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I wish less girlbloggers and aesthetic tumblrinas would clog up the Nana anime tag. Bro, I'm here for the analysis of the anime, not for pink and black coquette outfits and gif sets (not that anything is wrong with that, just not my thing at all, man).
I honestly grieve the fact that such a monumental, complex, and beautifully written relationship has been reduced to pastel/punk aesthetics. There’s nothing inherently harmful about that, but it’s still disappointing to see how well-known the manga itself is, and yet the number of fanfics is so low you’d think it was some forgotten niche story no one’s ever heard of. People are eager to invent personalities for characters who get three minutes of screen time and then write tens of thousands of fanfics about them, but when it comes to one of the most amazing wlw ships ever… we get crickets, for some reason.
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this is by far one of my fave nanahachi scenes: Hachi "saves Nana" with a kiss
Hachi acknowledges this is an unrealistic thing to do and it only ever happens in romance movies where the hero saves the heroine, but that's exactly why she does it, because she sees herself as the hero and Nana as her heroine, changing the previous roles of Nana being the hero and her the heroine.
the manga constantly parallels them to fairy tale characters with the hero/heroine roles. would a kiss save someone from being unable to breathe mid panic panic attack in real life? absolutely not. now, does the prince usually save the princess with a kiss in fairy tales? yes! it works because their love, and themselves, work and see themselves as characters from a fairy tale.
it also adds to Nana later on saying she can't kill herself because she can't throw away a life that Hachi saved. she lives with Hachi as her life support both emotionally and physically with this kiss.
I've seen people interpret this as solely giving mouth to mouth breathing, but I never interpreted it this way alone considering how Hachi specifically adds this paralleling to a romance movie, and saving someone with mouth to mouth breathing wouldn't be unrealistic either. it's somewhat of both, she saves Nana with a kiss and with it she breathes air back into her.
also before anyone says "I wish it was canon" lemme redirect you to this post
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yes, I’d love for my ship to be canon too, but I feel like fandom culture today focuses too much on “my ship must be canon or else I will be a bitch and harass people about it” energy that we’ve lost the main point of shipping two fictional characters together, why we do it in the first place, which is that it’s fun. it brings us comfort and joy. and even if the ship isn’t canon, we have fan contents, so many amazing fan art and fanfics. you can create whatever you want about them. make them kiss. make them yearn for each other. make them confess their love under the rain.
“but it’s not canon” THEY ARE ALREADY FICTION. canon or not. they are a fragment of imagination forged by their canon creators, meaning YOU can create your own art about them too.
canon = art made by canon creators, they created it, it’s out there, it exists, it’s valid.
fan contents = art made by you, you created it, it’s out there, it exists, it’s just as valid.
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A little Nellas portrait - thank you for suggesting I draw her, @riding-with-the-wild-hunt! <3
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morgoth: welcome to the fuck túrin club, where we say “fuck you” to túrin
beleg, sweating: i have severely misunderstood this club’s objective
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Cracky concept for an Angbang first meeting. Melkor is sneaking about in a body that is roughly 26 feet tall, when Mairon, a literal volcano monster the size of Mount Everest picks him up and takes him to Yavanna, thinking he’s one of those new cat things she made. Like this:
The cat is throwing shadows at him. Thinking this is something cats can do, Mairon merely coos at it. “Shush, shush,” he says.
The cat shrieks.
Mairon frowns. He wasn’t expecting that. Cats are supposed to make ‘mreep’ noises, not screechy ones.
“Yavanna,” he calls. “I found one of your cats.”
She walks over and gasps. “Mairon, that’s not a cat!”
“It isn’t?”
“No! It’s a Melkor! Melkor is the king’s brother. You should get him back to Manwë immediately.”
Mairon stares down at the Melkor. “…you do seem very catlike,” he says, confused.
“Mreep,” says the Melkor.
@gossip-girl-of-middle-earth i noticed you reblogged a post similar to this so I thought I’d tag you hope you don’t mind.
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Concept: Angbang fic, but it's titled like those overly descriptive/specific Isekai or slice of life anime series.
"Help! My father-in-law is actually the creator of the universe and i've been given magic powers by dating his son!" Or something.
The plot is that Melkor and Mairon visit Eru once, and he's a relatively nice if eccentric individual who likes talking shit about Melkor but is actually very kind to Mairon and very excited that someone is finally willing to go out with his cringefail son and gives Mairon magical abilities of some kind. Throughout the fic Mairon discovers that Melkor and his family have actual magic too and that Eru is literally the creator of the universe.
