#Demande

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So the reason I brought up DIC making Saphir have a crush on Esmeraude is because it ties into why I think Petz got dumped in the original, and I don’t think it was because of Wiseman…

See that change was meant to cover up Saphir commiserating with Esmeraude in the original, where after he goes on a long monologue about the dangers of a woman’s jealousy he then reveals (with quite a dark smirk on his face I might add!) that he understands how she feels because he also hates Sailor Moon! (presumably out of jealousy like Esmeraude since he was comparing himself to her)

Why would this piece of dialogue need to be censored/changed in the first place? Well I think it was yet another example of DIC’s desperate attempt to straightwash all over the place and the original was obviously meant to suggest, if not outright state, that Saphir has romantic feelings for Demande. (It makes sense when you realize this was the first season Ikuhara directed and if you know the man’s history in anime he loves inserting random incest into everything, even the anime original Ail & En could technically be considered an incest ship, yet that wasn’t censored by DIC unlike Demande/Saphir for obvious reasons 🙄 I love the old dub and have major nostalgia for it too but you can’t say it’s one objective flaw was it’s homophobia being off the charts!)

There was another scene that just completely got the cutting room floor in the DIC dub that also suggested feelings between the two brothers. I don’t know how to post gifs in asks but it’s in episode 86, the episode where Chibi-Usa becomes Black Lady, Demande and Saphir are talking and during the convo Demande kinda flirtatiously, slowly brushes Saphir’s hair out of his eyes with his knuckles/fingers and Saphir’s whispering gently and giving him bedroom eyes back. (Do you know which scene I’m talking about? There should be gifs of it floating around, all I can say is that scene definitely didn’t look platonic or like simple brotherly affection, and DIC apparently felt the same way considering how they immediately exorcised it lol)

It doesn’t stop there though, further supplemental materials only ever released in Japan further confirm their canonicity. In the Sailor Moon R Official Memorial Guidebook Saphir’s profile describes him as “Always only thinking about his brother, Demande was the only person he loved, (and they use the term “Aisatsu” for love which is a congugation of “Ashiteru” and from what I know of my Japanese that’s only used in reference to the most serious deceleration of romantic love correct?) “Petz loved him but he could only see Demande.” as well as “Strict to others and himself but sweet to his brother.”Then there’s the various Drama CDs that were never released outside of Japan, one of them features the Ayakashi Sisters and Petz outright states that “she’ll never fall for a brocon again!” Pretty much directly confirming that Saphir was the man who broke Petz’s heart and caused her to hate all men and he did so because of his feelings for Demande (though this is also subtly implied during the episode when they meet up and Petz says somewhat bitterly during their reunion “There you go again, only ever caring about Prince Demande…”)

So uh yeah the TLDR of it all is that it’spretty much implied that the reason Saphir dumped Petz was because he always had secret feelings for Demande that he couldn’t get over and Petz apparently knew this, it’s like this weird af love triangle Ikuhara made up with Petz > Saphir > Demande (love square? Since Neo-Queen Serenity is also in the mix though she doesn’t know it and couldn’t care less lol - I would put Esmeraude in there too but if you watch her episodes it seems obvious her feelings for Demande aren’t as serious as Saphir’s and she seems mostly into him just for his status and power)

No way someone finally engages with my occasional my Sailor Moon content just to push an incest crush headcanon ☠️☠️☠️ What is my luck. I mean you do you for sure but I’ll break down my thoughts.

I’ve always seen Sapphire’s love for Demande as a younger brother worshipping an older one, mixed together with two facts. A. Demande is a prince/the heir/whatever so Sapphire was raised mixing normal brotherly adoration with knowing by royal rules that he is supposed to worship his brother in a royal subversive way too kinda. And B. They are, in a lot a ways, all they have. No parents, no sibling. It’s just them. Against time and space and with courtiers and Wiseman. The only person they truly can trust is each other. So yes, for Sapphire, he was always geing to choose his only brother, his prince, his only blood, over a girl. That’s not romantic.

And now Demande is straying from their mission, is getting obsessed with the rival queen aka Sailor Moon. That’s dangerous. What if Demande goes off path? What would Wiseman do? What would it do to their mission, their plans for Crystal Tokyo? I always took it as he hates her because she’s a temptation to Demande that represents nothing but ruin for everything they’ve worked so hard to achieve.

Why did DiC change the lines? Because DiC is stupid? Because they wanted to do a bit of a love triangle? This is the same company that took Jadeite meeting a disguised Usagi and feeling suspicious around her and made it Jedeite crushing on Serena. DiC did that stuff a. Ton. (But yes. They were very homophobic.)

And I think it is so important that Demande and Sapphire’s brotherly love was what kept them… human deep down. It was their devotion to each other. And it was brotherly. Idk. Just how I view them. But I’m also a big Usagi/Demande shipper so I have very little interest in thinking about Demande with other people or introducing other people with unrequited crushes when Emerald is a handful and a half.

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[desolationlesbian]

sometimes I think too hard about like. how the ability to record audio fundamentally changed how humans interact with music. can you imagine if the only time you ever heard music in your whole life was when you or another human being in your actual physical presence decided to create it. and 99.99% of the time that person was not a professional but just like your wife or your dad or your co-worker or church choir singing or playing whatever they happened to know. i honestly don't think we can fathom it

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nearly had a medical emergency today because - and i cannot stress enough how little i am making this up - a helicopter landed in front of an open grain silo while i was getting off my ship and i am deathly allergic to the wheat that said helicopters rotor blades proceeded to blast in my face at full force. the cosmic forces are plotting against me ass situation to be in

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[amygdalae]

i think what people tend to forget is that laughing at modern art also counts as having a dialogue with it. like as long as you're respectful of the museum space and whatnot. you are under no obligation to take any of it seriously. when i go to a modern art museum I do engage with every piece and read the blurb and think deeply/discuss its intention and its execution but it doesnt stop me from having a giggle at the ones i think are stupid. often the artist is equally aware that it may be stupid. sometimes that's the point also. it's fun!

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[boeing747]

When your partner has a praise kink but you're Montessori trained so you know that praise is an ineffective way to encourage development and it's much more productive to acknowledge their effort so that they learn to effectively give themselves feedback so they can develop a healthy intrinsic motivation instead of deriving their self worth from labels put on them by other people .... "baby it's amazing how much you could last today compared to last week"

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i’ve started getting so unreasonably cranky at those posts that are like ‘i’m sick of [aspect of popular media] someone should make [opposite thing]!!!’ by people who don’t seem invested in the idea they’re pitching as anything beyond a subversion of the norm. like ok. i see where you’re coming from but where are you actually going. look me in the eyes and give me one good reason you think that story concept is possible to pull off

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