Serpentyle Torc

hotwaterandmilk:

For a bit of perspective on the receptive audience for Wedding Peach, please refer to these images from the “Music Clip Wedding Peach Festival” disc included in the 4th limited edition DVD box set.
Otaku dudes have always had an interest in animated magical girls for a variety of reasons that would require countless essays to explore, but I often have a difficult time relating just how popular Wedding Peach was with the otaku fanbase when compared to its intended fanbase of young girls.
I’m not talking ground-breaking popularity here (otaku saved that for Sailor Moon’s Ami) but enough older fans existed and purchased releases/event tickets to justify the creation of the DX OVA – which is pretty impressive for a series of otherwise middling success.
As the images above convey, the FURIL concerts were not designed for young fans to attend but put on entirely for the mature (overwhelmingly -though not exclusively- male) fanbase. That didn’t mean the content for these events was risqué or otherwise adult, simply that the demand for concerts and media came mainly from the otaku dedicated to the series, rather than the young girls Tomy hoped to be selling toys to originally.
I find all this interesting as it is a visual record of the long-standing otaku interest in magical girls that, contrary to a lot of English-language suggestions, didn’t suddenly manifest in the past 15 or so years of moe.

Surviving a Desert

hgk477:

Only move at dusk and dawn.
Cover yourself. The sun is an old and angry thing.
Try not to leave tracks.
Not all that is visible is real.
Not all that is real is visible.
When you start hearing the voices of the dead, settle down and do not move. They will pass you by.
Do not approach caravans.
Dreams had in the desert are either prophetic or real. Decide wisely which to believe.
There are no wolves here. You will hear them anyway.
Never rest in the bottom of a dune valley.
Do not speak to anything that has not proven itself to be human.
When the sand shakes, run.
Cover your mouth. The sand will coat your lungs.
Seeing things in the day is not a problem. Seeing things at night should be.
Never play the flute.
Always carry a sack of sugar for hungry things.
You are meat. Do not forget this fact.
If there is something in your periphery, do not look at it. It wants you to.
Dig yourself into the ground in a sandstorm. The wind will take you away.
The flames are not real.
The shadows are not real.
Never close your tent flap all the way. It is impolite.
Never let your lantern go out.
The ancient have no love for the young.
Do not drink water offered to you.
Do not watch the dancers. They will trick you.
There should be no clouds. If there are, move until they disappear.
Travel alone. You will invariably lose your companions.
Someone will cry out for help. Do not follow the voice.
The murmurs of veiled ones are to be disregarded.

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Surviving a Desert

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