colored :3

My brother is wondering on making a mircaiolous rewrite, so i drew him gabriel agreste from out version kinda inspired off the OST of Paprika (Rly reccomend the movie) Since we’ve watched ittogether recentlly

Might digitize soon cause I colored it and hated it

Every once in a while, I’ll remember an animated movie I watched years ago and just gush about it for a little bit.

This time, it’s Satoshi Kon’s Paprika, a pre-‘Inception’ reality bending sci-fi mystery.

An animation marvel, and a plot that will keep you guessing, Paprika follows the story of a group of scientists that have created the DC-mini, a device that allows someone to enter another person’s dream. The purpose is therapy, to help treat mental illness from the inside. But someone has stolen the DC-mini, and now all the dreams it’s ever encountered are bleeding into each other.

Who stole it, and why?

(It is rated R for body horror)

🦐 Scampi Bucatini med paprikapesto

tors 12 mars 2026

Jag älskar att jobba med olika protein i maträtter, och har faktiskt inte lagat något med scampi till min man tidigare. Tyckte att idag fick bli dagen och var sugen på pasta med någon form av pesto - paprika, fick det bli ❤️

Behövs:

Ur kylskåpet

• Vannameiräkor (förkokta) (400g)
• Grädde (3 dl)
• Tomatpuré (1.5 tsk)
• Soltorkade tomater (strimlade) (⅕ burk)
• Paprikapesto (3 msk)
• Ajvar (stark) (2 msk)

Ur skafferiet

• Pasta (bucatini)
• Rödlök (1 liten)
• Vitlök (2 klyftor)
• Purjolök (⅓)
• Paprika (⅓)
• Tomat (½)
• Olja (raps)

Ur kryddhyllan

• Salt
• Peppar
• Hett paprikapulver
• Vitlökspulver

Ur frysen

• Broccoli

Recept:

1. Stek grönsaker: Stek fryst broccoli i olja i traktörpanna. Hacka under tiden rödlök, vitlök, purjolök, tomat och paprika - låt dessa steka med vartefter de hackats klart. Krydda (höfta) med salt, peppar, hett paprikapulver och vitlökspulver. När detta stekt en stund, tillsätt tomatpuré och låt steka ytterligare. Addera paprikapesto och soltorkad tomat.
2. Häll grädde över grönsakerna och rör om, låt grädden ta färg av kryddorna. Tillsätt ajvar samt mer salt och peppar om så behövs. Koka upp och tillsätt vatten vartefter grädden reduceras. Låt puttra.
3. Koka upp vatten i en kastrull med lock och salta när det börjar sjuda. När vattnet kokar ordentligt, tillsätt önskad mängd pasta (bucatini). Låt koka i 10-15 minuter för mjuk pasta, de 8 minuter som står på förpackningen räcker sällan.
4. Tillsätt förkokta vannameiräkor i pastasåsen, rör om så att de täcks av sås. OBS! ta gärna bort de skal som sitter kvar på räkornas stjärt innan de tillsätts - annars blir det en del pill på tallriken.
5. När pastan är färdig, häll i ett durkslag. Skaka av vatten och häll pastan i traktörpannan med pastasås. Rör om så att pastan täcks av sås.
6. (OM du nyligen tillsatt mer vatten i såsen, låt pastan gå lite ytterligare i såsen på medelvärme så att såsen tjocknar något och fäster bättre kring pastan).

Klart att serveras 🇮🇹

Motherland. Fatherland. Colonial Psychology

Watched Paprika for the first time

dawg that was a wild watch

You know, I guess that Satoshi Kon is a genius. His anime, Paprika, was the first anime I ever watched when I was 9. Even then, I felt admiration for his strange worlds. It has become a role model for me. I really hope that I will convey that same sense of wonder in my own works.

P.S. The opening theme “Agent Paranoia” and the song “The Girl in Byakkoya” from Paprika — this is the kind of music that always supports me during hard times.

I watched the Paprika movie today and I’m amazed. I love the feaver dream vibes and how much symbols and meanings you can take out of it. WATCH IT

Tell me why i got that one cursed paprika song playing in the background while i do other things

What if Dr. Chiba was…..

(If the world never restore and she rebirth into a mechanical tin body).

i’d say pepper would either be personality streamrolled (in the fact he would be boiled down to being a nerd or nothing else)

OR he would be ‘irredeemably evil’ because he’s a teenager who has made bad decisions.

Paprika? depressed wooby maybe or infantilzied ?

˗ˏˋ ´ˎ˗Paprika*ೃ༄

˗ˏˋ ´ˎ˗Paprika *ೃ༄

Ranting About Female Characters for Women’s History Month

(Master Post)

Part 3: Paprika (a.k.a. Chiba Atsuko)

From: Paprika (book by Tsutsui Yasutaka and anime movie adaptation)

Description: Psychotherapist and Dream Therapist/Dream Terrorist, depending on who you ask

*****

Dr. Chiba is a competent woman. A skilled psychotherapist, she’s the cream of the crop when it comes to treating patients with both sensitivity and discretion. While she seems stern and calculated on the surface, it’s really only a facet of her. Her other facet is Paprika.

Paprika is spontaneous, imaginative, creative, and outspoken. She takes Chiba’s razor-sharp wit and applies it with humor and precision, allowing her to soften blows or cut even deeper as the situation requires. In some ways, she’s Dr. Chiba unchained. And likewise, Dr. Chiba is her, but on rails.

There’s a lot to admire about this character. As Paprika, she’s bright and vivid. As Dr. Chiba, she’s calm and respectable. In either form, she is wise, stubborn, comfortable with her sexuality, and more than competent in a crisis.

She’s a doctor. She’s a scientist. She’s unafraid to call out her male coworkers when they overstep. She knows how to handle herself in touchy situations. She knows her boundaries and sticks to them.

Both versions of the story are too realistic to let her do everything on her own. She’s not a fantasy heroine who can single-handedly take on the world. But it’s in the balance of her dual nature that she’s able to overcome obstacles that even she didn’t think she could surmount, and it’s that ingenuity that wins her so many allies in the stories.

Not that she’s without enemies.

As a woman who’s competence has been recognized and rewarded, she inevitably draws the ire of mediocre men. On the one hand, it feels wrong to mention them in a post about her, as they have no right to steal the limelight from her. On the other, to not mention them is to overlook her struggles, and also the struggles of many other competent women.

Both narratives make it clear, though, that she holds the respect and position she has because she’s earned it, and that while one of these male antagonists has power and the other has dashingly good looks, neither of them are worth a fraction of what they think they are. They are portrayed as human trash, and the ways they seek to hold her down only make her shine brighter.

Meanwhile, the men around her who also shine brightly only do so because they reflect her light. They recognize her strength and help cultivate it when her self-confidence fails, just as she’s done for them. And sure, they might harbor a few crushes on her, but she’s more than free to make her own decisions, and when she does, none harbor hard feelings that she didn’t choose them.

She’s her own woman, after all, two sides of the same coin, and the truth about who she is between those sides is for her to decide.

Paprika is a fever dream and I don’t rlly understand anything

Edit: I have very conflicted view sand feelings about the movie, tho it was admittedly very good