One of the reasons for expanding on the anime’s Stalker With a Crush aspect of Michiru’s background

Is that it permits expanding on both her nature as a person beyond her relationship with Haruka (which is where canon and fanfic often end up tripping) and allows for her particular element of a tragic aspect to assume the forefront from the start. Michiru’s stalking of Haruka predates the Uranus/Neptune bit, and is in my take, at least, very directly connected to the Kaiohs ditching her. They do literally nothing to warn the Tenohs and merely do it for the sake of embarrassment, as stalking wasn’t exactly illegal in Japan at the time.

Combined with Michiru’s dark and twisted dreams of the annihilation of the world at the hand of Pharaoh 90, OTOH, her family basically went ‘this lesbian is too weird for us’ and dumped her in an apartment to live by herself until she end-ran it and roped Haruka into the Senshi life.

The manga and the anime do not specify when Neptune first awakens, though I like to play with the idea that Venus awoke first….and then Neptune, and that both were having their own adventures long before the rest of the Senshi do. This is also why Michiru, like Venus, is one of the most cynical of the Senshi, though she buries hers under being one of the biggest trolls I write short of Nyarlathotep himself.

One thing that I will unapologetically admit to cribbing from DocHolligay’s excellent take on Sailor Moon

Is that of Haruka Tenoh and Michiru Kaioh one is indeed the ‘gold star lesbian’ and it’s….Michiru Kaioh, who is a femme lesbian and as femme as femme can get. This has sweet fuck all to do with Sailor Neptune now or in the Silver Millennium, it’s Michiru being Michiru. She is one variant of a queer experience and somewhat more consciously so than Haruka, at least to a point.

Haruka represents a very different and messier take that also applies IRL to people with queer experiences where it can take time to fully figure out and then to accept things. Michiru never doubted who she was or tried to be anything different. Publicly this is Haruka to the core, privately Haruka did doubt and did try very hard before reality smacked her in the face with the metaphorical nailbat.

I actually have this element return with a vengeance in one storyline where Haruka’s old boyfriend decides to 'rescue’ his girlfriend from the evil lesbian with the relatively faster healing Neptune has giving the impression of something that very much isn’t true, leading to a particular storyline that illustrates both 'stop helping me’ and deconstructs aspects of the Senshi and their healing and what happens when Senshi magic had a bit of a blind spot.

That storyline is intended to 100% be as mean spirited a hatchet job on all those old 90s and 2000s era fanfics as it can get.

yamino:

*chu*

Ive been binging Sailor Moon lol.

I was a fan in the 90s of the DiC dub, and ive been binging the most recent English dub for the past week and im enjoying it even more. Im part way into Sailor Moon R right now.

And im still a total sucker for Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask. ❤❤❤ They are adorable!

Wanna give a big shout out to all the closeted LGBTQ+ people this pride.. You’re valid and we all love and support you.. You’re gonna make it through this. You’re gonna figure everything out. You’re gonna get out of your bad situation. And i’m so proud of you! You are strong! And beautiful! And JUST AS V A L I D! ! ! ! Don’t let anyone make you think otherwise ❤