“…look we both want Ranma Honey to like US and not that Purple haired TRAMP Shampoo so why don’t we combine our powers…by making out….”
“…why would I make out with you just so that JERK Ranma shows me basic consideration…”
“…wait…actually yeah…that’s perfect….i SHOULD make out with you….”
“Excellent….now let me turn off the stove so we can get started….”
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Ranma 1/2 Thoughts - Remake? Edition
So there's a rumor flying in the R.5 community that the anime is getting a remake. Which, you know, if it's true could be good or bad and we won't know for sure until we actually observe the thing and collapse the waveform.
If they do remake the series, I hope they keep the problematic bits, because even with those problematic bits there's a message so powerful that blows right past them to reach new audiences all the time! Back around 2010 I was convinced that R.5 had lost it's place in the cultural lexicon due to the march of history. Not that it would ever be considered a mistake or an outlier artifact, but that it was a product of its time and the world had moved on.
It's quite clear that we, as a culture, haven't moved on, though. There's still abusive fathers, there's still mothers who communicate their desires for their children for absolute shit, there's still compulsory heteronormativity, there's still toxic masculinity, there's still people who will exploit others, there's still the kind of men that require the #MeToo movement, there's still horrible men in positions of power who can grant you your dreams or kill them if you don't submit to their sexual abuses, and there's still a need to point out that sex is not gender.
What I would like to see are consequences to all this. I want to see Genma being pursued by the Japanese equivalent to CPS and being appropriately shunned by the community. I want to see Soun's life being negatively impacted because he's letting a known abuser live with him. I want to see Nodoka's fears and anxieties over worrying she's too late to be a part of her child's life. I want to see a literally genderfluid and/or transgirl Ranma struggle in a non-comedic way over whether or not they're "manly" enough. I want to see Akane coming to terms with the fact that she is bisexual/lesbian and she's internalized comp-het and been taking it out on everyone else around her. I want to see Ukyo struggling with CPTSD over being kicked out of her home at a super young age and have to become a business owner and be a gender she wasn't born with and how that affects her life going forward. I want the reason for the Kuno sibling's rift to be over Tatewaki's stubborn refusal to stop violating girls. I want to see Happosai's mere existence as the chilling effect that it is and the reason only the teen girls and young adults are trying to stop him is because the older generations of women have had the fight (literally in some cases) beaten out of them.
Keep the difficult stuff, keep the problematic stuff, but show the reasons why it's difficult and problematic.
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After an ENTIRE YEAR (and 17 days, give or take a day) Chapter 6 of Strange Bedfellows is now available on AO3!
(In which Kodachi visits the Dojo unannounced, Ranma’s attempts at Martial Arts Cooking take a strangely slimy turn, Pantyhose learns the subtle art of small talk, and Ukyo’s feelings for Ryoga have explosive consequences.)
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Hello, do you have any ranma x akane fanfic recommendations??? I miss them so much!
Honestly, I feel like the majority of fics for them are in Spanish and my Spanish is terrible. When I'm in a Ranma x Akane vacuum, I tend to see what fan comics they have on YouTube because they're easier for me to find
. They're also in Spanish but easier to figure out because of the pictures. Then I use Google translate and my own rusty language skills to see what they say because I'm like a fucking addict when it comes to them 😭 I think I have a playlist if you'd like me to check, but I'm not sure.
If anyone has English fic recs, anon and I would sure appreciate them! I also like Ryoga x Ukyo!
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Our kind of love
I draw this thanks to #mundo_fanfics_inuyasha_y_ranma @mundo.fanfics0 they created a dinamic based on February called #tu_manera_de_amar
Thanks for the invite and the inspiration
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I finally got through the revision hurdle for a part of the fanfic that I was not looking forward to doing and now I'm feeling excited again for the chapters after this one.
Just to look at my outline and realize there's another bridge that I have to burn fairly soon. The difference is I don't dread that one at least. I'm just not the most sure on how to make it work in this AU given how much stuff I intentionally switched around. XD Like I have the notes; I just hope I'll do better with this bridge than the last one.
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