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[211509] INCOMING TRANSMISSION…

Introducing the crew and their roles on the Parallax voyage!

Hiiro Na (insta)

I want to be foxy in a dope space leotard, tbh

Ollie (@eijis-okuumura / twt / ao3)

I’d like to be a researcher and compile descriptions of all the different life forms we come across!

Kylie (@cuteeiji / twt / insta)

I would be really interested in seeing how the social and psychological structures of intelligent life differs from our own!

Sales are OPEN for Parallax and will run from now until Sept. 18th! Come peruse our wares here.

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[212407] INCOMING TRANSMISSION…

The intergalactic trading post approaches! As we begin our descent to refuel and regroup, we would like to remind you that sales for Parallax will open in one week, on August 1st.

Hope to see you there! And maybe you’ll find something out of this world…

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hugs!!!! canon divergence!!! griff doesn't die and in fact recovers enough to hug ash back for the first time in years!!!!

thank u for giving me an excuse to write platonic content bc it is my lifeblood!!!!! this was such an awesome request!!! available here!!!

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dont look at me

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‘i’ll wake up ash’ moodboard

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My heart is pounding, this is so friggin cute I’m gonna combust😭 I’m itching to read the rest… Give me a cute bathing scene but domesticated!  👀 @postingpebbles​ what have you done to me!? My heart! Want to see more?

Pre Orders are now open! Check out our pinned post!

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“… When you come across a banana fish at sea, You’ll suddenly feel like dying…”

Ash Lynx. my art.

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🍌PRE-ORDERS NOW OPEN! 🐟

After months of hard work from our amazing contributors, we are pleased to announce that pre-orders for the ‘Finally Some Happy Endings for Once’ Banana Fish Zine are open!

With SIX different bundle options and more than THIRTY amazing works spanning across NINTY pages and ten brilliant merch pieces, the ‘Happy Endings’ zine will fill everyone with joy and is sure to put a smile on your face!

By supporting us you will also be supporting Child Safe, whose mission is to restore dignity, hope, and trust to children traumatized by abuse and neglect! All profits made from this zine will be donated to Child Safe.

Pre-orders are will be open from now until May 1st! Pre-orders are will be open from now until May 1st!

🛒Order your bundle today!!🛒

Bundle Options:

Silver Linings ($15):

- Digital PDF copy of the Zine

Peace ($20):

- Physical Copy of the Zine

- Digital PDF copy of the Zine

Liberty ($25):

- Physical Copy of the Zine

- Digital PDF copy of the Zine

- One Random Postcard 

- One Random Sticker 

- One Necklace

Sunshine and Rainbows ($35):

- Physical Copy of the Zine

- Digital PDF copy of the Zine

- One Random Postcard

- One Random Sticker

- One Random Button 

- One Random Keychain 

- One Sticker Sheet 

- One Necklace

Garden of Light ($45):

- Physical Copy of the Zine

- Digital PDF copy of the Zine

- Two Postcards

- Two Stickers

- Two Buttons

- Two Keychain

- One Sticker Sheets

- One Necklace

Perfect Day ($40):

- All Zine Merch; No Zine

- Two Postcards

- Two Stickers

- Two Buttons

- Two Keychain

- One Sticker Sheets

- One Necklace

Don’t hesitate, order your copy today!

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On Allegory, Imperfection, and Inadvertent Subversion: A small essay about Akimi Yoshida’s Banana Fish and Salinger’s “A Perfect Day For Bananafish”.

In the story of Banana Fish, Yoshida references Salinger’s short story “A Perfect Day For Bananafish” (which henceforth shall be addressed as “Perfect Day” simply for ease of reading) several different ways, both in-universe and out. It is exceedingly evident that the character of Ash Lynx is heavily based on Seymour Glass, and one might surmise that Banana Fish is an allegorical retelling of “Perfect Day”, especially given that in the original story, Ash Lynx dies of what is arguably a “passive suicide” – that is, when faced with an injury that isn’t immediately fatal, he chooses to bleed out rather than seek help, which when framed as a suicide, parallels the much more violent and sudden suicide of Seymour Glass.

However, this surface-level allegorical reading ignores a very important variable in the story of Banana Fish, namely the counterpart to Ash’s Seymour: Eiji’s Sybil. While Ash and Seymour share many similarities (both are traumatized, troubled geniuses with partly-Irish roots who grew up in New York City), the similarities between Eiji and Sybil are very few. Eiji does symbolize a world of innocence to contrast with Ash’s world of horrors, but unlike Sybil, Eiji is an adult with agency of his own, and though he retains some of Sybil’s childlike innocence and is able to connect deeply with Ash as a result of it, Eiji’s agency and decisions ultimately change the narrative and its meaning.

That is to say, by introducing Eiji as an imperfect Sybil, one who has agency and can actually provide Ash with understanding and support of the kind that Seymour never got from Muriel or others around him (and which Sybil, being three years old, was in no way equipped to provide), Banana Fish directly subverts “Perfect Day”’s original message of cynicism in the face of a material world unconcerned with the horror of lost innocence and its resulting isolation.

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sing having an unrequited crush on ash is something i think about a lot

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Experimental thing

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sea lit sky

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i just really wanted to draw this (x):

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theyre just fine

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you are my sunshine

idk when this became so cheesy but no regrets

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i am as good as dead

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i love how all of us r so whipped for this look