I don’t know if it’s just me but putting a tilde after any text makes me read it in a flirty seductive voice. There’s a hull breach on level seven and our oxygen levels are critical~
The subject escaped containment~
this is how you represent GLaDOS’ dialogue in text form
Anonymous:
god dang government telling me not to ship 4090s to china
Takarazuka Revue is so funny because it’s like we are a fine upstanding institution of good family values, like homophobia. Please ignore the lesbians making up the majority of people both on stage and in the audience.
Takarazuka Revue is like: we enforce only the strictest gender roles in our troupe as is right and proper, sorting them into the two genders: women who are women, and women who are men. How dare you suggest there’s anything queer about that.
Takarazuka Revue is simultaneously the queerest thing and the least queer thing to ever exist. Takarazuka bucks tradition and is tradition incarnate. Takarazuka is like
and maintains itself as one of the most hierarchical artistic organizations in the world with intense control over its performers. This alternate reality where the talented (and lucky, and connected) few can gain the right to openly perform queerness in the one setting comphet capitalism has carved out for them as long as they follow a different even stricter set of rules for dress and behavior. It dissembles traditional gender by its very existence and so must reinforce it at every turn.
And yet despite being the product of a conservative capitalist railroad owner who only really sought to exploit women for entertainment aimed at men (and their hetero families) that remains loyal to those deeply normative puritanical roots, it was and is also one of the most liberating theater and media experiences of queer Japanese people for decades. You can tell from all the queer art about it, by queer people. By the fact that the audience who flocked to it were not (cis) men.
Trying to untangle the mutual influence of shoujo manga to takarazuka is even more difficult that trying to untangle something like the history of modern Broadway and Disney movies. We wouldn’t have The Little Mermaid without Little Shop of Horrors, but we wouldn’t have Wicked without the Disney renaissance, but we wouldn’t have Frozen without Wicked, and going back further to things like Cinderella and Rogers and Hammerstein and they are intertwined but listen to me. Takarazuka and shoujo manga, especially yuri, are more intertwined. And then so much western media has been inspired by shoujo anime. Rose of Versailles the manga was inspired by Takarazuka and then in turn was adapted into their most famous play which then in turn influenced so many more artworks. Uranus and Neptune are an otokoyaku and musumeyaku. Utena and Anthy (and honestly that whole ass show. The stairs?? C’mon). And all the works and creators THOSE works inspired.
We owe so much to Takarazuka but also if we tried to thank them for their role in queer history they’d be like “we’ve never been queer in our lives!!!!!!!!” and then say a slur to your face while taking your money. Incredible. Wish more people knew what the fuck it was and I could get fansubs.
Morning comrades who wants to see some wacky art deco vehicles
Always
Don’t let it be said I don’t give you nothing
These are less vehicles and more creatures. Like I feel the bottom right I could encourage to eat seeds and berries out of my hand
Petting the radiator grill whilst making hushing noises, such a gentle thing
Vehicles you need to gently feed an apple before you can drive them
Top right is 100% one of those Gotham PD swat vans they’d always have in Batman: The Animated Series. One of those’d pull up and like two dozen dorks would goose step out and Batman would audibly roll his eyes cause now he has 20+ goons with guns he’s gotta save too.
some chill positivity from a 1998 Sesame Street book about the letter F
i thought “Why isn’t Cookie Monster eating any cookies?????” but then I remembered that cookie is just a cookie, but a Fig Newton is fruit and cake. And then I realized that he’s eating all Fs
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