Oct 31, 2023
That's quite the whiplash, asking a real ~15 year-old girl if she ever cosplayed as a fictional ~15 year-old girl, all while calling yourself onee-chan to her face. Oh, and talking about war crimes in the same breath. Pro move, Lucille.
Aaaand we're right back to the beginning. Isn't that what you were going to do *before*, Lucille? Also, welcome to your first "mid-life" crisis. Plenty more to come.
But I'm with her on being tired of living in historic times. If the world could just calm down, that would be great.
The nineties nostalgia though, I could go on and on about that. Like, acknowledging that it wasn't universally good times for everyone around the world, the period between the fall of the USSR and 9/11 was a pretty comfortable time to be an American. The economy was good, there was a budget surplus, computers were still doubling in speed every 18 months, anime was hand-painted, the Next Generation era of Star Trek shows were airing, and the idea of US soldiers dying in foreign wars was a joke, at worst, a bad memory.
But I have to remind myself, it was also the time of moral panic over Harry Potter and Pokemon, Columbine, the L.A. riots, the WTC bombings, Waco, genocides on the news, and the killing of Matthew Shepard. And no matter how well-animated the anime was, getting it in the US was neigh impossible.
The movie references are especially funny. Yes, The Lion King was a huge deal, and Pulp Fiction is legitimately great, but in 1994, I remember distinctly feeling that the art cinema of the 1970s were much better than the trash that was currently coming out. And yes, I was complaining about it on Usenet.
