#tealdearest

There’s something...special about spirk, in that it seems to make people EVEN WILDER about not letting other ships be. I don’t know what it is? Like maybe these days I do cuz it’s considered classic or whatever but. Spones is so fun, just give it a chance y’all

Like on the one hand, I firmly believe the most overblown shaggy dog melodramatic tragedy has its place. There have been times, paradoxically,where a miserable slog of a story was all that helped me keep going, although I only do angst with happy endings nowadays. I just hate the trend of being dishonest about the content, you feel me? If that’s the kind of story someone needs, they will seek it out;you don’t have to trick them into it by framing it as a typical story with some hope to it

sure sure definitely, i’m not saying that there’s not room for grief or tragedy in storytelling - take hamlet for example, since we all go here. hamlet is compelling, and the ending is compelling not because it finds hope but because it closes hamlet’s loop, it finds an ending for the characters that in its tragedy resolves their conflicts. but hamlet is not touted as especially “realistic;” nobody is claiming that everyone dies at the end because that’s realism. there is a point to the unhappy ending, for the characters and the audiences. but it ain’t realism. so it’s not that i think happy endings are the only valid endings in storytelling, because i don’t; i just don’t think that the claim that unhappy endings are more realistic has much of a basis. 

@tealdearest 

These are also good points; an article I read on the series also noticed the link between her transformation into Tutu and fairy tale transformations such as Cinderella, and how magical girl transformations in general seem to take some inspiration from those kinds of stories--you could make a similar argument for Usagi in Sailor Moon, for example. That show uses a lot of fairy tale tropes.

The only difference is that instead of a fairy godmother, Ahiru has Drosselmeyer; then again, the Drosselmeyer in the original Nutcracker story was the main heroine’s godfather, and he did also tell her that she could rescue a prince... Well there’s something else to think about.

Hand 2 god, I thought this said “I’m going to stressu” and I thought that was about right

You know... I wouldn't know what kind of flower I would cough up. I'm not really versed in the language of flowers (as much as I would like to -- and there is more than one language of flowers, I have found out, so I'd have to extensively think about it) but maybe something tied with longing?