Horny Sick World
Dec. 13th, 2004 12:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dexfarkinI am obviously a fairly sick person.
Recently, on DIEPUNYHUMANS, Warren Ellis posted a strange link into a fandom that just boogles the mind, and proves that the Japanese are, indeed, fucked.
Linking the original story here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-1130646,00.html
The short version of course is that recently in Japan, an 11-year old girl stabbed a 12 year old classmate in the throat with a box cutter, and left her to bleed to death in an empty classroom. The girl has not been named, but identified in a class picture.
The central identifier for the girl is the NEVADA sweatshirt she is wearing in a class photo: http://img63.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img63&image=classphoto.jpg She stands next to her green coated victim.
So, truly brutal slaying; a crime that is both shocking and replusive, which has caused major ripples in Japanese society. But that's not the really interesting part. This tragic crime is an abberation which has had equally sad duplicates all over the world at various times. But the response to this from some? Create a fandom: http://shii.org/nevada
There's some nice coverage of it, including links to artwork here: http://otakubooty.bootyproject.org/show_article.asp?id_article=4896
So, you have prodominantly Japanese males creating comics and drawings, many graphic and pornographic, around an 11 year old killer, attempting to make her cute, anime-like, or a prepubescent sex object.
The reason I'm a sick man is that the sheer processes to reach that stage fascinate the hell out of me. Think about it? Can you imagine Paul Bernardo/Karla Holmolka fanart/fiction? The very idea of the fandom itself is a horrifically intriguing idea, because people are excited about it.
This ugliness is mulching into story ideas, and I think that should worry me. Not about the girl or the sick little fantasies, but the dynamics and people who could enter into that fandom at all. Ramiel, you and I need to talk.
EDIT: Apparently fandom_wank is on this now. Thanks for pointing it out.
Recently, on DIEPUNYHUMANS, Warren Ellis posted a strange link into a fandom that just boogles the mind, and proves that the Japanese are, indeed, fucked.
Linking the original story here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-1130646,00.html
The short version of course is that recently in Japan, an 11-year old girl stabbed a 12 year old classmate in the throat with a box cutter, and left her to bleed to death in an empty classroom. The girl has not been named, but identified in a class picture.
The central identifier for the girl is the NEVADA sweatshirt she is wearing in a class photo: http://img63.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img63&image=classphoto.jpg She stands next to her green coated victim.
So, truly brutal slaying; a crime that is both shocking and replusive, which has caused major ripples in Japanese society. But that's not the really interesting part. This tragic crime is an abberation which has had equally sad duplicates all over the world at various times. But the response to this from some? Create a fandom: http://shii.org/nevada
There's some nice coverage of it, including links to artwork here: http://otakubooty.bootyproject.org/show_article.asp?id_article=4896
So, you have prodominantly Japanese males creating comics and drawings, many graphic and pornographic, around an 11 year old killer, attempting to make her cute, anime-like, or a prepubescent sex object.
The reason I'm a sick man is that the sheer processes to reach that stage fascinate the hell out of me. Think about it? Can you imagine Paul Bernardo/Karla Holmolka fanart/fiction? The very idea of the fandom itself is a horrifically intriguing idea, because people are excited about it.
This ugliness is mulching into story ideas, and I think that should worry me. Not about the girl or the sick little fantasies, but the dynamics and people who could enter into that fandom at all. Ramiel, you and I need to talk.
EDIT: Apparently fandom_wank is on this now. Thanks for pointing it out.
