ideal death: by thighs

Historical wooden villas in Zakopane, Poland. Images © Jacek Proniewicz.

Foot rub

little guys

good (all of them)

sometimes they have hair, sometimes less hair

tiny hands meant to hold onto a grownups finger

excruciatingly small fingernails and toenails

chubby little rolls

A real rough one for Scurvy

In honor of Miyazaki’s birthday here are some of my favorite shots from his oeuvre

Castle of Cagliostro (1979)

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

Castle in the Sky (1986)

Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)

Porco Rosso (1992)

Princess Mononoke (1997)

Spirited Away (2001)

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

Ponyo (2009) 

The Wind Rises (2013)

Statues of Fredrick Douglas have been ripped down at the same time as the confederate monuments, by the same people.

And why Fredrick Douglas in particular. Is it because he also was some sort of white supremaclst pro-slavery person?

No. It’s because he was vocally anti-socialist. So he shares the same fate during the same rioting and destruction of monuments and property as the confederate statues, the Lincoln memmorial, the Jefferson statue, and Hans Christian Heg.

This is why it’s called, ‘the mask slipping.’ Because they may talk a big game about just hating the white supremacist parts of American history and allegedly the society of the past, but the reality is they consider the entire society and country to still be white supremacist. Because it’s not socialist. That’s their idea of getting rid of white supremacism. Getting rid of capitalism and everything that is not socialism.

It’s one thing to have a beef with confederate monuments. It’s quite another to behead figures like Heg and Douglas. And they can claim that it was actually, “Nazi fascists” that did that, or claim “it was just people that didn’t know better uwu.” But, the truth is, that’s just not likely.

These particular activists with their particular ideology and playbook want equality the same way white supremacist tradcons want peace and prosperity. By which I mean their ideas and definitions of both stem from very warped and masturbatory ideologies about what constitutes those positive things and why we don’t currently have them.

She WANTED to be their friend but because her family had warped her sense of, well, EVERYTHING she really didn't know how. She THOUGHT their kindness to her, their following her orders, was them being her friends, liking her for her, but we find out they were really just scared of what she could do to them.

Thats why their "betrayal" on the Boiling Rock hit her as hard as it did. Mai says she loves Zuko more than she FEARS Azula. The pause before she yells "you should have feared me more" was her realizing they weren't her friends, they were just afraid of her.

Dont get me wrong, Azula is an AWFULE person. But when you start to view her story through the lens of an incredibly abused person you realize she wasn't born evil, she was made to be that way.