thinking things
Dec. 19th, 2018 10:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
volpish- my writing progress has once again turned into 'an au a day' with nothing even nearing completion
- i'm hoping that my plan to only count things i published to ao3 towards my gywo pledge will encourage me to finish a little more, but we'll see
- my social media addiction is... really fucking WEIRD. it's like i lose all momentum/motivation in everything once i cut whatever-my-drug-of-choice-is-now out. this happened when pfio was down, too. i don't actually feel bad, it's just that my ability to propel myself into doing anything is just... gone.
- awwww heck. i still need to write that ff7 secret santa thing, ugh
- all these writeups on gender and sex studies would be a whole lot more engaging and interesting if i couldn't hear the morality lecture/'you are a bad person for thinking this transphobic thing' lecture underneath them
- fooooood. gloooorious foooooooooood.
- if i can't write an essay on why a thing i love is Good (in the sense of funny/interesting/surprising/well-executed/etc), what's even the point?
- wrote 1.2k on my misadventures in fandom drama. got a reply. immediately remembered a fuckton more #wild stories to tell. why is this my life.
- panty & stocking with garterbelt is powerpuff girls on crack... and vigaria
- i just found out that it was made by gainax (you know, NGE, FLCL, gurren lagann, those guys) and suddenly everything makes sense
- i also just found out that a couple former gainax employees founded trigger, which not only did kill la kill, but little witch academia and darling in the franxx and my mind is blown
- and yet?? it makes so much sense
- i also just found out that a couple former gainax employees founded trigger, which not only did kill la kill, but little witch academia and darling in the franxx and my mind is blown
- i just found out that it was made by gainax (you know, NGE, FLCL, gurren lagann, those guys) and suddenly everything makes sense
- there's really a song called Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) and i think that's amazing
- i can't remember what i intended to do with this evening. i think it was 'take a nap.'
- i feel so awkward even thinking about chronicling my #writing woes here and that, more than anything, is what's making me want to go back to pfio
- it's not the 'woes' part that's awkward, it's that those woes come in disconnected oneliners that i'd really appreciate likes on but aren't really meant or phrased to be engaged with any deeper than that*—ergo, bad for a site with no likes, only comments
- *NB: i definitely don't mind them being engaged with more than that, but definitely kudos to you if you manage it
- i want something sweet. a food thing, i mean.
- was i supposed to reply to people?
- i'm very bitter about people skimping on their empathy for other real live human beings. very bitter.
- kitty! kitty chirps. my achchi's kitty is chirping and i love him
- my achchi makes very very very good food if you don't mind the flames of hell taking up permanent residence in your mouth (i do)
- ....christmas is soon. very soon. tf?
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Date: 2018-12-20 06:45 pm (UTC)2. Oh man I watched a little bit of Panty and Stocking, that was right before I got sucked into the hellsite in earnest (and that show was NOT approved). Maybe I'll go back and watch it when I have some time - it was stupid as fuck but I remember it being really fun. Similarly, I never ended up watching Kill la Kill despite it being really appealing art wise...
3. RE: writing woes, I know that people with paid accounts will often stick polls at the bottom of their posts that have only one "kudos" option - a neat workaround. (If I had them I feel like I would use them on, like, every third post with multiple options.) Would that make it easier? I've also found that there are some people who cross post stuff from their tumblr and they either crosspost nothing on a day, or four things on a day, so maybe we're both freaking out about the regularity of our posting unnecessarily? I mean if people don't like they can unsub...
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Date: 2018-12-20 09:24 pm (UTC)2. uuuugh i bet. :< panty & stocking went a little too hard on the crass sex humor for me to fully appreciate it (i like to pretend i'm tough but This Was Not In My Education XD) but i can see how it would be a lot of fun if i could ignore/enjoy it, and i'm sad to not have enjoyed it because DO YOU SEE THAT ART STYLE?
BUT KILL LA KILL. GOD I LOVED KILL LA KILL. IT'S SO. SO FUCKING A B S U R D AND IT'S AMAZING FOR IT. do you know why ryuuko's going to a spartan school where your military standing defines where your family lives and clothes give you unimaginable power and dressing as a stripper (with an outfit that masquerades as a talking sailor fuku in the style of the ones schoolgirl delinquents typically wore in 80s japan) to beat people up with half a dismantled giant scissor? NOPE. and you continue to just not know for the majority of the show, but things become clearer and clearer by the episode, during which things get more and more absurd.
it's got a lot of... rapey under/overtones though, if that's gonna be an issue. only one really skin-crawling instance of actual rape, but there's... if you saw it trashed, you probably know :'D ON THE UPSIDE it's suuuuper energetic and does absolutely nothing halfway—or even all the way. smash society's preconceived notions of 'limits' and burst into a new era of extra.
like, i'm not 100% sure what they're doing but whatever they're doing, they're doing it fantastically.
//coughs// yes anyway
3. ....damn, i want that DW subscription even more nowwww DX and truuuue i could just post oneliners. :|a even the input seems to ask for More Thought Than That though so it's... hard :D;;;
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Date: 2018-12-21 08:20 pm (UTC)2. Most the analysis I saw didn't actually get past "a sixteen year old wearing that outfit is kinda gross" which is... not wrong exactly, but it's not real life, and anime's just kinda like that. Not sure why Kill la Kill got singled out and Gurren Lagann didn't. :/
With a warning for the rapey stuff I think I'll be good!! I'll have to add it to my ever growing list :D
3. That is true... I've started posting random one line thoughts on pfio again, now that I'm feeling marginally less spooked, and you're not wrong that even the posting page seems to expect more. :') The internet was a slower place back in 2009 or whatever...