#random sm fandom

[keyofjetwolf]

The year is 2025 and I love this fucking feral little goblin of a website.

[keyofjetwolf]

We love a moment of random wallpaper synchronicity.

[keyofjetwolf]

I'm working downstairs today as I make some changes to my office setup. This random wallpaper choice could not be more perfect for my day, thank you, Universe.

[keyofjetwolf]

I'm sad. I just got in an argument with some Sailor Moon fans. I said that the animation and art of Sailor Moon slowly improved as the series went along. I said that Classic and R are visually appealing due to a fundamentally attractive art style (nice character designs, cute eyes), but backgrounds and stuff look more cute and simple compared to later seasons, which gives it a charmingly quaint and retro feeling. I said that SuperS and especially Stars are luscious and beautiful, and

have much more fluid animation and are all-around pretty than early episodes. I got flamed to hell and back, with several people telling me that I'm a dumb kid that can't appreciate old anime, and that I must be blind because there's no difference between 1992 Sailor Moon and 1996 Sailor Moon. I am sad.

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I am about to sound unsympathetic as hell, oops, but for real my dude, THIS IS SO NOT A THING TO BE SAD ABOUT. Sounds like the group you were interacting with have no sense of proportion and aren't interested in discussion, so mostly, I'd say just be glad you found that out sooner rather than later and move on. It's a big Internet and Sailor Moon's been actively talked about on it for the past 25 years, it won't be hard to find another group of fans to chat with.

Also, their opinions are objectively wrong. Later seasons were fueled by all that sweet, sweet Moon Stick money, so there.

[keyofjetwolf]

This blog is getting a little boring, Jet. Quick, say something controversial!

UHH UHHHHH SAILOR MOON ONLY SURVIVED IN THE PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS TO ITS 25TH ANNIVERSARY BECAUSE OF THE NON-MANGA VERSIONS AND THEIR ENTHUSIASM FOR THE CHARACTERS AND IDEAS AND WILLINGNESS TO EXPLORE THEM IN THEIR OWN WAY AND IF THE FRANCHISE INSISTS ON DOING NOTHING MORE THAN FAITHFULLY REHASHING THE MANGA DARK KINGDOM ARC SAILOR MOON WILL DIE A QUIET DEATH AND ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY WILL COME AND GO AND REMAIN UNMARKED

[keyofjetwolf]

What if shortly after Stars Ami accidentally got drunk like Usagi and completely trashed Rei? “Inside my head I sometimes laugh at how you pretend to be elegant when you stuff your face full of as much food as Usagi”. “Beautiful enough to get crowds of men coming to the shrine and turn women gay, all of these schemes to make money, but nothing to show for it.” “I laughed harder than anyone when you tripped carrying your shopping bags”. Among other things.

Anonymous asked: What if some time shortly after Stars Ami starting taking from HGH to boost energy levels, make it easier to get through the day, got kind of jacked for a girl from swimming without the others fully noticing. Then one day when Usagi/Rei had a fight, Ami felt like they were interfering with her studies by making too much noise. Then Ami just grabbed them both to make them stop and was like “Brahs, there are going be some changes around here. No more fighting”. Would they be scared and listen?

So what I’m hearing is, “What if some time after Stars, we replaced Ami with an entirely different character but just kept calling her Ami.” Which is a bit of a dramatic response to character frustration, but I’m not sure I would’ve defaulted to “Ami has roid rage”, so points for thinking outside the box.

[keyofjetwolf]

I hate how the manga sucks mamoru's dick but i can't blame takeuchi for writing this self indulgent fantasy about her perfect husband because her actual husband is apparently a dick.

I know somewhere between fuck and all about Takeuchi’s personal life. I know she HAS a husband, and that husband is also a manga writer/artist, but there’s where my knowledge ends and ignorance begins. So while I’m using this as a springboard, nothing in the following is specific commentary or authority about Naoko Takeuchi’s life and experiences, about which, as just stated, I know nothing.

It’s interesting to me, in that way we can become interested in things that we can’t understand, how, in a sea of fascinating and diverse female characters, some women still have a particular (often repeated) tendency to single out and focus on a man. It makes no sense to me, just none at all. I’m not saying male characters can’t be awesome, or there’s some inherent flaw in ever enjoying a male character above a female character. But you hang around people as they drift through enough fandom circles, you begin to notice patterns. This is something I’ve seen pop up again and again and again. Why they keep going there is a question I’ve wondered, and come back to now and again when my mind is wandering, or happens to be sparked in that particular direction.

You writing this, Anon, did that for me. I’ve mulled over this Ask since you sent it, thinking about it, wondering whether it was worth even bringing up. AND MAYBE IT’S NOT I DUNNO. But apparently it’s a conversation starter I feel like finally tossing into the world.

Specifically, you got me there with this Ask, because I wondered at the correlation you were suggesting. That because Takeuchi’s husband “is a dick”, her fixation on Mamoru made sense. Not that she left her husband, or found someone less dickish, or decided marriage wasn’t for her. But that she became fixated on a fictional character of her own creation, to the detriment of every other character and the story itself (IN THE OPINION OF THIS JET WOLF), because an actual man in her actual life was disappointing.

Whether any of that is true of her husband, I neither know nor, honestly, care. Far more interesting to me is this core idea, that women do perhaps focus on these male characters, because on some level there’s this NEED to believe a man like them is possible, that he could exist.

Historically, men are -- and I don’t think I’m being particularly controversial when I say this -- really fucking shitty to women. You name it, they’ve done it. I’m personally to the point where there’s nothing I could learn about any man who has ever lived that would genuinely surprise me. Of all men throughout my life, my grandfather was the best man I’ve ever known. I love him like I have few people. And if someone told me tomorrow that he’d sexually assaulted their grandmother, I wouldn’t necessarily accept it unquestioned as stone cold truth, but I WOULD be like, “Fuck, I dunno, maybe?”

That’s just the reality of our experiences, and our mother’s experiences, and her mother’s experiences,and so on down through our collective history. Which isn’t to say it’s just the way it is and men are incapable as a sex of better, just that we’re sure as hell not there yet, and none of us are completely free from the times in which we live.

So -- she asks herself hypothetically and also apparently out loud today -- is that maybe why this focus? A focus which, in the personal opinion of this Jet Wolf, is completely illogical? This drive to center our fictional worlds around the men we don’t see anywhere near enough in the real one?

NO FUCKING IDEA. Intended or otherwise, however, thank you for giving me another thing to chew over on this, Anon.

[keyofjetwolf]

hi im minako aino and this is jackass (motions to rei)

I hear you, but must say that this works better for me if you replace Rei with Haruka, see also, this Doodle.