Oh trigun book club finally! I can write my short analysis about the bdsm armor everyone wears!
Oh???? I’d love to hear your thoughts (also ty for the reminder of the book club)
I really want to do a nice write up with examples and pics, but sort of an unpacking of the madmax influences specifically the bad guys are wearing leather/bdsm gear and how in most apocalypse media this is a nod that without society and moral descent the perverts will take over and hurt you, age old queer coding your vilians ect But! Vash through out the story is like no I will not kill them I do not think they deserve violence I am also bad ect and we get to all the points where you know that vash is not bad, he is very very good ect and then pulls off his brightly colored coat and he’s a freak too the whole time- he doesn’t just feel like he’s a bad person when hes not (a trope protagonist get with enough frequency that I don’t think its interesting on its own) but he is literally also a bdsm armor wearing girly under that bright red “watch out poisonous” jacket. If Vash wasn’t presented as the protagonist and showed up without his jacket he would look like just about any 2bit villian in the comic, you wouldn’t question it as the visual alnguage of it is so well established!!! also think there are some points/ things to unpack with 98/badlands rumble sex pest vash, like I don’t love those anime tropes and obvs a lot of it was outdated humor but I do think there is something overtly textually going on with this- like as a kind of queer coding or deviancy- and the most pg and harmless way to show that at the time was as oblivious sexpest. but in trimax its a lot more intense of a reveal because that is NOT what his flaw is, you are not allowed to know! I think we see him shirtless before we see his under armor even. And yes it also ties in to literally not being human, yeah it ties in with feeling like a weapon, yeah its jesus hanging out with the sinners, but like I have many thoughts and feelings. Will probably do this as a little essay with pictures and source when we get to 5th moon in the tirgun book club.
MYTH: Americans set off fireworks on the 4th of July, in honor of our Independence Day
FACT: Americans set off fireworks from approximately June 20th—July 20th, for no reason other than this is the time of year that you can literally buy them at any grocery store
Can’t decide how I want ganon to look for a series of small comics i want to do for an au. Do I give him riju’s head gear? totk? hyrule warriors? Too many choices.
While I do love ganon with riju’s and urbosa’s crown I think ultimately I hate drawing it and will give him one based more on hyrule warriors/ twilight princess of course mixed in with totk. 💅 he needs all the gold after all.
Plus this also plays into having both a king and chieftain like I’ve been playing in my head.
Their cult teaches them that the world is full of scary monster people who hate them for being so good and loved by god. If you swear at them and call them names or get in their face you’re just doing the cults work for it.
I’m not saying you have to listen to their presentation or try to debate them (and really getting into a debate without thoroughly understanding what they’re being taught will just make things worse)… I am just saying to be polite and say no thank you like if they were trying to hand you a flyer for something you don’t care about.
It’s easier for them to see the world outside their bubble as less scary if they see everyday people just going about their business and being as nice to them as you are to everyone else. This goes doubly for anyone who happens to dress modestly, not swear, and not drink or smoke because whatever you believe, they’ll see you as a “good” person who happens to strangely have no interest in their “message”, and that might be enough to get some curious about the possibility of themselves living in the real world.
It’s sometimes hard to be nice to people who seem to represent something you dislike. Just remember these “elders” are sheltered young men, some of which are getting their first real contact with people of other/no faiths.
They are not your enemy. They are victims.
They aren’t being sent out to actually convert people, they are being sent out hoping that they will be harassed and treated poorly so they view those outside the cult as dangerous and evil and stick to the safety of the familiar group.
You being mean to some teenager isn’t sticking it to anyone, you’re doing exactly what their church elders want to happen.
PLEASE READ THIS.
Please read this.
Don’t do the church’s work for them.
If you’re kind to enough of them, they put you on a block list.
They were such sweet kids, they’d turn up at my door with the thatch of raspberries out front and try to share their word with me, and I’m me, so, I fed them.
Then it was one of the wee ‘elder’s’ birthday, so I made him a cake, and all the little lads came, and they asked about my books and board games and CCGs, I was just a nice frumpy middle aged Jewish lady, I was no threat, so I fed them and made them cakes and took them to the local gaming store and listened when they talked.
One loved yu-gi-oh cards, and it turns out, one of the other wee lads, we’ll he loved him back, so I got them in touch with some resources so they had support and a different way to pay for college, they’re still together 15 years later, they have dogs, they send me ecards on their birthday. No-one figured out I’d.helped them, I was just the nice lady who made them tea and listened when people were slamming doors.
The next one really wanted to be an artist, so I left out art books and resources, my eldest shared their coptic markers, they draw comic books now, no idea why his folks were insisting he needed to be a dentist, but, he’s not a Mormon anymore, (not a Jew either before anyone makes any counter conversion claims).
The first 2 lads were the only dramatic ones, the rest went back into the network but, like Hugh of Borg, they spread the word, sometimes I’d get Mormons from other cities come and make the journey to break bread at my Sabbath table and be seen.
I still think very fondly of that time.
Many of those boys still email me now and then.
Most of them aren’t Mormons anymore.
Someone higher up spotted the pattern and suddenly no more Mormons at my door.
I was blacklisted, for kindness.
So there you go, if you don’t want Mormons at your door, just love those kids for a couple of years, feed them, help them, and eventually, no more will be allowed to visit
Ah yes tumblr’s ability to expose your heart fully in a series of reblogs
Worst part about this is I’ve only ever used that yellow square emoji once and it was just to see how it looked. This isn’t who I am. However, in retrospect, I suppose it is
Reading through the notes is a surreal experience please keep adding more to fuel my effervescent consumption of non descriptive emojis
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Lol. Vibin’ in hot fae summer and then dying with 0 notice. That sounds right.
