My Tokugawa Smile and My Garbage Smile

Luci/염라. Early 30s. (She/her). Traditional Marxist. Korean working abroad. East Asian history (esp LGBT+ and religions), analysis of animanga, esp robot/Mahō Shōjo. 日本語を話す。한국말 합니다.

[screenshotsofdespair]

[wearepaladin]

[rui-cifer]

it's so embarrassing to be this basic but it is a coltraine evening

[rui-cifer]

you don't really gotta hand it to any LDP rep ever

[junk-junk-junction]

AD for Metroid Zero Mission, Nintendo Game Boy Advance game released on May 27, 2004. The protagonist, Samus Aran, was played by former TV personality and current member of the House of Representatives, Chisato Morishita.

[sailatina3]

Why do white trans women treat the word doll like its an oppressive label forced upon them... grow up girl. No, no, thats an insult to children....

[sailatina3]

Seriously, whats with the ignorance regarding this term? It's not some cringe shit by cis gays like most queer/tme terminology tends to be. It's a word invented by Black/latina trans women... it's not the death of you. Come on now...

[sailatina3]

Help the crackers are doing this annoying shit in the notes

[plaidos]

[yamada-ryo]

Post: maybe american defaultism on the internet is bad

Very Smart Person on the Internet That Understood the Post: Oh so you want european defaultism? Huh? You know that's just as bad? You're just as bad for wanting european defaultism. Because that's what you want, isn' it? Because you're european, obviously, the whole world is just america and europe

[pokeballvictimcomplex]

Me when I'm a rancid asshole

[pokeballvictimcomplex]

Man like I don't even know how to break down just how fucking stupid this shit is

[pokeballvictimcomplex]

Like if you say stuff like this you have to know that you're both full of shit and being a transmisogniystic prick right. Like you dont actually know what you're talking about from any experience you just have this ironclad conviction that trans women are sex predators because you're stupid and an asshole. You know that you're just making shit up, right?

[rui-cifer]

also like singling out what is (likely) foreign cultural output like this lmao never let it be said that transmisogynists aren't xenophobes too

[parkchanwoohoo]

I hate basketball. Stupid sport for morons. Shouldn't exist. Fuck you Dolan. Football is the correct sport for enlightened people go FIFA and Go Korea

[parkchanwoohoo]

[FromSoft Noun-Verbed Font] FAITH IN BASKETBALL RESTORED

[parkchanwoohoo]

I completely understand sports superstition by the way I was like "The Knicks lost game 3 because that was the first game in the chip where I watched the entire thing without my phone except during commercials" so around the start of q2 I just fully left the room and only occasionally started checking the score on my phone and when the Spurs were up by like 24 I was like "The Knicks lost game 3 because it was the first day where I wasn't working overtime" so I started answering emails 😭😭

[rui-cifer]

now you're a real sports fan with Jinxes

[greelin]

the way this video never ceases to make me genuinely lose my mind for some reason

[toskarin]

Your hatred against hopepunk is truly inspiring i remember your earlier posts about it

I've been on it for years. I was on it when that post reached me shortly after it was made. I will be on it when all memory of that post ozymandias' out of the collective conscious

[toskarin]

at the core I'm just viscerally repulsed by any idea that can be summed up as "art today is degenerate and rude, so what if the REAL subversive narratives are the ones that dare to be comfortable to me" and hopepunk/cottagecore were very pervasive forms of this

[toskarin]

while I understand the impulse to view violence and tragedy as easy to write, it requires a solipsistic view of the world where art is conjured up and presented to you, to make you feel things, to harvest your opinion of it and correct the mistakes of individual voice. people write responses to the world they live in

the urge to view optimism and pessimism as moral virtues with different degrees of ease based on the quantity of them you see around is, fundamentally, an urge to believe that everything which is written was written for you by people who share your inner world, speaking back like desynced reflections of you with their own mouths, who ought to be set on the course of making what you need, because it's what you all need

[rui-cifer]

my problem in general is that I don't enjoy looking at western mass media artistic output that isn't cinema, literature or rare occasional live-action tv show. Original animated show? Butt-ugly art style. Games with original storyline that isn't autobiographical? Boring and somehow even more myopic than autobiographies. Inspired by anime or other East Asian art? Derivative or straight-up meanspirited. It's good thing that I could never get through what I actually like in my lifetime instead because imagine growing up watching the Orientalism Cartoon as the apex of prestige animated tv

[rui-cifer]

we do mostly only get sickos with a solid vision of the franchise making Shin Megami Tensei-inspired RPGs instead of any old hacks though because of its relative obscurity so maybe I should be happy with that.

[rui-cifer]

I could also put a target on my back and say that the shtick of "Ohh here's a billionth earthbound-inspired RPG made by a westerner" was already wearing thin by the time Undertale, much less Deltarune rolled around, but you know what whatever at least Tobias Fawkes actually played Mother games unlike 90% of ppl that say they love Mother/Undertale

[rui-cifer]

Forgive me I am just cranky that the RPG series whose reception in the West even by Japanophiles ended up being "Japan is soooo wacky! Look at these untranslateable* jokes and funny interactions" gets this much leg room. A lot of this is not inherently bad within the game itself of Undertale but after a solid decade+ of this shit you could see why I would be side-eyeing the whole project from the get-go. It's starting from a massive penalty.

*the jokes are very translateable

[rui-cifer]

I could also put a target on my back and say that the shtick of "Ohh here's a billionth earthbound-inspired RPG made by a westerner" was already wearing thin by the time Undertale, much less Deltarune rolled around, but you know what whatever at least Tobias Fawkes actually played Mother games unlike 90% of ppl that say they love Mother/Undertale

[swagophile]

basically due to my contrarian nature i'm not allowed to play deltarune until years after it's finished and the hype fandom cycle and well and truly over cus then i can play it for the first time and appreciate it without wanting to hate on it because everyone around me is talking about it constantly. this is also why i havent watched much of the digital circus yet. you have to understand. this is just what i'm like

[autogynophelia]

I've increasingly been encountering cis "allies" saying they're replacing "woman" in their vocabulary with "AFAB" to be more inclusive of transmascs, e.g. if they're talking about people who get sexually harassed by men. I used to think this was a well-meaning position born of ignorance, but I've discovered that you press them on whether they think transfems get sexually harassed by men, amazingly they will often admit that they know they do. You then ask them to reconsider why they refer to "AFABs", and they just repeat that they want to be inclusive of transmascs.

The only way their contradictory behaviour makes sense is if they understand that transfems are marginalised in much the same ways as cis women, but they just don't care about it. Their solidarity does not extend to us.

[jame7t]

Planet Suckulon 5 has declared war on Earth

[slopgirlier]