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[skygiants]

Two Important Things that happened this weekend! (Both, actually, courtesy of the kind aid of rushin_doll)

1. For the first time in 2+ years, I have a REAL WORKING LAPTOP KEYBOARD. That is not made of rubber and does not have to be carted around with me and does not require the strength of ten to use! Perhaps now I will actually be able to output words again!

2. I have fallen into deep and distressing love with the anime Princess Tutu - the kind of obsessive fannish falling-in-love where once it is over you fall into despair and spend days convinced that you will NEVER FIND ANYTHING THAT MAKES YOU FEEL THAT WAY AGAIN, WHAT IS THE POINT OF DOING ANYTHING EXCEPT GOING BACK AND REREADING/REWATCHING AD INFINITUM. Which is a feeling I have occasionally experienced before, but not usually this badly! Anyways. Princess Tutu, amazing, gorgeous, starts out as an apparently fairly standard if unusually odd shoujo anime about a magical princess ballet duck and then doubles back on itself and brings the meta and the emotional heartwrenchingness to the infinite power; has that Ouranish quality of holding a mirror up to fandom and your investment in it, except instead of fandom it's fiction itself, so you think you should be detached and analyzing your own reactions but instead you just get more invested. Or I do. So. I will stop babbling now or else I will never stop, but please feel free to share your own experiences of the dangers of falling in deep true love with a work of fiction.

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[gramarye1971]

Princess Tutu. *starry eyes*

[skygiants]

GRAMARYE I APPEAR TO LOVE IT BEYOND ALL REASON

PLEASE ADVISE

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

PRINCESS TUTU IS AMAZING AND PERFECT FOR YOU

[skygiants]

I DO NOT KNOW HOW IT TOOK ME THIS LONG TO SEE IT

EXCEPT I AM KIND OF GLAD IT DID BECAUSE I WORRY NOW THAT IT HAS RUINED ALL FUTURE ANIME FOR ME. IMPOSSIBLE STANDARDS!

[gramarye1971]

*helpless, flailing gestures* IT IS JUST THAT KIND OF SERIES I HAVE NO ADVICE TO OFFER EXCEPT MAYBE TO MARRY NEKO-SENSEI

If you want to track down all of the ballet music used in the series, this Web site can help for the second half of the series if you run it through Google translation software! *flees*

[sophistry]

Oh god, I have such terrible, terrible relationships with fiction. Right now, I feel all heart-clenchy and glowy whenever I even think of the Aubreyad (predictable, what?), but at the same time, the idea of re-reading fills me with a bizarre terror. I JUST DON'T KNOW IF I'M READY FOR THAT KIND OF EMOTIONAL COMMITMENT AGAIN. ;_;

[skygiants]

I WOULD NOT DREAM OF STANDING BETWEEN HIM AND MISS GOATETTE THOUGH

. . . . . *SHINY EYES OF GLEE* Oh man, how much have I been dying for that, THIS MUCH

[skygiants]

I KNOW EXACTLY HOW YOU FEEL. Heart-clenchy and glowy is an excellent term for it, too!

I have had to stop myself from even watching the amazing Tutu-in-three-minutes AMV (over and over and over, as I was duing earlier this weekend) because every time I do I am plunged back into the depths of emotional attachment and at this rate I will NEVER MOVE ON. I don't want to get over you, Tutu!

(*giggling* I was wondering if you were going to mention the Aubreyad)

OK, so after you have been plunged into the depths of emotional attachment like this, do you find yourself trying to fit every piece of music you hear into the storyline, or is that just me and my weirdness?

[wanderlustlover]

.....I just turned on episode two.

I feel you should know it's because of this post.

:P

FOR SHAME.

[skygiants]

I FEEL NO SHAME. ONLY JOY!!!!

>:D >:D >:D

YOU SHOULD BLOG YOUR REACTIONS. OR EMAIL THEM TO ME OR SOMETHING.

(Oh man, Amanda, you have GOT to watch it. The last four-to-six episodes are like - *INCOHERENT FLAIL*)

[sophistry]

I think that's just you, but then - book canon vs. audio-visual canon. So.

(Although I know that when I am psyched about an RP plot or something, I do tend to be like HEY THAT SONG IS TOTALLY ABOUT _____.)

Also: shut up. I can't even like. Explain the depth of my romantic feelings for the Aubreyad. I... I don't even have a metaphor. BUT I AM GLAD SOMEONE IS FINALLY IN THE SAME BOAT AS ME.

[skygiants]

I think that's probably part of it too - though honestly that tends to be a sign for me that I'm really invested in a book, too, when I find myself listening to my mp3 player in a 'that song is TOTALLY an ___ song!' kind of way. Which I think is also at least 50% just my tendency to find more enjoyment in music when I can impose a story on it.

(I so do it for RP as well, though.)

Oh man I know. *cries* I CAN'T MARRY A WORK OF FICTION, SOPHIE, IT IS NOT LEGAL IN THE US!

[wanderlustlover]

I have what looks like 38 episodes and three extra pieces, one per season.


Becca. Becca. The fluffy anime is trying to make me teary eyed. What is that?!? I may send this afternoon watching this. (Episode 3!!)

Her fangirls are still adorable.

Also any and all references, names and music to The Nutcracker continues to make me wibble like a small child.

Did you make your icons or is there a community hiding that I need to find sometime?

[skygiants]

This confused me too when I was trying to find it online - it is 26 episodes, but the final 13 were aired in half-episode segments, so they're posted as 26 episodes of 11 minutes each instead of the usual 20-minute episode.

TEARY EYED ALREADY I AM IMPRESSED. To which part???

And they so are. If sort of creepy, too, in the case of Lilie (the blond one.)

I made this icon, but the other two I found - there is an icom community here. HOWEVER! Serious warning! Icons probably will contain spoilers, and you do not want to be spoilered at this point, TRUST ME. So you might want to hold off on checking!

[jothra]

It is not just you. I do it all the time, usually with whatever I am currently reading/watching/playing/enamored with.

[skygiants]

Oh good, I feel like somewhat less of a freak now. *giggles* Or we are freaks together? Something!

[bravecows.livejournal.com]

i saw a dress in a shop window this morning that reminded me of princess tutu and started quietly constructing an imaginary story around it

and it is like on the one hand, yay tutu and otoh OMG HOW CAN YOU EVEN THINK OF DESECRATING THIS WORK OF ART WITH YOUR UNWORTHY THOUGHTS

it is transcendent, isn't it *_*

[skygiants]

It really really is.

And yes exactly! My default mode would be to immediately run out and make parodies and offer for Yuletide but I am afraid to put my grubby fingers near it!

(So instead I content myself with imagining all the icons that I would make/take if I had infinite space/skills, and yet may attempt if I end up with some free time at work today. Because that is at least one way to express my love without poking at the perfection that is the shape of the story as is.)

[furikku.livejournal.com]

Everything about Tutu is wonderful except that Drosselmeier makes me go into a homicidal rage when he is on screen. :D

[skygiants]

That is fair though, he is sort of a terrible person! Also, terrifying.

(I do not know if you know the musical Into the Woods, but there is a part 3/4 of the way through when the Drosselmeyerian narrator gets fed to a giant by the pissed-off characters. I was entertaining myself the other day imagining that happening in the middle of Tutu.)

[furikku.livejournal.com]

ITW and Tutu would make an amazing crossover: Y/Y

[genarti]

I do that too!

(And then I say "This is totally a ____ song for me" to my housemate, and she says "You're a dork, dear," and pats me on the head. BUT ANYWAY.)

And I very much agree that I often like music better when I can tie it to a character. (Or two or three.) Built-in emotional investment!

[skygiants]

SO MUCH Y!!!!

#437, What I Would Do If I Had Skills: a Tutu fanvid set to Into the Wood songs.

[furikku.livejournal.com]

DUUUUUUUUDE.

[skygiants]

(Sandry is totally one to pass judgment, of course. *solemn*)

Yes exactly! Or snicker-worthyness, of course, depending on the song, but definitely emotional investment. The combo of music + story for me is such an incredibly potent one.