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hi i'm ari & this is where i post about games/anime/fandom/etc.
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BREAKING NEWS! The rest of The Gavinners: "Guilty As Charged" Tour has been cancelled due to Daryan Crescend, the second frontman of the band being arrested for murder! The rest of the band hasn't given any comment yet, but it's assumed the band will likely take a hiatus.
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another thing that is so brilliant about akio’s car as a symbol is that in a car, everyone is seated, so everyone appears to be about the same height. but otherwise the show really exaggerates the height differences across ages, how akio towers over all the other characters. so the car is a perfect vehicle (pardon the pun) through which to facilitate the [logic of] statutory rape
when touga sits in akio’s passenger seat, they appear to be the same height. but when touga drives saionji, he forces him into a degrading little sidecar. and this is because touga and saionji are already the same height. touga wants to be able to exert power over those close to him to replicate the abuse he’s experiencing at akio’s hand, but he doesn’t yet have the finesse, the confidence, the ability to employ the illusion of equality. he quite literally cannot abuse saionji by treating him as an equal, because he already is his equal. whereas akio uses pedophilic logic to rape children, so it’s a crucial part of his playbook to groom those children into feeling powerful, like adults, like they actually want to be raped by him, muddying the waters of consent by making himself appealing, exciting even. saionji doesn’t find touga exciting or even appealing. he’s actually quite disgusted with him. he loves touga despite his obvious posturing and crude manipulation tactics. not that no one falls for touga’s facade, but at the very least, touga is trying really hard to make saionji the touga to his akio, and failing. anyone who actually knows touga well enough can see through his embarrassing attempts to be akio, pities him for the precarious, fragile ego he’s cultivated as a victimizing victim. touga cannot take saionji out for a spin in his shiny red car the way akio does with him. because he cannot actually drive. because he is still a child.
this post was good but also i’ve since realized (i think @heartslobbf pointed it out to me first) that saionji isn’t just the same height as touga, he’s actually taller than touga. only slightly, but still. saionji is, very slightly, better than touga at everything. he won anthy in a duel before utena gets involved, and that duel was most likely against touga (since juri and miki were vocally opposed to getting involved in the duels before anthy manipulated them into it). he’s the captain of the kendo team, not touga. touga has a fanclub of adoring brunettes, saionji has a bigger fanclub. he’s also just, generally, far more attractive on a visual level (obviously they both have rancid vibes, but the appeal of saionji’s beautiful broccoli hair is undeniable). despite being an uncouth, pathetic clown, there is a certain charm to saionji that touga lacks. and touga definitely knows it, in the same way that tomwambs (succession) decides to project his own castration anxieties onto the tallest man he can find (greg the egg). he likes positioning saionji below him specifically because he does resent the fact that they are ostensibly equals, and yet saionji is, in many ways, naturally superior. so if he cannot exceed saionji through his natural gifts, he will use the conditional power he is granted to artificially debase and exploit him.
and despite looking stupid as fuck in that gay little sidecar, and the fact that in his pathetic refusal to wear a helmet, saionji actually appears to be wearing a collar (rewatch this scene, it’s very funny on top of being quite fucked up), saionji is giving touga major side eye. like he’s actually embarrassed for touga. yeah he’s technically the one being humiliated here, but they both look stupid. (plus saionji has plenty of experience embarrassing himself; i think at this point he’s developed an immunity, so he’s basically impervious.) touga wants the power to exploit and dominate, but he lacks the tools and advantages akio has cultivated over time. much like how pathetic tsuwabuki’s attempts to be him appear (and the cycle cycles…) touga is so clearly just a boy pretending to be a man, and when he plays at being akio, he just looks desperate and foolish. (just as akio himself is only acting chairman, is only acting as anthy’s father. it’s a cycle of hollow signification, a russian nesting doll of mimesis with nothing in the center. and still, the machine demands blood.)
touga is not an adult, he’s not actually in a position of power over saionji, and he can’t make saionji false promises to lord over him. he can do that with nanami, because he is genuinely more empowered than she is. he is taller and older and more experienced and a man (well, boy) and her older brother, her “prince.” and nanami, unlike saionji, does buy into his act wholesale, and goes to desperate lengths to obtain his approval and the conditional power it grants her, even as touga is the one disempowering and harming her, much in the same way that he acts with akio. but saionji cannot be another nanami. saionji sees touga far more clearly, even if he’s not clearheaded enough to simply leave for good. because saionji is here as a friend — you know, that thing that is famously for fools only?? as much as touga keeps claiming that he’s too jaded and cynical for friendship (perhaps), it’s also the only reason he actually gets to keep saionji around. not the stupid shiny red motorbike or the illusory promise of eternity, but the fact that they were once gentle and kind to each other, and saionji is still holding out the foolish hope that someday touga might regress into someone who once more believes in friendship. so he puts up with their strange, perverse anti-friendship, that awful, hateful charade. but it isn’t because he buys into touga’s facade; it’s with the intent to shatter it.
There’s a quality that certain books/movies/TV shows have that leads me to say, “Yeah, I can see people making fanfiction of that.” It’s something to do, I think, with how tight the story is, how much feels open-ended or like it could be elaborated on.
Something like Breaking Bad, for example, has low squiggability (that’s what I’m calling this quality). It’s tightly written, the characters are consistent, there’s little left to interpolate or extrapolate. Obviously, people DO write fanfic of Breaking Bad, but it still has a low squiggability score. Whereas something like Supernatural has a high squiggability score. Fantasy and science fiction often have high squiggability scores. This suggests squiggability could also be related to worldbuilding and potential for people to borrow a premise or setting.
And sometimes you’ll read or watch something and you’ll say, “Ah, low squiggability,” and then you’ll open tumblr and find out that everyone else seem to think its squiggability was very high indeed.
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