octave denis victor guillonnet / gordon mortensen / santiago rusiñol / raoul dufy / albert marquet / henry moret
LISTEN..., listen guys, Tried Mom! Elisa is my new jam..like she'd go to work, with her hair a wreck and infinity of bags under her eyes, listening to the other woman in her precinct talking about the cute things their kids do, like coloring on the walls, trying to eat mud or dirt the usual toddler things, while Elisa has war flashbacks about her half-gargoyle babies eating, or try to eat plaster off the walls.
Goliath and the clan have been teaching them how to hunt, they see this as an opportunity to drop dead rats in her lap. In her slippers, under her bed, in her bed, sometimes while she's taking a nice hot bath after a long day of of work her oldest daughter, Aodh, now six pushes open the bathroom door and-
"Mommy!"
Her eyes are still closed "Yes, honey"
"Look what I got!" Her eyes pop open in horror as her daughter drops a dead pigeon in her bath water.
- There’s so much water. It looks like a sea.
- What’d you expect after all that rain? I’ve gotta get out of this place. Someday I’m getting on that train.
SPIRITED AWAY (2001) dir. Hayao Miyazaki
Honestly. Elisa and Fox as frenemies is utterly underutilized. I want to see these two get into ridiculous hijinks. I want Fox to look at Elisa, grab her by the shoulders and go "come on, Maza, don't you just wanna go apeshit sometimes?" And Elisa just being, absolutely done with her while trying to hold on to her moral compass and Fox's is like - Whoops! I accidentally committed a felony!
And Elisa's like 😑 you did that on purpose.
Mary Oliver, Worm Moon