I don’t always draw anime fanart, but when I do, it’s Neon Genesis Evangelion.
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jokes that i like:
-”my favorite anime is [show that is not an anime, and possibly not even animated].”
-ex.: “my favorite anime is everybody loves raymond.”
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My favourite anime is this text post.
My favorite anime is @queenshulamit
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I think the reason there’s so much gay romance in my fiction writing (besides “why not” / “effortless representation” / etc.) is that I find it harder to write heterosexual romance in a way that feels, well, romantic – fresh, exciting, enrapturing – in the way I want it to, simply because the majority of existing fiction includes heterosexual romance as a major element, and so it’s been done in a zillion different ways and every one of those ways has been done a zillion times and also subverted or parodied a zillion times etc. etc.
So writing gay romance feels much more immediate – I feel like I am simply writing the thing itself, rather than writing “romance in fiction” (that hoary old thing that everyone already has many opinions about).
I’m not sure this has any relationship to the real-world status of gay people, except insofar as that’s shaped which kinds of relationships everyone’s seen countless-beyond-countless times already and which they haven’t.
Incidentally, I think this is also the reason that one episode of Evangelion (you know the one) was so startlingly effective for so many people (including me).
I’m taking the day off entirely, today, and I started watching Symphogear
This … this is the kind of content I like to see
i’m watching this now on your… rec, maybe, and it’s reasonably cool, real good effects and cool fights and aesthetic hell-yeah, but. i just got to the bit in the third episode where the wacky scientist lady… crosses the line from “uncomfortable teasing” into “full-blown, shockingly inappropriate sexual harassment” at several times the speed of sound, leaving a devastating crater in her wake
like WOW
Yes, that’s one aspect of the show I don’t like – given the goofy premise it’s actually a pretty serious, even moving story ( … to me, anyway … ) but then it just throws in these terrible, nihilistic “pervy” jokes because that’s what you do if you’re an anime I guess, both breaking the mood and also breaking my ability to recommend the show without cringing
As @turboshitnerd put it on a similar occasion: Anime Is Bad™
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The wacky genius scientist lady in Symphogear was just driving really recklessly and I was like “man, why is such an irreplaceable intellectual figure taking such needless risks” and then I remembered von Neumann:
Despite being a notoriously bad driver, he nonetheless enjoyed driving – frequently while reading a book – occasioning numerous arrests, as well as accidents.
I’m taking the day off entirely, today, and I started watching Symphogear
This … this is the kind of content I like to see
Hmm, this sounds familiar
I’m curious why people make the gesture of distancing themselves from “mimetic” interpretations. Were there a bunch of really bad mimetic interpretations at some point in the recent past? What were they?
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skimble-shanks-the-railway-cat asked: The Sort-Of-Pornographic anime thing I think is the same thing that shows up in like, idk, many other movies or video games marketed to a non-child audience too. Oh, Wonder Woman has to wear this tiny outfit for Reasons. So-and-so has to wear this bikini bc it's keeping her alive. It's not really unique to anime except the plot devices? Sorry if this is just repeating what others have said
Yeah, that’s a good point. I guess I may just be more used to the western versions of it. I do feel like the western versions tend to involve less elaborate justifications, or even no justification at all – your comics character will have revealing armor “just because,” as opposed to having actual plot devices aimed solely at getting characters into revealing clothes or w/e