Quick everyone! The luck of the Irish is on Disney Channel!!! :O
Happy St. Patrick’s Day Psych-Os!!! We’re wearing our green.
new studies show that everybody wants to be a cat
scientists confirm that a cat’s the only cat who knows where it’s at
#another recent survey shows that a square with a horn makes people wish they weren’t born#this is proven to happen every time they play
Usagi is a great character. We watch her grow from a clumsy, lazy, self-centered teenager into a fearless goddess of justice who takes down the force of chaos itself. But the great thing is? She doesn’t stop being the girl we met back in chapter one. Sure, she’s indomitably powerful and her teardrops turn into the universe’s most potent energy source, but she also likes video games and donuts and napping and she gets crappy grades on tests because instead of studying, she was playing video games and eating donuts and napping. She whines about having to study for high school entrance exams, then stops a Texas-sized asteroid from slamming into Tokyo. Also, she was totally having sex with her star-crossed-reincarnated-prince of a boyfriend.
J.K. Rowling once made a really interesting point about the Narnia books (which I have not read): “There comes a point where Susan, who was the older girl, is lost to Narnia because she becomes interested in lipstick. She’s become irreligious basically because she found sex. I have a big problem with that.” Takeuchi avoided this in Sailor Moon with such deftness and grace that I’m only fully realizing it now, at 22. Usagi and Mamoru were totally boning—there are all kinds of dreamy, gauzy artbook pictures of them together in bed or discreetly covered in feathers, not to mention the penultimate scene of the manga, where they wake up in a (seriously awesome) bed together all naked and cuddly. Moreover, check out the illustrations of Usagi in lingerie and just straight up topless that Takeuchi busted out for her self-published artbook. Usagi is pure-hearted, but she isn’t “pure” in the archaic sense. She’s sexual. And I love that she can be both. She’s the amaranthine avatar of goodness and love and serenity in the universe—she is every cherished ideal we hold of what it means to be a “magical girl.” She stands for truth and freedom and hope. She wears floaty pastel clothes and enormous pigtails and her weapons are covered in hearts and stylized angel wings. She’s often drawn with angel wings herself! And she has sex. It doesn’t make her dirty, or suddenly inappropriate as entertainment for young girls. She doesn’t lose her power or her magic. She is a multifaceted young woman who loves sweets and comics and vanquishes the forces of evil and also has sex.
And the thing is, this kind of attitude in entertainment helps everyone. It’s not just very sexually active girls who need characters like Usagi, or even just girls in general. I was a prudish kid who didn’t have her first kiss until the age of 18 and this particular aspect of the manga has always stuck with me and informed my attitudes about sex. Whoever you are, however you handle your sexuality—it never makes you dirty. You can be queen of the mahou shoujo and have sex and wake up the next day to slaughter the wicked hordes with your bunny-bedecked Magic Rainbow Sparkle Sword. You can do both. You can be both. One does not invalidate the other.
I really love this analysis! It’s really beautiful!
Here’s the audio form of my latest a capella cover, the full version of Community’s theme song!
Last time I uploaded a cover on YouTube, a lot of people were excitedly asking me to put it on iTunes, unaware that there was a link to a free download in the description. But that made me realise people would be willing to pay for this sort of stuff which is nice because I put a lot of work into it!
So I’ve put this track from my latest video up on my Bandcamp if you want to have it; It’s £0.75, which is cheaper than your typical iTunes single in the UK, with an option to pay more if you reeeeally want to (but you reeeeally don’t have to)
I also put “Do It Anyway” up there, in case you wanna, y’know, have that
Thank you, hope you like it!
Look who decided to stop by!
I adore video games.
I am not, however, under any illusion that I am good at them.
Jessica and Jennifer Macklin, the FILM 470 students behind Monsters University’s acclaimed “Imagine You at MU” commercial, put their heads together and created two more recruitment videos to inspire the next generation of MU students.
“I don’t want to be your master. I want to be your friend…”
Third season
Third season
THIRD FUCKING SEASON
I CAN’T WAIT THAT LONG OH PLEASE DON’T DO THIS TO ME
WHY DID YOU TEASE US YOU MOTHERFUCKERS
In case you missed it! John’s appearance on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is up on youtube! Skip to 27:45 in to see his interview (and make sure to watch through until the end of the show)! YAY!
I had this gigantic smile on my face throughout the entire thing, this is great!
When will my life Targaryen
Wondercon & C2E2 commission preorders are open. Details are here.
But it was, it was a better life. I don’t mean all the traveling and seeing aliens and spaceships and things. That don’t matter. The Doctor showed me a better way of living your life.
and it actually hurts like hell. how he changed their lifes, showed them worlds and times and stars and how they all changed his life by not letting him being alone.
