JorieDS - Mafia Queen

One of my favorite things about this weeks chapter is the contrast of how he shows himself on TV this very moment vs how he is acting this moment.

On TV he shows himself as a vulnerable person.We see him with his hands on his head at first and with no shirt on.He wants the viewers to see all his horrible scars and make them understand how horrible of a person enji truly is by talking about his past.

But the dabi we see in person right now is different. He is laughing, he's dancing and he's not talking about his childhood.Instead he's talking about the years after he left home to them.He talks about his hatred for endeavor in a very obsessive manner,he's reffering to shoto as if he's an object to take from enji while the former is still present and even admits to sending a dangerous criminal to Endeavor's home knowing his siblings still lived there.

[Announcement] 『家庭教師ヒットマンREBORN!』the STAGE マラソン (katekyou hitman reborn! ~ the stage marathon)

you will be able to watch the first 3 shows @ rakutenTV [remember that you need to use a VPN to watch the show^^] 

price: ￥1.600 (each)

◎『家庭教師ヒットマンREBORN!』the STAGE (katekyou hitman reborn! ~ the stage) [October 3rd, 2020 00:00 ~ October 16th, 2020 23:59]

◎『家庭教師ヒットマンREBORN!』the STAGE -vs VARIA part I- (katekyou hitman reborn! ~ the stage -vs varia part I-) [October 17th, 2020 00:00 ~ October 30th, 2020 23:59]

idk maybe slow your roll and realize that like… actors can be closeted, content creators can be closeted, and tbh this “you can only write your own experiences, never write someone else’s” rhetoric is also a bigot’s fucking wet dream?? like the perfect excuse to never write diverse characters?? and to say that they have nothing in common with people who don’t look/love/exist the same way as them??

yeah, the author of simon vs the homo sapien’s agenda is a cis straight woman, which means love, simon (though directed by a married gay man with multiple gay characters played by gay/bi actors) is based on a novel written by a straight woman… but this straight woman literally ends her book acknowledging the LGBT teens who helped her write the book and make sure she was writing it appropriately.

this is the content we want

listen… EVERY SINGLE piece of media EVER involves some level of writing about experiences that are not your own, especially if it’s diverse. even bland stories just about white people involves an author writing about genders that are not their own. if you want a story with characters of color, white authors are going to have to write about those perspectives. if you want gay characters in every story, straight authors are gonna have to write about those perspectives. even LGBT narratives might involve gay authors writing about bi characters or cis authors writing about trans characters.

what we HOPE FOR when they do that is that they talk to people… actually belonging to those groups to learn what is and isn’t appropriate and true to life. which is what the author of simon vs the homo sapien’s agenda did.

it’s exactly what she did. she literally worked in a support group for LGBT and GNC kids, saw they did not have cute love stories written for them after they told her this, and then worked with them to give them the love story they craved.

this is a good thing. this is progress for lgbt people. this is the path we need to walk towards getting LGBT content created by LGBT authors.

when you attempt to take the ~moral ground on protesting this film, all you’re doing is telling people who fund these projects that gay products don’t sell. they don’t get the nuance of what you’re going for. and, chances are, you’re looking like a fucking hypocrite, because i can promise you most of the canon gay characters you stan profit a cishet somehow (if they’re even canon).

so, y’unno, as someone who has read simon vs the homo sapien’s agenda AND seen the fucking movie let me tell you!! it’s fine!! it’s diverse beyond having gay character, it’s written respectively, and it hit home on a lot of experiences i WISH i had as a gay teen. it’s corny, it’s silly, and it’s all i ever would have wanted at 13, 14, 15

and now we get to the actual conventions – although more accurately, these are just the ones that I either noticed the strongest or had the most difficulty adjusting to, when I was first getting into wuxia. 

Not all stories have these elements, and of course in a genre as varied (and as old) as wuxia, there are twenty exceptions for every rule. What’s more, one story’s mild admonishment (”well, X is frowned on, but I guess if you’re just low-key about it”) can become the next story’s worst taboo (”omg you did X, you must be shunned! SHUNNNNNNNNNNed.”). 

Like any other living genre, authors will shift/tilt convention as needed to drive a story’s conflicts. 

btw, it’ll probably be a few days before I can do an introduction to MDZS, which should give time to @guzhuangheaven, @atthewaterside, @dramatic-gwynne, @the50-person, @drunkensword (and anyone else) to point out everything I misunderstood, over-emphasized, misinterpreted, or just plain missed.