love live! sunshine!! s1e1 - my thoughts
rlly like how each character's introduction works for them. mari's coming in on the helicopter showing off how wealthy her family is, ruby hanamaru and yohane all being encountered together to accentuate their respective friendships, every time riko appears onscreen theres piano bgm highlighting her interest in playing the piano, etc.
shit nowheresville seaside town lets goooooo 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
the girls are idk. a little squeal-y for me? the characters are. look i know theyre supposed to be an overly saccharine escapism portrayal of being in high school but. idk probably bc im not love live's demographic audience. but i wish they had more chaos. more snark. more pointless seinfeldian conversations. more fun that doesnt feel like its pandering to the audience. i could fix them (and i will. big things coming)
yohane's already one of my faves characterization-wise. no matter how eye-rollingly unrealistic and "moe" the teenage girls in anime are written the saving grace of the show will always be the one whos like "hrgh...theres a Darkness inside me...i need to go summon Demons and cast Spells....." bc like. that is accurate
i am not immune to saying "omg wooby" when ruby shows up on-screen
i dunno how to explain but theres a bird/feather/seagull motif. gotcha
knowing that uranohoshi cant be saved is interesting bc then its like. well the school was doomed from the beginning. its like watching a tragedy play when you know its not going to work out. also idk its interesting and more down-to-earth that they couldnt save their school.
gonna watch the rest of it w my sister (who is a much bigger love live fan than me but hasnt watched the sunshine anime apparently?) so. yeah. thumbs up emoji
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I've kinda seen some pushback to the idea of representation in media and I don't necessarily think it's bad to point out actual rights are more important than Disney's thousandth first gay character that's fine, but I've had a LOT of people comment on my works about asexual characters and tell me what I wrote changed their life-and it's always that phrase- because they now have the language to describe what they feel. I've had people who ARENT ace or aro comment that what I wrote finally made a concept they didn't understand make sense, or that the way I explained things was interesting and enlightening and I'm kind of a mediocre writer who hasn't written anything in ages.
Like idk, if reading something from a writer who is fucking around and only somewhat talented can genuinely impact someone because they've not seen anything like them reflected back at them in life or media I don't think pushing for representation in media is as "needless" as some people seem to think and caring about that doesn't mean you don't care about more "important" (although if you think seeing people like you in media ISNT important it's because you already have that representation or are privileged enough to not care if you do, in which case maybe pipe down) stuff. Hell, I even got a Facebook message ages ago from someone who found a comment I left in an ace group about QPR's and what they meant to me and how I perceived them and the person no joke said what I wrote two years before they even found it changed their life forever because they finally knew what kind of relationship they actually wanted.
So like sure, of course there's always bigger fish to fry them diversity in media (you know, like diversity in real life lol) but I don't think it's as frivolous as some people are beginning to act like it is. At least not if you're an aspec person it's not, I STILL don't see ace characters almost ever and I'll bet my whole everything if I asked a writer of a show why they'd tell me that EVERYONE has to be in a sexual relationship and characters that aren't won't sell and are boring- I say this because in film school I had a teacher TELL ME every character needed to basically be sex obsessed and when I pointed out a GREAT MANY CHARACTERS are not revolved around sex (Supernatural stars two brothers, I pointed out) and when she asked if I had love interests I was like ??? That doesn't matter- using my aforementioned supernatural example almost all their love interests die or get mind wiped because at the end of the day that's not what the story was about. So actually I think writers who act like that teacher need like 50 reality checks, and representation in stories isn't unimportant and also support indie writers you'll probably find more funky shit there then Disney anyway lmao.
And also even the asexual characters I DO see in media don't remind me at all of myself even if I appreciate the effort, but they never feel real or genuine and their sexuality doesn't get a lot of exploration so 🤷🏻♀️ I actually could use more media focused on characters that I can genuinely see my sexuality reflected in in a meaningful and narratively impactful way because I've got nothing.
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this was a very interesting video essay; really got me thinking about a lot of stuff
one part that stuck out to me was when he was talking about artists dying for art and other inspirational ppl dying for their cause and how they didn't start the journey with the intent to die, but with the intent to make the world a better place, aka for a selfless reason as opposed to a selfish reason (of making a name for oneself)
and it also that segment in which he talks about art being how we process life and transmit a message about its meaning vs just escaping life and living outside of it while lying to ourselves - and i know i'm the latter one here...
all i can ever do nowadays is some form or another of escapism. and the story i'm writing at the moment is means a lot to me and i do believe it is profound and has something to say about life, but it is also a way that i conveniently avoid living my life in an active way like man just these two past weeks ive isolated myself more than i have in a long time and im utterly filled with shame, to the point where not even continuing to write and draw feels fulfilling anymore. but usually when i come to such a realisation i just drop everything altogether... i still want to pursue that story just... at the right place at the right time... and if there's one thing that becomes clearer and clearer is that i am capable of writing True and Beautiful things, but my actually internalising the very ideas that I know are true, and that i write in my stories as their main message, and not only that, but living these ideas out in the real world... thats the hard part... and the more i think about it, the more i see that even this particular story im writing has characters that end up how i would end up if i let my hubris get the better of me... and somehow it still doesnt get through my head...
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