It doesn’t mean “this is ideal or healthy or even realistic”. It means “this is beautiful, this is tragic, this is grotesque, this stirs emotion”, even if it’s not, as @starryroom puts it, something you would be comfortable seeing play out in front of you at Taco Bell. It’s about grandiosity and mythology and heroism writ large. It’s about playing with the id, as beautiful and terrible as it can be.
I kind of doubt the frequent propsosal that tomorrows episode might reveal Yugiri died from lesbophobia, but I’m not sure from what little I know about the era she came from.
There apparently was a growing hostility to homosexual acts at the time (she diead one year into the Meiji period) when they had been in the past previously accepted, but all references I can find only discuss male homosexuality. Lesbian acts might have slipped under society’s radar for all I know.
Hello! I’m currently studying Japanese history so I can hopefully shed a bit of light onto this. I actually wrote about LGBT+ history in Japan last year, so my info may be a bit off due to time so bear with me lol.
Homosexuality was a really big part of the era right before the Meiji, which was the Edo era. It was considered very manly for a man to be with another man, which is why it’s so prominent in Japanese history, and also why we don’t see a lot of WLW in Japanese history. I believe it’s safe to assume that the commonality of male/male relationships was the same with woman/woman relationships. That being said, while Japan was getting more and more influenced by Western ideals, I don’t think that the damning of LGBT+ acts were heavily influenced until well into the Meiji Era (around the 1900s). If Yuugiri died during that first year (1868-69), I don’t think that it would be purely because she was a lesbian.
I also think that depending on where she was regionally would have an effect on it as well (I haven’t like looked into where any of the characters are from, I just know whatever the anime says) because if she’s from around the Saga area it’s possible that LGBT+ acts were even more common around there. Saga’s in Kyushu which is the southern-most island of Japan and an area of Kyushu (Satsuma) was extremely steeped in the belief of samurai era MLM practices. Even today, Fukuoka (the largest city in Kyushu) is somewhat known for their LGBT+ strides, so while there is (I’m sure) a lot of heteronormativity in that region of Japan, there were/are still some pretty big LGBT+ moments that’s happened on Kyushu.
I don’t claim to be a genius on this topic, especially not with Japanese history (as I’m still in school and learning bits and pieces from mainly Western sources, as that’s what’s available to me) but I hope this might clear some things up??? If anyone knows more than I do feel free to correct me!
I don’t feel like posting this on twitter because i really don’t want to deal with the shirt storm going on but I’m pretty sure the reason there’s any seeming validity about lily not being trans is because of the language barrier.
What I mean this is in japan you arent really considered transgender until your post op, lily is pre up, and to the japanese while that can still be considered transsexual (i think there’s a specific word but i can’t recall it) she would not be considered transgender (in japanese culture)
This is why Japanese accounts will still use he and say they are not transgender its also why people who are not natively Japanese say there’s no issues and she is transgender.
Of course from people seeing actual speakers saying they arent transgender they are thinking in a western sense, that this means she’s a boy/trap/etc. When that isn’t the case.
So you see how this mess seemingly started? Lily was always trans, just to native Japanese shes not “transgender” but to us pre and post op are no different.
Anyway just wanted to put this somewhere as its actually really interesting and I’m shocked this wasn’t talked about by someone at this point. Including myself, not realizing this earlier. It only clicked when thinking over a conversation with a native japanese speaker.
They are asking for guidance first before suing. If DoJ says he’s acting then they will sue. If they say he’s awaiting confirmation then they won’t and he has no power. They just want someone to put his status down on paper, otherwise Trump’s lackeys will just claim he’s not actually acting AG.
NOTHING is funnier than watching people who play Nintendo games competitively absolutely FLIP whenever Nintendo is like: “…we don’t really care for the competitive aspects, we just want our games to be fun for everyone.”
Everyone is mentioning Smash in the comments, and while this is the case, this specific post also concerns competitive Pokemon players. Masuda said this in an interview:
And competitive Pokemon players collectively wanted to murder him. LMAAAAAAOOOO.
“completely gutting features that don’t hurt casual players and actively remove depth from the game for people who care about it at a deeper level is good, actually”
Yeah, I don’t even play Pokémon competitively nor do I have any interest in doing so but that’s a slap in the face so painful that I felt it too. If someone is playing a game competitively then odds are they’re up there with lore-a-holics and completionists and speedrunners, if not past a lot of them, in terms of their devotion and appreciation of said game. Yeah, they express it differently and in a narrower area than most, but that doesn’t mean it’s not love for the game and the people who made it. And speaking from the perspective of a competitive Smash Bros player, someone who’s been in their shoes, it’s legit painful when a developer of a game with a competitive scene shows distaste towards that portion of the fan base.
Monsters and Stuff 