Jadeduo wrote:I can't imagine Yukito saying Sh1t happens although he does seem to have a bit of a perverse sense of humor... See Ep14 ^_~
Well, "Cardcaptors Uncensored" was a bizarre community of foul-mouthed adolescent guys and girls (who often could cuss the guys under the table without batting an eye). And me, whom everyone regarded with a eerie mix of awe ("a real college professor!") and comradeship ("but he knows where we're coming from"). I think it was a predecessor of the Brony community, as it had the same perverse love (yes! real
love!) for CCS and its artistry, plus a shared disgust for the travesty that was
Cardcaptors as seen on Kids WB on Saturday morning. And, remember, it was transgressive from the starting gun, as you got access to fansubs only through illicit channels, usually involving sending USPS postal money orders through the mail to people you didn't know in hopes that they really would send back the VHS tapes of the episodes you asked for. (Oddly, I was gypped only once that I recall.)
It was a wild, rowdy bunch, and the fanfics were pretty wild, generating whole sets of conventions of their own. It was assumed, for instance, that the subbed characters (Sakura, Tomoyo, Yukito, Eriol, etc.) were distinct characters from their counterparts in the dubbed versions (SaKOOrah, Madison Taylor, Julian Star, Eli Moon, etc.) And so episodes would get developed when obnoxious Madison Taylor would kidnap Tomoyo and try to take her place, unsuccessfully of course.
And of course when relationships developed, really, anything went, and so the stories got pretty raunchy. And in another convention, the members of the forum themselves got transmuted into characters in the fanfics, for instance, as one or another of the "Gray Ladies" who functioned as Tomoyo's bodyguards. They were not all ladies, of course, and it was important to know which ones were cross-dressers and which were perverts, not always the same ones.
I did my stint in some of these, and the one that I found later and reposted in Beta's fanfic forum was pretty typical, though not as raunchy as some. It was titled
The Legend of Cow Reed and was inspired by the dub's annoying habit of referring to "Clow Reed" and "the Clow Cards" as if "Clow" rhymed with "plow" and not (as in the sub) with "glow." So I moved the action of the series out to the Wild West and reimagined the cards as "Cow Cards." Lots of internal jokes that the CCU bunch would understand. (There was a follow-up that involved capturing a "Fly Card" that attracted, well, irritating bugs, with a "Windy Card" that was notorious for its disabling flatulence, rather like The Spleen in
Mystery Men. But my muse abandoned me at that point.)
Alas, the arrival of a decent licensed uncut sub marked the demise of this community, though there is still a nostalgia page live on FB.
I am slowly working on editing the over 100 pages/cels that I scanned Friday and Saturday and will be trickling them onto RS slowly
Yes! I've already picked up
your fine Ep. 62 Yukito in a recent update. Congratulations, even with the missing Touya layer! A fine, atmospheric addition.
, but thanks ^_^ 
