Kiki kakuchi movies

It's really charming :)
Green flags all the way around for my guy Tombo!
Jiji is a total vibe lol with his cat-rizz-ma 😉 okay I'll stop that lmao
As Studio Ghibli does so well, the art was of course lovely, the food, I.e. the bakery and it's baked goods I for sure just wanted to bite right into too.
Overall I know I'm going to rewatch this regularly. A nice cozy comfort movie to watch whenever really.
Good for all ages too.

Not sure if this question/discussion happened earlier.
I was talking to a (new) friend who has heard me talk about Ghibli movies multiple times and they have decided to give the genre a try. The idea is also to get to know each better while having conversations about these movies.
If you were to suggest a movie for them to begin their Ghibli journey, then which movie would it be? I am thinking it could be something friendly, calm and classic Ghibli. Not too serious or one that requires them read a lot about the story arc and hidden meanings. Leading choices are Kiki's Delivery Service and My Neighbor Totoro.
Any suggestions and guidance is appreciated :)

My mailbox was BURSTING with some amazing RAoC mail <3 Thanks all for brightening up my week!
u/wabisabi_sf - Thank you for the beautiful Steven Universe postcard! The purple-y color palette is so pretty, and I absolutely love the Kiki and Jiji date stamp you have!
u/TyeDyeAmish - I too wonder if anyone really sent cards of the hotel pool xD Perhaps when they were more of a novelty? This one does have a pretty cool spray feature though....lol! Thank you! My complaint is on its way to you haha.
u/doughe29 - Precious baby snow leopard! I LOVE this card! Thanks so much for sharing! I hope you get to see Taza carry his tail one day!!
u/hoolu123 - Thanks for the cool postcard! I don't think I've ever heard The Chameleons before, I'll have to give them a listen :) Happy to send a card your way once you're settled! Best of luck!!
u/-random_ness- - Thank you for the Shields Tavern card! I've not yet made the magical Mac n Cheese with sugar, only because I've been lazy and making pathetically easy meals (aka sandwiches and salads) while I'm in the throes of finals xD Between that and the Blueberry Crisp, I do plan to report back still! Just delayed a few weeks lol. Thanks for the the little bundle of surprise things too :) To answer your Heart-to-Heart card: Most memorable scene from a movie for me is a tie. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King scene when the beacon of Amon Din (and ensuing beacons) is lit ending with Aragorn doing his panic scramble up the stairs (just recently discovered he fist-bumps one of the guards' shields at the top LOL), and the 2006 Pride and Prejudice when Darcy comes swaggering through the misty heath in the early morning to profess his love to Elizabeth again. Swoon~ What's your most memorable scene? (I apparently had a lot to say in response to this card haha)
u/rennbrig - Your stationary is something truly to be admired! Loved the main card, and the smol quilling card inside too! I'll have a response headed your way soon :D Thank you!!

Over the past year or so I've been keeping a keen eye out for any appearance of a bike in a movie. This all started while watching a movie titled Living on Tokyo Time which prominently features a character riding a bike. This list turned into the idea of Bike-in-Movies, a sort of double meaning where I share just the bits of movies where bikes appear but also a monthly event (in the Los Angeles area) where a movie is shown at a location everyone can bike to. Check out the list below and drop a comment of any movie you think belongs on this list! I look forward to organizing the first showing! See you all soon! follow here: https://www.instagram.com/bikeinmovies/
ET PeeWee's Big Adventure The Goonies Living on Tokyo Time Deep End Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid Maximum Overdrive Monster Trucks First Reformed Hereditary Juno Donnie Darko Night of the Comet Bicycle Thieves Shaun of the Dead Hot Fuzz Breaking Waves Little Odessa Cruising Checking Out Memories of Murder A Matter of Life and Death Def by Temptation Ghostbusters Afterlife Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Shining Kiki's Delivery Service IT Quadrophenia Code 46 The Hit Born in Flames The Shout Bringing Out the Dead The Wizard of Oz Turbo Kid A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 40 Year Old Virgin Island Etude The Comedy Your Name Karate Kid 2 The House of Tomorrow Vanilla Sky
EDIT: I intentionally left out most movies explicitly about cycling (Rad, Quicksilver, Breaking Away, American Flyers, etc) those are obvious choices that most of the cycling community is aware of. I will still share and feature these but also want to share the more obscure and unexpected showing a broad range of representation of cycling on the big screen. I also want to feature bike documentaries and indie films down the line.

Over the past year or so I've been keeping a keen eye out for any appearance of a bike in a movie. This all started while watching a movie titled Living on Tokyo Time which prominently features a character riding a bike. This list turned into the idea of Bike-in-Movies, a sort of double meaning where I share just the bits of movies where bikes appear but also a monthly event (in the Los Angeles area) where a movie is shown at a location everyone can bike to. Check out the list below and drop a comment of any movie you think belongs on this list! I look forward to organizing the first showing! follow here: https://www.instagram.com/bikeinmovies/
ET PeeWee's Big Adventure The Goonies Living on Tokyo Time Deep End Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid Maximum overdrive Monster trucks First Reformed Hereditary Juno Donnie Darko Night of the Comet Bicycle Thieves Shaun of the Dead Hot Fuzz Breaking Waves Little Odessa Cruising Checking Out Memories of Murder A Matter of Life and Death Def by Temptation Ghostbusters Afterlife Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Shining Kiki's Delivery Service IT Quadrophenia Code 46 The Hit Born in Flames The Shout Bringing Out the Dead The Wizard of Oz Turbo Kid A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 40 Year Old Virgin Island Etude The Comedy Your Name Karate Kid 2 The House of Tomorrow Vanilla Sky
EDIT: I intentionally left out most movies explicitly about cycling (Rad, Quicksilver, Breaking Away, American Flyers, etc) those are obvious choices that most of the cycling community is aware of. I will still share and feature these but also want to share the more obscure and unexpected showing a broad range of representation of cycling on the big screen. I also want to feature bike documentaries and indie films down the line.

OK here's the vibe!
So I read Ari and Dante maybe six months ago, and I haven't stopped chasing the feeling that book gave me. I read it in like a day and then cried my eyes out and haven't stopped thinking about it like ever. So definitely searching for that same vibe - akin to Pixar's Luca (I watch this movie like every fcking day it's getting bad), Ghibli's Kiki's Delivery Service / Whisper of the Heart. Definitely queer, coming of age, warm and yearn-y, make me cry my eyes out, in a good or bad way.
Not super stoked on YA (don't know why Ari and Dante was an exception) or fantasy, but always happy to hear it maybe I'll find my new fave book! :) Ok thanks! Need to scream and think obsessively about a set of characters again

I want to watch a comfortable, uplifting Ghibli movie that doesn't have scenes that are too sad.
Movies I watched, to give you context what I want: Grave of the fireflies (not like this), Princess Mononoke (not like this), My Neighbor Totoro (like this), Kiki's delivery service (like this).
Thanks a lot!

I’ll start: 1.) Princess Monoke 2.) Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind 3.) Spirited
I think Nausicaa is underrated sometimes. Both that and Princess Monoke have themes about living in harmony with the natural world I really liked. Adding to that all three of these have a similar themes of insatiable human greed/hubris and the consequences that can arise from it. Honorable mentions: Howl’s, Porco Russo, Totoro. I haven’t been able to watch Boy and the Heron yet waiting for digital release still, but the voice acting and animation both look amazing from what I’ve seen. My experience from Ghibli is that some fans are more attuned to the playful and soulful movies like Totoro and Kiki’s Delivery Service, so it’s hard to rank honestly but I was going off which ones affected my worldview most significantly.

Hey guys, my gf wants to watch a studio Ghibli movie any idea what we should watch, we both enjoyed spy x family and the apothecary diaries
EDIT: we decided to watch kiki's delivery service, thanks for all the recomendations!

Written 5/8/2024- updates attached below

I tried posting this on kendrick almost a week ago and it got no response, I messaged the mods to ask about Karma restrictions or account age requirements and they never replied. I made a new account and it was the same issue, but I found out last night I wasn’t fully banned, so I figured I’d throw it up and see if anyone finds it valuable. It’s written for people who have no prior knowledge of the rap game/music business. I don’t have to go as hard on obscuring names this time. One of the influencers I mentioned in my last post is known for doxxing and threatening violence against people who mention the many contradictions in their stories. (Sorry for any typos/mistakes I want to go to bed.)
Origins
I believe the current Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef is either completely or partially fabricated by certain industry leaders or the parties involved in an effort to distract from something bigger going down behind the scenes. If you were an influential label owner facing major accusations, and you needed to deflect media attention from yourself, recreating one of the most defining moments in rap history during the social media era would be a way to do it. It also wouldn’t hurt that two of the biggest rappers in the world were already sending shots at each other in their music for years prior. The public consensus is they are simply two famous rappers who hate each other and fighting over the spot for the top like in the 90’s. Only people who were directly involved could paint a more cohesive picture of the whole story. Even when all the cards drop, there is a good chance the average person won’t be able to find direct sources on their own and will continue to support their favorite artists and dismiss any evidence of their crimes like the drizzy subreddit or Ak fans.

As I said the beef between Kendrick and Drake has been brewing in the background for years, with both rappers sending shots and sneak dissing each other over the course of at least 8 years. The most agreed upon origin story is the first diss was the 2016 Big Sean and Kendrick collaboration, “Control,” and Drake responded with, “The Language”. Things stayed relatively lighthearted for a while and both were intentionally vague for many years. Before I go deep into the Kendrick and Drake stuff, it’s really important to examine some of Drake’s prior beefs because they add a ton of context to my theory. In my opinion Kendrick and Co. started scheming all of this some time around Mid 2020-Mid 2022, well after the whole Pusha T beef had transitioned into the Kanye beef.

What exactly started the beef is debatable, but at the time many attributed it to rumors of Drake pursuing Ye’s ex Amber Rose. Unfortunately the timeline isn’t 100 percent clear, and if I included every detail this would be at least 200+ pages so I’ll stick with the important stuff. The ultimate outcome of the Pusha T battle in 2018 was the revelation of Drake’s son Adidon that he had previously been hiding from the world along with getting Ye directly involved in the beef.

Here are some more examples of Drake antagonizing Ye and of him trying to use women as pawns to get material for his diss tracks. The Drake line, “Yeah, I probably go link to Yeezy, I need me some Jesus, but as soon as I start confessin' my sins, he wouldn't believe us," could be a reference to sleeping with Kim Kardashian, trying to double down on his threats to harm him or his family, or it could be a double entendre. Another example is using the name Kiki in another song, which was apparently one of Kim’s nicknames. Some other possible examples include the theories he may have tried the same thing with Kendrick’s wife Whitney around 2020-2021 in an attempt to use as ammo against Kendrick, which I’ll go into later. I don’t listen to much of either artist's music, but there are probably many of other examples in Drake’s catalogue that I’m leaving out. There is also his song Omerta released in 2019, which I'll go into below.

“Your baby mother call me when she lonely My tailor see me twice a week, he like my homie Forever grateful, forever thankful Diamond necklace, but she wears it on her ankle”

(Probably referring to Kim Kardashian since she had a few pictures with her wearing diamond ankle bracelets and was trying to make it into a trend.

“I plan to buy your most personal belongings when they up for auction”

(There were various rumors floating around for a while that Drake was blackmailing Ye with something and he was fighting to keep it from the public. I thought about it and this line might be referencing a sex tape with Kim or her little sister who me was very touch before she turned 18. In 2022 there was a whole storyline on Kim’s show where Ye flies to LA to prevent her second sex tape from being released.)

West Hollywood, know my presence is menacing
Cosa Nostra, shady dealings
Racketeering, the syndicate got they hand in plenty things The things that we've done to protect the name are unsettling But no regrets, though, the name'll echo Years later, none greater
Death to a coward and a traitor, that's just in my nature, yeah
(Drake and Ye both frequented the Delilah Nightclub located in West Hollywood and lived closeby on the same street for a while.)
"I don't carry cash 'cause the money is digital
It's the American Expresser, the debt collector"

(Sounds a lot more like it could be crypto to launder or send large amounts of ill gotten gains. It started becoming mainstream around them)

"Last year, niggas really feel like they rode on me
Last year, niggas got hot 'cause they told on me
I'm 'bout to call the bluff of anybody the fold on me"

These lines stood out because they could be referring to Ye telling the public about Drake's alleged threats a couple months before the songs release. This happened not long after the release of Sicko mode which was towards the end of 2018 as well. Ye was discussing the incident on Twitter and reached out to Drake and Travis to talk to him in private. In the next set of tweets Kanye publicly accused Drake of threatening him and his family in a major way. Surprisingly Ye seemed genuinely scared and amongst his, “crazy rants,” some of the stuff he said makes a ton of sense in hindsight. This also the beginning of his second serious public struggles with Bipolar disorder after being committed in 2016 shortly after an on stage rant where he calls out Jay Z for selling out and says he's afraid he might kill him.. As someone who shares the same diagnosis, I have a pretty good understanding of mania and psychosis and firmly believe that it's important not to write people off right away due to their mental illness. Some of my most thoughtful, creative, and productive periods were inspired by mania. Industry bigwigs have also been using mental illness to discredit influential black celebrities and visionaries going back decades, but it really picked up in the 80’s.

Dave Chappelle has gone into this a lot in the past and claims he experienced something similar before he quit show business and dipped to Africa. Their stories have a lot of interesting parallels if you’re familiar or curious. I remember he actually visited Ye at his house in Wyoming after he was reported to have had a, "mental breakdown," during his presidential run in 2020 thus marking his third breakown in six years.. The reason I put it in quotes is because it happened right after he publicly accused Kim of cheating and delivered his legendary speech on abortion. Dave went as far as going on live tv and telling the public he wasn’t crazy, he was just really struggling because he was the only one at the time fighting against the narrative, which can often be a suicide mission or a ticket to obscurity. These are three examples of someone speaking up and being deemed crazy, two years later came the nazi stuff and I'm sure we'll have plenty in store for 2024.

This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the very common pattern of artists dying or having their careers destroyed either after they try to leave their label or threaten to reveal industry secrets. A few more interesting industry connections I made in my research include the connections between:

T.U.G. records and J Cole's independent label Dreamville are both managed by Interscope Records, whose parent company is Universal Music Group.

Universal Music Group also hac Drake's label OvO label as well as Ye and Kendrick's old labels on their roster before they left to form their own independent labels in 2022 (around the same time the disses between Kendrick and Drake started escalating). Finally Bad Boy Records, which is owned by Diddy, and Motown Records who own Diddy's other R&B label Love Records, are also both owned by Universal. This means every label I mention is currently or was previously owned by Universal Music Group.

Ye tried for years to get out of his contract with Defjam, which happens to be ran by Jay Z who is known to be a close associate of Diddy. Jay would always used his money and power to fight against it. Ye even spoke out publicly on a few occasions, including when he said Jay Z was trying to kill him during one of his concerts. My theory is after years of getting nowhere and having his reputation skewered, in 2022 Ye finally said, "Fuck it," and dropped all the anti- Semetic stuff intentionally in a successful attempt to force his label to into using their morality clause, which requires labels to drop an artist if they're accused of any major controversy that could hurt the label’s profits. For the fourth time in four years the media reported he was having a breakdown. Even though they tried to punish him by cutting off all of his sources of income and freezing his accounts he still managed to bounce back pretty quickly. It was often reported how much he was losing, but it rarely discussed how he still was filthy rich in spite of the retrictions. His label wanted to discourage other artists from trying the same thing. My theory is he might have bought Kim or Kylie's alleged sex tape and used it for his own leverage. For Kendrick, his transition to his independent label ApLang went a lot smoother, but he had to split ownership of his new label with the previous manager owner Dave Free. Sadly it's still difficult for new or more niche artists to establish themselves without the some help.

He may be a lot of things but Ye isn’t dumb just because he has a mood disorder and the guys at the top know this, which is why I think he has really played up his diagnosis when it benefitted him. He’s still one of the most talented musicians in the game and I really think he sees his bipolar like a superpower as he says. It’s like his own invisibility cloak. He can go off his meds for a little, make an album after staying up for 72 hours, go on a “psychotic” twitter rant dropping facts throughout, then start up again once he makes enough news headlines. I think it’s worth noting the first divorce rumors in 2020 coincided with Ye’s abortion speech during his presidential run and the cheating accusations. that led to him dropping out and moving to Wyoming, and a couple months ago in February 2024 he was committed again.

The point I’m making is bipolar is complex, but pretty manageable especially if you have a ton of money to find meds that work for you and a good doctor and can keep substance abuse and stress at a manageable level. I think Ye is smart enough to know this, but it’s just safer for him to really play up the mental issues in the media. He’s proven he can literally say whatever he wants after getting cancelled and the average person is just going to write it off as psycho babble. While bias in health care is a sad fact of society, if you can use it to your advantage I say go for it. It might’ve just kept the microscope off of him long enough to plan his attack.

Ye v. Drake: Quotes of 2018
(Start of the beef, drake threats, and suspicion towards Kardashian family. )

“ It’s not about rap. It’s about family. We have to be close as a family and never let these people infiltrate just for radio spins”

“We need to show the world that people can talk without people ending up dead or in jail.”

”This is a man speaking to a man that has been placed in the program to fuck with Kanye West head and set me up“

”See when you care about your family you don’t let no man push you to do nothing that could risk your freedom“

These first four tweets by Ye were all in reference to perceived threats made by Drake after their beef escalated circa 2018. He began speaking on the industry and talking more about his psych hospital commitment two years prior and how he thought they were going to kill him. It's pretty obvious how the whole thing was planned by the sketchy doctor who called it in and his physical trainer who has a ton of connections to weird shit involving his celebrity clients.

I found interesting that Ye might not have been the first major league rapper whose life Drake threatened. During a similar period of mental illness the up and coming rapper XXXtentacion accused Drake of stealing his flow and dissed him a few times. Not long after he made a post online saying if he dies, it was Drake who did it. There are tons of conspiracies online, but none of the evidence is strong enough to draw a definitive connection. Also while it maybe be coincidental, Kendrick’s latest album Mr Morale also painted the picture that Kendrick was dealing with some serious personal issues. Some lines throughout the album may have been used to bait Drake into escalating, but it wasn’t until The Weekend, Future, and Metro Booming dropped, “We Don’t Trust You,” then Drake and J. Cole dropped, “First Person Shooter,” which was followed a couple days later with, “Like That,” where Kendrick started the chain of events that has led us to today.

Kanye vs. Drake: Quotes of 2020

Summary: Ye runs for president and gets suppressed for saying what very well could be the truth and was immediately deemed insane by the media. Kim did a couple interviews and everything he said was immediatly false. There is almost guarenteed to be some sketchy shit going down revolving her and her family. Ye was absolutely terrified of her keeping the kids away from him and it seems like there are still efforts being made to this day to paint a certain image of him for ulterior motives.

Below are six more quotes from a fan taking a deep dive into his 2020 tweets courtesy of u/ thehatstore42069 on Yeezy
”NORTHY I AM GOING TO WAR AND PUTTING MY LIFE ON THE LINE AND IF I AM MURDERED DON’T EVER LET WHITE MEDIA TELL YOU I WASNT A GOOD MAN,” West, 43, wrote in the tweet, adding, “WHEN PEOPLE THREATEN TO TAKE YOU OUT OF MY LIFE JUST KNOW I LOVE YOU”

"I need a public apology from J Cole and Drake to start with immediately... I'm Nat Turner... I'm fighting for us."

"the utmost respect for all brothers" and said "we need to link and respect each other... no more dissing each other on labels we don't own"

"Ye is constantly trying to tell people that his family does not have his or his kids best interests at heart. He goes on to list others, linking them together with the thinking emoji. These people include rap artist Drake and Larsa Pippen, wife of Scottie Pippe. Kim K is goddaughter to Pippen's daughter, showing how close the families actually are. All of these families that associate with Ye through Kardashian connections, as well as Drake, have been accused of the same thing Kris has. EVERY SINGLE ONE of these people have mixed race children that are groomed from a young age to fuck around with celebrities so the parents can remain famous. Drake on numerous occasions has been accused of grooming girls and then getting handsy on their 18th birthday.”

“These labels want their artists to make them money and they dont care about anything else. When Kanye says things like this in an attempt to expose him, the first thing they wanna do is drug him up and put him back in the studio.”
“Righteous indignation is typically a reactive emotion of anger over mistreatment, insult, or malice of another. It is akin to what is called the sense of injustice. This is how they keep the black man down. Keep people outraged about trivial things and distract them from the real issues in the world. The real problems in the industry. If you tell people enough times that they are unequal or discriminated against they start to believe it. Drug them when they step out of line and toss them aside when the checks run out. Ye is realizing he is pawn in a bigger game, and now that he has all these roots in the game such as Yeezy or the Gap or his music, too many people cant risk (Afford) a Ye who speaks his mind.”
(End of quotes)

Amongst the twitter rant, Ye warned about the predatory nature of record deals and discussed trying to get out of his own deal, and said again how his life may be in danger if it wasn’t already and was doing anything he could to protect his kids. The most fascinating part to me though is the public call to arms he made to Drake, J Cole, and Kendrick on twitter. After inviting them to all link up, he said, “It’s time to get free, we will not argue amongst each other while some guy we don’t know in Europe is getting paid and putting that money in a hedge fund.” I believe if Ye was able to pull off this meeting, there is an ever so slight chance that all four artists might be working together to take down a greater enemy. Weirdly there have been times throughout the last couple years where these supposed enemies were photographed together being friendly or praise each other in interviews, then out of no where the disses would start flying again.

To wrap things up I want to share my a few of my theories about the Drake/Kanye beef

A. Everything is exactly as it seems and the beef is over. Ye let his mental illness ruin his life and career so Drake simply picked another target after Ye stopped putting out disses. All of these connections are just a coincidence and all of this was choreographed to boost Drake and Kendrick’s music sales and possibly distract people from the Diddy trial and possibly the complicated geopolitical issues currently facing the U.S.

C. There is also the possibility that all four rappers are in cahoots and Drake’s dirt isn’t as extreme as people are theorizing, at least in comparison to the rest of the business. This could explain why everything has played out like a movie and how they were able to predict each other’s moves so well. This could either mean they’re all just trying to boost their sales or they’re all trying to take down the “slave masters,” as Ye calls them, and change the dynamic of the music industry in favor of the artist.

D. They may be trying to help their friends in the industry who are being abused or in shitty contracts. I know a lot of famous rappers have done a lot of collaborations with Jhene Aiko and Anderson Paak, who were both signed to T.U.G. records which I mentioned above in the connections to Universal Music Group. Considering they are both frequent collaborators with all of the artists involved on both sides, it’s not unlikely they may have played some part in influencing the takedown.

T.U.G was started by Chris Stokes with his partner Ketrina Askew. Back in the early to mid 90’s were gaining popularity attracting lots of young up and coming talent. They often collaborated with Diddy and his associates. In the 2000’s Raz B from the boy band B2K claimed he was molested by Stokes and his friend Marques Houston, then quickly retracted his claims. Years later he came forward again and said we was bribed into silence and that the rest of the victims were bribed with hush money and had another singer corroborate his story and they came forward together to level the accusations. After some of his former B2K members made fun of him for his claims and accused it of being a shakedown, Raz B revealed Stokes and Houston had preyed a lot of the children associated with the label including at least one of the former bandmates and paid them off.

I thought it was worth noting that the second whistleblower named Quindon Tarver died young in a car crash after mentioning his abuse again a few years prior. He seems to have left the industry not long after the incidents occurred and has few credits to his name. To this day Raz B is still trying to get his justice, while Stokes and his partner Askew, who was also involved in the abuse are still running the label to this day. Askew also has a ton of lawsuits, accusing her of using shady tactics to try to foreclose on houses. (Don’t quote me if a lawyer wants to take a look just google her full name), and has been tied to a ton of LLCs, similar to Drake. This is a good example of a shitty record deal, but I'm sure they have countless other friends in the industry who have even worse. While they were never convicted even Chris Stokes' wife confirmed it to be true.

E. The theory I personally think fits the narrative best and is the most realistic conspiracy is that Kendrick and possibly J. Cole went to the meeting, but not Drake due to his close relationship with Lucian Grange, the president of Drake’s label. Silence often speaks louder than words and this could explain why Kendrick was so ruthless and put so much effort into finding dirt on Drake. Ye, Cole, and Kendrick co-writing would be like the rap allstar team and if J. Cole wasn’t involved, it would also answer the question of whether or not he baited Drake into the battle by asking him to feature. I don’t think Drake is really their primary target though, which would explain letting him off easy. Compared to his bosses and their bosses he’s a small fish. If you take the big guys down you stand a better chance of landing a bigger blow on their operation.

Another really interesting connection is Kendrick and Ye were both signed under Universal Music Group and they both got out of their deals around couple months apart in 2022. As we speak U.M.G’s CEO Lucian Grange, who is often acccused of giving Drake special treatment, is facing charges related to sex trafficking by no other than P Diddy. This could very well explain the timing of it all. The craziest timeline would be Diddy masterminding all of this and using his connections to get it done and all the allegations are bullshit. The guy does seem pretty confident all things considered and constantly posts himself in his Batman costume which could mean he’s a vigilante.

It seems like there's a slight religious angle as well. (Ye and Diddy are both very vocal advocates of Christianity and Drake and Lucian Grange are both Jewish.) Obviously this is a reach, but they’ve been saying rap music was specifically promoted by mostly white label owners in the 80’s to help in the ongoing effort to expedite the systematic oppression of those living in black neighborhoods and the destruction of their family systems. Apparently it was an intentional decision to heavily promote rappers that promoted the very things that were destroying their neighborhoods. (So people know I'm and atheist and have zero agenda, I just thought it was interesting, please stay away from anything antisemitic. War is wrong on both sides.)

*** If my favorite theory is true, there is a possibility the Kendrick and Ye are going after Drake due to their mutual disdain for him and because he’s got a ton of power to dominate the charts and hog the radio airtime like Meek Mill and OG Maco claimed years ago. Even him dropping a record the same day as you could really fuck your album sales up. I’m also sure some of the many rumors throughout the years have had a least some truth and he will most likely snitch to avoid cell block one. I think that Drake could have been instructed to instigate this whole mess in order to draw attention away from the UMG charges brought about by Diddy. Or on the other hand it could be that Kendrick, Ye, and possibly Cole, may have had intel that Drake was going to be involved in the Diddy trial and are just gonna let the receipts show themselves. It might not have been the original plan, but they’ve already accomplished their mission of humiliating him, assuring he couldn’t use his influence to slide through the cracks, and taking over the throne.

Please take everything I say with a grain of salt I have no connection to this world or lifestyle. Regardless I believe all of the knowledge above does a pretty solid job at painting a picture of what may have let up to this and what may have been the source.
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More details found the last couple days…

Drake and Diddy Connections+Coincidences

Drake- In the P Diddy wig video from 2016 he talks about going to party with Drake, Cash, and The Weeknd in Toronto. Drake is also one of Birdman’s protégées who is known for being a predator and is rumored to have used label artists to lure young women.

Travis Scott- Interview where he comes out and says Diddy tried to lure him. Still has a long history of associating with him, video of him running from Diddy, his connection to Ruby Rose while underage.

Tim Westwood- Diddy had connections with sex offender Tim Westwood who also inspired the Drake song, “Westwood”. They also both were victims of drive by shootings along with The Weekend and they were all facing some type of allegations.

T.I.- Also has been associate with Diddy through the years, in 2021 his kid died and 11 women can forward at the same time to accuse him and his wife of drugging and assaulting them. Clearly someone wanted to fuck his life up. Possibly due to him getting arrested so many times for wild shit and people wondering how he continued to get away with it shining a light on how powerful industry lawyers are. He also had recently talked about having a gynecologist check to see if his daughter is still a Virgin, which sounds like it could have been an industrty secret. Could have been because he worried about someone trying to take advantage of her to get to him? Regardless that shit is fucking insane.

50 Cent- Has been saying pretty much the same thing as Travis Scott and has trolled Diddy for most of his career. It came out that his wife was a sex worker who was possibly recruited Diddy to help ruin his career. It sort of worked, which raises the question if 50 Cent is the only victim.

Ray J- Him and his sister worked with T.U.G. records when they were very young. Chris Stokes in the nineties who had connections with Diddy. He has been involved in a lot of sex scandals and allegedly may have played a part in Whitney Houston's death. (Which is also allegedly connected to Michael Jackson's death and both were deemed suspicious and happened during their final tours when their masters (song rights), became more valuable than their lives. Sony Records and Tommy Motolla, who also abused Mariah Carey when she was trying to start her career. These are just a few of the alleged examples of labels taking out musicians when they were worth more dead, another is the signing of high risk artists and requiring them to get life insurance so they can profit beyond releasing all their posthumous records. Also the ever so common story of the rising star artist that die at 21 after their first album or two.

He also partied with Diddy in Vegas with along Floyd Mayweather and a bunch of other famous industry people and athletes.

Tory Lanez- Tons of blackmail, also was signed by Interscope under UMG. got sent to prison for ten years after trying to leave his label. Also history of SA and and other allegations of violence towards women.

French Montana- On Diddy's label, close with Rick and Khaled, tons of drug and sexual assault allegations, also dated a Kardashian. Generally grimy.

DJ Khaled- Diddy said he could get anything in Miami, either referring to drugs or women, could explain his connections and lack of any notable talent. (New update, he was one of the first to promote Chris Alvarez’s instagram not long after he turned 18).

Rick Ross- Diddy said some weird shit about him and licked his lips and kissed him at a show. Ross is also signed to Bad Boy under Diddy. He ended up getting involved in the current feud and spamming social media nonstop dissing and threatening Drake.

A lot of the back and forth was both of them threatening to release dirt on each other. One strange coincidence I found was Drake recently trolled Ross about the 20 million dollar renovation to his home on Star island, where Diddy is currently residing. It’s rumored back in the day that P Diddy was caught in a room full of rich guys on ecstasy possibly at the beginning stages of a gay orgy. Drake also mentioned in the same tweets about Rick Ross that Birdman owned a house on the island and asked Rick Ross why he didn’t help him out.

Considering Ross is so sketchy and Drake claims the house isn’t that big, that’s a ridiculous amount of money. He may be covering up evidence, or creating tunnels in his house to escape if shit pops off and Drake might know what’s good. Interestingly enough Ross is very close with French Montana and also signed to Bad. He said his beef was related to something involving French, and Drake’s tweet popped up the same day the info came out concerning the Chris Alvarez stuff.

The famous line from U.O.E.N.O.

Meek Mill- “OG Maco called himself defending his friend Quentin Miller by substantiating the ghostwriting claims and agreeing with Meek. He hit up Twitter saying, "Some of us been knew. Meek just put it in the air. Sucks to have to compete with 6 n****s and get compared to”

Meek mill also had a short beef with Drake, some disses included lines referring to TI’s homie pissing on Drake at the movie theater, which is also interesting considering the current case against him. He also dropped a line saying Diddy almost got a domestic charge when he smacked Drake, which could either be saying that Drake is like a woman, or saying he was Drake’s boyfriend/sugar daddy.
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I thought it was interesting how the beef just kind of disappeared and even Meek said it didn’t seem genuine. Considering the allegations against Meek in the Diddy trial, and his rumored affair with Kim contributing to ending Kanye’s marriage, Meek Mill definitely did some dirt on him.

“Niggas frauds I told the truth, don't ask me shit
All this industry fake enemy and rap shit”

“Money make a sucker that told look trill again”

One of the many chapters in Drake's history in which he is seen paying his way out of trouble and starting beefs randomly.
“Now when that shit went down with Chris, you wrote a check”
This line is referring to Chris brown beef, another beef that was lost to time. All I can remember off the top was someone throwing a champagne bottle at the other’s entourage.

Ty Dolla $ign- Huge feature artist, close with Ye. Grew up in the industry and talks about growing up on the road and being in the studio with his dad and Rick James who was should have already been in prison for life for dragging, torturing, and S assaulting multiple women and children throughout his career and was himself a victim of the industry. May be part of Ye's motivation, considering their recent close working relationship.
The end.
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For context im looking for tv shows because im just going to watch all the Ghibli movies, movie wise.
Animes i like (sorry if one of these arnt a anime)

1. BNA
2. Wolf Children
3. Kiki delivery service
4. princess monoke
5. Whisper of the heart
6. Porco Rosso
7. Death Note
8. Aggretsuko

Tbh im open to almost any anime show

And I have no idea why.
Some context: this is the fourth time I've cried in the last four years. I got super depressed during lockdown and have a big gap in my memory from the time, but I remember breaking down in tears in the hallway of my empty flat. Around the time, I had started anti-depressants, and I'd noticed in the time since that I had stopped crying.
I've been off anti-depressants for about 1.5 years now but, since that breakdown, I've only cried three times, for various reasons. And this movie made me cry for the fourth time since lockdown.
I've seen it several times before, it's one of my favourite movies. And I do remember last time I watched it I almost cried. And this time I did.
I think it was just because of the story. Kiki's life not being what she wanted, having trouble with being anxious or nervous about the people around her. She starts losing her powers. And it all just becomes too much.
And then a friend turns up and helps her when she really needed it. She spends some time out in nature, just hanging out with a friend. It's just so healing.
Then, on her way home, she's called to a customer's house, but she's surprised when the customer had made her a cake and wanted to be friends. And that almost moves her to tears, possibly because of how difficult life had been.
And then things go more wrong than they've been, and she needs her powers back or she will be helpless to save her friend. And when she needs it the most, she can fly.
And the tension in the final moments, when everything goes quiet. If anything in her life needs to go well, it has to be this. And it does. It all works out.
I started crying about 30 seconds before Kiki caught Tombo. I know how it ends, but I was just caught up in the emotion of it all.
I think this is the only movie that's made me cry. When my parents watched it, they enjoyed it, but felt indifferent. If my brother watched it, I think he'd feel the same.
But this is the movie that makes me cry. That's what I love the most about it.
Does anyone else feel the same about this or any of the other Ghibli films? Sorry if this is a mundane question, I've just never cried from a movie before

It's been a while since I have seen this movie. I saw the movie today and specifically I honed in on noticing the actions and dynamic between the relationship between KiKi and her husband. At first, the girls find it to be "disturbing" that Kent (KiKi's husband) is talking to her asking "isn't it your job?" (when referring to being home with the kids). They are referring to the fact that Kent seems shocked that she is out with people he hardly knows instead of being home with their children, like she is commonly known to be doing when he's at work.
Later, throughout the movie, it appears like the writers are trying to show that KiKi feels empowered now to be her "own mom" and work through her own problems. This is shown specifically when she is out with her friends and Kent calls her in a panic not knowing how to handle the children, with her responding "figure it out".
Even further, towards the end of the movie she is walking towards the school with Kent and yells at Kent that he "forgot their sons book bag" and that the "book bag won't grab itself". Kent seems noticably FILLED with anxiety as he sheepishly says "I'm so sorry" and runs towards the car.
Now, this to me, is NOT showing that KiKi in any way has grown out of her shell and is finding out who she is as her "own mom". This to me, is over shadowing a very serious relationship dynamic of two people not working together for their children. KiKi obviously feels like she is put in charge way too much of the kids and doesn't feel like she is valued while Kent goes and works for the family. Furthermore, I think Kent feels that he may be de-valued as the child's parent. Especially, after he friends uphold a horrified look when he asks her "isn't that your job?" and they turn around and call him "Ike Turner".
It almost feels to me like the rest of this entire movie is Kent trying to prove himself to KiKi that he is sorry that he reacted that way but, in my opinion, was completely unaware that she was out with friends (whom are literally people he has never met) and that she had her kids be watched by someone else while she is out at an un named bar and that his reaction in and of itself shouldn't be seen as an action of being rude and inconsiderate of her job as a mother but, that he believed in his heart of hearts that he knew his wife well enough to assume that she would be home with the children. Seeing her out was most likely noticeably jarring to him and even moreso, when he is made aware that she hired a sitter to watch their children over her when she, in the past, has been well known to stay home and watch them herself while he is at work.
In a way, the only thing I see, in a separate perspective is that both sides are trying to adjust to a new sort of way of living by switching one role to another role. Which is causing Kent to have horrible anxiety as he is now taxed to not only provide for the household but, also make sure that his wife is happy since she is noticeably unhappy with him and he doesn't want to join the "ex husband" category along with the men in her single friends' lives.
The girls are right to assume that what he said at the bar when the girls were out eating sounded disturbing.. But, if that is disturbing.. is the latter also not true that it is disturbing at the end of the movie seeing Kent noticeably shaking in fear and anxiety over KiKi being angry with him for a common mistake of forgetting their sons backpack?
Is it LESS disturbing because Kent is a guy and KiKi is a female?

Arabic people, people of Arabic television or Arabic DVDs, people who observe or follow the news of the world of official dubbing in the Arabic language. Please, tell me, whoever is a witness: I suppose, that the Arabic dubs that appeared on Netflix in 2020 are the very first ones for Totoro, Kiki, Spirited Away, Howl's Castle, Ponyo, and fricking Princess Mononoke (despite its violence and probably using the word "ilahun" for the forest spirit character). Didn't you, Arabs, get an official Arabic dub for these Ghibli movies before Netflix? If not, why? I know that you had at least Heidi 1974 and Conan the future boy with Isao Takahata's and Hayao Miyazaki's participation. But why no Castle in the Sky, Whisper of the Heart? Is it because of censorship?
Like, maybe, censors disliked

1. The way Muska mentioned Sodom and Gomorra; the way Sheeta's states something like "there is no life without earth"; the way the movie romanticizes the pirate lifestyle (but Arabic TV had official Arabic dub of first hundred episodes of One Piece).
2. Probably, because Miyazaki himself was not satisfied enough with the film adaptation of Nausicaa. Or this movie is too old-fashioned to dub. Or Nausicaa looked too much like a "prophet" or something like it. Or because the movie is too "depressive" and "dark" considering the "post-apocalypsis", so, maybe, "many people died off-screen".
3. The Whisper of Heart has egoistical unrequited love, where Shizuku rejects Sugimura so we don't care about Shizuku/Seiji ship as it's not cute so much after the reject, also Yuko's reject of the love letter guy who is Sugimura's friend.
4. The Wind Rises simply contains so much smoking which is harmful for health. But the witch from Howl's Castle also smoked, if I'm not mistaken.

In Turkey television, the TRT Çocuk channel broadcasted Turkish official dub of the Ghibli films in ~2010, if I'm not mistaken.

1. Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore – Gilmore Girls
2. Tracee Ellis Ross as Rainbow – Black-ish
3. Mandy Moore as Rebecca Pearson – This Is Us
4. Anjelica Huston as Morticia Addams – The Addams Family
5. Sofía Vergara as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett – Modern Family
6. Sutton Foster as Liza Miller – Younger
7. Sally Field as Mrs. Gump – Forrest Gump
8. Frances McDormand as Elaine Miller – Almost Famous
9. Rosemary Harris as Aunt May – Spider-Man franchise
10. Jackée Harry as Lisa Landry – Sister, Sister
11. Julie Kavner as Marge Simpson – The Simpsons
12. Amy Poehler as Mrs. George – Mean Girls
13. Patricia Clarkson as Rosemary Penderghast – Easy A
14. Jessica Huang as Constance Wu – Fresh Off the Boat
15. Catherine O'Hara as Moira Rose – Schitt's Creek
16. Julie Walters as Molly Weasley – Harry Potter series
17. Jennifer Coolidge as Jeanine Stifler – American Pie series
18. Gina Rodriguez as Jane Villanueva – Jane the Virgin
19. Sherri Saum as Lena Adams Foster – The Fosters
20. Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford – Mommie Dearest
21. Diane Keaton as Daphne Wilder – Because I Said So
22. Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers – Stranger Things
23. Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis and Kathryn Hahn as Kiki, Amy and Carla – Bad Moms

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Because of the popularity of select Ghibli films like Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Grave of the Fireflies,
all their other movies have become underrated hidden gems to me. I think films like Arrietty, Only Yesterday and Castle in The Sky should be appreciated more by people. Anyone who thinks any other films apart from the popular ones are really good but people aren't appreciating them enough?

Spoilers for Kiki's delivery service:
In every scene that the writers could have shown romantic interest or disinterest, such as the bike ride with Tombo or his rescue at the end of the movie, they didn't. Tombo is shown as a having a crush on Kiki through manerisms and dialogue, but Kiki talks to him as she does with everyone else, in a very explicitly platonic way. Even during the credits, when riding with him in his makeshift aeroplane, everything is very friendly and platonic.
Kiki is also a coming of age movie, and romantic thoughts and issues could've been brought up at many points, like when Jiji starts going out with Lily, or when Tombo asks her out to the party. None of these issues are even thought about, and the only care she ever shows about anything romantic is when it starts interfering with her relationship with Jiji.
The writers could have written her as someone with some amount of romantic interest, even passing thoughts about Tombo or Ursula, but they strayed pretty explicitly from that at every moment they could. What do you think?

Favorite Anime: - [ ] Steins:Gate - [ ] Soso no Frieren - [ ] Mob Psycho 100 - [ ] Haikyu!! - [ ] Cowboy Bebop
Favorite Anime Movies: - [ ] Princess Mononoke - [ ] Kiki’s Delivery Service - [ ] Secret World of Arietty - [ ] Howl’s Moving Castle - [ ] Porco Rosso
You get it - really one-sided here haha
Great Anime: - [ ] Demon Slayer - [ ] Attack on Titan - [ ] Hellsing Ultimate
These ones are great, but not my absolute favorites.
Hated Anime: - [ ] Code Geass - please don’t ask me why; I’m not sure why. I just hated it. I’m aware most people like it. I respect that - people have different tastes I guess 🤷‍♂️