foxglovefantasy.bsky.social
30+ Writer and artist in One Piece fandom. Darkfic and dead dove enthusiast, whumpmaster. Multishipper with a focus on zosanzo.
Firm believer in creative freedom and expression and don't like, don't read.
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Me getting giddy over 4 kudos on a niche fic in a semi-niche fandom like YES! YES! YES!
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Thank you!!!!!!
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Thank you!!!!!
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You look so lovely!!!
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Baby boy 🥺😭💕
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>:(
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Gorgeous, flawless, love of my life
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I need a PowerPoint presentation of all my little rat boys and sad wet noodles to cure me
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🫂
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I'll think about it with my next paycheck maybe 🥲
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en.shindanmaker.com/978906
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- try to distance themselves even further from that symbology by making shows with the bad guys using riffs on those symbols and the good guys being colorful and heroic. Again, though, I'm just speculating as an amateur history nerd and not someone with insight into the genre.
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It's almost unfair to even bring it up because honestly, post-WWII, SO MANY depictions of villains were influenced by Nazi symbology. Pop culture has been just infused with these easy shorthands for "these are bad guys" and it definitely doesn't surprise me that post-war Japanese TV would -
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This is really good, thank you for sharing.
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One reason I really enjoy writing Germa is because I get to come up with stuff like "oh, the agricultural snail ships that have crop fields on their backs, duh" or hydroponics gardens and all the great stuff in my head that never makes it into the fics 💀
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See, I don't have the background with sentai as a genre, so i miss those references! And I have no idea what those villains were modeled from! So much context needed aaaaaaugh
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It's hard to make a proper analysis of how Germa operates as a country, because we never actually see it function as a country! We barely see any citizens. We don't even see how exactly they perform or negotiate mercenary contracts which we're told they take on.
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Exactly - there's a lot of context missing! Like I recall the princes look down on "peasants" as inferior, but do they ever mention why they believe royalty is superior? Do they believe in divine right of kings? Genetic superiority? Is it just "the way things should be" based on social heirarchy??
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I'd have to scour through the manga with fresher eyes to really make any analysis but I do wonder how deep the surface level similarities go and which similarities are just shallow symbol-appropriating.
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I think it would be interesting to discuss how Oda appropriated a lot of Nazi symbology to shorthand signal "these guys are bad" and compare + contrast it with Nazi eugenics ideology vs Judge's obsession with super soldiers and conquering North Blue. Where are they similar and where do they diverge?
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Rofl whoops i just thought you.meant all traumatized people get a free pass for an ill-advised crush and i was nodding along like sure they do let them live
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A teen girl with an overbearing mother getting a crush on a slightly older man who treats her kindly and is the first person to call her "deformity" beautiful? Like, it's super understandable to me. And Robin... she's just got friends now. She's having a great time. Love that for her.
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Like, I've always interpreted Boa and Luffy as Boa latching onto the first man who doesn't lust after her as a safe outlet for a crush, and I was surprised when that wasn't the commonly spoken about interpretation. Same with Pudding crushing on a literal prince charming.
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Fascinating that all three of these characters are characters that are explicitly traumatized and abused in canon as well as being women. A gritty intersection between misogyny and fundamental misunderstanding of abuse narratives.
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😁 glad my dumb joke contained good advice (i do like softer pencils, myself)