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Somewhere in your giant voltron of WORDS I’m sure there’s an answer to this, but I wouldn’t have the slightest damn clue where to start looking. Feel free to just point me and move on: you often reference Crystal Tokyo being a battle that was won only after it was first lost, but I don’t remember that at all. Was this a thing that got dub-scrubbed, or is it more excellent headcanon? If the former, where might I go about finding it in canon to refresh myself?

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keyofjetwolf:

It’s pretty much all headcanon, yeah. Here is the sum total of backstory we get about Crystal Tokyo, from Episode 83 (“The Shocking Future! Dimande’s Dark Ambition”).

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That is IT.

And as you can see, that’s precious little to go on.

First, of course, there’s the assumption that everything Endymion says is true, and I think there’s a whole mess of wiggle room about that if you wanted. I stick mostly to assuming he’s generally telling the truth, with possibly some detail fudging and a whole lot of obscuring in there. (I don’t like the idea of the Senshi sleeping for a thousand years, for example, if only for the fact that that’s boring; there isn’t a whole lot to write about when everyone’s unconscious, and I want to maximize my Crystal Tokyo playground.) But then, I also headcanon that he has a very vested interest in the Senshi leaving with specific views about things. It’s a pretty deep rabbit hole is what I’m saying.

But generally, all we learn about the birth of Crystal Tokyo is that there was “a great calamity” and “the earth settled into a cold sleep”. That’s it, the end of the world in two deliciously vague sentences.

So it’s your choice what that means, if indeed it can be trusted to mean anything. For me, I obviously love the idea of an apocalyptic battle that the Senshi lose, and that’s the foundation for everything Crystal Tokyo for me.

(I’ve got a whole mess of posts about this kind of thing as I am deeply in love with Crystal Tokyo and cannot wait to write there. It’s nowhere near the scope, but some recommended additional reading here and here.)

After reading older liveblogs over the couple years I’ve been a follower, my headcanon developed as follows:

In the original timeline (where Chibs came from when she arrived in S), the Silence is the calamity that befell Earth.  The end of S happened, M9 and Pharaoh 90 fucked up everything (maybe Saturn awakened and hit the killswitch, maybe not) and the world fell into stasis.

I am rather fond of the idea of Chibs being sent back specifically to befriend Hotaru and prevent the Silence, as it came up in some liveblog.  So now the two timelines have diverged enough that Chibs going back to the future after SuperS is the last time she comes back to the 20th century, for the sake of neatness, anyway.

I haven’t quite figured out my headcanon on how Crystal Tokyo comes about in this new, Un-Silenced timeline, but I think the future that Usagi and friends create will be quite different to the one they saw (or the parts of it they were shown).

I’m watching Sailor Moon for the first time and at this point (sailor moon s) the only one of the inner senshi I can really see as straight is Minako, but even then, I don’t know. They seem like a bunch of bi girls, but maybe that’s just wishful thinking. How do you see them?

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speckofawesome:

ladyloveandjustice:

cycil:

ladyloveandjustice:

They’re all queer. Minako may come off as straight in the anime, but in the manga she is queer as fuck. Here’s how I see them.

Usagi- bi (I was gonna say pan, but actually I do think she finds different things attractive in men, women and inbetween) and potentially eventually polyamorous

Rei- open homoromantic asexual in the manga and PGSM and probably Crystal, closeted (but will eventually come out) lesbian in the 90s anime

Ami- biromantic ace (or maybe just bi- hard to say without more evidence)

Mako- bi- tends to favor boys, but when she crushes on a girl, she crushes hard (see: Ami and Haruka)

Minako- pansexual

Haruka and Michiru- lesbian space princesses

Setsuna- bi- equal level crush on Serenity and Endymion

Hotaru- lesbian

Chibiusa- bi like mama

Why do you think that they are ALL queer…?

How is Usagi bi? She isn’t in love with Haruka or Seiya (and even doesn’t know that Seiya is a girl until pretty late in the 90’s anime).
Rei has something close to a relationship with a man in the old anime (not saying anything about the other stuff…).
How do you get Ami’s vibes…? From where…? And how is she romnatically connected to Makoto?
Also I don’t think that admiring a woman (what you count as a “crush”) determines one sexuality (Makoto’s admiration for Haruka).
Why is Minako pansexual? (In the manga she has something for Rei, in the old anime she’s into boys – or do you consider her crush on Yaten as evidence?)
Setsuna has a crush on Endymion – that one’s true. But she just respects her queen… That doesn’t count as a crush.
Why is Hotaru a lesbian? Because she is close to Chibiusa…? Is that also the reason why you count Chibiusa as bisexual? Being close to a person also doesn’t determine your sexuality…

I don’t think that making people more queer than they are is better than making queer people heterosexual…

the better question is, why the fuck do you care about my headcanons? Do not follow my blog if you’re going to bother me with your heteronormative bullshit.

and you’re right, Usagi is so completely straight, there is no evidence she’s bi.

She completely platonically gets off on lingerie clad friends groping her breast

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Minako is doing some really heteorsexual boob groping in her most heterosexual outfit too. 

True, Usagi is known for going on buses specifically to check out hot girls, then getting hearts in her eyes and following them off the bus bc in her words “she’s so pretty”

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How on earth could anyone read that as queer?

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Note the official translation had her saying “I’ll forgive anything if it’s a pretty girl” or “I’ll do anything a pretty girl tells me to” something that people would be JUST SILLY to think is a sign Usagi is attracted to pretty girls.

And there was totally never the slightest sign she was attracted to Haruka

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how heterosexually her heart pounds and she swoons slightly as she prepares for haruka to kiss her, offering no resistance.

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Usagi completely heterosexually had a dream about Haruka kissing her after it happened and woke up flushed and feeling like she’d cheated on Mamoru, which I’m not sure why she’d think that. considering how straight she is.

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In the anime, she was stalked Haruka for an entire episode and asked if she had a girlfriend in a heterosexual way, was head over heels about the idea of dancing with her in a heterosexual way, and the other girls swooned and were jealous of usagi for dancing with her in a heterosexual way.

And you’re right! Rei had a guy who has a crush on her in the anime! It’s true that she said outright she didn’t have any feelings for him and simply admired his devotion to her in her R episode with Koan, but we all know women aren’t allowed to decide whether they want to be in a relationship with a guy who likes him. If a guy likes them, they are OBLIGATED to return their feelings! And Rei definitely wasn’t know to have really gay moments with Usagi.

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and it’s not like Usagi ever teased her about possibly being gay, or that she tried to hide an interest in attractive women.

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I’m such a silly, where do I get this stuff.

And she comes off as so hetero in the manga. Definitely nothing ever implied there.

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nooooope. Nothing implied with Minako either (ps i did say Minako might come off as straight in the anime- however, since her anime character wasn’t as developed, i tend to fill in gaps with her manga and pgsm characterization.)

definitely they weren’t super queer in PGSM or anything either.

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(don’t think being “they type who doesn’t like boys” means Rei isn’t straight. It’s a new type of straightness we haven’t identified but we’re working hard)

And yeah, that Makoto and her platonic fascination with Ami’s butt, that she doesn’t take her eyes off for a full minute

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And how could I read Chibiusa and Hotaru’s friendship as anything but platonic? I mean, Hotaru totally platonically fondling Chibiusa’s naked chest.

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totally platonically gazing lovingly into each other’s eyes. while naked. Foreheads touching.image

this completely platonic scene

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Hotaru may have never shown any interest in boys, but you’re right, i should read her as straight regardless.

how could anyone think that was gay, with that phrasing. Especially since Mamoru watches on and describes it as “giving his daughter away as a bride”. Platonically.

I’m so sorry that I, a silly, stupid queer woman, dared try to read any of these characters as queer. Everyone is straight until proven otherwise, you’re right. You’ve shown me the way with your hetero wisdom.

(guess what? Even if this wasn’t all true? It wouldn’t fucking matter. I can read characters however I want, and no one needs “evidence” they are not straight. Straight should not be the fucking default, and queer people can look for representation and read relationships as romantic or platonic. You can bet if they were het, none of these relationships would be read as platonic. And there is a much evidence for a crush on Serenity for Pluto as there is for Endymion- neither are outright confirmed in the text of the manga, just “admiration”. Naoko says Setsuna has “adulterous” feelings which could refer to BOTH OF THEM (I doubt that’s what she MEANT, but she didn’t say anything concrete, so guess what? I can interpret it as I want). So get the hell out of here with your assumptions).

(Also I read Haruka as genderqueer in the manga. I hope that makes you REALLY upset).

yeeeeeeeeeeeesssss

I saw the Winter Soldier today

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I liked it! I thought it was way better than the first Cap movie. Which was ALRIGHT, but I liked this one more.

(Winter Soldier and Portal 2 spoilers ahead.)

My FAVORITE part, though, was the scene with Zola as an AI, preserved on the hundreds of tape drives from the 70s. It gave me some MAJOR Portal 2/Old Aperture vibes. I thought it was totally awesome and now my official headcanon is that the first iteration of Caroline/GLaDOS was a gigantic array of tape drives like that. :D

All in all, with the release of the first episode of Podsky, it’s been a very Portal-feelsy day.

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talktown:

you guys can not convince me that Cave Johnson and Caroline made this:

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look at dat wundabread:

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there is no way

Yep, this.

Which, if that’s your headcanon, that’s fine.  I’m not gonna fight anyone over it.  There’s room for everyone’s theories.

But Chell is not caucasian.  So I don’t buy it.

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There was a cosplay group who did these costumes (and a matching pink one for Serenity) with the idea that these were their senshi forms during the Silver Millennium times.  I love that idea, and I’ve formulated the headcanon that their fuku are different during each reincarnation cycle.  (In the case of Crystal Tokyo fuku being the same as present-day, my argument is that Usagi is Neo Queen Serenity, as she is in the manga, IIRC, so it’s technically the same reincarnation cycle.)

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avesnongrata:

Sailor Failures: Ok, what do you think their transformations would feel like?

sailorfailures:

Ok, what do you think their transformations would feel like?

I subscribe to the theory that their transformations only take a few seconds, and what we see is only for show, so…

You know when you see something so cool and awesome and awe-inspiring it gives you chills? That’s what Mercury’s would…

I think Mercury’s feels kinda like carbonation, like when you drink a really cold soda.

Venus’s feels like an orgasm like when the curtain goes up in front of a huge crowd. But probably more like an orgasm.

Like Saturn’s, I think Pluto’s probably isn’t too pleasant either.  I think of it as being like the last second of holding your breath when you’re swimming to the surface and you’re not sure you’re going to make it and then that rush of adrenaline when you finally break the surface and can breathe again.

That’s exactly what I was thinking of for Pluto as well!  Like you’ve been holding your breath for awhile and just as the transformation finishes, you exhale and start breathing again.