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fannish ramblings
Nov. 28th, 2011 02:32 amAs Sailor Moon and Sailor V have been re-released in a beautiful new comic format for the 20th anniversary, I've been re-reading them all as if for the first time. It was my first real fandom, the first entertainment product that I thought to search for other fans and share my love. I learned html so I could make fansites. I wrote (admittedly horrid, as I was 13) fanfiction. I made my own fake Sailor Soldier. (XD Sailor Mizu, the daughter of Mercury's younger sister... yeah...)
But nostalgia factor aside, I'm remembering why the series (especially the manga) has stayed with me so long. Sailor Moon is full of incredibly strong, amazing woman. Strong, amazing, lonely woman who learn and fight for love that means so much more than man-and-woman-in-marriage.
Love is more than marriage, more than gender, more than sex. It is the rope that ties us all together. And it is so powerful that it can evoke millions of other emotions. It can destroy people or strengthen them.
But. Yeah. I realize that the thing I'm trying to actually convey is just beyond me right now. Ah well.
I've also recently gotten my hands on the two DarkStalkers graphic novels. Those are just about monsters and sex. And incomplete but probably never to be completed. Suck!
But nostalgia factor aside, I'm remembering why the series (especially the manga) has stayed with me so long. Sailor Moon is full of incredibly strong, amazing woman. Strong, amazing, lonely woman who learn and fight for love that means so much more than man-and-woman-in-marriage.
Love is more than marriage, more than gender, more than sex. It is the rope that ties us all together. And it is so powerful that it can evoke millions of other emotions. It can destroy people or strengthen them.
But. Yeah. I realize that the thing I'm trying to actually convey is just beyond me right now. Ah well.
I've also recently gotten my hands on the two DarkStalkers graphic novels. Those are just about monsters and sex. And incomplete but probably never to be completed. Suck!
