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2026-07-23 22:59 UTC

But Caltech knocked me for six and sent me chasing after new things to study and new entertainments, which in my case meant mostly old entertainments: I felt strongly that I needed to get myself up to speed on the "Western canon" in a big way, and I was really into plays for a bit. So when we fell in love with Daria and started going together, I got to learn about a lot of stuff that was going on in pop culture while I was burying my nose in books and old movies. I'm pretty sure that if I'd been able to see Macross or Mobile Suit Gundam or Legends of the Galactic Heroes while I was at Caltech I would have instantly fallen for it. I was impressed enough when I finally got round to #Gundam series thanks to Daria: when I was a teenager I was desperately craving solid sci-fi movies written for a grownup audience and Gundam was all over that shit. (cont'd)

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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-23 23:03

And even Frisk, who's normally disdained my taste for speculative material, was taken aback by the social realism of Legends of the Galactic Heroes. Imagine an American animated series with a nuts-and-bolts antifascist narrative, set in space. You just can't, can you? The only U.S. series I've EVER seen so far that felt like a good antifascist tale was that adaptation of Phil Dick's The Man in the High Castle, and even it starts to go subtly wrong somewhere after the first season or two. I will lightly pass over the subject of how 'white' audiences have interacted with #anime. They have done some very interesting and appalling psychic surgery on themselves in order to slot anime into a central pillar of their reactionary world-view. Vic Mignogna plays a role in all that. (cont'd)

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