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#TOXIC YURI HEIGHT DIFFERENCE

blaithnne · 1 month

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ok i forgot that goldie isnt canonically 5'1 on a good day so i have to restructure this ask

1) thoughts on short goldie

2) is heron short also

3) (contingent on answers 1 and 2) thoughts on scrooge and beakley both falling for tiny evil women

1) & 2)

I think the toxic yuri polycule height chart is something like this—!

They all wear heels so it’s not exact (also I whipped this up in like 5 minutes lol)

Huifen is tall, she’s a black heron after all, and though they’re not the tallest birds ever they’re still pretty long! But she looks short standing next to Beakley, because everyone does (also I undersized her a little bit in my first human drawing by accident, whoops). Goldie is a short queen LMAO, she’s not minuscule, only slightly shorter than the average person, but she looks tiny next to these two (she might be slightly shorter than I drew her here, idk, I struggled to scale her LOL). Scrooge, for the record, is around the same height as Goldie!

In terms of their builds btw, Beakley is, obviously, very muscular! Though she might seem like a tank, she’s actually very soft — big ol squishy teddy bear! Heron on the other hand is a gangly mf, long, skinny, and sharp. Goldie is sort of in between them, an hourglass build like Huifen, but with more muscle on her (not half as much as Beakley, though).

Heron might not be tiny but Beakley treats her like she is, picks her up like a feral cat when she’s being too much 😌 Scrooge and Goldie only have a very slight height difference, but I think he’s very smug about it lol

Also, my funniest headcanon ever is that Beakley has a thing for bad girls, and she HATES IT. She’s so embarrassed about it and fully intends to take it to her grave. This also leads to her hating the aforementioned bad girls even more, bc she’s so frustrated with herself for liking the in the first place. So Beakley can spend 24 hours a day ranting about how much she hates someone, and be blushing the entire time. All this to say, Beakley might not technically have a leg to stand on when it comes to criticising Scrooge’s relationship, but that doesn’t stop her.

I think they’re both massive hypocrites about it, bc they wanna protect eachother despite the other really not needing the help. They’re also endlessly frustrated with eachother’s toxic Yuri partners. Beakley to a much bigger degree because she definitely has a thing for Goldie, which only makes her hate her even more. Scrooge is more annoyed by Beakley and Heron than anything else bc he just does not understand what the hell is going on there, but he’ll also occasionally be all,

In conclusion, Beakley and Scrooge being a disaster sibling duo is my favourite thing ever. Scrooge is practically immortal, nothing can take him down. Beakley is a walking tank, she could walk off a bullet. They looked at eachother and went “that idiot needs me to protect them from their own love life” and they were kind of right??

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fxirycxr3 · 1 month

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no one caresss but i’m presenting some Brit Stevenson Yuri for the masses because you SHOULD care ^=^ !!!!

Brit x Cecilia

Truly my number one Brit ship outside of pintshipping the height difference,,,, the toxicity they are bending over tables and breaking doors do u hear me

Brit x Amanda

I do not think they would get along lmao but i do think they would be frustratingly attracted to each other and would end up in a begrudging relationship. Brit would take such joy in being Mandy’s sugar mommy

Brit x Perez

I have posted about this once before but i do think Perez should be given the night of her life by a bitchy business woman actually !

Brit x Jill

When i tell you i have been thinking about this literally all day. it sort of has the cecilia/Brit energy but more passive aggressive than anything. I think they would get along so well and are actually pretty similar really i just need to see them scheme

Pintshipping!!

Yuri to me 💘

#can u tell i love her and think about her often #grrr i need cecilia brit content pls pls pls #saw #sawposting #brit stevenson

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sayitwithsarcophilus · 1 month

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I saw someone talking about "I appreciate the ecological benefits of a diversified lawn, but I live in tick country and high grass is a Very Bad Idea," and it made me wonder what lawns were like in their area. Mowing itself does not kill weeds! And even if they were talking about letting the non-grass plants get big enough to flower so the pollinators can actually benefit from them, there are plenty of fun plants that are either naturally low-growing (I'm defining "low-growing" as "shorter than a pulled-up crew sock") or can be mowed down to that height without injuring them.

This list will focus on the temperate zone because that's the only place I've lived.

Sweet alyssum: this is a garden flower, so you probably shouldn't expect it to stand up to too much foot traffic, but I have seen it in lawn mixes. It's a cute, obliging hardy annual adapted to a variety of temperate climates, smells good, self-sows, and is attracted to pollinators.

Wild violets/Johnny-Jump-Ups: Yuri flowers! Many species of cute little pansy-shaped things found all over the temperate regions of Eurasia and the Americas. Adapted to a wide variety of biomes, although many of them like some shade. Some are edible and I haven't heard of any that are dangerously poisonous, but look up your specific species before you start chomping.

Clover: Red clover is pretty and useful but probably too rangy if you need to keep your lawn below the top of your socks. White clover and hop clover (the tiny yellow ones) are more compact. Bees love it.

Vetch: There are hundreds of vetches out there, some of them way too big for our purposes, so we'll focus on the little weedy ones. These guys are members of the bean family (closely related to lentils and fava beans) with pretty sweet-pea-like flowers in a variety of colors. The most common variety where I live is fuchsia, but there's also a tiny species with pink and cream flowers. Being legumes, they're nitrogen-fixers.

Speedwell: Several species of low-growing plants of the genus Veronica with little blue flowers. Add some variety to your lawn's color palette.

Prunella/Purple Dead-Nettle: These are technically two different plants from two different genera, but apparently the plant I've known since childhood as Prunella looks more like Purple Dead-Nettle? Well, neither of them are toxic, so there's no great practical hazard to mixing them up. These are members of the mint family (but don't smell minty), modestly attractive in an herby kind of way, hardy and adaptable but easier to weed out of where you don't want them than mint proper tends to be.

Mint: Mint can get a bit gangly, but once it's well-established it doesn't mind being mowed - and it does smell wonderful after being cut or trampled! Potentially invasive.

Wild strawberries: If the wild strawberries native to your area reliably bear fruit, congratulations! Mine do not. But they're picturesque little plants anyway.

Chickweed: A sprawling plant with long gangly stems and tiny white flowers. Edible, and one of the traditional seven herbs in Japanese New Year congee.

Oxalis: Cute little shamrock-looking plants (although they're more closely related to starfruit than clover). Wild specimens can have green or dark red foliage. There are cultivated varieties with more spectacular flowers.

English daisies: tiny little daisies. The wild variety has white single flowers with yellow centers, but I've seen the cultivars (bigger fluffier flowers in various shades of pink as well as white) also do well in a lawn.

Buttercups: buttercups like wet feet, and add a cheery touch to any particularly moist or poorly drained parts of your yard. Some of the wild species are potentially invasive, so keep an eye on them for possible unseemly expansionist tendencies.

All these plants will give your lawn a picturesque charm, feed the butterflies and bees, and (hopefully) camoflage the dandelions and plantain.

#gardening

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hekateinhell · 2 months

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Your very specific brand of Armand/Lestat toxic yuri compels me so much! Although lbr even OG male!Armand and Lestat have toxic yuri vibes going on 🤔probably has something to do with all the yearning and the tantrums and the LACE 🥹

LOVED your qotd entry needless to say. So slutty, so gritty yet delicate, so them/you. I listened to Lana del Rey as I was reading it because it felt right. ENRICHMENT, from start to finish. I genuinely love how this whole event has brought us together as a fandom lmao, leave it to the vc community to be at each other's throats constantly over mlm pairings yet the second femslash is involved, we're all blood sisters. AS IT WAS WRITTEN. Always your biggest fan xoxo DA ❤️

🥹🥹🥹

DA, HI BABE I MISSED YOU!!!!!!

I'm so glad you liked the fic!!! I had such a blast and perhaps five different meltdowns writing it. ♥️

I wasn't sure how the fic would be received because I know femslash isn't big in this fandom (though hopefully we're starting to change that!) and L/A isn't one of the juggernaut ships in general and it's an AU, so I really was just writing for me and the girlies (gnc) with this one! LOL I love L/A! I love women! I love playing in and outside of canon! 🤧♥️ (btw I'm still planning to write 1-2 chapters more for this fic so if there was anything in particular that you enjoyed or you would like to see, just let me know and I would love to include it or include something with the same vibe 🥹)

Although lbr even OG male!Armand and Lestat have toxic yuri vibes going on 🤔probably has something to do with all the yearning and the tantrums and the LACE 🥹

Oh my god, now you have me wondering if that is why this ship hits so fucking hard for me! PLEASE give me all the yearning and tantrums and lace 🥹 it's Wuthering Heights, it's Saltburn, it's Much Ado About Nothing, it's Girl Interrupted.

I love that you were listening to Lana lmao so was I when I was writing it! Blue Velvet, Love, and Get Free. But also Cigarettes After Sex and Perturbator just to rotate vibes.

I genuinely love how this whole event has brought us together as a fandom lmao, leave it to the vc community to be at each other's throats constantly over mlm pairings yet the second femslash is involved, we're all blood sisters.

I'm so happy with the way our first Queens of the Damned went and I'm so proud of @lovevamp for coming up with the idea in the first place and having all the prompts and everything ready to go in under 14 hours!!!! It's her baby and we're so lucky to have her in our fandom bringing us omegaverse and femslash and all the good things 🥹🥹💕💕

Thank you so much for dropping by babe—I'M YOUR BIGGEST FAN 🫶🏼

#hope you're well and the universe gives you a break from Adulting soon! 🤧#you ask and hekate answers #dungeon anon #<333333 #r63 armand/lestat

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toxicyuribracket · 5 months

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YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH... OBVIOUSLY I DIDNT SUBMIT THEM HERE CUZ THIS IS TOXIC YURI BUT I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

some of the only times we see shion smile are when tenshi is with her!!!!

(text bubble on the last one says "height difference")

WAH,, They're so sweet. The height difference between them is also so cute omg.

#asks

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brookiidookiii · 6 months

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as the self proclaimed joeather anon (if you look at the joeather tag on tumblr most of those asks are me. sorry). you want headcanons.... i dont have many but.

1. T4T LESBIAN BLAST !

2. i can imagine them being the type to argue with lots of tension and then they just kiss at the end

3. everyone around them thinks they're really annoying together. toxic yuri ❤️

4. they both remind me of cats for some reason

they hate each other so bad IUGGHJKJHVC. HEAVy on the second one. poor gwen has to listen to them scream and argue in the girls side of the cabins. theyre so dysfunctional i love them kjhgfvghjlk. eventually they enter a situationship where theyre not sure whats going on but theyre both evil malicious plotting ladies so it doesnt matter. we were ROBBED of these two putting aside their differences and making an alliance and kicking off alejandro. there was so much potential!!!! AND EVEN BETTER they betray each other at some point ohhhhhhh my god!!!!!

also also jo likes to tease heather bc shes way taller than her but thats js her way of flirting. idc what anyone says in my mind theres a big height difference between heather and jo. heathers already 5'11 and jo STILL manages to tower over her oh god

#joeather #total drama #ask

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youreaclownnow · 19 days

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O, P, and X for the Fandom questions! 😃

Oversharing for the askbox meme prompts tonight!! Without further ado, here is a huge block of text

(*^▽^)/★*☆♪

O: for a ship song I am choosing edge by reol bc it is just so domasia to me. Ofc I had to choose one for my truest OTP of all time here. https://youtu.be/FpwYVKN4w2U?si=vkRnHqOu_gIXBMUO

This was the first song that I came across after starting to ship it that made me really go "holy fucking shit... my otp"

Also I just really like reol

P: au time! I have done this in the form of the crackerbarrel posting but as far as non mostly a shitpost aus go I've been seriously considering a cracked out idea that is, combining the lore for fire force and g gundam and making some fucked up combo world where 90% of the events of each stay the same.

I really think it could work. The idea came to me like a vision when super stoned one day it was like I got a visual overlay of the events of both shows but overlayed above the other appearing in my head and it clicked into place.

X: 3 otps from 3 different fandoms

Gundam

THE otp of ALL TIME: domasia

I've been going fucking insane over them for the past 7 months. Hundreds of drawings, an even larger amount of screenshots, I've watched ep 45 over 100 times at this point and ep39 around 50 times and the full shinjuku arc (12-17) at least 20 times, not to mention the fucking gunpla and other assorted merch I've acquired. Legit I've been sent into an autistic frenzy over this ship like I've never known before. I think about them so much it could qualify as a full time job. The unforseen consequences of finding a pairing that checks literally every box on your list.

Special mentions

Charmuro (I like it best when they are divorced and or at least can't stand eachother. Kissmesitude or bust TBH its really just funny to me.)

Charma (not really heavy into the actual shipping itself anymore, but I was last year. Now it's more of a cultural curiosity for me, it has a rich history that I can't really compare to any other ship I've seen. I find it really interesting and still do love seeing fanworks and such. The cultural impact goes crazy)

As far as actual char ships that I like to think about romantically I gotta say I like char/q- *I am pulled off the stage by my PR team*

Yu yu hakusho

Not in any particular order here

Kurahi (I love hiei and kurama is gay as hell. They have height gap also which I adore immensely. Cute ship and a fun dynamic. Their designs also play really nicely off the other, so whenever I see them next to eachother I get supremely hype)

Sakyo x toguro (I don't think they fuck but I think they have massive unresolved tension that I want to see explored. I think they WANT to fuck, I just don't think either of them would confess it prior to their deaths. Also I do enjoy when elder toguro joins them and acts like a creep. I don't directly ship him with either but I do think he's a freak enough to try some bullshit with both of them anyhow, and I do want to watch such an event)

Yusuke x literally anyone in the show (I don't need to say more about this he's just so extremely shippable it's super funny to me. I've yet to think up a truly awful pairing that includes him)

And for the grand finale!

HOMESTUCK ITS APRIL BITCHES WTF ELSE WOULD I CHOOSE *screams and dies and flops on the ground like a fish out of water*

DAVEREZI (Red hot power couple ngl sickbeatsmaxxed and candypilled)

Stridercest (redacted)

Vrisrezi (now THAT is what I call toxic yuri🥰)

#asks

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yoikami · 6 years

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Get to know me tag~

Thank you @mochi-moss for tagging me~ I appreciate a lot!!

✦nickname? I have a very short name irl so online I get nicknamed Yoi or Ya (from Yayoi, ikr, one or the other, pick your poison).

✦gender? Female, on top of that I love cute things and dresses, I'm quite the girly/flowery/pastely gay potato...

✦star sign? A libra, I may be a witch I have no big interest in star signs ;;;

✦height? Very smol. Most people will tell you they're so small but ahahaha ...cute, I'm more or less 146cm, to give you an idea. The world is so big from my point of view.

✦hogwarts house? I always get Ravenclaw which is just fitting I'd say.

✦favourite animal? Fox!! I love foxes to death and I think they are adorable. I am actually kind of an animal lover anyway, I even try to never kill insects (except for giant hornets killing my bees, f these).

✦favourite colour? Purple and every kind of blues~

✦current favourite song? Chouwa Oto by Kokia <3 I just love mystical songs the best...just like Ar Tonelico's soundtracks or Sound Horizon, Yuki Kajiura's...

✦favourite ways to get creative? Tumblr has honestly became a good source for me to find inspirations from others. Even pretty landscapes put me in the mood for sewing or decorating etc. I also feel motivated whenever I see pictures of people's sewing projects or wips. (I sew plushies and doll clothing).

✦what do you do when you’re alone? Video games all the way, I also like baking, gardening, sewing, listening to music in my garden with my pets, even singing!! I can get creative with my hobbies and might have too many.

✦average hours of sleep? I try my best. 7-8 but with chronic illness every night is going to be a mystery.

✦cats or dogs? Both... I could never chose between my children.

✦number of blankets you sleep with? If I can I have as many as possible, if it's not summer... Tons of stuffed animals, cushions and big blankets.

✦dream job? I don't know anymore ;_; I do dream of reaching a high level in sewing and becoming a pro. My life took a drastic change 3 years ago and I originally planned to even be living in another country by myself but I had to change my mind and give up on some dreams which doesn't mean I can't have new ones!!

✦dream trip? I have yet to make a list since I already went to Japan and Canada and still want to visit them again because these countries are magnificient and like a second home for me now. I want to visit Ireland, Australia, Korea- Actually I'd like to visit as many places as possible ONLY IF they're peaceful enough for me to go to (Tokyo wasn't as draining and toxic as big cities of France where everything gets overwhelming for people with anxiety and disabilities).

✦sexuality? I'm such a mess!! In short I don't really like men in terms of "boyfriend material", I'm proudly gay for sure because women...women are life you know, women fascinate me and more than attraction I also want to stand for them, to not compete because I think it is ridiculous and I just want to tell another girl she is pretty instead of making her think I'm death glaring at her or something? But anyway, I said it's a mess because like my officially straight mother always told me "you never know I might live the rest of my life with a woman, no one knows, we can't decide that" and I thought it was a beautiful way of seeing things. I have currently feelings for someone very very dear to me and this man (yes he is a man, he was confused reading this like a dork!!) could be non-binary, a woman or genderfluid and I couldn't care less, our souls love each others. Oh and I'm asexual!! This might sounds confusing since I do looove women but I'm just not sexual at all, no physical attraction whatsoever. Sexualities can be more complex than it sounds anyway so I just feel like not making a big deal out of it. Tenderness, attraction, sensuality, sexuality, everything has a whole different sense ^-^

✦when did you make this account? Uhh, 4 years ago I assume. It changed a lot and I think I like it the most nowadays, I post more about nature, animals, cute mangacaps of my personal favorites, Yuri on Ice inevitably lol.

✦number of followers? 3,571. I think I've been having the same amount of followers for a whole year or two to be honest. Is it weird? I think a ton of them are actually inactive but regardless I think pretty much all of my followers and mutuals are actually amazing. I also have some followers who've been following me for years!! This is insane, and yes I see you, I ALWAYS notice you :P (I just never really keep track of ppl unfollowing, I think it's best to unfollow someone rather than arguing with them or sending hate mails).

This ended up becoming kind of a novel, as I always do ;;; ✦But thank you again Kit!!✦ (I think your nickname and name is adorable but this is just me ok xD I always thought it was some sort of nickname already. It would be silly if you were a crazy cat lover...). I'm not tagging anyone sorry ;-;

#what do i tag now #i dont remember my tags #tag meme #tag game #reply #answered

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alightinthelantern · 4 years

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Because the decade is ending I’ve been revisiting old interests and past fandoms from when I was a teen, and boy is it a trip down Memory Lane.

Listening to old Vocaloid songs from when I was in high school back in 2010, when I was 15 and new to internet culture, and it was one of the first Japanese culture I ever discovered. Apparently Vocaloids are still a thing? I knew Miku was still popular bc I’d seen stuff in the past year featuring her, but apparently the other Vocaloid characters are too, and there’ve been a whole bunch of new ones introduced in the past decade? I remember when the whole Daughter of Evil saga was being created. I remember all the alt characters people created by taking the main vocaloids and pitch-altering their voice banks. The Vocaloid community was fresh and thriving back then. That was back when Gender-Bending was a staple of fandom culture, and making male “versions” of female characters and vice versa was hugely popular. This was when “Caramelldansen” and “Ievan Polkka” weren’t Classic Memes, this was when they were new, and all the rage.

I remember the Gamecube days, back in the 2000s, and watching my stepbrothers battle my sisters interchangeably on it or the old Nintento 64 they had, in Mario Kart, or Mortal Kombat, or the original Smash Brothers (I, who had terrible hand-eye coordination, wasn’t fit for playing, but was more content to passively enjoy anyway). I remember when the Wii was first introduced (my mother didn’t believe in video games for a long time, and only bought a console for the family about four years later). I remember the GameBoy, I remember the release of the first XBox. I remember the online dress-up doll games. I remember when the Lego Star Wars video game was first released, and being an avid fanatic of those famous bricks as a kid enjoyed watching my siblings play that probably more than than anything else.

I remember how huge the cosplay scene was in the early 2010s, for all kinds of shows. I remember reading Emma: A Victorian Romance by Kaoru Mori with glee as a teen, siting in a bean bag chair in the Teen Area of my local library, because they had a dedicated manga section and had the entire print run. That was back before Borders was bought out by Barnes & Noble and ceased to be, and I’d often sit in the second-floor manga section of my local Borders and read the volumes that caught my eye for a half-hour or more, and the store clerks didn’t care because it was a different world then, a different culture, and I was always a polite, well-behaved kid anyway who always physically respected the books. Apparently the anime adaptation of Mori’s Emma from years ago finally got an English dub in the past year? I’m going to have to track it down and give it a watch.

I remember loving the Romeo x Juliet anime as a teen, that crazy and brilliantly original high-fantasy reimagining of the classic play. I loved that the English dub script was mostly in Elizabethan-era English. I remember Ouran Host Club and Baccano! too, and the first of those being one of the funniest things I’d ever seen in my life at the time. Same with The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. I remember liking Fruits Basket back in 1010, and only realizing years later how fucked up it actually was. I remember Baccano! and Nabari No Ou. I also remember some other shows whose names don’t bear repeating. I remember downloading their OSTs off dedicated websites that no longer exist. I still have these soundtracks in my iTunes library. I remember when burning playlists onto CDs was popular; they finally became obsolete and passé sometime in my high school years, after the rise of mp3 players and programs like iTunes crystallized the superiority of the .mp3, and then people would laugh when I mentioned my own burned CD collection.

I remember when Over the Garden Wall first came out, in 2014, and how groundbreaking it was at the time in terms of what an animated show could be, visually and plot-wise. That show still has a small bud dedicated fandom it seems. I remember the character ask-blogs that were so popular from 2014--16 on tumblr, both ones with drawn replies and ones with live cosplay photos or gifs. God, the ask-blog community was so huge at the time. That might have been the height of tumblr’s popularity, the mid-2010s. I remember DeviantART and the thriving fanart community it had before tumblr took over in the early 2010s. I remember all OCs people were making, and the ask-accounts before ask-blogs were a thing. I remember the roleplay groups. I remember all the fucked-up things people were into back then because the Scene Phase had come but not yet entirely gone, and because teens were emo little shits in general. I remember when anime pairings were written as “[name] x [name]” in full before people started mashing names together around 2014, I remember when words like y*oi and y*ri were the norm. Oh how times have changed. (And thank god they’ve changed)

I remember when the Twilight movies were being made and my high school health teacher put the first movie on in class one day and had the class point out different ways in with the romance was toxic and unhealthy. It’s mind-boggling that in 2019, after The Discourse had come, burned, raged, and gone, that people are still stupid enough to like those films. Even back then I was smart enough to see them for the creepy, badly-written dreck that they were. I remember when The Hunger Games was published (I never read it). I remember the first Hunger Games Movie coming out and the controversy surrounding Jennifer Lawrence being cast as the lead. I remember coming into school one day to find two of my teachers casually debating it (I never saw the movies, and didn’t particularly care about that conversation).

I remember watching an independent showing of Studio Ghibli’s From Up on Poppy Hill in 2015 at a local indie theater, and the audience roaring with laughter when one of the boys at the old club house asked “How can we make archaeology cool again?!” and another replying “We can’t!”, and then a woman in the audience said out loud “Archaeology is cool!”

I remember the birth, life and death of Vine, and despite The Discourse raging on tumblr at the time, the humor on that app was still largely Mainstream and often racist.

I remember Teen Wolf, and Glee, Sherlock and Supernatural and Doctor Who. I remember the emergence of “Superwholock” and the sheer insufferableness of the fandom before they eventually, blessedly died out. I remember the disappearance of shows like J*njou R*omantica and the rise of shows like Free! and Yuri on Ice!!!, Modern “woke” animes that still featured vapid, cliché-driven writing, with Modern “woke” audiences that were puerile-minded and cliché-hungry as ever, the same y*oi fangirls as those that had existed in the early 2010s, only now the shows had done away with the nasty R*pe-As-Romance and replaced it with cringey, ham-fisted pretenses of Realistic Psychology or Social Conscience. And I realized that anime fans my age weren’t worth their salt, and by that time I was too old for anime anyway so I finally dropped it. New animes have come and gone, new live action shows have come and gone, and all the same terrible fandom drama that has burned year after year regardless of show still burns. Same shit, different sewer.

I remember how different online culture was for teens a decade ago. I remember how different real life was for teens a decade ago. Everything has changed so much in the past decade. Teens were children when I was teen. Now, ten years later, teens are like miniature adults, thinking and speaking maturely, socially and politically conscious, wise beyond their years. Racism is acknowledged for the evil it is, and bigoted trolls are no longer socially accepted. When I was a teen, been an edgelord was in, and kids like me who were unusually conscientious were labeled Babies and Oversensitive whenever something didn’t sit right and we voiced objections. Anons telling people to kill themselves was routine. People were violent and ruthless online, and the culture was truly reminiscent of The Lord of The Flies, a cutthroat free-for-all among girls and boys of all ages.

But not anymore: as people keep saying these days, being an Asshole is Out, being Kind is In. Shit like H*zbin H*tel, that would’ve been immensely popular ten years ago, is acknowledged for the violent, vile crap it is. And the language around sexuality and gender has changed so drastically, and has opened up so much. There was no trans content a decade ago in fandom, and Gender-bending, when done to explore the social ramifications of a character as the “opposite gender” (because nothing outside the gender binary existed as far as fandom was then concerned), and not just for titillation, was always cisgendered and done by way of Alternate Universes.

I had a miserable experience as a teen, and I wish that I could have experienced this kind of environment in my formative years rather than the one I did. But although I never did, I am so happy for the teens of today, that they are able to experience this kind of social openness, that they can experience this kind of unity and conscientiousness that exists in a way it never did before. That, even with as bleak and awful as the world is, they are fighting to make it better for themselves. Because it really was them that changed it.

Because, as much as Millennials like to pretend otherwise, we didn’t make the internet culture what it is today, We were edgy shitlord brats who loved laughably bad media, whether it was edgy and featured protagonists who murdered for fun, or maudlin and featured Mary Sue protagonists. We had flame wars over who was “uke or seme” for characters that weren’t even gay. We were nasty piss-stains, and even the teens like me who were better than the rest still had our awful moments. I’ve done and said things as a teen that I’m ashamed of, and no amount of nostalgia can change the fact that fandom and the media it consumed was objectively awful a decade ago. And though “Fandom Moms” and other nasty, disgusting, overgrown-children may be a proud bastion and defenders of the Old Ways, reminiscing about their LiveJournal Days and telling themselves their age is somehow indicative of wisdom rather than how creepy and pathetic they really are, their days are numbered, and I can’t wait to see their +30yo asses slowly die out in the face of progress.

#personal #''Old Radio'' is a good song tho. Kaito was def my favorite as a teen.

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Earth's life

the moon The moon is a large Earth-like satellite, with a quarter of the diameter of the planet. The moon is the largest satellite in the solar system, in relation to the size of its planet, and the orbits around other planets are called moons after the Earth's moon. The gravity between the planet and the moon results in a tidal phenomenon on Earth. This same effect on the moon led to a tidal block: the period of its rotation is the same as it takes to orbit the Earth. As a result, it always faces the planet with only one face. As the moon orbits the Earth, the sun illuminates different parts of its face, resulting in different lunar phases. The luminous part of the moon is separated from the dark part by the solar line between the illuminating part and the dark part. Due to the tidal interactions that occur on Earth's surface, the Moon is about 38 millimeters away from the Sun a year. Over millions of years, these simple changes - in addition to increasing the length of the day on the planet by 23 milliseconds a year - will bring about dramatic changes. For example, during the Devonian Period (about 410 million years ago) there were 400 days a year and each day lasted 21.8 hours. (32) The Moon significantly affects the evolution of life on Earth by helping to moderate the planet's climate. Both ancient biology studies and computer simulations show that the tilt of the Earth's axis and its stability in this situation is caused by tidal interactions with the moon. Some theorists believe that without this constancy in the Earth's axis versus the torque caused by the Sun and other planets on the eclipse at the equator, the axis's rotation may be randomly unstable - leading to massive changes of the planet over millions of years. Like Mars. If the Earth's axis of rotation comes close to the surface of the Sun's apparent circle of circles, it can lead to very harsh weather due to the very large seasonal variations that will occur. Scientists studying planets and celestial bodies who have studied the impact of this on the planet have predicted that this could lead to the death of all large-scale animals and the destruction of plant life. But this is still a subject of controversy, and it may be decided by future studies of Mars - a planet with a period of rotation and inclination of its axis like the planet, but not followed by a large moon, and its core is not liquid. Observing the moon from the planet, it is far enough to appear in the form of a disc with a clear shape like the sun. It is worth noting that the angular size (or stereoscopic angle) of these two objects is identical because, although the diameter of the sun about 400 times larger than the diameter of the moon, it is also about 400 times the distance from the Earth that the distance from the moon from the Earth. This allows a total eclipse and annular eclipse to occur on the Earth's surface. The theory of the impact of the impact of the giant body of the most accepted theories that explain the emergence of the moon. According to this theory, the moon was formed as a result of the collision of a primitive planet the size of Mars called the "Thea" planet Earth in its early stages. This (among other assumptions) explains the relative lack of iron and volatile elements on the moon, as well as the fact that the moon's composition is almost identical to that of the Earth's crust. Earth's life A planet that is fit for life is called habitable even if it does not. The Earth provides the basic conditions necessary for the presence of water and a suitable environment in which organic molecules can accumulate and the energy needed to support and promote food metabolism. Several factors contribute to the conditions necessary to establish life on the planet.These factors include the distance of the planet from the sun, its movement in its orbit, its instability, its rate of rotation, its deviation from it, its geological history, its permanent atmosphere and its protective magnetic field. biosphere Life forms on the planet are sometimes said to represent the biosphere. In general, it is believed that the biosphere began to develop about 3.5 billion years ago. The planet is the only place in the universe where life exists. Even more, some scientists believe that places suitable for life such as Earth are rare in the universe. The biosphere is divided into a number of biotic environments in which a large number of similar plants and animals live. Factors separating vital environments include the latitude circle and the height of land from sea level. Terrestrial biota in the Arctic, Antarctic or Highlands is free of any animal or plant life, while the largest variety of life forms at the equator. Exploitation of land and natural resources The Earth provides the resources necessary for man to use it to achieve useful goals. Some of these resources are non-renewable, such as mineral fuels, and are not recoverable in a short period of time. Large quantities of fossil fuel deposits were obtained from the Earth's crust consisting of coal, oil, natural gas and methane compounds. Humans used these deposits to produce energy as a raw material for chemical reactions. Mineral raw materials are also formed in the Earth's crust through the process of the formation of earth ore or minerals from the erosion of its layers and the movements of geotechnical plates. These materials are rich sources of many minerals and other useful elements. The Earth's biosphere provides many vital products for humans, including but not limited to: food, wood, drugs, medicines, oxygen, and the re-exploitation of many organic waste and residues. The land-based ecosystem depends on the presence of soil surface and clean water, while the ocean ecosystem relies on dissolved nutrients that have been swept away from land. Humans live on land through the use of raw building materials in the construction of housing shelters. In 1993 Human land use rates are as follows: Use drawdowns for percentage land Agricultural lands 13.13% Permanent crops 4.71% Permanent pastures 26% Forest 32% Urban areas 1.5% Other uses 30% In 1993, the area of irrigated land was estimated at 2,481,250 km². Natural and environmental hazards Large areas of the Earth are exposed to extreme weather conditions such as cyclones, tropical storms and tropical cyclones. Many places are also affected by earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, tornadoes, troughs, snowstorms, floods, droughts and other natural disasters. In addition, many human-populated areas are exposed to many types of human-induced pollution such as air and water pollution, acid rain, toxic substances and the disappearance of plant life (due to many reasons, including overgrazing, deforestation, desertification), disappearance of wildlife and extinction. Some animal species, soil erosion, lack of some useful elements, depletion of soil and the emergence of alien organisms. Scientists agree that there is a close link between human activities and global warming due to increased carbon dioxide emissions from factories and from the increasing emissions of hydrocarbons. Earth's population of about 6 billion now has about 500 million cars and buses, all of which emit carbon dioxide and other harmful gases, all of which increase and accumulate these gases in the atmosphere. This is expected to lead to dramatic changes on Earth such as rising temperatures, melting glaciers and melting Antarctica, which will lead to an increase in water levels in the oceans and seas which means that countless islands and all lowlands such as the Netherlands will be doomed. Drowning. Severe temperature changes increase the intensity of hurricanes and hurricanes, and increase the amount of destruction they generate in return. Human Geography The study of cartography and geography is among the sciences that have been dedicated throughout history to describe the earth. Surveys (locating and spacing between them) and navigation (locating and orientating objects) appeared alongside these two flags - providing accurate information. The world population in November 2008 was about 6.740 billion people. Indicators show that the global population density will reach 7 billion in 2013, and in 2050 this number will rise to 9.2 billion. Most of this population growth is expected to be in developing countries. Population density varies from one place to another globally, but increases significantly in Asia. By 2020, it is expected that about 60% of the world's population will live in cities rather than in the countryside. Three-quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by the oceans. In addition, half of the land will be either a desert (14%), and the remainder will be heights and mountains (27%) or inappropriate terrain for humans to live on. The northernmost of the human colonies is the city of Alert on the island of Alzmir in Nunavat, Canada (at 82 ° and 28 minutes longitude), the southernmost of which is the Antarctic Amundsen Scott Station (90 ° S). Sovereign States occupy all land on the planet, except for some parts of Antarctica. In 2014, there were 206 independent sovereign States, including one hundred and ninety-three United Nations Member States, occupying land. Historically, the earth has not been ruled by a single government in control of the entire world, despite numerous conflicts between nations for world domination, but all these attempts have failed. The United Nations is a global organization working to resolve conflicts between states and thus avoid armed conflicts. However, it is not considered a global government. Although the United Nations offers a means of enforcing international law and although there is sometimes unanimous approval by its members for military intervention, it is essentially a forum for international diplomacy. The first man to orbit the Earth was Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961. In 2004, 400 people toured outer space and returned to the Earth's orbit, 12 of them on the moon. Persons who live in space for a long time are employees of the International Space Station, and the crew of the space station, which consists of three people, is replaced every six months. The longest man's journey to outer space was in 1970 when the crew of the Apollo 13, a three-person crew, traveled 400,171 kilometers away from Earth's surface. In human culture The English name "Earth" is derived from the word "erda" which is of Anglo-Saxon origin, which means the soil or surface on which we walk. The word was then distorted to "eorthe" in ancient English, until it reached "erthe" in medieval English. The planet's astronomical symbol is two intersecting lines around it. The Arabic word currently used to describe the planet Earth is used in the Arabic language since at least the fourth century AD, and is mentioned in the Koran about 444 times. The land was often elevated to worship or sanctification and made gods. In many cultures, mother gods, also called Mother Earth, were portrayed as the goddess of fertility. Creation myths in many religions recall the story of the creation of the earth by a group of supernatural gods. Many religious groups emphasize, in Christian doctrine or Islam, The various interpretations of how the earth is created in the Scriptures are a reality and should be considered in line with the discoveries of modern science or replaced by traditional scientific interpretations of the earth's origin, origin and evolution. Scientific and other religious communities oppose such interpretations. One of the most prominent examples of this controversy over the genesis of creation. The earth was once thought to be flat, But this belief was altered and replaced by the belief in the spherical Earth because of observations of scientists and orbiting the Earth. Man's perception of the Earth has changed considerably after he invaded outer space and made many trips around it. This is reflected in the increasing environmental movement on the extent of human influence on the planet. In this context, the establishment of a World Earth Day aimed at raising awareness and concern for the environment of the planet.

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post from like five weeks ago that i just got around to finishing now woot

oh man, I thought I had run out of salt to mine aside from heromaca, but just look at this fucking shit it's fuckig beautiful--

wait no actual first off, I want to complain about the fucking otter motif- we get it Ukuhara you made two pseudo-successful series with animal motifs, now you're being self-referential. fucking stop. There's nothing to the otter motif that can possibly actually add anything to the show- "uhh sometimes they hold hands ???" doesn't work because it's nowhere near the desperate clinginess implied in the trailers, and if that's how it's supposed to be it's an incredibly shallow motif, and it can't be the gay man thing because that's about hairy guys, not anime twinks. But becusae Penguindrum had a penguins and Yuribears had a bears and becueas meaningless callbacks are meaningful to retarded people, we have to have something so working backwards it's otters. My conficence in this production is though the roof

first off, there's the weird wait for it DOUBLE STANDARD with how people describe what they expect from this show versus how they describe Utena et al- with Utena it's about the porblems stemming from the magic evil society monster from forever ago, the good old patterwacky, how we're not saying the mens are responsible for all evil but we're saying hurr mens, how we're not saying women are the only victims that matter but every mention of male victims goes into some bizarre circular language avoiding ever actually assigning agency to any sort of a human cause while every mention of le female victims goe striaght to belbllbelbleblelbblbllbr but with these male characters it's suddenly, oh, it's about the expectations placed on men (reasonable enough), expectations to live up to muh toxic masculinity (no)... sentence ends. The expectations don't come from somewhere, they just... sentence ends. Not even society half the time. Because men can't be the victims of anything let alone a social anything, I guess. Definitely not from women. and of course there's some fucknaut beating off about "HRUUUUU BE AGNAISNTNT DUBE BRO CUTLURE ???" because why the fuck would a japanese director who writes deap n meeningful tresh care about your fucking misandric american derangement complex you fat unwed dangerhair rre-- Especially amazing how this *subtle/subconcious sort of leftist cancer is coming out of 4chan, but I guess you really can't expect people to be very reverse woke outside of, like, /pol/ (where they may be just a little bit too woke). fuck idk Reminds me of like 7-8 mins into this video where some shlubnut declares proposal expectations or some shit sexist... but does not say against whom. Because then they'd have to admit it's possible for things to be sexist against men, or a bad time for men because of their gender, and possibly because of the actions and expectations of a woman. Can't have that. So it's either sexist against women or it's just sexist against the air and nothing, I guess.

There's something about Iku being a communist edgelord and in some kind of commie cult, and about Penguindrum being a refutation of that... uh, somehow. I guess because it had something to do with a cult? Somehow?

There's something about Ikuhara and Hideaki Anno going on a gay spa trip, I don't fucking know- but interestingly, one anon's interpretation of the preview materials sounds entirely like the "hedgehog's dilemma" shit from Eva. And they did both work on that new Godzilla thing. Hmmmmm

And of course there's the convergence shit like "if it deals with The Stereotypes then it is a feminism even if it has ideological components that have nothing to do with anything feminism ever does or addresses". Can't have anything outside of the thing, obviously using the show's existence as validation for their own twisted and retarded viewpoints and so having to insist that is conforms entirely to said viewpoints while simultaneously not having the more odious elements of said viewpoints because we totally don't hate teh mens guys, we just like an anime that's about ~~sticking it to the virgin-whore complex~~ that totally exists while sucking off the male knight-beast complex most of the damn time except the knights are evil too and the one guy who's actually nice is a spineless wimp who's sexually assaulted by his sister all the damn time and should totally be happy about it FUC (srsly, there's an Utena fan site or forum thread or something I found once that talks about the virgin-whore thing in Utena with googly eyes and gooey lips but then suddenly mentions the show flipping it onto males and just... says it's "interesting" and leaves it at that... some fucking shit like that meh)

oh yeah, there's this guy

For a long damn while I've thought to myself that Ikuhara's works, while touted as feminist and certainly dealing with those feminist sorts of issues, aren't quite... so. They're certainly some kind of gynocentric, but with just a little bit more... sympathy for the male characters, responsibility placed on the females, and generally some sort of actual nuance. Maybe. Just a bit. Certainly more than basically every breakdown I've ever seen of his works has put forth up until this mofo. I guess the best thing I can say is his works seem to exist in some kind of limbo between the two... Utena seems like it's deconstructing the idea that the "roles" are some unique oppression to women or even fucking matter, including a backstory for Akio where his role as prince breaks him so badly (thanks to greedy peasants who, if I remember, are a mixed-gender crowd... where do they lie in the prince-princess-witch equation?) he basically fucking invents an evil role for himself where none apparently existed before. But then it ends like it was... not doing that, or something. In Yurikuma, I mostly saw people say shit like "this is what society makes lesbians do by being so mean to them!!" (lol remember when lesbeans got stoned and thrown off of roofs lollololol so oppress clearly the victims of anything etc etc), but there is just... no fucking society in that show outside of the cannibalistic sex offender bear lesbians and the Higurashi-tier paranoia-cult schoolgirl lesbians. The latter victimize themselves by coming up with ridiculous social mores to defend against the threat of the bears in their midst (entirely reasonable, but they sure found the most retarded possible way of doing it), while the former are cannibalistic sex offenders. NO ONE WAS THERE TO MAKE THEM THIS WAY. Hell, with the humans being called "yuri" and the bears being... well, bears, which is a gay guy thing, and the plot being about segregating two compatible but different halves of society where the more violent half can go "undercover" and "pass" within the less violent half in order to hunt them... it comes off more like the females are trying to political feminist themselves and build a wall to keep the males out. Which comes with the implication that men are cannibalistic sex offenders, but since the grils are being characterized to an absurd height of feminine toxicity as well and the show is about both sides learning to cool their tits it kind of works. Kind of. fuck idk The entire plotline with the teacher who let herself be waited on hand and foot by some guy (nice fucking meaningless reuse of the coffin motif from Utena, by the way- shit like this is why even if this was the most reverse woke anime ever it would still just be shit) and then when he simply got bored of her and politely moved on she lost her shit and immediately killed him, then remained bitter about it for the rest of her life and went on to assault teenage girls... that has got to be taking the piss. It's just gotta. If not Iku has his head up his ass to heights previously unimagined.

and then there's those converging lefttards in that thread going "he is wrong with his subjective interpretations of a vague show though!! he is wrong!!! reeeee" Uhhhh, there's like a bazillion types of feministsms so the show can't possibly be about critiquing it!! It can't just, like, pick a type, or pick out some commonalities (there sure are plenty for something so supposedly nebulous), and mull over that, it's unposstible!!

Finally I find this interesting... while his previous works had some kind of strange innocence about them despite the sexual shit, the first male-centric work he does outright has "lust is life!" as a tagline and the word "desire" worked into the title. I'm... not even implying anything with this, I just find it really kind of interesting. The title itself actually inspires more confidence than his last two works- the "zanmai" could mean "lust" or "desire" and is likely referring to the same thing as said tagline, and the "sara" could mean "dish" (as in "this place's signature dish", not a literal plate or something); lusting after food is often metaphorically used to mean lusting after someone sexually (gobble someone's cock, etc), so already it looks like there's something vaguely resembling a coherent symbolic framework rather than the random-words-based titles and plots of Yuribears and Penguindrum.

Honestly however this show turns out it's going to be a fucking disgusting beautiful delicious shitshow and I cannot fucking wait.

#anime bitching #deep thunks

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Anime: is it changing for better or Worse

This is a editorial piece i created for an extended project at College, it is a good example of the kind of writing i can create and the vain of editorial that i would like to create in future for potential & hopeful entertainment journalism jobs.

If you read this editorial and have any positive or negative criticism please feel free to message me that criticism. Be kind xD, this is like one of the first things i written on this sort of scale. Hope you enjoy this if you read it.

Is Anime changing for better or worse?

Anime is a Japanese pop-culture behemoth that has grown from its mid-20th century origins to a near worldwide phenomenon in the 2010s. Personally, I have been a dedicated fan of anime for around three to five years although I was aware of the medium since I was around 5 or so spending a lot of my childhood watching kid-oriented 4kids dubs of Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh. Anime has become one of my favorite entertainment mediums with beautifully sad movies such A Silent Voice, Thrilling Psychological films like Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue and interesting adventures shows like Made in Abyss, a great bustling fanbase and a huge amount of wonderful and genius crew members who work on anime; living and dead. However, it is also a medium that I have so many problems with from the ridiculous treatment of the people who work in it to the shaky western approach to the medium and the crazy over-saturation there is in the amount of pandering generic anime. So here at the start my opinion on anime is as follows; yes, anime is something I love and will continuously support due to the amazing content and creators in anime but as an industry it is so intensely toxic with all the behind the scenes problems it cast a bleak shadow over anime and as it continues to grow larger and goes further than ever before the shadow glooms darker.

Anime took Japan by storm in the early 1960s with Osamu Tezuka’s revolutionary animations such as Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. Even though Tezuka’s work weren’t the first animes they were the first to gain a big level of traction. Tezuka’s animes led the way for other iconic animes such as 70s greats like Lupin III and Mobile Suit Gundam. The 80s booms of anime with staples such as the first Ghibli films, Akira and Dragon Ball. The 90s produced new age classics such as Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ghost in the shell, Pokémon, Cowboy Bebop and Sailor Moon. The 2000s came soon after adding more iconic animes with shows like Death Note, Naruto, Bleach, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, One Piece and the Oscar award winning Ghibli film, Spirited Away growing the anime community to new heights.

Now in the 2010s anime is still growing in popularity with shows like Attack on Titan, Sword Art Online, One Punch Man, Tokyo Ghoul, Yuri on ice, Boku No Hero Academia and the highest grossing anime film of all time; Your Name leading the future of the medium. Over the life span of the anime industry it has grown from a small medium in the 60s which was mostly based in japan to something that became a cult phenomenon outside of its Japanese home of a genre in the late 90s to becoming a near worldwide mainstream hit in modern day. The fact that each decade there is at least a handful of shows produced that gain big fan acclaim shows and are remembered years later shows that anime has always been strong in its ability to produce great content and as time progresses more and more shows are getting noticed by anime fans. In the 60s there might have been around 5-10 shows that are still remembered today, but three decades later in the 90s easily 20-30 shows have stuck with the anime fanbase to today.

Western fans of anime have gained the name Otakus a Japanese word which celebrates their love for a medium such as anime. In the internet era a term has been coined "Weeaboo" which is a negative word to call someone who is an anime fan, a Weeaboo or Weeb is someone who watch anime but stupidly and ignorantly disrespects the culture, bastardise it and acts like Japanese culture is their own culture. Let me just state for the record, most anime fans are not Weebs but a select few fit their descriptions and their loud obnoxious personalities make the public sadly see them as these derogatory things. Sadly, it is common for society to see the worst in a community and see the bad as the norm for the entire group even though it might not be entirely true. Being a fan of anime for many years I have seen into the anime fanbase and have only come across individuals who fit the weeaboo archetype maybe once or twice out of 100s if not 1000s of individuals on numerous social media platforms.

Although the anime industry clearly has hit a big level in over-saturation in the amount of series it produces, it’s large quantity has opened-up the industry to many new and great creators. In the wake of the call for more series to be produced more talent has been brought to anime. In the world of directing, new visionary directors such as Makoto Shinkai are being brought to the industry creating some of the most beautifully crafted animations ever made with great music, art and story such as his films 5 centimetres per second, The Garden of Words and of course Your Name. Great musical talent that previously was neglected or ignored by Japan is now acknowledged with artists such as TK, Myth & Roid, Teddyloid and Daoko giving their vocal talent as more opening themes are needed. New Composer, Hiroyuki Sawano has become an iconic anime composer, composing music for many action animes that have come out in the big surge of animes in the last few years. Of course, voice actors or seiyuus as they are called in Japan are still very integral to anime with them being even more needed with more animes being produced with new voice talents such as Rie Takahashi, Jun Fukushima, Sora Amamiya and Inori Minase doing numerous voices a season, although this can be very taxing on a seiyuu with low pay and over working. Whole new studios have formed to combat the demand for new animes such as the crazily imaginative studio Trigger, WIT Studio, NUT, Kinema Citrus, MAPPA and Lerche that feature talent that will go on to shape the world of anime.

Even if the landscape of anime is changing the creators of old, those who shaped the world of anime before anyone else won’t be forgotten. Works from directors such as Hayao Miyazaki, Satoshi Kon and Mamoru Hosoda, Animes made by Studios Madhouse, Production I.G, Gainax and Bones and iconic openings from J-pop history legends such as Flow, Asian Kung Fu Generation, The Pillows, Kumiko Noma, Yoko Takahashi and The Seatbelts. The individuals who make the anime that anime fans consume and adore, have always been the shining beacon in the many problems of anime and right now more than ever with the abundance of cast and crew needed to staff all the anime is made, this beacon is shining brighter than it has ever before.

Anime is typically released in waves with a handful of shows being released every seasonal period, the seasons being; Winter season that lasts from January to March, Spring season from April to June, Summer season from July to September and finally Fall season that starts in October and ends in December and then the cycle resets.

A big problem in the anime industry in 2018 is the level of anime that’s produced; anime production has become much more quantity over quality in the past few years. With over forty-three new anime tv series being released in just the short time span of the winter 2018 season alone. Not including the eight series that are ongoing from the previous season, the four animes that came out exclusively to Netflix and the eleven-short form shows that also were released during the period. In total that’s sixty-six different anime series being released in the space between just two months, 66 in 2 months is a ridiculous amount. In winter 2016 sixty-two Tv animes were released, in winter 2014 sixty-seven Tv animes were released again similar big amounts of animes being produced, but in the winter of 2012 only twenty-six were released and in winter 2010 only twenty-one came out.

So, what changed, well simply the anime industry grew to new heights with the birth of streaming sites, Crunchyroll and Funimation. Crunchyroll started as a website that hosted anime illegally at its creation but eventually became officially licensed in 2009 and in late 2012 to 2013 it took off as the best place for western anime fans to legally consume anime soon after it aired in Japan. Funimation is a company that has played a big part in the anime industry since the mid-90s being the main distributor for anime in the west, allowing numerous shows to be brought to home video and Tv and had a big part in the creation of official localizations of animes for non-Japanese speakers in the forms of both accurate subtitles and professional dubbing. Funimation eventually made a mark on online streaming giving the type of quality they give but online, the companies streaming is now known as FunimationNow with it primarily focusing on streaming of dubbed anime giving a majority of its subbed anime to Crunchyroll though a partnership the two companies developed in 2016. Once Japan saw this they clearly and naturally saw it as a great business venture and produced more and more content to give Crunchyroll, Funimation and their competitors, which clearly paid off as in 2015, the export value of the anime industry reached a new high of 349 billion yen and in 2016 the anime industry reached an industry income milestone of 2.9 trillion yen with a large portion being from export value. Yes, it works well in a business standpoint but is it worth the cost of the anime content itself and the backlash the fans and people in the industry have towards the over-saturation.

Others saw the success of Crunchyroll & Funimation and clearly decided to jump on the bandwagon while it’s still piping hot. Netflix and Amazon are the two biggest culprits of doing this, both streaming sites had some animes on their streaming sites prior to the anime streaming boom even though they were mostly just shows that had reached an audience outside of the usual anime sphere. Netflix and Amazons approaches to anime are in no way to the standard of streaming that we as western anime fans have come to expect with Crunchyroll & Funimation. Crunchyroll is probably the best thing to happen to the western anime scene in the 2010s, even though it has had small missteps such as the badly run Crunchyroll anime awards and its shaky legal issues in its origins. The biggest draw of Crunchyroll is the fact that they release the anime within an hour of it airing on Japanese Tv networks such as the NHK with the shows being subbed also within that hour, much quicker than some not so legal streaming sites can get the shows uploaded and subbed; with the subbing being not terribly accurate. Amazon seems to understand the importance of trying to bring new animes as soon as possible vowing to do so; when they became heavily involved in anime streaming in 2017, the airing of shows was terribly unreliable with shows sometimes appearing hours or a day late something that won’t help a new service get off the ground. Netflix for the most part completely ignored this crucial part of anime streaming, with them only bringing the animes they had the licenses for months later after they finished airing, you could argue this was done to fit the Netflix model of series being released all at once. However, with US live-action shows such as Orphan Black and Better Call Saul being added to Netflix as they air on Tv, it raises the question of why they aren’t doing this for their anime shows. They might have finally realized that they need to do simulcasts of animes to keep up with the competition as this past season they released Kyoto Animations’ long-awaited anime series Violet Evergarden as it aired in Japan, although this is one show out of the handful of shows they have licenses for in the 2018 winter period. Another reason why the streaming scene has been so successful for the last few years is because you would be able to go to one of the big two streaming sites and be able to view most of the biggest and best shows on one site for one cost. Now that Amazon and Netflix have joined the fray the licenses for animes are spread all over the streaming space. In the past you could go to just Crunchyroll or Funimation and find all the shows you’d want to watch from a new season albeit maybe one or two being hosted by smaller sites. But now every new season five shows you want to watch might be on Crunchyroll, three might be on Netflix and two other great ones might be on Amazon. You see the problem, right? If the average avid otaku wants to check out all the shows that interest them in a release season they must pay out to get numerous streaming sites. Amazon took advantage of the anime fanbase when they got into anime streaming, gating their animes behind an extra paywall in places such as the states where you would have to buy amazon prime and then buy amazons anime strike service on top of prime; thankfully they realized the negative backlash and finally got rid of the extra paywall at the start of this year.

In the case of Netflix, you must wait months for Netflix to actually utilize the licenses they own and then you’re paying for months in between new releases with nothing new. It’s so anti-consumer the way licenses are strung around the different sites and the way that amazon and Netflix give their anime. It makes otakus feel more inclined to use illegal sites or download torrents which hurt the industry and those who work hours upon painful hours making these animes. But when they make it seem like their working against the consumer they don’t help themselves. They make the free illegal alternative sites appealing which is so wrong, with the expensive numerous expensive sites and the abnormal streaming methods of both Amazon and Netflix. Even though Netflix certainly aren’t the best when it comes to dealing with bringing Tv animes to Netflix they are trying to help the industry by funding anime studios to make animes purely for them which they can release in a binge format, with Netflix reportedly putting a large part of their 2018 budget into funding animes, Anime would represent about a quarter of their new content. Funding shows by studios such as Bones and WIT studio who are two of the biggest anime studios who created the two biggest action series of 2017; Boku No Hero Academia 2nd Season and the long awaited second season of Attack on Titan, respectively. This has proven good for the industry with shows like Devilman Crybaby which would never have been allowed to be created on Tv due to its crazy soundtrack, unique art and very mature content now having somewhere to belong. Netflix’s approach to funding the industry could really help excel it into the mainstream and if they can do simulcasts like Crunchyroll, Netflix could take over the western anime scene.

If you have been anywhere in the anime community sphere in the past six-ish years, you have probably seen someone bashing on a little-known series called Sword Art Online (SAO). I’m not trying to beat the already dead horse that is SAO hating just trying to add to the conversation and add a view on it that I personally haven’t seen before in the numerous articles and YouTube videos on SAO, SAO’s repercussions on anime.

But just in case for anyone who hasn’t heard of Sword Art Online…Sword Art Online, is an anime based off a light novel that took over the industry and shaped it for worse. Sword Art Online (SAO) came out in 2012 to commercial success, critically the show was not a success; the show had many problems from its contrived borderline creepy romance storylines, shallow character arcs, inconsistent animation quality & its non-existence understanding of the video games mechanics when its video game based. The show is of the Isekai (another world) genre, Isekai series typically feature the protagonist getting trapped or transported in another world; in the case of SAO the protagonist, Kirito and 100s of other gamers get stuck inside of a video game. The protagonist, Kirito is a typical young adult with black hair (the most common hair colour in the world) who before entering an isekai is a socially numb shut-in and once he enters the isekai is overly powered and unbelievably hopelessly attractive to everyone. Kirito is something known as a self-insert protagonist which is a protagonist that is designed in a specific way so that the average anime watcher can easily connect to the character and practically insert themselves into the character and then get invested in the show. Even though the show is terribly flawed from a critical standpoint it was still very popular due to its intriguing concept, its self-insert protagonist and was very successful commercially. The anime industry saw the cash cow SAO became and unfortunately ran with it. Then the flood gates opened, once SAO ended numerous other anime producers created shows in similar veins. Isekai changed from something that was used sparingly in anime to something that became its own genre, every seasonal period contains one or even a handful of Isekai shows. There was also a bigger influx in the amount of self-insert protagonists where before these types of protagonist were kept to just tongue and cheek romcom harem animes, now they appear in romance dramas and even some action shows. Light novel adaptions also have become much more common place as many Japanese light novels have self-insert protagonists and intriguing yet hollow premises. Even though SAO led the way for so many trashy by the numbers samey light novel isekai animes there are some good shining through such as Re: Zero Kara Hajimeru isekai Seikatsu which starts as a basic isekai show with a self-insert protagonist that later turns into a meta character building show with surprises around every corner with twisted time travel twists. Re: Zero and maybe 4 other shows are diamonds in the much larger rough which aren’t worth the Isekai insane oversaturation that SAO caused.

Just like the west have taken anime and adapted to our streaming platforms, they have also adapted it in other ways. Hollywood have leached onto anime as of late, after anime being around for numerous years they were bound to take a stab at trying to milk it for money and now that it has gained near mainstream popularity in the last 10 to 15 years they have taken stabs. Three notable stabs from Hollywood at anime were their live action adaptations of Dragon Ball, Ghost in the shell and Death Note. These three adaptations made Hollywood a quick buck due to the names that are tied to them but were all critical failures from fans and critics alike. These adaptations completely miss what makes anime, anime. They change plot, characters, cultural differences and ultimately brutalize what made them good to begin with. The Dragon Ball movie titled Dragon Ball: Evolution was just a complete train wreck that tried to condense the entire plot of a 200+ episodes anime into a less than 90 minutes long movie with terrible script, acting and CGI. The Ghost in the shell movie and Death Note movie were still pretty darn terrible but at least they were kind of competent at being movies with decent effects, passable scripting and acting. But both just felt like empty lifeless imitations of their predecessors. Ghost in the shell turned from an iconic cyberpunk with punchy dialogue and stellar visuals to pretty much a bog-standard action sci-fi flick.

Death Note’s Live action version completely misses the originals appeal, the original anime was a tense psychological drama as we saw the protagonist Light a genius anti-hero who is popular, trying to avoid getting caught by the master detective, L; Light manipulates those close to him and practically is the antagonist even though he’s the protagonist. In the Hollywood version Light is still an anti-hero and is still trying to avoid getting caught by L but he’s not a genius and instead is a moody outcast, he doesn’t manipulate those close to him, he gets manipulated. One of the biggest parts of the anime was how Light manipulates a character called Misa Amane, we see how far he’ll go to get his goals and how far he’s fallen; in the live action its almost like the roles of Light and Misa had reversed with Misa, changed to Mia in the live action manipulating Light and makes Light have another adversary for no reason except for just creating unnecessary drama. On top of this, in the live action version they take away the tense psychological theming and replaces it with over the top gory death scenes, the Death Note anime does have death scenes but their never overly extreme just to shock the deaths in the anime are much more about how Light manged to kill them. Overly Gory deaths isn’t and never should be Death Note.

Where the west completely fails with its live action adaptions, it excels for the most part in its cartoon shows it has produced in the past few years that are heavily inspired. It is not unusual for a western media product to take influence with people like the Wachowskis siblings who were inspired by Ghost in the Shell when they made The Matrix in the 90s. But in the last few years the anime inspired western content has been much more frequent. RWBY, Castlevania, Voltron and Legend of Korra are four western shows that are very anime inspired in storytelling and animation styles. These shows are all held in high regard by fans and critics alike, largely because of how much they are like anime in the way they are more mature like anime is than the usual run of the mill western cartoon were most adult cartoons are just comedies and not serious like these four examples. Of course, there’s exceptions to these great western anime inspired shows one notably being, Neo Yokio that was co-created by the US and Japan which was poorly animated with terrible voice work and just a mess in terms of tone. Other than Neo Yokio, anime inspired western content is pretty great and doesn’t seem to be slowing down in terms of quality. This is one of the better parts of the wests approach to anime.

Japan has an overworking problem, it is something that is prominent in most Japanese industries and Anime is no different. On average an animator or mangaka (an artist for manga) work 10hrs + a day in uncomfortable conditions this is because they are paid on the amount of work they get done not on a set pay roll like a normal job. This leads to either people giving up on their anime industry dreams due to the insane pressure to get work done with short deadlines or overworking themselves to poor health; mentally and physically, or in extreme cases to death. Overworking is such a problem in Japan that the Japanese made a word to describe death by overworking, Karoshi. In the past few years industry greats have passed away most likely because of Karoshi. In 2017, Hiromi Tsuru, a seiyuu who was famous for her work as Bulma in the Dragon Ball series died from Aortic dissection which is often caused by high blood pressure. High blood pressure is very common from stress which is common in overworking in stressful conditions, so her death is most likely Karoshi. In 2010 a staff member at the animation studio, A-1 Pictures committed suicide; Shinjuku Labour Standards Inspection Office cited depression due to overwork as the cause and medical facilities caring for the staff member recorded that he worked 600 hours a month. The problem of overworking and Karoshi is already a big problem in japan and the Japanese anime industry is not helping this change, in fact its making it a whole lot worse.

I love anime but hearing about these cases are so disheartening and upsetting, I believe that anime is a great artform and it should be something that should have a lot of time focused upon it but when people are dying for the making of anime. It makes anime not worth it. As I mentioned much earlier in this essay the anime industry is making more money than it ever has at 2.9 trillion yen which translates to one billion nine hundred fifty-nine million eight hundred twenty thousand pounds. If the industry is making as much as it says why are those in the industry being payed so little, those who work in anime are payed practically pennies. In November of 2016 an animator who works for the studio, P.A Works posted a picture of their budget on their twitter and according to that budget the highest pay the animator got was 67,569 yen (£456) in October 2016. For the number of hours that the staff put in and their health that they risk just to make a living and to achieve a dream of working in anime that kind of pay is disgusting. On a lighter note now that anime has opened more to the west and westerners are hearing about the conditions of working on anime in japan, some westerners are reaching out to try to support creators, so they don’t have to overwork themselves as hard such as the 2017 animator dormitory project which was a fundraiser for animators to have stable living conditions. The project was able to raise $26,442 USD to help animators.

This whole situation gets even more ridiculous when overworked creators become too ill to even do their work. Hunter X Hunter is a very famous manga and anime series; its mangaka, Yoshihiro Togashi is clearly very overworked. Hunter x Hunter has been in publication since 1998. It is meant to be a weekly series appearing in the Japanese magazine, Weekly Shounen Jump. Out of the 20 years that its been in publication its actually only appeared in Shounen Jump 382 (39.3%) of the 971 potential times it could of. That means that in the past 20 years, Togashi could have not been payed for 589 weeks out of the 971 weeks he has been making Hunter x Hunter; we don’t know that for sure but that’s a potential reality caused by the fact that creators like Togashi are pushed to illness because of overworking to the point that they simply can’t work and if they push themselves too far karoshi could occur.

To conclude anime has changed in many ways, in some way heavily for the better but in some ways extremely for the worst. To most parts of anime there is a better and a negative. In terms of the anime that is created there is more anime being created than ever this allows greater gems to be made but then it also allows for the market to be heavily over-saturated and certain genres such Isekai are getting way too much focus upon them. There is a good fanbase surrounding anime but it’s over casted heavily by the bad vocal minority of the fanbase, so this is a change for the worse that keeps getting worse as this minority sadly grows louder. In terms of the accessibility to anime in the west it is getting a lot better but sites like Netflix are throttling this accessibility. Hollywood isn’t helping anime change for the better at all with its tarnishing versions of animes, but the anime inspired cartoons in the west are a great homage to anime. One of the best changes in anime is the great new influx of anime creators that are bringing anime to new heights. But the treatment of the creators behind the scenes is a disgusting plague on anime that is dragging the anime industry into The. Fucking. Dirt.

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It would be nice if you educated yourself instead of spreading misinformation and throwing words like pedophilia around. A 2 year age gap between a 16 yo and an 18 is not pedophilia. If a boy hasn't entered puberty by the age of 16 (as you claim to be the case for Yuri), it's advisable to seek the help of a doctor, because it's not normal and a potentially very dangerous situation. Sincerely, a 16 yo who ships otayuri and who knows there's nothing wrong with it :)

i am educated on these things, and i’m not spreading misinformation.

a 15 y/o not yet having started puberty is not always indicative of a medical problem. a doctor should absolutely be consulted, but it’s not necessarily a reason to panic (same for multiple months of missed periods. you’d want to go to a doctor, but it doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with you. some people are just naturally very irregular). genetics come into play. (i have a friend who is extremely healthy and always has been her whole life, but puberty didn’t start for her until she was 15/16. it wasn’t a medical problem. that was just how her body worked, and it turns out her mother had pretty much the same experience.)

puberty is a process that takes years, and there are internal and external changes happening, yes. this is actually why i’m convinced it means he’s a late bloomer. yuri says that he has a short window of time before his body changes. it could only mean he has just started puberty or hasn’t started yet. physically, puberty takes away a good amount of flexibility in most males, causes them to go from wirey to muscular, and makes then shoot up in height. he won’t be able to skate the same way once puberty takes its toll, and he knows this. that’s what he seemed to mean, and what he said coupled with the fact that he still has all the physical characteristics of a prepubescent teen, indicates that he likely hasn’t started puberty yet. therefore, otayuri would be classified as pedophilic.

but look, my fight isn’t with you. at your age, and with the influences around you right now, i know the age difference doesn’t seem like much. but trust me, psychologically, it really is. 15 (and 16 too) is definitely too young to be romantically or sexually involved with an adult, and i would advise you run very far away from any who try to say othetwise. it’s absolutely not healthy for adults over 18 to be interested in children your age and younger.

otayuri, as well as any other minor/adult ship, isn’t healthy, and the adults who ship it and propagate the idea that there is nothing wrong with adults being attracted to children (young teens included) are frankly deplorable. Not to mention the fact that the ship is widely fetishized, and how horribly sexualized yuri is by these adults (most of the offenders being straight women to boot).

i’m not telling you to stop shipping it. you’re convinced it’s fine, and no facts i bring to the table will change your mind. plus i get it. when i was younger i shipped m/a too and didn’t see why others kept saying it was a bad thing. i understand now though. age, an education, and certain life experiences that can only come with age (and growth of your emotional intelligence) really open your eyes. and for people your age, at the rate your brain is developing, even one year can bring huge changes for you psychologically. who i was at 15, and then 18 were very, very different people. i’d like to think that, morally, i was a pretty healthy 18 year old. i would never have even considered dating a 15 y/o then. honestly, even 17 year olds were basically out of the question. otabek’s a good character. he’s very aware of the age and maturity difference between himself and yuri, and careful of the influence he has on his new, young friend, as he should be. otayuri shippers should honestly be taking notes.

the truth is, there are exceptions to the rule. special circumstances would make a 2 year age gap (otayuri’s is actually 3 years though, not 2) acceptable. but otayuri does not fall under any of those exceptions. and realistically, yuri is so ridiculously immature and emotionally stunted that i don’t think he’d even be capable of maintaining a romantic relationship with someone his own age, let alone an adult! someone who doesn’t even have friends shouldn’t be considering a romantic relationship any time soon–it’s pretty much guaranteed to go up in flames.

anyway, i hope you don’t see this as an attack, or condescension. that’s certainly not my intention. my career (and my volunteer work) revolves around working with and helping youth of all ages (k-12). it’s hard to see adults who really should know better treat something serious like it’s not a big deal, and then in a gaslighting fashion, point blame and accusations at people who understand the seriousness and speak up about it. but what’s worse is seeing the influence they have on young ones in the fandom. it’s horrifying and dangerous.

anyway, i’d rather not leave things on a negative note, so that being said; summer’s fast approaching, i hope you enjoy yours. hang with friends, go on a trip, get some quality family time in, stay safe, and take plenty of time away from tumblr and the inevitable toxicity that comes with it.

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