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[quote]Intertextuality is the shaping of texts’ meanings by other texts. It can refer to an author’s borrowing and transformation of a prior text or to a reader’s referencing of one text in reading another.[/quote]

Shakespeare has a lot of meaningful connections to earlier stories in his plays. The…[Read more]

Many Western stories (and some anime stories) about aliens or UFOs depict them mainly as threats.

When thinking of stories that involve friendly aliens, I mostly thought of Urusei Yatsura, Niea_7, and Asobi Ni Iku Yo! However, there are clearly some substandard anime series about aliens, such as UFO Princess Valkyrie.

The Japanese consensus…[Read more]

Recently Fairy Tail disappointed me because one character got a huge range of facial expressions with a huge change in expressions that made the animation seem shoddy to me.

As the filenames of the attached images are meant to indicate, the changes in facial expression seemed ridiculously sudden and exaggerated.

When I was watching it in…[Read more]

[quote]What price prosperity and security? Are they worth living in a place that many contend is a socially engineered, nose-to-the-grindstone, workaholic rat race, where the self-perpetuating ruling party enforces draconian laws (your airport entry card informs you, in red letters, that the penalty for drug trafficking is "DEATH"),…[Read more]

So a free game company

has a new game about vampires.

And it just occurred to me that if I link to it, I'll be breaking the rule against advertising, but I suppose it ought to be safe to simply mention that it's a free game and it's somewhere on the Internet and it feels frustratingly short after you've played it a few times.

It's…[Read more]

So the guy who did Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt got a chance to tell the world how he really feels.

He did a show called Hen Zemi and the fansub is out.

This show has redeeming qualities. If I ever need an example of why free speech protections are needed, I would point to this show.

This show has at least two important…[Read more]

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During a two-day local festival in November 2009, Ryohoji saw some…[Read more]

Literature professors theorize about a lot of stuff, including the question of which audiences lust after which fictional characters.

I don’t know which professor originated the theory, but I believe the literary theory that most audiences lust after fictional characters who are reflections of the audience’s ideal self-image.

The typical…[Read more]

I’m a straight male. The girl I hang out with is theoretically bi, but possibly trending toward exclusively lesbian. She periodically demands that I avoid hugging her and keep my emotional distance because she doesn’t want to allow even a tiny hint of hope for romance. (On the bright side, she’s a great person to spend time with.)

This woman…[Read more]

Many of us here are probably either artists or aspiring artists.

I want to get back to drawing, but I want to design character models with small eyes.

In this thread we discuss small eyes in character design: whether they suck, whether they are always drawn consistently, etc.

Here's an example of a design that's excellent in its own way, and…[Read more]