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My internet was out all day yesterday. I should have taken that as a sign to not go to Fandom Secrets. But I just did.
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Goddamn it, 147 is making my blood boil. I guess fandom will never let a character live its mistakes down, so long as they have a vagina. And that "She got a little better near the end" bull all over the place didn't help matters at all.
I want to write crack to remind myself of Anzu's awesomeness. Ideas?
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Goddamn it, 147 is making my blood boil. I guess fandom will never let a character live its mistakes down, so long as they have a vagina. And that "She got a little better near the end" bull all over the place didn't help matters at all.
I want to write crack to remind myself of Anzu's awesomeness. Ideas?
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Date: 2009-07-14 01:28 pm (UTC)Brain's not working yet this morning, so can't think of any ideas but . . . ANZU //IS// AWESOME STFU LITTLE FANBITCHES
*huggles*
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Date: 2009-07-14 01:37 pm (UTC)YEAH, BUT SHE'S NOT AWESOME ENOUGH AND SHE WAS MEAN TO YUUGI THAT ONE TIME HOW DARE SHE BE HUMAN AND HAVE FLAWS! NEVER MIND THAT SHE TECHNICALLY SAVED THE WORLD THAT ONE TIME.
*Huggles back, gives back rub*
DD5150 still in an rp journal LOL
Date: 2009-07-14 02:39 pm (UTC)Yeah. That's exactly it. And I HATE that behavior. I've had that used on me, and I can't say I've not been guilty of it myself on occasion, which I hate.
On the one hand, yeah, it's kinda nice to be able to have a place to vent and air stuff out in "public," but really....... Y_Y
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Date: 2009-07-14 06:20 pm (UTC)::crickets chirp::
Yeah, I thought so. And seriously, have people never heard of a little thing called a Character Arc? Did they completely miss the DK scene where she finally GETS IT and tells Yugi he's "just fine the way you are"????
And were ANY of the characters in a good place in the beginning of the manga? Let's see:
Yugi: Doormat
Yami: Vengeful scary bastard
Jounouchi: Petty bully
Honda: Petty bully helper
Kaiba: Egomaniac and okay with killing people if they, you know, could beat him at a children's card game.
Oh, yeah, CLEARLY it's just Anzu who wasn't the best person she could be in the beginning. The others were all SAINTS from the get go.
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Date: 2009-07-14 06:39 pm (UTC)::headdesk::
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Date: 2009-07-14 06:45 pm (UTC)Kaiba: Egomaniac and okay with killing people if they, you know, could beat him at a children's card game, or if their deaths could in some way contribute to him winning a card game.
[sarcasm]But of course the others were all saints, they were boys with subtext; that fixes everything! Girls are just grody and gross, they should all just go away and die in a fire![sarcasm]
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Date: 2009-07-14 03:23 pm (UTC)Ps-Don't forget how any woman with the slightest hint of talent and/or plot importance is a Mary Sue. No exceptions.
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Date: 2009-07-14 06:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-14 07:29 pm (UTC)What'd you bet all the crap Jounouchi and Kaiba put Yuugi through doesn't get near as much hate. Not to mention Malik.
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Date: 2009-07-14 07:45 pm (UTC)Well, according to all the fanfiction I've been reading (well, just the summaries), the fans just love it when Seto Kaiba is being an obnoxious asshat to Jounouchi or when Malik is macking on his own psychotic disorder, so it's safe to say that they don't earn hardly any hate.
Any ideas for an "Anzu is awesome" prompt?
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Date: 2009-07-14 07:42 pm (UTC)But here's the thing. No one but Anzu could have given Yami the courage to actually follow his heart. Yuugi was too afraid, Kaiba's acknowledgment of Yami as a duelist is often at the expense of Yuugi so it's not like Yami would listen to him in that aspect, and Jonouchi is generally too focused on Yuugi's emotional state to really see Yami's (as much as they do have a complex and interesting relationship). And everyone else doesn't really have a strong grasp of the fact there are two separate people in that heart of Yuugi's. Anzu was not only able to realize there are two Yuugi (and it was difficult for her because she's in love with 'em both), but was also in a place because she knew what she wanted more than anyone else (to dance) to be able to give Yami the advice he needed to do what was right for him.
And in the AE arc. Um well the world would have been dead if Anzu hadn't thought of getting that little namesake thing. Pretty big deal!
Also Anzu's one time of being a gigantic fool by trying to get Yami to rescue her, I don't think, outweighs all the crap the rest of the cast has pulled.
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Date: 2009-07-14 07:50 pm (UTC)Yes, it would have been more awesome for her to have not been sidelined quite so much in Battle City, which went on for a very long time and became something of the "identifying arc" of Yugioh as it were. But even with that, Anzu was awesome all throughout the series, doing what she could, impacting plot, and getting character development all the while.
PS. Anzu whacking Zombie Professor with globe to save Jounouchi will never get old.
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Date: 2009-07-15 10:57 am (UTC)The moment women act like flawed human beings, they get trashed by fandom.
I'm glad I've recently been looking into One Piece fandom because it's actually sane and it loves the female characters.
Sanity is becoming an extremely rare commodity these days.
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Date: 2009-07-19 07:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-19 08:09 pm (UTC)When I'm no longer so busy, I'm going to be doing a big post on how the Yugioh franchise has degraded over the years.
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Date: 2009-07-19 09:03 pm (UTC)I would love to read that, actually~