and then the storm broke, and the dragons danced

The hawk in the film adaptation of H is for Hawk was amazing! She was so consistently comfortable and confident even in bust streets, and they had some adorable sequences showing that hawks can be incredibly cute (turning her head upside down and throwing paper balls).

I loved the beginning where she’s supposed to be fearful and uncomfortable but she’s just a chill bird having a chill time. Even when she’d bate, she never looked particularly uncomfortable before or afterwards, and part of me wonders whether they were cuing her to bate from off screen.

With all the weird uncanny cgi animals, it’s nice to see a real animal in a movie done so well, especially a Goshawk! They can tend to be higher stress and more difficult to work with, but this was obviously a very well trained and habituated bird. Absolutely gorgeous bird

Simon Strong

Another set in anime style (and my coloring nightmare) done long ago, prompted by @meripihka7 who once talked about how TSC could make a great anime! Warn you, though, that it was Google who handled all the translation of character intros, where I blended in some white lies to avoid … spoilers to the audience who actually do not exist?