#idk if this counts as anti but im tagging it just in case

[kudzucataclysm]

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tagged by @cream-and-tea!! had to sit on this for a bit but ultimately realized that im lowkey shit at articulating my thoughts so you get Brain Dump Yappery. about my terminal brain fungus Shattered Earth ofc :3

What is the main lesson of your story? Why did you choose it?

iiiii do not have a lesson with SE tbh jfjfjf. or…okay well, i dont mean to impart a lesson on the audience for SE i suppose. if anything i would want someone to come away from the story with their own?? interpretation of a lesson, or having realized/learned/realized something about themselves. or even if its as simple as “this shit is insane” i’d be genuinely happy with that

i chose it becuz ive more or less always wanted a cast full of heinous ass losers/villains/anti-villains/criminals who actually ARE fucked up and do actual bad things instead of being just simply misunderstood or simply SadTM. also cuz i just sort of love weird and unconventional forms of storytelling and worldbuilding. like the weirder/wackier or insane things are the better 💯. SE is the ultimate self-indulgent project fasho….

What did you use as inspiration for your worldbuilding?

GOD…mangas like Gangsta. and Black Lagoon…the movies MFKZ and AKIRA and Bullet Train and Blade Runner and Snatch…Dorohedoro, Hunter X Hunter, Sakamoto Days….War of the Worlds….Mr Inbetween…Cloudpunk and Fallout….Umurangi Gen…so much….

What is your MC trying to achieve, and what are you, the writer, trying to achieve with them? Do you want to inspire others, teach forgiveness, or help the reader grow as a person?

Desmond is simply trying to achieve a place where he feels like he belongs or at least to have people who appreciate/like/love him as he is unconditionally- this goal is somewhat hidden at first by his stated intention to help his dad pay rent ie GET MONEY but that drive for belonging is ultimately what gets him into The Shit with the rest of the cast. then the story happens lol

aaaaaand idk what to achieve with him tbh im not good at articulating my thoughts…but look at ‘im. hes just a little guy; in all seriousness tho i think…? im at least hoping to showcase that the initial doormat/people pleaser/super empathetic type* of character is absolutely capable of evolving (forcefully in this case) into someone who’s like. capable of change. of doing things. of learning to not take people’s shit anymore and to finally be able to do something about it. violently and amorally but still with the best intentions in mind. teehee

and once again i dont mean to enforce anything on anyone with SE but maybe the just-stated above counts…? uhhh yknow what ya i would like people to grow. and learn 🌞

*i hate this type of character who is still this by the end or even halfway point of the story. like literally the only thing changed abt them is that they r Tired and Traumatized now but r still effectively doormats and r emotionally stable who Talk No Jutsu out of shit like that GENUINELY!!! makes me pissed kfjfjf like NAAAUR!! GET ANGRY! WHERES YOUR RAGE!! WHERES YOUR FUCKING RAAAAGE??!!!! BLOW SOME SHIT UP ABOUT IT!! FLUSH YOUR MEDICATIONS DOWN THE TOILERT! NOOOOW!! ok /endrant

How many chapters is your story going to have?

SE is become One Piece atp and everyday i suffer for it-

uuuh idk how many chapters. but as of rn the story is split into two Acts, each consisting of several Parts, each which consists of several story arcs. one arc now involves cowgirl francis fighting a bioengineered bigfoot in a martian terraformed shrubland desert so. idk how many chapters. i meant is become OP very seriously

Is it fanfiction or original content? Where do you plan to post it?

ORIGINAL CONTEEEENT RAAAAAAAA rips shirt off

i def plan on making SE its own website lmfao. im willing to put the money in to purchase a domain and everything, i’ll even force myself to learn basic coding before i ever use something like webtoon or tapas. that shit’s for GODDAMN sure lol

Do you have any words of encouragement for fellow writers of writeblr? What other writers do you follow?

DO WHATEVER YOU WANT FOREVER THE WORLD..:IS YOUR OYSTER...WATCH MFKZ...MY FINAL MESSAGE…GOODBYE….

I HEREBY TAG @vacantgodling, @calicohyde, @transthadymacdermot, and @careful-pyromancer...NO PRESSURE....

[ninakaina]

Hey man, wasn’t trying to be patronizing, just wanted to add a little bit of context for my followers (I have like 20 of them) who have not heard of Mishima and who wouldn’t be inclined to go googling. I can see how such a surface-level screenshot might have been grating to someone who’s neck-deep in Japanese politics, and for that I am sorry. About equating beauty, eroticism, and death though, this is a conclusion I reached while researching Nazi aesthetics; I wasn’t trying to derail the conversation, even if I had that ability. You mention wondering if Catholicism counted, and while I don’t know enough about it to say (not a historian), I do notice that many, many fundamentalist Catholics today are proud fascists. I am not married to this hypothesis, but it did come about through my own critical thinking so I’d be interested to know if you have a more detailed beef with it (if you’ve got the time/inclination to argue with me about art theory, just tell me to piss off if not).

i appreciate the apology i just as a member of the "do your own research" camp chose not to include any specific information on that post so that the curious could do actual non-wikipedia research and learn all about the situation and the incurious wouldnt walk away with a wikipedia blurb understanding of the situation - the point of the post wasnt even "heads up, mishima was an ultranationalist" but rather "mishima was completely insignificant to the history and politics of japan, an interesting case study in one crazy guy if you're into that, but do not let anything anyone tells you about him influence your idea of what it is to be japanese" because a lot of people in the west who ARE aware of who and what he was still discuss him as a cultural icon and a representative of Old Japan when that only gives power to his mythology by legitimizing both racism against japanese people and ultranationalism within japanese politics. the many tags where people are going "mishima was an idiot who killed himself moron style", while kind of annoying, are more in line with the message im trying to send here.

as an aside i don't use the term fascism to refer to the politics of mishima or the meiji restoration because i think it erases the salient differences between that ideology and say, nazism, (including that i'd argue japanese ultranationalism doesn't do away with noble class structure or imagine a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie in the way that is distinctive of fascism as opposed to other forms of ultranationalism) and kind of encourages people not to learn about the actual context or mechanics of japanese ultranationalism, so your tags also rubbed me the wrong way for that reason.

in general i think any claim that any type of imagery in art is inherently fascist (that isn't like, an explicit Fascist Agenda) is flawed and weirdly anti-art. eroticism/beauty/death is kind of one of the most classic combinations of themes which you can find throughout history and across the world, just because eroticism and beauty and death are like basically the most intense emotional concepts that can be represented in art. yeah catholic depictions of martyrdom come to mind bc they go crazy but like truly i would challenge you to find any "the death of ___" art from any era that doesnt invoke beauty and eroticism in some way depending on whos looking at it. like i dont know what kind of blogs you follow but all the talk of artistic/erotic cannibalism thats been popular on tumblr is an example of eroticism/beauty/death. idk its just everywhere and your thesis sounds like something that can be selectively/subjectively applied to call art you dont like fascist

[run-joey-run]

Klaine for the honest ship ask

I’m relatively neutral on them tbh. I really enjoyed them in season 2 but that’s pretty much it tbh. Honestly though I think their breakup between seasons 5 and 6 was overkill and I would’ve preferred it if their relationship was just in the background of season 6 and it focused it on them as individuals.

All of this doesn’t include Blaine and Karofsky which almost ruins both Klaine and Blaine for me which is I know is unfair but I can’t help it 😔