#fushigi yuugi meme

[fushigi-yuugi-fans]

[alessandriana]

song ask game: 16, 18

FML, somehow I just lost my entire draft for this. Well! We shall carry on.

16: makes me nostalgic

Itooshi hito no tame ni (For my beloved), from Fushigi Yuugi.

Listening to this song (and the ending, Tokimeki no Doukasen) immediately throws me back in time to middle school!me, waiting with desperate impatience for my mom's friend to get the new subbed VHS in so I could see what happened next. Fushigi Yuugi was not my first anime-- that dubious honor goes to Vampire Princess Miyu, which is not perhaps a show you ought to be letting your 9 year old watch, mom-- but it was the first I imprinted on.

18: makes me want to burn the world down

Hmm! I actually don't think I have a good candidate for this one; it's not an emotion I actively seek out in music? If anyone has recs, I'd take them!

[tammiflubaker]

Hey so like we’ve been trying to reach you from this magical book..

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9 Fandom Peeps to Get to Know Better

Gonna yoink a tag from @profiterole-reads on this meme.

3 ships you like:

Hua Cheng/Xie Lian (Tian Guan Ci Fu)

Liu Tongyi/Jing Chengjun (The Imperial Uncle)

Mo Ran/Chu Wanning (The Husky and His White Cat Shizun)

First Ship Ever: uh I guess it depends on definitions, probably Min Farshaw/Rand al'Thor (Wheel of Time)? But they're canon so maybe that doesn't count. So, hmm... Lina Inverse/Gourry Gabriev (Slayers) or Yuuki Miaka/Nuriko (Fushigi Yuugi; tho really I just supported Miaka harem rights, she deserved all those bishies at once) are ones I can remember from high school that aren't canon (tho Lina/Gourry kinda sorta is? it's canon adjacent at least...)

Last Song You Heard: Honey Magnolia by Brian Fallon was the last song in my car yesterday afternoon. One of my favorite songs, the first year I heard it, it was my most-listened to track of the year.

Currently Reading:

Salad Days by Jing Shui Bian

Copper Coins by Mu Su Li

Currently Watching: Nirvana in Fire is the only thing I'm currently actively trying to carve out time to watch.

Currently Consuming: water is the only thing in reach.

Currently Craving: lunch, but it's a little early.

Tagging: I usually figure out who to tag from our notes, but right now our notes are a disaster because we have a couple posts exploding a bit, but here's some names in there I recognize... @qbdatabase @stjohnstarling @paintedpigeon1 @smehur @eastofakkala @faejilly and anyone else who wants to!

[longeyelashedtragedy]

a2 and b7 for the ask meme if you’re still up for answering ?

A2. How did you find your first fic?

good question! there's no way i can remember exactly, but it was on ff.n, and it was either beatles RPF or fushigi yuugi which was my friend's obsession and she was the one who showed me ff.n, so i def read some fics lol

B7. Which character is your favourite to read about? Why?

a lot of footballers--always here for the croatia 2018 squad, or any croatia squad really. granit xhaka, mikel arteta...but these days frank lampard is my favorite to read about, for Obvious Reasons hahahah

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For the ask meme: YQY!

a song that reminds me of them: and i won't stop saying it!!

what they smell like: probably his preferred incense scent, i don't really know enough to say what he'd use :/

an otp: qijiu obvi

a notp: haven't come across one!

favorite platonic/familial relationships: all the peak lords!!! ride or dies!!!!

a headcanon that is popular in the fandom but that i disagree with: i honestly don't interact with fandom enough to know sjdklfdf

the position they sleep in: a slightly odd position that became habitual when he was recovering from his wounds

a crossover au i’d love to see them in: hmmmmmmmm. ohohoh okay-- so back when i was a wee preteen my first great anime love was fushigi yuugi, which is about a girl who transmigrates into an ancient chinese novel. the emperor character has been told from birth he's destined to marry the priestess from another world, but she picks the male lead, naturally. there's some YQY juice there, I bet, especially if you do something a la scum villain with transmigrating into an existing character.

my favorite outfit they’ve ever worn: he deserves more canonical outfits :(

[stillness-in-green]

Stillness is wildly impressionable when she sees memes, news at 11.

Read @robotlesbianjavert's post she wrote in reply to me asking her about her favorite Gay Little Henchmen and immediately had to do my own. Added some runners-up also. Sorry for the nonsense, all.

#5: Lieutenant, The Legend of Korra—

Surely in my ranks of "characters I like most wildly out of proportion to their importance in the show," but that's what a good mustache and an emotive delivery on a last line will do for you.  It probably doesn't hurt that, despite the Lieutenant never even getting a proper name, that one last scene gives him more chemistry with Amon than Korra had with Mako the entire season.

Anyway, I liked him in the show and definitely went out hunting for fic/art for the pairing based just on that, but I do have to give a shout-out to @scumtrout for her fic The City Will Follow You for keeping the fire burning for this poor sad asshole.  Give it a read if you want, among other things, the Lieutenant being sad and fucked up and incredibly dangerous as he processes how Amon used him and the rest of the Equalists.

#4: Shirato Jin, Persona 3—

The littlest of the little henchmen on this list for reasons of being a teenager and a computer nerd (but still a dangerous criminal because I know what I'm about).  Jin is like if Skeptic were a decade younger, staving off a terminal disease with illegal drugs, and was a little less goth and a little more rave.  Also, packing a lot more grenades.

He's got a good balance with his cult leader of choice wherein Takaya is the one prone to big, dramatic actions to emphasize his rhetorical points, while Jin has to be like, "Hey, I agree with all your rhetorical points, but I also want us both to survive long enough to savor you being right about everything, so let's exercise the better part of valor here."  In that way, they're on the more equitable end of the power dynamic spectrum pairs like these run.

Strega in general got handed an incredibly raw deal, both in-universe and in terms of the broader narrative, and boy oh boy are they ever a good predictor for how hard I fell for the League of Villains.

#3: Tadashi Kikuchi, Sk8 the Infinity—

Soft-spoken manservant designed to look like a background character compared to the rest of the cast, but efficient and skilled in the wildly different spheres of Illegal Underground Skateboarding Park Management and Upstart Japanese Politician Personal Assistance.  Tadashi is kind of terrifying when you really stop to think about him, not just for how scary competent he is, but for being, in his own way, just as unhinged as his boss, but ten times more oblivious to that fact.

He's a henchman willing to act out for what he thinks are his boss's best interests, and it is extremely hilarious how much of Sk8's overarching plot is caused directly or indirectly by Snake and Adam's relationship drama. Incidentally, Tadashi is a rare case of a Gay Little Henchman whose feelings are requited!  That mostly serves to make things more complicated, however, because the feelings in question are, "I could never, ever leave him, but I think he's really fucking me up."

#2: Nemoto Shin, My Hero Academia—

Of all the candidates BNHA offers for this—not a small number—I have to give it to Nemoto for scoring the best across all categories.  Transparently only there because he fell for Overhaul like a wing snapped off an airplane.  Absolutely zero other motivations.  Knows about Overhaul's evil plans and horrendous crimes, and 100% does not care.  Not only is he a henchman, he denigrates other henchmen.  You just know that if he could do all the things his boss needs done on his own, he'd run the rest of the underlings out ASAP.  Absolute top tier The #1 Henchman Here Will Be Me energy.

#1: Tomo, Fushigi Yuugi—

Tadashi is nearly a match for him in terms of, "Yes, it's canon," goes further in terms of not being a predatory stereotype, and is doing better in the reciprocal affections category, too.  Still, all that said, Tomo remains my 90s shoujo problematic fave.

He's got a theatrical flair that he gets by virtue of a theatrical background; he's striking in his costume and, for my tastes, the most beautiful man in the series out of it.  While the visual quality of the anime runs towards the dubious during his stretch of episodes, he has a purring, silken voice that made Tobita Nobuo my favorite voice actor for years afterward.  Then there's the ruthless pragmatism that echoes Nakago's while also going further, because being the boss means you get to set your own hard limits, whereas being in love with the boss means you can go as far as you want while telling yourself it's all for him.

Tomo, like Ashitare and Miboshi, deserved a better and more nuanced portrayal—no shade to Watase Yuu, who was a lot younger when they wrote the series, but FY was the series I learned to love characters out of spite—but I will go on liking them anyhow, because authorial write-offs make me ornery like that.

Runners-Up in no particular order—

Spinner, My Hero Academia: Every bit as homoerotically obsessed with his boss as Nemoto (or any of the other fantastic candidates the series has on offer), but the League/Spinaraki's more equitable relationship means Nemoto's "henchman" vibes are stronger.

Isurugi Camice, Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans: I love him for the hints of wounded stoicism, which are always catnip to me, but he hides his feelings too well and too long to be an ideal fit for the topic.

Ein Dalton, Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans: Probably does a better impression of being homoerotically obsessed with  Lieutenant Crank than Gaelio, but definitely more Gaelio's henchman than Crank's, so he loses out for splitting focus.

Disqualified For Reasons But I Can't Not Mention Them—

Ivan, Giant Robo: Astounding henchman vibes, and I like him and Alberto quite a lot, but he's not anywhere near obsessed enough with Alberto to fit the bill.  Ivan's maladjustedness lies in other areas.

Listor, Hugtto PreCure: JESUS CHRIST, THIS HAMSTER.  The wounded stoicism fells me again, and I 100% believe that he and his boss have had sex at least once (LOOK, you don't set up all the repeating patterns Hugtto did with George Kurai and then lead an episode framing him and Listor through gauzy pink bedcurtains if you don't know good and well what you're implying).  Still, while I love that awful pairing to death, I don't think Listor is "homoerotically obsessed" so much as he is "unbelievably lonely and in no position to turn George down."  If this were my list of Top 5 Wounded Stoics, though, you'd better believe he'd be right at the top.

Uryuu Ryuunosuke, Fate/Zero:  His sexual preoccupations are less about his boss than the perverse body horror he and said boss enact on their victims.  Which is a shame, because he would rank higher than anyone on this list if "little henchman" were the only criteria.  That kid is thrilled—just ecstatic—to be living the life he's living.

Innouva, Magic Knight Rayearth:  Given the huge magic wolf form, his vibe is less "pining for his boss" and more "loyal hound will fuck you up."  Bitchy gay attitude is fully intact, however.

Lord El-Melloi II: I probably can't count him because I don't actually ship him with Rider, but the evidence of "forever single because he's dedicated his life to living up to his king's final order" speaks for itself.  An incredible retainer-who-outlived-his-lord character whose devotion makes me weepy every goddamn time.

[lesbiankiliel]

@lady-of-the-spirit requested miaka from fushigi yuugi for the blorbo meme over at my star wars sideblog, and I'm posting it here to keep things clear

here's miaka

send me a character and I'll fill this

[disneysooner]

When your OTP isn’t interacting with each other when they obviously like each other……

Fushigi Yuugi Season 1 Episode 5

[eirenical]

Throwback Tuesday for the bingo meme: Trini Kwan OR Nuriko

[In reference to this game.]  Thanks, @drverstehen1 !

GUESS WHAT, YOU GET BOTH, BECAUSE I COULDN'T PICK.

...not gonna repeat my opinion on the word blorbo again, but if I used it, I would use it for her. ^_^

didn’t get enough screen time: ...don’t make me sob about Thuy Trang right now.  Don’t make me do it.  TT^TT

free space: I really, really loved Trini.  Her character was allowed to be so many things, and I always appreciated that.  And I imprinted on her REALLY hard when I was younger.  Looking back, I’m sure they stepped in a few awkward stereotypes here and there with her, but it always felt like they tried to be respectful of the culture she was representing, and I appreciated that, too.

didn’t get enough screen time: EPISODE 33. FUCKING. EPISODE 33. I WAS SURE I HAD TO BE REMEMBERING THE NUMBER WRONG, BECAUSE NO WAY WOULD I STILL REMEMBER THE EPISODE NUMBER OF THE EPISODE THAT TRAUMATIZED ME 20+ YEARS LATER, BUT NO. I WAS RIGHT.  He died WAY too soon. 

they got done dirty by fans the author: And that dream sequence of him secretly having the hots for Miaka was just... wtf.  Watase Yuu, please keep your homophobia away from my fave.  >:(  ANYWAY.  STILL TRAUMATIZED.  HE SHOULD HAVE HAD MORE TIME.  *sobs aggressively*

HE DESERVED SO MUCH BETTER.  TT^TT

[sins-of-the-sea]

(( 🎞for the twins! ))

Send me an OC + 🎞 and I’ll tell you what characters from pop culture inspired their design.

//I must note that, at one time, while Phoebus and Guy were always brothers, they weren't always twins! And even then they weren't always identical twins! So they have different sources of inspiration from pop culture as far as their design goes.

Phoebus:

Durand (Le Chevalier d’Eon), mostly just his color scheme, manner of dress, and inspiration to give him a humbler, simpler design in contrast to Guy. Helps he’s also French.

Captain Phoebus (The Hunchback of Notre Dame): At the time, I wanted to give Phoebus a French name that wasn’t the stereotypical “Jacques” or “Pierre” and I didn’t have a book of names, so I just picked out “Phoebus” without realizing it’s just a variant of “Apollo” despite my knowledge of Greek mythology (I was 13). Later, my Phoebus became a bit more similar to Disney Phoebus in that he is among the more “heroic” of the antagonists early in the story. He’s nothing like the original novel Phoebus, though, lmao.

Tulio (The Road to El Dorado): The “straight man” and “planner” of the twins who also has to deal with his brother’s shenanigans all while not being above participating in them as well. Also is the actual one of the two who finds love, at least at first (despite Guy being Lust, Phoebus has had 3 past lovers he went steady for a time). Helps Tulio shares the same voice actor as Captain Phoebus, so this means I have Kevin Kline in a French accent as my voice claim for both twins.

Guy:

Tasuki (Fushigi Yuugi) for his hotheadedness, fire powers, and propensity for picking fights with almost everyone he meets.

Nuriko (Fushigi Yuugi) for being unrepentantly gay (though the manga suggests he may be bi). The biggest inspiration that had me go “this is fucking Guy” was when Nuriko was fantisizing himself as Hotohori’s lover every chance he got.

Tomo (Fushigi Yuugi) for the “villainous gay” who is actually super interesting and really cool.

......Look, Fushigi Yuugi was one of my first mangas/anime that wasn’t Sailor Moon/Dragon Ball Z/Pokemon, okay?

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[whisperofthewaves]

hhhhhhh thanks @ifrija​ for tagging me, the rules are:

put your favourite playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, then tag 10 people / shuffle your entire music library and list the first 10 songs

since I got rid of my gigabytes of music when I got spotify and I don’t listen much to music anyway, you will be treated to the choicest bits from my only one self-made, listened to on a semi-regular basis, sing-along-while-working playlist:

Mr Oizo - Hand In The Fire (feat. Charli XCX)

Auli'i Cravalho - How Far I'll Go

Sugarcult - Bouncing Off The Walls

Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains

Ruelle - Monsters

Korn - Coming Undone

Arctic Monkeys - Fake Tales Of San Francisco

Kasabian - Club Foot

Lion King - I Just Can’t Wait To Be King (the polish version)

Avril Lavigne - Complicated

lmao I’d like to say these are the outliers but no, this is pretty much what this playlist is. the only thing missing is a song in neither english nor polish and only really known in its country of origin.

tagging @not-feuilly, @vaderlord, @nostalgiaiscool, @antimonkey, @szczygi, @vislokawitch, @sansael, @pankracy it’s 2am there’s a storm coming and I ran out of urls from the top of my head, I’m sorry. feel free to jump in.

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"Get to Know Me" Tag Meme

Oh gosh, this is the first time we've ever been tagged for a meme! Thank you for thinking of us, @felinesomnambulist. I SUPPORT YOUR MICHELANGELO LOVE, he's the best turtle and April should see that.

I'm gonna fill this out based on me (@unforth) since I run this account (And, ya know, own the Press). :D

Three Ships: Hua Cheng/Xie Lian (Tian Guan Ci Fu by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu), Mo Ran/Chu Wanning (The Husky and His White Cat Shizun by Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat), Shen Qiao/Yan Wushi (Thousand Autumns by Meng Xi Shi), are probably my three favorite ships right now.

First Ever Ship: oh god. if we're talking "first couple I remember getting really invested in," it's Min/Rand al'Thor from the Wheel of Time. If it's "the first ship I can remember being like 'I ship this' and it wasn't canon and it's queer and stuff" (though I have Opinions about Min and queerness, but that's a different conversation)...hmm...I wrote a little Nuriko/Yuki Miaka (Fushigi Yuugi by Yuu Watase) and Lina Inverse/Gourry Gabriev (Slayers). (Lina/Gourry isn't queer in canon, but there is no cis het explanation for Nuriko). I also had a ship for The Franchise By She Who I Wish Would Just Fucking Stop Being Awful but we don't speak of such things anymore. (I also, early, wrote a lot of self-insert OC x "my favorite character in each franchise" things, like in middle school I wrote a story with my OC x the son of Garion and C'Nedra from the Belgariad by David Eddings).

Last Song: Ateez - Deja Vu (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlnMDttgTbk)

Currently Reading: Mo Du by Priest (https://edanglarstranslations.com/modu)

Currently Watching: I guess The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty? I watch things incredibly slowly, basically only when I'm packaging campaign merch, and we've only had the pin campaign recently so I haven't had much time in ages. I've also been watching TLT2 on and off. Counting things I'm watching with the kids, we're doing our second full watch-through of Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts (which by the way? super queer. y'all should check it out, it's great.)

Currently Consuming: Black cherry herbal tea

Currently Craving: at least one good night of sleep, god I'm tired (see also: why I'm doing a meme instead of editing, lmao).

Tag 9 people we want to get to know better! Um... @sarnakhwritesthings, @theleakypen, @scones-and-texting-and-murder, @jemariel, @deathbycoldopen, @wolffyluna, @faerytaleonfire, @foxofninetales, and @veronicasanders

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