#*theory

This started as me wanting to draw fluff for Logan after the new asides….

so i was editing something when

i listened to pink steven yell, you hear this like.

Art's chief technique for lifting the scales from our eyes is what is called, in Russian, ostranenie. This has been variously translated as “defamiliarization” or “estrangement” (...) Art makes the familiar strange so that it can be freshly perceived. To do this it presents its material in unexpected, even outlandish ways: the shock of the new. Literary theory studies these distortions, the divergences that create “literariness.”

(partly inspired by @chinapuri​‘s comment on a previous post!)

So I was thinking about how Tian Zilong’s name literally means ‘dragon child’ and then, wait: (no this post is about Yuqing not Haiguang)

If Chinapuri was filmed/released/aired around 2018/19 and assuming the ‘timeline’ is accurate, the 18 year old third years in 2018 would be born in 2000. In the Chinese zodiac, 2000 is the year of the dragon.

Here’s the interesting part: originally, Echizen Ryoma’s name was supposed to be transliterated into Long Ma (龙马), the same name used in the Chinese dubs. Long Ma literally means ‘dragon horse’.

According to an article I just saw, the first episode of S2 will be titled, "Right Back Where We Started”