you’re losing me lyrics that are shaking me to the core kinda
“i wouldn’t marry me either, a pathological people pleaser who only wanted you to see her”
“how can you say that you love someone you can’t tell is dying?”
“i’m getting tired even for a phoenix”
“how long could we be a sad song ‘til we were too far gone to bring back to life?”
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I wonder if those who wanted Ted and Rebecca to remain platonic friends because “we need more representations of platonic male/female friendships on tv” genuinely believe that Ted and Rebecca’s relationship delivered this to them. I wonder if a fan could describe what was unique about their friendship.
How did these character’s’ relationship re-define platonic intimacy? What insight did we gain about the value of male/female friendship? Rebecca and Keeley would hang out regularly and explore issues of gender, media, business, power, sexuality, and love, including for each other. Of Ted and Rebecca’s brief non-work conversations, they were almost exclusively about divorce, one or two about dating. How did these conversations expand our ideas about how friendships between men and women can be uniquely useful in processing these issues?
When we look back on iconic male/female friendships on tv, do people really think that Rebecca and Ted will be on the list?
The most nuanced, interesting m/f friendship on tv that I can think of is Frasier and Roz. Their conversations spanned a wide variety of topics. They were there for each other when things got bad for each of them. It was clear that they knew each other well. They’d tease each other, advocate for each other, argue with each other, challenge each other. They had a complicated and interesting intimacy. They were friends.
It’s not totally a fair comparison bc Frasier is an old school show and had a zillion episodes. My point is that I deeply learned from their friendship. I honestly can’t think of anything interesting to say about Ted and Rebecca if limited to a context of platonic friendship, or even platonic “soulmates,” except it’s spooky that traumatic things in their childhoods happened to them on the same day, and it’s very nice that divorced people give each other pep talks sometimes.
Is that what folks are out here celebrating? Because…🥱
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“so sad being a harry potter fan/jkr stan and a transphobe pick a struggle” ok but how’s it a struggle? ?? because weird losers i don’t know will try to bully me on the internet ??? y’all are just smug because you were nobody in high school and now you feel like you win at life because you have internet clout from tweens and perverted adult men plus the duds who jumped on the bandwagon because they have zero values and beliefs of their own …. like stop projecting i promise no one gives a fuck that you’re “different” it’s still annoying and your green shaved head and mushroom tattoo aren’t punk or even really that cool at all….get a grip fr …anyways i’m gonna struggle by A) being objectively right and B) enjoying my childish stories that have no shortage of material (and more on the way!) to keep me entertained
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Was it all worth it for the Cori&Perennial bond. If it wasn't for the fact that thinking about gur even a little makes me either wail or sit very still & stare off on the distance I'd say yes 100%. But as is I'm at like. 70%. Okay 80% maybe
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You ever feel sad after a hyperfixation goes away… i used to love dinosaurs so much as a child but it sorta just went away and I still think they’re so cool but I feel like I lost something.
I guess there was a tradeoff cuz now I love birds, which are still technically dinosaurs lol
Recently went to a museum with an awesome dinosaur exhibit and got a big book, I wanna read it sometime so I can learn about them again
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SKL started rotating in my head again over a unrelated 2000s song that just reminded me of Kaido and Magami-not even joking lol-but upon reflecting on its plot I sometimes wonder if it would’ve been better off if like- they didn’t make new characters and just recycled the base cast just characterization them in a different way ala how Getter does it.
Cause I’ve thought about while I’m generally more biased I think Shin vs Neo feels significantly less flawed compared to SKL despite its episode length for not only having the advantage of “it has a lighter plot where as SKL desperately felt like it needed a longer run time” but because it used all the existing characters before and the characterization isn’t even TOO off, they’re all just kinda water downed versions of themselves. (Neo!Ryoma is a really interesting case out of the whole cast though in terms of characterization compared to his go manga self but I’ll save that for another post)
SKL has the issue of it’s introducing NEW characters we never seen to mazinger but we don’t have a justifiable runtime to get to know most of them, Yuki I feel is the only character who is decently developed due to the focus put on her which is why I consider her the MC over the boys even if there can be more fleshed out about her. Kaido and Magami do have a dynamic that bounces off of each other which is why I like them despite not being super deep but its still not fully developed, kinda worst by the fact we don’t get to know ANYTHING about Kaido and Magami’s origins aren’t entirely explain either- and honestly only feel there for the plot rather than expanding his character even if it HAS the potential to expand upon who he is.
But then I thought how this OVA could’ve been if it was like: Kaido=Koji, Magami=Tetsuya, Yuki=Sayaka. (Jun could be Scarlet ig and the villains could be whoever as followed from base show but they could also still get away with the new villains with this tbh) You could keep everything the same, even to the point of having this be a canon where Koji and Tetsuya aren’t related-IIRC they aren’t even related in the Mazinkasier OVA and Tetsuya explicitly calls him Kabuto which would be weird to call your brother/nephew, which would be funny if in this hypothetical SKL scenario they are more referred to as their last names then first-since even if the SKL trio more obviously took more inspo from the devilman trio they match the archetypes these three from OG mazinger canon had.
I’m sure SKL would still be consider a “not really mazinger” series if all other elements were kept the same given Armageddon still is regarded as “not really getter” in terms of source material accuracy but I do wonder if it’s three episode formate could’ve worked better if it it as another au. That said I still like the SKL boys so I’m not saying this should’ve been it over “GIVING IT 13 PROPER EPISODES FFS” and I do wish they could just be reused in a different mazinger iteration whenever we get one-grendizer getting something so hey, there’s hope and it’s slightly more likely than a new getter show-since it be cool if Mazinkaiser had a pilot over just being Koji again but alas my boys are stuck in the void with the Shin Jeeg cast to definitely never to be seen again.
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i know you don’t wanna read something stupid like this but it’s my blog and i’m still angry so idc. it sucks that i was one of like, the 5% question...? fans to the point where it’s never been a day without me streaming it and i was desperately waiting for her to play it. now i cannot even listen to it bc the only person capable of ruining that for me just did, with a superficial speech and a hint for us to attribute the song to a disgusting person
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