"beware the Frozen (addicted) heart", Elsanna overall *laughs* and all the other things which I am addicted to, ahahah! I'm Giulia, italian, history teacher.I like reading, writing, drawing, martial arts (karate), woodworking, blacksmithing, listen to music, playing guitar and piano. I am the author of "Elsanna Bram Stoker's Dracula" and “All for one and all for love” comics. Also author of the pirate fantasy novel "Il forgiatore di spade, il rubino maledetto". The title of the blog is how my wife often calls me x3 Feel free to ask me anything :) my deviant art http://shishiyoukai.deviantart.com
It’s a pleasure to fight and serve on this ship, mate! 🤟❤️
Back in September, I got some nasty anons on my other blog freaking out about whether I shipped Elsanna because I said over there that people treat Elsanna shippers in the fandom with a double standard, and harassing me for it.
I initially responded to the anon curtly but civilly on my other blog, then deleted the follow-ups they sent that became more hostile. I could have left it at that, but I am nothing if not petty...
So I commissioned the wonderful @giuliaciulia89 to create this piece, just to say, I ship what I fucking want. If you have a problem with that, fuck off.
@ariel-seagull-wings @themousefromfantasyland It remains fascinating to me that, in the US, the film Kirikou and the Sorceress is kinda obscure and only available in a blurry print and old non-anamorphic DVDs while in other countries it's just... a children's film? Like, a restoration was on the Criterion Channel for a few months some years ago, but that's been gone for ages now.
It's because of the completely nonsexual animated nudity that's so matter-of-fact within the film and normal among the culture it portrays that it becomes irrelevant. And some people might say, "Well, if it's irrelevant then they could have just censored it for the US release," but like... that would have been a loss to the film.
Like, it's all very well for people to say things like "Nudity in and of itself is nonsexual" but having a film where the nudity is so mundane you might even forget about it (or at least be forced to confront your own cultural biases regarding nudity) shows that.
This is the way these people live. It is ordinary. The film doesn't try to otherize its characters because of it.
It just is.
And that makes it integral to the film.
I only saw the film for the first time when it appeared on the Criterion Channel, but I feel like if I'd grown up with it (there would have been no chance of that; my family would have confiscated the DVD), I'd have had a less complicated emotional journey regarding my body.