i caught up with all of my animés and mängos so you’ll excuse me if i’m in a pretty weeb mood right now
the ancient magus bride is a story about two dumb idiot children trying to teach each other how to be less like dumb idiot children. it’s exactly like that john mulaney bit about hiring a horse to watch your dog
dungeon meshi’s art is so good… ryoko kui knows exactly how much she needs to put into each panel to get what she wants out of it: the characters are so emotive and distinct without a single line wasted; the volumes of shapes are consistent without sacrificing movement or expressiveness. it’s a work with such gracefully organized artistic priorities, and that’s something that really works in its favor.
leosaku is one of my favorite (if not my very favorite) fates pairings, but I’ve noticed some work tends to put sakura in a role where she just doesn’t exist as a person outside of being leo’s love interest/wife by giving her very little personal agency when he’s not around, even when she’s the focus of the work, and infantilizes her by relegating her character to just “nervous but in a cute way” even in works where she’s very much an adult, and an important one at that.
it’s a little annoying because sakura is one of my favorite characters in the game precisely because I love how she has to balance her anxiety about her position and her perceived lack of power with her kind heart and her exploration of her ability, and I’ve seen so much work that completely strips her of that by just having leo (or honestly anybody she’s being paired with) do everything for her and completely ignoring her wants and goals outside of her love interest and how capable she actually is.
I think the both of them are pretty difficult to write and I don’t fault people for that or for just wanting to write stuff that makes them happy but I’d really like to see more leosaku content that really explores sakura’s potential, and not just leo’s (who is much more popular, haha) – because my favorite thing about them is how they play off each other’s strengths and flaws and outlooks on life.
elias ainsworth spent what were essentially the formative years of his life following around an antisocial reindeer herder and we all wonder why he’s a fucking weirdo
my biggest fear as a content creator is making something that gets big enough to manifest a fandom but it turns out the biggest most wildly popular ship is one that i actively dislike
my biggest flight rising regret is not waiting just a couple minutes longer to sign up because then my progen’s id number could have been #42069
