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Thirty Year Old Mulberry Field

I’m usually more of an old school anime fan, but Makoto Shinkai is certainly a modern favorite and arguably has a more accessible body of work than a majority of classics outside of Studio Ghibli. Since y’all enjoyed this I hope y’all can check out his movies after “Your Name”: “Weathering with You” and “Suzume”, and for his earlier work, “5 Centimeters per Second”. And for some personal favorites: “Redline”, “Millennium Actress”, and “Maquia” are all pretty dank.

Gary Fixler

Notes as I go... I love the juxtaposition of teenage angst set against the most beautiful backdrops imaginable. My first thoughts after the grandmother says she's normal today were that she's somehow changing places with the boy on the other side of the world, but we only sleep 8 hours, and are awake 16... So maybe part of the day? I'm excited to find out. The note to herself in her notebook reminded me of a thread on Reddit a long time ago, where a guy kept finding notes not in his handwriting, and other weird things, so he set up a camera, but it kept getting deleted. A person in the thread told him to get a carbon monoxide tester, so he did, and it was way high; he had been losing his mind and doing it all himself. If it wasn't a hoax, the Redditor saved his life. I'm also reminded of a 1-season show from... checks Google... 2008, My Own Worst Enemy, with Christian Slater. He plays a secret agent who doesn't know he's one (like Jason Bourne), and then the agent needs his (i.e. his own) help, and starts leaving himself messages. It was fun idea. Ooh, weaving. I got crazy into the fiber arts in 2018—knitting, crochet, eventually spinning yarn, and looked a lot into weaving, which can get amazing (look up Lea Albaugh's very technical, and fascinating talks on it, "It's Just Matrix Multiplication": Notation for Weaving, From Text to Textiles!, and "Languages for 3D Industrial Knitting"). I have a friend who does band weaving, and she's way into it. She part of some group that goes through the whole learning process of some indigenous group's band weaving, through all the ages that group experiences; I remember when she was showing her "5-year old work". I don't know how "old" she is currently. Oh, and the thing the girl was doing, overlapping the strings on the board is called kumihimo. I met some women from a guild doing that at a weaving and fiber fest on foam boards you can buy, and I've watched YouTube videos on how to do it. It's like numbered, radial spokes, and you follow patterns of how to move yarns across, and the sequences make all kinds of designs. I love finding this kind of stuff. Bobbin lace weavers are basically thread elementals, or maybe threadbenders. It looks impossibly difficult. That may be what Simone was talking about. Sending this before I accidentally delete the whole thing.

Gary Fixler

Okay, he's on the date she set up for him, and I have a weird, very loose theory, which is probably wrong, but I'm wondering if they're not in the same time period. She lives such a traditional life, it's conceivable she lived, say, the last time the comet came by, but certain things feel off, like that she not amazed by modernity/cell phones, etc.. If it were the case, they just went to the shrine, and left that urn, and I could see him going to find it in a long future. Probably a stupid idea. Edit, 1 minute later: he just saw her area in an exhibit titled "Nostalgia." Hmm...

XaMas Koloss

now u startet this movie you have to watch the following movies "Wathering with you" and "Suzume" pls. All 3 are amazing animations in the same universe.

Gary Fixler

I found him! I found the comet. This is the most anime short I've ever seen. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Wpq73WD1sJQ