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solciego · 10 months

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people will not call it love

and we won't be blessed

let me shoulder your sins together

for you

if I lose it all

i'll be waiting, waiting for you

let me hold you under the tree

i'll protect you

#eren jaeger #mikasa ackerman #eren x mikasa #shingeki no kyojin #aot #eremika #under the tree #just listened to the extended version #and im not okay #😭#all of the what ifs #i cant #*my edit #my edit: aot #my edit: eremika

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neolxzr · 9 months

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you do see my point though, I was saying that yes a piece of media can have a character imply they are queer, but it’s frustrating when they won’t explicitly confirm such, because of (in the case of… checks app store purchase statistics…. A multi million dollar game franchise!) the need to market to as many people as possible. Shumika will never be “canon” because some people just don’t like shumika and won’t spend money on the game if shu and mika are in a relationship, whether or not that’s because they like the ship or the characters or are genuinely homophobic or whatnot. If the writing team cared about telling a love story, they would tell a love story, not go “well maybe they’re in love, it’s up to viewer interpretation!” like this works, sometimes it adds to the meaning of the work, but enstars really doesn’t have an excuse for their constant “this character might have feelings for this other character, but we’ll never have them say it out loud!” except the fact it makes them a lot of money, since they can market to people who like a character being the way they want that character to be, whether that’s with that character being in love with another in game character or self-shipping or whatever else. Outside of shipping, this is why some characters like Shinobu haven’t changed despite wanting to change (he continuously talks about how he wants to be more mature and taken seriously but his cards continue to make him look small and cute because his fans like that about him and god forbid we change anything!) I just think enstars should not be your first thought when someone asks you about a good piece of queer media because they’re doing just about the same job as large cast games with characters of the same gender (minus Arashi) who continue to have characters go “we’ll do all these things to imply we could be in love, but we’ll never have our characters actually date! teehee!”

i can understand being frustrated about your ships not being "confirmed", but the obsession with what is "canon" and "not canon" is just straight up not a very interesting discussion to have. what happyele's or the writers' agenda is is not of particular importance to me. one of the first things they teach you in classes about media analysis is that once a work is out there, the intentions of the creator no longer matter. the only thing that matters in your analysis is your own thoughts and the way you interpret a text.

if we were having a conversation about how much the creator of something sucks, then sure, talk about that all you want, but i am specifically referring to discussions about the piece of media and these characters and their relationships and their growth and the themes of the work etc. those things are removed from whether or not the company writes the way they do because of profit motives or whatever. companies make money, that's just what to expect. if you want art that is free of profit motives, read something by an independent creator.

even so, it feels strange to place enstars into the bucket of "stuff that should be gayer but the bad company that makes it wont let it be" because the characters ARE so very openly queer. there are so many instances in it where characters pour their heart out to each other or offer themselves to another character in beautiful and poetic ways, and i think it's wrong to claim it doesn't count because they didn't confirm their relationship status at the end of it. if you ask me, there is absolutely no way to interpret enstars in a way completely free of queerness. there is so much explicitly queer text that ignoring it is just plain incorrect. but, if homophobic people like this game and choose to look the other way at all of the gay shit, again, that is not my problem.

why is canonization the only thing that matters? is a shitty BL with awful writing better and more worthwhile than enstars as a queer narrative because the characters had explicit gay sex on screen? are poorly written gay characters in the background of other media with nothing going on more worth talking about than shumika or wataei or rinniki or whoever else just because they say the words 'i'm gay' out loud?

queerness is so much more than all of that. it is so much more than labels and it is so much more than relationships that are easy to understand. it is so much more than the extremely narrow view of it that the internet has concocted about it over the last few years, where you’re only allowed to talk about queerness if you yourself are openly queer and out of the closet, and even then you’re only allowed to make art that makes for “good representation.” that is just so incredibly limiting. i would rather tons of companies who are trying to profit off fujoshis make vaguely gay media with unconfirmed romances and relationships that aren't easily defined by labels than have less queer art in the world.

more queer art means more queer people who will find something to really connect to. more queer art means telling more queer stories. why should who is allowed to write lgbtq media be limited? why should the kind of media people are allowed to make be limited?

its fine to criticize happyelements if youre unsatisfied with the way they do things, im not always 100% in love with everything they do either. i wouldn't even consider enstars to be the worlds' best example of a queer piece of media. but no one is forcing you to like or engage with it or give the company money if you're unhappy with how they write and market their game. they don't owe anyone explicit confirmation that any of their characters are dating, and it doesn't even matter if they do provide that confirmation or not.

regardless of who made it or for what reason, queer stories are worth talking about, "canon" or not.

#cryn answers #anon #enstars #listen i dont want to be mean to you anon but this is very much just an extended version of the first ask you sent me #i will leave anon on but im not going to make another post like this ive more than said my piece already #also sorry i guess for not getting into the shinobu character growth part of this ask?#it was just. so far off from the topic of conversation #this isnt even getting into the cultural differences between the west and japan and how that affects the way companies make things #but again thats a different conversation #anyway #fun fact me and my girlfriend started talking more partially because of shumika #so if that doesnt make them a good queer narrative idk what does man!!#they certainly resonate with lesbians somehow!!!#if anyone actually read this far hi!! you are so strong #media analysis

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mrsdulac · 30 days

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they didn’t have to go so hard on Forspoken’s main theme but I’m so glad they did

#it FUCKS 🔥#there’s an extended version on YouTube that i listen to often #and sometimes when i open the game i sit on the home screen bc i wanna hear it #it’s just such a vibe #i saw some people say it lowkey gives horizon vibes and it do tbh #forspoken

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7official7moose7 · 2 years

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FORGOT TO POST THIS

The rest is uncolored and under the cut because of length issues 🤩🤩

#school project that i wanted to post online as well #i was going to color all of it but the deadline came waayyy too soon (plus i just liked it blank better)#and the second part is still a wip 😔#anyways. so sorry i didn't post this sooner lmao #the extended version of great at crime came out a while ago and i was listening to it today and my brain suddenly went. HEY #soooo. yeah pog #artists on tumblr #digital art #digital comic #epithet erased #giovanni potage #molly blyndeff #ah yes. the infamous #bee's ee tag

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enbyenjy · 7 months

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has this been done yet??

#watched the eras tour film yesterday and I can't stop talking about it so now I must extend it to my silly doodles too🤠#listen post s2 crowley is probably going to put red tv on repeat just because.#crowley #good omens 2 #good omens fanart #good omens #aziracrow #all too well ten minute version #good omens taylor swift #enbyenjy #red tv

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unopenablebox · 8 months

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even otherwise very likeable people spend too long in the bay area and start telling you that going to rationalist social events is okay

#im not goign to elaborate on what made me make this post. but it did sadden me to experience #now being at *** SHOULD be just as much of a proximity risk factor #but there are three core things that protect me:#1. they mostly go after the undergrads. presumably bc if youre at grad school you've already failed to optimize your life for ai prevention #2. i am an extremely prominent and visible union organizer and it is approximately the only thing anyone knows me for #which im afraid is in fundamental opposition to rationalist ideals‚ sorry #and 3. anytime someone tells me they think any longevity research is good i hoot loudly in mockery until they leave the room.#these key traits are essential to long-term success and well-being and never having to listen to someone sincerely tell you about X risk.#box opener #rationalism extends to EA et al. here and EA is probably the most coherent remaining version. but they'll always be rationalists to me.

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thelostboys87 · 21 days

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the autistic friend at 8:30pm on a wednesday: i listened to wham's best song (freedom) on the three separate wham! records i have with freedom on and it sounds best on make it big

#its also randomly a differently one on the final #like not the extended version its just different at the end #havent listened to the cd version in so long i was like oh okay!

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picory · 9 months

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spotify rarely if ever introduces me to new music. all of those mixed playlists are filled with the same songs i've been listening to for months. i feel like i'm in some sort of loop. get me outta here

#i mean there's discover weekly but even that still shows me music i've already listened to #and there's just not many songs there anyway #i guess i gotta put in the effort to find me some new songs... the old fashioned way. im just too lazy #i end up putting on an extended version of a video game track i especially favor on the day i decide to sit down and draw #those really help me focus tbh!#quacks

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devilsskettle · 1 year

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whenever i hear a song that i would like if it weren’t for the fact that it was too long, i think about this:

like you can afford to write tangentially if you/your music is already popular and you know that people are going to listen to you no matter what and in fact laud your longer pieces as being genius etc but can you really be releasing 5+ minute long songs without a built-in audience?