I just saw a really great Sailor Moon quote by Ryuugi and figured it'd fit well with this thread:
Quote:*This is, perhaps, Usagi's true secret power--she neither knows nor cares what genre she's in. The original manga was a fucking Lovecraft story writ large. It was Dead Space. It was a Eldritch Horror Story featuring the Time paradoxed futility of existence while everyone is alone in the Universe, faced with the knowlege that Evil is going to win and hope is lost. It's just that throughout it all, Usagi just quietly, adamantly refuses to allow that genre shift. She doesn't say anything, she just keeps smiling that smile that says 'This is not a cosmic horror story' until her utter confidence in the matter starts making the Color Out of Space start checking the script uncertainly and wonder if he read something wrong. See, he thought this was the scene where he drives all life on Earth insane and they kill each other in an orgy of violence hailing his glory--which happened in canon, by the way--but, you know, maybe not. She's not genre savvy; she's so genre blind that everyone else starts having doubts, too.https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/40661608/
“I really hope I’m behind this convoluted mess; at least that way I’ll be able to get revenge by doing this to myself. I won’t even have to feel bad because it’ll be all my fault.” - Harry Potter, The Master of Death by Ryuugi.