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A Writer's Take on Trigun: What the Heck Vash plans to do with Knives
This post is part of a series I’m doing where, as a writer, I’m dissecting Trigun and its characters. We’re getting in deep into this story. Be prepared to freak out about what I found (that’s what I did). And if you’re a writer, maybe learn some new skills along the way.
How killing Legato actually helped Vash figure out what to do about Knives. How the writers of Trigun solved two problems with one plot point.
What I love about Trigun is that it’s one of those stories that changes every time I watch it. The best stories do that, because they’re layered. You know, the kind where you catch onto something new the second time, the third time, the tenth time you watch it. Or the meaning of the story changes because you’ve changed.
(And I’m not talking about noticing Abraham Lincoln.)
This time when I watched Trigun, I finally really caught on to and appreciated what the heck Vash planned to do with Knives at the end of the series. The show has a pretty open ending. I’ve always wished there was just one more episode, or even 15 more minutes (especially for us Vash and Meryl fans). What do you do with someone as sadistic as Knives when your morals prevent you from killing him? When no jail is capable of holding him?
If you watch the series closely, you’ll see Vash struggles with that same problem. He claims he needs to find Knives, but he actually doesn’t make much of an effort to. When Wolfwood confronts him about Knives, Vash says that Knives killed someone very important to him.
“So you want revenge?” Wolfwood asks.
“I don’t know,” Vash answers.
He still doesn’t know what he’s going to do about Knives all the way up to the second-to-last episode. He gets his answer indirectly from Meryl, and I’ve never picked up on quite like this. What Meryl says is an answer to Vash’s own problems and Knives’ problems simultaneously!
After Vash kills Legato, his very first and only kill, he’s tormented by it. He considers it a sin, thinking he is no better than Knives is. Guilt-ridden and horrified, he spends most of the episode feeling as if he deserves to die himself, or at least, deserves to be abused. In the least, he’s in the midst of his biggest identity crisis.
When Meryl steps in to save him from some towns folk who want to kill him, she says, “No one ever has the right to take the life of another. And everyone, everyonedeserves a future… . It’s up to us to end this cycle of hatred. If we don’t work to end the sorrow this time, then the cycle of pain will just continue on. When we were all born, were any of us made to steal or cause harm?”
Vash realizes these are the same things Rem always taught, but they take on new meaning.
‘Animaniacs’ Reboot Lands Two-Season Straight-to-Series Order at Hulu
“Animaniacs” is coming to Hulu, Variety has learned.
Hulu, Amblin Television, and Warner Bros. Animation are partnering for a rebooted version of the classic cartoon series, which has scored a two-season, straight-to-series commitment at the streaming service.
Steven Spielberg will return as executive producer of the series, with Sam Register, president of Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Digital Series, and Amblin Television co-presidents Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank also serving as executive producers. New episodes are set to premiere on the premium streaming service in 2020. Amblin Television will produce in association with Warner Bros. Animation.
In addition to announcing the new series, Hulu and Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution also inked a new pact that makes Hulu the exclusive streaming home to the complete library of all 99 episodes of the original series, as well as spinoff series “Pinky and the Brain,” “Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain,” and the complete “Tiny Toon Adventures” collection.
“I am so pleased and proud that ‘Animaniacs’ will have a home at Hulu,” Spielberg said. “Together with Warner Bros., we look to bring new audiences and longtime fans into this wild world of Yakko, Wakko, and Dot. I am also excited that the full library of ‘Animaniacs’ and ‘Tiny Toon Adventures’ episodes are included in the deal.”
The original “Animaniacs” made its television debut in 1993, running for five total seasons. It followed The Warner brothers, Yakko and Wakko, and the Warner sister, Dot. They have been locked away in the Warner Bros. water tower for a very long time, but they have found a way to escape.
It went on to become one of the most popular animated series for children. The series set the record for most Daytime Emmy Awards in the field of Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for any animated series, winning three times.
Being trans is not a new, trendy thing. Trans people have always existed.
Dr Alan L Hart was born in Kansas in 1890. He was assigned female at birth, but started presenting and living his life as a boy at a young age. In 1917/1918 he was the first trans man to go through GCS in America. After the procedure, he changed his legal name. Shortly thereafter he married his first wife, Inez Hart. They separated and divorced a few years later and in 1925 Alan married his second wife, Edna Ruddick, to whom he was married until his death. After the second world war, synthetic testosterone became available and Alan started HRT. Alan dedicated his life to helping people. He was a medical doctor and radiologist and he put much time into researching tuberculosis and collecting money for people who could not afford treatment themselves. He died of heart failure in 1962. His body was cremated and spread over Puget Sound.
reblog if you’d date a pre-transition trans guy
i’m trying to prove a point to someone who needs it
REBLOG if you think boys can present as feminine and still identify as boys
what is it about capybaras that attracts groups of small animals to them? Its not just mammals either its like birds and turtles and frogs too
look at this shit
They radiate peace
capybaras are friend shaped
I love this post
This is actually a cool thing I know about!
In the wild capybaras live in large groups so naturally a female capybara will take care of not only her own offspring, but all of the other offspring in the group. So capybaras are super great mothers who will adopt pretty much anything and take care of it.
Lots of places that rescue different animals will give a group of baby animals to a capybara to raise if they have one.
Like puppies
Ducks
Deer
Emus
They are just super calm animals so they’re naturally great at mothering or just existing in a group!
mom shaped
I’m gonna sound INCREDIBLY morbid, and possibly mean right now, but those people that make fun of 30+ year olds in fandom forget that they will one day become that age as well… or are they not planning on living that long? **shrugs** I hope it’s not the later, but hey… not my problem.
Don’t get me wrong, there are some old ass adults that act like toddlers, but to act like you’re surprised that older fans exist? I feel sorry for these people. They must have a lot of shit going on to make fun of older people.
I'm 36 myself and a huge tmnt fan, amongst many other animated franchises. I have no shame, although others disapprove.
DUCKVEMBER REMINDER
I have seen a few people confused, so I wanted to reiterate that DUCKVEMBER is not an art challenge. ANYONE can participate. You can draw, write stories, create collages, share playlists, or simply just talk about your favorite characters that fit a theme. Anything you desire. Honestly, you don’t even have to follow the themes.
DUCKVEMBER has and always is about being a community and bringing fans together.
Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.
Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.
Isaac Asimov.
yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point
If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels
Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it
even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?
PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame
And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.
Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:
Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.
Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.
You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.
Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it
I have literally been telling people this for over a year.
the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman
The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).
The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.
You know, whenever asslord boy gatekeepers get flattened by the supposed “Fale Geek Girls” they want “expose” who actually know their shit, some try to cover their asses by claiming “you probably just googled that!” But we can’t even expect guys to google anything. “Isaac Asimov” I AM FUCKING DEAD LMAO.
Guess what jackasses? Women also invented gothic fiction and horror (Ann Radcliffe and Marie de France). The oldest surviving literary pieces, period, were poems by Sumerian noblewomen. Oh and speaking of the Batman-was-inspired-by-a-woman’s-invented-literary-archetype thing, you know what also kind of major influence women had on comics (aside from The Hulk being directly inspired by Frankenstein’s monster?) The whole concept of narrative through visual art, period. Oldest cave paintings like the El Castillo? Scientifically verified to be done by women.
Also, the modern degree based system of education (first academic institution to grant degrees: University of al-Qarawiyyin founded by Fatima Al-Fihre in 859 AD.) While men were using their “amazing” ingenuity to blame the Black Plague on bathing too much (I.e: more than once every six months), a woman was coming up with the system of scholarship levels. We were also the first computer programmers.
Women invented nerd. Get the fuck over it.
Cartoon duck fans unite!
Reblog this if you are a die-hard fan of cartoon ducks! (and maybe tag with your fav ducks). It’d be cool to find more folks this way, I KNOW YOU’RE ALL OUT THERE.
reblog if you're gay, not gay, slightly gay, or if you just want to launch donald trump into a dying star
Just an experiment. Reblog if you actually give a fuck about male victims of domestic violence and rape.
Of fucking course
What sick bastard doesn’t
“You’d be surprised”, said Xaldien, who just lost four followers and received a lovely “men can’t be raped” anon shortly after reblogging this the first time.
Yowch, disgusting.
If I don’t reblog this, assume I’m dead.
Always reblog this
If you Dont reblog this if u see it then i cant call u my friend
IF ANYONE TELLS ME THAT MEN CAN’T BE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND RAPE, I AM SICKENED BY THEIR MERE PRESENCE ON MY BLOG.
If you disagree with me, unfollow my blog, block me and never look at my blog again.
If you want to debate about this or send anon’s about this, I will reply but your actions have consequences.
Out of 19000+ followers I have, only one of you actually reblogged about this issue, yet a lot of you have reblogged and liked a picture by playboy about catcalling and that how men should never do it.
Additionally, I have received abuse in my ask box (which I will be answering when I can) and threats. In particular death threats and rape threats.
I can see the real problem here already. Male domestic violence and rape is just invisible in our society because we don’t want to talk about this because it just damages the status quo of this fucking website.
I’m a male victim of child sexual abuse. We matter. Please, reblog this.
Please never forget male victims are real and it can happen to everyone/anyone
Make sure the romance is there on both sides people
I’ve never reblogged anything faster.
Anyone can be a victim of domestic violence or rape. Anyone.