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“Put down your roots in the soil. Live together with the wind. Pass the winter with the seeds, sing in the spring with the birds.”

"Castle over the Clouds" by Roberto Nieto.

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Studio Ghibli Title Cards, Part 1

"Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" ("Kaze no tani no Naushika") (1984) Directed by Hayao Miyazaki (Anime/Adventure/Sci-Fi) . . "Laputa: Castle in the Sky" ("Tenkuu no Shiro Laputa") (1986) Directed by Hayao Miyazaki (Anime/Adventure/Fantasy) . . "My Neighbor Tortoro" ("Tonari no Totoro") (1988) Directed by Hayao Miyazaki (Anime/Comedy/Fantasy) . . "Grave Of The Fireflies" ("Hotaru no haka") (1988) Directed by Hayao Miyazaki (Anime/Drama/War) . . "Kiki's Delivery Service" ("Majo no takkyûbin") (1989) Directed by Hayao Miyazaki (Anime/Fantasy) . . "Only Yesterday" ("Omohide poro poro") (1991) Directed by Isao Takahata (Anime/Drama/Romance) . . "Porco Rosso" (1992) Directed by Hayao Miyazaki (Anime/Adventure/Comedy) . . "Ocean Waves" ("Umi ga kikoeru") (1993) Directed by Tomomi Mochizuki (Anime/Drama/Romance)

Favorite Hayao Miyazaki villain and why? What do you think an aspiring storyteller can learn from how his villains are written? Do you think any of that helped develop any characters or moments in Unsounded?

Ooooh~~~ My favourite Miyazaki villain is Muska from Tenkuu no Shiro Laputa, but like, he's the least complex villain in any of the movies, haha. He has a huge fandom though because he's such a massive dork and unapologetically evil. He beats up little girls! But there's a real purity to him, and it feels SO GOOD when he gets vanquished at the end. And vanquished in a really horrible way too. God, I love Muska.

Other Miyazaki villains are, as I'm sure you know, much more grey, and beating them isn't about achieving any sort of power fantasy or catharsis; it's more about learning a lesson. Ghibli movies are a degree of didactic that Disney movies only dream about. In most Disney movies, the villain is as two-dimensional as the cell they're painted on, and the audience roars for their blood. This isn't really a great thing to be drowning children in, if we're honest with ourselves.

In most Miyazaki movies, you make friends with the villain. You learn why they are the way they are - you learn that they're human - and chances are you don't get to throw them off a cliff at the end.

I love all the above. I love unapologetically evil villains, and I love the greyer antagonists. Both exist in the real world. It's nice to think that some people are just misunderstood but nope. Some people are just sociopathic evil pricks and they really should be thrown off a cliff.

As far as writing villains, that's really going to depend on what you're after. Sometimes the escapism of utterly destroying a purely evil villain is exactly what the world and your audience wants and needs. We don't get to see that happen in real life too much; the opportunity to experience it in fiction is why we do what we do, so many of us.

But if you want something more nuanced because there is something special you want to express - like the complex relationship between the natural world and the flourishing of humanity, or the insecurity that's at the heart of a lot of bullying, or how isolation breeds contempt, Miyazaki is a fine teacher. Just remember that he likes his irredeemable villains too, and that's perfectly fine.

(Archive) Animated movie of the day: Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Tenkuu no Shiro Laputa, 1986)

Originally posted: January 11st, 2023 Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, a pretty misunderstood classic of literature. Usually just called Gulliver's Travels, what once was a scathing satire that mocked English nobility with notorious contempt has been understood as a mere story for children about wondrous lands, two of them standing out in particular. One is Lilliput, inhabited by people twelfth the size of a normal person. The other? Laputa, a floating island of science with an unfortunate but VERY intentional name alluding to a pejorative word in Spanish.

And the last one is, oddly enough, mostly remembered BECAUSE of this one film. Funnily too, as it does completely away with Jonathan Swift's original story(albeit ironically alluding to it's existence) in favor of a tale of both childlike wonder and the dangers of technology and hubris on it's wake. One of the early films of Hayao Miyazaki, you can tell how his directorial style has been perfected since. It is gripping from the start, but it's almost built on a contradiction of tones.

On one hand you have swashbuckling adventures with a pretty charming and humorous cast, where the image of macho men and some of the danger is played for laughs, as a pair of kid heroes pretty much entrust to each other through thick and thin. On the other, there's an underlying power conflict rooted on ambition and conquest, and uncharacteristically for Miyazaki (who has a distaste for black and white morality) a proper villain this time with surprisingly violent and chilling actions.

Regardless, the love for flight, nature, and just life itself shine the brightest amongst the darkness of human hubris. A wonderously fun fairy tale of flying pirate grannies, ancient civilizations of high technology, but above all, of the power of trust and understanding.

Rise of the Arcadian Empire

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/Fq9N2aA by BlueStoneVirus Immediately after winning the Battle of Hogwarts, Sybill Trelawney foretells the end of the magical world in front of a Great Hall full of exhausted and grieving fighters. Harry and his friends are forced to unite the magical peoples of Earth, rediscover lost magical technologies, and find a new home amongst the stars. Their successes and failures will reshape the futures of everyone in their world, and possibly the future of the galaxy. Words: 26309, Chapters: 6/?, Language: English Series: Part 1 of The Rise of the Arcadian Empire - Act 1 Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Halo (Video Games) & Related Fandoms, Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Disney Movies), 天空の城ラピュタ | Tenkuu no Shiro Laputa | Laputa: Castle in the Sky Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M Relationships: Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley, Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, Hannah Abbott/Susan Bones, Charlie Weasley/Oliver Wood, Neville Longbottom/Luna Lovegood Additional Tags: End of the World, Post-Canon, Outer Space, Fluff and Humor, Reluctant Harry Potter read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/Fq9N2aA

Wonderful World

Fandoms: コクリコ坂から | Kokuriko-zaka Kara | From Up on Poppy Hill (2011), 千と千尋の神隠し | Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi | Spirited Away (2001), Mononoke-hime | Princess Mononoke, Gake no Ue no Ponyo | Ponyo, Mimi wo Sumaseba | Whisper of the Heart (1995), Howl no Ugoku Shiro | Howl's Moving Castle, Tonari no Totoro | My Neighbor Totoro (1988), 風の谷のナウシカ | Kaze no Tani no Naushika | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), 天空の城ラピュタ | Tenkuu no Shiro Laputa | Laputa: Castle in the Sky, 風立ちぬ | Kaze Tachinu | The Wind Rises (2013), 借りぐらしのアリエッティ | Karigurashi no Arietty | The Secret World of Arrietty (2010), 紅の豚 | Kurenai no Buta | Porco Rosso (1992)

No Archive Warnings Apply

Pazu/Sheeta (Laputa)

Sophie Hatter/Howl Pendragon

Madame Gina/Porco Rosso

Arrietty Clock/Sho

Haku | Nigihayami Kohakunushi/Ogino Chihiro

Horikoshi Jirou/Satomi Naoko

Kazama Shun/Matsuzaki Umi

Ponyo/Sousuke (Ponyo)

Kasukabe Mei & Kasukabe Satsuki

Amasawa Seiji/Tsukishima Shizuku

Ashitaka/San (Mononoke-hime)

Kiki/Tombo (Majo no Takkyuubin)

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