in which meg is all >:O at Ffnet and grosses herself out with analogies
Dear Person who just Reviewed Icebreakers Three saying 'Aww... that was a bit confusing though',
WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO PRINT IT OUT FOR YOU IN BIG BRIGHTLY COLORED BLOCK LETTERS?
ERIOL AND TOMOYO GET TOGETHER. THE END.
giving up in disgust,
meg
WHY DO I EVEN BOTHER TRYING TO BE SUBTLE SOMETIMES?
Also after last night's orgy of yaoi manga it occurs to me that it's kind of funny that people think yaoi is subversive and cutting edge because as a genre it tends to be deeply conservative. (Stop and think about the usual tropes and you'll see what I mean; the series I'm thinking of is Viewfinder, because Akihito is such a goddamn girl and ... well ok make the obvious connection about Asami and patriarchy. Look into things that don't concern you, Viewfinder says, and this is what happens. So you stay right there and let the big man take care of you.) More like ... hmm ... ok I'm going to contradict myself but the thing about yaoi is that if it stopped and thought enough about what it was doing it wouldn't be yaoi but something more like the sort of novel that whoever the cutting edge crowd considers their Oprah Bookclub reads. The point of yaoi is not that it's bringing up issues but that it's essentially escapist fiction. If it's subersive, if it brings up things buried in the collective unconciousness, it does it in the same way that a popular novel does, not as the point but like how a B-grade horror movie from the fifties often had Horrible Monsters Created by Science. The themes appear because they're already there. And they're kind of .... pushing out .... like .... a pimple .... ok ew thx brain.
Come to think of it, one of the series that most takes a good poke at relationship roles and conventions that I have hanging around is RIN! -- not because everybody dies horribly or the relationships are revealed to be horribly bad for everybody concerned, but because the point of the series is that we need other people and other people need us, but what we need more is to have a sense of self, an inner grounding. We need to be centered in our own personhood, not dependent on someone else to give it to us.
Which is to say, I infinitely prefer Rin! to Viewfinder.
WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO PRINT IT OUT FOR YOU IN BIG BRIGHTLY COLORED BLOCK LETTERS?
ERIOL AND TOMOYO GET TOGETHER. THE END.
giving up in disgust,
meg
WHY DO I EVEN BOTHER TRYING TO BE SUBTLE SOMETIMES?
Also after last night's orgy of yaoi manga it occurs to me that it's kind of funny that people think yaoi is subversive and cutting edge because as a genre it tends to be deeply conservative. (Stop and think about the usual tropes and you'll see what I mean; the series I'm thinking of is Viewfinder, because Akihito is such a goddamn girl and ... well ok make the obvious connection about Asami and patriarchy. Look into things that don't concern you, Viewfinder says, and this is what happens. So you stay right there and let the big man take care of you.) More like ... hmm ... ok I'm going to contradict myself but the thing about yaoi is that if it stopped and thought enough about what it was doing it wouldn't be yaoi but something more like the sort of novel that whoever the cutting edge crowd considers their Oprah Bookclub reads. The point of yaoi is not that it's bringing up issues but that it's essentially escapist fiction. If it's subersive, if it brings up things buried in the collective unconciousness, it does it in the same way that a popular novel does, not as the point but like how a B-grade horror movie from the fifties often had Horrible Monsters Created by Science. The themes appear because they're already there. And they're kind of .... pushing out .... like .... a pimple .... ok ew thx brain.
Come to think of it, one of the series that most takes a good poke at relationship roles and conventions that I have hanging around is RIN! -- not because everybody dies horribly or the relationships are revealed to be horribly bad for everybody concerned, but because the point of the series is that we need other people and other people need us, but what we need more is to have a sense of self, an inner grounding. We need to be centered in our own personhood, not dependent on someone else to give it to us.
Which is to say, I infinitely prefer Rin! to Viewfinder.