Isabelle Fall knew exactly what she was writing.

The ability to use fetishistic and role drive and identity driven fixations to motivate

Over shame, and duty and histories To render the external the introspective.

Extrospective, I guess. Its funny too because, Yukikaze is about a very similar idea or at least touches on it. Its VERY #mechposting, and VERY #robofucker in its story and nature.

A pilot who has artificially induced autism and special interest, to make him a superhumanly capable pilot.

And it backfires; making him fall romantically in love with his plane.

Its only five episodes, and its based on one of the most well loved Japanese scifi novels of all time written in the 1980's -- with the anime being made in 2003.

The trick too is, the plane is intelligent. seems to reciprocate.

There's also ... kind of an implication the pilot has to be estrogenized for the conditioning to take, so he has the emotional bandwidth to handle it in the latest book apparently?

So its weirdly trans-adjacent too?

I remember too, lot of people on 2ch believed Rei Fukai is literally the character Anno based Rei Ayanami in Evangelion on???

Weirdly full circle then, that the planes are designed by Ituko Yamashita who designed the Evangelions too.

idk, I feel like Yukikaze either is, or is going to become a significant text to certain parts of Tumblr which haven't discovered it yet.

Like imagine if Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, 2001: a Space Odyssey, Top Gun and Signalis had a child. That child is Yukikaze.

It talks a lot about how people can't properly conceptualize of a foreign conflict, how disinformation is used and how people are tricked into falling into narritives and mythologies.

In with all this, its some how incredibly queer and has a love-triangle between a man, someone who has discarded gender almost entirely, and an AI driven fighter-plane. The air combat too and planes are rediculously well researched and designed.