Some dude bro on the internet talking about the new She-Ra reboot: Ugh SJWs are taking over cartoons and making them all preachy. I hate it when shows try to push an agenda on kids. Why can’t they be like they used to be, you know?
Original He-Man, looking straight at the audience: We had a lot of fun here today, but you know what isn’t fun? Judging others based on how they look. Not liking a person because he or she is a different race or religion is wrong. Also, plant a tree, and don’t do drugs.
Lou Scheimer was born to a German Jewish family and believed that his cartoons had a responsibility to teach children kindness and respect for everybody.
Back then there were also MILITANT divides between “boy’s” and “girl’s” entertainment but when he found out He-Man had at least a small following of little girls he pitched the concept of He-Man’s sister She-Ra and was insistent she be as tough a warrior as her brother. He saw that girls actually did like “scary” sword and sorcery and had a WHOLE NEW FUCKING SHOW made so they could feel acknowledged and have a heroine to look up to with her very own series.
Later he would help design a whole new sci-fi fantasy setting with the most creative control he ever had, Bravestarr, and was adamant that the hero be a Native American man, the first ever in a starring role on a kid’s action show. He also wanted Bravestarr to be a positive role model by being a patient, gentle, soft spoken man who abhors violence and avoids using guns at all costs.
These cartoons are remembered as schlocky toy commercials and they ARE entertaining that way but real love went into them by a guy who wanted kids to grow up more sensitive and caring. Some of these same geeks crying about THE SJW’S were raised by even more bluntly progressive media than we’ve almost ever had and they didn’t even know it.
The time has come, my sweet little ghouls. We’re ready to announce our bundles and pricing, as well as the hour at witch we’ll be launching the store.
We’ll begin selling pdfs, books, bundles, and tees at 10 PM EST tonight – that’s about five hours from now! While pdfs are included in the preorder, they will not be sent out until 50% of physical orders have been shipped.
Our devastating cover comes to you courtesy of the one and only Morgen. If you’ve fallen in love, give them a shout.
I’ll also do some notes on perspective and dynamic posing later. (We’ll see how dynamic posing goes considering I’m not too great at it myself so… yeahhhh.)
Like, that’s one of the most insidious things cis people have done to us, create this idea that we suffer because we are trans and not because of how we are treated for being trans.
I mean, it constituted a huge “discovery” in the psych world when research showed that rampant depression and increased risk of suicide in trans people was tied to how badly we are isolated and alienated, and that conclusion would likely never have been reached without transness first being slowly de-pathologized, and thus not treated as just being something that is conveniently co-morbid with debilitating mental illness.
Cis people are deeply invested in any narrative that removes their involvement in our suffering and thus places the onus of change on us, demanding we subject ourselves to a psychiatric community that first attempts to obliterate our transness before it even considers helping facilitate it.
This misdirection of responsibility needs to be called out for what it is, an act of violence against trans people at the hands of cis people, and whether its through media, or medical discourse, or casual cissexism, it needs to fucking stop, and y’all cis folk need to hold yourselves accountable for how you perpetuate it.
I still get SO MANY cis anons in my askbox saying that trans people are unnatural or whatever specifically because we have higher rates of depression and suicide and it’s like… bro… you’re literally the reason why
Hi, everyone! Just because I see this every year, I thought I’d do a little fanfic PSA. For all you sports anime / slice of life anime / etcetera fans in particular writing things about contemporary Japanese people living in Japan, here’s a handy guide to what to include and not include in your basic fluffy Christmas fic to make it realistic (note: yes, there are some Christians and non-nationals living in Japan, and of course it’s fine to write any way you want, but if you WANT to be a little more accurate, here’s a dandy list based on observations of a small fishing/farming village):
What you will not see:
Kissing under the Mistletoe. The plant exists, but the concept of kissing under it does not. I’m sure some people must, emulating Western traditions, but when I lived in Japan and we did a unit on Christmas, not just the students at my school but also the teachers had never heard of the custom.
Turkey/Ham. They don’t have it. Protip: if you’re writing about a foreigner visiting Japan who really wants to eat these things (or Kraft, or Alfredo sauce, or root beer, or what have you), you can place orders with foreign food importers like the Foreign Buyer’s Club or through many military installations in Fukuoka, Tokyo, Okinawa, etc. But your average Japanese supermarket will not have these.
Cranberry sauce / sweet potatoes / green bean casserole / any kind of casserole / pie. It’s just not happening.
Lots of religious-themed decorations (anything involving Jesus, crosses, the nativity). About 1% of the Japanese are Christian, and most of those are quite conservatively Christian (coming from the Jesuit tradition). In general, cross decorations are seen as more “creepy” than religious (think pentagrams–a religious symbol that mainstream people don’t really understand used to invoke a vague sense of spookiness).
Live Christmas trees in homes. Some people might do this?? Not sure??? But no one I knew ever did and the concept sounded “Strange and very messy” to my friends over there.
What you will see:
Fried Chicken. This is the “traditional” Japanese Christmas food.
Lines at KFC. Get your reservation early.
Roast and fried chickens in front of every store and covering every table at the supermarkets. Did I mention the chicken?
Christmas Cake. It’s a sponge cake with frosting. Frequently has nuts and is covered in fondant, can be a roll cake.
Romance. Christmas is considered a very romantic holiday, so expect to see a lot of kissing (though not the level of PDA you’d see in America), a lot of hand-holding, and a lot of couples taking walks together.
Christmas lights. To be fair, Japan will take any excuse to put up festive lights.
Character-based decorations. Santa, Rudolph, etc. are very popular.
The song “Jingle Bells.” It’s the Christmas song. It’s also the ONLY Christmas song that my students could name or hum.
Karaoke. You never don’t see Karaoke.
Again: feel free to write anything and any way you want! And this is far from an exhaustive list, and of course, your experience may vary. This is just mine. 🙂 Happy Holidays!
