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   novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 10:48:01 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

   I hate that I unironically like Evangelion (1999) and EoE bc like. It's pretentious as fuck and some scenes make me wildly uncomfortable. And I guess its cringe or whatever. But it's just so unique — its uniquely visually interesting and cool, its got this real awe and terror factor that not much else I've watched has, the symbolism is cool (if nonsense), the characters are interesting (if annoying and dysfunctional), and the symbolism and rituals and mystery and lack of solid explanations of things makes it really fun for me to speculate about and project my own interesting world building onto. Same with the pretentiousness actually, I unironically love pretentious things because I can always read in as much depth and nuance and philosophical sophistication as I want into it, the pretentiousness just gives me a satisfying hook to hang it all on. I've just never found anything that scratches quite the same itch.

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     FinalOverdrive (finaloverdrive@kolektiva.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 10:52:32 JST FinalOverdrive

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     @anarchopunk_girl It's not a shootable offense, those scenes are supposed to make the viewer feel uncomfortable (it was what Gainax was going for in those scenes. It was to make the audience uncomfortable), it isn't nonsense, the symbolism is deep, etc))

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 10:57:58 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     @auscyber YES.

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     ivy (auscyber@firefish.lgbt)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 10:57:59 JST ivy

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     @anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social like its pretentious BECAUSE ITS ACTUALLY GOOD

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     Dani Tseng (dani@mastodon.sandwich.net)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 11:48:07 JST Dani Tseng

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     @anarchopunk_girl Nah, fuck shootable offense, I'm an Evangelion fan, for all its weird flaws and everything else, because holy crap it was actually really good. I kept wanting more.