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kossai) wrote2025-09-23 09:37 am
malymin) wrote2025-09-21 11:30 pm
"Maybe chara wasn't the best person but i will shoot out a giant rainbow colored laser to get them to stay by my side for a moment longer ok ok okok okokok"
kossai) wrote2025-09-20 09:11 pm
kossai) wrote2025-09-20 01:06 pm
smmg) wrote2025-09-15 09:37 pm
smmg) wrote2025-09-19 05:15 pm
One day I'll get this video about Cornish finished and posted.... I've recorded the audio, I'm just struggling with what to put as the visuals. I've created a timeline of the Cornish language but I'm either going to remake it or make more timelines. Also I don't really like my voice for transgender reasons so editing the video is hard because I have to hear myself 💔
kossai) wrote2025-09-18 03:28 pm
kossai) wrote2025-09-15 08:11 pm smmg) wrote2025-09-15 07:04 pm bedes) wrote2025-09-15 03:35 pm
I think it's interesting that the Beasts are conform to traditional gender roles, especially when compared to the Ancient Heroes. The warriors are men, and the women are in more nurturing positions. While Shadow Milk is far from traditionally masculine now, while he was still a Virtue, he was an academic – a position often seen as strictly for men. (And I feel it goes without saying that he almost certainly wasn't a shapeshifter until after his fall, given that his shifting is an extension of and aid for Shadow Milk's Deceit. That means no fluidity between masculine and feminine forms.)
Compare this to the Ancient Heroes. Pure Vanilla is an effeminate male healer (often voiced by women in different languages), and there are two strong warrior women. Dark Cacao and White Lily are the closest to being gender-conforming, but they still fall short, so to say. Dark Cacao is a strong king with a noted soft side, and White Lily is a delicate woman with a thirst for knowledge. (Remember: academia and knowledge are traditionally seen as men's territory.)
Furthermore, the Beasts have a majority of men, and the Ancient have a majority of women.
I like to imagine this is has to do with the fact that the Beasts were made for their roles, while the Ancient Heroes grew up as normal people before being gifted their sacred status. When the Virtues were hand-crafted, they were imagined up as 'suited' for their designated roles in every way. But, once these attempted manifestations of perfect ideals failed, it fell to normal people. And normal people are much more variant, much more diverse. But one can argue that it is also through the Ancient Heroes' upbringing as normal people that they are able to thrive where the Virtues once fell.
kossai) wrote2025-09-14 09:29 pm kossai) wrote2025-09-14 04:11 pm
malymin) wrote2025-09-14 02:08 pm
This is a post that I want to eventually cross-post to ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
anime_manga, but I last left it in an unfinished state in uh... 2024 on Cohost. Going over the color symbolism of every single Utena character is well-trod territory, so I do want to link to pre-existing analysese of that nature, such as Vrai's recap episode commentary from 2014. Jay Scott's analysis of how Utena uses color, by someone clearly not involved the anime's fandom culture but nonetheless deeply fascinated with the work to the point of having a massive number of articles on his personal site dedicated to the show, is also a great read - I think some of his reads are massive stretches, but you can't say he isn't thorough.
( the post so far )
Really, I think I probably need to bring in at least a loose summary of the other main characters' image colors, as well as a note on how red and white roses are much more associated with ideas than with the specific characters they're tied to. (Red is more about sex than it is about the specific character of Touga, although Touga is The Red One; White is much more about idealized princehood than it is about the specific character Akio (or about Dios as specifically a past-Akio, versus Dios as pure symbol). It is noteworthy that Touga wears a lot of white and Akio a lot of red! Anthy has purple hair, and thus purple can be said to be "her color", but purple roses do not exist in the show - something to be said about how she is treated like an object within the system of Ohtori, framed as a passive doll-like subject by the Duels in contrast to how Duelists are framed as active free agents within the system? Obviously the Duelists are themselves manipulated by Akio towards his own ends, but their participation requires them to believe that they really can bring about Revolution for themselves by possessing Anthy as a passive subject, whether she be pure doll-princess or consumable sexual object in their eyes...)
malymin) wrote2025-09-14 01:19 pmThe comic book convention in my town has videogame, anime, etc stuff, but ultimately a lot of floorspace is taken up by cape comics, because it's a comic book convention, and I just don't... care about that?
Anime offerings tend to be largely the same limited stuff every year. Sailor Moon is the one thing that isn't shounen that you can count on finding - otherwise it's Naruto, One Piece, Dragon Ball, Demon Slayer, YGO, etc. FMA, but I haven't found anything 03 specific when that's the version I care about. And anime girl figurines from popular gatchas and isekais. I've never seen any vocaloid merch that isn't Miku at this con, outside of a single "official art on a solid background" button pin of Teto.
The best bet for diversity is Artist Alley in the back, because the front is all cape comics, mass-popularity shounen, sailor moon as the one shoujo or mahou shoujo offering, and pokemon - but it felt even less diverse this year than previous years. A bunch of stuff that's currently popular with Millenials, Zoomers, etc was barely present. No Umamusume at the whole con! Like one table with Deltarune stickers or prints. There was a decent bit of KPop Demon Hunters at multiple tables, but still less than I expected? NO Amazing Digital Circus or Murder Drones. (Though i did see a kid cosplaying one of the Murder Drones characters, that was cute - they had the syringe tail and everything!)
For what it's worth, out of the things I've listed - I don't personally care about Umamusume, or KPop Demon Hunters, or ADC or MD. But I do notice that both "new things" I'm personally invested in (such as Deltarune) and new things I'm not personally invested in are lacking.
(Also I do kind of wish that I could attend a con that had a nice array of actual panels, and not just merch...)
One nice thing is that there's a table just outside artist alley selling some 70's shoujo paraphernalia. They said they get the laminated magazine covers from a Japanese store that does the cover-lamination process to old magazines that are too damaged to sell wholesale. Looking at the inside side of the covers, you see all these vintage advertisements aimed at the target audience of the magazine - honestly just as neat as the gorgeous sparkle-eyed illustrations on the fronts, albiet in a different sort of way. A slice of pop culture history...
But yea, I wish my area had dedicated anime and videogame conventions.
kossai) wrote2025-09-13 09:38 pm
kossai) wrote2025-09-13 06:39 pm
kossai) wrote2025-09-11 09:08 pm
feel like kossai would definitely benefit from physically present tist , like . only ever done through pre-made audios and scripts , with lover legion over voice call , or else with each other ( effectively " solo " ) , so actually not really any experience in physical sessions .
... but sure do take advantage of internal interaction with each other , and know that touch , visual , and non-verbal sound triggers all work really really good , personally . do not tend to need very long induction , just little bit of set dressup and something pretty to focus on will do :P
funnily regardless of methods certain suggestions just do not stick - anything that is like forget this , forget that , nope that is just ... impossible ? plurality might actually be factor there - have very strong collective memory between each other . can still be wonky in other ways , especially in psychosis , but generally seem pretty impenetrable from outside .
would honestly love to see what stage tist make of kossai . maybe some day ...
malymin) wrote2025-09-11 03:33 pmStardew Valley's 1.7 update has been announced, although not what will be in it.
Picking back up Caves of Qud. Started a new file, once again using the "gunwing" preset character. For some reason there's way more lag in the Stiltgrounds now for me? Makes it really annoying to traverse the place. Shame because I loooove shopping in Qud.
I feel like I need motivation to complete the two color-meta posts for Utena and Princess Tutu I promised anime_manga ages ago. I never finished their cohost versions and now I'm slacking on the dreamwidth versions... sigh.
It's easy to get demotivated. X( Everything is stressful and I don't have much faith in myself to have interesting or worthwhile things to say...