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Sep (lord of all I survey) ([info]sepiamagpie) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2014-08-04 04:17:00


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Entry tags:at least no one's knotting, bitter so bitter, boo hoo, censorship, crazy people, entitlement, fan rage, fandom: sailor moon, flouncing, i don't know my rights, let's all get along, misplaced anger, persecution, ruining your childhood, she's on a mission guys!, sub vs. dub, suck it up and deal, taking it too seriously, the gay is canon, think of the fictional children

In the name of the Moon, I will boycott you
Nangbaby is boycotting Sailor Moon for crimes against humanity wait, wait, no, sorry, that was me listening to the language, not the message. Sorry, Viz is doing a redub with the cast's original names.

To quote Nangbaby so I don't misrepresent her:

I promised that I would leave the fandom if this happened and I will. As much as I would like to make it an immediate exit, please note that I have spent a significant chunk of my life loving Serena as Sailor Moon, Alan, Ann, Lita, Game Machine Man, Bertie, and Malachite (just like the sword in Ogre Battle). Forgive the dramatic death throes.

For those of you who think I’m overreacting, let me make this clear. Viz has essentially announced that the Sailor Moon loved by millions, the girl named Serena whose opening theme proclaims she fights evil by moonlight and wins love by daylight. is no more. She has been erased from continuity Sonja Belmont-style.



Now, I grew up with Sailor Moon like any red-blooded nineties Canadian, but I'm not sure quite sure what she's getting at. But she goes on to say:

Now imagine if George Lucas has in addition to making those changes, stated Chewbacca was actually canonically a lesbian and changed the scenes to make that very obvious, as well as claimed the Jedi’s goal was to oversee the development of humanity according to the Force and lead them into the light through taking over the Empire.


Now, this may have unfortunate implications with the fact the redub re-adds two original canon gay couples, but I'm also pretty sure Lucas did that anyway and we just moved on.

I mean, we all remember the makeout scene after Leia says she'd rather kiss a Wookie, right? And the interview with Chewbacca's new dub voice, Tilda Swinton, where she says she's proud to play Chewbacca as he was always meant to be - a proud queer woman covered head to toe in fur. She even did the interview in the Chewbacca costume, despite her height and the fact she actually did the whole role from a recording booth.

Sorry, I've deviated.

She knows who to blame, and she's darn well gonna do it.

As a normal person*, I have no powers against this blatant disenfranchisement and marginalization except that of my limited wallet, and I will say this. From this day forward I will not pay for an official piece of Sailor Moon material released from this date forward. I am boycotting Sailor Moon for the actions of Naoko Takeuchi — make no mistake Viz and Toei Animation are culpable as well, but in their defense, they are transparent in that they make the real culprit clear — the woman who authored the manga that inspired the anime and now has taken over the inspired creation.


She understands it's going to be a hard path, but she will face that path. And she's doing it because god help you if you call Sailor Moon Usagi.

I know my action alone is meaningless, but I encourage others to not pay and not give anything official any more time. It’s not enough to complain. We have to take the power away from them that we gave them to redress this wrong.

Sailor Moon CX will no longer update. As much as I would love to finish the story in a “Take That” no one reads it and no one cares, so I am abandoning it. I won’t burden people with my presence much longer.


To conclude, Viz is a monster, Naoko Takeuchi is a monster, and she's not posting her fanfic anymore.

Also there's a site!

The post concludes:

Edit: I’m back.


*blatant lie


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[info]iczer6
2014-08-05 01:26 am UTC (link)
Eh, nothing's perfect.

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[info]fencer_x
2014-08-05 01:28 am UTC (link)
lmao you must be joking.

I mean, I wouldn't think it'd be that tall an order to expect the remake to have better animation than a 13-year-old on deviantart.

I have no strong feelings either way about the series and only watched the first episode for nostalgia's sake, and I think this person in the OP is being ridiculous.

But

"nothing's perfect"

is the only response you have to this travesty they're passing off as prime-cut animation? lol.

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[info]iczer6
2014-08-05 01:33 am UTC (link)
You do realize that I have no control over the animation style of the new series right? I'm enjoying it if you don't that's fine. I have no idea why you're mad at me for, well, I'm not sure what.

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[info]fencer_x
2014-08-05 01:34 am UTC (link)
Oh gosh thanks for reminding me you weren't the animator! Apologies apologies.

You made a comment. I called the taste in that comment into question. That's kind of how a give and take works.

Also wow you must have some thin skin if you think this is "getting mad" at you?? But I see from your replies to almost every single comment in this post you're really invested...

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[info]iczer6
2014-08-05 01:37 am UTC (link)
Okay!

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[info]elysian
2014-08-05 02:00 am UTC (link)
I'm sure that person's walking away smug in the knowledge they've won another internet argument in which they were the only participant.

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[info]iczer6
2014-08-07 09:30 am UTC (link)
I have no idea what happened.

But it's good to know that I'm responsible for all bad animation everywhere.

I guess I should come clean about the other bad stuff I've done.

I cancelled Star Trek, let Micheal Bay reboot Transformers, and convinced David Tennant to quit Doctor Who.

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[info]spawn_of_kong
2014-08-05 02:02 am UTC (link)
From your previous comment:

But

"nothing's perfect"

is the only response you have to this travesty they're passing off as prime-cut animation? lol.
[emphasis mine]

...I don't think Iczer's the one who's "really invested."

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[info]puipui
2014-08-06 03:39 am UTC (link)
Huh. You're kind of a dick, aren't you?

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[info]undomielregina
2014-08-06 07:58 am UTC (link)
It's fencer_x. Given her behavior in Free! fandom, this is basically par for the course.

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[info]tez
2014-08-07 07:00 pm UTC (link)
Inquiring minds want to know.

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[info]undomielregina
2014-08-07 07:20 pm UTC (link)
This will have to be brief since I'm about to leave for Otakon. Basically, she's a rabid and wanky Rin/Haru shipper, and despite the way she waves living in Japan as proof of authenticity, she tramples all over the local fandom mores with her doujinshi scanlations. And she's horrible about bashing competing ships. I only really noticed her in Free! because someone I follow reblogs her a lot, but people on FFA have said that she did similar things in Project K as well. I don't really have concrete examples, right now, because picking through active tumblrs is a misery I don't have time for.

http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/70959.html?thread=336888623&#t336888623 and http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/71975.html?thread=341819431#t341819431 have more gossip, though.

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[info]trout
2014-08-07 08:30 pm UTC (link)
You're right, she was pretty shitty to fans of less popular pairings in the K fandom.

Though the shipping wars seem to be generally on a Harry Potter-esque level in the Free! fandom anyway.

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slight tw for suicide
[info]lamperouge
2014-08-07 08:13 pm UTC (link)
There's more on fencer_x's batshittery here: http://wankgate.dreamwidth.org/30125.html?thread=109745069#cmt109745069. The thread in question is a reference to a weird translation about Makoto's scene in one of the Free! novels, and fencer-x made the character seem like he was trying to kill himself to get Haru's attention.

Which makes absolutely no sense because it'd be OOC for Makoto anyway. As someone who casually ships both MakoHaru AND RinHaru, people like this wanky pile of crap annoy me, and Free! fandom is pretty batshit as it is.

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[info]kumquat_of_doom
2014-08-06 11:08 pm UTC (link)
Settle down, poppet.

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