Currently a fan of: Miraculous Ladybug, Cardcaptor Sakura, Princess Tutu, Fruits Basket and a bunch of other stuff! Feel free to talk to me about anything though! Enjoy your stay!
Remember when Lil Nas X beautifully explored his sexuality, seduced and killed the devil to the banger of all time, and instead of cheering on this openly gay and proud Black artist for his artistry and fighting back against respectability politics, suddenly said respectability politics was all the Queerest Place on the Internet cared about? Hm. Wonder what happened there.
Anyway I miss him and hope he's doing better with his mental health đđž
Like say what you want about "bad queer representation", but this was the song that made me openly and happily accept that I was bisexual. To see him up there Black and beautiful, making music that I love, absolutely killing it? Yeah. You couldn't tell me shit. This man made me proud to be out. "This will make them think we're evil for being gay" hey newsflash dawg-
iâm really sorry about my behavior. you see, growing up, my family- *remembers blaming all my problems on other people is really annoying and unhealthy* i mean. i am responsible for all the evils of this world and i bear sins like the sky bears the stars
Once you start noticing how the incapacity to handle discomfort affects how people live their lives it's actually pretty shocking how it ruins pretty much every conceivable aspect of existence. Interpersonal relationships, romantic and platonic. Career and education opportunities. Your politics Your willingness to go anywhere. The kind of food you eat. The kind of art you expose yourself to and your ability to read it. It's never just one thing, it touches everything, and once you notice it it's like suddenly being able to see germs or something. Just this horrific catastrophe people look at you askance for screaming about. As I grow older and see what became of my friends and peers who could not learn to handle discomfort, the more I'm like. This is a genuine societal issue
"what if the creators made a secret good finale but the studio buried it and released an intentionally bad finale instead, and if we lobby hard enough they'll release the real finale" is always the most insane fandom conspiracy theory but like. Let me tell you. LET ME TELL YOU. It was true one (1) time, and that's the only time it'll ever be true, and being on the internet when the Secret Good Finale actually dropped, and was actually good, and everybody but me and my friends had to eat crow? Legitimately felt like being King Of The World. I understand why every other fandom is always chasing that high but unfortunately Zack Snyder's Justice League will never happen again
the bosses are allowed creampie while the workers are punished for a simple little hickey. in this essay i will examine sexual politics through the lens of Marxian analysi-
Tutu polyphon
Around 40 characters are represented. Translations and more close-ups under the cut.
To fit with the episode 14 character NyÄjinsky (after Vaslav Nijinsky), the other real-life names are animalized as well (mostly in Japanese or English, like Gutenberg to Goosenberg, Taglioni to Toraglioni, etc.), so I included them with the German translations. And I donât speak German, so feel free to correct me on anything.
Blumenwalzer = Waltz of the Flowers
Nussknacker und MausekĂśnig = The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
E. T. A. Hooffmann = E. T. A. Hoffmann
D. D. Druckerpresse = D. D. + printing press
Schwanensee Quellenforschung = Swan Lake Sources and Influences
Der geraubte Schleir = The Stolen Veil
Johane KÄrl Auspist Musäugurs = Johann Karl August Musäus (hane = feather, kÄ = crow sound/ auspice and augur [bird omens] might be hard to pick out of the others)
Die weiĂe Ente = The White Duck
Alewander Arfaunasyip = Alexander Afanasyev (wan = dog sound)
Schwanenjungfrau Folklore-Traditionen = Swan Maiden Folklore Traditions
UmazurakĹmorinosuke (episode 21 bat. His name in the credits is pretty funny, as heâs a hammer-headed bat, so heâs umazura [horse-faced], kĹmori [bat], then nosuke, a suffix that gives off an assistant/administrative/old-timey vibe [it was originally a title used for samurai working as government officials in the Edo era], hence him being an assistant at the library circulation desk).
Der MärchenkĂśnig: Ludcyg II. Biografie = The Fairy Tale King: Ludwig II Biography (cyg = cygnus [swan]. This influence is partially debatable, as some claims of it are due to Ludwig IIâs 1886 lake drowning, which was after Swan Lakeâs 1877 premiere [but to complicate things, the most common ending is from 1895 libretto, so it remains a possibility with any after]. But Tchaikovskyâs contemporaries did say he was inspired by Ludwig II, who was also known as the Swan King and an infamous Wagner fan and patron. Leading to Swan Lakeâs many Wagner/medieval Germanic legend similarities, like the Siegfrieds in both the Ring Cycle and Swan Lake falsely confess their love to another woman due to the enemyâs magical deception and their unintentional betrayal of BrĂźnnhilde/Odette causes all their deaths, BrĂźnnhildeâs immolation and return of the ring to the Rhineâs waters lifting its curse compared with Odette and Siegfried drowning in the lake lifting the swan maidensâ curse [in later versions], Lohengrin being the Knight of the Swan, Gottfried enchanted into a swan by Ortrud, the relationship between swan maidens and either valkyrie or the Knight of the Swan in folklore, etc. Then, the swan theme is pretty undeniably derived from Lohengrinâs forbidden question leitmotif, and both represent impending tragedy as well).
Eichenbaum von Goldkrone = Oak tree of Kinkan/Goldkrone
Buchleute verboten = Bookpeople-banned (Iâve mostly seen them translated as âbookmen,â but theyâre ĺłć¸ăŽč / tosho no mono, which doesnât specify gender).
Pike Lilie
Trilby; oder Die Fee von Argyll = Trilby; or, The Fairy of Argyll (La Sylphide basis)
Charles Tsunodier = Charles Nodier (tsuno = horns or antlers)
Vorwort = Foreword
Ein Rezept fĂźr âBravo!â Spitzenschuh-Frikassee = A Recipe for âBravo!â Pointe Shoe Fricassee (Rue mentions the legend of Marie Taglioniâs fans eating her shoes in episode 9. Tutuâs costume is also partially inspired by Taglioniâs in La Sylphide).
Marie Toraglioni = Marie Taglioni (tora = tiger)
Nachwort = Afterword
Schottenstoff pas de chat: die Grundlagen fĂźr ein haarfrei Kilt = Tartan pas de chat: The Fundamentals for a (Cat) Hair-free Kilt (pas de chat is a ballet leap meant to look like a cat [chat]).
NyÄjinsky
Scheherausgabe = Scheherazade + publishing (herausgabe)
Das hässliche Entlein = The Ugly Duckling
Honks Chriswigeon Gandersen = Hans Christian Andersen
Goosenberg = (Johannes) Gutenberg
The next part (library checkout card on the right) can only be read on the unskewed version attached at the end.
Buch-Nr. = Book number / P22 / 16.08.2002 / 26.AKT (Akt = ballet act or scene. Used in Tutuâs episode titles)
Verfasser = Author / D. D. Drosselmeyer
Titel = Title / Prinz und Rabe = The Prince and the Raven
Ausgeliehen = Borrowed / Leser = Reader / ZurĂźckgegeben = Returned
Uzura! (Fakir is correcting her writing)
15.AKT Autor 26.AKT (heâs testing out authorâs signatures for his future tragic masterpiece)
10.AKT Waniko 26.AKT / 15.AKT ArmajirĹ 26.AKT / 18.AKT Boayo 18.AKT / 17.AKT Montand 17.AKT / 9.AKT Yagiko-sensei 26.AKT / 19.AKT Lysander 26.AKT
21.AKT Marie und Clara 21.AKT (Two extras listed in the credits. Marie is the main character of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, while Clara is usually her name in the ballet adaptation)
1.AKT Fakir 26.AKT (Itâs supposed to look like his handwriting in episode 23. A cool detail in the show is that when heâs possessed by Drosselmeyer in 25, his handwriting looks different and much more sophisticated)
Schwanz (Uzura drew a picture of Ahiru as a duck and tried to write the word for âtailâ [Schwanz], but instead wrote the word for âswanâ [Schwan], so Fakir added in the Z)
the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.
fucked that you canât fix other people especially when you really care about them. Oh so im just supposed to be there for you while you suffer. like a useless cunt gargoyle