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Okay, first you must understand that when Sailor Moon was being shown on like...”Toonami,” I was in high school, and it was like...one of the few anime that got any real public press or had merchandise you could buy at actual stores in the mall, and it was special for that reason, because BACK IN THE DARK AGES OF MY YOUTH, this was my first time seeing anime, this thing I loved so much, as more than a niche culture oddity. People knew about it.
I liked it, my friends and I assigned each other Sailor Scouts, and for a little while I read a lot (read “a lot” as “what was available at the time on like...SM-specific websites in webrings, haaa) of Sailor Moon/Mars fic? But I’ve never seen the unedited version of the show, and while I have a lot of fondness for it on a whole lot of levels...it’s not a big deal for me.
But again, it was and is for a lot of people who I love very much, so that’s awesome, and I’m happy for them. <3
...also I was Sailor Mars and my best friend was Venus.
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Um...I wish there was a “I didn’t care for it?” option? Because I didn’t see much of it, and I didn’t hate it, but like...to me it felt like a semi-smarmy over-the-top Cowboy Bebop knock-off and it was exhausting to look at or even try to follow. I also wasn’t thrilled by the character design, but I’m notoriously picky about that.
So again...I probably should have given it more of a chance, and it sounds like it might be a lot of fun? Or at least it makes people happy, which is great! But I was generally kind of “mreeehhhhhh *hand wave*” about it.
for the anime question....did you ever watch Cowboy Bebop?
I’m about to get myself in trouble with most of the world here, but…
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I remember when “Cowboy Bebop” first came out, and how excited we all were. I had the soundtrack long before I saw it. I still think “Real Folk Blues” is a fucking epic song, and I enjoy tacking “SEE YOU SPACE COWBOY” onto random statements.
And yet…it never hit me on a particularly deep level. It was special to me for a long time because it was, at the time we started dating, my ex-boyfriend’s series of choice, and we watched it together on some of our first dates. I loved Faye’s character design and her plot, and I think I liked Jet?
But it pretty much left no other impression on me whatsoever. I don’t really think about it or care to think about it. I’ve never felt inspired to watch it again in….wow, about 14 years now. I can recognize that it’s super important to a large number of people, and that it was seminal in terms of anime style and storytelling, but like….it’s not for me, and it never really was.
…and god forgive me, but I could not stand Ed. I really, really couldn’t. I’m sorry. I know that makes me a monster. But I never claimed to be anything else.
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...wait, shit, I screwed up, let me try that again...
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You know how sometimes you’re like, “Hey, I’m into this, I like this character, this show is very sweet, glad it doesn’t own my soul” and then something happens *coughcoughSOUSUKEcough* and you’re irrevocably fucked and suddenly you love everyone too much and you’re a marine biologist in your spare time learning about sharks and sometimes you’re all “how did I get here?” but most of the time you’re scraping at any merchandise with your favorite character and answering the door in a towel to get your Free! dolls?
Yeah, it’s like that.
Fucking. I never meant to feel this way. But even before I was Sourin-trash, I really enjoyed the show: the writing, the characters, the art, and the “power of friendship!!!” storyline. I’ve always thought it was a sweet show. And then it punched me in the face and dragged me to an alley and I woke up in a bathtub full of ice with a note to call the police and the fireman and when they got there it was Future Fish and I was still missing organs but I went along with it anyway.
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Okay so...I watched the first episode many many years ago, and what I remember is that I liked half the premise, but the other half seemed to be a strange anime-girl stereotype who was too cutesy and weirdly peed on the floor? Both the friend I was watching it and I were unimpressed, although I think maybe if it had gone further it might have had a lot of things I found appealing.
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I can’t tell from the pictures I’ve seen if it I would like it, if it would creep me out too a point I couldn’t deal with, or if I would like it because it creeped me out? It’s hard to know sometimes. I should probably hunt it down.
Going to go old school on you: Trigun, Weiss Kruez, Ruroni Kenshin, and Kaito St. Tail
OOOOLD SKOOOOOOLLLLLTrigun
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I remember watching the intro like 500 times before the series even came out, and seeing 1 million Vashes at every con. Honestly, it wasn’t completely my kind of show, but a close friend of mine in college loved it, and it meant a lot to him to watch it with me. So I have good feeling toward it because of that.
Weiss Kreuz
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A friend of mine in high school had a weird fixation with cross-dressing Omi, but I never actually saw the show? I had a cute winamp skin with them on it... remember winamp?
Ruroni Kenshin
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Kenshin is one of my favorite anime of all time, it’s number 3 on my top 5 list. It’s the only fandom I’ve ever left and come back to, and reading the manga in Japanese in Japan was a complete thrill. I loved the Kyoto Arc in the show, even the way every fourth episode was clearly animated by like...the third string animators. I love the characters to this day, and it’s because of Kenshin that I made some very important friends. Kenshin forever.
Kaito St. Tail
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I don’t even remember this one. Did it have a girl with a pink dress? O.o
all of the currently unasked questions for the fandom meme. do all of them.
YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND YOU KNOW I AM HELPLESS TO RESIST
Beneath the cut, truths revealed.
D: What was the first thing you ever contributed to a fandom?
Uh, I wrote a Slayers fic that involved them all playing “Strip Truth or Dare Poker.” Which I made up. And it was a mess. But people liked it? And pairaka kindly hosted it on her site. And I was very happy. :FE: Have you added anything stupid/cracky/hilarious to your fandom, if so, what?
...see above. :F
There was also that time I turned Chase into a chinchilla and used a lot of diseases from “The Thackery T Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases.” ...I thought it went rather well, honestly. For me, at least.
Oh, and I made up a pairing: Alsuka. It’s Alphonse Elric and Asuka. Together. At last? Whatever it is, it started as a joke but I’ve actually written fics for it and it’s incredibly near and dear to my heart. So there’s that.
H: Do you prefer real-life TV shows or animated TV shows?
I like them both! I’ve fandomized both, I’ve loved both, I’ve had my heart broken by both... I don’t know that I have a true preference, but when I found SNK, and got back into anime again, it was oddly comforting. Kind of like coming home.
But like, my future fandom tattoo is a combination of my love for Asuka and my love for X-Files. So I feel like both mediums play a huge role in my life.
K: How do you feel about the other people in your current fandom(s).
Shy! Intimidated! And I want to talk to them! But I’m always worried I’m boring or like...I get tired or overwhelmed and then suck at answering messages for a little and then I worry it’s too late or I’m too boring or whatever. I worry about being uninteresting a lot, and that I have nothing to offer people who come by on their fandom journey.
But I’m always here! And even when I don’t know how to respond, please know that each message and follow is regarded like a precious stone. <3
L: Your favorite fanartist/author gives you one request, what do you ask for?
OH GOD THIS IS TOO HARD (also I kinda got to do it the other day and eatingdrawingreading drew me this AMAZING PICTURE OF SOUSUKE and I died)
But...honestly...if it’s a fanartist, I’d probably ask for Asuka. If it’s an author, I don’t even know. It would depend on what author and what I was feeling. Probably some incredibly boring slice of life fic where like...Erwin and Levi get up and go to work then come home and eat dinner and go to bed. Aww yeah, that good stuff.
N: Your favorite fandom (for the people; not the thing you fangirl over).
Attack on Titan/SNK. There’s so much creativity and love, and I’ve met some important people that, even a year on, don’t show any signs of abandoning me and still think I’m worth talking to and that my one fic is worth reading. I know there’s wank around, but I’ve been lucky enough to miss most of it and only gotten to experience people being happy and excited and endlessly thoughtful.
O: Choose a song at random, what ship does it remind you of?
Okay, so I opened itunes and the first song that came up was “Dutch” by Dessa, and because I am a stupid weirdo who ships bizarro trash, my dumb Hitch/Momo (aka “House Otterfuck) pairing is what came to mind.
Q: A ship you’ve abandoned and why.
Kirk/Bones. I really thought that was going to be the be-all and end-all of my ST pairings, but when I couldn’t write for it, when I said Bones was my favorite character but I couldn’t find what I needed in him, it made me very sad. And once I turned around and realized Sulu was there, and got aboard the Kirk/Sulu ship, I never looked back. I may not have always been thrilled in that fandom, but Sulu was a character that suited me so much better and didn’t make me doubt as much.
S: What's a headcanon you have?
In the great hall of the Survery Corps HQ, there’s a big fireplace, and sometimes, when it’s late and night and been a hard day, Erwin and Levi fall asleep together in front of it, and Hanji usually joins them eventually and uses Levi’s ass as a pillow.
T: What are your favorite male/male ships or female/female ships?
In an effort to not just list my OTPs for the nth time, I’ll go with my most recent enjoyments.
Male/male (teh yaoiz):
-Sourin (Free! ES)
-Jeanmarco (SNK)
-Reibert (SNK)
-Eruri (SNK)
-Agron/Nasir (Spartacus)
Female/female (da yuriz):
-Ymir/Christa (SNK)
-Mami/Charlotte (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
-Kyouko/Sayaka (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
-Lucretia/Ilythia (Spartacus)
U: What are your favorite male/female ships?
Aiyaaa, the list goes ever on and on...
-Lina/Gourry (Slayers)
-Zel/Amelia (Slayers)
-Ryouga/Ukyou (Ranma 1/2)
-Alsuka (FMA/Eva)
-Armin/Annie (SNK)
-Jaime/Brienne (Game of Thrones/ASOIAF and this one is like...I’m not necessarily sure I want them to get together? But their relationship is my favorite in the show and the one I’m most concerned about in the next book.)
Y: A fandom you’re in but have no ships from.
MST3K.
I know some people have ships, and like...my fiance and I like to think of ourselves as Crow and Servo, but I don’t actually want Crow and Servo to be shippy together and I just.... it’s a level of something I can’t and don’t really want to comprehend.
Z: What's a ship that you want to ship publicly, but everyone on tumblr hates it so you keep your mouth shut about it?
Honestly, I don’t think I have any? I mean like...the ships I’d want to ship publicly that are deeply weird are the ones that I mentioned and are already crack, and it’s not like I hide it, it’s just that there’s really nothing to post about them. :F
And there’s someone to hate everything somewhere on tumblr, so I’m sure I already ship something someone hates, and whatever, you know? :F
