iunno if he said that or not, people keep throwing that tidbit around on tumblr but i never see a source
I get the feeling it might be taken out of context, maybe as part of a statement saying something along the lines of what you said. But then, Tumblr has a tendency to treat questionable statements as gospel...
iunno if he said that or not, people keep throwing that tidbit around on tumblr but i never see a source
I get the feeling it might be taken out of context, maybe as part of a statement saying something along the lines of what you said. But then, Tumblr has a tendency to treat questionable statements as gospel...
I get the feeling that what they're talking about is a mutation of this quote.
To me, he's not really saying that they deserve to be abused there, but I can understand how it got mutated into him saying that.
Yeah, what he's saying is that people can do really horrible or thoughtless things out of what would normally be considered positive motivations, which applies just as much to the antagonists as the protagonists here.
The premise riffs on some of the troubling implications of more conventional shows in the genre, but it's not about "ripping into" its genre. At its heart, it's a deconstructive Faustian parable that is also a magical girl show. There is no contempt there, even when it is being critical, and people really play up the critical aspect when it's more of a side-dish.
Which is to say that I found it every moving and exciting and cool, and you should totally watch it regardless of how you feel about magical girl shows in general.
thank god i was out of tvtropes before somebody could tell me it's a deconstruction, because then i'd never watch it (i haven't watched it but for no particular reason, well ok i don't like the faces much i guess)
The full interview, in translation, is here. In context, it can't be read as "they deserve to suffer", especially when you consider the last quote:
Madoka, the protagonist, made a certain decision at the end, and that was because she did not want to negate what the many mahou shoujo had wished for themselves.
That's...pretty much the opposite of "they deserve to suffer".
regarding me making a long meduka post: i came to the conclusion that i would have to think a lot to make this thing be coherent and i am in too poor of a mood after that terrible plasma donation to want to think too much
The full interview, in translation, is here. In context, it can't be read as "they deserve to suffer", especially when you consider the last quote:
Madoka, the protagonist, made a certain decision at the end, and that was because she did not want to negate what the many mahou shoujo had wished for themselves.
That's...pretty much the opposite of "they deserve to suffer".
Exactly!
On a tangentially related note: People call a lot of things "deconstructions" when they aren't actually deconstructive, at least not in the postmoderist literary theory sense.
People call a lot of things "deconstructions" when they aren't actually deconstructive, at least not in the postmoderist literary theory sense.
hardly critique the colonial remnants inherent in this taco del mar menu at all
I mean it like this: Some works are a full top-down "why is X, X?" assessment and dissection of a genre, medium and/or style in that format's own language. Simply subverting a genre or putting a series of tropes in a more realistic situation for contrast does not make a work deconstructive.
I mean it like this: Some works are a full top-down "why is X, X?" assessment and dissection of a genre, medium and/or style in that format's own language. Simply subverting a genre or putting a series of tropes in a more realistic situation for contrast does not make a work deconstructive.
i have absolutely no reason to even begin to try to understand derrida so i stick with the onion
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
no, Light is actually a decently interesting (if entirely and very deliberately unsympathetic) character, the guy from Hatred is just a power fantasy of a particularly disturbing kind.
queer heterosexuality is a cool concept because it reveals way way less about queerness than it does what heterosexuals think queerness is, which in this case is apparently holding hands, cuddling and expressing any type of basic human affection
there are heterosexual men who identify as "queer" because apparently demonstrating any level of affection towards another person is inherently non-heterosexual
basically it's an extention of the "no homo" mindset
no, Light is actually a decently interesting (if entirely and very deliberately unsympathetic) character, the guy from Hatred is just a power fantasy of a particularly disturbing kind.
I don't know anything about Hatred (and it doesn't sound like I want to) but Death Note is all about how disturbing power fantasies are bad.
Also, I (unfortunately) know people who would disagree with you about the "entirely unsympathetic" part
no, Light is actually a decently interesting (if entirely and very deliberately unsympathetic) character, the guy from Hatred is just a power fantasy of a particularly disturbing kind.
I don't know anything about Hatred (and it doesn't sound like I want to) but Death Note is all about how disturbing power fantasies are bad.
Also, I (unfortunately) know people who would disagree with you about the "entirely unsympathetic" part
So do I, but he's meant to be unsympathetic. People who think that this whole Kira business is a great idea don't change that.
HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.
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just anime things
and yeah i can see how tumblr would twist that around
Neither does Cabin in the Woods.