Adolescence of Utena (1999)
↳ Dir. Kunihiko Ikuhara
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I don't want to say goodbye...
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“the fandom has decided - ” “everyone agrees that - ” “we all know that this is the only right way to - ”
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I’m not sure exactly how to articulate it but—there is this bizarre base assumption i see from people discoursing about children’s media, and that’s the assumption that children are somehow unfamiliar with negative emotions. Like, maybe you’ve managed to completely forget your entire life before you turned eighteen, but kids spend a lot of time being hurt, and scared, and angry. A lot of people had terrible fucking childhoods, and a lot of kids are having terrible fucking childhoods right now. When i was a child, and i read books where bad things happened to kids, that was in no way shocking to me, i already knew bad things happened to children. It made me feel more connected to those stories, not less, and it made it more impactful when those child characters overcame it all in the end. That’s important for children. A lot of them are in desperate need of a little hope, and they aren’t going to get it from nothing stories with no conflict. They put conflict in children’s media for a reason
Also i see some of you handwringing over child protagonists going through, like, the most basic hero’s journey. Please, for the love of god, realize that you as an adult are going to understand children’s media differently than the actual kids it’s intended for. Because you’re all grown up now, you aren’t going to be able to relate to a child protagonist. You’re going to see a child in danger. The children the story is meant for are going to see a kid like them who is able to face hardship and triumph
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my cat stopping me from petting her
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hoshino ai should've been at the parent-teacher conference 😔
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Black Butterfly dress - 10% off code: chandelyer
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Hey can we queers please remember that the rural queer experience has unique challenges thanks
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I love seeing people adopt phrases I say like yes say my words boy
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