thefloatingstone:

I couldn’t find a good quality version of the Japanese intro to the Moomin cartoon/anime so I decided to cut my own from one of Kissanime’s episodes (sorry about the watermark)

The Japanese intro is absolutely the best in my opinion, so of course ONLY the Japanese version of the show got this intro and every other country got the other intro which I don’t like as much at all. They don’t even use the same lovely visuals! They use like a clip show of episodes to make the other intros with! It’s really annoying!

If I could find a raw I’d upload that but it seems very hard to find without torrenting like an entire season. And I prefer the BBC dub of the show to the original Japanese. (I own the whole show on DVD with the BBC dub) so I don’t want to download the entire show just for a minute of footage.

I’ll remove it if anyone has any copyright complaints u.u;; I just like it a lot and there’s no nice version I can just link to.


Even you who always tries to keep strong
Will have moments when you need to shed tears.
In those moments, just cry your heart out
And you will find that the sadness quickly disappears

Come here to where I am.
Come and hold out your small hand to me.
I shall take you away to the world of dreams
As long as you have an honest heart, everything will be ok.

brainstatic:

Psst, hey, Marilyn Monroe’s image as a freewheeling sexpot was a carefully constructed lie. The real Marilyn Monroe was a roiling tragedy and her life was an indictment of our society as a whole. She was orphaned after her mother had a schizophrenic breakdown, bounced around between foster homes where she was sexually abused, and married a 21-year-old at 16 to get out of being sent to an orphanage. Hugh Hefner published nude photos of her without her consent that were taken when she was 23 and desperate. She suffered severe anxiety and depression, which she coped with by drinking and using barbiturates, and was already a full-blown addict when she became famous in the mid-50s. Her career was one of exploitation, condescension and alienation, and she killed herself at 36. That Hugh Hefner, a man who was at best an unpleasant footnote in her life, felt entitled to be buried next to her is one more humiliation in a pop cultural landscape we should all be ashamed of.