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Ghibli Museum | Mitaka, Tokyo
#not my photos#most are from magazines#the ghibli wiki#or the museum's pandemic video diaries#the last one is mine though#ghibli museum#ghibli#mitaka#japan#tokyo#hayao miyazaki#laputa castle in the sky#kiki's delivery service#spirited away#the cat returns#my neighbor totoro#mei and the kittenbus#saturn theater#long post
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she gets it
#😭😭😭😭#the most relatable thing ever written#early bob dylan girlie#from a letter to sing out! magazine in 1962#found in one of my dad's many many dylan biogs#bob dylan
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every time i watch anything with him in it (admittingly, predominantly from the Dropout app), i am reminded that Lou Wilson is the most handsome man to have ever lived. like, objectively. he just is. i will hear no arguments for any other person to be ranked higher. Lou Wilson: whose face single-handedly shows humanity can go no higher in beauty. he is THE most attractive man in the world. argue with the wall lmao
#lou wilson#dimension 20#dropout#game changer#i feel compelled to mention this comes from (a) me having had this opinion 5ever and needing it published as i rewatch Neverafter#and (b) that i am on aroace spectrum (im a demi-bi/pan-romantic asexual. mouthful. ugh) so like#the ''hot tingling'' feelings y'all alloromantic-allosexuals get? i dont get those. i feel like this somehow equips me to be#objective while y'all have subjectively biased preferences. dont ask me questions about this flimsy defense. im so objective. all the time#(if you need a tone indicator here: im being sarcastic and joking. i know my queerness does not make me objective. but let me joke about#this because i feel like i am SO RIGHT ABOUT HOW GODDAMN ATTRACTIVE LOU WILSON IS. PUT THIS MAN'S IMAGE IN MUSEUMS TO LAST FOREVERMORE)#how can a man still be hot after voicing Pinocchio. idk. ask Lou Wilson the most beautiful man to ever exist#he's just so stylish and pretty and funny and he has a great smile. A++. put him on the cover of magazines#my post#mine
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Vicious August 1998
#I know!#a rare post of old visual kei stuff from me!#the context for this is that on one of my trips after COVID-19#I tried to find a substitute store for Trio2 which had shut down in Nakano Broadway#I had read that there were some magazine shops at least in Ochanomizu#I didn't have data and tried to navigate with my geolocation skills but ended up asking a sort of old officer just to be sure#he said something along the lines of 'but I'm just an old man...'#so a younger man came to his and my rescue and offered to help me#he understood little English and used Google Translate to communicate with me for the most#turned out he was a magazine enthusiast himself and he took me to a couple of stores#they all had only antique magazines like nothing past 2005#he found everything that had Dir en grey at each of those stores#I felt bad after a while because it was not at all what I was looking for#so I ended up buying the Xth magazine that he showed me#see above hah#just so you know I was really close to the store just with my skills#Dir en grey#young#scans#magazine#visual kei#vkei#Kyo#Kaoru#Die#Shinya#Toshiya#makeup#I'm not sure why I'm such a fan of that middle finger nail paint
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my friends and I had a collage night where we all worked together to make masterpieces
#i was like would it be ok with everyone if i put a quote on there.........#fob#lyrics#ill post our other one in a sec its not fall out boy related at all but its incredible#this one is like earth and space themed and the other is for all the weird shit we found#most of this is from old (like the 60s) and some new national geographics#then we had a few cooking magazines to supplement it#fob art#fob lyrics#art
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I'm seeing "Wedding Peach was unsuccessful" trotted out on Twitter again and it's honestly kind of funny to me. You can dislike the series, but you're rewriting history if you suggest it was a massive commercial flop/astronomical failure — it simply wasn't.
The Wedding Peach TV series maintained viewership throughout its run which is why it aired an entire year's worth of episodes (the full length it was intended to run) and didn't get cancelled like Nurse Angel Ririka SOS, for example.
I'm not going to pretend it did Sailor Moon numbers, dear god, it absolutely didn't get close hence why it wrapped as it did. I would suggest looking back now, that it was the definition of a mid-performing title for the time period. It sold toys decently but not outrageously, it got viewers but not an outstanding number, and it garnered a small but dedicated fanbase of male otaku. All of which is par for the course when it comes to a mid title in 1995.
Wedding Peach DX was produced because the TV series LD sales were decent enough to warrant it. Children were not buying LD box sets at this time, adult fans were and it was this interest that justified the creation of the four DX episodes as direct-to-video releases. If a series doesn't sell well they don't make more episodes, let alone higher quality deluxe episodes specifically for the home video market (and thus for older audiences with spending power).
It is very important to point out that Wedding Peach DX had NO INVOLVEMENT from the original creative team. Tomita Sukehiro and Yazawa Nao did not contribute to its creation, Tadano Kazuko didn't provide designs. Yuyama Kunihiko was the driving force behind the production of the DX episodes and he served as both director and writer for all four episodes (bringing on Wedding Peach animator and soon-to-be frequent Pokémon collaborator, Ichiishi Sayuri to serve as character designer).
What inspired these to be fanservice dreck to the level they ended up being is honestly beyond me. I mean the otaku market definitely wanted more episodes featuring the characters (and more songs featuring the seiyuu, if you want to see how keen otaku were for FURIL please see this post) but part of what they liked about the characters at the time was their (barfbarfbarf) perceived purity and innocence. The DX including panty shots and swimsuits kind of threw them for a loop. Even now, if you look at discussions about the DX among otaku there's a bit of a divide in opinion.
The DX episode sales were (as far as I can tell based on magazines from the time) also mid, but enough to cover four episodes. Three and four don't seem to have sold as well as one and two, but again the stats from the time aren't comprehensive. I think the fact that there weren't any after episode four says it all, honestly. OVA episodes are expensive to produce and it was extremely common for them to stop immediately if the sales weren't there. DX didn't justify its existence beyond those four episodes and Yuyama moved onto a far more successful project in Pokémon.
On that topic, I think it's important to note that Wedding Peach was OLM's first television series (albeit a coproduction with KSS). If it and the studio's adaptation of Mojacko hadn't made some level of profit it would have been quite difficult for them to adapt Pokémon. Neither Mojacko nor Wedding Peach set records with their viewership or sales numbers, but they both did "OK". It was in Pokémon however, that that OLM truly found a successful property with the series still running today. Sometimes you've got to have a few runs at producing things before you find success. Wedding Peach was one of these early runs, a project where a lot of people cut their teeth but one that didn't justify its own continuation beyond a certain point. Just a very standard media mix from the mid-90s, in other words.
Wedding Peach is a problematic title with indifference through to outright objection to representing love outside of heterosexual romance. Looking back now it feels like an absolute dinosaur on so many levels. Between the anime's fatphobic episode and Momoko dropping some gender essentialism, I'm not surprised people want to relegate it to the dustbin of history.
However, I think it is very telling that Tomita Sukehiro, when presented with the opportunity to tell a similar story in the modern day, chose to represent not just queer love, but platonic and familial love in Wedding Apple. While he can't undo the regressive and cringy elements of the original series, as a creator he has progressed and I'd like to think we can all continue to improve our outlooks and output as we grow.
Disliking Wedding Peach in the modern day is completely understandable. I'm not going to pretend anyone should watch it in 2024 without knowing that it is a camp, cheaply made relic of a time when heterosexuality was considered magic. However, just because it pandered to all the worst things trending at the time doesn't mean it didn't sell enough products or hold enough viewers to justify its production. It did, it just wasn't a strong enough property to go beyond that and that's representative of mediocrity rather than mind blowing commercial failure imho.
#ai tenshi densetsu wedding peach#wedding peach#ramblings#i should note this speaks to the anime#the manga side of the media mix is a whole other story for another day#no idea where people pull some of these things from honestly#just statistically speaking most anime series aren't huge hits or massive bombs#they hit somewhere in the middle#for WP i would call its response lukewarm or 'meh'#and i think because of the complexities that have led to it not enjoying a lot of merchandise in the past twenty years#a lot of people want to assume the initial response to it was worse than it actually was#sources on the above are contemporary magazines and#the secret file art book#and my tiny touch of inside info#sorry no pics or further details it’s the middle of the night and I have an MRI in the morning#(standard disclaimer: i’m just a fan who lived through the 90s and not some super expert)
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The thought of Bakugou listening to those terrible Cosmopolitan articles about dating to try and court you.
#he picks up the magazine from his secretary’s desk and he’s now lost down the rabbit hole#reading the TERRIBLE articles#‘7 things women wish men would do during sex’#‘10 perfect positions to find the g-spot’#‘5 signs he’s in to you’#and he’s treating it like it’s gospel😂😭#so he sends you the most risqué embarrassing text that has you thinking wtf???
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a small mcr zine that i made over the last few months :) one page for each album, everything is made from scraps of magazines i had lying around
#i did not print anything for this the challenge was kinda working with whatever i had#which was really fun! it made the collages really interesting#most of the material is from cinema and theatre and photography magazines#and then i added some deranged thoughts to each album#mcr#zines
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I’ve been on a real Fearless kick lately and it always makes me feel some kinda way about Olivia Rodrigo’s body of work. and not even primarily about her and her talent and her songwriting, just about how different an experience it seems to be growing up as a young millennial woman versus growing up as a young gen z woman. take the total absence of any jealousy/self-image song on Taylor’s debut album or Fearless—because social media wasn’t this omnipresent perfect image factory and so the insecurity of growing up looked more like “Place In This World” or “The Outside”, fundamental experiences of questioning and longing that are deeply connected to our humanity, as opposed to “jealousy jealousy”, “pretty isn’t pretty”, or “lacy” which are founded on an obsession spiral that is literally only possible on that level because of the invention of the smartphone.
look at “Tell Me Why” or “Other Side of the Door” as opposed to “vampire” or “logical”—Taylor’s approach was a very straightforward “you acted this way and this is how it made me feel." it wasn’t until later that she started to make statements about patterns of behavior, because she simply couldn’t see them except in hindsight! she couldn’t say “this is what kind of man you are” or “this is what sort of relationship we had” until she had fully processed what happened—which is when we get songs like “Fifteen” and “Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve” and “The Manuscript”. but because the younger generation breathes the air of pop psychology buzzwords, Olivia is diagnosing her exes and labeling her relationships right away. and you might say this is a good thing, that young women are armed with terms like “gaslighting” and taught to be suspicious of age gaps because of the power differential. but having the knowledge doesn’t seem to have protected Olivia at all. she still makes all the same mistakes, there’s literally a whole song all about knowing something is a bad idea and doing it anyway. she still dates the older guy, but then she has so many labels readymade to explain why it didn’t feel good that she doesn’t ever actually get down to saying how it felt—because I don’t think she knows. the younger generation acts like processing an experience means figuring out what tiktokified sound bite applies to it and then slapping the label on and moving forward. “my parents were emotionally abusive” “my ex was a narcissist” “my ex best friend gaslit me” etc. but it seems to me that’s skipping some necessary stages of actually processing your shit. “vampire” is Olivia trying to write “Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve” before she’s ever written (or felt) “Tell Me Why”. it’s the difference between “here’s to you and your temper, yes I remember what you said last night / and I know that you see what you’re doing to me, tell me why” on the one hand and “went for me and not her ‘cause girls your age know better” or “master manipulator, you’re so good at what you do” or “you convinced me it was all in my mind” on the other hand.
and another side effect of this, the big names in this younger generation of artists aren’t really writing love songs, and I don’t think that’s accidental. they literally do not have the vocabulary to do so. the psychology buzzwords that go around are all about toxic relationships and red flags. and so, deprived of a way of thinking about being in love, the love songs either fall flat (“I’ll go anywhere he goes and he says I’m so American”) or they simply don’t exist. the open-hearted sincerity of a “Hey Stephen” or “Jump Then Fall” is nowhere to be found.
#so many disclaimers: I know body image crap predates the smartphone. magazines existed etc.#but you can’t tell me it isn’t exponentially worse and more pervasive now#I also know that tell me why and wcs are about different relationships (obviously) but I think the point stands#and there are some song on guts that are more sincere. for sure.#making the bed and the grudge and scared of my guitar come to mind#but I think she’s so desperate to sound smart and grown-up that she has to put in every song ‘I know what I’m doing! I know what this is!’#when most of the time it would be a better song if she wrote it from an honest place of not knowing at the time#this is me admitting I need a music tag
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Forgot to post here.
Joined a cosplay collab (Jojo slumber party) on Insta hosted by @ahappymetalhead (on Insta)! The first pic was what’s featured on the collab post, the others are some extras. Wore an oversized Metallica tshirt for the Melone cosplay here because I don’t think Melone would wear much for sleeping so he stole something for the party- Also managed to find my snake plush. Shoutout to my mum for helping take the pics.
#jojos bizarre adventure#jjba#vento aureo#jojo melone#cosplay#wanna know the most expensive part of this cosplay? the magazine for the horoscopes#i didn't know it was gonna be expensive until the cashier rang me up#it comes with a chappell roan poster and some kpop singer I think.#also I am currently recovering from wisdom teeth removal
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sometimes I boggle at things the fandom Youths™ don't seem to know these days, especially in an era where virtually anything you want to look up is a mere internet search away and then I realized: it's because bored tweens don't have to resort to reading old issues of Ladies' Home Journal or Glamour in waiting rooms anymore
#nowadays most people probably wouldn't LET their kids read those magazines but truly a source of knowledge has been lost#once I read a fic by a teenage author where a woman got pregnant and her male partner was sincerely like 'oh well no sex for nine months!'#by the time I was sixteen I'd read sooo many advice columns and articles about sex and pregnancy#I was far from an expert but I definitely knew that people don't stop having sex for nine months LONG before I ever had sex or babies#disclaimer: not all fandom youths etc.#I know this doesn't apply to everyone! but it applies to more folks than I would have expected#also please note that I went through my entire childhood and young adulthood without being able to carry the internet in my pocket#I was in my mid-30s when I got a smartphone (they existed before that I just resisted them for a long time)#so I have old-fashioned opinions sometimes
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me: I'm not obsessed with him-
my literal phone wallpaper:
(original version and blue version!)
#HE'S JUST MY LITTLE GUY OKAY!!!#JUST A LITTLE GUY!!!#all images sourced from the star wars comics!! most from the magazine comics and 1 from the kanan comics#if anyone noticed that the blue versions colours are a bit bad its cuz its. low effort. hue shifter my beloved.#star wars#ezra bridger#star wars rebels#sw rebels#star wars rebels comics
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Always a little jumpscared going through old (<2005) USA gaming mags for Guilty Gear reviews and seeing decent scores and nice things said about them lol
#textpost#The short of it is that Americans really hated the Japanese in the late 80s-early 00s (think how Americans are towards China now)#and Guilty Gear is VERY Japanese and VERY over the top#I'm actually having a hard time finding archives of reviews for some of the games because a lot of magazines just kinda skipped 'em#Going through Game Informer mags most recently and have only found reviews for: Overture + ML + GGX#None of the Xrds. No XX. No Isuka. No Strive (no pro jumpe-*brick'd*)#I haven't gotten to the X2 releases yet though. They MAY have done at least X2#I was super surprised by no Xrd Sign review specifically because it at least had an English dub#By Strive's release the magazine was starting to die#A lot of veteran staff members were quitting and they probably skipped it to save money or time#APPARENTLY Cincinnati Ohio reviewed Guilty Gear X2. I //NEED// to go find that later#Why in the HELL did a random newspaper from Cincinnati Ohio review Guilty Gear X2 in 2004
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Finally made a Parapluesch OC, introducing Mama Oz ♥ (Patreon)
#Doodles#Parapluesch#Do I need to tag all of them? I don't want to so I won't lol#I can tag my original I guess :P#Mama Oz#She's based on this absolutely ridiculous and darling object I found at the same place I got my new-to-me video games haha#So apparently in the 60s this specific type of - magazine rack? in the shape of a kangaroo?? was made??#Ridiculous. So ostentatious. I fell in love immediately and had to make her into a Parapluesch#Like as soon as I laid eyes on her standing there I was like ''Oh you're from Die Anstalt'' - Instantly started filling in her backstory#Mama Oz's deal is your classic Stages of Grief - in her case from losing a child#Since she's a plush she never had an actual baby but she lost Her Child if you get me - she stopped being played with#And so she projects that grief onto others and adopts them in an attempt to get Her Child back#Except if this new relationship isn't within that framework then she rejects it and goes to the next one#She doesn't really realize that she's inconveniencing them by trying to adopt them and limiting herself from forming lasting connections#Not allowing change or growth - stagnating and trying to reclaim something lost#One of my favourite parts of Die Anstalt is that each of them is shown to have flaws#They still need and are deserving of help! But their uglier symptoms aren't shied away from#Dolly and Lilo use self-harm as a coping mechanism#Sly is shown to seek out the high at times and be short and destructive#Dub takes pride in his overwork#Kroko is surly and prickly#Don't even get me started on Dr. Wood lol#So it's fun to imagine what Mama Oz would be doing to - even by accident! - harm herself or others#The whole point of helping them is for them to become their best most comfortable selves :D#I also think what's especially funny is that I've been Meaning to make a Parapluesch OC for /years/ now#I always planned for it to be a Gender Dysphoria diagnosis since that's in the DSM and I had a design and route planned and everything#No. Kangaroo magazine rack. Okay#Lol
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day 25 was to draw in a style ive never drawn in before!!! so i replicated @zankydraws and @0xeyedaisy
#incredibox#incredibox fanart#incredibox v9#el cool p#30 day challenge#sparks creations#i love these artists they're so epic and awesome#BOTH of their art is very different from mine#especially daisys#so i thought it would be nice!!!! i had a lot of fun :DDD#i referenced that one drawing daisy did of el cool p with the magazine#and i referenced a lot of zankys works ;A;#the shading and the background came from zankys piece with all 20 v9 characters#this is the thing i was talking about XD#daisys linework was so fun to replicate omg#i fucking love these styles you do NOT understand#i dont think i got the shading right for daisys but its fine XD the layers were being WEIRD with zankys side :(#the most i struggled with was zankys FUCKING HANDS#FUCK YOOU/J#THEY'RE SO PRETTY AND SO GOOD LOOKING AND I HAD TROUBLE REPLICATING IT >:(#i had to draw el cool p#i was gonna do more but i need rest ;-;
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none of them know what they're doing and it's delightful
#GDJKS WHAT DID I JUST WATCH#delusional monthly magazine#<- ngl i went in mostly for that banger of a title and the colorful characters from the poster#what followed was THE most unserious premiere ever#there's a 28-yr-old atsushi-wannabe who can see eldritch beings. an evil org whose henchmen have no idea what they're doing. a dog#a grade schooler with blue hair and braincells. a guy dressed for st patrick's who's also the unluckiest archaeologist on earth#gekkan mousou kagaku#shall be seated weekly with great interest for this cartoony mess
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