Saber Marionette Why SM is special to you

why is sailor moon special to me

sm is a awesome show it totally cool and it cool

 

Obligatory

Remember that in this context, SM = Saber Marionette, not Sailor Moon ^_^

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanyway.

 

Well, I've had a month to reflect... on a lot of things. You know, one of the things I discovered, was that I have been obsessed with SMJ. Truly obsessed. I mean, I used to pretend Cherry was real, I used to wish every single night that the girls and I would be together one day. I look back now, you could almost call it a form of insanity.

That's something I'm glad to have grown out of. I still love SMJ as much as ever, and for many of the same reasons, but I've finally admitted those facts I refused to believe for so long.

It might be a bit off topic, but it's something I felt I had to say, and this one seemed the best place for it.

Sometimes I wonder just how sane I really was...

 

It's time for I, Xel-tan, the Lady Akai to share~!

Well, I never had the kind of deep affinity with Hana-chan that Aoi did, but it was close! It was close. He was my reason for getting into the series, after all. I was but a wee eleven-year-old back then. Something made me fall for him. That was about the time I began to show a budding interest in yaoi, but considering the circumstances and my age and all, I hadn't encountered any situations with the actual boy-love in action. So I suppose Hana was my first contact with this strange new world, as it were. And it was a tentative one, for sure-- considering that Hana never gets his man during the series (after the series is another matter entirely, and one that you all know I'll defend to the death, but I digress. ;D), but it was the presence of a gay man in an accessable medium all the same. Hmm, I'm not sure what kind of conclusion to draw from that. I don't really feel a need to, though.

I guess in short, SMJ came to me as a lot of things. Valuable things. Otaru/Hanagata was probably my first ever yaoi pet-pairing, and in a world where yaoi fans have an unfortunate track record of just bashing the hero's prospective love-interest(s), I liked the girls. I think that kind of balance helped prevent me from ever becoming a rabid idiot like so many zealots do.

It's also been a wonderfully valuable series and fandom in that I've watched it change so radically over the years-- though really, it's just my perception of it that's changed. We all saw what happened when I rewrote that one fic of mine. The tone changed. Hanagata's voice changed, too, and suddenly his thoughts and motivations became so much more ambiguous and complex. I like that. It makes me feel as though I've grown as a person. *laughs*


...but yeah, Otaru and Hana still end up together when all is said and done. *skitters away!*