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Castle In The Sky (1986) Grave of the Fireflies (1988) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) Only Yesterday (1991) Porco Rosso (1992) Pom Poko (1994) Whisper of the Heart (1995) Princess Mononoke (1997) My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999) Spirited Away (2001) The Cat Returns (2002) Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) Tales from Earthsea (2006) Ponyo On A Cliff From The Sea (2008) The Secret World of Arrietty/The Borrower Arrietty (2010) From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)

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Take a sip, babes

Lack of sleep can cause your brain to eat itself. 

Atsushi ☆ Kyouka

It was a safe bet that Kate “Hark! A Vagrant! Beaton’s first kids’ picture book would be amazing, but The Princess and the Pony is incredible.

Princess Pinecone is a the smallest warrior in a kingdom of warriors, and she lives for battle. But every year on her birthday, her parents give her a cuddly sweater. What she really wants is a mighty charger, from whose back she might smite other warriors.

This year, Princess Pinecone put her foot down. She let it be known that nothing less than a huge, imposing horse would do.

Unfortunately, what she got was a cuddly, funny-looking pony whose eyes point in opposite directions. It refuses to be trained for warhorse duties. She rides it into battle anyway. When Otto the Awful spies her on the sidelines and charges her, the pony just stands there, while Princess Pinecone digs for her spitballs. Then it happens: Otto the Awful screeches to a halt, unable to believe how TOTALLY CUTE the pony is.

The mighty battle stops. The warriors crowd around the pony. They get in touch with their cuddly sides. So Princess Pinecone shares her supply of excess cuddly sweaters. And they all live happily ever after!

Beaton is one of the sharpest, funniest comics creators in the business. Her witty, take-no-prisoners feminism is absolutely on display here, but she doesn’t go for an easy girl-power resolution: instead, she lets everyone be both a badass and a sentimentalist.

The spreads in this are amazing: the giant fight scene and the warriors in their sweaters? Perfection.

It is the perfect, perfect book about girls, gender roles, and adorable ponies.

I bought my copy at Los Angeles’s outstanding Secret Headquarters, who also sold me one of Beaton’s newly published Sketchbooks.

The Princess and the Pony [Kate Beaton/Scholastic]

Anyone with a name that starts with a “Z”, ends with an “i”, and isn’t some kind of Italian pasta, IS SERIOUS

💗 Do not forget to drink water. No matter how bad you feel, simply taking a sip of water is going to make you feel at least a little better!

💗 Although you might not feel like making an effort to prepare something to eat, you need to eat something. Your body needs the energy to get you through the day (even though you might not want to).

💗 No matter how exhausted you feel, taking a shower and changing your clothes will always leave you feeling refreshed.

💗 Open your curtains and windows. It does not have to be for long but just let some fresh air inside your room.

💗 Write down your feelings and thoughts. Do not worry about how it looks, just get everything out of your system. Once everything is on paper, you will feel a little lighter.

💗 Make a list of things that make you happy. It does not have to be a lot, just a few things that exist and make your life a little brighter.

💗 Change your bed sheets if you have not done so in a long time. Similary to taking shower, this will instantly make you feel fresh and a little better.

💗 If you have a lot of things to do, just pick the simplest task on your list and do it. Completing one task can make such a huge difference.

✨What are your favorite songs to listen to when regressed?

🍼Write a story about all the colors of the rainbow meeting each other.

🐻Design your dream stuffie (size, color, animal, texture, etc).

🌼If you had infinite money, what agere things would you buy?

✨Write down some games that you can play in the bath, with your stuffies/dolls, by yourself, etc.

🍼Design your dream paci (color, design, etc).

🐻Doodle your little self.

🌼Write a list of things you want to buy to make your room feel more little.

✨Plan your dream agere playdate. Who is it with? Where do you go? What do you do?

🍼What are your favorite movies to watch when regressed?

🐻Design an animal. What does it look like? Where does it live? How does it act?

🌼Write down some fun facts about your favorite subject (dinosaurs, planets, etc).

✨You’re a spy. What stuffies do you take on missions? What is your code name? What cases do you work?

🍼Draw your dream agere outfit.

🐻Write a story about taking home a mysterious egg and having it hatch into a dragon.

POKER or CHESS

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