Roxie

I saw Princess Mononoke tonight at a friend's movie night, somehow for the first time ever, so I'm about 27 years late to telling you that it's beautiful.

It has absolutely no ironic distance from even its strangest and silliest imagery, which I deeply appreciate. There's talking apes and pigs and googly-eyed forest spirits and they are all treated with not just seriousness but reverence.

And it's a movie about wanting to live. It's about environmentalism, that's not exactly subtle, but it's also about knowing that you'll never get your old life back, you'll never get your old world back, and deciding you still want to live in the new one. Not because the new world is better, because it might not be, or not for a long time. Not really even because you're needed for the rebuilding. It's about wanting to live for its own sake, because there's still a world and your heart still beats and that's all it goddamn takes to spend another day here. It's about living through an apocalypse and standing ankle-deep in the ashes and saying "I still want this."

Autism, or as I like to call it, “I’m not trying to be a smartass; I literally do not know what you mean.”

I was gonna post something like "oh... I'm so much of an Adult now... Instead of getting excited about a video game or something my most exciting purchase is a fucking hand vacuum..."

but thinking back to my childhood? I thought hand vacuums were AWESOME. I thought being able to point something at something and then suck up everything with a little thing you could hold in your hand like a gun was sick as fuck. I haven't changed at all little handheld dust busters are cool as shit

It's basically like getting a Mega Man power up

I was gonna post something like "oh... I'm so much of an Adult now... Instead of getting excited about a video game or something my most exciting purchase is a fucking hand vacuum..."

but thinking back to my childhood? I thought hand vacuums were AWESOME. I thought being able to point something at something and then suck up everything with a little thing you could hold in your hand like a gun was sick as fuck. I haven't changed at all little handheld dust busters are cool as shit