Ships on a Silvery Sea ~

-charming yet eerie character/creature designs

-ruins/environment drenched in abandonment

-world feels unbearably big

-fantasy is the horror and vice versa

-village/town vibe

-the constant feeling of if you just look under some overgrown foliage you’ll find something forgotten

This kind of storytelling has a lineage, but it isn’t American. In many ways, it resembles the work of Hayao Miyazaki, the godfather of Japanese animation, who displays no affection for civilization. “I want to see the sea rise over Tokyo,” he told the New Yorker, once. “I’d like to see Manhattan under water,” he said. “I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying them. I’m excited about that. Money and desire – all that is going to collapse and wild green grasses are going to take over.”

In Miyazaki’s films, the heroes don’t so much reshape reality as learn how to navigate it and so, in a way, the apocalypse hovering in the background of his films are more in keeping with the origins of the word, which isn’t so much about destruction as it is about revealing, or folding something open.

my latest minecraft map, something a bit colder~

Lilac fields~