my version of teniwoha's villain mv, featuring fictional transgender (as decided by me) footballer, michael kaiser! notes and credits under the cut:
original music: teniwoha
original illustration: nekoko
lyric translation and video art: me :3
check out ado's cover of the song! it rocks.
link to a google doc with all the sources for the photos used!
some translator's notes:
- i put the word "villain" in parentheses next to "corrupted" because they're homophones in japanese.
- speaking of which, a lot of translations use "inflamed," but corrupted is another translation, and i wanted to lean into commonly heard anti-lgbtq language (in american english, at least) for the translation, to convey more of the vibes of the original song.
- on that note, for "lifestyles (genders)," the word used there, does literally mean gender or sex, but can also mean nature or way of life. i chose lifestyles for the reason above.
- you'll notice some of the same lines are translated differently between the first and last chorus. the lines themselves were somewhat vague and could be translated both ways, so the switch is to convey the more triumphant turn the song takes.
- the lyrics say "dr duran duran" but the wiki says it's a reference to durand durand, the villain in the movie barbarella, who created a world destroying weapon. his name is pronounced duran duran in the japanese version.
-the song mentions edogawa ranpo, the japanese author, was also known for his interest in queer histiography and his friend's, iwata jun'ichi's, research on the history of homosexuality in japan (from his wikipedia article)
anyway michael kaiser is transgender in my heart of hearts. if you've read this far, thank you :]
if you told kageyama and hinata that they could improve their timing and strengthen their hitter/setter bond by kissing they would immediately start making out. even if they weren’t interested in the other like that at all before, those boys would do anything for volleyball
what are kannas judgmental opinions on the gaang (+mai and ty lee?)
okay i’ve written before on how kanna feels about the gaang, but you specifically said judgmental which is a whole other question. bc I do think that kanna can be a massive cunt when she wants (or needs) to be :)
katara: she is gonna get their whole village killed, not because she inherently has a target on back, but because she insists on making one anyway. literally one day of quiet and she’d never ask for anything ever again. literally just one day where she sits inside and doesn’t yell and doesn’t run off somewhere and give kanna a heart attack. she’s too fucking old for this….. please katara. just go inside and do your chores, quietly. you are killing your grandmother. is that what you want, katara, huh??? to kill your grandmother? katara catches a cold one day and stays curled up in bed and doesn’t speak because she has a sore throat, and kanna just spends the whole day bringing her soup and katara is so cute and cuddly the whole time it’s literally the best day of her life.
sokka: exact opposite problem, which is that he’s too obedient and it kinda scares her. please fight back just a little. just take one day off. breaks are important! she was a rebellious child, so as much as katara exhausts her, she also understands her very well. she does not understand sokka at all. he literally does everything she would ever ask from him before she even has to ask (to the point that katara thinks he does nothing, because kanna never forces sokka into doing anything). she has no idea who raised him to be this obedient, because it certainly wasn’t her. he used to be funny and curious and full of life as a child, but now his miserable depressed aura saps the vibes out of every room. at least when she’s doing chores with katara they chit chat and make jokes, but with sokka, she doesn’t even want that boy in her house. absolute vibe killer.
aang: he’s a bad influence on katara. or maybe katara is a bad influence on him? either way they should know better than to go into a fire nation ship. say what you will about sokka’s wet miserable aura, but he simply would not do that. but he’s also really cute, so. it’s ok :)
toph: this girl clearly thinks that she is too good to visit the south pole and she has no idea why sokka speaks so highly of that rich snob. and the first time she meets her, toph isn’t even all that polite to her?? this kid is yet another delinquent bad influence on her grandkids. (she grows on her.)
suki: she has absolutely nothing bad to say about suki. next!
zuko: invaded her village + attacked sokka + grabbed her and shoved her rudely + kidnapped aang + stupid hair + pure evil. (once they are introduced properly after the war, though, zuko apologizes and he’s really sweet about it so she forgives him and basically just likes him from that point forward.)
mai: katara hates her but sokka loves her so she doesn’t know what to think. on one hand, katara is her favorite, but on the other hand, sokka exercises better judgment. she barely talks in her presence, so she genuinely has no clue. she kind of gives off scary vibes though. who can say.
ty lee: the most charming girl in the world, second only to suki. kanna has nothing bad to say about ty lee. in fact she once suggests to katara that she could stand to be more like ty lee, and katara throws a hissy fit. which is exactly the kind of behavior kanna was referring to. oh well.
appa: perfect creature. no notes.
momo: his green eyes are staring directly into her soul. for the love of god please get him some brown contacts.
Edit inspired by this one, idea inspired by this post, final nail in the coffin by this and thank you @cicadadust for telling me what episode that frame was from :3