a lot of gankutsuou interviews emerged out of nowhere on youtube (i'm assuming it's because of its 19th anniversary?) and i'm so obsessed with the way mahiro maeda promotes his own anime. that's exactly how i try to convince my friends to watch my favorite works:
"i made it gay because i wanted to" - the powerful ambition to make his dream fanfiction of a 19th century novel a reality... goals!
highlight is when he admits that gankutsuou is basically a nighttime soap opera:
click for better quality? tumblr loves to compress images worse than dudes repressing gay urges
Art I made for my second work in the Scales of Fate au (Blood In The Wine) featuring The Ocean Queen and her new knights Dame Gem, Lady Pearl and Earl Cleo 🌊💗
Revisiting my Super Lesbian Animal RPG fan character, Valencia. She's a martial artist and she can't use spells, so I positioned her as kind of the Rock Lee/Might Guy of SLARPG's setting. Here, she is showing Melody a basic Judo grip.
Red Beryl (bixbite) is an extremely rare variety of beryl and one of the rarest minerals on Earth. the only known source of red beryl is Wah Wah Mountains, Beaver County, Utah
The state of 2D animation in America annoys me so bad can you imagine if 2D animation was allowed to exist outside of comedies and children’s cartoons here. The stories we could be telling. We could’ve had our own Akira by now but yall wanna keep PLAYING
so every single photo i took at jib was pretty pretty crappy because well, my phone is pretty pretty crappy, but! I figured a low quality pic is better than no pic at all! and I'm just now combing through them and
“why do i miss gem and the scotts suddenly theyre barely even real”
LITERALLY!! like. that team was held together with scott tape and the sheer force of gem’s personality. i don’t think scott and impulse ever actually even talked the entire time. it only worked because for the first time scott was faced with someone who was bossier than he was. they were awesome i should rewatch secret life
they were actually so fucking funny. All three of them promising to remain loyal and stick together until the very end (bc together they can win this!!) only for gem to hunt scott for sport an episode later was literally so based… their dynamic will always be funnier in my head i think but god it was awesome