scattered thoughts like clouds
(I keep trying to like things as I go through my LJ feed. Yikes.)
Facebook and Tumblr do create such a laziness. "Can't be bothered to comment, but if I like it they'll know I've seen it and appreciate it~"
on me right now:
I'm here on LJ again probably by grace of pulling the reins in on my SuitDistracted blog. I get a bit obsessive, and so when I was exhausting myself trying to keep up with it in the perfect way to acquire new followers, I realized I had to let it go.
Guess what? People still find it and follow it, when I haven't posted a thing in days.
And there have been over 4000 likes or reposts of that silly MCR .gif I originally posted ages ago. It blew up again today, hitting a new pocket of fangirl blogs. (Seriously. How many pockets of MCR fangirls do you HAVE, Tumblr? How are they not all already friends?)
I am interning for an agent and though it seemed like a huge deal to decide to even apply, it's totally fun and no big sweat, and I read a manuscript that the agent ended up signing and it is too bad about how long it will be before I can tell you more than that.
We Skyped with my brother Dan on Christmas morning, at his in-laws, and he is suuuuuuuper adorable with his little wifey, though she was waiting to have her wisdom teeth pulled the next day, poor thing. But they are totally cute, and it is ridiculous. It also is somehow...nicer, than him being off over there alone with just extended family.
And I watched Princess Mononoke with my 3 youngest sibs over the holiday, too, which they'd never seen. And oh...my heart.
I think that is actually my favorite movie. It's a bit unusual for Miyazaki--he has heroines, but his POV character is a guy. And yet...his animation is a bit delicate. I think he's supposed to be of a tribe that is slighter, of different stock. The people you meet up with in the West, when he leaves his home town, are speaking more brash Japanese, have a meatier physicality. San may also be of a different people, but she is square--no sheltered child but grown up tough and athletic.
The trifecta of characters and their interactions is so subtle, and it's not something I really appreciated fully when I first watched it. In fact, watching it with subtitles this time felt fresh--I may have not seen it with them more than once before. I was sorrowful about the way San and Ashitaka don't get together at the end as a teenager.
As an adult, I am sorrowful from the moment Ashitaka leaves his tribe, who say they are dying out, and he was to be their chief, no doubt also meant to raise a family to keep their people alive for another generation. The ambiguous ending with the humans is nice. The fact that the visible, tactile magic has disappeared--that's sorrowful. And yet well-handled--I hate it when a writer thinks they can fundamentally change the world at the end of the story, so it's our world, and have that feel right.
Instead, it's just turned to something less obvious. The world doesn't change that much.
Facebook and Tumblr do create such a laziness. "Can't be bothered to comment, but if I like it they'll know I've seen it and appreciate it~"
on me right now:
I'm here on LJ again probably by grace of pulling the reins in on my SuitDistracted blog. I get a bit obsessive, and so when I was exhausting myself trying to keep up with it in the perfect way to acquire new followers, I realized I had to let it go.
Guess what? People still find it and follow it, when I haven't posted a thing in days.
And there have been over 4000 likes or reposts of that silly MCR .gif I originally posted ages ago. It blew up again today, hitting a new pocket of fangirl blogs. (Seriously. How many pockets of MCR fangirls do you HAVE, Tumblr? How are they not all already friends?)
I am interning for an agent and though it seemed like a huge deal to decide to even apply, it's totally fun and no big sweat, and I read a manuscript that the agent ended up signing and it is too bad about how long it will be before I can tell you more than that.
We Skyped with my brother Dan on Christmas morning, at his in-laws, and he is suuuuuuuper adorable with his little wifey, though she was waiting to have her wisdom teeth pulled the next day, poor thing. But they are totally cute, and it is ridiculous. It also is somehow...nicer, than him being off over there alone with just extended family.
And I watched Princess Mononoke with my 3 youngest sibs over the holiday, too, which they'd never seen. And oh...my heart.
I think that is actually my favorite movie. It's a bit unusual for Miyazaki--he has heroines, but his POV character is a guy. And yet...his animation is a bit delicate. I think he's supposed to be of a tribe that is slighter, of different stock. The people you meet up with in the West, when he leaves his home town, are speaking more brash Japanese, have a meatier physicality. San may also be of a different people, but she is square--no sheltered child but grown up tough and athletic.
The trifecta of characters and their interactions is so subtle, and it's not something I really appreciated fully when I first watched it. In fact, watching it with subtitles this time felt fresh--I may have not seen it with them more than once before. I was sorrowful about the way San and Ashitaka don't get together at the end as a teenager.
As an adult, I am sorrowful from the moment Ashitaka leaves his tribe, who say they are dying out, and he was to be their chief, no doubt also meant to raise a family to keep their people alive for another generation. The ambiguous ending with the humans is nice. The fact that the visible, tactile magic has disappeared--that's sorrowful. And yet well-handled--I hate it when a writer thinks they can fundamentally change the world at the end of the story, so it's our world, and have that feel right.
Instead, it's just turned to something less obvious. The world doesn't change that much.