Reasons My Kintsugijin is Crying, or; The Weepy Marshmallow Brigade

because I have some very strong opinions about the usage of colors, and that you should not always use drab dark colors with occasional white

 

What if we just make evrrything blue and orange

 

please no

 

they went with a look very reminiscent of technicolor days, very muted greys and blacks with these beautiful rich blues and reds that always stand out despite not being very bright. theyre used so perfectly that red almost always gives a sense of great passion or fear, and blue a deep sorrow or pity

 

.....oh god I need to watch it
I need to see this

 

you could watch the trailer and get an idea, maybe? its a pretty heavy show i wouldnt just jump in

 

here. if yall wanna keep talking abt it we should probably move, i dont wanna keep spamming the cry thread

 

....okay, it does seem heavy, but now that I've seen the trailer I just. want to watch it more.
I would like to ask, if we make a thread about it, if people who've watched the episodes could. idk. post a list of trigger warnings for the episodes in terms of rape/sexual assault stuff? just because it seems like that might, maybe, perhaps be a thing. maybe.

 

yooooooo

 

For me, the reason it hurts so much is also the biggest reason I get so much out of watching it. It presents a lot of issues and themes that resonate strongly with me. These are things that seem to capture essential pieces of the world right now and the experience of living in it.

It's sort of like I've heard a good portrait is supposed to be, where the artist manages to capture something of the essence of a person. It's not a dumb reflection, it's the difference between looking and seeing. It has a focus, an intelligence, and a lot of thoughts and points to convey.

It takes nightmares and helps you understand why you have them and why they scare you. And then you keep watching because you hope that a story that sees you so clearly, and speaks to you with such sophistication and humanity and skill, might have some ideas about how to face any of this.

The meta of horror is that the audience survives. Sometimes that's enough by itself. But if it's a smart story, maybe it gives you something more to take away.

(I hope deeply that many people watch this, and that some of them are big media types who come away with ideas about how one can tell stories about women better while still being shocking and full of aesthetics. That would be nice.)

I'm (literally) shaken by this show, but in a way in which I was prepared to be, under circumstances I chose with my own health and safety in mind, which in this case mostly means not watching it alone. It's a bit like exercise I guess, in that it can be painful without being harmful. Or, actually it feels more like one of those therapy sessions where you really get into the shit and feel like you've been emotionally hit by a minor truck afterwards but you know you're doing useful work.

I think it's completely valid not to want to watch this show, or upsetting media in general. If it's not something you want or need in your life right now, or ever, I think that's totally fair. People who make media into some kind of extreme endurance pissing contest make me feel tired.

 

I mean.
I want to watch this show.
....I should perhaps be considering why, because the colors are great and all but.....
but I also hate looking very deeply into any of my choices ever.
but personally, some situations are just too triggery for me to watch, and that's where a lot of shows involving hurt tend to fall. it doesn't matter that I chose the thing this time. it's still too much.

 

i read the book

it was quite

exhausting

 

Was going down a youtube rabbit trail and somehow got on extreme weather survival interviews, when i got to one of an old woman standing in front of her house in rubble talking about what happened when her dog that she thought died crawled out of the debris and im sobbing

 

I found my favorite album by Dougie Maclean and put it on and I'm 17 and got into the show by answering a call for volunteers to sell snacks

Dream on little one, there are flowers in your hair;
And see what the time has done, it's scattered diamonds everywhere

And when you're standing on your highest hill
and you shout but no one hears,
You can fall but you must not lie down...



I was hearing that song for the first time, standing at the back of the audience, allowed to watch while no one was buying concessions...
And I knew, I KNEW, that was mine. That song, the voice of a soul-deep guide who taught me to grow roots in this place where no one belongs
anD IM NOT CRYING YOUR CRYING THIS IS JUST MY WATERCOLORS I GET REALLY MESSY WITH THEM SOMETIMES~~~ ._.

Pull in your tired wings for there's no need to know it all
Listen how the silence sings now is the time for standing tall

I want to go home.

...and I am reacting this way to every. fucking. song. i. play. tonight.

ok.

 

I saw a rat that was too cute.

 

This is the most relatable post I've ever seen. ;-;

 

DAVE STRIDER
;-;

 

i saw a tumblr post of screenshots from cutthroat kitchen and alton asked for biscuits and gravy, one of the contestants spoke english as a second language and made brisket and gravy because he misunderstood. i was already tearing up because oh god what a fuck up to be sent home on, that's not even his fault when i scrolled down to a caption that said the judge just judged it as a brisket and gravy dish instead of straight up passing on it and mr.brown started to describe the dishes in more detail next round so it wouldn't happen again and. god. humans showing common courtesy to each other shouldn't get me as emotional as it does but i'll be damned if i don't cry every time.

 

also people just. saying my art is nice??? its like a happy cry. i realize its a bit silly but ive got a long history of showing my drawings and writing to people i care about over the years and getting negative responses, or in later years disbelief that i did the thing (eg, "did you trace that?" or "thats yours?"). which i kinda get it, ive always had a fascination with Ugly that kinda requires a thick skin to pursue, but still it hurts when i try to do the thing.

 

Apparently the cat threw up and the kid wanted to comfort him. ;.;