Those Are Enemy Birds

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I have a reputation to uphold as Richard Siken’s #1 fan & I won’t let bad poetry enjoyers take his rightful crown away from him. He is the KING of the tumblr poetry smack down

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text post by sawasawako. It says Jeanette winterson, reference by Victoria chang, says "the best work speaks intimately to you, even tho it has been consciously made to speak intimately to thousands of others." Jorge luis borges, addressing a large audience in the butler library at columbia university, said, "a crowd is an illusion, no such thing exists. I am talking to you personally." A reply from calvinandhobbes that quotes, "I could pretend I'm speaking to everyone—assume a middle distance and trancend myself—but I'm talking to you and you know it." —Richard Siken, "The Long & Short of It"

An image of Sayaka Maizono talking to Makoto during the first chapter of Danganronpa. Her expression is wistful. She is saying, "I was just a kid, ya know? So I was really lonely. But that all changed when I saw a pop star on TV for the first time. Looking at her smile, I could feel my loneliness melting away. I decided that's what I wanted to be someday. I wanted to give that kind of encouragement to others."

Two pictures. The first picture is an image of lyrics to the song "Punisher" by Phoebe Bridgers. Verse 2 says "And here, everyone knows you're the way to my heart / hear so many stories of you at the bar / most times alone and some looking your worst / but never not sweet to the trust funds and punishers." The pre-chorus says, "Man, I wish that I could say the same / I swear I'm not angry, that's just my face / A copycat killer with a chemical cut / either I'm careless or I wanna get caught / who I'm not". The chorus says, "What if I told you / I feel like I know you? / But we never met / it's for the best" The second image is a quote from the game The Beginner's Guide by Davey Wreden. It says, "Just tell me what you want! I'm...I'm sorry. I'm sorry! Please start making games again, please help me, [higlighted] please give me some of whatever it is that makes you complete, I want whatever that wholeness that you just summoned out of nothing and put into your work, you were complete in some way that I never was. [End highlight] I want- I want to know how to be a good person, I want to know how not to hate myself. Please! I'm fading. And all I want is to know that I'm going to be okay."

First: a picture of Hayao Miyazaki from 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki. He is saying "If I can entertain people, maybe I deserve to exist." Second: two pictures of Jenny slate from her special "Stage Fright". She is saying, "But... I don't earn the love unless I give something beautiful that goes out."

Two images of Leon Kuwata talking to the Nagito Komaeda in the game DanganRonpa S: Summer Camp. Leon has an intense expression on his face. He is saying, "Grah, screw that! I only have one purpose in life! And that's to make the whole world love me so much that I can't get them off my goddamn back!"

First: an edit by user Picasshole of the meme where the person is sitting in the corner of the party feeling left out. Throughout the picture, there are edits of Gustav Klimt paintings of people huddled together. There is a painting of a skeleton in the corner. On the meme, there is a quote by John Berger that says, "To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal." Second: a text post by girlnephilim that says "girl help everything I do feels like a performance third: a picture of dialogue from Leon Kuwata's free time events in Danganronpa. He is saying, "What better reason is there? The whole point of becoming a musician is to be popular right? Speaking of which, do you know what kind of guy Sayaka's into? Is she into musicians? Or maybe actors? Maybe I should become an actor!" Fourth: A text post by user djklmnx that says, "there is no audience to perform for, there is no approval, no admiration to attain. there is no role worth playing, there is no one to convince. let it go"

First: An image of Sayaka Maizono talking to Makoto during the prologue of Danganronpa. She is smiling and saying "I'm not a doll, you know! I'm alive!" Second: an image of Sayaka's wiki that says, "It is shown that Sayaka posed for an idol photobook on at least one occasion, which was revealed when a copy was traded to Teruteru Hanamura by Nagito Komaeda. It appears to contain photos of her in revealing outfits, and is likely to be one of the "bad things" that Sayaka did to achieve her dream." Third: A quote by Safia Elhillo, from "Girls that Never Die: Poems; "Orpheus". It reads, "My body is something I have worn for other people" Fourth: Images of a Leon Kuwata talking to Makoto during the prologue of Danganronpa. He is smiling, but is also sweating and looks distressed. He is saying, "What? Aw man, you found that picture of me playing baseball? Seriously? I hate that picture! I didn't have a choice, okay? Shaving your head like that is part of national championship regulations! But now I refuse to cut my hair. And I'm not gonna dye it back to normal, either!"

First: Images of Sayaka Maizono talking to Makoto during the first chapter of Danganronpa. She looks intense, and is saying, "I should have said thank you then, but... is it okay if I do it now? I'm the crane you see. I've come to return the favor. Here, let me make you a cloak..." Second: An snippet of the text "The Crane Wife" by CJ Hauser. it says, "'The Crane Wife' is a story from Japanese folklore. I found a copy in the reserve's gift shop among the baseball caps and bumper stickers that said 'give a whoop'. In the story, there is a crane who tricks a man into thinking she is a woman so she can marry him. She loves him, but knows that he will not love her if she is a crane so she spends every night plucking out all of her feathers with her beak. She hopes taht he will not see what she really is: a bird who must be cared for, a bird capable of flight, a creature, with creature needs. Every morning, the crane-wife is exhausted, but she is a woman again. To keep becoming a woman is so much self-erasing work. She never sleeps. She plucks out all her feathers, one by one."

Panels from from the Danganronpa Manga First: Leon Kuwata is carrying an unconscious Makoto to his room, and is having a conversation with Sayaka. The conversation goes like this: Leon: Being a musician musts be glamourous, right? Sayaka: Eh? Leon: I was just thinking since you're an idol, I'd be able to talk to you about it, right? Ah, do you want to get some tea? Sayaka: ... Okay, why don't we vist the cafeteria? Leon: The... The cafeteria, then! Hey, I'm a pretty caring guy, right? Sayaka's internal monologue: What an easygoing person. Don't get into entertainment industry with such frivolous thoughts, Kuwata Leon... Second: Panels with Sayaka is attacking Leon with a knife, and he is defending himself with a decorative sword. Leon: You... Sayaka: That's what you said! You didn't mean it, did you? [She swipes at him] You don't understand! You're such a light-hearted person! Third: A panel where Sayaka is stabbed with a kitchen knife, back to the wall. Leons inner monologue says, "I thought that I couldn't do anything, that I was nothing, so this time, I wanted to be able to do something..."

an excerpt from 'et cetera' by E.E. Cummings: Yes everybody's dying to be someone else) But i'll live my life if it kills me

My perhaps overwrought LeoSaya as different reflections of the same One thesis: a.k.a. Chapter One Is Good and Thematically Rich, Actually

Punisher, Phoebe Bridgers // The Beginners Guide, Davey Wreden // Stage Fright, Jenny Slate // 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki // DanganRonpa S: Summer Camp // Post by Picasshole, art by Klimt, quote by John Berger // The Crane Wife by cj hauser // Danganronpa: The Manga; Act 2: the Case of the Super High School Level Baseball Star, Leon Kuwata, story by Spike // excerpt from 'Etcetera' by E.E. Cummings // Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc; Chapter 1, Free Time Event, and Prologue

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The thing is abt this post is that I feel like if I took out all the danganronpa stuff it would probably be a killer web weaving posts that could’ve done decent numbers 2-3 years ago but 1) people would just about do anything else than admit that in some ways DR is an thematically rich text and so we deny our capacity for cringe by pretending we do not see it and 2) I would never make that post bc the visceral level to which i resonate with all these quotes about performance and commodifying your existence for other people and trying to earn your worth through art and parasocial relationships and the struggle for audience and artist to connect has everything to do with my adamant and unrelenting defense of Chapter 1 and of Sayaka and Leon as characters and their relationship with each other and to the text as first culprit and victim and how well they personify the problem of celebrity and how it creates a dissonance between the self and the persona put into the world. When people deny Leon and Sayaka the capacity for meaning or depth they are missing out.

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shut up janelle jan.mine

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the one trope that never fails to Get Me is normal butch x insane femme

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butch whos kind of down to earth and rolls with the punches & femme whos utterly deranged and out to win her man (female). shes like hes the specialest girl ever and if you dont clap for him i’ll blow up this fucking building

eraserheadadult

like 90% of the responses to this post feature characters who are literally not butch but thats ok i too love projecting on fictional characters and lying to myself

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you guys don’t get it this is the ikuzono dynamic txt

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Justin Russo and Alex Russo are so Claire and Fleabag coded

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thinking about ‘you’ll always be fine won’t you? with your d**d best friend and your quirky cafe and you make me feel like I failed.if you mention the size of my office I will scream.’shut up janelle

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The curse of modern fandom is that it has allowed fans to get even closer to artists, but they won't view the artists as people.

Human limits, human mistakes, human feelings, human needs, are never ascribed to artists, and when other fans rightfully point out, "hey, humans are making this, maybe don't harass them or demand they cater to your personal tastes," it gets shut down under, "uh, people who make popular mainstream things are automatically Public Figures who are also probably rich, so eat the rich and destroy artists over every perceived minor fault. <3"

Even though there's, y'know, a really big strike currently going on because those artists are very much not rich or influential or in control of the bullshit.

renthony

The more friends I make in the various facets of the entertainment industry, and the more widely my own art gets shared, the more I realize that a lot of y'all genuinely don't see artists as human beings if they meet some arbitrary standard of Being Known Online.

There is no amount of online fame that makes someone subhuman and a valid target for blatant disrespect and harassment.

renthony

Contrary to popular belief, you do not actually own and control a piece of art just because you like it a lot. The artists are not subject to your personal whims and tastes. They owe you nothing.

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Just found out that the atlas six is somewhat inspired by the Olivie Blake’s dramione fanfiction fjdkslfja i can’t the problem with publishing fanfiction with the serial #s filed off is not that its problematic or bereft of creativity I could not give less of a shit about that bc i think its funny and should keep happening the problem is that the fanfic ships we keep ripping off wholesale always blow

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shut up janelle

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Can't stop thinking about how it's Horatio and not Hamlet who is in both the first and last scene. This is the story of Hamlet, but somehow the play begins and ends with Horatio, because even though it's about Hamlet, it's not actually his story. These are the things Horatio has witnessed - the things we as the audience have witnessed alongside him - and he is going to "speak to the yet unknowing world [h]ow these things came about" (Hamlet, 5.2.364-365). We start with Horatio witnessing the appearance of the ghost and we end with him surrounded by the dead, vowing to tell their stories.

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