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This year marks the 20th anniversary of Rice Boy! Hooray!!! 🥳

Sit back with a nice plate of orange popping plants and spend a while re-reading (or reading for the first ever time! wow!) the epic tale of Rice Boy over at rice-boy.com, by the incredible @evandahm!

Happy holidays from the Belt!

Here's a totally normal Christmas card featuring A, Basil, Winnie, and Orion. Look at these characters, they're all having a grand time and definitely not going through the horrors <3 You absolutely should look at this card very closely with your screen brightness turned all the way up.

Alt colored versions under the cut

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satoshi kon was taken from this world far far too young, i feel not just japanese animation, but surrealist cinema in general lost an incredibly thoughtful and boundlessly creative dreamer. may kon's dreams continue to inspire, forever and ever and ever.

Piranesi concept art!

And it is the same with his change. He is one and the same, but he is also separate. He will never go back to who he was, but he cannot become who he is without being who he was. The man who is not M.R.R nor Piranesi will always long for the House, because he is Piranesi and he is human and so he belongs there; and if he returned to the House he would long for our world, because he is M.R.R and he is human and so he belongs here. So he must see one in another, and in that find his home.

And it is bittersweet, because this means loss is inevitable, and so is longing. Means one must walk across worlds, and make the walking home. To be complete one must be many separate parts. but that is being human.

His time in the Halls allowed him to experience the bliss of pure existence, to understand the world, to access the beautiful, distilled essence of everything; he accessed the realm of Ideas, and understood them deeply, in complete unobstructed connection with them. And now that he must remember, now that he must be here, that he must bear the grime and smoke of the inharmonious world, contend with what was done to him, contend with what was lost and its consequences-- he has not forgotten the House. It is a knowledge he brings with him: what it is to be the Beloved Child of the world, what it is when the world is whole and he fits perfectly inside it. So he reaches, in the very last moment, what to me reads like synthesis. to get lost in the realm of Ideas is not our task, as getting lost in the rejection of it is not our task. People cannot get back the world where men turned into birds (and it perhaps never even existed, being only a misinterpretation born of the modern academic's myopic gaze; as Piranesi says, the world speaks to him all the time). he cannot get back the version of himself rid of the trauma and grief of what happened to him. Yet: the House is still always within and around him. He may not be able to be just the Beloved Child anymore, but once the grief of is soothed, he sees that he never left it behind.

Bruno’s tragically horrible at being tactful and totally neurotic, but people listen to every single word he says and interpret it for the worst since he can see the future. Feedback loop, least popular Madrigal in the Encanto serving as a harbinger of ill.

Pepa can control the weather, but only insomuch as she can control herself. Every time she’s upset she makes it everyone else’s problem, so she can’t be upset.

Julieta can heal all ills, but she can’t come even close to healing what is wrong with every member of her family.

Luisa is strong, but her strength erodes her boundaries as people need her abilities.

Isabela has conditionally beautiful plant powers that are a visual reminder that she must constrain herself to be loved.

Dolores hears everything, which makes it more painful as people overlook her.

Antonio’s gift breaks the pattern: a shy boy gains friends, and a desire to speak on their behalf. I believe this is due to the popular theory that Mirabel chose this gift, rather than Abuela, as part of coming of age into leadership of the Encanto.

More irony here is that Mirabel didn’t get a gift- she is the gift!

(Not sure where this came from but it was so convincing in the weeks up to the real end… )

There is this neat story called 17776 which describes a world where humans abruptly become immortal. In the years that follow, they accomplish everything important, everything humans as a whole ever wanted. They save the world as much as they can. And when that’s done, humans have to find meaning beyond that in routine, playing football, religion, etc.

And also, people still choose to work fast food places! Money doesn’t matter, buying food doesn’t even matter for survival, but someone is still manning a drive thru in a burger joint in one scene. And in that scene I believe it (customer in blue, drive thru operator in yellow)

Maybe in Deku’s case- after you've accomplished something so important that you will never reach those heights again- perhaps the idea of working a demanding and fast paced job is a welcome place to land. It has its own share of villains, unjust hardships, and heroes and allies if you look at it beyond the intended stigma of the parody. Maybe when the job stops at clock out like heroing never did, there’s time to face the horror of being just some guy like the rest of us.