Know in my heart (and get the strong impression from interview material) that if they had made a third season of Princess Tutu there is a 90% chance they would have made Duck a girl again because from a pure marketing and narrative perspective it makes the most sense, but also that if they had done so they wouldn’t revisit Rue and Mytho’s characters at all even though by changing Duck’s ending it would inherently call into question how satisfactory their ending was.
The most obvious direction a third season would have taken would be:
1) Duck-the-duck has to become a magical girl again because this is a magical girl anime for 9 year olds, which would obviously include bringing back Duck-the-girl as well. Also if your protagonist is a literal duck her agency and ability to do anything in the narrative is incredibly limited. And also this is a magical girl anime for 9 year olds.
2) The season would need to have a new thematic thrust. Potentially one that calls into question some of the assumptions made at the end of the original show just as season two attempts to call into question assumptions made in season one.
3) If the season has a new thematic thrust, and lets Duck be a girl again, then it needs to introduce a new conflict which can very easily be related to the notion of having to give up being a girl a second time being difficult, not because she’s afraid of being unlovable or abandonment, but because she genuinely prefers it for herself. (Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis…) But just in general I think putting the protagonist through a new narrative and having her end up at the exact same place emotionally as she did at the end of season 2 would be kind of uninteresting.
4) This is a show for 9 year old girls and they would canonize Fakiru as overtly romantic so fucking hard. They know it’s what the 12 year old girlies at home watching this in 2005 want. It’s a bad primary reason to make Duck a girl imo but being a duck being an obstacle to romance would 100% be a factor here.
And if they had made such a thing I’m sure I would have enjoyed it on some level because hell yeaaahhh baby the self is malleable and the culmination of everything we have been up to this point!! The original self and the true self are not necessarily the same!!! But also I would shake it to death like a chew toy and smack it against a wall because I know Itoh (at least in the mid 2000s she didn’t) doesn’t consider Rue and Mytho characters worth revisiting or reexamination. (Would drive me insane but would also be enrichment in my enclosure)
Great news, SAG-AFTRA has created an influencer hub for anyone trying to figure out what they should or should not be doing as a person who makes things on the internet during the strike.
Bad news, I have already SEEN WITH MY OWN TWO EYES people in fandoms I talk about and participate in spreading misinformation that these guidelines are only for union influencers. This is not true, it’s for all of us.
Solidarity in this case looks like no organically talking about, cosplaying from, accepting brand deals to promote works from struck companies. I am begging, covered in blood and sweat, I have run all the way here I have been running for years, listen to the official union sources and act accordingly or be prepared for the people who make those things you love to view you quite differently.
Is there a definition of influencer anywhere?
Yep, on SAG-AFTRA’s website
And just noting (again, sorry everyone who knows me and follows me) that when I’m talking about “us” and “people who make things on the internet” I’m talking about influencers in the SAG-AFTRA sense because I am one of those, my intended audience is mostly those, and I’m working on organizing those into a union.
So it’s cool if you’re just a random fan cosplaying?
This is the advice from strike captain Chelsea Schwartz for influencers, the general gist is solidarity for the general public looks a lot like solidarity for influencers. Maybe consider not giving the companies the free advertising by cosplaying or posting about it.
No one is requiring you to do anything, everything you do is entirely up to you. It’s not a satisfying answer but it’s the answer we have.
i wanted to add on to this
even if you’re not an influencer, talking about your favorite media from struck companies still helps those companies get free advertising. i think it’s worth considering holding off talking about your fav fandoms from companies like disney until after the strike is over in solidarity.
if you’re thinking that the circles that you share posts in are too small for this to matter, remember that there is no middle class. the divide between the 1% and the rest of us is so large that we are all the working class. and thinking an individual action is too small is exactly the kind of complacency that the oppressors are counting on in order to keep systems of oppression in place.
This is confusing, I thought we were asked not to boycott the media from the companies yet. If even talking about the media is free advertisement and against the strike then why are we still being told it’s okay to go see the movies?
I can’t comprehend why it’s it’s bad for random people to give the media “free advertisement” by dressing up but going to the movies and giving them literal money is a okay. How do you justify that?
I understand asking actors not promote the media and extending that to people in fandom spaces who might get paid promotions or invites to industry events, but extending the logic to everyone is ridiculous.
So I understand the confusion and what we’re dealing with are the complicated politics of two separate unions with separate goals and tactics trying to get along and find what works for both of them. The WGA was on strike before SAG-AFTRA went on strike and asked for us to be constantly actively engaging in watching and talking about what we were watching. Once SAG-AFTRA went on strike against the same group of companies a certain amount of cooperation between the WGA and SAG-AFTRA became necessary so one union’s ask was not stepping on the other union’s ask. It seems a compromise between total boycott and constant active participation has been reached.
This is what we’ve been advised to do by SAG-AFTRA and the WGA. It is entirely up to you if you would like to stand in solidarity with them, solidarity can also look like adding the disclaimer the freelance solidarity project created to your posts about struck properties. It can look like spreading the word about the strikes. It can look like sharing the strike funds and union led initiatives to help members while they’re not working.
I understand that what everyone wants is an easy black and white answer but it’s only been a few days and things are not finalized yet. The last time SAG went on strike was in 2000 and the social media ecosystem we live in now didn’t exist yet. Things will inevitably shift and change in the coming weeks, all we can do is continue listening to the union and what they need from us.
Cosplaying and fanfic and discussing your favorite shows is not anti-union and not crossing picket lines. The unions are literally telling people to go spend money and see these productions; why in the world would being fannish and proving that actors and writers are valued be verboten? The influencer information specifically talks about advertisement; the issue is that they are getting paid by entertainment companies to circumvent paying actors. This does not apply to the general public. Listen to what the unions say and stop making up rules to scold easy targets with.
Aurora Reyes, AKA “Pyrausta”, and her “dragon”, Espada. Her dragon appears to be the primary manifestation of her pyrokinetic powers, and does not possess a physical form, although it can take actions while she is asleep or otherwise incapacitated and will defend her viciously.
I’m sorry friends, but “just google it” is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if it’s not ads it’s just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of “TOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSES” like… what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.
– https://search.marginalia.nu/ Search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and promotes websites that aren’t usually at the top of the list.
– https://www.worldcat.org/ Search engine for items in libraries (books, but also maps, articles, sound recordings, theses, etc.)
– https://scholar.google.com/ Search engine for scientific papers, reviews, etc. It’s still google, but a lot better than the normal search engine counterpart.
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines A list of search engines sorted by subject, area, and more. If you’re searching on a specific area, it might be worth checking if there is one focused on that area.
Also, P.S.: Please stop using Google, and start using more privacy focused search engines, like DuckDuckGo or SearchX (opensource; personally haven’t used it yet, but it looks promising for privacy-focused users)
That Google and Meta can get away with this during an era of intense misinformation and disinformation signals that we cannot rely on large tech companies to provide reliable access to information and news:
did you know that there are crazy conspiracy people that think the covid vaccines alter our dna to turn us into nephilim so we cannot enter the kingdom of heaven?
this is the fucking funniest thing ive ever seen im in tears of laughter. (right axis) . this is a work of fucking art
As you all can see when I started to purchase $10 pocket knives at gas stations in late 2017 and continued to do so once a year every year the gap between my annual military expenditure and that of the U.S. quickly began to close.
here it is on one axis lmao
Thank you for this simplified lesson in what propaganda looks like.
Someone smarter than me has probably gone into the semiotics of it but this kind of non-graph – whose primary purpose is to mystify readily available and perfectly readable information which suggests a conclusion disagreeable to the graphmaker – it has to serve some function beyond simple lying. It has to reflect some kind of magical thinking, a belief in taking an inconvenient truth and physically overstriking it on printed paper as a form of curse. The reliability with which graphs like this appear on major news networks and prestige periodicals, where the audience includes the nation’s most powerful businessmen and politicians, has to reflect some kind of ritual behavior. My money’s on its use as propaganda itself being ritual behavior, a blunt assertion that the truth is whatever the powerful make of it. The availability to the public is not an accident and the clarification of how asinine it is by regime opponents seems to be part of the ritual
The information is being deliberately obscured to A) partially encrypt the information from the average persons understanding, and B) reify the information to a more abstract yet politically specific sense of Importance.
Imo this fits the definition of Occult. This graph has been Occluded.
Your worldly struggles are not universal but there is always bonding over the eternal ineptitude of the flesh. We all love the ineptitude of the flesh.
Since your up thoughts on Rosicrucianism? They have a big Egyptian museum 2 hours from me I grew up going go unaware they were some sort of mystical society
Tbh their egyptaboo shit is the least interesting thing about them.
They’re sorta the group that popularized the idea of the alchemist-mystic, and incorporated alchemical symbology and theories into their philosophy. They also combined it with the freemason lodge structure. They’re annoyingly perennialist but they bring this theatrical swagger that is undeniably compelling.
The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rozenkreutz is probably one of my favorite pieces of occult writing. Not every day you get an Occult stage play. We should do more of those.
My favorite little subgenre of the occult is “Fake Martial Arts” because what if that was the one type of magic that was literally 100% real. I love the idea that there’s some dude in a strip mall dojo named Sensei Todd Wayne who can teach you how to kill birds with ki blasts.
