The anime Dance Dance Danseur dwells on the angst of conforming to standards of performance--of art, and of gender. Why does its protagonist seek out the pain of classical ballet training?
this dropped back in August to a resounding thud, which is too bad because I had a whole plan for how to adapt and develop the essay further into a whole illustrated zine/comic essay. oh well. I still like the essay a lot and figured I might as well post it here. and if nothing else, experimenting with colored pencils for the illustration helped push me towards using that as the medium for Health Goth
genuinely it's so fucking good. it feels like it came from a different era it's so fucking smart and good. please go watch it and then read this article
but yeah it's great and also please read zoe's article about it, it's very good
