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literally though if you feel like your life is slipping through your fingers and every day goes too fast… try doing hard things, not just taking the easy route, like reading and making art and exercising and cooking a meal from scratch and journaling, doing these things without distraction, without being absorbed on a screen… the time will stretch and you’ll be reminded that life is long and beautiful if you make it so.
Prince of Egypt director’s commentary: “This idea came from Steven [Spielberg] for this sequence starting Moses big in the frame in the upper left and getting smaller and smaller in the environment in moving eventually to the bottom right of the screen. Completely engulfed by the environment, the land literally swallows him up… This sequence is really about taking Moses to his lowest depth, it is about stripping him away everything of Egypt, and everything of being a prince.” (1/?)
ive been dying and fading but also having a nice and chill time and sometimes laughing
Rodger Kamenetz, from Terra Infirma (University of Arkansas Press, 1985)
“The Painted Table had been carved and decorated at Lord Aegon’s command; a massive slab of wood, some fifty feet long, carved in the shape of Westeros, and painted to show all the woods and rivers and towns and castles of the Seven Kingdoms.”
“Fire & Blood” by George RR Martin
HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE (2004) Dir. Hayao Miyazaki
07/29
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Trivia from Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright
“I have dreamed of you so often, you are no longer real.”
— Dean Young, from “Robert Desnos (1900-1945),” in Bender: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2012)
“will to persevere / to stay until the whisperings of spring arrive / to marry / to bake bread”
— June Jordan, from Haruko/Love Poems
Unfortunately, the truth is that you’ll probably always feel less loved or seen than you actually are. There are many people out there who decide against admitting their love for you or even uttering a compliment out loud, you only know about a fraction of the adoration that exists for you: there’s what you’ve been told about and there’s what you feel. But there’s also what you don’t even notice. Try to remember that however you’re feeling (lonely or invisible or unwanted) is valid and real, but it isn’t all. The world would be incredibly tiny if what you’re feeling was truly all there was.
i think the reason i love studio ghibli as much as i do is because it encompasses everything i love about life. wearing clothes that make you feel young and free that you can run and jump and climb trees in. the sense of peace that only comes from sitting on a train watching scenes move by the in windows, walking through the city at night, reading on a bench. the way there is so much grief and pain and hardship in each movie, and the world being torn apart but in spite of that, there is wholesomeness and warmth in bowls of noodles and dinner with your family and singing loudly without worrying about what your voice sounds like, and if you love someone enough it doesn’t matter that the world is falling apart around you. it’s about romanticising the little things in life, the hot mug of tea, that moment in the streetlight in the rain, the sunrise looking pretty through your little window; and it’s about the quiet, soft, warm moments you share with other people through those. those the things i cling onto in life, the small moments of joy that make life worth living.
