Gemeiki - Gem

Doing more than one? Choose whichever you found the most helpful. ❤️

ONE OF MY FAVORITE ANIMATICS ABOUT THEM

In WWII, in 6 years, 67 journalists were killed

In the Vietnam war, in 20 years, 63 journalists were killed

In Gaza, in 70 days, 89 journalists were killed

"suguru, i've finally caught up with you."

Okay no I need to talk about the book version of Howl's Moving Castle. I love the movie but the book has such a different vibe and you, yes you, should read it.

Movie Howl is a soulful and quiet. Book Howl is a drama queen and Causing Problems and has a long string of jilted exes and couldn't shut up if you paid him.

Sophie and Howl drive each other up the wall at the beginning and it's really funny. Sophie and Howl are (despite themselves) very much in love by the end and they still drive each other up the wall and it's even funnier.

In the movie, Howl has been ordered by the king to participate in The War, and Howl is avoiding it because he is a brave conscientious objector. In the book, Howl has been ordered by the king to rescue his lost brother from the Witch of the Wastes, and Howl is avoiding it by any means necessary because he is a cowardly weasel who wants to stay as far from the Witch as possible.

In the movie, the Witch cursed Sophie because she was jealous about Howl speaking to Sophie for five minutes. In the book, the Witch cursed Sophie because Sophie had been doing surprisingly powerful magic for years without knowing it and it was actually starting to cut into the Witch's plans. (Sophie does not discover any of this until nearly the end of the book, but the reader can start to pick it up much earlier and the way Sophie's magic works is pretty darn cool.)

In the movie, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens, but this is implied to be nothing but nasty fearmongering. In the book, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens because Howl started the rumor so people would stop asking him to do wizard junk all the time.

The book lightly parodies a couple of tropes from Western fairy tales. In particular Sophie has internalized that, as the eldest of three sisters, her "destiny" is to fail so that her younger sisters will look cooler when they succeed, which is why she's so resigned to the hat shop at the beginning. (Sidebar: Sophie's sisters come up much more in the book and they're great.) There's also a really funny bit where Sophie attempts to operate a pair of seven-league boots.

In the movie, the fourth and final location that the magic door connects to is some sort of black void / mindscape / time portal dealy. In the book the fourth location is Wales, in the UK, on Earth, so that Howl can visit his family, because from Howl's perspective this is an isekai story.

The other side

More mer!au featuring sashisu , sillier and fluffier doodles belowww

I love this parallel between Geto and Gojo in the manga.

First, we have Geto declaring his intention to restart the world, and Gojo retorts that it's impossible. Geto continues by saying that for Gojo, nothing would be impossible, as he claims.

I believe that at that point, with Gojo being Gojo at 18, he did not possess the mindset to join Suguru, so the question of joining him would never arise. It is only after a reality check, after the pain begins to fester within him, that he slowly realizes how messed up everything around him is.

Gojo starts coping, and his coping becomes a dream.

The onset of adulthood, which opens your eyes and strips away the pink-colored glasses, reveals to him what needs to be done. However, stubborn as Satoru is, always attempting to do things his way, he focuses on proving Suguru wrong and tries to make everyone strong so nobody needs to go through the same pain as he does. He made the trauma of losing his best friend the center of his life.

Which only makes everything worse.

Only after he takes Geto's life, does he fully comprehend peace requires sacrifice. That is when his transformation into a monster begins

Secondly, we have Yuta asking Gojo to not become the monster alone. However, Gojo refuses him, claiming he cannot stop. He basically admits that he was always meant to become one, he only kept pushing it back for all the years, while mad, trying to show Geto there's another way how to do it.

Finally, he gives in, making the impossible possible, just as Geto had proclaimed.

This scene saddens me because the roles are now reversed. Now it's Gojo walking away, doing the impossible, and pointless while becoming the monster.

Seeing Yuta be there when Gojo decides to step on Geto's path when telling Gojo to stop, to take them with him, yet Gojo still refuses, makes it even more depressive.

They were, after all, best friends, stubborn assholes.

This is how many bullets they shot on a fucking kid.