17 yr old autistic artist who loves mitsuba a whole lot!!! she/her, tme, white
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winner of the "most annoying about mitsuba on the internet" award!!! 🎉
hola, faggot!!! welcome to my mitsubaful blog 💗🐶☘️🪱
my name is gigi, also known as ocelotlesbian, and i'm an artist who loves mitsuba from jibaku shounen hanako-kun!!! my pronouns are she/her, i'm tme & white, and i am an autistic autist with autism
on this blog, you will find my illustrations, doodles, writings, photos, and other miscellaneous posts & artwork of and about mitsuba!!! as well as some personal things not necessarily about mitsuba, but it's mostly mitsuba, because as you can tell, i really love mitsuba!!! :3 mitsuba is my special interest, favorite character, adopted child, and reason for living!!! <3 if you'd like to follow along with my mitsubaful activities, then please do!!! i'd love to have you here 💗🐶
info 2 kno:
-> i am ok with people using my art for pfps, edits, or whatever else, as long as you say it was made by me and it's not for any commercial purposes. i'm just happy people like my art enough to use it lol :3c also feel free to let me know when you use my art, it makes me happy!! just @ me or drop an ask lol
-> i am also okay with people sending basically whatever into my askbox, including art requests!! there's no guarantee i'll draw your request, but don't be afraid to ask. i don't bite (without reason) 🐱👍
-> speaking of my askbox: send me an ask or question about mitsuba and i'll love you forever 🪿🌈💗 seriously do *not* be shy about talking mitsuba in my inbox, i'll be happy with literally any question as long as it involves mitsuba!!! <3
-> my commissions are currently closed until i finally sit my ass down and make a new commission sheet. mutuals are still free to hmu tho!!
-> i'm passionate about transfeminism & i have a huge zero-tolerance policy for people who are weird about transfems, and i will block you if you are. transmisogynists need to get off my blog, you are NOT mitsubaful!!!! seriously though i hate each and every one of you
-> this blog is rated TV-14 and on occasion might contain potentially sensitive content not suitable for certain viewers, including but not limited to: strong language, art with gore & horror elements, sexual topics, and other shit too idk. i don't shy away from reblogging & talking about whatever i feel like on here, so be mindful!!
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with all that out of the way, enjoy your stay, send me mitsuba if you want to make my day!!! 💗 ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ gigi out 🐎
this is not an original observation by any means, but it’s infuriating to see people casually throw around the argument that pre-colonial societies all had these expansive and accepting gender norms, and their evidence for this is from anthropologists who “discover” trans women existed throughout history and proclaim look! this culture has an ambiguous third gender of cross-dressing [slur that hasn’t been used in fifty years]. it’s so beautiful how primitive—uh, I mean pre-colonial societies had so many mysterious and diverse genders
on this mitsuba monday, let us all be reminded that mitsuba is the cutest girl in class!!! she said so herself, so it must be true!!! have a wonderful mitsuba monday 💗☘️
among the grid-based puzzles, i find myself on two opposing ends of the spectrum. i absolutely adore nonograms, but i am terrified of sudoku. i can solve a 50x50 nonogram easy, but i will cry if you try to get me to solve a sudoku. it also helps that the nonograms make little pictures.....,,, anyway i wonder if mitsuba would like nonograms :3 mitsuba deserves lots of fun nonograms to solve!!!!! ☘️💗🐶
it's weird how there's this perception of OCD as the "cleanliness" disorder where people still consider OCD behaviors to be like, rooted in some rational and correct (but overshot) trajectory toward objectively sanitary conditions, if that makes any sense? like there was a reddit post about somebody's roommate who had an extremely biohazardous room and a few commenters mentioned that OCD might be a factor based on her other behaviors, and a bunch of non-OCD-havers were like "what??? but it's objectively not clean??? there's so much bacteria in there???"
like idk how to tell you that the disorder gives you disordered thinking. disordered thinking is not rational. and there are absolutely things that trigger 1 person with OCD but do not matter to another, because your OCD can latch on to literally anything.
i may be poking the hornet's nest with this one, but i saw someone speaking on how they thought it's odd that people make the assumption that both aida and iro are women. i also don't know why it is that they're constantly referred to as both she within the fandom, so i stepped back and thought about it a little. (if somewhere they HAVE revealed their genders and i've missed it, lmk!)
as a disclaimer, of course there's nothing inherently wrong with doing this! this isn't a call out post for anyone or anything! i really just think it's a fascinating look into the space that should be examined a little.
of course, lots of mangaka who've produced extremely well known works are women. out of many professions, i get the sense that the gender ratio of mangaka is far more even than in many others. some well known examples of female mangaka are arakawa hiromu (fullmetal alchemist), shirahama kamome (witch hat atelier), toboso yana (black butler), q hayashida (dorohedoro), and urana kei (gachiakuta).
as i think aida's artstyle is the main reason why people make the assumption they're women, i pointed out q hayashida and urana kei in particular because of their artstyles being extremely grungy.
i think it might just be more comfortable subconsciously for a lot of people to assume that both aida and iro are both women. as i said, this is a fine thing to do as there's definitely a good chance they both might be! but examining why that assumption is being made feels important.
is it because of aida's artstyle being very cute, and something about a man drawing like that feels strange deep down? is it because, despite its shonen genre, jibaku shounen hanako-kun is a story about a romance and it's assumed that a woman would be most interested in writing a story like that? is it because the more raunchy parts like hanako flipping yashiro's skirt and other jokes feel more 'okay' if it's a pair of women making and illustrating them?
there's just some really interesting subconscious biases that may be at play here. personally, i think it's most respectful to refer to both of them as they wish until they make the choice to do so otherwise. a pair of anonymous they/them's.
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edit: dug up a bit more info! i'm still hesitant to assign any gender to them because there might be things lost in translation, and even this website refers to them as a female and male duo via google translate, but this is a very interesting website. i... am still gonna hit the 'they' button because MAN. THAT'S WAY EASIER THAN GOING ON A RABBIT HOLE HUNT. MAYBE IM NOT INVESTED ENOUGH.
i think it's rather shallow to attribute this assumption to art style rather than the text of the series itself. many many many male mangaka have cutesy art styles, i mean hell, look at tezuka osamu, and i don't think anyone has a problem with that. rather, i think people assume aidairo are female because the story itself is so heavily one that is focused on the experience of girls and women, to the point it's difficult to believe it could've been made by men instead. not to generalize, actually i do mean to generalize because i'm a feminist buzzkill, but most men are misogynistic in one way or another, or simply don't have the experience of being a girl and don't care to understand that experience, and this heavily bleeds into a lot of manga created by men. so i think many people rightfully assume aidairo are female when presented with a story that so heavily focuses on such realistic depictions of teenage girlhood, and the desires of those teenage girls being centered as the driving force of the story. jshk is a girl's story in many ways, and i think that's why people assume the authors are female more than anything. but that's just my take of course ^_^
and as a bonus, shijima, who if you ask me is somewhat of a stand-in for aidairo, being an artist creating fictional worlds and having complex feelings on it, is female!!! and author stand-ins of all kinds tend to reflect that author's gender.
but anyway that's just my opinion on this matter, i just saw this post and felt the need to bring this up, because jshk's fundamental love and understanding of girls is something i hold very dear, and i believe it's a big aspect of how other people view the series, and subsequently its authors, as well ^_^
trying to redraw my pfp mitsuba into something that reflects my current art a bit better :3 i love my pfp but it's two and a half years old and my mitsubas have improved leaps and bounds since then!!! so it's time for a change i think!!!!
haaaaaaaaahh feeling unsatisfied with my blog rn.... i REALLY wanna organize my mitsuba posts more but i don't wanna go through my entire blog either :( uuuuughghghhghghghg
