today im thinking about the huge buff bread guy from kikis delivery service. highly underrated guy
Genuinely just a good man. Wife adopts teenage witch that needs a place to stay in the city? Sure. Even though you got a kid on the way? That’s fine. Cat too? Love cats.
My favorite moment with him is when he goes to get some prepped baking sheets and he does this fancy twirl with them in front of Jiji. Like, there’s no other people in the room, he does this to impress a cat.
I don’t think he ever says more than a whole word the entire movie, and I still love him more than most Disney princes based on this one moment alone.
And the part where he wanted to surprise Kiki by making that beautiful elaborate sign OUT OF BREAD to advertise her business and he was all anxious for her to get home and see it
But then when he sees her coming he gets all bashful and runs away 😭
the most underrated thing about the ghibli movies is how deeply they are love stories to working people, to the small folk, to moments of love and kindness. its not just about magic, many movies are about magic and fairytales. Its not only about the people in the stories, but about stories in the people. And they are just loveable.
Neil Gaiman: Hi, I’m Neil Gaiman. I’m wearing the first red T-shirt I’ve worn since 1987. Because I’m a member of the WGA. I’m on strike. I care so much for the things that I’ve written but I’m out here right now not working and here until we get a good contract because I care about the future of the WGA, the future of young writers. I want a world in which no AI writes scripts or attempts to. I want a world in which young writers get to learn how to make television. And I want a world in which we are fairly compensated for the things that we put up on streaming.
fhskjfkd I forgot that Dracula is not only climbing on the castle walls to leave the castle, but to go from room to room WITHIN the castle.
Given Jonathan says that a) every door is locked and b) all the locks are new, there is strong textual support that Dracula installed a bajillion locks all at once, then either lost some of the keys or threw them in a drawer without paying attention to which went where. Now it’s just easier to crawl on the walls than try to dig up the right key for any given lock.
(and then there’s a special layer of horror for all the locks being new—it means that they were all installed specifically to imprison and contain Jonathan)
Jonathan: The key MUST be in Dracula’s room!!
Dracula, taking his shoes off for the sixth time that day: I am beginning to regret throwing all the keys off the cliff so my pet solicitor wouldn’t find them…