Hi! My name's Teca and most of the time I'm either silently lurking or vanishing for who knows how long. This is used to be an art/writing blog but oh well (She/they; 20; INFP; BR)
I will say, one of the benefits of being a Sailor Moon fan is that Naoko Takeuchi is notoriously private. We go years without hearing anything from her, and when we do she’s just like “Glad you like Sailor Moon! Thank you!” and disappears again. That’s nice.
The IOF opened fire on starving civilians trying to collect food aid murdering dozens and injuring an estimated hundreds or more they then crushed some of the injured by running over them with tanks. This was their “reason.”
For 153 days, we’ve seen Palestinians taking care of not only fellow humans by sharing food with each other, helping save people from under the rubble, carrying random bloody strangers to hospitals, and lending a helping hand at any given, but we’ve also seen them, constantly, taking care of animals during the genocide.
...And I'm wiping tears??
...Because I loved this movie and the allegory and it was the perfect girl movie for International Women's Day which was yesterday???
This movie got a 58% Rotten Tomatoes score and I'm honestly confused! It was a beautiful perfectly original fairytale.
In the good old days, this would have either been a sleeper hit in the theatres or a beloved classic discovery in the VHS rental market and likely overplayed at odd times on HBO like The Neverending Story.
It for me is on tier with The Seabeast and Predator for excellent modern "girl-power" films, that should have been released in the theaters.
It subverts so many fairytale tropes, and while it's predictable, I'm an old soul who still can cast myself back to girlhood and for me, again, the allegory touched me.
Much in a similar way that Maleficent did, with its origin for the title character as a metaphor for the loss of trust and innocence after a violation, "a sexual assault" with loss of wings.
It 100% wasn't intentionally this deep, but this for me was about the price of colonization; of adhered-to ancestral memory that the "winners" who write history carry, sacrificing 'the other" for generations destroying their own souls.... Until the convenient lies are finally faced.
Ugh, I loved what they did with the dragon, with all the supporting characters, with the amount of harrow, and some consequential violence, enough to genuinely scare but not enough to scar.
It felt very old school in that way. -Like a good solid 80's style fantasy, except for some of the non-practical effects.
IDK, maybe it's just about my soft heart, but again...
This movie made me cry.
I honestly and truly adored this fairytale.
#THISISAREC
--For the fairytale girlies... The ones who like dragons, Grimm teas, and girls bloodied and determined.
Unsurprisingly, they’ve aired another propaganda ad. Last time they did this, they bombed Rafah and we had people on here telling us the death of hundreds in the early hours of the morning was justified and okay. Last time they did this, my entire timeline was filled with people in Rafah terrified for their lives. The situation has gotten infinitely worse across all of Gaza. Eyes on Rafah, eyes on Gaza, and continue to support in whatever way you can.
Never forget the children of Iraq. Never forget the children of Syria. Never forget the children of Yemen. Never forget the children of Libya.
And never forget the children of Palestine, gone far too soon with each second the US not only remains complicit in their ongoing genocide, but actively funds it.