フレイヤの軌跡

i'm freya from online | full time lesbian | bad literature appreciator | gbf/arknights | mathematics teacher | she/her

[freyalise]

turning this into my introduction post since it's already here. you can call me freya. i'm a lesbian who knows a thing or two about a thing or two. i'm not in my 20s anymore. she/her

ask me about isekai. i've read a genuinely worrying amount of isekai for anyone with a pulse and good taste. i spend way too much time thinking about isekai from a literary analysis angle. the isekai scholar has logged on. my isekai posts are all tagged #isekai

i post a lot about the subjects listed in my bio. follow me if you like that sort of stuff. other than that i like video games, sci-fi/fantasy novels (primarily light novels since i read a lot in my day job so i like keeping it easy breezy) and anime.

i do have a mastodon but i'm keeping it separate from tumblr. mutuals can ask me for my mastodon, steam and discord details.

[probuccalfat]

avoidance is lowkey funny because it’s like i don’t want love on the off chance that it gets taken away from me and then i have to become john wick or something

[probuccalfat]

we’re all on the only social media that matters and this is why.

[internetslug]

I need you to mix all the chemicals under your sink to defeat the heartless

[flipchild]

It woked

[mousidy]

everyone in a "queer space" the moment a trans woman says anything

[what-even-is-thiss]

I make fun of isekai anime because it’s extremely easy to make fun of but tbh to me it’s kind of depressing.

I guess because in English language media the goal when you fall into another world is usually to find a way back home.

Isekai though assumes that real life just isn’t worth going back to and it’s just kinda sad? It feels like it appeals to an overly cynical and beaten down worldview. The only way to feel better is to be teleported into a video game? Really? We don’t even learn to appreciate what we have and how to take control of our own destiny along the way? We’re just never gonna see our family or friends or favorite coffee shop ever again and this is escapism?

[lilyapd]

i would say this was codified by 'No Game No Life' back in the early 2010s when Sora turned to the camera and said something to the effect of, 'typically in these kinds of stories the protagonists want to go home, but who would want to go back to a world like that?'. and whether or not the worldview itself is cynical, it is rooted in his perception of the material reality.

'karoshi' is real, 'black companies' are real, the exploitation of the working class is real. the tragedy of the isekai protagonist isn't that they don't want to go home, it's that they feel they have nothing to go home to. to say 'why don't they think of their family or friends?' is to ignore how achingly lonely these protagonists are.

in the end i don't think comparing the western conception of portal fantasy to isekai does anything for either. both have clear lineages that have crossed at points but still remain wholly separate. that separation is a cultural one and one that if you want to cross, necessitates understanding both ways, not just pointing to the result as if it were the whole picture.

[3000s]

[freyalise]

More ocarina you must be so happy

i'm cautiously optimistic about it. i've already beaten ocarina of time dozens of times so i don't know what a remake will really do for me at this point

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

please please please say you have the reaction image of the asian lady smoking frantically with an air of tremendous strain i've been looking for it literally all 15 minutes of my break

are you talking about these images of acclaimed actress Sandra Oh

[sifu-kisu]

[biggyman]

Hooooooo my fucking god

[beardedmrbean]

this sounds like a party to me

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

[freyalise]

Happy Move on from the Elf Forever Monday

reported for self harm

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

Me: I don't know. I just don't think there's much comedic potential to the idea of a "pizza samurai"

PIzza Samurai, entering physical existence due to the sheer willpower which I still spend thinking about him: I will defeat you with my New York Style martial arts Pepperōnin, also real now: Prepare to get sliced

[belldandies]

[kodamacreative]

Deedlit, from Record of Lodoss War

The anime that had an immense impact on me as a kid, the beautiful, unique fantasy blended with mature anime style was opening entire galaxies of imagination in my little mind. Add to it the soundtrack which to this day makes my heart beat faster. Absolutely powerful experience which I'm immensely grateful for being able to live through .

The point of drawing entire life is so I can draw now things that I wanted to draw as a 10 year old kid. Extremely exciting adventure all of it.

[honeyoneli]

[90sfantasyanimestuff]

Source.

[acquired-stardust]

Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth PC 2021