She Walks the Road to Dawn

*Acts innocent but is thinking about riding the fuck out of you*

guys we’ve gotta get back into collaging

why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?

Thinking about that quote from Nomura about how Kingdom Hearts reflects his belief that “the heart is never truly gone” and THAT’S why KH is so great to me. That’s at the core of its philosophy and why it connects emotionally for so many people. Kingdom Hearts says no one is ever really gone and everyone is connected and anything is possible. Maybe it’s a childish fantasy to believe that everything will be okay no matter how bad things get, and maybe that’s why Disney works so well in KH, but damn if it doesn’t work for me. I want Roxas and Xion to be okay even though they shouldn’t exist, I want the Wayfinder trio to reunite even though they should be broken and lost and possessed, I want Strelitzia to return even though she should be dead. Don’t we all want impossible things to happen? Isn’t it nice to imagine?

Thinking about how Howl's moving castle was Howl's heart. Sophie showed up and cleaned it, she put it in order, she almost killed it, she saved it, she went back in time to learn when he gave it up, when Howl lost his innocence, she met him again in the future, she found him, she gave him back his heart, she was there as he rebuilt it with her in it, she