I wanna share like the whole cutscene and concert sequence of the last half of 'The Seed' and the first half of 'Through the Eyes of a Child' SO BAD but I can't bc I can't record that long on my switch.
I'd have preferred to have gotten a good amount of the last half of 'The Seed' to stitch together as a video but ughh I can't. I might try later, because I like it so much and want to save it forever and keep in my brain pocket so I can watch it whenever right want. It's so emotional. ANYWAY.
So here's some of my favourite bits as screenshots of the 'Through the Eyes of a Child' cutsence that I was able to fish from the footage I could get. It's not a lot but you get the idea.
(Aurora Concert/Musical Voyage spoilers under the read more)
Those last two are just,,,, they're really. They hit hard. I don't know why, to me they shouldn't, but they do.
I wish I recorded it but the first time I went to the concert (I went like 15 times) and "Through The Eyes of a Child" played
The fuckin part where it showed one of the dead sky people holding the kid, my butterfly bumbled around in the space between the floor and between their legs where the robe cuts off
So I was just flapping around and trying to escape lmao
Other times I just bumped into em but after the second try I learned to steer away
...as a gathering crowd caught Luka's attention. He watches in amazement when a man changes and a teenage girl stands in his place in the blink of an eye. A large red bird swoops down above the crowd with a squawk, perching on the girl's held-out arm. A round of applause came from the people surrounding them, while the teenager bowed and smiled at the praise. The girl twirled and shifted into a grinning five-year-old boy wearing a yellow ruana. The bird started to change form too before more people came and blocked Luka's view, making him miss out on what the other shapeshifter looked like.
something really cool happened today that i wanted to share:
my nephew is 9 years old, and a stereotypical little boy. he likes dinosaurs, minecraft, and ninjas.
today i walked in on him excitedly watching Nimona with my dad. (minor spoiler warning!)
i had never heard of it, but i sat down and watched some of it, just to see why he was so happy.
he started narrating it, anticipating parts of it, almost as if he’d seen it before. he had.
we didn’t get to finish it, but i watched it on my own, because it looked fun and i wanted to see how it ended.
and i loved it. it was a fun, exciting, fantastical adventure about the importance of acceptance people who are different to us.
and it had a very clear queer subplot.
one that my nephew hadn’t mentioned at all in his explanation of the film. his summary was “it’s about a monster who helps a knight that was framed for killing the queen”.
and honestly yeah, that is what the film was about.
before sharing it with us, he had watched it all, engrossed himself in the story, took it in entirely, and the part he cared about most was whether Nimona got her acceptance. he wasn’t indoctrinated, or confused, or questioning anything about himself.
he didn’t bat an eyelid over a gay love confession. he just enjoyed the film, raved about it, made my 60 year old dad watch the movie about the monster who didn’t fit in.
he’s still the same little boy who’s been asking us how to get a girlfriend.
the only thing a movie centred around queer and queer-coded characters taught my nephew was that those who are different to him are not monsters. that’s it.
If I could see the world
Thru the eyes of a child
What a wonderful world this would be
There'd be no trouble and no strife
Just a big happy life
With a bluebird in every tree
I could see right, no wrong
I could see good, no bad
I could see all the good things
In life I've never had
If I could see the world
Thru the eyes of a child
What a wonderful world this would be
If I could see the world
Thru the eyes of a child
Smiling faces would greet me all the while
Like a lovely work of art
It would warm my weary heart
Just to see thru the eyes of a child
I could see right, no wrong
I could see good, no bad
I could see all the good things
In life I've never had
If I could see the world
Thru the eyes of a child
What a wonderful world this would be
I felt my heart last night turning into ink, and in the background was the scream of the wind. The coffee tastes like sunrise and from the window I see a sign that said "Try again" and I chuckled; I think if I dissolved in the clouds, I wouldn't feel that much anymore.
Another week has passed and I haven't finished painting my boots; I'm going to dance this weekend, maybe I'll feel free then.
The sea waves ring in my mind, being a constant echo in my empty head. I'm glad I learned how to fly, even if it's only in a dream, but it was worth taking a break.
In your eyes I notice how lonely you feel, and I wonder if that's how I look, because my thoughts don't match anymore; I'm too different from the person, the one I see in the mirror, I don't recognize myself, but the eyes are still there, some empty brown eyes.