#weeb revolution

[otakusocialista]

La expropiación de las mujeres 

La mujer fue expropiada de todo medio de producción desde hace milenios, es decir, no se le permite trabajar, ni estudiar. Durante milenios su única salida para sobrevivir es la belleza; es un asunto de vida o muerte agradarle a la clase dominante o a lo que más se le parezca . De ahí le viene su paranoia sobre su novio; en conclusión, que no se les va a erradicar ese comportamiento hasta que extingamos el trabajo asalariado y todos por derecho humano tengan acceso a los medios de producción: Maquinaria, tierra y Libertad para todos.

The expropriation of women: The woman was expropriated from every means of production for millennia, that is, she is not allowed to work, study. For millennia his only exit to survive is beauty; It is a matter of life or death to please the ruling class or what seems most. From there comes her paranoia about her boyfriend; In conclusion, that this behavior will not be eradicated until we extinguish salaried work and all by human right have access to the means of production: Machinary, Land & Freedom for everyone. 

[she-weeb]

Let's DDR!

[alphachromeyayo]

ffs I played Dance Dance Revolution for like ten minutes before bed

and now obviously I'm up late making the cheesiest Eurobeat known to humanity 💥

[frasohei]

Watching a documentary on the Imjin War, where a historian claimed that the Japanese possessed, at the time, the strongest military in the world. I mentally shouted “Weeb!” at my screen and made a mental list of “countries” that would have given the Japanese a run for their money… in no certain order:

Hapsburg Spain

Hapsburg Austria

Bourbon France

The Dutch

The Ottomans

The Safavids

The Mughals

And to be completely honest the Japanese never conquered Korea, and while the Ming were in decline, the Manchus that followed them were the dominant military power in China till the 19th Century… feel free to add to this list.

[oneesanmarket]

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[y0uc4n7kn0w]

Day 6: The Silent World of GL

Here we are, on day six of Niji Nights. We have done a lot of talking about boys love so far and only briefly mentioned girls love. Star and I tend to feel like in comparison to BL, GL often doesn’t get the same love and appreciation these days. There was a period in anime where BL and BL coded shows were norm, but during those years it felt GL was at a standstill. However, in recent years, Star…

[fetsu]

Yo I haven't spammed this in awhile, but every Friday at 8pm est I stream a Naruto Clash of Ninja Revolution 3 tournament. Tonight happens to be a South American tournament so we get to see all the player from SA. Come hang!

[shera-dnd]

Not to be a fucking weeb, but I'm just so glad we live in the era of anime that we live in

Back in the day characters would have the most homoerotic declarations of friendship to each other and you'd still have to argue with people on the internet over subtext

Like unless you were watching a show explicitly about girls being gay you'd never get anything more than a "you're my dearest friend" said in a tone that made the word "friend" buckle from all the work it has to do

But now we have gays piloting robots, gays playing in rock bands, gays getting isekaied, gays playing underground golf for the mafia

And it's all so delightfully blatant

In Witch From Mercury when Suletta makes the cliche "but we're both girls" line, Miorine just comments on how backwards Suletta's planet must be

Then you have Kita, from Bocchi the Scissor Rock, directly saying that she has a crush on Ryo, and Ryo openly talking about how much of a chick magnet she is

Anisphia from Magical Revolution is even more blatant, straight up shouting at the screen "if I fall in love with anyone it's gonna be with a woman!" a statement that may not be taken all that seriously by her father, but definitely by her future father in law

Not to mention Aoi and Eve from Birdie Wing who - even tho they don't fully understand their crushes for each other - are so stupidly gay for each other that their two best friends refuse to let them share a room, because they don't trust them alone together for an entire night

In short it's a good time to be a lesbian who is into anime and I'm so happy to see how much things have changed in the last few years

Can't wait for the Chainsaw Man anime to get to the international assassin's arc so we can have an even more wonderful time as gay weebs

Now give gay men and trans people the same treatment you fucking cowards

[eowynstwin]

returning for more book recs cause I eat your recommendations up like communion bread in an attempt to save me

Be saved my child

Also I’m going to deviate from the norm and recommend some manga, please don’t draw and quarter me I was a weeb in a past life

Paint the Wind by Pam Muñoz Ryan is a relatively easy book to read that nonetheless made me cry several times as a child. After the sudden death of her domineering grandmother, a young girl discovers she has family raising horses in the west, which she has always dreamed of.

A Bride’s Story by Kaoru Mori is a slice of life historical epic centered around both the daily life and marriage practices of Turkic Central Asia. This manga is meticulously researched and FABULOUSLY drawn. Mori is the kind of artist you only see once in a generation. I worship at her feet.

Emma also by Kaoru Mori is another work of historical fiction, this time set in England during the late Victorian period (my beloved). It follows a maid who falls in love with the son of a social climbing nouveau riche family, interspersed again with depictions of daily life of the time period.

The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan is a collection of feminist essays that follow the rise and dispersion of the incel movement, particularly the multi murder-suicide of Elliot Rodger. Amia explores the sexual expectations of heterosexual culture and interrogates the scripts set up that facilitate it. General trigger warning for discussions of rape and misogyny.

Second Place by Rachel Cusk is a short work of lit fic about a woman’s emotional affair with an artist who hates her. That’s kind of the best way I can describe it but it’s also about motherhood, marriage, solitude, loneliness, Covid lockdown (tangentially), and old age. The narrator invites a painter she admires to take residence in a cottage on her property for a season, and things don’t go well.

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong is part memoir part letter to his mother reminiscing on the childhood he shared with her. Ocean’s mother cannot read, and thus this letter divulges far more about Ocean’s life than he might ever actually tell her. He relates his experience growing up in poverty as a gay Vietnamese immigrant with two women marked permanently by the aftereffects of the Vietnam war.

Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong is his second poetry collection which follows the death of his mother. Vuong explores the relationship of writing and grief, and honestly I have a hard time summarizing any poetry collection because I’m only an amateur poetry enthusiast. Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker and Dear T hit especially hard if you’ve read the book I recommend above.

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson is a novel in verse reimagining the myth of Geryon and Hercules as the bildungsroman of Geryon, who falls in love, or the closest thing to it, with Hercules as a young man and meets him later in life only to be disillusioned about who he’s become. Not to be irreverent but this is the best mslash lovers to strangers fanfictiony Greek retelling I’ve ever read. Song of Achilles eat your heart out. (I’m reading the “sequel” red doc> right now but I’m not finished with it yet.)

A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers on the surface is a solarpunk novella set on a world fully recovered from its Industrial Revolution, but in actuality it explores dissatisfaction with life even in the closest thing we could ever get to a utopia. A monk named Dex realizes they are no longer happy in their profession and strikes out to serve tea in the countryside, and meets a robot from the forest who wants to know if humanity needs anything. A very kind book.

I have a few others in mind but I want to recommend them specifically alongside various fic series. Hope you enjoy these!

[otakusocialista]

struggle class

la rebelión del artista contra los convencionalismos, es la rebelión contra los gustos de la clase dominante

The artist's rebellion against conventions is the rebellion against the tastes of the ruling class

[alphachromeyayo]

Who's popping antihistamines and making wild, positive affirmation Eurobeat bangers?

THIS SNEEZY GUY RIGHT HERE! 🤧🌼💥💿🪩

[mistress-chan]

What is this another Weeb Wednesday and I am going to bring up an isekai, how can this be?   You might remember that I said the last isekai was the second gayest anime of the season only losing to golf, but this came out after. So we have the gays and you know what is next? Magical girls! I still have not run out of them, yet. But what anime can out gay gay golf? One that speed runs the “is it yuri or is it bait” question in two episodes. Be warned though it is a mouthful: The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady or TMRotRPatG for short, or MagiRevo for even shorter that you can actually say. Really there are plenty of ways that I can explain how gay gay very gay gay gay homosexual gay it is with just four images and text (from /r/Animemes).

In the first episode the main character Anisphia "Anis" Wynn Palettia crashes a party her brother is having, she steals her brother’s soon to be ex-fiancé Euphyllia "Euphy'' Magenta, decides it is in everyone’s best interest to keep her, and the two end up in bed. I mean there is other things about the fact that Anisphia is a princess who cannot use magic so is creating her own system of magic, that Euphyllia is a genius (and turns out to be a bigger switch that at first glance), also there is maids and a lesbian vampire. This anime is gay, and I think that the anime actually did the light novel justice and might have made it moar gay. Also a deep story about what is needed to be a ruler of a country and if someone is willing to give up what they want for others. Also again a lesbian vampire, who yes is not a big stompy dommy mommy but still should be called out.

PS. Yes I am doing my part to keep Weeb Wednesday gay. For the children.

[canmom]

seasonal anime: Mahō Shōjo Magical Destroyers

This one's an odd one.

I think the best place to begin with this one is... here's some lines from the sub. The official sub, from Crunchyroll (I think).

And for this particular show, subtitling with imageboard memes seems actually quite appropriate. But it's still so weird to see memesubs go official! It reads like a fansub!

As for the show itself... it's odd. I watched it pretty much entirely on the strength of the OP, which has both some lovely animation cuts including a little Weilin Zhang. Nobody figured out who did the car still. But where it really caught my attention is the glitched out second half that looks somewhere between SBAHJ and trans girl aesthetics. Here's a taste:

Based on that I expected something in the vein of Madoka, playing around with the form. Well, it's not that! Still trying to put my finger on what exactly it is.

I think I broadly I get what it's going for, sending up genre tropes and invoking various flavours of otaku subculture stuff with a really modern reference pool. And I appreciate that it's willing to go weird with it; episode 2 for example has a surreal battle on a drug induced psychic plane and they are willing to get quite experimental with the imagery (also obligatory EoE nod)...

The henshin sequences likewise go pretty hard! Blue, the sex/masochism themed one in particular, gets her brain corkscrewed out and turned into a weapon. Lots of blink-and-you-miss-it stuff in all three.

There's other cute visual ideas riffing on the otaku theme; e.g. in episode 3, a mech is assembled like a model kit from a sprue by giant hands.

Or places where it's like... oh huh you went there then? It really foregrounds sexuality, playing it mostly for jokes but also like...

This isn't even the first time one of the characters has ended up in shibari and he stays that way for the rest of the episode.

Anyway, the story turned out to be about an alternate future where otakus become an oppressed class who are caged by the government; protagonist 'otaku hero' leads an otaku revolution, although he's more of a comic relief guy beside the three magical girls. The sort of mocking but affectionate sendup of otaku stuff feels sort of like 'what if you made Otaku no Video, 30 years on'.

So I respect its ambition! It certainly feels different.

Alas I don't think it quite comes together. The pace is pretty breakneck, but it's not so infectiously energetic as something like Kill La Kill, which is an obvious point of comparison - but then not many people can match Imaishi! Visually, the show proper is kinda rough, and inevitably falls short of the level set by its OP/ED. The story is way too overtly ironic to get seriously invested in, so you're mostly there for the jokes, which are pretty hit and miss (a lot of them are just 'haha, sex' or 'look, otaku thing'), but also it's paced so fast that they don't all have to stick.

It's a bit of a headscratcher honestly. I'm mostly still watching out of curiosity to see what they're doing with all this. It feels like there's several seeds of something in this mix; whether it will grow I can't tell.

Come to think of it, if it reminds me of anything, it's OtakuVs, the surprisingly high-effort anime comedy web series by some American weebs. The pace, tone, and sense of humour are remarkably similar. I'm probably missing some kind of precursor to both that explains it. Maybe it was poptepipic all along!

[semi-imaginary-place]

more p5 ranting

Unless Persona overhauls it's writing team I don't think it's going to get much better. P5 clearly shows that their writing team is filled with conservative middle aged men who are trying to make a story that appeals yo the youths and have no clue what they are doing. They try to ape the aesthetics of social justice and progressive politics without ever actually engaging in the concepts. Despite wanting to write a story about the underdogs and marginalized in society there aren't a lot of marginalized characters and the writers fail to engage with the stories of those that are. They are so busy making Joke a self insert cishet male power fantasy that there aren't really any of the usual social stigma consequences usually associated with an arrest and conviction just some flavor text in the begining. One of the things I was alluding to above is that the social consequences of being a blond white girl in Japan are dealt with way better with Lisa in 1999 than Ann in 2016 despite having similar character setups. We really get to see how everyone judges Lisa based on her appearance like assuming she speaks English and how she fights to assert her identity by picking up cantonese and clinging to the one guy who saw her as she is. How even though she spent her whole life in Japan and knows nothing else and her weeb dad raised her as a Japanese girl, she's never been accepted. P5 never goes into how Ryuji is from a single parent household and the stigma of it instead making him a archetypal best friend meathead. Despite yapping on and on about social rebellion and revolution P5 fails to have an actually revolutionary character like a queer character or the child of undocumented immigrants. P5 boils down complex social problems into generational conflict (kids rule adults suck) which hides the actual social problems that transcend age. They talk about social rebellion and try to make it the main theme.while having no actual social rebellion in the game.

[y0uc4n7kn0w]

Niji Nights Day 2: 5 More GL Recommendations

The morning sun shines for our second Niji Night! You know what the world doesn’t have enough of in the world? Girls love. We tend to be a somewhat heavy on the BL blog when it comes to our holidays and posts (it’s me, Luna’s, fault). So today we decided to bring back an old post and update it with some more recommendations. If you’re a fan of Girls Love, wanting to get into it, or even if you…

[transingthoseformers]

More things from @sweetheart-weeb-33 's TFEM au!:

Thunderhoof randomly pulls guns out of nowhere and nobody knows where he's keeping them on/in his frame, how he got them inside, or how many there are. Surprisingly this is mostly for funny situations

"Patients are not allowed to bring fully caffeinated drinks to other patients who are on the decaf only list" is a rule that exists solely because of SliceDice and Crazybolt

There is a rule around not standing on tables (this is of course thanks to Quillfire trying to incite a revolution and breaking the table) and Golden Rose is somehow entirely exempt from this rule and breaks it constantly. But she's short enough that the tables can hold her.

Building wide blackouts are pretty common thanks to Little Cybertron's electrical wiring being weird and instead of starting fires the second anything goes wrong the systems instead go "what if we shut down instead". Funny shit occurs during these blackouts

Shockwave is practically a nocturnal recluse and many of the few times he goes out into the common areas, LC typical chaos occurs and he goes "ykw frag this shit I'm going back into my room". Soundwave is the only other mech allowed in his room. One day he mysteriously just appeared with a child.

Megatron not only fragged a hivemind entity, but he has a whole ~deal~ with her involving alliances and sacrifices in order to both keep her from assimilating mecha (or at least some mecha) and to give him heir(s). He got knocked up with four daughters lol.

Thunderhoof and Steeljaw have four kids between them. Half of them are menaces.