Artemis: I’m pretty sure my purpose in life is to keep Minako from going to prison or dying early.
Luna: And how’s that going?
Artemis: I have high blood pressure.
Audrey Dubois
4:28 pm on March 15, 2018 Tags: miscellaneous, naoko takeuchi, sailor moon ( 311 ), this is my FAVE picture and i am glad to have an excuse to post it
happy birthday Naoko Takeuchi, your work has spawned a few extremely cursed artifacts but also some real good times 🌙💕
Audrey Dubois
1:02 am on January 19, 2018 Tags: i know this blog is about 80% sailor jupiter reblogs but, i need more of that in my life, miscellaneous, reblog ( 929 ), smash that like button if you support makoto kino wearing a giant bow in her ponytail
Audrey Dubois
7:10 pm on January 13, 2018 Tags: ('we' = millennials who grew up with sailor moon haha), and as such its her feminine heroism that gets highlighted rather than her 'canon' personality, and get dope tattoos and wear denim jackets with patches, and that perception changes with time, anyway who's publishing this in an academic journal??, as kids we wanted to be magical girls and now we want to ride sick motorbikes and go to liberal arts school, i'm allllll about this, LOVE this post, meta ( 4 ), miscellaneous, reblog ( 929 ), she exists as a character and as a physical manifestation of the girls we wanted to be as children, the image of sailor moon when i see it out in the world is symbolic of 'i grew up in the 90s and appreciate female heros', which is 1000% good! she's become emblematic of an idea; like cultural shorthand
I think you could do a whole academic study on Sailor Moon as a character vs Sailor Moon as a cultural icon.
And I mean, not even getting into Sailor Moon-the-Icon over the decades around the world, especially Japan, which is way, way bigger and more complicated than what had in mind when I made this post. I’m just thinking of Sailor Moon-the-Icon as she’s appeared in the past few years as the face of Millennial nostalgia.
There’s the canon Sailor Moon. Fourteen years old, crybaby, reluctant hero, loves to eat and sleep, loves her friends, loves everyone unconditionally.
But there’s also been this surge in 90s nostalgia, combined with a rise in Millennial Aesthetic, resulting in a Sailor Moon who is somehow very detached from her canon self, and yet still immediately recognizable. The tattooed, pierced, witchcraft-wielding, motorcycle-riding, sexy femme ass kicking Sailor Moon. We’ve all seen her all over, not even just on Tumblr. There’s tons of artists who have done their own variations. Lots of cosplay with these edgy, grown up twists. There are multiple burlesque troupes now doing Sailor Moon-themed numbers.
And yet I’ve never seen one complaint from the fandom about how completely un-Usagi-like this version of Sailor Moon is, because I think we all recognize that this isn’t an attempt to change our beloved character. It’s representing the icon that people have grown up with. In a way, it’s showing how the image of Sailor Moon has grown up in people’s minds, beyond the character herself. People who felt represented by her when they were young are reimagining her as what she represents to them now. And it’s just neat how much that is solidly in the spirit of Sailor Moon.
Audrey Dubois
5:43 pm on January 9, 2018 Tags: 'ah i understand', 'how would you describe michiru's character', 'single black coffee at mcdonalds', also i am always glad to see john mulaney applied to sailor moon cause that's my number one thought process always, meme ( 10 ), miscellaneous, reblog ( 929 )
Also I have a Terrible and Dark desire to fic out Michiru doing this because it’s fucking ace
Audrey Dubois
12:40 am on January 2, 2018 Tags: arby's ( 3 ), but it's beautiful, miscellaneous, this one isnt even a pun or anything? it's just WE KNOW YOU LIKE SAILOR MOON
how do I tell the Arby’s social media intern that I love them
Sailor Luna will keep me warm through this long, cold New England winter. Thank you @silver-millennial for the ridiculously thoughtful gift, it’s perfect!!
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