allgirlsaretherosebride

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"kill them with kindness" wrong. mongoose in the desk drawer, inflatable octopus in the closet, boxing kangaroo attack, magic cowbell. egg.

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i have nothing left

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one of my favorite lines from utena

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Juri Arisugawa - Utena, la fillette révolutionnaire

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Decided to finally visit my school's mental health clinic about my depression and they prescribed me a cathartic sword duel against this girl with pink hair. I asked if I'd need insurance to help pay for the sword and they said not to worry about it.

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infinitely looping gif of utena rolling around

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Wakaba Shinohara, Nanami Kiryuu, Juri Arisugawa - Utena, la fillette révolutionnaire

There it is, a triptych of my favorite duels from each season, and coincidentally my favorite characters.

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vermin

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My brain is just a sludgy, heterogeneous soup of random RGU thoughts that sometimes clump together long enough to make a post out of

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the idea of eternity in utena is so interesting. initially "there is no such thing as something eternal" is the thought that sends utena spiraling into suicidality, which is understandable, since the idea that everything will end someday is terrifying. especially to a child. especially to a child who just encountered one of the most traumatizing and violent "endings" possible, the deaths of her parents. but then she's shown that apparently something can be eternal. and that something is pain, which is even worse, but at least gives her something to live for. and then by the end of the show it's like. no, pain isn't eternal either. "there is no such thing as something eternal" is reframed as a positive. eternity is Not Good. eternity is everything staying the same forever, never changing for the better. it's the opposite of revolution. it's what akio wants, perpetuating the system that benefits him at the cost of everyone else forever and ever. and no matter what utena might have thought, it is not what she wants.

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utena sketches!!!!

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pay your respects to the ogs of shoujo 🙏🏻

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one of rgu's best takes about rape and incest is that rape and incest are not deviant. they are exceedingly normal. they are, in fact, the logical extension of patriarchal romance and the patriarchal family -- the same logic that underpins those structures facilitates abuse, rape, incest, and csa. many people, even those who nominally understand the idea of rape culture, conceive of rape as a deviation from cultural mores, and even more people view incest as an aberration, a twisting of the Family (which is Good) into something unnatural and evil. but rgu correctly identifies that rape and incest are outgrowths of patriarchal society, not alien intrusions upon it. incest is merely a symptom of the problem which is the patriarchal family itself. rape and domestic abuse are merely symptoms of the problem which is patriarchal & heteronormative romance and society itself. rather than rape being deviant, it is resistance to patriarchy which is deviant; rather than incest being abnormal, it is a girl holding out a hand to another girl in pain which is abnormal. because 'abnormal' does not mean 'bad' any more than 'normal' means 'good'. "fall in love normally, get married normally, have a normal family, and have a normal life -- but normal has nothing to do with us!"

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*firebombs your dashboard*

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Wakaba Shinohara, Nanami Kiryuu, Juri Arisugawa - Utena, la fillette révolutionnaire

There it is, a triptych of my favorite duels from each season, and coincidentally my favorite characters.

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Utena characters always resonate in such a thematic, sideways way. As in, even if I identify the most with Juri, the show always manages to throw itself in the way of that. Like many lesbians unrequited feelings were the origin of my lesbianism so of course some aspects of this are expressed through Juri's narrative in a relatable way, the "miracles don't exist" concept in particular if I interpret it as Juri justifying being unable to bare her throat to Shiori and the world. Juri's nihilism over her own deviance keeps her from true human connection, and I could see many people, regardless of their sexuality, finding this theming a little pointed. But what actually happens narratively between Shiori and Juri is an unreal drama that strains toward an extreme actualization of the dynamics involved. Their alienation is a kaleidoscopic spectacle. I really love this about RGU, I find it so electrifying that it delivers universal themes to the audience with so much obfuscation and exaggeration. That's theater, baby!