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And that’s not to say I don’t think she’s genuinely happy in the Netherlands just living as a Dutch person, but it IS to say that she is incredibly distraught by anyone even knowing she’s from Japan. Kinda sad just in of itself despite the comedic aspects

No I don’t think Mymy is depressed or mentally fucked or whatever, at least not as she stands now. I think she’s actually doing pretty well for herself. But I imagine that if she stayed in Japan she’d definitely be a lot like Maya (hikikomymy is my cited source here)

I like to think that as she gets older, she kinda chills out. Doesn’t really hate Japan anymore. She doesn’t love it and doesn’t actively participate in the culture because at that point, it doesn’t really feel like hers, she’s become disconnected from it. But she has a healthy relationship with being an immigrant, and I think that’s a good thought

I had a big fanfic in a previous fandom where one of the big reveals was the involvement of a kind of infamous villain, whose presence was built up to and foreshadowed through the whole fic until his reveal without ever mentioning his name, so that the name drop would be a gut punch. It worked especially well because of who the villain was and his presence in that fandom space specifically (it's very complicated) and if it was an original story this reveal wouldn't work at all the way it was written in the fic. Because if you don't have a predisposition to think about that character and his relationship to the hero in a very specific way, then just seeing their name won't do much to you; the reveal and the recontextualisation it pushes upon you hinges on your previous knowledge of the source material.

I think it's an interesting tool fanfic authors are given. One of my favorite fanfic of all time is partially a re-imagining of its source material's canon, and something it does is introduce antagonists much earlier in the story or deepen npcs' stories. It then works to evoke a tragic irony that again wouldn't work if you didn't know the source material, and it's something the author obviously has a lot of fun with.

reblog if you believe anon is wrong and writers are writers, no matter what they write about. no matter how they portray these taboo topics.

reblog if you believe art can be about topics that are controversial, taboo or outright disturbing, and artists who create controversial, taboo or outright disturbing art are as valid as artists who create art of conservative values.