that teachers could just do that #like the gym teacher at my school would give straight-A 4.0 students bad grades as some kind of power trip #for underperforming on athletic tests she didn't even pretend to prepare us for

[yurigalactica]

Her Name

Beneath a blanket of laurel and viridian she lies, Tucked among the roots and ivy. The forest holds her in an embrace of thistles and thorns, Bones of ossified birch, knees sunk into dirt.

Her ghost likes to follow me around, A youthful skip in her gait. She is much more vibrant than I, Eyes azure and gleaming As she darts through the tree line and gleefully squeals "Last one there is a rotten egg."

It's not uncommon for people to see her in me, Or rather, her instead of me. Grown-ups often chuckle and sigh, sugar sweet smiles on their lips, And chitter amongst themselves about how oh-so precocious she is.

Will they ever see me?

She and I are one in the same, people tell me. We have the same smile, same hair, same face. She is all I have ever been and all I ever will be. Anything I think or say or do, no matter how original, She has done it first.

Her name is what people know me by.  It sticks to my skin like maple sap, Burrows itself deeper like a malignant little tick. While it once tasted like wildflowers and pine needles, Now, it is no more than a withered husk That tastes of ash on my tongue.

I do not hate her.

How can I?

She is pure and free and bright, A beam of sunlight born in the burning summer sky. My history is hers, and hers is mine, Identical spirals of cambium etched into the flesh of our arms. When I look into weathered polaroid photographs, Streaked yellow and pink from bygone years, I see her round, youthful face, Lips quirked upward and beaming at the camera.

Her smile is beautiful.

I hold her closely, I carry her on my back. Her arms are looped around my shoulders And her messy caramel curls fall over mine. She clings to me like a moth to a lamp, Sinks her ivory birch roots into my bones, Entwines herself with me. She is a part of me.

But I am not her.

I am alive and she is no more than a memory. Yet when the world speaks to me they call upon her name. When I do not answer, they do not understand why. When I drag them after me, through the woods and to her grave, And show them the brambles growing in her lungs And the sunflowers blooming in her throat, They tell me that she is merely sleeping. For how could a dead thing Bloom so bright?

So I hack off those beloved curls under the cover of the night And stain them the same color as the dawn. If I am ever to become more than the person who wears her face, I must bloom brighter than her corpse. If not an act of rebellion, then call it a desperate plea For someone to softly cup my cheek and, for once, see me.

I am not the little girl with the sunlit smile, But I once was, years ago. It is a fact that is as immutable as death, A law as eternal as life. And though I still carry her in my arms, I am older and wiser now And she will remain forever a child.

We are not the same person. Not anymore. And someday, I hope, the world will look upon us, See our fingers entwined like morning glory vines, And call upon not her,

But me.

#poetry #i wrote this for class like a year ago when i was at the beginning of my gender identity crisis lmao #tw death #<- just in case?? idk it's just a metaphor really #thunder talks #gold star #art stuff

[jackgoodfellow]

He's despicable, I'll take 12.

[Work-In-Progress]

Please feel free to drop your favorite toxic positivity slogans in the notes!

I want to write at least one such quote on this image. The top contender right now is "We all have the same 24 hours in a day!"

Also valid examples: "Nothing's impossible!", "Anyone can do it!", and "Pull yourself up by the bootstraps!" - or maybe just "Self-made :)"

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Originally drawn in crayon at my local bar's game night because tabletop games are slow as fuck

#wip #Adventure Time #simon petrikov #fionna and cake spoilers #fionna & cake #the winter king #winter king #fionna and cake #alt-text #image description #my art #I've been trying to get those glasses even all evening. eh. I'll figure it out. #probably will trace a mirror of the the other one #genuinely fucking obsessed with him as a metaphor for toxic positivity. especially as it pertains to class and mental illness. #because the people who say your burdens shouldn't bother you... simply don't have to carry those same burdens #whooole lot of people say we all have the same 24 hours when they have the money to pay someone else to clean their house! #I'll probably repeat all of this in the actual post of the image if I finish it #which I probably will. I've done most of the work already and I want to make him look more fucked up #winter king already seemed sus but when he said he conquered the crown 'thru sheer force of will' i genuinely yelled at the screen #'OH YOU MOTHERFUCKER OH YOU PIECE OF SHIT YOU BASTARD' #'haha! come now. Conquering the crown is as easy as manifesting your own reality!!' - i was screaminnnngggg #he's an incredibly validating character in the way that he is proven to be absolutely fucking full of shit #also he's sexy. which doesn't hurt. but mostly I'm obsessed with how perfectly he mirrors the attitude of 'self-made' rich and abled people #you can do anything you put your mind to!! and if it turns out to be impossible it's because you didn't want it bad enough SIMON!!!! #simon is soooo relatable in that ep #'manifest your dreams! it's! easy! especially if! someone else is bearing all that pesky SOUL-CRUSHING WEIGHT lol' #I thought the episode was going to end with Simon putting on Winter King's crown and #discovering that the WK just got lucky and happened to get a crown that was just... not a problem. just a magic non-cursed crown. #I think that would have worked well but I like what they ended up doing way better #'anyone can do it!' is said out loud but the QUIET part goes 'so if you can't do it that's because you suck'.

[majormeilani]

why does everyone say that phrases like 'he hissed' or 'he growled' is just a fanfic thing when that's literally phasing used in plenty of literature 😭😭😭 where do y'all think the 'fanfic' people got that phrasing from

#and also ? why does everyone take it literally? haven't y'all heard of metaphors #you want to make fun of the phrasing of things that are literally metaphors but like. all you're telling me is you paid absolutely no #attention in language arts class and tbh i'm disappointed

[tothechaos]

i get to go to my first conference in october OwO its for museums and museum studies! ill be making a poster and (potentially? hopefully!) giving a presentation!!

#its because i know the director of the conference hehehe #shes teaching a grad class that i wanted to take but wasnt able to but i got to meet and talk to her one on one #and i talked about my interest in curation and mentioned some of my curation experience #notably a digital exhibition i made for the martyrdom of saint sebastian and the eroticism of penetration last semester #and she really liked it! she said a lot of student posters at the conference are about the science of museum studies not the art part! #IF I GET TO GIVE A PRESENTATION AT A BIG FANCY REGIONAL CONFERENCE IN MY FIELD OF INTEREST ABOUT VISUAL METAPHORS FOR PENETRATION.......... #anyways. its very exciting!

[nautical-poe]

Last comic for this semester! But I’m planning on making more over summer so stay tuned!!

#my art #illustration #color #class art #clown #jester #knife throwing #knife thrower #circus #unhealthy relationships #toxic relationship #toxic friendships #visual metaphors #knives #knife #oc #polka #polka the jester #orginal character #mini comic #comic #comics #comic Art

[queenlucythevaliant]

Why did God harden the Pharaoh’s? I’m in a Bible as Lit class and someone brought up “wouldn’t that be against free will,” and why did God let the Israelites stay it in slavery for so long. Why is God different in the Old Testament to the New Testament? I hope this doesn’t bother you, with all these questions

Okay, so there are several different questions here and I'm going to try to address them all. I'm sure I'll miss something somewhere, so other more knowledgeable friends feel free to add on. Follow-ups are also very much welcome.

First off, Bible as literature class! Yikes. I took a Bible as lit class for my English minor years ago and my experience was pretty much wall-to-wall frustration. It was mostly an exercise in coming up with the most transgressive reads on Scripture possible and that really upset me.

I hope that your experience is better than mine. However, assuming that the class is at a secular university, I'd still encourage you to be intentional about talking the things you cover in class over with knowledgeable Christians in your life. I certainly benefitted a lot from doing so, both in the sense that I got to vent a whole bunch and in that I got help contextualizing the secular perspectives within Christian scholarship.

That out of the way: The God of the Bible is the same in both the Old and New Testaments.

I do understand where you’re coming from. It’s not uncommon for people to find God kind of inscrutable in the OT when they're more used to reading the NT. I actually think that's a failure on the part of the contemporary church in the West; large swaths of the OT tend to be understudied among lay-Christians.

Systematic theology can help a lot here. I'm just going to hit a few really broad highlights, but I really can't recommend Wayne Grudem highly enough if you're interested in more in-depth reading. Lots of people start with Bible Doctrine, but my family happened to have a copy of his enormous Systematic Theology tome in the basement when I was in high school and I got a lot out of just poking through that a little at a time too. A few quick bullets though:

Across all the Biblical texts, God is love. He glories in kindness to his people, whether it's in the covenant with Abraham, the Exodus, the faithful ministry of the prophets, Christ's ministry/death/resurrection, or the promised coming of his kingdom.

God is holy; he gives the Law to the Israelites so that they can approach his holiness without fearing for their lives and he sent Jesus so that we can do the same. Both Isaiah and Peter react with fear and awe in the face of God's holiness.

God is just. By virtue of his holiness, he cannot allow sin to go unpunished. As modern westerners, we often chafe against this but has any of us experienced justice that was actually pure? Justice is a form of faithfulness, and the same God who sent his people into exile poured out his wrath on his own son in our place. He has promised that one day, every evil will face his perfect justice.

God is faithful. He keeps his Covenant with Abraham even unto the cross. In the OT he is faithful husband to an adulterous people. In the NT he tells us that when we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself.

Lots of other characteristics but this answer is going to be long enough as it is. The only way to get a real sense for the continuity within the Bible is to read the whole Bible with an eye towards the continuity.

The reason that God is more approachable in the NT than the Old is that he became human. In the Incarnation, all of that holiness and justice and faithfulness and love that was God came to earth in our perfect likeness so that he could live beside us and die for us. God is certainly easier to approach in light of Christ's work, but he is utterly the same as he ever was. Read the Transfiguration and tell me that isn’t the God of Mount Sinai. Read John 1 and tell me it doesn’t remind you of the end of Job. Read the Gospels, Hebrews, and Revelation and play spot-the-OT-parallel. It's beautiful.

Why did God leave his people in slavery for so long? You could ask the same question about the Babylonian captivity and even about why Jesus waits to return and finally defeat Death. Why does he wait? Why let his people suffer?

Well. God is sovereign and he only permits evil to the extent that it ultimately accomplishes the very opposite of what it intends. Because the Israelites were slaves in Egypt, the Exodus was able to occur. The Exodus glorified God in extraordinary fashion, both among his own people and to the peoples of the ancient world. It was also a necessary type and precursor to Jesus's work on the cross. I don't think it's an overstatement to say that redemptive history rests on God's work in the Exodus, which is itself contingent on a period of slavery in Egypt.

“How long, O Lord” and “Come Lord Jesus” are the same sentiment in different words. We are still in exile, even now. We are chronologically exiled from the place where we belong, the New Jerusalem, and we mourn because we live in a fallen world in which sin and death can still hurt us. We can ask, just as the Prophets once asked, why God waits to vanquish the Enemy, extract suffering from the world, and restore our years that the locusts have eaten. And in each case (the slaves in Egypt, the Babylonian captivity, and the period of waiting for Jesus to return), the answer is that God does not fix it yet because He is doing something bigger!

Regarding Pharaoh's heart: this is basically a question of human nature. The easiest way that I can articulate it off the top of my head is using Augustine's fourfold state of man:

Prior to the fall, man was able either to sin or not to sin (posse peccare, posse non peccare)

The natural state of man after the fall is one in which he is unable not to sin (non posse non peccare). This was Pharaoh's state.

Following the work of Christ, regenerate man is able not to sin (posse non peccare)

In eternity, glorified man will be unable to sin (non posse peccare)

When we talk about man's will, we must acknowledge that our wills are subject to our nature. In other words, Pharaoh was a natural, fallen man. His nature was inherently sinful and his heart inherently hard.

What we've got here is sort of a "Jacob I have loved but Esau I have hated" situation. Pharaoh, in his natural state, had a hard heart and a natural enmity with God. God did not intervene to give him a heart of flesh. My people I have loved, but Pharaoh I have hated.

Not a perfect parallel, but I think it serves its purpose. The point is that God's sovereignty isn't in conflict with man's will, since our wills are a function of our natures. Man behaves however his nature inclines him to behave at any given time. We call this free will; however, God is entirely sovereign over all of it.

This is definitely a long, messy answer, but like I said, feel free to continue the conversation. I've got some biochem to work on, but I'm always happy to talk theology :)

#Secular Bible as lit classes really are a quagmire #mine was basically where I decided that I straight up do not care what non-Christians have to say about the Bible #(in the scholarship sense I mean) #if you don't have skin in the game then i couldn't care less what you think on authorship/characterization in genesis/weird subversive take #on ruth/Job being internally inconsistent/God's gender/the purpose of the parables/whatever other nonsense #sigh #and like. i had a good theological grounding to be able to push back on the BS nine times out of ten #my prof actually called me the most engaged student she'd ever taught which was pretty hilarious #but i was FURIOUS on behalf of the other Christians in the class who by and large had relatively shallow foundations as far as i could tell #like one girl was seriously doubting whether God was good when we did the prophets because of the way it was presented #i went to the prof's office hours one time to pick a fight (long story) and she told me that she's had numerous students over the years #that renounced their faith after taking her class #i spent the whole semester praying for all the names on the class roster #ugh i could rant about that class forever #meanwhile! no discussion of the ACTUAL literary merits of the Bible which are awesome! #the poetry the reoccurring motifs the deft use of metaphor the beautiful elevation of theology to art #i wanted to talk about that! #and that wasn't what the class was about #this was years ago and i'm still mad. sorry #maybe that'll be a separate post one of these days #ask me hard questions #only thou art holy

[marklikely]

as much as i hate that youtubeman for various reasons i have to say i think the worst monument mythos crime was still the multiple people on tumblr i saw arguing that the series was being problematic for including analogs to qanon and other conspiracy groups because it was. idk using real life evil as set dressing to a story that's "just about big monsters". like as if tmm wasn't an extremely and obviously political story and you boiling it down to nothing but "big monsters" doesnt reflect poorly on you and your own critical thinking skills.

#wow the story that's to its core about american history and violence contains references and metaphors to american history and violence? #that's crazy. i wonder if they did that for a reason. no surely it must just be a mistake. the series is only about big monsters. #we do not need to return to 2nd grade language arts class to go over what a theme and a metaphor is. they're just big monsters :-) #and clearly you guys not getting it despite it being really on the nose and obvious. is the series's fault. couldn't be your own fault. #avpost #still haven't watched s3 btw sorry i didn't really notice that it existed.

[dawnthefluffyduck]

With the word ゆうめい finally entering my vocabulary list, I have successfully squeezed my utdr obsession into my Japanese homework

(edit; oh yeah translations, ゆうめい=famous

私は… ゆうめいね -> I'm... famous?? (In lieu of "popular")

アンダーテール -> undertale)

#i will have to explain this to my professor tomorrow morning #i am okay with that #I think i have explained this before but for anyone who hasnt seent my jp work yet... #i am in the college of liberal arts at my school #and as a student in that department i am required to have a minor AS WELL AS to take two years of a foreign language #and i figured if i have to take the classes anyway i might as well make it my minor and kill two birds with one stone #(metaphorically) #(i love birds) #but anyway #i was debating between spanish (more useful in the US) and japanese (very cool) #i decided in japanese because i think spanish would be pretty easy to learn on my own #there are a bajillion resources near me to learn it and it is a pretty common language in my area #so i will do japanese now and spanish when i graduate #今、これは大学に人と日本語を話します #テネシーに日本語を話すにちょっと難しいwww #basically theres real people to speak spanish to where i live #but the only opportunity for me to hear japanese in person is gonna be in school so i took that opportunity #undertale #papyrus #classwork #doodles

[welcometogrouchland]

Words cannot express how much I love the Gloucester brothers from King Lear

#ramblings of a lunatic #i am so mentally ill about sibling relationships in art #I REWATCHED ACT 5 W MY MOM FOR REVISION REASONS AND IT MADE ME INSANE ABOUT THEM AGAIN #on my third rewatch I've basically developed a new like. realisation? theory? that edgar is being set up as the true king from the start #and now I'm really invested in him as a character (along w edmund) #the fucking. bit where edgar says that the gods in this play are just (one of the biggest topics of debate in my class all year)- #-its just that the people in this play have brought their misfortune on themselves via their own hamartias #and that's why his father ended up blinded #metaphorically and literally #THE FACT HE'S SAYING THIS TO EDMUND AFTER HAVING BEEN BETRAYED BY HIM AND THEN FIGHTING HIM #IT'S A FUCKING OLIVE BRANCH!!! HE SAYS THAT THEIR DAD FUCKED UP!!! NO MATTER HOW MUCH EDGAR LOVED GLOUCESTER HE SEES THAT!!!! #HE SEES THAT BECAUSE BC OF EDMUND'S DECEPTION GLOUCESTER ENDED UP TREATING EDGAR LIKE HE TREATED EDMUND #WITH CONTEMPT AND SUSPICION AND A LACK OF FATHERLY LOVE #EDGAR DOESN'T FORGIVE HIS BROTHER BUT HE UNDERSTANDS HIM NOW #AND ONLY THEN DOES EDMUND REALIZE HE WAS LOVED!!!! YES BY THE WOMEN HE MANIPULATED AND PITTED AGAINST EACH OTHER #BUT ALSO BY HIS FUCKING BROTHER HE BETRAYED!!! #at the start of act 5 he'd began to pretend that he was a Right Honourable Gentleman #when in act 1 his attitude seemed more like he'd accepted societys label of him as Less Than and said ''if you treat me like a villain- #-bc of things i can't control then i will BE a villain to get what i want'' #he seems to try and distance himself from his origin in act 5 right as he's about to win it all #BUT HE GOES BACK TO ACCEPTING THE AWFUL THINGS HE'S DONE AFTER EDGAR ACKNOWLEDGES WHY #IT DOESN'T MAKE THINGS BETTER BETWEEN THEM. THEU STILL STABBED EACH OTHER #BUT IT'S CATHARTIC #AUGHHHUG #<- this is just my personal reading and I'm just a highschool student trying to blorbo-ify an old ass play to cope with exam stress #feel free to disagree. just remember that i am small

[jesterjamz]

we have to draw a metamorphosis piece in art class & im making it about transgenderism

#more specifically my experiences w/ being trans #last year was kinda the same thing (in reference to the drawing a metamorphosis piece in art class) #but in that one we had to draw it out in steps. like 1 thing at one end of the paper & another thing at the other end #& the process inbetween #for this one we have to do it all on one being. so kinda like the process of it but its JUST the process. if that makes any sense #& theres like a billion ocs i could do this with but im making it personal baby. ok? #thinking outside of the box by making the metamorphosis (the metaphorical metamorphosis if you will) happen inside me #because i think my experiences growing up afab & everything ive gone through metamorphosed into who i am now #if that makes any sense

[crudelobotomiser]

Whoever let art teachers age is a cruel person. I’d rather not show a 50 year old man my cringe art that has cannibalism references please and thank you

(Thing below but it’s a bit organ-y)

#emails to art teachers are always like ‘do you like what I did? :( if you don’t I’ll never touch paint again n’ #art teacher #art class #art #cannibalism as a metaphor for love

[monsterblogging]

"I know JK Rowing is a terrible person but her books are so good-"

You sure about that?

I mean, just for a start, have you taken a good look at her fantasy creatures lately? A whole bunch of them are straight-up based on malicious and dehumanizing stereotypes about actual people.

Remember the werewolves? And being a werewolf was made into a kind of metaphor for having AIDS?

And you know how AIDS was first associated with gay men? And how conservatives back in the day were claiming gay men were preying on children in order to convert them to gayness?

Remember how Fenrir Greyback preyed on children in particular? Yeah, she put that subtext in there. She was an adult in the 90's. She knew damn well what she was doing.

Remember the house elves? Remember how most of them loved to serve and needed to have a home and a master or else they just wouldn't know what to do with themselves?

Did you know that's literally what slavers in the American South said about the Black people they kept enslaved? Go look up the happy slave myth.

Do I even need to get into the goblins and the antisemitic tropes they're based on? No, folkloric goblins were not gold-hoarding bankers waiting for their chance to stab humanity in the back.

"But the characters are so good!"

Are you kidding me?

Most of her characters are pretty one-dimensional, including Harry. Her idea of making a morally complicated character is giving a tragic past to a bully. Numerous characters are little more than stereotypes. (Looking at Fleur right now.) Literally anybody, including you, can easily make dozens of characters just as good, if not better. (It doesn't exactly take a lot of character designing skill to go, "hey, actually, having a sad backstory doesn't make it okay to bully children" or "hey, maybe I should not base a character on the first stereotype that pops into my head.")

"But the rest of the worldbuilding!"

Sorry, but her worldbuilding is just as basic as her characters. Magical castles and secret passages are stock tropes. Magical people who keep their true nature secret from humanity is the premise of pretty much every White Wolf TTRPG. Most of her fantasy creatures are just common European fairy tale and folklore creatures with shitty stereotypes projected onto them.

I'm not saying "basic worldbuilding bad." I'm saying, you could do just as good, if not better, with minimal effort.

Also there's her magical bioessentialism, where only Harry's abusive blood relatives could provide him with supernatural protection from Voldemort. Rowling thus effectively declared that non-biological family isn't quite real family, and that abusive biofamily can give you some essential thing that a loving, supportive family that isn't related to you just can't.

The Hogwarts houses are one of the most insidious elements of her worldbuilding. The idea of being sorted gives you a little dopamine hit because wow now you have a li'l niche where you belong!

But the actual function of the houses and sorting system and the House Cup is teaching children to see each other as rivals, and ensure that the most toxic views of the upper class get passed on to every new batch of kids sorted into Slytherin.

Hogwarts effectively prepares children for a dystopia where magic serves to distract its citizens from how nightmarishly awful it is. Economic inequality is so bad that people like Arthur and Molly Weasley can barely afford to put their kids through school, casual sadism is just an accepted norm in everyday society, and non-humans are second class citizens. Rowling sorta acts like she thinks this is a bad thing with certain lines she gave to Dumbledore, but in the end, her special boy protagonist becomes an auror; IE, a defender of the status quo. So.

If you've never seen it, Lily Simpson's video goes into even more detail on how the worldbuilding of Harry Potter is actually incredibly fucked up, and how it betrays small-minded attitudes on Rowling's part. There's no separating the art from this artist, because Rowling's rotten values pour out of nearly every page.

Yes, there are many things in Harry Potter that evoke feelings and inspire people, but there's absolutely nothing in it that this series has a monopoly on. You can find those same experiences in much, much better media.

#harry potter #jk rowling #Youtube

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i watched My Neighbor Totoro for the first time, here's my chronological viewing experience:

woo-hoo! dusty old japanese house with japanese architectural details aplenty

these kids got some ENERGY my goodness

family dynamic's adorable. peak quality dad humor

kids: our house is haunted. parents: that's so cool!

hell yeah, wrinkled old lady rep. we need more friendly old women with potato faces and warts like storybook witches. the backbone of society, these ladies

Plot Summary: Small Child Bothers Local Wildlife

sacred tree sacred tree sacred tree

Introducing Totoro! nobody said this fucker's got TEETH???

Uh-Oh! Inadequate Parental Supervision Detected

(you misplaced your four year old! you're not supposed to do that)

4-year-old: i met a magic forest spirit. dad: oh shit fr?

4-year-old: *angrily hugs sister* missed u bitch

this small child has a smile like a toad. like a really really cute toad. like the cutest toad in all existence. i love her she's perfection please just let this child be happy

rice paddies are so pretty....so back breaking....rice is such a prissy crop

*my crush is stranded in a rainstorm* takethisumbrellait'syoursnowBYE *runs away in panic im so good at flirting*

Giant Chinchilla Learns To Hold Umbrella, Is Fucking Delighted By Experience

take this, it will help you on your quest! *hands u trail mix wrapped in a leaf*

LO-FI HIP HOP STUDY LIST!

crouching down to peer at dirt--A++ top notch foundational childhood experience

mom has a big ass forehead

honey! the chinchillas are performing Rituals in the backyard again

help yeah let's jack and the bean stalk this shit

huh so we're all just climbing aboard the giant chinchilla's tiddies now ok

class trip!

the pure adrenaline of Vegetable Gardening

no! the small child is crying! she is bawling her eyes out. no no no. i can't cope with this. emotionally i cannot cope 🥺🥺🥺

i've only had Mei one hour but if anything happens to her i will raze this earth and everyone on it

please someone make this small child smile again

oh no the tall child is crying too

i can't take this. my heart can't take this.

i need a drink

small child running determined to deliver magic veggies to the hospital. this kid is my hero

she is also unsupervised. so, so unsupervised

babe you are FOUR

godDAMMIT ghibli, you cannot give me watercolor sunsets while a small child is missing. u are killing me. my heart is giving out. this is me, experiencing heart failure.

Totoro to the rescue!

no wait CATBUS to the rescue!

i admit i initially thought the cat was a creep. alice in wonderland prejudiced me. i have revised my notions of smiling cats

i've decided the cat is a metaphor for the magic of a robust public transport system

MEI'S OKAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and so is mom. she's a lovely lady im sorry for what i said about her forehead. it's a noble forehead.

happy ending YES bitch!!!!!!

ok. ok ok ok. that was magical.

(as a first-time adult viewer i was worried i wouldn't be able to Access the Magic. but i could and i did and it was incredible. that was culture. that was ART. joy distilled into animated form. holy rites of childhood. i understand now. how glorious, this world we grow out of. how full of marvels. i'm going outside to smell grass and sun and get dirt under my fingernails. miraculous.)

#mr ghibli please you cannot do this to my heart #totoro #my neighbor totoro #spoilers #? #initially i misspelled Totoro as Tortoro throughout the entire post #i fixed it but dear heavens i was tempted to leave it in. you're WELCOME

[natsumiikan]

probably not a super common experience on here tbh but every art or art adjacent class i have ever taken has driven me up a WALL

#☁️🌕☁️ #i think it's the way the teachers talk abt it. like metaphors aren't gonna solve world hunger bestie #it's probably worse bc i am an artist so like i know they're all just pretentious for no reason #like you had the option to not be an annoying prick. you just simply chose to anyways ?? #like it's the self importance that they use when talking about art like what are you onnnn rn no other field has people who talk like that? #like every other type of class the profs are either simply very very passionate and geeky or just clearly don't give a shit (self aware)