#and also i just really adore haruka and michiru

[k16is]

i think haruka and michiru should both date juri somewhere. in some random universe. and that’s the most random take i have in my head but i think it’s funny and i actually do think about it a lot i think it would be cute and silly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[docholligay]

Do you think having such a personalized and detailed headcanon makes it harder to enjoy fic about the show/game that's written by others?

I mean sure, probably.

But unfortunately things I adore, for people named Doc who are me, fall into one of two buckets:

The character work and plot in this show are incredible, I find myself turning it around in my mind like a rotisserie chicken. I constantly discover new things about the show/book/game or the characters in it. I do not read fic about this, because why would I? Every answer I search for is in the text. I want to talk about this with someone, but about what is THERE, not what could be there. Ex: The Haunting of Hill House, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Piranesi, Bioshock:Infinite, Watership Down, Yellowjackets, among others.

The concepts of this could be amazing but are handled so fucking badly so consistently, in a shocking contrast to how INCONSISTENT the character work is, that all I want to do is steal it and make it better. All i want to do is turn it into something that doesn't suck ass when you look at it too hard. So I am going to take it SO seriously, and I am going to develop the rich inner lives for these characters that they lack, with intense backstories and families and motivation for how they got to be the person we know, or know sometimes, in certain episodes or shorts. Ex: Sailor Moon and Overwatch are the biggies here obviously, this is actually not an emotion I feel very often. I don't have intense backstories and extra-textual feelings and ideas about most of the stuff I read and watch, these two are just my Spiders Georg.

So! The odds on me being into something in the correct way to make me want to Seek Treasure Elsewhere but also I have a chill enough attitude about how the characters are that Any Dream Will Do is almost nil. I do not in ANY way mean this in a shady way, but I mostly read published adult fiction for entertainment and not fanfic. I am very picky about my fanfic. So, "plus these two new red and blue girls into Starbucks" often won't work for me, because the reasons to have Haruka and Michiru meet in a coffee shop are completely different from any of the reasons Fareeha and Angela might meet in a coffee shop, and so many of those types are archtypical plug and play stuff. Honestly, I have skated the idea of making a cheat sheet of fanon archetypes of various characters and buying a typewriter to sell 100-200 word 'quick fic' at cons with my sister. That's how common it is to use these archetypes. This is not a criticism! At all!

But, to take the two couples above, I have read so much BORING SHIT about both HM and FA that I could throw up. Lesbian couples have a lot of very milquetoast writing about them, and a lot of meet-cute which isn't really my bag.

But there are authors I love! @oathkeeper-of-tarth was and is one of the best harumichi writers out there and we don't even have all the same headcanons. The rare occasions @verbforverb decides to grace me with "Jewish Mercy I don't Have To Write" I pop a can of bubbly in the tub. And on both fields of battle @keyofjetwolf has stuff I've had bookmarked for years, and there are some things even within Rei's backstory and history that we disagree on.

Actually, to that point what I like is good writing. You can write me into believing nearly anything. There are things I believe about Amelie when I'm reading @lemon-embalmer's stuff that when I go back to my own world, aren't true, but when I'm in her world who the fuck cares, I'm having a great time. EVEN MORE to the point, I read @moonlight-frittata's stupid sun and moon lesbian League of Legends shit and I would rather shoot myslef than know ANYTHING about the game, but unfortunately she has a beautiful turn of phrase and plot flow to her work that I just....read anyway, because it is good. Fucking @tallangrycockatiel had me like 25 pages or so into a story before I was like, "OH SHIT, IS THIS SLASH??? WAIT I DON'T WANT TO READ ABOUT BOYS' LOVE!! NO!!" *hits next page* And I still could not care less about that podcast and would never listen to it, and if I did I would be massively disappointed because to my mind, her John and Arthur are the actual article, and whatever the fuck is going on in the source material can eat my dick.

So, yes, I DO think that having a very particular point of view is going to mean I back out of a story where like, "Lena stepped out of her Chelsea flat, custom leather high heels clicking against the step" sometimes, or, you know, "Haruka put down her copy of War and Peace, each meticulous note codified by a color-coded tab. Blue was for historical references to research, green for character analysis, yellow for themes, blah blah blah*" But I am actually shockingly open minded in what I will read, often to the point that I'm reading stuff from SHIT I DO NOT LIKE OR CARE ABOUT, because the quality of the writing is excellent. So, also no.

*I met someone who read books like this and I suddenly realized what the literary equivalent of 'knowing someone is a serial killer' was.

[beangusu]

Do you have any other sailor moon headcanons?🥰

OH MY GOD IM SO SORRY FOR ANSWERING SO LATE ANON I NEVER SAW THIS…

BUT I HAVE SO MANY MY HEAD COULD EXPLODE. id like to draw them all out properly one day 👉🏽👈🏽 but a lot of my ramblings abt my own headcanons are on twitter :]

one of my favorite headcanons have to be rei being super close with the outers! one of my favorite things ever is rei and michiru’s friendship and that led to me imagining rei considering the outers a second home cause of how often they take her in. the idea of rei and michiru bonding over their ‘seer’ abilities, haruka and rei being butch lesbian buddies, hotaru and rei being THE SIBLINGS EVER, and setsuna being a mother figure to rei like it just makes me sooooo 🥺🥺

i have a lot of reinako headcanons also regarding their silver millennium counterparts bc my god. the fucking tragedy of the silver millennium and the reincarnation aspect rly makes for some Good Shit.

i dont think naoko revealed much abt the silmil counterpart personalities, but i love imagining silmil mars having the personality of 90s rei cranked up a few notches; brash, cocky, overbearing, and extremely hot-headed, while silmil venus is more like pgsm minako; calm, quiet, solemn, and too devoted to her job of protecting the princess to really care for anything else. like the silmil reinako dynamic would be so interesting… especially when romantic feelings get involved… a case of silmil mars dying in silmil venus’ arms while venus regrets not pursuing her love for mars would totally happen

i like stealing hcs from fanfics also hehe :3 my fav being this one fic where silmil mars basically haunts rei and always makes sure that rei “puts venus first” like. its so fucking good.

theres also another fic i absolutely adored that goes in depth on ace’s ‘curse’ on mina that ends up tying into reinako ofc but im gona stop here bc i could honestly go on and on about different reinako fics and how my sailor moon headcanons tie in to each other but then this post would be like 8 pages long (^_^;)

[severeearthquakebanana]

Well friends, I barreled through the last season of Sailor Moon way faster than average...I may have had a bit too much time on my hands over the holiday. Anyway, my thoughts on Sailor Moon Stars!

Overall, I enjoyed this season. The sailor star lights were all fun characters, and I liked the McGuffin that was the star seeds. I also really enjoyed all the villains. Galaxia was honestly very creative and I feel like a good final villain of the series. You can only get so big when you bring the whole universe into play, so having her be the final villain was a great choice.

The only thing I really disliked about this season was Chibi Chibi. I know I've complained about Chibiusa, but that had more to do with the anime's handling of her and small points in the second season, not so much the character herself. I like Chibiusa's character arc, I like the concept of her being an incredibly lonely little girl and all the fallout that comes of that. She has a personality and is a fully developed character. BUT NOT CHIBI CHIBI. Chibi Chibi doesn't even say full sentences!! She just repeats what other people say! You can have people such as Sailor Saturn who are more reserved and the things they do say have weight, but not Chibi Chibi!! Usagi was literally holding her the ENTIRE final battle, and for what?! I felt like she was just a checkov's gun that was inadequately explained.

And another thing! WHOMST THE FUCK IS SAILOR COSMOS????? I see all this fan art of a "sailor cosmos" and I just assumed it was Chibi Chibi or a final powerup of Usagi but absolutely NONE of that happened. Was it just a fumble by the anime? Cause like there was no Sailor Moon Cosmos in this season or any other season. Perhaps I need to just read the manga or something.

Ok, complaints aside, another thing I enjoyed with this season was the Mamo plotline and the insertion of Seyia! So I've seen fanart of Seyusa, and I knew it was a character from Stars but i wasn't sure wtf was going on and WOW was it great! First off, we all knew Mamo was going to come back cause Chibiusa but like man, I was really guessing! I felt so sad for Usagi the WHOLE season because Mamoru was just gone! And they kept having planes in scenes and I just wanted to know what happened!! I liked that he went down fighting. But I also really like Seyia as a character! I think all the Seyusa shippers have plenty of merit and support and I would be happy to consume all the fanart/fiction that's out there. I definitely prefer Mamoru, but I'm honestly happy with both.

I also liked how the monsters of the week were the people being attacked. I thought it was super interesting! I really enjoyed the idea that by removing your star seed it turned people into the worst version of themselves. It really paid off well too with Uranus and Neptune's attempt at deceiving Galaxia in order to get in a good hit.

HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOTTEN TO DISCUSS HARUKA AND MICHIRU??? Oh my gosh, were they sickenly adorable!! No wonder they never aired Stars on American television, you could NEVER pass them as cousins this season, Michiru's comments alone. aghhh for all of Haruka's flaws, I LOVE her seriousness, and I still think she is an excellent foil to Usagi's crybaby inaction. And they brought back the various leitmotifs from the third season!! You can bet your ass I was vibing in my chair when it came on. Yeah, Haruka and Michiru are definitely my favorite characters to come out of this.

I think I'll add my thoughts to the anime as a whole in a separate post, this one's gone on long enough and I have other things I need to do irl today. But in short, I really enjoyed this fifth season. I'm glad they ended the series here, I think it kept the series from becoming a shadow of itself like some other popular shows do.

[severeearthquakebanana]

ALLLL RIIIGHT Friends! I've made it through Sailor Moon S (aka season 3) and I'm just going to give up on my comments about Sailor Moon R/Season 2. Season 3 was just superior. There's a couple reasons for that.

First off, I ADORE Haruka/Sailor Uranus and Michiru/Sailor Neptune. They are so incredibly cool!! Like Sailor Neptune's "here to fight with elegance"?! The entire sequence that is Sailor Uranus' 'World Shaking' attack?!? !!! idk how they are animating that, i think it's just they aren't including as many frames so it makes her arm movements seem more sharp but wowee is it cool!! Gotta be my favorite part. Additionally, I really like their voice actors! Sailor Uranus is much more serious most of the time, and I really appreciate her contradiction to Usagi's naivete. They not only were told to be on a higher level than the rest of the sailor guardians, but it was actually shown! Sometimes I feel like in these long running shows a character gets real talked up and then don't ever do anything to show for it. Not the case with Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune! They really did feel stronger and more informed, like they had a specific mission, and they accomplished it. Very Interesting. Also their transformation music KICKED ASS omg it's my second favorite transformation soundtrack, after the original one from the first season.

Secondly, i just liked the villains more this season. As I said in earlier posts, Mimette was just hilarious, I love her dearly. And the monsters of the week were so creative! I really enjoyed seeing what new creation the design team cooked up, and how they chose to weave it into the story. One of the later ones was inspired by gambling, so she had a face of a queen from the card deck, her torso was a die, and her arms were chess pieces. And then she captured the guardians in glass playing cards! Truly, a fun fun time.

Thirdly, I liked Chibiusa SO MUCH MORE this season. I think my dislike was cause of the whole 'fighting over Mamoru' plot point that they had in season 2, i just could not stand it. In the slightest. Like Chibiusa's big character point is that she is an incredibly lonely little girl. It's why her friendship with Hotaru this season was so important. Not only did we get more time with the two of them together just being friends (in comparison to Crystal), but I truly believed they were friends and cared deeply about each other. I may never have been alone like Chibiusa is, but I understand deep friendships, and the anime executed. Additionally, like I said before, her 'pink sugar heart attack' never working correctly was absolutely a highlight and in the last episode they just had her shout the words then run into the villain and it was excellent lol I laughed every time it happened.

Fourthly, the pacing. As is expected from the '92 anime, the actual plot points again came kinda out of left field at the tail end of the season. I would say this was handled much better this season, but it was more that I felt they used the 'crisis make up' way too much. Like to me, the 'crisis make up' to become Super Sailor Moon was a big deal. So why are we upgrading ourselves for the monster of the week? I really didn't get that. I mean it sorta made sense considering episode 125, but honestly I just felt like they could have kept the big attack sequence the same. But I also understand having even an extra 10 seconds of stock footage for a weekly anime can be the difference of hours of work, so I will never fault that. Jumping back to the pacing and plot points, perhaps it's cause i watched this season more in chunks cause work was busy during week days, but I felt knowing the plot points from Crystal was not a negative comparison! While Crystal obviously integrated the setting of Mugan school much better because it was more streamlined, I feel like I actually got to know Sailor Neptune, Sailor Uranus, and Hotaru so much more as characters within the '92 anime. And I felt the integrated Mugan as a decent setting early enough that it wasn't that bad. idk, I think i just found season 2 to not have as strong of a final few episodes.

Fifthly, Sailor Pluto. Sailor Pluto was absolutely my favorite character to come out of Crystal, her voice actress is stunning and Pluto's role as Chibiusa's friend was just beautifully executed. Her sacrifice in season 2 of Crystal and subsequent return in season 3 was so meaningful and absolutely crazy. In the '92 anime? There was absolutely no exploration of Pluto and Chibiusa's relationship outside of Chibiusa calling her a nickname, and Pluto looking at her fondly. Useless. AND Pluto was only in like an episode and a half of all of Sailor Moon R! She didn't even sacrifice herself for Chibiusa! So her appearing in Sailor Moon S was nice, but really lacked the punch Crystal had. However, they definitely did a much better job with her character in S, so I put it as a point in Sailor Moon S's favor.

Finally, episode 125. Boy oh boy episode 125. I have never been more annoyed at a character more in my life. Usagi's ass got saved by the plot. Yes, she was still Hotaru, and her belief that Hotaru was still in there was valid. But she literally did nothing but stand there, look sad, give up the McGuffin, be upset about giving up the McGuffin, block an attack with her person, and then scream/cry until the plot worked in her favor. At least in Crystal, the final powerup was from everyone voluntarily giving their power to her, not just the tiaras glowing and coming to the main character's aid. Despite all of that, despite my annoyance, I was still quite moved by the whole situation. Stephanie Sheh, Usagi's voice actress, is seriously amazing. She had so much anguish in her voice, and i have since learned i'm watching the Viz 2014 redub, so apparently Stephanie's Usagi has a higher pitched voice that 'sounds like she inhaled helium' but I think it's just fine considering she's supposed to be 14, but ANYWAY the emotion in Stephanie's voice, plus the background music, it all sold it for me. And they didn't show the fight, they just showed the ball of energy be defeated, and the music box version of the main theme (which they would previously play in season 1 when anything serious happened) played as everyone emerges from the wreckage with ripped clothes and all looking worse for wear. Quite a success in setting tone and everything. Also I liked how the sailor guardians all made a shield with their persons/power to keep the evil energy/daimons from getting into the city. Great callback to how they protected Crystal Tokyo in Sailor Moon R, and gave them something to do more than stand around looking worried. Yeah, episode 125 was really great.

So yeah! Sailor Moon R was kinda meh, but Sailor Moon S was very good! I'm a sucker for elegant characters like Michiru, and the friendship between Chibiusa and Hotaru was so incredibly wholesome and beautiful, it made me happy. Completely unrelated, but Sailor Jupiter's main attack 'sparkling wide pressure' is basically thrown like a baseball and it gives me LYFEEEE omg like i'm sure its leaning into the tomboy stereotype Mako embodies BUT I DON'T CARE I still like it.

Now we get to step into Sailor Moon SuperS, which is brand new territory! Crystal as a tv show only made it through the third arc, and there is a movie covering this fourth arc and another movie that came out at some point this year that covered the fifth arc, but honestly i may as well just stick with the '92 anime. I really love the softer art style, and with work picking up the monster of the week format is really quite relaxing and a fun way to unwind in the evenings. So yeah! Very excited to see what's next. On to Sailor Moon SuperS!