Tony

@empty-visions

Editor at Anime Feminist. musician, DJ, writer. minors DNI. views do not rep employer

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Tony@empty-visions· Jun 5

gonna tell my kids this was I Saw The TV Glow (2024)

Tony@empty-visions· Jun 5

may was for techno festivals

Tony@empty-visions· Mar 20

I’m gonna be making my Minneapolis techno DJing debut on April 4th, so if anybody is in town hmu for details if u wanna come!

Technosferatu poster. at the bottom is Empty Visions NYC

Tony@empty-visions· Mar 16

taught Janelle Monae’s Tightrope today, a song about fighting for the world you want no matter what people say. here are some of my kids’ freedom dreams:

Our dreams:

clothes food and homes for all
- full employment
- better fostercare system
- good pay
- schools for kids who are different
- flying cars
- end to war

Tony@empty-visions· Mar 8

walkin around looking like an Ai Yazawa character

black shirt jacket chains and boot cut white jeans

Tony@empty-visions· Mar 6

outfit ✅

a nonbinary person with short hair in clamp character esque high waisted boot cut pants and a green wool chore coat

Tony@empty-visions· Mar 6

my taste is mostly “that oddball game in a franchise that everybody knows is Actually Better,” the obvious greatest indie games of all time (Celeste, Undertale, Disco Elysium), and then Griftlands because i just think it’s neat

Griftlands Shadow Generations Undertale Celeste Bloodborne Baldur’s Gate 3 Disco Elysium, Majora’s Mask D2 Goodbye Despair

Tony@empty-visions· Feb 12

my friends understand

Tony@empty-visions· Feb 11

the faux left outrage is all bad faith nonsense. when i pointed this out to one of the main instigators he blocked me immediately. they can dish it but they cant take it

Tony@empty-visions· Feb 11

humans that are actually muppets in disguise: 1) Matt Rogers: look at that smile. So big! Too good at sketch comedy. Absolutely a muppet

Tony@empty-visions· Jan 23

Tony@empty-visions· Jan 13

the way Faulkner was the original “gay not because i like men but because i hate women.” 10/10 highly accurate no notes

surrendering without having been vanquished; the other for that same reason too, who could not have wanted Judith without Henry since he must never have doubted but what he could marry Judith when he wished, in spite of brother and father both, because as I said before, it was not Judith who was the object of Bon's love or of Henry's solicitude. She was just the blank shape, the empty vessel in which each of them strove to preserve, not the illusion of himself nor his illusion of the other but what each conceived the other to believe him to be-the man and the youth, seducer and seduced, who had known one another, seduced and been seduced, victimised in turn each by the other, conquerer vanquished by his own strength, vanquished conquering by his own weakness, before Judith came into their joint lives even by so much as girlname. And who knows? there was the War now; who knows but what the fatality and the fatality's victims did not both think, hope, that the War would settle the matter, leave free one of the two irreconciliables, since it would not be the first time that youth has taken catastrophe as a direct act of Providence for the sole
not solve.
purpose of solving a personal problem which youth itself could

eluded dark fatherhead and so brothered perennial and ubiqui-
tous everywhere under the sun—"
They stare at one another-glared rather-their quiet regular breathing vaporising faintly and steadily in the now tomblike air. There was something curious in the way they looked at one another, curious and quiet and profoundly intent, not at allas two young men might look at each other but almost as a youth and a very young girl might out of virginity itself-a sort of hushed and naked searching, each look burdened with youth's immemorial obsession not with time's dragging weight which the old live with but with its fluidity: the bright heels of all the

Tony@empty-visions· Jan 9

not Robyn outing herself as a hentai appreciator

Fuck a single mom, I'm not judgmental
In my sweatpants and some juicy hentai
Fuck a therapist, it's not mental
I need philosophy, this shit is existential

Tony@empty-visions· Dec 27

me posting bad philosophy takes that any amount of philosophy literacy would immediately refute:

this sign can’t stop me because i can’t read

Tony@empty-visions· Dec 8

i adore the shower scene, for example, but it is fascinating that the anime trades Tsubasa’s final monologue from the monologue that explicitly describes her heartbreak over her romantic feelings for Hitagi for a (beautiful and quite forward looking in many ways) wlw sex scene

He never cuts anything loose, he never throws anything away.
We fell in love with how many-loved he is.
Good-so my sense that I had never begrudged Miss Senjogahara over Araragi was the one thing that I hadn't cut off, it was my one true feeling.
I still couldn't deny thinking about how great it must have been, though, so l
did tease her at night, and her reactions were so wonderful.
Oh.
So I did love Araragi.
But I loved Miss Senjogahara too.
And only when I was able to admit that to myself did I feel like my heart was
well and truly broken.
Pain and heartbreak—I'd managed to experience them.
Having lived thus for about ten days.
The moment arrived at last.
The news reached me that a rental had been found to replace the burned-
down Hanekawa residence-which meant I needed to go. Miss Senjogahara seemed worried and said, "You don't need to leave so suddenly. Why don't you

Tony@empty-visions· Nov 11

actually kinda curious about this

Tony@empty-visions· Oct 23

Gut by Baths (Will Wiesenfeld). it’s his face rendered in photorealistic art with glasses made of tears

Tony@empty-visions· Sep 29

for context, the OP:

Tony@empty-visions· Sep 23

ooph

Well, the next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about Cambodia or Vietnam, I will definitely drop the Star Wars story to show that people have two sides.

Tony@empty-visions· Jun 29

and yes, WEGG was mentioned

“While I am not sure that Takopi will be able to handle its sensitive themes or will WEGG out, as we now like to say, I am glad to see it exists, and will be reporting back on how it does. In the meantime, if you want to find series that explore similar themes in thoughtful ways that we know land in a good place, I highly recommend Blood on the Tracks and Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction.”

Tony@empty-visions· May 30

Steven Universe: Storm in the Room: one of the most disturbing and accurate depictions of grief i have ever seen, embodying Thomas Mann’s dictum that mourning is largely consisting of shame about our inability to mourn and inability to love. The pinnacle of the show.

Tony@empty-visions· May 30

Madoka Rebellion: “I should have stopped you. you are kinder than you know”: one of the most tender scenes in anime and a necessary corrective to a series that sacrificed queer futurity on the alter of girls’ survival

Tony@empty-visions· May 29

when i was in college i once had to play a fugue in 5/8 with basically no indication of where the downbeat is in a given measure. it was absolutely my favorite piece i ever played

Tony@empty-visions· May 2

o shit it’s anime squilliam

Jun from Rock is a Lady’s Modesty gloating

Tony@empty-visions· Apr 25

you’re welcome.

Meme of a soldier (Anifem team) protecting a child (listeners at home) from dagger rain (weird fanservice)

Tony@empty-visions· Jan 15

this is astonishingly deeply researched and well considered episode review. love to both get to geek out about one of my fave premieres AND learn about 80s anime history

text reads: “Despite her and Luke's objections, she must assist in the fight against the Void, this time coming in the form of countless flying insects. When she tries to summon the God Warrior again, her pegbar tells her she can't reuse ideas - “No stock footage!” After wracking her brain, she sits down and draws an Itano Circus, the signature action style of legendary animator and director Ichirō Itano consisting of the camera zooming and swooping along as it tracks the movement of dozens of missiles.

This sequence was notably storyboarded by Itano himself, his first animation work in nearly a decade. It speaks toward ZENSHU's reverence for the work of the '80's, a time when the anime industry was evolving rapidly thanks to the bubble economy and bursting with experimental animation and storytelling as it shifted from a children's medium to something that served all ages and could focus on darker topics. The world of Tale of Perishing even deliberately resembles animation of the cel era, rather than today's high-gloss digital productions. Although it's too early to say for sure, one of the themes could very well be Natsuko looking back on what made her fall in love with the medium and finding inspiration in her roots as a fan, further suggested by the imagery of her at different ages sitting in an otherwise-empty theater, watching Tale of Perishing.”

Tony@empty-visions· Nov 14

Ah yes, Natsuki Takaya, famously the author of *checks notes* Ouran High School Host Club. Thank you Google AI

Screenshot of google search: "Did fruits basket influence ouran." AI Overvew: "Natsuki Takaya, the author of Fruits Basket, also created Ouran"

Tony@empty-visions· Nov 14

So proud to have edited this brilliant piece by @sunlitlake.bsky.social that shows us the powerful role of Pokemon and Graham Harding in changing the landscape of disability in animation! Also, uh, my birthday is in august. in case anybody has a present for me 👀

Tony@empty-visions· Sep 8

genuine question: when in Utena’s ending is there a “trip to Europe”? Let alone one to escape homophobia?

Tony@empty-visions· Jan 28

missing the cornerstone