Genuinely just a good man. Wife adopts teenage witch that needs a place to stay in the city? Sure. Even though you got a kid on the way? That’s fine. Cat too? Love cats.
My favorite moment with him is when he goes to get some prepped baking sheets and he does this fancy twirl with them in front of Jiji. Like, there’s no other people in the room, he does this to impress a cat.
I don’t think he ever says more than a whole word the entire movie, and I still love him more than most Disney princes based on this one moment alone.
And the part where he wanted to surprise Kiki by making that beautiful elaborate sign OUT OF BREAD to advertise her business and he was all anxious for her to get home and see it
But then when he sees her coming he gets all bashful and runs away 😭
the most underrated thing about the ghibli movies is how deeply they are love stories to working people, to the small folk, to moments of love and kindness. its not just about magic, many movies are about magic and fairytales. Its not only about the people in the stories, but about stories in the people. And they are just loveable.
Not knowing that you have a villain inside you, a hero, and a bystander is a lesson that everyone should learn.
What is the quote from Jingo, by Sir Terry Pratchett, to the effect of "when someone does something terrible, we want it to be one of Them, because if it isn't Them, then it is Us?"
“It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn’t then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.”
Jingo. 1997. Pratchett, Terry. NY, London, and Ankh-Morpork: Harper-Collins. p. 205
Tbh mever thought about that lol
Let’s expand this further. Think about how much driving is commuting to work or running errands like groceries. Think about how many of those could be easily removed with better public transit and walkable cities/neighborhoods. Think about how many fewer ambulances we’d need without over 40 thousand people dying from cars every year in the United States and over 2.8 million injured from cars every year.
These are not “accidents,” it’s structural violence churning our blood into profit for car and oil companies. This isn’t even touching on the other harm to our health from smog, rubber particulates in the air, other forms of pollution, the acceleration of climate apocalypse, the time and space wasted because of cars every day, everything spread apart and atomized because of how much surface area is dedicated to parking and stroads. Literally illegal to re-build the good cities bulldozed for cars because of single-use zoning laws.
We could all live near the damn jimmy johns and walk there or get it delivered by bike!! A better world is possible!! Drag the suburbanites from their beds kicking and screaming!!
I love u narrative songs 💖💖💖
Too many generic love songs not enough songs about one specific ass situation
tag the first song you think of
a little more information regarding the maui wildfires:
- medical workers on the ground are describing finding hundreds of bodies. the current death toll in the media is, unfortunately, only a fraction of the reality
- hospital workers are describing injuries and trauma as if survivors had come out of a warzone
- thousands are still missing
- an apartment complex for the elderly was lost. not everyone could get out. people were saying goodbye to loved ones over the phone
- people who did get out of lahaina were leaving with ashes covering their faces and nothing but the clothes on their backs. people are losing everything.
hotels are still operating. hotels are still operating. they are not the ones offering shelters or housing or food. even bowling alleys are offering shelter, but hotels have the audacity to build on burial sites but not open their doors to local families who have lost everything.
donate to maui united way, the maui food bank, mutual aid, and maui humane society
Hey if you work for a major company that you fucking hate, but they also have a Diversity, Inclusion, Culture Department… check if they offer donation matching.
Your $10 donation can turn into $20
Your $50 donation can turn into $100
I completely forgot until an org put it at the bottom.
the enemy is doing some touhou shit my lord
Daily affirmations for tesla owners: your car is ugly as hell and everyone hates you
time to unleash this onto my followers
I've started to get threats from terfs, keep up the good work!
Yknow tumblr was changing the logo monthly for a little while there. Are they just keeping the one that looks like a period tracker now. It's been there suspiciously long
today im thinking about the huge buff bread guy from kikis delivery service. highly underrated guy