*Evil cackling*
- Usagi. Hands down. The idea that you could be a cry a baby and still be a hero was revolutionary to my child mind. Plus cool hair and a princess!
- Rei. I loved her attitude her rivalry/friendship with Usagi. I loved her dedication to being a priestess. I love her passion and courage.
- Ami. She’s cute, shy and smart. How can you not love the girl?
- Makoto. Can beat up while eating her home made lunch all while looking flawless. Too good too pure.
- Minako. One of the best friends you could have even with the stiff competition
I find it really sad how low Usagi dropped in my list. When I was really little, I WAS USAGI! Well, aside from being a crybaby BECAUSE I HAD HAD THAT TORTURED OUT OF ME BY PEERS AND SIBLINGS. I was hyper-energetic, just wanted everyone to be friends and have a good time, and eat yummy things. So Sailor Moon was THE COOLEST. And then I grew up and grew hard because reasons, and I fell for the harder characters, the more reserved characters (the outer senshi) and I found my queerness and I couldn’t find stories about them, and then came the bitterness for Usagi for taking the show with (seemingly) SUPER HETERO LOVE and always being the best and Everything happened to/for her, etc etc. It’s so strange how that happened really. I’m working on my love for Usagi, I am, but… yeah. ¬.¬
Love this breakdown of our gals. ^‿^
Everything you said makes sense and is understandable. Afterall we all grow out of certain characters and fall harder for others (I could write an essay on my relationship with my love to hate to love relationship with the disney princesses) And the outer Senshi definitely rock. Though I appreciate them a lot more now that I’m older. They just seemed so distance when I was young but now I understand their complxity.
Now I have to derail (I hope this doesn’t sound rude) and say the “I found my queerness” made me giggle because I can’t help but imagine a tiny you(or rather your icon) digging in a backyard and finding a box labeled “xxx xxxxx’s Queerness”
That should revolutionary girl utena comic.
I legit laughed out loud!
Sometimes it legit feels like I ‘found my queerness.’ I had a couple memories I blocked out related to wlw feels. I once found an article that was headlined something like, “I find other girls attractive; does that mean I’m a lesbian?” and the article went on to be like: “Girls are so often in competition with other girls, trying to be the prettiest, that we are trained to recognize what is attractive in other women. This can cause you to feel like you may be attracted to other women when in fact you are just appreciating the other woman’s attractiveness.”
AHAHAHAHA! Yeah. That was essentially the article. ‘DON’T WORRY, THOSE FEELINGS DONT’ HAVE TO MEAN YOU CAN’T BE NORMAL’ I took such relief in that article that I hid it for safekeeping in a Gundam Wing magazine I had gotten in sixth grade (making it likely that this happened early seventh). I later stumbled into that article when it was just starting to dawn on me that, yeah, I could like girls too, and it was like, wooow. I forgot I had this moment. I forgot that these feelings aren’t new.
So in some ways, yeah, it was like digging out a box and being like, “here it is!! My queer!”
Thoughtfulfangirling 