#I’ve been seeing a bunch of dmmd/aoba stuff???

[wanologic]

a togainu print? in 2024?

[koujakusexual]

i'd just like to say thanks for posting koujaku in 2017. at this point i'm too ashamed to ever talk about it but i still love koujaku with my Whole Entire Heart and you give me my Koujaku Fill. thank u so mucb

I’m glad I can help make you happy! BUT EXCUSE ME TO GO ON A BIT OF A RANT HERE

This culture western fandom seems to have about outgrowing an older series is..... really annoying, honestly. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen “lol who still likes dmmd?” or “dmmd fandom is dead” when.... that’s really not the case at all. sure it’s not as active as it used to be when official content was being made left and right (drama cds, side stories, and all that) but the Japanese dmmd fandom hasn’t really stopped. Brain Breaker events are still going on, not to mention a new Aoba figure was shown at Wonfes just a few days ago (it’s beautiful by the way and you bet your ass I’m getting it). To add to that, there’s a LOT of older media that still makes itself relevant, because content as old as Gurren Lagann or NGE have fanbases big enough to still actively get figures. 

There’s this new trend I’ve been noticing within the past few years where western fandom, particularly younger members, contribute to this weird shaming and, dare I say, ‘cringe culture’ about anything that got very popular and then died down. It creates this really unhealthy atmosphere where people like you are ashamed to show interest in things that the rest of the western world has decided they’re, like, so totally over. god, dmmd is SO 2014.

My point is, ignore that bullshit. Enjoy what you want to enjoy. Life is too short to try to keep up with what is and isn’t considered uncool at this point. And let’s face it, we’re all losers. If you even know what dmmd is, you’re probably into some stuff that the general public would judge. So what? Why are we gonna act like we’re too good for something when in reality we’re all still a bunch of weirdos? It reminds me of when I was in my high school orchestra. Some of the band kids had this weird “we’re the cool band kids” clique that were pretty rude to the rest of us. I remember thinking..... dude, you’re still band kids. You’re not cool, none of us are. Shouldn’t we just be sticking together instead of forming weird subdivisions of uncool kids? It’s just exhausting to see that happening again some 7 years later. I guess it’s true that high school never ends.

So go, ashamed anon. Go and openly love Koujaku. If anyone tells you it’s embarrassing, feel sorry for them. Because they probably think they’re a lot cooler than they actually are. Never feel ashamed for what media you enjoy. There’s a lot of bad going on in the world right now, and if thinking about a character from a weird japanese gay porn game can make your days a little easier, then fuck anyone who tells you that it’s stupid.

Also I want Koujaku to fist me.

[testifytime2-blog]

hey i really love your blog and i'm kinda wondering, what was with you being against art being tagged dav/eka/t when you expected it to be joh/nda/ve?

Okay so, short answer? I’m not a great fan of dav/eka/t. 

Long answer? When I got into the fandom, I like, really got attached to some meta I saw. A lot of it was based around Dave’s pretty obvious feelings for John, and brought up one of my absolute favourite tropes of all time: the friend who’s been quietly in love with them all along, who gives everything for them and kinda expects nothing but the friendship back, and eventually ends up with them in the end as some sort of realisation that, hey, you’ve been here the whole time and I’d be lost without you. It’s so fucking romantic to me, okay, and just. The way they bounce off of and foil each other gets me, like, Dave did so fucking much for John, and once you get past that stupid amount of “I’m not a homosexual” (yes John we know, you’re bi, honey, get with the picture), and get them in a relationship, I just. I love the dynamic. John learns shit and becomes a Better Person(TM) and Dave stops hiding stuff from him cus he thinks he needs to be this persona for John’s sake, or because he thinks John expects shit of him that maybe aren’t true. You end up having two teenage boys in love, who’ve grown up kinda together and just. Are happy, you know? I love every fanfic I read of it, even the ones where sad shit happens, cus somehow it always works out. It’s just a lot of tropes, basically, and they’re tropes that always hit me right in the chest (for more examples: see the fact that I ship Koujaku and Aoba from DMMD for the same reason) but a little bit more, I was allowed to get into the ship on my own. I saw a few bits of fanart, looked up the fanfiction, got into it at my own pace and genuinely enjoyed it.

When it comes to dav/eka/t, though... Well, firstly, I don’t understand the appeal..? A lot of that can be written down to the fact that I’ve not read the entire comic; the last I knew of their relationship on the meteor, it was pre-retcon, and they barely got on. While I guess I could ship that black, I generally need some form of... attraction? To get me to ship a thing? To me, Dave and the Karkles don’t seem to fit unless they have a barrier to get them both to chill tf out (usually either John or Jade in my ships) - it’s just one of those weird things. I can’t enjoy shipping them singularly, and a lot of that is cus I only saw meta posts explaining it after this next thing, by which point I was put off the ship entirely and wrote off everything I read.A lot of this can be put down to what I mentioned before. Remember the emphasis on “I was allowed to get into the ship on my own”? Yeah, I got more into the fandom just about when dav/eka/t became canon. So instead of being able to figure out why people like the ship, the good parts of it, the ways it worked, etc... I got a bunch of people violently declaring all other ships were invalidated and you couldn’t ship them because of this canon thing, saw a horrendous amount of drama and discourse over it, and just. Got completely turned off the ship. I mean, the amount of “you’re homophobic if you don’t ship it” posts I saw blew my goddamn mind. I never got a chance to like, tiptoe into it, and so I just vehemently hate the ship. Questionably, I don’t even dislike it as a ship, I just dislike the fandom around it and the way I got introduced to it. I just have a lot of Bad Vibes from it, and I’m pretty sure I’m never really gonna enjoy it because of that. It’s part of the same reason I’m not a huge fan of ros/ema/ry. There was, again, the whole “if you don’t ship it you’re wrong” feel to it, and instead of getting into it in my own time, I had people aggressively shoving it down my throat. It’s maybe stupid, but I can’t enjoy a ship if I get introduced to it that way. It gets my back up and I just deny it completely (also case in point: I can’t stand Ge/rI/ta in the He/ta/li/a fandom cus of this). 

Arguably another part of it is just. I hate troll/human ships. Why? Because Hussie fucked up troll/troll and human/human ships and that pisses me off. At least the not-straight ones. Like, case in point, right? Hor/ruf/io/h (prolly no the ship name but I’m gonna go with it) and dir/kja/ke. We’re introduced to them as they’re deteriorating, where Ruf’s done gone and cheated already on one person, and is maybe gonna cheat on another; Dirk and Jake were just fucking awful for each other, both wearing down the other until they eventually split in one of the worst ways possible - and that just. Really ruffled my feathers? So. Okay gay ships only work if they’re cross-species? I guess? Good to know. I guess two guys dating is completely unimaginable unless one of them’s an alien. Cool. It really fucked me up when I read it when I was younger, and I’ve been highkey salty about it ever since. Dav/eka/t being made canon on top of all that? And all the troll/troll and human/human not-straight ships (you know the ones) being left vague at best? Fucking frustrating. Again, maybe a bit stupid, but it really gets my back up just. How it was handled in general and the sort of vibe it gives across.

So, to answer as a like, tldr of “why was I against art being tagged as dav/eka/t when I expected it to be joh/nda/ve?” I just really, vehemently dislike the former as a ship for many, many reasons, whereas I love the latter for many more. And I’m the kind of person who reacts really strongly to disappointment when I’m on a happy high - so finding what I thought was my fav ship, only for it to be one I really don’t care much for? Serious drop and complete frustration (esp. since it was human!Kark, so when I saw it, I didn’t even think twice about it maybe being him rather than John - it was only just as I was gonna reblog it that I saw the tag, and I felt Betrayed(TM) )