Through the glass

[salinea]

Today after a roleplaying game, where the GM surprised us with informing us that we were playing, in the cyberpunk & urban fantasy world of Shadowrun, two laboratory mice who were set to try to conquer the world (I was Brain; we ended up stunning everyone and the power in Seattle then firing a shuttle to the Zurich Orbital station using potato power) I ended up showing a few fanvids to my friends; including one of my fave "Your Man" by charmax, at which point one of them observed that Lesbians seem to do a lot of kissing through glass. Of course then I tried to show them "The Glass" by thingswithwings but I couldn't cuz it's not up on streaming. But it also made me think of Star Driver :









Do you think the creators of Star Driver are familiar with Henry Jenkins? It wouldn't even surprise me if they were.

Also should I be posting this on abymage instead of here? *ponders*

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[eisen]

Yoji Enokido (head scriptwriter and story designer)'s referenced acafan and particularly queer-theory media-analysis concepts before; they're all over DIEBUSTER, f'rex, and MELODY OF OBLIVION gets in on the act, too. (UTENA, too, but I figure that goes without saying.)

I would love to see someone sit down with Enokido's works and discuss all the ways in which he uses the medium's own tools to queer itself and to really pull apart the allusive content of his scriptwork and series construction, because it's just so rich with information and reference that way (even saying that, though, it's dense without being distracting or obtrusive, something most other writers working in the same "style" tend to fall short of). I bet it would be incredibly rewarding.

[keelieinblack.livejournal.com]

Do you think the creators of Star Driver are familiar with Henry Jenkins? It wouldn't even surprise me if they were.

Given how meta-tastic the series the creators have worked on before have been, I think I wouldn't be surprised either. I also wondered if Yoji Enokido was additionally using it as a way to sneak in a visual reference to that Utena + Touga elevator scene in the Utena movie--and didn't Star Driver have a nod to RahXephon in the first episode? This might turn out to be a weirdly referential show.

(Also? That roleplaying session sounds awesome.)

[aiffe.livejournal.com]

Didn't the girls of t.A.T.u. kiss through a chain-link fence in one of their music videos?

[q99.livejournal.com]

That's a pretty cute scene :)

[rebbe]

In that final cap, is the person on the left wearing a hat? Or is that their hair?

I'M SO CONFUSED

[runespoor7.livejournal.com]

Say, if I hypothetically wanted to RP but failed at finding groups, could you hypothetically give me pointers, or groups or whatever who might hypothetically be okay with me?

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