#anthy and akio

[asofterutena]

(if i survived.)

[arielluva]

let's play maiden dissection!

[vos0q]

“Poison of Salvation”

[arscorpii]

anthy's eyes

episode 2 / episode 5 / episode 12 / episode 25 / episode 30 / episode 33 / episode 34 / episode 35 / episode 36 / episode 38 / episode 39

[okunichh]

living with the dental teeth

that do not belong to me

[revolutionarysiri]

Utena memes i’ve made spam (I’m just gonna add to it in rbs)

[bardace]

She’s whatever you want her to be.

(Individual frames under the cut)

[kristybluebird]

"I have seen the cage you are weaving for me; it is a very pretty one and I shall sit, hereafter, in my cage among the other singing birds but I—I shall be dumb, from spite" (Carter, 1979)

[transmascutena]

it makes me feel crazy how much this frame in particular looks like a stage. the way it's framed by the curtains. utena in the middle, the actor, not looking at akio, the audience and the director, unaware of the role she's playing. the bouquet of roses, a stage prop, and anthy somewhere behind the scenes, not visible, there but not really. the lights of the amusement park and the ferris wheel, a symbol of childhood, the backdrop setting the scene, she's looking at it but it's not real.

[thegooblet]

thought too hard about dynamics of abuse in rgu and blacked out

[andstuffsketches]

you've got blood on your hands and I know it's mine I just need more time

[asofterutena]

(tie me to the stake and call the ashes holy)

[original comic by @asoftersea]

[prayantis]

Wedding Cake / Pastel de boda

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

hm rgu just has a really nuanced take about how patriarchy harms men. it says that men are brought up in a society that encourages them to harm women and emulate other misogynistic, abusive men [touga emulating akio, and to a lesser extent saionji emulating touga and later akio]. this often does come at some cost to their own psyche, because the men they are emulating hurt and abuse them too [touga is abused by akio, saionji is abused by touga though touga is not nearly as skillful with it]. but regardless, they are punching downwards to mistreat the women in their lives the same way their abusive male role models do [touga abusing nanami, saionji abusing anthy], and they choose to act this way to women because, despite the conditions of patriarchy inflicting a toxic and self-destructive relationship with other men on them, they are willing to imitate and obey the same men that hurt them if it means they can keep the privilege and power over women that the patriarchy grants them by default for being men. [touga wants to be akio's successor, he wants to inherit the world that akio has constructed for himself, which is built on the foundation of patriarchal power over women. and to do this touga deliberately keeps himself on akio's radar rather than pull back once it becomes clear what akio's intentions with him are. touga believes he's letting himself be manipulated, he believes he is consenting to it, and that that will be worth it if it means claiming akio's seat of power in the future. (of course what touga doesn't consider is that he cannot meaningfully consent to any advances akio makes, because he's a minor and akio is an adult.)]

rgu asserts that yes, patriarchy does harm men, but that harm comes almost exclusively from other men. and, more importantly, while abusive men may have been hurt by the patriarchy at the hands of other men, it is still their choice to hurt the women around them. and rather than dawdle and sympathize with harmful men for how they themselves were hurt by other harmful men, it's more important to prevent them from hurting anyone else

[arscorpii]

red apple

episode 5 / episode 10 / episode 11 / episode 19 / episode 23 / episode 32

[arielluva]

the director

still images under the cut (tw for allusions to csa)