“but Aces Are Only 1% Of The Population!”

A gift for Mr Buccellati 

Just wanted to draw something soft today <3

I’m not going to explain myself

Ghibli Cities - Shizuku’s town in Whisper of the Heart (1995)

Shizuku’s town is based on the lovely neighborhood of Seiseki Sakuragaoka in Tama City, which is a western suburban city located in Tokyo. Nippon Animation, where Miyazaki and Takahata used to work, is located in Tama City.

breakfast at howl’s ~

I think the reason why I enjoyed Shimanami Tasogare as much as I did is because it deals with homophobia and transphobia in a way that’s very real. It takes the time with pointing out microaggressions, showing that sometimes prejudice comes from ignorance rather than malice, that even people that consider themselves allies can harm us, that some people might not be against “the gay lifestyle” if it’s people they don’t know but be against their own children being gay, etc. 

I feel like other media makes homophobia something that’s too cut and dry, or just uses it as a plot device- and that’s okay. I don’t want every piece of gay media to center around the hate we recieve, that’d be exhausting. But I think these type of stories are important too, sometimes. There’s just something really powerfu about reading a manga that dives so much into our oppression and yet still ends in a happy ending, I think.

22 February 2022 falls on a Tuesday.

smal gays

when she says she doesn’t send nudes