Jake: How is the Precinct’s prettiest person doing today?
Amy: I don’t know, how are you?
Jake:
Jake: [voice cracks] fine.
Gina: [Yells] I’M GREAT THANKS
♥ Lisa and Yukina ♥
Netflix and avoid people
When my parents put me on that pod in Krypton, I…I don’t think I realized what was actually happening. I didn’t know that I was saying goodbye to them forever. I’ve been abandoned before, and I didn’t wanna be abandoned again.
fandom: bandori
words: 5158
pairing: yukilisaauthor’s note: a commission piece for @thegadgetfish!! this was my first yukilisa, n i was rlly glad for the opportunity to pick yukina’s brain and how she feels about lisa because…. woof there’s a lot going on there. thank you for commissioning me, and i hope you enjoy the fic!!
“It’s not what you think,” Lisa says. She’s clutching a pink envelope in her hand. The girl that she’s with, a willowy brunette second-year with a bad case of fidgety hands, watches Yukina with trepidation.
They’re the only two students left in the classroom. Alone, alone together but for Yukina standing and staring from the doorway.
Something isn’t right. It’s written in Lisa’s wide eyes, the way her lips are parted, her outstretched hand.
“Lisa…?” the brunette asks. She touches Lisa’s shoulder gently, familiarly.
A chill coils down the length of Yukina’s spine and settles heavily in the pit of her stomach. Ah.
“Yukina, seriously, it’s not—”
“Okay,” Yukina interrupts. She stares a moment longer at Lisa and her friend, spins on her heels, and goes right back the way she came.
“Yukina, wait—!”
Yukina doesn’t turn back. Her feet take her to the courtyard, out the gate, and down the familiar streets to CiRCLE. Whatever Lisa is doing with that girl is irrelevant. Practice can’t and won’t wait.
Lisa had promised her that she would be fully devoted to Roselia the day after Ako joined. The memory of Lisa’s nails, cut down to nubs, flashes in Yukina’s mind; then Lisa, alone in a classroom with some unfamiliar girl and a pink envelope in her hand.
Yukina grits her teeth. If this is Lisa being fully devoted, she has a funny way of showing it.
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I think that there’s some kind of mindset in a lot of creative communities (authors, artists, musicians) that your work needs to be groundbreaking and thought-provoking for it to matter. That in order for it to be considered worthy of its medium, it must have a greater purpose.
And if you ask me, its bullshit.
God, it puts so much stress on a creator to have to be important to someone else. I have seen so many people give up because their work isn’t making a statement, that it’s ‘fluff but no substance.’ As though there’s only room for so many people in a community of creators that only people with a point can get in.
If it made someone laugh, it’s important.
If it made someone smile, it’s important.
If someone looks back on it fondly, even for a moment, it’s important.
If you enjoyed making it, even if you never shared it, it’s important.
Sing songs about your cat, draw pictures of lizards eating popsicles, and write a series of novels about time-traveling alpaca.
The world is already full of super-important stuff. Write fluff.
I think this mindset stems from how the current education system teaches literature, in particular how they tell you to dissect all forms of literature to its smallest pieces. This starts surprisingly early (in Korea, at least), with kids being forced to look at books with a metaphorical microscope instead of reading it as a compelling story. In my opinion, that is the biggest problem in the current system that distances people from reading and makes them think books are boring. By not accepting the script for what it is - a story - you are literally being alienated from what you read! Any book would be boring if you had to pore over the “cultural significance” or “societal messages” or “contemporary grammar techniques” of each word or sentence instead of enjoying literature as its true form. You can’t enjoy the chemistry between Romeo and Juliet when you have to analyze whatever double meaning Shakespeare hid in that one sentence in page 23. You can’t enjoy Hercules kicking ass in ancient Greece when you have to deduce the metaphorical meanings behind each monster he defeats and what it meant to Greece as a political entity. You can’t enjoy the wondeful romantic softness of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnets if you have to study the poem’s rhyme system and word choices based on Victorian grammar. And this doesn’t even stop at literature! Just look at the arts. Wanted to sit back and appreciate a Picasso? Too bad your professor would rather have you write an essay on the impact of his work on European art instead. Like Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony? Maybe you can try analyzing what the purpose of each instrument is within the music instead of actually listening and enjoying it. Singing along to Sound of Music? You won’t be when you have to rewatch it frame by frame to make out the symbolism that’s supposedly hidden there.
I’m not saying that analyzing literature or art is inherently harmful to the experience (in fact, I believe it’s a great way to understand the past), but the problem is that students are forced to adopt this viewpoint instead of choosing the way they read and interpret things in order to do well in school. When this sort of “logical” perspective is hammered into you for more than ten years, you become conditioned to the point that you simply aren’t able to appreciate something without subconsciously digging into its baser meanings. But the thing is, analyzing stuff like that is hard. It’s taxing to the brain. So the brain decides that it would rather not deal with art at all, and decides to associate art with ‘boring’. This is why people don’t appreciate culture like they did in the past. This is why they think books and concerts are boring.
Interpreting every work as containing some sort of profound meaning is not only a burden to the people who create art, it’s also a huge burden to the people who read art. If you want to try going complex it’s fine, but let people enjoy fun things as the fun they are. Let them write the things they want to write, even if they don’t have any profound message. Let them laugh at the things they love, even if they’re fluff from top to bottom. Goodness knows we definitely need more of that in this world.
2x18 // 3x02 // 4x02
Simplifying simulation.
