it's show time~
Ever since last night, I have been suffering from a terrible and persistent urge to write Tokyo Mew Mew fic.
HELP.
For those of you unfamiliar with the series in question, it is kind of like a lower-budget, way-less-awesome Sailor Moon. Or perhaps it is better compared to Precure. Anyway: There are aliens! Trying to kill people & conquer Earth because their ancestors used to hang out there and the planet they have right now kind of sucks. And there is a sentai team of badly-characterized girls who shoot the aliens' monsters with magic. And there are teenage scientists who make them work in an overly-cutesy cafe so a) they can find all of the girls when they need them, b) the girls actually have some kind of explanation to give to people who wonder why they're never around, and c) the girls can get paid a little for all the world-saving. (I actually like this idea, can you tell?) And Ichigo is the perfect stereotype of 'annoying preteen girl', and her boyfriend is kind of really bland in that 'nice' sort of way, and there is a lot of yelling and narcolepsy and her boss the scientist poking at people's magic tattoos and far too much heteronormativity.
It is full of lots of terrible terrible pseudoscience and everyone is a giant stereotype and I have always felt really bad for the characters that they've had to put up with all this. I even knew this way back when, when I was twelve or thereabouts, and I kind of wanted to write something to fix it.
But how on earth do you fix problems which are that fundamental?
I sort of want to write an age-and-role-swap in which Ichigo & co. are the brilliant scientists and Ryou and Keiichirou are the cutesy-cafe genetically-compatable muscle.
Or something where Ryou and Keiichirou decide that cutesy is no longer in, and what the world really needs is a crossdressing butler-and-maid cafe.
SOMEONE STOP ME.
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HELP.
For those of you unfamiliar with the series in question, it is kind of like a lower-budget, way-less-awesome Sailor Moon. Or perhaps it is better compared to Precure. Anyway: There are aliens! Trying to kill people & conquer Earth because their ancestors used to hang out there and the planet they have right now kind of sucks. And there is a sentai team of badly-characterized girls who shoot the aliens' monsters with magic. And there are teenage scientists who make them work in an overly-cutesy cafe so a) they can find all of the girls when they need them, b) the girls actually have some kind of explanation to give to people who wonder why they're never around, and c) the girls can get paid a little for all the world-saving. (I actually like this idea, can you tell?) And Ichigo is the perfect stereotype of 'annoying preteen girl', and her boyfriend is kind of really bland in that 'nice' sort of way, and there is a lot of yelling and narcolepsy and her boss the scientist poking at people's magic tattoos and far too much heteronormativity.
It is full of lots of terrible terrible pseudoscience and everyone is a giant stereotype and I have always felt really bad for the characters that they've had to put up with all this. I even knew this way back when, when I was twelve or thereabouts, and I kind of wanted to write something to fix it.
But how on earth do you fix problems which are that fundamental?
I sort of want to write an age-and-role-swap in which Ichigo & co. are the brilliant scientists and Ryou and Keiichirou are the cutesy-cafe genetically-compatable muscle.
Or something where Ryou and Keiichirou decide that cutesy is no longer in, and what the world really needs is a crossdressing butler-and-maid cafe.
SOMEONE STOP ME.
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