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warrior finds a rabid thing along his path; decides to keep it and train it

warrior finds a rabid thing along his path; decides to keep it and train it

Rohan is so silly

drawing with the mirror trio

🏍️💨🫧🌟

yeah ok i just pick up a pen and do shit

She came into my dream and project this image into my soul

Transmasculinity and queer sexuality in the works of Ikeda Riyoko

Content Warning: Discussion of transphobia and suicide

Spoilers for Dear Brother, The Rose of Versailles, and Claudine

Ikeda Riyoko—perhaps the most famous member of the “year 24 group” that played a large part in creating the foundations of the shoujo manga genre—is often credited with laying the groundwork for depictions of queer characters in shoujo, and in particular with creating the archetype of the gender-bending heartthrob heroine, or “girl prince.” Building on earlier representations of butch or transmasculine characters in early shoujo manga such as Princess Knight, and the Takarazuka theater tradition of the otokoyaku male role actor, Ikeda’s enormously popular gender non-conforming heroes—Lady Oscar from The Rose of Versailles, Rei from Dear Brother, Julius from the Window of Orpheus, and the titular character of Claudine—helped to establish that there was a major mainstream audience excited to cheer for a hotheaded, androgynous tomboy with a heart of gold. Lady Oscar in particular has fingerprints all over the history of anime and manga, from a gender-bending cameo in Pokémon to serving as the inspiration for iconic characters like Tenjou Utena.

When I first read The Rose of Versailles last year, I expected its depictions of queer and transmasculine characters to be somewhat limited—after all, the comic was written for mainstream audiences and a mainstream publisher in the 1970s. But across Ikeda’s work, I was deeply surprised with the level of care and nuance with which Ikeda approaches transmasculine love stories. While there is obviously a lot about Ikeda’s portrayal of transmasculine characters that feels dated to modern audiences (for example, her comics often do fall back on “biological” ideas of women’s weakness and emotionality, and sometimes psychologize her character’s genders in uncomfortable ways), I was surprised by how much of these comics still hit for me today. What makes them work for me is both the extreme pathos with which Ikeda writes transmasculine character’s experiences of rejection—and, at rare moments, gender euphoria —but also the fact that her trans characters are not simply given a one-size fits all born-in-the-wrong-body narrative. Instead, they are each portrayed as unique individuals with varied personal relationships to their gender, their sexuality, and the historical context of the society they live in.

Read it at Anime Feminist!

For anybody unaware, these shots of Argenti from the new livestream are inspired by Lady Oscar from Rose of Versailles, a shoujo manga from the 70s.

*It's you!

(more under the cut)

*Despite everything, it's still you

Collection of a bunch of phos doodles from the past month or two.

Them

let me introduce you to my fave character trope in media ever

i need to regain the kinda muse i had as an edgy 14 yo like honestly that was where all the good stuff is from

I am going to run them over (ASMR)

HAL do you see my vision

GEMINI ★

secret santa gift for @nokonyu

omg i forgot i made these.....

i envy ppl who can provide deep analysis about their favorite media and/or characters b/c whenever i like something a lot it looks like:

So a free tool called GLAZE has been developed that allows artists to cloak their artwork so it can't be mimicked by AI art tools.

AI art bros are big mad about it.

my fandom cycle is stanning a rarepair, wrecking the ecosystem of the rarepair on tumblr by spam posting for a few months, then leaving it behind like any memory of that rarepair has been eradicated from my brain.

congrats to pripara for having THE WORST abbreviation ever

im sorry but transmasc shion is so canon to me and you CANNOT convince me otherwise :333 or maybe non binary she literally has the nb flag colours OMG EVEN HER OBSESSION W BLACK AND WHITE!! LIKE IN THE FLAG!!!! theyre not being slick at alllllll omg......

god i miss pripara like..... i cannot comprehend how ICONIC it is like??? every single character???? solami dressing?? i finally started prichan but STILL IT'S JUST DIFFERENT SOMEHOW. doesnt hit that spot you know...... idk maybe i will change my mind when i get further into it but god i love pripara.....

I was looking for PriPara gifs and found this instead.

god i love girls

“if women want equality then they should be drafted” what if — just hear me out — what if nobody should be drafted. not even *looks behind my shoulder* not even men.