I feel embarrassed admitting to anyone that I'm watching it, because vampire Shinsengumi WHAT SHIT IS THAT. This strategy of getting kids to learn Japanese history by making ridiculous, slashtastic mostly inaccurate video games and then anime out of it is a trend the States should pick up (SEE ALSO: SENGOKU BASARA, ANOTHER SHAMEFUL MASTERPIECE OF THIS GENRE). There's like, a particular threshold of fundamentally satisfying and fundamentally lacking that a series has to straddle to be fanficcable, and for whatever reason samurai manga always are, maybe it's the aesthetic OR MAYBE just the fact that the actual events are so fuckwittedly pointlessly tragic that they know we'll degenerate into shameful bawling messes whatever they do? (OKITA/KONDOU BAAAAAAWWWWW you have no idea how much I want that in my life) But now I have an illustrious compatriot in this particular guilty pleasure, so I'm absolved of my shame /twirl
YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS. LET US FLAIL AT EACH OTHER. Who do you loveeee? What do you want to write about?! WHAT IS ON YOUR HARD DRIVE FOR THESE CRAZIES TELL ME. I'm in the same situation as you writing-wise, I stopped writing regularly for like...three months and when I came back I'd basically been bumped back to Fanfic Level One where all that enters the brain in terms of images are like, Madara's sexy bedhead hairstyles, Crimson Orbs (TM) etc. Not a productive state of affairs. WHAT DO WE DO?
Japanese novels are so clinical sometimes that they come up with these perfect bits of imagery without even trying, idk. I remember reading once about someone sending his lover a "single firefly in a lacquered red cage"? That's so poetic it shouldn't be allowed, maybe that's why this series is so maddeningly addictive despite vampires and whatever the hell. The entire reason the founding of Konoha is so cool for me is that Sengoku setting, which gives nutjobs like Madara some much-needed context. I MEAN, IF YOU'RE ON A HISTORICAL JAPANESE KICK, THERE IS ALWAYS THAT TO WRITE /subtle
but yes rambling because I am so happy to have you and your writing back in my life! And you know I'm always up for drabbletrades or other ~illicit activities~ if you need reciprocal writing therapy &hearts
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mostly inaccuratevideo games and then anime out of it is a trend the States should pick up (SEE ALSO: SENGOKU BASARA, ANOTHER SHAMEFUL MASTERPIECE OF THIS GENRE). There's like, a particular threshold of fundamentally satisfying and fundamentally lacking that a series has to straddle to be fanficcable, and for whatever reason samurai manga always are, maybe it's the aesthetic OR MAYBE just the fact that the actual events are so fuckwittedly pointlessly tragic that they know we'll degenerate into shameful bawling messes whatever they do? (OKITA/KONDOU BAAAAAAWWWWW you have no idea how much I want that in my life) But now I have an illustrious compatriot in this particular guilty pleasure, so I'm absolved of my shame /twirlYOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS. LET US FLAIL AT EACH OTHER. Who do you loveeee? What do you want to write about?! WHAT IS ON YOUR HARD DRIVE FOR THESE CRAZIES TELL ME. I'm in the same situation as you writing-wise, I stopped writing regularly for like...three months and when I came back I'd basically been bumped back to Fanfic Level One where all that enters the brain in terms of images are like, Madara's sexy bedhead hairstyles, Crimson Orbs (TM) etc. Not a productive state of affairs. WHAT DO WE DO?
Japanese novels are so clinical sometimes that they come up with these perfect bits of imagery without even trying, idk. I remember reading once about someone sending his lover a "single firefly in a lacquered red cage"? That's so poetic it shouldn't be allowed, maybe that's why this series is so maddeningly addictive despite vampires and whatever the hell. The entire reason the founding of Konoha is so cool for me is that Sengoku setting, which gives nutjobs like Madara some much-needed context. I MEAN, IF YOU'RE ON A HISTORICAL JAPANESE KICK, THERE IS ALWAYS THAT TO WRITE /subtle
but yes rambling because I am so happy to have you and your writing back in my life! And you know I'm always up for drabbletrades or other ~illicit activities~ if you need reciprocal writing therapy &hearts