Category: Community Shares

Love is an Action Word via relentlessness

Posted by Ryan A - March 11, 10

relentlessflame posted an interesting piece on loving anime; the premise:

No, let’s be clear: love is an action word. You can’t love someone or something and only “take”. Love requires giving. You don’t get to be the sole arbiter of how your love is expressed towards a subject. You don’t get to disregard the wishes and desires of that subject. Otherwise, you don’t really love that subject, you love yourself — you love the self-gratification you get by indulging yourself at that person or thing’s expense. And that sort of “relationship” is unsustainable. Just because anime is an industry not a person doesn’t mean that love itself works in some sort of different way.

Nice, simple read, but the main quip I had was in the processes of mixing the concept of love with monetary expression, which imo, cannot be universalized. Perhaps it can be considered a form of love for creators, but I believe there are other, more human, attributes involved, quoting myself:

For one, I feel creators, before monetary rewards, wish to be experienced, viewed, admired, discussed, shared, etc.

Or more simply put, a “generation of energy”, and in some studies, we can equate energy to attention. さあ〜

ps. I love that relentlessflame’s essay can be drawn out in logical expressions/predicate calculus rather simply. <3

Twelve What?

Posted by Ryan A - February 16, 10

Twelve weak-ass arguments1,
and I’m still in a towel2.

Notes, yea Notes
  • 1 - The issue is that the majority of these are non-arguments; they immediately scream “Disregard me!,” and thus inconsequential.
  • 2 - I just finished showering thank you!
  • * - Not even sure what’s going on in that entry. Is this pro- or con- buying DVDs? Okay, I think it’s against these excuses, but these are awfully weak excuses to begin with…

hikago vs 上げたり下げたり

Posted by Ryan A - February 14, 10

I should 上げたり下げたり the hikky-pyon. wol

Fooling Around With FLCL: Part One - SNAG Vs. World

Posted by Ryan A - February 12, 10

Always nice to see some FLCL action, Jacob’s Part One analysis rang my bell. Particularly the focus on Haruko and Mamimi and their relation to Naoto is quite good:

In short, Naota’s a shotaro boy who’s been exposed to some pretty adult situations. He just wants permission to be a kid, wants to be loved but he feels pretty uncomfortable about the women in his life. Sound familiar? It should, because this is a common experience when one goes through puberty as a young man. Mamimi represents the somewhat crazy but well meaning female archetype of mother, whereas Haruko represents something else entirely. She says herself she’s an alien, and to many young people, the differences between genders feels very alien indeed. She’s invaded his life and he doesn’t exactly know how to deal with her. Especially when she has something Naota feels towards her that he doesn’t towards Mamimi – sexual attraction. Haruko is exciting, daring, and upbeat about everything. Mamimi to him is just his brother’s ex-girlfriend who’s latched onto Naota as some sort of creepy surrogate.

Solid.