#gate keepers

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Happy New Year! Join Mike this week as he recounts his own holidays, shares his latest old anime recommendation, and looks at reasons why we may struggle to trust God as he compares trust with Him to trust among the Bebop crew in Cowboy Bebop: The Movie on this episode of The Power of God and Anime podcast!

Anime Trivia!

What is the name of the Lone Ranger’s nephew’s horse? Ahem. Actually, this is today’s question: In the anime Bleach, what is Ichigo’s father’s occupation?

Podcast Notes

Want to see Mike as Luigi playing Daisy’s Crazy Adventure (if you can call it that)? Here’s the video!

Mike’s anime recommendation for this episode is Gate Keepers. Check out this AMV of the series that he also recommends.

Mike did a watch-along of Cowboy Bebop: The Movie with Eryn and Twwk a while back—we encourage you to listen to it if you plan on viewing the film!

In today’s Songs That Tell the Story, Mike sings Jeremy Camp’s song, “Walk By Faith.”

Bible verses we mentioned or that inspired discussion in this episode include Numbers 23:19, Isaiah 45:15, and Proverbs 3:5-6.

Check out more from Mike on YouTube!

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Featuring copyright-free music (license code 9OFBY6IDSRWODYKF) from Uppbeat (“Funk Tank by Soudnroll), and edited by Dennis.

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Gate Keepers

©️ Kadokawa Shoten 1998

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UGH SOMEBODY SEDATE ME

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[geezerwench]

Anon, you be you and you do you. AO3 has room and plenty of it. I find it interesting that AO3 doesn't ask what your ethnicity / race / nationality / religion / political party / high school graduate / degree holder / otp / notp / fandom(s) / favorite color is before allowing you, me, us to post our stories.

But who does? People who bully and censor and try to gatekeep.

Good on you for rewriting and planning on putting your story back up.

I'd do it just to piss people off.

Something that's always stuck with me is Stitch's followers dogpiling me for writing a Jewish Star Wars AU. Basically it was an AU where Finn was space Moses, the last of a noble Force-sensitive family who made sure he survived the destruction of their planet, and when his Force abilities awakened he went on to fight to free the other Stormtroopers. Stitch didn't like that I went in a Finn/Hux direction wherein Hux was a double agent embedded deep in the First Order, sabotaging it from the inside.

I was called a Nazi. I'm Jewish. I was called anti-black. I'm Beta Israeli, black and Ethiopian-American and proud. I was called a Pick Me POC, I was sent pictures of starving Ethiopian children, I was sent Holocaust pictures, people flooded my comments on AO3 - this was before it had a block feature - and even after I deleted my tumblr the hate bled over onto my other social media accounts. I was called slurs, I was told I should've starved to death, people told me my "Jew money" wouldn't buy off people this time, and I got hit by enough people calling me a monster, a bad person, etc. that I took the story down just to escape them.

Stitch only mentioned me once. Just once.

I think the real issue they have with AO3 is that at any point you can be blocked, comments can be turned off, people can find themselves unable to keep clawing at you again and again. You can make it so they have to be logged in to send their threats and then you can report them. They can dogpile "bad" fans all they want, but there are consequences for their actions. I was 14 then and easily intimidated. Many people on AO3 are not either of those things. You can't harass them off their own platform. And when you try, you end up being booted off of it instead.

The real reason Stitch doesn't like AO3 is that it's designed to protect authors, including "Pick Me POC" and "POC TOO" (get it, it's funny because it's like #MeToo, Stitch is oh so hilarious). It protects those of us who are neither white nor onboard with all of Stitch's opinions and, more broadly, not onboard with purity culture, respectability politics and people's demands that you change your content to match their idea of what a respectable fictional story looks like.

This is not about racism. It's about kicking people who are "wrong" aka write anything they don't like off of AO3 for pure, morally good, self-righteous reasons that they tell themselves make them not the bullies here. It's about control. They want you to do what they want or leave.

I've been rewriting my old fic and I'm planning on putting it back up sometime this year.

No, antis, you don't get to bully black people off of AO3 and call yourselves anti-racist and act like you're moral guardians. To be a moral guardian, you'd need some morals. If you don't like the site's policies, get off of it. I am entitled to my space on AO3 just as much as anyone else. I am not Less Than, and the fact that my own people were the ones telling me I was has permanently made me suspicious of alleged anti-racism campaigns in fandom. I know who these people are when they know there won't be consequences for their actions and they're not people I'd trust to run a bake sale, let alone a fandom archive.

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Yikes! That's quite an experience for a 14-year-old!

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They hit her with a frying pan :(

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Keepers of the Gate - art by Boris Vallejo (1978)

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casual conversation between merman and lighthouse keeper totally not falling for one another 🌊 yes, I have a little MerMay AU going on for my Tav, Úna and Gale 🌊

[beneaththetangles]

It’s been well documented (and you’ve probably experienced the same) that we live in a now culture, where we not only desire instant gratification but become upset if we have to wait. This idea can extend to God, whom we treat as our servant or a genie, becoming little Umaru-chans, expecting our desires to be fulfilled this instant. Scripture expresses, however, that waiting on the Lord is wise, and failing to do so may lead to calamity. Join Mike this week as he shares these thoughts and much more on episode nine of The Power of God and Anime podcast!

Anime Trivia!

In the anime Gate Keepers, Ruriko Ikusawa has the ability to heal using her gate. What is her gate called?

Podcast Notes

Today’s episode was brought to you by Goddess Aqua’s Herbal Tea!

Mike is headed to watch My Hero Academia: You’re Next tomorrow! Are you planning to watch the movie, too?

Nickel City Comic Con‘s fall edition is this weekend. If you’re attending, you might run into Mike!

In today’s Songs That Tell the Story, Mike sings “While I Wait” by Lincoln Brewster.

Bible verses we mentioned or that inspired discussion in this episode include Psalms 27:14, I Samuel 13:8-9, and Romans 4:18-20.

Check out more from Mike on YouTube!

You can subscribe and listen to us on a variety of platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud, Amazon Music, and others. Please subscribe and leave us a review!

Featuring copyright-free music (license code 9OFBY6IDSRWODYKF) from Uppbeat (“Funk Tank by Soudnroll), and edited by Dennis.

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[amis127]

Ok so look, I don't know how to convey this without sounding dramatic as fuck so I won't avoid it.

Just know I'm not saying this as a fan but as someone who has been studying film/motion pictures, art, and technology for damn near 20 years now: Dimension 20 will go down as a cornerstone in the evolution of the television medium

There's a full essay on my heart about this prediction but tldr: live theatrical performance + leaving pivotal storytelling elements to change + the innovation of art and tech for set design + the deconstructive nature of the themes explored + marginalized folks included in leadership positions in front of and behind the camera...

They are simply cooking with gas over there, your honor.

I specifically mention this because there's a lot of fear around the fact that legacy media is dying out and that's fair. But I keep reminding people (esp my mentees who are worried about their future careers) that the artistic medium of moving pictures is less than 150 years old. All this shit is still new in comparison to literature or music or theater. Less focus should be spent on legacy media's self-cannibalization right now and more on the independent works that are breathing life back into this craft.

[csphire]

If you're the type to go out of your way to shit on someone's else's Tav or Durge's looks or say they shouldn't be with a particular companion because of how they look odd together-basically policing someone else's game and enjoyment of it in the fandom-kindly fuck off and feel free to block me too.

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that adam guy or whatever

[adraveins]

following Shovel's advice to get past the mirror, and the correct answer is also the one that is most true for Wyll..... how you don't have to pass a check to convince him to use the tadpoles' abilities, you just have to wait for the second dream and let him talk himself into it..... 'you seek to survive' comes before 'you seek power'... characters who are so devastatingly good but still hunger for power regardless because power is control and survival in a senseless chaotic existence..... Wyll's frustration with his father for compromising with the worst of the city, and his inability to follow in his father's footsteps, and yet! he follows in those footsteps all the same, in his own way. and so on and so forth. you understand