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Author Topic: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)  (Read 16288806 times)

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Re: [TURBOAWOO] That one time Inubashiri Momiji committed mass murder (Happy thread)
« Reply #175365 on: September 09, 2016, 10:17:34 am »

Basically it was pretty subtle in season 1 but then I guess they decided "Wait, Russia/Poland/whatever has been claiming Ruby is a boy and the gems are not gay? MAKE IT GAYER" culminating in the latest episode which can't possibly get any less gay.
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Re: [TURBOAWOO] That one time Inubashiri Momiji committed mass murder (Happy thread)
« Reply #175366 on: September 09, 2016, 10:21:23 am »

goddamn I need to start watching this show again, everyone is talking about it
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Re: [TURBOAWOO] That one time Inubashiri Momiji committed mass murder (Happy thread)
« Reply #175367 on: September 09, 2016, 10:30:23 am »

"Wait, Russia/Poland/whatever has been claiming Ruby is a boy and the gems are not gay? MAKE IT GAYER"

Just FYI, I haven't seen SU on CN in Russia at all. As far as I understand, people who watch it over here rip it off from the internet. That's the impression I get.
If it ever aired, media would make such a stench even from the traces of gay one could gather from season 1.
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Re: [TURBOAWOO] That one time Inubashiri Momiji committed mass murder (Happy thread)
« Reply #175368 on: September 09, 2016, 10:36:19 am »

So SU doesn't exist in Russia, and Russia doesn't exist in SU.... :P

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Re: [TURBOAWOO] That one time Inubashiri Momiji committed mass murder (Happy thread)
« Reply #175369 on: September 09, 2016, 12:16:57 pm »

Welp, that map got a laugh out of me.
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Re: [TURBOAWOO] That one time Inubashiri Momiji committed mass murder (Happy thread)
« Reply #175370 on: September 09, 2016, 12:34:19 pm »

What happens when the Soviets watch the Tsar Bomba detonation and decide that they still need more dakka.

For clarity: I've never watched SU. That set to the side, considering this:
Steven Universe is probably the most gayest educational show I know that involve aliens and magic.

Since gems don't have genders, they can't be technically gay. Saying they're gay is basically dumbing down the alien reasoning based on visual appearances.
Rebecca Sugar, the creator of the show, literally said that they were all female.p in term of gender. Ruby and Sapphire have been designed with the idea of them being homosexual, and Pearl had always been designed as bisexual. I could cite sources.
Would it not make more sense to say that they're a unigender species? Homosexuality is only noteworthy for species with options other than same-sex relations. Also how can they be bisexual with only a single sex? Identifying them as female is workable for the same reason that it works for, say, Asari: people associate traits across species (even if they themselves probably wouldn't think of things in terms of human sexes or genders unless it's blatantly just alien-fetish porn written by humans).

Like, look at how Asimov did the para-universe photosynthetic aliens in The Gods Themselves. They were a trisex species composed of Rationals, Emotionals, and Parentals, each with pronounced traits (some biologically innate, some left for the reader to decide): Rationals and Emotionals correspond to rather literal transpositions of '50s Western gender roles in some respects, though the nature of the species made them somewhat more strongly biologically differentiated in that Emotionals can pass through solid matter (Rationals can only do it to a limited degree with other living beings) and are the prime actor in reproduction. Then the Parentals, which carry and raise offspring, are only able to blend with the assistance of other individuals. Rationals and Parentals are identified with male pronouns, Emotionals with female pronouns.

There's a whole bunch more stuff, and the plot partially involves the complexities of trinary sexes and relationships, as well as characters breaking gender norms &c. shit. It's a complex, internally consistent, believable depiction of an alien species that really doesn't correspond to our preconceptions about gender and sex, with just enough intentionally familiar notes for the audience to be able to understand and sympathize with the struggles of the non-human characters. It's always been a shining example of how to do alienness right in my eyes, as opposed to the usual "Human, but... and Asimov wrote it back in the early '70s.
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Re: [TURBOAWOO] That one time Inubashiri Momiji committed mass murder (Happy thread)
« Reply #175371 on: September 09, 2016, 12:53:46 pm »

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Now what Asimov book do you say was that? The Gods Themselves? Definitely checking this out.

Also, I fully support the thesis you present in first paragraph, regarding the show in question.
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Re: [TURBOAWOO] That one time Inubashiri Momiji committed mass murder (Happy thread)
« Reply #175372 on: September 09, 2016, 01:04:14 pm »

Had my first therapist session today.
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Re: [TURBOAWOO] That one time Inubashiri Momiji committed mass murder (Happy thread)
« Reply #175373 on: September 09, 2016, 01:08:33 pm »

From the way you're describing it, I'm quite sure that in this case logic was sacrificed to make an ideological point. Then again, I never watched the show, so what do I know.
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Re: [TURBOAWOO] That one time Inubashiri Momiji committed mass murder (Happy thread)
« Reply #175374 on: September 09, 2016, 01:12:18 pm »

Today I'm happy I stopped caring about cartoon network several years ago, with the rare exception of ADVENTSHUR TIEM, I guess.
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Re: [TURBOAWOO] That one time Inubashiri Momiji committed mass murder (Happy thread)
« Reply #175375 on: September 09, 2016, 02:24:47 pm »

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Re: [TURBOAWOO] That one time Inubashiri Momiji committed mass murder (Happy thread)
« Reply #175376 on: September 09, 2016, 02:31:17 pm »

Bought a subscription for Mathway. Worth it so far, and also superior to Mathlab.
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Re: [TURBOAWOO] That one time Inubashiri Momiji committed mass murder (Happy thread)
« Reply #175377 on: September 09, 2016, 03:38:28 pm »

I finally caught a fat, noisy fly that's been keeping me from relaxing all day.

First, I trapped it between my window and the window screen, then let it stew for a good ten minutes while I had a victory snack. Then, I amused myself for a few minutes by tapping and flicking the window, watching its terrified attempts to escape from a prison it cannot comprehend. It was so fat that I could actually hear when it hit the window, and the buzzing was still totally audible from the other side of the glass.

When I finally decided to smack it with the fly swatter, it gibbed like in Quake. There were some severed legs on my window sill, about a third of the body nearby, and a wing stuck in the swatter. Haven't located the rest of it yet.

I don't care about my very real brush with sadism, I fucking hate flies and they all deserve to die just for the very nature of their existence.
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Re: [TURBOAWOO] That one time Inubashiri Momiji committed mass murder (Happy thread)
« Reply #175378 on: September 09, 2016, 04:11:22 pm »

I don't think flies are even sentient.
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Re: [TURBOAWOO] That one time Inubashiri Momiji committed mass murder (Happy thread)
« Reply #175379 on: September 09, 2016, 04:14:10 pm »

Eh, they're sentient, iirc. Just not much beyond that.

And nah, they can live. We need them for our eugenics experiments. They just need to stay in the labs and breed for our enlightenment.
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