#layer 2450 is looking up old shojo magazine covers and shuddering saying 'oh...its blonde blue eyed white people all the way down'

[floorpancakes]

#semi out of context twitter repost but #listen i was mid convo and i had a revelation #new buzzfeed quiz just dropped how deep are YOU into the queer vintage anime pit of doom??? #yes this is how i got into it (stage 0 and 1) #kawoshin is a retro anime mystery busting gateway drug #im on like level 16000 but that's like. literally beginner level i am a single celled organism who knows nothing #layer 2450 is looking up old shojo magazine covers and shuddering saying 'oh...its blonde blue eyed white people all the way down' #and layer 2457 is trying to figure out what to make of that information and exercising nuanced internal criticism of it #layer 0 can also be 'eva akira and utena are THE retro anime it doesnt rly go back further i think maybe unless its a popular long shonen' #not that all those onions would be expressed at omce #layer 7329 is remembering your kuroshitsuji phase and awkwardly side eyeing the alois kid once you watch the kazeki ova #actually some of these are sooo poorly scaled listen i wasnt planning on making a huge metaphor cut me a little slack #anyways its definitely like slipping down a massive hole but like a cool one like in alice in wonderland #and it smells of old books in both a pleasant way and a spooky way #i need to get mentally better to clear floor 45000 and become jp fluent to clear floor 65000 im a noob