Bigtop Burger season finale spoilers with no context
Hiroko (85yo) and her takoyaki shop in Tenma, Osaka.
I loved Turning Red and had to doodle something inspired by it :D
he’s my weirdo bubblegum ice cream loving bestie who punches homophobes in the face <333
AKIRA ‘アキラ’ dir. Katsuhiro Otomo
he let his guard down in front of her…. ;____; | SPY X FAMILY
Amity being a loving girlfriend.
The fact that we didn’t see Luz’s dad in the narrative up until this point, he was just utterly absent and the show never acknowledged the void; Because she was trying not to think about him, her grief was quiet and thus silent and unnoticeable... Impeccable.
Not to mention how her dad could’ve understood Luz’s weirdness and she could’ve gotten it from him, only to lose that person she could count on. And how it made Luz act out from loneliness back home, while Camila struggled to support them all financially on her own, and to connect with her daughter in the way her husband did. Luz lost someone who saw and recognized and understood her, and she wants it back. And it plays a role into her feeling like an outcast and wanting someplace to fit in, people who she can relate to once more.
Which makes her pain and guilt over not getting to pay tribute to her dad all the more potent, because it was that void he left that started it all, and Luz can never properly thank him even after all of this progress. It’s why Luz can’t just turn get rid of the reminders ahead of time, it feels disrespectful. It’s like she’s left him behind as she has Camila for this new world, and she hates that, as if her father’s death has led to a chain of events that caused Luz to literally and emotionally distance herself from him; She doesn’t want to forget but it also hurts too much to remember.
I honestly wouldn’t have put those damn memory tweezers past Luz this episode; She just carries such a burden and she’s so quiet about it because she’s learned to be, drowning her grief out with the noise of her loud and boisterous, seemingly invincible personality. But Luz is aching and vulnerable and she’s still a kid who’s grieving, she misses someone and above all she’s lonely. Luz needs someone and they’re not there, so she’s done all this just to fill that ache and void in her heart, found all of these people.
And now, they can finally help Luz being to recover and feel whole and at home again; Luz left home, because it no longer felt like home since her dad died. And that’s why she felt like she couldn’t belong ever since, and she’s been desperately trying to find that sense of belonging again. She’s just trying to find her way back home; Literally and especially figuratively, since the start of the series. And she finds it at the Owl House, hence the title. We already understood Luz as-is, but the show just gave a whole new layer and depth and context to her, and where she comes from, Luz’s pain. Who Luz is. And now we understand that even more and better now.
...This episode really was about grief, huh. Not just Luz grieving her dad but her mother, her home; And Camila grieving her husband, and now her daughter too. It just adds to her pain over losing Luz and wanting her to come back, saying she’ll do things better next time; Because she’s in the bargaining stage, as she no doubt was with her beloved.
the fact that they use magic instead of getting ready in the morning is so in character i love them
i can’t explain why but “i love you” / “it’ll pass” is genuinely one of the most comforting pieces of dialogue i’ve ever come across. the context is deliberately sad, the hot priest is walking away from fleabag, choosing religion over love [“oh i don’t know what this feeling is” / “is it god or is it me?”] and it’s SICK because he loves her too [ “i can’t have sex with you because i’ll fall in love with you and if i fall in love with you, i won’t burst into flames, but my life will be fucked”] but like. it’s not a “sad ending” for the sake of being sad and realistic or an unreasonably happy ending preaching love and forever ever-afters. it doesn’t villainize or glorify the concept of love or people. it’s simply speaking the truth in the simplest of words. you’re in love with me and it’s going to make you miserable but it’ll pass. the pain will lessen and that ache in your chest will fade till it’s tolerable. you’ll laugh more often. soon it’ll be easier to get up in the mornings. this is a law, a rule, a fact. no matter how precious that pain is, how inescapable- it’ll pass. even though he’s the hot priest and she’s fleabag and they’re so obviously made to be happily in love w each other- it’ll still pass. it’s how we’re built- to persevere, to survive, to break and be okay again.
Sorry but this is hilarious
can I take a picture of the moon?
the tower of Pisa: yes, sorry
Okay the batman spoilers ahead but.
Batman at the end realizing that he needed to be more than vengeance, that he needed to be a beacon of light for the city, that he needed to fight not out of hatred for its flaws but out of love for its people, out of an intense passion for Gotham itself, is EXACTLY what I’ve wanted to see in a Batman adaptation for so long. It worked so well because it was earned. Batman characterizations (in novels and in comics) where he’s portrayed as this 2-dimensional vector of hatred feels so flat and wrong because Batman has always been a man who loves the city. We’ve seen enough “haha Batman is the mask and he beats up poor people” takes that we know that the average viewer will think that Batman’s like that; having him grow out of it is the single most effective way to show that he is more than that. The scene at the end where he saves people from the flooding actually earned the impact that Snyder wanted out of BvS; it wasn’t heroism for the sake of showing the audience that this guy is good, but heroism for the sake of showing that Batman is not about beating up criminals, but being a beacon for the city.
YES EXACTLY.