Alabaster by Tezuka :)

To be clear, I'll only be looking into commissioning an artist if the book doesn't acquire an agent, and there will be a few more months of querying left still before I think about that. So this was more to put the feelers out.

Thanks ^^

such sweet comments. if what we do is close spiritually then i'm in very esteemed company.

crazy how much i've learned i love writing fiction way more than doing, like, academic analysis. and it took me like three decades to figure this out lol

just read this, thank you for sending it :)

really cute story, thanks for sharing. i wish that totoro episode was available, it doesnt seem to be.

gelato neorealism

Yes exactly haha, with Sully there is an attempt at a "real movie" structure

that's lovely to hear, thank you!

yeah it's genuinely such a bizarre movie lmao. sully is sort of similar too (with the real clincher of the narrative, as you say, being dead in the middle of the film), but it doesn't approach the dailiness of this one.

thanks ^^

clint eastwood's take on the cute girls doing cute things genre (bland boys being bland)

Yeah it is a pretty crazy thing to say about any Kon film lol