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The Tsuki Project AKA SYSTEMSPACE: The Online Cult Inspired by an Anime

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Foreword:  This was originally written on October 5, 2021. I know that I said that my previous post about China 🇨🇳 and North Korea 🇰🇵’s relationship was going to be my last post for November, and I was planning on it being the last post for this November, but after I finished eating breakfast, eating Thanksgiving 🦃 leftovers, and downloading more photos from DeviantART to use as wallpapers for my phone 📱 or my laptop 💻, I figured, “I can crank out one more before the month is over.” That’s why we’re here today, Friday November 29, 2024. Now, as you read from the title, this is about the Tsuki Project AKA SYSTEMSPACE, and the best way that I can really describe it is that it’s an online Internet suicide cult 🛜 that used the imagery of the cult anime series, Serial Experiments Lain . At first, I thought that the Tsuki Project was directly inspired by Serial Experiments Lain , like it was started by a fan of the series that perhaps took it a bit too seriously, and thought tha...

Queer Coding in Media 🏳️‍🌈

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Note:    This was originally written on Sunday August 21, 2022 . I don't remember what exactly spurred it on. I guess I was just thinking about this idea of queer coding 🏳️‍🌈 that I heard be talked about in a lot film analysis, especially when it came to Disney villains in movies like Pocahontas , or The Hunchback of Notre-Dame , or rather, the direct-to-DVD sequel 📀, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame II , or The Lion King 🦁 (the original animated version). There's a bunch of others that I mention in the main text itself, but those were the ones I was mostly thinking about when I ultimately decided to write this.  I wanted to give my own opinion on this idea or this term because whenever people bring it up, it's always in a negative way. When people talk about queer coding 🏳️‍🌈, they talk about it as if it's a bad thing that was done in the past, and is still being done today, and that should be avoided. And basically, what I was saying was that while I do think queer...