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esmenetI don't know if I've framed it in these terms before, but one of the plots I am super in favor of are crossovers between dark serious fandoms and light happy bouncy fandoms, where rather than the light happy bouncy fandom characters being torn apart by wild beasts or otherwise being absorbed into the grimdarkness aura the grimdark characters suddenly start playing guitar together or something and everything turns out better than expected. Oh, you thought there was going to be a brutal final battle where everyone's favorite characters die? SURPRISE, MOTHERFUCKER. GARDENING.
I hate that trope -- you know the one -- in grimdark shows where the girly-girl always dies, and the nice one always dies, and strength is based exclusively on how many people you can kill.* (*cough* Gantz *cough*) Fuck that. I want the nice characters to be the ones who keep themselves alive. I wanna see the big dark-and-gritty showdown that is just someone going up to the big bad and getting them to sit down and talk about their feelings. I want hard problems to have happy endings that are not based on violence.
Maybe this is just a reaction to the difficulty of writing dark-and-gritty/not-dark-and-gritty crossovers, idk. But for real, I just want happy crossover things where the happy fandoms suck the grimdark out of the gritty fandoms and suddenly everything is FLOWERS.
*Looking at myself now, I can see that I've sort of kept away from learning 'survival skills' on purpose, to prove I can get on well enough without being able to fight.
I hate that trope -- you know the one -- in grimdark shows where the girly-girl always dies, and the nice one always dies, and strength is based exclusively on how many people you can kill.* (*cough* Gantz *cough*) Fuck that. I want the nice characters to be the ones who keep themselves alive. I wanna see the big dark-and-gritty showdown that is just someone going up to the big bad and getting them to sit down and talk about their feelings. I want hard problems to have happy endings that are not based on violence.
Maybe this is just a reaction to the difficulty of writing dark-and-gritty/not-dark-and-gritty crossovers, idk. But for real, I just want happy crossover things where the happy fandoms suck the grimdark out of the gritty fandoms and suddenly everything is FLOWERS.
*Looking at myself now, I can see that I've sort of kept away from learning 'survival skills' on purpose, to prove I can get on well enough without being able to fight.
OMG
Date: 2012-08-14 05:04 am (UTC)And L from Death Note and Honey-senpai go on cake dates ALL THE TIME.
And Ai from Hell Girl is a youkai who Natsume makes friends with.
And everyone in Persona 4 are teen idols on a TV show together.
Re: OMG
Date: 2012-08-14 06:00 pm (UTC)Madoka would be perfect for this in general, I think. I keep putting off actually watching it because it seems to be a grimdarkification of the whole idea of magical girls, which tend to be based on the concept that funtimes and world-saving can be had through applications of happy fluffiness. Even in the shows that feature a lot of kicking things in the head, the final attack is always music or sparkles or something like that. And that's the part that I want to apply to other kinds of fandoms. HAPPY THINGS FOR EVERYONE.
A:TLA could actually function as either side of the equation, I think, depending on which characters you focused on.
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Date: 2012-08-16 11:14 am (UTC)Nooooooo, my dark and gritty stuff! Not the sparkles! NOT THE SPARKLES!!
Hem.
On another note, I'm quite curious about your definition of "survival skills". I've always thought that survival skills were about surviving in the wild or in an autarky situation - and that would involve a lot more gardening (together with hunting, building things, etc) than fighting. Unless you put hunting and fighting in the same category, I guess...
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Date: 2012-08-17 03:32 am (UTC)Ah, sorry, clarification time! I kind of meant 'post-apocalypse survival skills', that is: I don't have what it takes to join biker gangs and shoot at people and almost get raped by rival gangs in the burned-out shell of a city, which is what post-apocalypse means if you go by '90s anime. Although I'm pretty short on 'not dying in the wilderness' skills too, come to think of it.