…but what if its suddenly 2010 era fandom

anime/manga spoilers, youtube creators, fanfic (ao3) reader, sometimes-writer, memes and shitposting, personal mental health journey

[vertigatari]

something i never understood was the posts that say: “i wish i could go back and read/watch/hear this thing for the first time again.”

i’ve been reading this book called Desiring Bodies: Ovidian Romance and the Cult of Form* and it talks about how a story written during a specific period within their cultural norms will mean vastly different ways in a different period.

going for a bold opinion here for an example, but: Gurren Lagann came out in 2007, and to this day has one of the best non-binary representations in media.

i literally just screenshotted this off the gurren wiki— but for 2007, even falling into all the stereotypical flamboyant gay attributes in the series, they make Leeron Littner, a mechanic who is essential to the story— not just as an intelligent man that helps coordinates all the operations for team dai-gurren— but an important adult figure that guides simon, and especially rossiu in the second half of the season.

but even MORE now that im rewatching the movies for the first time in a while. every sexual joke for Leeron that was in the show was removed from the movie.

think about that, the only times i literally remember Leeron is queer is because i’ve been watching the series since i was 15/16 about 5/6 times a year. im watching these movies to celebrate my 30th birthday…i have this series memorized— IMPRINTED— in my brain.** im waiting to hear all the corny sexual innuendos, but they’ve all been taken out.

in retrospect to the anime to the movie… SO MUCH was removed or reorganized— but they really didn’t have to remove those bits about Leeron, but they CHOSE*** to. and the way they handedly she/they aged like an amazing glass of wine because now looking through MY cultural lenses i’ve grown to learn…Leeron is absolutely non-binary.

im going to leave it at that and just say; if you can watch gurren lagann— series first and THEN the movies to appreciate how they were able to handle Leeron’s entire character.

[localvoidcat]

weirdest part about being an artist (and, to an extent, a writer too) is feeling like. shameful that you aren't creating massive pieces of art. how dare i not line and color and shade every drawing. how dare i only draw two poses. how dare i only write 1k words. how dare i not write an entire book. how dare i

[localvoidcat]

(looking at the near 1k pieces of art in my folder and the thousands of words in my notes) you know i just don't think i do enough actually

[anime-as-textposts]

[juniperarts]

Question is did Hobie find the graffiti or did he make it? 🤭

Based off of this classic meme

[collisiondiscourse]

fashionista kings

// one of my many pieces for cat's cradle

[rrogueamendiares]

what do you mean it didn't go like this

[habken]

Miles and Deku would be best friends! I know it!!

[wedarkacademia]

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

[virusphanau]

Dan’s coming out is endlessly interesting to me. Not only the extent to which it was stage managed in amongst the other real life crap they had going on (tours, house purchases) but also the knife edge line he walked between

a) wanting to be able to come out and

b) not wanting to reveal anything at all about his relationship with Phil.

This could very easily have come across as “I’ll come out as gay but I won’t admit that I’m dating *him*” Instead, what this magnificent bastard managed (and continues) to do is put Phil up on a pedestal as the Best Person in the World while keeping it crystal clear that their privacy is paramount, yielding nothing he doesn’t want to. Amazing scenes.

(And make no mistake, they are together. At this point it’s borderline homophobic to tiptoe around and say ‘well actually they’ve never confirmed’. They spent 4 years designing and building a perfect mansion together. ‘Dan doesn’t like people speculating’ He was talking about detail speculation like who tops. I’m not shouting PHAN IS REAL in his face personally. I’m also not interested in collecting internet brownie points for straining to avoid the obvious)

[danandphilupdates]

phil tweet

28/6/23

[deadandphilgames]

cannot stop thinking about dan saying he doesn’t want to settle down because “what would that even look like?” as if he isn’t living in a custom built home with the same guy for 14 years. i would love to study him, the cognitive dissonance is remarkable

[treestomeetyou]

phil lester did not just look at his neurodivergent audience and go “tell me about your favorite thing”

[vertigatari]

sincerely he severely underestimated us but also @amazingphil pls watch gurren lagann that is my favorite anime

[rustygateofme]

[vertigatari]

okay when did the tumble app update cause?? this is nice??

[pinof]

Why I Don't Want Kids

[danielhowell]

okay i appreciate you all but i just feel some things i say don't need to be immortalised in gifs i am so sorry

[amaranthdahlia]

at that moment

there were no thoughts

in my head

my body . . .

. . . just moved on its own.

[kingofthegophers]

GET HIS ASS RITSU