#anonenone

[arcadebroke]

[animefeminist]

Designer, DJ, and model Senanan’s latest fashion brand wants to make kawaii for everyone

32-year-old Senanan has already had an incredible career. She moved to Tokyo in 2012 and established her first brand, QissQill, one year later. She became a popular subject of photographers on the fashionable streets of Harajuku, often wearing her own brands, and modeled for several magazines including alt-fashion icon FRUiTS. Her next clothing venture was XRN (aka XRNFORBADGAL), which is described as a sister brand to the rock-inspired KRY.

Senanan took her subversive sensibilities to the world of music; she did solo work as a DJ and also collaborated with the group SUDDENDEATH, who had been planning a comeback prior to the 2020 lockdowns. She joked about the deliberately shocking and “radical” content of her solo music (one of her singles is “$ CUNT DULL,” a wordplay on “scandal”) in one interview in 2019, and talked about the songs she was working on “Rabu hoteru ni iku koto mo sukunakunatta (We’re going to love hotels less and less)” and “Kyougen aidoru to mougen otaku-kun (Dramatic idol and abusive otaku).”

In the wake of the initial wave of Coronavirus and the birth of her child in 2019, Senanan shifted gears and began working on a new project: anonenone, a brand meant to create kawaii items that could be enjoyed by anyone, “regardless of style, age, and gender.” She was invited to Otakon in 2023 as both a guest and a featured presenter for a fashion show alongside her frequent collaborator Colomo, designer of DimMoire. We were able to speak to her briefly that weekend; as is standard for Otakon, all questions were approved in advance.

Read it at Anime Feminist!

[nobbykun]

Artist - あのねのね (Anonenone) Song - さよならの唄 (Sayonara No Uta) [Eng. "Goodbye Song"] Release Date - June 1973

Listen 🎶

https://rumble.com/v2leges-anonenone-sayonara-no-uta.html

My blog: Showa Music Library https://nobbykun.tumblr.com/

[girlytips]

I got a question asking why anonenone isn't on the shoplist- it's not a brand! It's actually a TaoBao reseller, so it'd be like putting Devilinspired on a list next to Angelic Pretty and BTSSB on a lolita brands list.

[yourgaydads]

Hi there! I hope you're doing well today. I wanted to say I've gotten invested with your sandman silliness comics throughout the course of my lunch break and I have been absolutely dying in the break room 😂🤣🤣 thank you so much for the laughs. Corinthian in the short skirt and heels had me along with him and Matthew reading fanfic.

~👁

I'm doing well now!! Always happy to hear that what makes me laugh makes other people too. (Good thing my drawings are mostly sfw lol). Thank you for the kind message! Have a terrible photo I took of the Dreaming comic corinthian being an idiot

[girlyholic]

"Landmine Clothes" are Typically Not Even Girly Anymore: A Look into How Brands Use the Term

A main topic on this blog back when I started it was discussing the way the term "landmine" has been used in order to sell products. While I mostly covered entities like Lafary, who initially promoted it dishonestly on purpose for clout while it was highly associated with Girly fashion, there have been many other brands who have used it in the past two years in order to sell clothes, as popularity of the term has gone up and down.

But the effects of using this label to death as a selling point are starting to become more clear, now that we are beginning year 3 of the term evolving as a sales point. Because as it turns out, when a controversial term sells well, all kinds of brands will hop onto the trend in order to cash in: even if they're completely unrelated to how the fad initially looked.

Which brings us to the current state of the "style".

Another super long post incoming, so, putting a readmore as per usual.

Something important to start out with: brands and magazines are generally who are responsible for random terms being thought of as styles, which then gets parroted by other people. In fact there's an article on Yumekawaii, Yamikawaii that includes an interview with a Milklim representative, who had this to say about how styles acquire such names.

「私たちは私たちがかわいいと思うものを着ているだけで、そういう名前は外の人が勝手につけてるだけなんですよね」。

"We just wear what we think is cute, and those names are just given to us by outsiders".

Which brings us to landmine fashion, and the brands who tirelessly make up trends to push fads.

A big one is Anonenone, a Taobao reseller that seems to consider itself an authority on what's hot in the landmine fad. Their social media pages also tend to just say completely random things are now a "new trend", such as their recent claim that cyber fashion nowadays is a derivative of "サブカル系 (sabukaru-kei) and 天使界隈 (tenshi kaiwai)" due to it being light blue.

Cyber fashion is so old, a color shift would most certainly not be enough to make it a new derivative. And the two terms they mentioned are not actually fashions either, the latter one being the fan submission hashtag of this online magazine. This is a non-landmine example of what the main issue with their post is.

Anyway, looking into their landmine category on their website, while you will find a couple items that could be considered Girly, it mostly turns up accessories, and the rest of the clothes that are displayed are far from what was originally considered to be "landmine fashion".

Tracksuits and oversized striped sweaters have been quite popular among self-proclaimed landmines for a few months now. Even looking into the 地雷系 tag, you'll mostly find people wearing only those two things, as well as clothes that are very clearly other pre-existing styles, when before you would primarily get the black x pink coordinates that were synonymous with the stereotype.

This shift in what's considered landmine fashion is most prominent in how it has been covered by fashion outlets, such as Larme and Harajuku Pop. Larme actually has a partnership with the aforementioned Anonenone, which is why most of their recent issues recommend them in almost all of the coordinates featured. Although Larme has a rather interesting history with featuring landmine fashion, one that might be better for an entirely separate post...

Anyway, Harajuku Pop also recently did an online article about Reflem, as they're a "must see" brand for landmine girls, and all that's showcased is what I have previously discussed: tracksuits and what would just be considered Yamikawaii or punk-ish coordinates. Here's one example from that article:

And before anyone comes running to explain how all of my examples are just "substyles" of landmine fashion: substyles have to bear the same anatomy of the original style they stem from at least somewhat, hence substyle. Established styles don't just drastically change appearance like this. If pink x black Girly coordinates are what landmine fashion started out as, and now it's oversized sweaters and plain tracksuits, what is landmine as a style, anyway? The answer is that it isn't one.

Unless you count the color black as being the thing that ties landmine outfits together, which would be so broad that everything would be landmine.

To put it into perspective, even when the Girly tracksuit thing was in full swing earlier in 2022, before it had any other associations, the tracksuits coming out had elements of Girly in them, such as frills, dress designs that were similar to maid outfits or nun outfits, etc. They weren't just any, nondescript tracksuits like the ones that are now sold as being landmine, although you can still find that type of Girly tracksuits being pushed as being landmine, as with everything else that's been associated with the term.

I still see a ton of pushback in Western JFashion spaces about using the term Girly Kei, as "landmine is just so much easier of a term to use", but with what's currently being considered landmine within Japan, that no longer holds up. Because now what brands are referring to as landmine fashion is even more broad than Girly Kei, as it encompasses so many varied styles with nothing tying them together except, of course, the stereotype (which is usually just people trying to emulate the physical elements that became associated with it, such as having undereye blush and a hime-cut because that is what "seems" landmine).

The point is, we would have to get rid of several years of pre-established styles in order to fit everything that's being claimed as landmine right now under that one label, which is what makes it even more clear that it's a fad, not a legitimate style.

Especially since many of the brands who pushed the term the hardest, such as DearMyLove, have now gone back to using Girly to push sales, instead of only labeling everything as landmine like they did at the height of the fad. This is likely due to landmine becoming unrecognizable from the clothing they primarily sell, which, has always been called Girly.

[thekimonogallery]

anonenone @anonenone_jp

[cdbrainrecords]

Anonenone* = あのねのね - Live Collection Anonenone Miseinen Tachiiri-Kinshi Concert = 未成年立入禁止コンサート (LP, Album + Flexi, 7")

Anonenone* = あのねのね – Live Collection Anonenone Miseinen Tachiiri-Kinshi Concert = 未成年立入禁止コンサート (LP, Album + Flexi, 7″)

Vinyl(VG+) Sleeve(VG+) Insert(VG+) Obi(VG+) / with Obi 帯つき / comes with a foldout poster and a Flexi / コンディション　盤 : Very Good Plus (VG+) コンディション　ジャケット : Very Good Plus (VG+) コンディションの表記について　  [ M > M- > VG+ > VG > G+ > G > F > P ] レーベル : Aard-Vark – AV-3034, PR-6 フォーマット : Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo 生産国 : Japan 発売年 : 1975 ソノシート、見開きポスター特典 ￥2,200 ジャンル : Pop, Folk, World, & Country スタイル : Kayōkyoku   収録曲…

[fewcirclesandsomesqares]

hey! maybe we should put that fire out? does anyone have a bucket of water?

[dimpleddickhead]

I am lowkey sad because I really wanted to like Harry's album, like I tried so hard to like it, but it is just lacking so much lyrically I can't get past it. I love the music itself, just not the lyrics

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. You like what you like. Just because you’re Harry’s fan doesn’t mean you’re going to like everything he does, and that’s okay. 

[yourgaydads]

What about the Corinthian trying on different lipstick shades on each mouth to save time and make it easier to compare the different colors?

i went in a slightly different direction with this

[yourgaydads]

WAIT WAIT WAIT. Corinthian cheerfully writing in the Burn Book “don’t trust her. She is a fugly slut” (or whatever the line is from Mean Girls) about Dream 💀

(Food for thought: in the dream realm Corinthian gets to say “She doesn’t even go here!” when Rose Walker shows up a la that other Mean Girls scene💀) There are so many hilarious things to do with Mean Girls and the Corinthian. He would love Regina George, I just know it.

I've never seen mean girls so I sadly cannot concur, but I will take your word for it!

[yourgaydads]

WAIT YOU WROTE GOD TURN ME INTO A FLOWER???? OHMYGOSH YOU HAVD IT ALL YOU CAN DRAW YOU CAN WRITE WHAT??? WHATWHATEHATHWTA

YOU'RE MAKING ME BLUSH

[yourgaydads]

Hello!! I was wondering if you have a flinthamilton fic rec list? 🥺 I’ve read all of yours and I think they’re amazing!!! It’s just that I’m having trouble finding more, most of them on ao3 are silverflint :/ If you have and don’t mind posting it I’d be very happy! Thank you anyway, hope you have a great day!

aw thank you <3 <3

if you’re a desperate flintham ho like me, well, you just read all of them :p

i can rec the flintham fics by ao3 users fosfomifira, fandomfan, xpityx, DreamingPagan, bigolegay, Palebluedot, techieturnover, AstronautSquid, Fyre, cathly, Tarasque. that’s probably plenty to start with! but definitely not all.

[yourgaydads]

Hey, I'm new (and very late) to the Black Sails/Flinthamilton fandom. And I see that they aren't a lot of blogs that are active anymore. Do you have any recommondation on who I should follow? :)

agh, i couldn’t really tell you. i don’t follow a lot of people, and the ones i do are no longer in the fandom, barely in the fandom, or general bs bloggers. if anyone wants to identify themselves as an active flintham-leaning blog, feel free to so i can follow you too.

[yourgaydads]

Your Black Sails comics are brilliant and cheer me up immensley when things look bleak. Please never ever stop.

James and thomas are constantly being stupidly cute together in my head so hopefully I'll never stop. (I am sans job so that sure makes it easier.) Messages like these most definitely cheer me up, because shit is bleeeeak.