dream a little

*through gritted teeth* every day i choose to be kind *barely restraining myself from violence* i choose to have compassion *tamping down the vicious bloodlust inside me* i choose to care and to be kind and to love

I think it’s very funny that the premise of a lot of sequels is “remember the brave compassionate heroes you knew and loved? well… what if they were shitty parents”

being alive is great because there are so many different vegetables you can sauté. but then there are also the horrors

the way studio ghibli romanticises being human...

the more outlandish the world, the more human its characters & the story’s thematic concerns are. like instead of feeling like you’ve “escaped” into a world where human affairs no longer matter or become trivial, you actually enter a world where human affairs are all that matter. fantasy & fiction as a vehicle to highlight humanity

there’s also an environmentalist theme underlying all of this, dare i say anti-capitalist – bc the human affairs are always situated squarely in a broader landscape, a broader human (& creaturely) context. there is no sense of that rugged individualism that governs fictional narratives in the west, the world reduced down to a single individual and their exploits. instead, there are simply people, & animals, & other beings that all exist in a web of relations rather than ordered hierarchically