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one of my really really good friends from high school lives in Japan and translates genderqueer novels and manga and stuff for a living, there really is some good stuff out there
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Tarezax posted:The newest Gundam anime features a lesbian protagonist who gets gay married at the end. The newest Gundam series was written by Ichirō Ōkouchi, who also wrote the Utena novels (Utena is a very sapphic-coded series)
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Jul 27, 2023 19:46
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Anime IS gay. Teenagers in the late 90's were right all along
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Jul 27, 2023 20:09
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So does these reactionaries simply pretend this kind of content doesn't exist? They seem to make the classic mistake of comparing the best example of the thing they like to the worst examples of the things they hate. For instance they hate the inclusion of queer characters in western media but don't actually compare queer media between western comics and manga. Instead they seem to pretend that western media shoehorns LGBT stuff in to "virtue signal" and manga just dispenses with it altogether. Western comics insert Mary Sues while manga has "reasonable" depictions of women. There's also a great amount of irony in the fact that one of the most popular current anime/genres seems to be "Iseki' which is basically a story about some Goony Goon getting teleported to Dungeons and Dragons universe and of course all his Goony skills come in tremendously useful in this new universe. Yet we are to assume these derivative works are somehow " superior" to their western counterparts?
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Jul 27, 2023 20:09
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:The newest Gundam series was written by Ichirō Ōkouchi, who also wrote the Utena novels (Utena is a very sapphic-coded series) lmao, coded
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Jul 27, 2023 20:12
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Hell, both the major recent US cartoons were basically Isekais, Amphibia and Owl House. I guess Centaurworld too...
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Jul 27, 2023 20:13
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PurpleXVI posted:lmao, coded yeah you're right it's ULTRA GAY
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Jul 27, 2023 20:14
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BioEnchanted posted:Hell, both the major recent US cartoons were basically Isekais, Amphibia and Owl House. I guess Centaurworld too... Alice in Wonderland, Narnia...
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Jul 27, 2023 20:18
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Utena is the gayest anime ever go watch it
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Jul 27, 2023 20:19
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BioEnchanted posted:Hell, both the major recent US cartoons were basically Isekais, Amphibia and Owl House. I guess Centaurworld too... it’s not even limited to cartoons. the good place is an isekai, down to the whole thing being kicked off by getting hit by a truck
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Jul 27, 2023 20:19
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:yeah you're right it's ULTRA GAY Yeah that's the thing, "coded" to me implies it isn't super obvious. Utena is super gay and super great.
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Jul 27, 2023 20:20
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Rockman Reserve posted:it’s not even limited to cartoons. the good place is an isekai, down to the whole thing being kicked off by getting hit by a truck Oh god I never thought of it that way but it does fit. Maybe Wall-E too as he goes from Earth to a ship that's multiple lightyears away and that's a totally alien environment... BioEnchanted has a new favorite as of 20:29 on Jul 27, 2023 |
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Jul 27, 2023 20:21
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Panfilo posted:So does these reactionaries simply pretend this kind of content doesn't exist? They seem to make the classic mistake of comparing the best example of the thing they like to the worst examples of the things they hate. When one of the Guilty Gear devs said confirmed they decided to officially write Bridget as a trans woman a whole bunch of western nerds started a conspiracy theory that it was an evil rogue western translator lying about his works. They are really attached to the conservative paradise Japan that exists in their fantasies.
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Jul 27, 2023 20:31
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mycatscrimes posted:When one of the Guilty Gear devs said confirmed they decided to officially write Bridget as a trans woman a whole bunch of western nerds started a conspiracy theory that it was an evil rogue western translator lying about his works. They are really attached to the conservative paradise Japan that exists in their fantasies. Bringing this back from earlier this year: Read After Burning posted:As an example, there's a trans woman (or at least she is in the localized version, not sure how her character identified in the original Japanese game) in AI: The Somnium Files. If I remember right, the protagonist is worried his younger sibling will act strangely towards her, with a response something like "Hey, I think anyone who can be who they truly are, even if everyone else is against them, is brave".
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Jul 27, 2023 20:35
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B33rChiller posted:please tell me you have little cups sunk into the floor here and there, so your living room is just a putting green. I was thinking of drawing white lines and making my place a tiny football arena
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Jul 27, 2023 20:37
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mycatscrimes posted:When one of the Guilty Gear devs said confirmed they decided to officially write Bridget as a trans woman a whole bunch of western nerds started a conspiracy theory that it was an evil rogue western translator lying about his works. They are really attached to the conservative paradise Japan that exists in their fantasies. bridgette’s arcade mode in gg: strive made me actually cry. lol.
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mycatscrimes posted:When one of the Guilty Gear devs said confirmed they decided to officially write Bridget as a trans woman a whole bunch of western nerds started a conspiracy theory that it was an evil rogue western translator lying about his works. They are really attached to the conservative paradise Japan that exists in their fantasies. Reminds me a bit of Lily Simpson's most recent boy meets world video where she discusses how strongly Shawn presents as a closeted transwoman, and even Corey decides to get in on the crossdressing plot even though there is no reason for him to do so just because he seems to think it looks fun. Shawn has an actual name for his female self (rather than just going for a feminized version of Shawn like 'Shauna'), and a practiced voice for her as well and he knows how to move so that he can pass effortlessly. The episode makes it clear even though it means it as a joke that he's thought about this a lot. As a result what used to read as a person dressing as the other gender for a cheap laugh, nowadays, reads as an egg cracking (to borrow a commonly used metaphor among the community) and Shawn/Veronica at the very least coming out as genderfluid. Lily also considers Shawn and Topanga as great allies. BioEnchanted has a new favorite as of 20:43 on Jul 27, 2023 |
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Jul 27, 2023 20:41
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credburn posted:I put astro turf down as a living room carpet and it was a fuckin great decision. what the gently caress man
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Jul 27, 2023 20:55
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Panfilo posted:Not to mention the fact that I've seen anime/manga depict some minorities as shockingly racist, like black characters being these donut lipped ogres. I mean look at Terraformars ffs! Or *shudder* Goblin Slayer. It's funny how anime/manga as a whole gets praised as being somehow so much more artistically "pure" than western counterparts but there's some pretty goddamn cringe counter examples. Considering the source of that post, I'd be surprised if they were against cultural insensitivity tbh.
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Jul 27, 2023 20:59
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credburn posted:I was thinking of drawing white lines and making my place a tiny football arena Get some RC cars, and play a little diy rocket league.
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Jul 27, 2023 21:17
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BioEnchanted posted:Oh god I never thought of it that way but it does fit. Maybe Wall-E too as he goes from Earth to a ship that's multiple lightyears away and that's a totally alien environment... Genre isn't just a checklist of tropes, it's an ongoing evolution of related works borrowing and remixing ideas that is related to, but not strictly defined or circumscribed by, the name of the genre. Wall-E isn't part of the "isekai conversation", so no. (For that matter, neither is Narnia; it's part of a similar genre tradition in english-language literature usually called "portal fantasy".) Even if we do take the "checklist of tropes" approach, Wall-E doesn't involve Wall-E's soul/consciousness/whatever being mysteriously and/or traumatically transported to a new world and body; he physically travels to the ship. credburn posted:I put astro turf down as a living room carpet and it was a fuckin great decision. what the gently caress
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Jul 27, 2023 22:11
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teen witch posted:Turf or Astroturf? Panfilo posted:Not to mention the fact that I've seen anime/manga depict some minorities as shockingly racist, like black characters being these donut lipped ogres. I mean look at Terraformars ffs! Or *shudder* Goblin Slayer. It's funny how anime/manga as a whole gets praised as being somehow so much more artistically "pure" than western counterparts but there's some pretty goddamn cringe counter examples.
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Jul 27, 2023 22:22
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https://twitter.com/theserfstv/status/1684600056291442688
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I don't understand these pictures. The words don't help.
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Jul 27, 2023 23:01
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Violet_Sky posted:I don't understand these pictures. The words don't help. dude with diaper fetish hates trans people.
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Jul 27, 2023 23:02
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For context on the doll: https://twitter.com/benryanwriter/status/1661832600942440448 What is the walrus thing mentioned in the shop description? I assume some stupid right-wing meme? Edit: Wait, he was the one who wrote the transphobic walrus kids book, wasn't he? 
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Violet_Sky posted:I don't understand these pictures. The words don't help. It's the internet equivalent of one the radioactive waste warning signs.
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Jul 27, 2023 23:20
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Violet_Sky posted:I don't understand these pictures. The words don't help. Here you go: code:
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Jul 27, 2023 23:38
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:yeah you're right it's ULTRA GAY Utena is definitely gay, but it's also probably everything else as well at the same time.
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Jul 27, 2023 23:39
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Platystemon posted:I can’t believe that no one noticed that Ben didn’t actually burn Barbie dolls. He burnt Polly Pocket dolls. What a goof! Wow it turns out that Ben knew something that we didn’t. https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1684257564526280704
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Read After Burning posted:I was passing through the manga section of my local bookstore last month, and I was pleased to see a whole section of LGBT+ manga! As in, "this is a biographical-style story of a gay/trans protagonist", not a bunch of yaoi. There's a lesser known manga called The Witch's Servant and the Demon Lord's Horns which I've really enjoyed. Sorta starts out as your typical fantasy fare but it eventually dives into all this gender exploration stuff which is the real focus it was building up to. I'll caution that the early chapters are pretty rough if not outright cringey, and the titular demon lord is a massive creep, but once it gets to the good stuff it's extremely cute and wholesome. Also it has some pages that go pretty hard, and others that are just funny
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ToxicFrog posted:Genre isn't just a checklist of tropes, it's an ongoing evolution of related works borrowing and remixing ideas that is related to, but not strictly defined or circumscribed by, the name of the genre. Wall-E isn't part of the "isekai conversation", so no. (For that matter, neither is Narnia; it's part of a similar genre tradition in english-language literature usually called "portal fantasy".) The Matrix isn't an isekai because Neo returns to his original world with powers.
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Platystemon posted:Wow it turns out that Ben knew something that we didn’t. Odds of it sharing a release date with a biopic about Edward Teller?
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B33rChiller posted:Get some RC cars, and play a little diy rocket league. I play that goofy Mario Kart Switch game on it 
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Jul 27, 2023 23:53
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Panfilo posted:https://twitter.com/romanhelmetguy/status/1684283163638366212?t=mP_grmYlT1whZLH54JJvSA&s=19 I dunno, learning that people throughout history were awesome and also sucked in the same ways we do now is one of the things I love about history. Ancient Romans shitposting in graffiti form in Pompeii, fandom feuds over whose god is best, that one time one pharaoh forced his own monotheistic canon on everyone else and then everyone went back to the old ways after he died, etc
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Jul 28, 2023 00:22
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My favorite was the Phoenician Yelp review about the lovely copper some merchant was selling. But it's pretty ridiculous to claim people aren't interested in history unless it is completely whitewashed. I feel like this meme is actually  "Why don't reactionaries want to study history in college?"
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Jul 28, 2023 00:25
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The most interesting thing about history is learning that people back then were just like us But we are kinda poo poo, and so were they.
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Panfilo posted:My favorite was the Phoenician Yelp review about the lovely copper some merchant was selling. Ea-Nasir is known by name on Tumblr because it's just funny.
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