tumblr's prolly gonna delete half my shit so this is a backup b/c i can't even get the download to work (guess 2 gb is too much for my miserable connection to handle without shitting out like 5 network errors)
it’s so funny to me that stoicism is largely seen as a very male and ‘macho’ virtue. being stoic and tight-lipped regarding one’s own suffering is one of the most womanly qualities i could possibly think of, and by far one of the least male.
black cats are wonderful because you can stare into the void and not only does the void stare back, sometimes it trots up to you happily and begs for pats
moe anime girls are brachycephalic that’s why they make those shallow snuffly snorty breathing sounds when they get excited or do any kind of physical activity
I’m watching Clannad and the moe brachycephalic hypothesis could also explain why the girls have such dazed movements, slow soft voices, and glazed over eyes. They just aren’t getting enough oxygen to their brain.
i was having thoughts this morning about naruto and how. early days naruto was so different from the other loud spiky ‘underdog’ shounen heroes we get these days
a lot of underdog characters in current shounen manga that ive been reading are underdogs because they are timid or socially awkward or clumsy somehow (haikyuu, yowapeda, that baseball anime, bnha)
but naruto was genuinely obnoxious. he was gross and rude and clingy. he was loud and disruptive and ruined things.
he was affection starved and had little positive socialisation. he was from an extremely tough background with very very few good role models. he was grubby and wasnt fed well at home. he didnt quite know how to tone himself down, in fact hed never had a reason to try–hed do anything for attention, even negative attention. he was just like so many kids ive known, that i knew in school myself, that i see now as an adult.
that was such a great layer of realness. no matter how much i might enjoy other similar ‘underdog’ characters, i dont think ive ever seen another one come close to that level of nuance
Bart Simpson?
bart simpson, the greatest shounen anime character of our time
“Scary dogs” in movies and TV are great, because the editors dub in angry growls and do smash closeups on the teeth and all, but if you look at the dog’s body language, all you ever see is “I’M PLAYING THE GAME WITH MY FRIENDS!!!”
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