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magical girl au pt 1
inspired by @ihavesomejays magical girl post! i love that comic so much man
Thinking about this thread
olly's exactly where he wants to be.
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Light vs L
Controversial but 100% correct opinion.
Tsukishimaâs backstory is SAD and GOOD! I think people dismiss his backstory because he is a snarky bitch, which is 100% true! But his backstory is still sad, and I think that the anime only grazes over it, unlike the manga.
He isnât just mad that his brother lied to him. HEâS MAD THAT HE BACKED HIS BROTHER INTO A CORNER AND MADE HIM FEEL LIKE HE HAD TO LIEEEEE SO THEY COULD HAVE A RELATIONSHIP!!!!!!!!!!! THAT HIS BROTHER HAD TO LIE ABOUT PLAYING VOLLEYBALL BECAUSE TSUKISHIMA LOOKED UP TO HIM BECAUSE HE PLAYED VOLLEYBALL AND DIDNâT WANT TO CRUSH HIS LITTLE BROTHER'S IDOLISED PERCEPTION OF HIM.
In the manga, there is a quote from Tsukishima saying âItâs just some dumb club. But I got wrapped up in it like it was all my brother was. In the end, that made him feel like he had to lie to me.â (The manga doesnât have page numbers, but it is in chapter 86 of Volume 10.) Yes, heâs annoyed that his brother lied, but heâs angrier that he made his brother feel that he had to lie.
Dare I say, he FEELS GUILTY!!!!!!!!!!!! AND SCARED AND HE DOESN'T WANT THIS 'dumb club' TO SHATTER HIM HOW IT SHATTERED HIS BROTHER!!!!!!!!!!
This is a manga about Volleyball, it's not fucking Berserk!
people donât understand tsukishima keiâs self loathing enough
It was like I was waiting my whole life to do something terrible.
@obseletrix
it gets to a point that is just weirder if they didn't fuck
sayeon lee and trust as a substitute for love
in hand jumper, sayeon uses trust as a substitution for love.
sayeon lee has never experienced mutual unconditional love. no one truly knew her for who she was as the daughter of a criminal aberrant. the closest she ever got was jaeil, who died. her sisterâs love is (arguably) unreciprocated. thus, she doesnât acknowledge the love she feels for other people (like all her other emotions). sayeon is a utilitarian. trust is directly tied to her ability to manipulate, by extension, mission success. so, it is the only form of affection that she allows herself to have.
additionally, sayeon doesnât trust people easily. she is a logical person who questions and criticizes everything. in the corps, blind faith could mean death. as a leader, trust is indicative of power and skill, both things sayeon aspires for. sayeon understands the weight trust carries in the aberrant corps, where the survival rate is minimal.
so, she searches for affection through the trust placed on her by other people.
this emphasis on trust is paralleled with love. when sayeon learns her teammates trust her, she starts smiling and blushing, which is a stereotypically romantic reaction. she searches and even craves for trust in the same way many people want affection. in missions, she tries to be as efficient and successful as possible to gain trust. she constantly wonders if characters like min and ryujin trust her. like love, trust needs to be earned. her journey towards gaining trust mirrors a journey towards genuine relationships, albeit a more twisted, complicated version.
but the most compelling parallel is that sayeon lee does not want characters to be forced to trust her. instead, she hopes they will trust her out of their own volition. as ryujin says: âyou want me to choose you all on your ownâ. even absent the obvious romantic undertones, the treatment of trust as something that cannot be forced mirrors the nature of love. in the same way true love is mutual, sayeon wants trust to be real and reciprocated.
through the parallelism of trust and love, sleepacross delves into complex and ambiguous relationships, which allows her to further explore themes of moral grayness. but more than that, she explores how a personâs psyche can be impacted by trauma, and thus, inability to acknowledge love.
i feel like with samin and sayeon in particular is where sayeonâs relationship with love equalling trust is exposed:
sayeon was capable of love at some point - we see that with sara and samin. however, at some point, both these people betrayed her trust. saraâs cruel and inhumane nature distanced herself from her daughter, and saminâs act of murder traumatized sayeon so severely that it pounded the message of âthe world is better without people like youâ into her.
that initial trauma caused by samin is why sayeon doesnât love anything. her care for samin was, in her eyes, manipulated and then crushed. samin did what she did bc she knew sayeon loved her dearly.
it makes sense, then, why she values trust equally like loveâ those you love wonât betray you, yet love itself is what caused sayeonâs heart to be shattered as a child. she doesnât trust samin, and so she canât feel any love towards her, since again, those you love donât betray you.
i also think, at a baseline, trust is an easier concept than love, at least to our dear protagonist. love takes many forms, causes irrational behavior, isnât reliable. (re: samin). however, trust is black and white: you either trust someone or you donât. and thus, trust can be calculated, planned for. people donât do things for people they donât trust. but if people do trust her, sayeon can account for their actions with 100% certainty.
or, at least, thatâs what she thinksâŠ
Well, hes not getting up after that.
(Finaly finished it, originaly i wanted to colour it but i gave up trying to. @artof-mirage hope you like it!)
sobbing bc he WOULD take a sword for his ethereal fairy gf and he would not hesitate
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i need to come up with a way to say âi mean like, movies for grownupsâ that doesnât make me feel like a villain
*peeks in the replies* *gets really nervous and locks my house up and leaves*
well, i mean more like La Piscine or Mulholland Drive,
i think i am going insane
Apparently it is impossible for Tumblr users to think of a not ageist way to describe their tastes, because everything must always be compared to how inferior children are -- despite the fact that it is pretty much never the choice of any child or children when media aimed at them is dumbed down etc.
Things when bad: kids and children are involved!
Things when good: this is very Adult this is specifically Adult only Adults can understand or want this
i literally just donât want to watch Kung Fu Panda
okay weâve come all the way back around. letâs pack this up. this post is done. âwho askedâ you just walked into my post that i made on my blog..? who asked YOU?? am i losing my fucking mind?????
"I want to watch movies where the writers assume the audience can handle complex themes and sensitive material."
"Do you mean porn? Or are you being ageist? You're ageist if you don't like Kung Fu Panda."
#this is how i feel when people tell me that i would 'really relate' to avatar: the last airbender#and steven universe. both of which are recs i have gotten from people in real life#and i'm like. i refuse to watch cartoons for children because a) i aged out of the demographic where i find them even remotely interesting#and b)i read a lot of New Journalism and related fiction and the themes that people talk about those shows engaging with are explored#much more fully in for example Radical Chic And Mau-Mauing The Flak Catchers or Naked Lunch or any Hunter Thompson article#or One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest or Pnin#than in those shows. like people can like them and that's fine#but i do think that there is a shred of anti-intellectualism in the fact that children's shows are held up as containing#all of these very complex themes and adult media is widely derided. like i don't think kids' media can engage on the level people claim it#does just by virtue of being made for kids. it's simple and that's not a bad thing. but it's not engaging on the same level as something#written for adults. like steven universe and All Quiet On The Western Front might share broad themes but one is absolutely not providing#the same context and perspective as the other. and that's fine because steven universe is for ten-year-olds and doesn't have to be up to#the same standard as AQOTWF. but because I want to engage with more challenging media i'm not going to try and learn about war#by watching steven universe. I'm going to look to AQOTWF. because i am an adult and childrens' media no longer interests me
i largely blame fandom culture but i do think a lot of the issue with childrenâs media is that fandoms do just *make shit up* that isnât there. steven universe is well written when itâs at its peak but people act like the entire show is a masterpiece at all times, when half of it is childrenâs show filler that doesnât appeal to anyone over the age of 8. like avatar the last airbender is an amazing childrenâs show but the writing would pale in comparison to an adult show with the same premise bc childrenâs media is shafted in that they canât discuss things very fully. a lot of the themes of war and genocide also go missed because of its younger audience. i think childrenâs cartoons are good when you watch them at that age, and their reputation is mainly built by people who watched that show young and then are viewing it with rose-tinted glasses
#and i do LOVE steven universe and atla#whay they did for childrenâs media is literally unmatched and so influential#but a lot of their rewatch value to me as an adult is nostalgia#And also seeing how many themes went unnoticed by me as a 10 year old#i think atla is also a bad example of poorly aged childrenâs media?#poorly aged as like adults wonât enjoy it#atla IS a modern masterpiece almost i will die on this hill
Exactly!!!!! I didn't watch these shows as a kid but I feel the same about, for example, Tintin (I do think Tintin was also hugely foundational to comics as a medium, but that's been written about already- and it is absolutely still children's media despite that) or Asterix or Chota Bheem- childhood favorites that I revisit every once in a while, but I wouldn't look to them for the kind of coherent political discussions fandoms claim shows like SU or ALTA have, because that's not there! And that's fine! I loved the ALTA live-action movie when I was seven, but it wasn't groundbreaking and it was written for people in my exact age group at the time, so i wouldn't like it if i watched it now. and I think that's how taste works, actually- as you grow you go from simpler-by-necessity flavors to more mature and complex media. As you learn more about the world and your place it in, you want to see more things that reflect that, even if you still love the things you loved when you were seven.
I think the fandom stuff you talk about is coming from the fact that it's hard for people to realize that, actually. I think that a lot of the type of people who make those claims about shows like ALTA and SU are, at their core, very afraid of feeling childish, because they like this thing that's for kids. Which isn't wrong to do! you can definitely like kids' shows and be a Real Adult (tm), because just liking kids' shows doesn't diminish your ability to be an adult. but the fear is there, and I think that a lot of people will compansate for that by being offended that people want to watch movies made for more mature audiences.
the atla live action also misses a LOT of the source material. the og show is 1billion times better
bronies are the opposite of this yes. they like mlp *because* itâs a childrenâs-aimed show
i need to come up with a way to say âi mean like, movies for grownupsâ that doesnât make me feel like a villain
*peeks in the replies* *gets really nervous and locks my house up and leaves*
well, i mean more like La Piscine or Mulholland Drive,
i think i am going insane
Apparently it is impossible for Tumblr users to think of a not ageist way to describe their tastes, because everything must always be compared to how inferior children are -- despite the fact that it is pretty much never the choice of any child or children when media aimed at them is dumbed down etc.
Things when bad: kids and children are involved!
Things when good: this is very Adult this is specifically Adult only Adults can understand or want this
i literally just donât want to watch Kung Fu Panda
okay weâve come all the way back around. letâs pack this up. this post is done. âwho askedâ you just walked into my post that i made on my blog..? who asked YOU?? am i losing my fucking mind?????
"I want to watch movies where the writers assume the audience can handle complex themes and sensitive material."
"Do you mean porn? Or are you being ageist? You're ageist if you don't like Kung Fu Panda."
#this is how i feel when people tell me that i would 'really relate' to avatar: the last airbender#and steven universe. both of which are recs i have gotten from people in real life#and i'm like. i refuse to watch cartoons for children because a) i aged out of the demographic where i find them even remotely interesting#and b)i read a lot of New Journalism and related fiction and the themes that people talk about those shows engaging with are explored#much more fully in for example Radical Chic And Mau-Mauing The Flak Catchers or Naked Lunch or any Hunter Thompson article#or One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest or Pnin#than in those shows. like people can like them and that's fine#but i do think that there is a shred of anti-intellectualism in the fact that children's shows are held up as containing#all of these very complex themes and adult media is widely derided. like i don't think kids' media can engage on the level people claim it#does just by virtue of being made for kids. it's simple and that's not a bad thing. but it's not engaging on the same level as something#written for adults. like steven universe and All Quiet On The Western Front might share broad themes but one is absolutely not providing#the same context and perspective as the other. and that's fine because steven universe is for ten-year-olds and doesn't have to be up to#the same standard as AQOTWF. but because I want to engage with more challenging media i'm not going to try and learn about war#by watching steven universe. I'm going to look to AQOTWF. because i am an adult and childrens' media no longer interests me
i largely blame fandom culture but i do think a lot of the issue with childrenâs media is that fandoms do just *make shit up* that isnât there. steven universe is well written when itâs at its peak but people act like the entire show is a masterpiece at all times, when half of it is childrenâs show filler that doesnât appeal to anyone over the age of 8. like avatar the last airbender is an amazing childrenâs show but the writing would pale in comparison to an adult show with the same premise bc childrenâs media is shafted in that they canât discuss things very fully. a lot of the themes of war and genocide also go missed because of its younger audience. i think childrenâs cartoons are good when you watch them at that age, and their reputation is mainly built by people who watched that show young and then are viewing it with rose-tinted glasses
how do you compete with an angel? become one yourself
@obseletrix
i need to come up with a way to say âi mean like, movies for grownupsâ that doesnât make me feel like a villain
*peeks in the replies* *gets really nervous and locks my house up and leaves*
well, i mean more like La Piscine or Mulholland Drive,
i think i am going insane
Apparently it is impossible for Tumblr users to think of a not ageist way to describe their tastes, because everything must always be compared to how inferior children are -- despite the fact that it is pretty much never the choice of any child or children when media aimed at them is dumbed down etc.
Things when bad: kids and children are involved!
Things when good: this is very Adult this is specifically Adult only Adults can understand or want this
i literally just donât want to watch Kung Fu Panda
okay weâve come all the way back around. letâs pack this up. this post is done. âwho askedâ you just walked into my post that i made on my blog..? who asked YOU?? am i losing my fucking mind?????
"I want to watch movies where the writers assume the audience can handle complex themes and sensitive material."
"Do you mean porn? Or are you being ageist? You're ageist if you don't like Kung Fu Panda."
#this is how i feel when people tell me that i would 'really relate' to avatar: the last airbender#and steven universe. both of which are recs i have gotten from people in real life#and i'm like. i refuse to watch cartoons for children because a) i aged out of the demographic where i find them even remotely interesting#and b)i read a lot of New Journalism and related fiction and the themes that people talk about those shows engaging with are explored#much more fully in for example Radical Chic And Mau-Mauing The Flak Catchers or Naked Lunch or any Hunter Thompson article#or One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest or Pnin#than in those shows. like people can like them and that's fine#but i do think that there is a shred of anti-intellectualism in the fact that children's shows are held up as containing#all of these very complex themes and adult media is widely derided. like i don't think kids' media can engage on the level people claim it#does just by virtue of being made for kids. it's simple and that's not a bad thing. but it's not engaging on the same level as something#written for adults. like steven universe and All Quiet On The Western Front might share broad themes but one is absolutely not providing#the same context and perspective as the other. and that's fine because steven universe is for ten-year-olds and doesn't have to be up to#the same standard as AQOTWF. but because I want to engage with more challenging media i'm not going to try and learn about war#by watching steven universe. I'm going to look to AQOTWF. because i am an adult and childrens' media no longer interests me
i largely blame fandom culture but i do think a lot of the issue with childrenâs media is that fandoms do just *make shit up* that isnât there. steven universe is well written when itâs at its peak but people act like the entire show is a masterpiece at all times, when half of it is childrenâs show filler that doesnât appeal to anyone over the age of 8. like avatar the last airbender is an amazing childrenâs show but the writing would pale in comparison to an adult show with the same premise bc childrenâs media is shafted in that they canât discuss things very fully. a lot of the themes of war and genocide also go missed because of its younger audience. i think childrenâs cartoons are good when you watch them at that age, and their reputation is mainly built by people who watched that show young and then are viewing it with rose-tinted glasses
