On another note guys you are lucky I’m trying to keep this blog semi professional and not post too much non-art stuff but I’m REALLY restraining myself here because I’ve never before wanted to shout and write about a manga so much like I want to do with Trigun
You need to understand how much I breathe the art of this manga. The characters and their inner thoughts. The overall concept. The despair and the hopeful scenes equally!! You FEEL with the main character (which is a curse and blessing)
Maybe....maybe I’ll add stuff to this post later under a “keep reading” just to prove my point hehe. For now thank you for your time to read this little PSA.
(oh my how did a link to the scanlations end up here whoops)
EDIT: I DID make a compilation in a reblog (look here) (so better reblog that version in case you wanted to reblog this post!)
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Been reading the Sadeian woman after @normalbrothers mentioned it in relation to Diana Mitford, many thoughts but tumblr (and no computer on holidays) is. Poor format for those thoughts
That said, in a(n unrelated?) tangent, the books framing of the written pornographer’s role in reinforcing sexual dynamics/norms (and that this is why de Sade was at least worthy of analysis because he challenged sexual/gender/power dynamic norms) makes me wonder regarding the propensity (call it the dominance; the dominant minority) of readerfic these days (writ by women for women and using the 'self insert' motif to tackle first person POV) and how it’s recolonised fannish spaces back to a particular model of acceptable pornography through sheer flooding quantity .
“our Chr1s+ian (?) moral duty to reclaim queer pornography to reassert normative sexual dynamics between a man and a woman, or a man and a man, or a woman and a woman*” and clean up all that dirty sexual power gender role dynamic complexity etc etc etc there’s only a very limited range of acceptable incest to fetishise etc etc mumble mumble even gay readerfic back to hole and prod mumble mutter mumble
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So I once made a funny shit post about the Young Wizard actually beaming to the Spiral at the tender age of 45 but it got me thinking of the opposite. What if the Wizard was incredibly young
Since in the game it isn't specified at what exact age we arrived in the Spiral I think it's just up to the player to come up with that part. I personally like to think The Wizard was around 7 or 8 when this happened but what if they were actually like four or five years old
Like shieeeet that's young enough where we wouldn't really remember our time on Earth very clearly right? Our family and maybe our friends but unless we had like ungodly memory powers, we wouldn't be able to remember all of the details of our original home. Like isn't it proven that human beings first gain self and special awareness at 3 or 4? Something like that
And this can open up for some sweet scenarios - little kid Wizard running up to Malorn with a scribbled drawing of him with a big smile on his face, or us and Ceren reading picture books together or clinging onto Nolan's robes as we attempt to stand on his feet as he walks like a penguin, but there's also this sad and messed up undertone that in this universe Ambrose took what was essentially a child just out of toddler stage and decided to keep them in the Spiral instead of returning them to their family
And like imagine how that would affect us. We would see it as normal at first because we grew up in the Spiral, we spent more years in the wizard world than in our home on Earth, but what if the Wizard gained awareness later on in life and actually realized what happened. Would they even care at that point because the Spiral was integrated in them at such a young age? Would they feel any yearning towards their original family, would they miss them at all? Would the Wizard be bitter about not getting to know them?
It's different when you're 7 - 10 and onwards because at that stage in your life you've more than gotten used to Earth life. You've gained awareness and it has been emotionally and mentally established that THIS (Earth) is your home. You know your parents and you know your friends and you know your environment. You will miss that when it's gone and feel it's absence because you're old enough to at least notice when you're taken away from it. But when you're still at that impressionable and oblivious stage of like 4 - 6 years old? The Spiral is all you know now. Your parents faces will be blurry, you may not even remember the details of what your home looked like. You may remember certain smells, colors or feelings you experienced when you were on Earth but that may be about it. And the saddest part about that is depending on what Ambrose and the other adults put our Wizard through, we may grow to completely forget even those essential memories. That Earth part of us would TOTALLY be gone and that would include even our parents (or other caretakers). I'm crying actually
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Just stopping by to let you all know that I'll be celebrating my birthday this next week and if I don't get home and see Shunsui all oiled up and full of of petals in my bed I'm going to throw myself out the window 🫠
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Im so sorry but- youve got me interested on the angst you mentioned, pls give us some of your ideas, i crave sadness
Ok so there's a few things I think about when it comes to angst about these two:
José is a malandro and being a heartbreaker is part of that persona. If you see how he treats Rosinha, his canon love interest in the comics, he's an absolute terror to her. He ogles other women, he stands her up on their dates, he cheats- and while I don't like to think he'd cheat on Paco (I prefer to tone down his assholiness in my art yk) he'd still be very immature when it comes to relationships. José loves to have fun and maybe, to him, flirting with Panchito might just be that. But for Panchito, who is way more forward and sincere about his feelings, the moment he realizes José is not serious it would hurt a lot.
I think Panchito was raised in a very family oriented way. Even when choosing to be a traveler, there are moments when he feels extremely lonely, when he feels he should just settle down, marry a woman and have children. I think at several moments he'd struggle with the fact that he likes men.
OH THE DISTANCE! José loves Brazil, Panchito loves Mexico, they've always had separate lives in their respective countries... so why does it hurt so much to say goodbye now?
They're friends first, so you know the pining is good. Panchito knows how José is with the people he goes out, they share (almost) everything after all. So, I think while he'd still love to get with Zé, Paco would be very afraid of being just another one. What if that ruins their friendship forever?
José, while a bit irresponsible when it comes to feelings, does have these bursts of regret and clarity about his behaviour (in the comics), so he knows he should do better. In the end I think he's mostly afraid of commitment and actually has a very insecure side, often thinking he's not good enough for Panchito.
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