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LEVEL UP! Choose one to increase:

- Overall physical toughness and health

- Cardiovascular health and stamina

- Physical strength

- Agility, fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination

- Current level of blood mercury poisoning

- Number of slugs in body

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✹ pumpkins; abundance

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I don’t think anime vs western animation are as different as people claim due to the fact they have inspired and fed off each other for decades (they’re friends!!), however I do think our environmental messages to kids are… significantly and interestingly different

whereas, say Ghibli films express a deep Shinto-based respect and reverence for nature:

fighting for it as a means of both self-preservation and expression of heroism revolving around justice

and a matter of other groups of humans (the government often) going up against the stalwart youth

This is contrasted to western animation which tends to be like…. hey! look at this funny bat! And pollution is an evil spirit you can fight like physically 

that isn’t to say the west doesn’t depict environmentalism as heroic and even involving collective action, Captain Planet is a good example of this

but individualism is still very present, the struggle is stalwart youths versus an individual or individual corporation, hell, sometimes you even get a sympathetic backstory for the corporation and weirdly cool rock song

to be clear, antagonists like Lady Eboshi in Princess Mononoke are sympathetic too, but it is… different, Lady Eboshi is trying to survive due to circumstances but it is all of Irontown that represents a system of corruption

In comparison, there is this western idea of corruption coming from individuals rather than systems as well as the fact they aren’t trying to save nature because we are part of it, but because nature itself is a person and thus worthy of respect

In Fern Gully the fairy’s represent nature, the Lorax represents nature, Captain Planet is literally just nature, all things we can talk to and relate to, where in Princess Mononoke and Nausicaa the ultimate nature spirits are something you can’t talk to and are frankly terrifying, awe-inspiring, and mighty

Western epistemology is heavily rooted in Christianity which says that man has dominion over fish of the sea, fowl of the air, and creatures of the land, ect, which leads to a utilitarian and separate view of nature– what can it do for us as separate (higher) beings, and the only way to combat this view is to say “actually nature is a person and thus worthy of protection”

Whereas Japanese Shintoism has much more emphasis on the idea that we are all part of a whole with nature, nature is the ultimate divine with nothing more important than the other, and something worthy of protection not because we can understand it, but because we can’t

“It’s a mistake to think about nature from the idea of efficiency, that forests should be preserved because they are essential to human beings”– Hayao Miyazaki

this is not to completely bash western animation, it does have other strengths such as emphasizing children’s relationship to empathy, empathy toward others in “Toy Story” and empathy toward themselves in “Inside Out” 

However, our methods of conveying environmentalism could use some updating and steering away from “goofy” and “relatable” and maybe a little more terror and awe involved with fighting the good fight

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which country was it whose population was so intermarried they had to make an app to help people prevent from accidentally hooking up with their cousins 

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concept

a beaded curtain, but instead of beads they’re worms on strings

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ok but the peak of all comedy will always be that video of the broken singing trout that makes unholy noises but always goes right back to normal for the cheery chorus

P̙̳͡h͉̕ͅ'̩͎̫̱̮N̡̞͔̫g̮̪ͅL͕ͅu̺ͅI͏͓̰̣͍ ̳̟̭͔̲̝͟ͅm̤̲̟̟̩͢G̟̫̠̣̹͝l̷̻̰̟͈̲͖W̫'͚̖̜͔̝͜n̸̤͖̙A̦̗̤̹͓̜̞f̫͇̰̦͚̲͕́H̸̦ ̘̗̪̗̮̺c͚͔T̶̻̠̣̬̲̯̬h̴͓͉̥͈͈̙̦Ṷ͍͚͓̫̖l̹̦H͖̹͙͚ụ͈̕ ̹͓͇̰͝ͅͅR͔̻'͉̼̳̜͓͍̙l̜̦̭̟Ỳ͔͉͇͍̥ͅe̵̹̻̖̘H̥͠ ͘ẃ̪G̯̭͙̱a̞̪̰̤͇̖͝H̪̜̪͉̥̰ͅ'̩͖͈̣n̡A̱̣g̻̺̞̤L͏ ̪̙̙ͅf̴Ḫ̺̖̫t̜̜̼A͍̼͎͖̟̞̬g̦N͈͎̺̫

♫  ~ Singin’ Do-Wah-Diddy, Diddy-Dum, Diddy-Do ~ ♫ 

#singing demon trout

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procreate drawins

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They had not been seen together in the museum galleries for quite a while. Monet’s “Women with Umbrellas” are once again side by side in the Impressionist gallery.

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"what do you mean you wouldn't personify your state as a hot young MILF with sweet perky milkers?!"

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both are true tho

t*mblr is such a weird site because one post will be like “i personally believe that all of society’s problems stem from a capitalist system” and you scroll down and the next post says “i want to peg the mothman”

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Don’t get be wrong axolotls are adorable and deserve the love but I don’t see enough attention for their freaky cave hermit cousins the olm

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i was so sad, i drew a little bat so i wouldn’t be sad. and now i am no longer sad.

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Since vampires are hurt by holy water, I always wondered why Priests don’t bless storm clouds and kill them from above. Then I realized why most vampires live in Europe

Someone already blessed the rains down in Africa

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me at 2 PM: I hate seeing art of Danny DeVito where his tail bends in the middle as if it has some sort of knee joint bc that’s not how marine mamals bodies work but it’s so common in art ugh

me at 10 PM: it literally doesn’t matter because artists are free to take liberties with Danny DeVito designs like do I really have nothing better to do with my life than worry about an artist’s take on the anatomy of a fictional creature, god……

me a 1 AM: actually it does matter because absolutely Danny DeVito is real and I know this For A Fact

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“Am I a cat?”