Leader Desslock
April 1st, 2007, 04:42 PM
Since Corncopp has made his confession about Hot Pockets, I think it's time that I made a confession of my own. It's along the lines of Rebekah and Skaze's fixation on 2-dimensional figures, but it's perhaps worse. You see, I've recently come to the realization that I may have 1-D Complex.
I used to like real people, but the more real people I knew, the more I realized that they were ... thick. They had blobby bits to them. Some of them actually smelled funny. Given the amount of animation I watch, I naturally started to favor the characters in my favorite series. Natsuki from Hyper Police; Ukyo from Ranma 1/2; the zany, madcap hilarity of Trelaina of Telezart - I fell in love with them all.
It was a classic case of 2-D Complex. None could turn me from my infatuation. I constantly sought ways to make myself flatter, often sleeping with heavy weights atop my body, to mold myself into an image that might one day meet my dream girl.
And yet... as time went by, I began to notice flaws in those who had once held me enraptured. Ukyo's animation suffered terribly in the mid-seasons, and I began to notice that my gorgeous Trelaina had been spoiled by transfer glitches. I tried to suggest remastering to her as gently as I could, but it seemed that my words fell upon deaf ears. My love grew cold, and I've not rewatched her in some time.
My two-dimensional figures gradually lost their lustre in my eyes. Their frame rates dropped, they succumbed to modern digital techniques for rotoscoping and digital limited animation - the magic was gone. But in the void that followed, I discovered my true love: 1-D objects.
I dunno, there's just something about the purity of a line that.... *shudders*... oh, how it renews me. I've gradually come to the conclusion that what I felt for 2-D characters was really a mistake. It was the lines that composed my favorite characters to which I was attracted all along! And now that I've realized it, my pursuit of 1-D objects has intensified. I'm now a Lineophile, and proud of it.
Does anyone else have similar feelings for 1-D objects? Please share, or visit my blog at TheFineLineBetweenReasonAndMadness.com.
Lineophiles, unite!
I used to like real people, but the more real people I knew, the more I realized that they were ... thick. They had blobby bits to them. Some of them actually smelled funny. Given the amount of animation I watch, I naturally started to favor the characters in my favorite series. Natsuki from Hyper Police; Ukyo from Ranma 1/2; the zany, madcap hilarity of Trelaina of Telezart - I fell in love with them all.
It was a classic case of 2-D Complex. None could turn me from my infatuation. I constantly sought ways to make myself flatter, often sleeping with heavy weights atop my body, to mold myself into an image that might one day meet my dream girl.
And yet... as time went by, I began to notice flaws in those who had once held me enraptured. Ukyo's animation suffered terribly in the mid-seasons, and I began to notice that my gorgeous Trelaina had been spoiled by transfer glitches. I tried to suggest remastering to her as gently as I could, but it seemed that my words fell upon deaf ears. My love grew cold, and I've not rewatched her in some time.
My two-dimensional figures gradually lost their lustre in my eyes. Their frame rates dropped, they succumbed to modern digital techniques for rotoscoping and digital limited animation - the magic was gone. But in the void that followed, I discovered my true love: 1-D objects.
I dunno, there's just something about the purity of a line that.... *shudders*... oh, how it renews me. I've gradually come to the conclusion that what I felt for 2-D characters was really a mistake. It was the lines that composed my favorite characters to which I was attracted all along! And now that I've realized it, my pursuit of 1-D objects has intensified. I'm now a Lineophile, and proud of it.
Does anyone else have similar feelings for 1-D objects? Please share, or visit my blog at TheFineLineBetweenReasonAndMadness.com.
Lineophiles, unite!