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I love ! era third years, best year by far

I'VE NEVER WORKED SO HARD TO FINISH SOMETHING SO FAST IN MY ENTIRE LIFE AKJDSFKJDSFHAF

I don't think any of us got out of that poll unscathed.

Lightbulb & Paintbrush (Inanimate Insanity) VS Wataru & Eichi (Enstars)

Lightbulb & Paintbrush (Inanimate Insanity) VS Wataru & Eichi (Enstars)

This world is a dream that you are seeing: Eichi versus Empathy, and Souriau’s dramatic functions

Foreword and disclaimer

What you are about to read is my fourth attempt to write a concise and meaningful summary of all the thoughts I have on the narrative of Enstars as a hopeful literature student. The first version, posted in summer 2021, was full of clumsy but poorly supported ramblings, though it resonated with some of my dear friends here. The second, written in response to an ask, I was slightly more satisfied with. The third was written for a class assignment, and earned me the highest final grade and praise from my professor, a published literary theorist. Her support along with that of my friends prompted me to put together this fourth and (hopefully) final version, different and more complete than all the others. I will use version number two, which you might be familiar with, as a base (so do not chide me if you remember certain points or sentence structures) but I will be adding new parts inspired by my recent efforts in studying literary theory and dramaturgy - most prominently Étienne Souriau’s dramatic functions, which I feel offered a convenient way for me to elaborate on some of my points and conclusions about Enstars.

The first disclaimer I need to make is that I was not able to find Souriau’s writing about dramatic functions translated to English online, so I will offer brief explanations of each function within this essay based on the Serbian translation which I read for class. I am not a professional dramaturg - I merely took one class on it - so if you are a person with more knowledge on these functions than I, and you notice errors or discrepancies in my explanations,  I implore you to correct me. 

The second disclaimer is that I am well-read only in the ! portion of Enstars stories, and as such I will be focusing only on those. I hold the opinion that everything Akira had meant to say with Enstars, he said before or during EP:link anyway, so I do not think that the fact that I’m not up to date with Enstars stories will significantly hinder my analysis.

Thank Yous where they are due to my dear friends Emery and Dove for spending hours upon hours brainstorming about Enstars with me in the past years.

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at first i didn’t get it when wataru called eichi alice and himself the mad matter,

but now that i watched alice in wonderland and saw the scene i totally understand.

“but a dream is not reality” - Alice

“who’s to say which is which” - The mad hatter

Fem eichi fem eichi

I think i got a little carried away, enjoy!

happy birthday to my boy wataru!!! And happy belated birthday to Eichi!!

since i missed it have a wataei dump

feel absolutely free to leave your reasoning on tags btw.

I just read the wataei essay

i cant feel a single thing

Sometimes I think back to that essay I read on wataei and how it's abusive and toxic because of the unhealthy power dynamic and the power Eichi holds over Wataru and I laugh because Wataru really is one of Eichis biggest weaknesses and half of the ES!! major wataei content is him demonstrating that like. Sanctuary is literally right there. SS even stated that if I am not mistaken. I think that's so funny

poisoning my clean art account with funnies that cater to me specifically guess who my favs are

the last one is reference to when in daydream wataru called eichi unsightly then proceeded to ash him to join his unit because he was interested in eichi.

Merry Christmas, here’s a meme dump🎄

remember when hiyori was broke

it’s cannon to me that tsukasa likes Shakespeare and tori tried to read it to impress him but hated it because it was hard to understand now he hates Shakespere

Now that the mafia necromancy thing is over, we're going back to the REAL plot (wataei)

Tumblr debut 💕