I’ll Never Make A Fandom Post W/e But Morpheus’s Son Being Orpheus And Mortus’s Son Being Ortus

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Lipstick lady beetle, Cheilomenes bidentata, Coccinellidae

Found in South Africa

Photos by tonyrebelo

Robert Wun, Autumn/Winter 2024

Rachel Weisz photographed by yulia gorbachenko, 2023 

excerpt from ‘A Trans Body’s Path in Eight Folds’ from Pass with Care: Memoirs by Cooper Lee Bombardier (2020)

My hot take is that I feel like “ghibli films are pro Japanese imperialism” is a lazy jab that grabs at a few soft spots in the oeuvre to make the cheapest most rhetorically damaging shot it can, and that an honest analysis would generally struggle to say even the most problematic of the movies like The Wind Rises come out of the wash with a positive opinion of imperial Japan. My hotter take is that if you rigorously pull at the threads where the nominally anti-war films thematically collapse, you’ll find the issue isn’t a support of Japanese Imperialism but a lack of a rigorous critique of industrial civilization.

Via Don Francesco Campi, Crevacuore, Piedmont.