Oh yeah I mean, look at Van. He’s dear to my heart but is absolutely just gay tragedy porn. A product of what was unusual representation at the time perhaps, but still. In addition to the other concerns like not doing anything better in recent works.

Right. I mean for the time it was decent! It was, at least, present. And growing up I really latched onto them for that reason, but you want stuff like that to continue to grow with you and it just hasn’t. She’s still alive though so you can always say maybe. Me being me I would really want to see her do a lesbian couple in the Elemental Masters series because gay fairy tales are Always Good.

comradewodka replied to your post  “�� about mercedes lackey books, �� about mythological creatures (NOT the…”

I’ve never considered the dragon thing but hey why not, consider it
canon now that femmy don’t drank.

As for Elf man… yeah it’s just shallow lol he’s a pretty elf dude/one
of the characters who’s actually old enough to objectify. I’m no
stranger to weird adoption of relatively minor characters myself! But
yaint wrong

LOL

I know part of it too is that the designs were available for a long time before the show came out. (also obviously I also have a habit of latching onto the most minor characters too!)

comradewodka replied to your post “I’m not saying that every modern anime looks bad or ugly that would be…”

It sincerely depends. I think part of it is that the industry’s expanded which means we have to sift through a lot of stiff mediocre derivative stuff to find the ones with character, but there’s still incredible stuff going on in its own way. I do miss certain things about the retro styles though for sure, even though plenty of those were also not actually well done either haha

I mean yeah, part of it is that there’s so much to choose from. And this wasn’t a vague post about any specific anime or w/e.

I just mean for each clump of years in anime you can kind of boil them down to a “general generic” anime style and I don’t like the sort of generic anime these days. But more than that, there’s differences in the way shows are animated and the sort of focus that they put on certain types scenes (I was already talking about that with @hakbot a week or so ago and I don’t really want to get into it again here)

But as I said also, I think due to it becoming more popular/maintstream we’re not only getting access to more anime but also access to anime with much better stories than there used to be. The standards are higher. So that’s something too.

comradewodka replied to your post “alright well corporate is sending ominous emails about proper uses of…”

Uh oh it’s the popo…. don’t worry it’s PROBABLY some old idiot man watching porn in his office but they might be more vigilant for a bit so, for the best to behave

I KNOW RIGHT

possibly also has to do with them getting bought out so we all have to be on our best behavior

don’t worry I won’t put my tumblr convos over my job security ahahha

Open my mouth and pour it in

hell yeah

Never too long to be FRANDS

TOO TRUE!!

Lmao yesterday I googled ‘white blouses for people who hate white blouses’ so

we’re a matched set

do you think we’ve know each other too long? LOL

comradewodka replied to your post “Anyway since a lot of you are probably bemused by this here’s a bunch…”

I like the art too, maybe i should give it a try sometime

oh my god please do I only know one other person who’s into it and she’s probably getting sick of me by now (JK) but I think three will probably be a lot in there that you like and, knowing us, a lot we can pick over together

I wanna be able to do that too!! But I’m not there yet

stay patient, you’ll get there! this is way too short for my needs but I’m just reminding myself of what I want to keep from chopping it all off again lol