#do I really need to point out the functional utility of plastic covered couches for this particular character though

[empty-movement]

sorry but please... post your akio plastic covered couch tweet here... the world needs to know...

Warning: pics of gross shit happening on the couches

I'll do you one better and include the STORY! So, I, Vanna (note: Yasha mostly does the Tumblr and I mostly do the Twitter,) was smoking enough weed to knock out a large horse or put a very tiny dent in my constant back and shoulder pain, as one does when when they're a middle-aged Registered Nurse in the year 2023. (I'm 39 but it's an old 39, lmao.)

Scrolling through Twitter, I stumble on a fanart of Suletta from Witch of Mercury sitting goofily on a white couch. Now I haven't seen this show yet, but the white couch....looked familiar, and I know the show is very much a descendent of Utena in terms of creative teams. For those that don't know, the series is written by Ichirō Ōkouchi, who also wrote the two Revolutionary Girl Utena novelizations...which if you didn't know about before, you know about now, and can read translated on our site here! (Warning: Touga and Miki uh, in the novels...)

Anyways, so I hop onto my own website and start downloading the images that will constitute receipts, before realizing 1. these images are all on multiple computers feet away from me, 2. the couch isn't an identical match, 3. that'd have been weird anyway, and most importantly, 4:

AKIO'S COUCHES DON'T LOOK RIGHT. OBSERVE:

The edges of the armrests have sloppier upholstery than the blanket I have covering my computer desk. I took the time to tuck seams at least. What is this??

Now it could absolutely be leather, I thought. It would absolutely track. But leather upholstery doesn't look like this. It doesn't wrinkle quite this way. It would have cleaner seams.

No. No that's too shiny for leather. So here I am, presented with this strangeness I'd never really considered in how Akio's couch is drawn, and having spent the last few months learning about my Italian-American family history, my chemically altered ass came to the only reasonable conclusion:

Akio Ohtori has plastic coverings on his white couches, like he's a depression era American in poverty.

Fuck yeah, I though, A HIT TWEET, there, at the end of all Tweeting things. (Yeah I'm working on that, stay tuned, lmao. I of all people know when to bail on stupid men with stupid power.) Because I am me, I framed it as semi serious by pulling a context to explain it out of my ass:

I was joking.

But the replies? They were not. And then I thought about it some more. And I've kept thinking about it. Do I seriously think Ikuhara and Co literally are intentionally drawing a plastic covered couch? Doesn't that feel, Vanna, like a bit of a stretch, even for Utena meta?

Listen to that CRONCH when Akio sits down in episode 31, before Anthy is seen by Nanami. Look, the buttons on the back rest don't quite fit, but the rest? Yeah it kinda does. I was high, but not wrong!?

Akio *does* surround himself with a bizarre hodgepodge of Americana as an aesthetic. The arm garters. The piping and cut of his cowboy-ass shirt. His American car. His mullet. His miniature fucking golf. Why not the plastic covered couch? It's a trope of American poverty that would absolutely have fallen neatly into the diet of American pop culture that influenced Ikuhara. (He makes references to E.T. and The Godfather and Suspiria and all kinds of things in his other work, Utena itself is a little less obvious with individual references but inherits HUGE amounts of vibes from the same content--Ikuhara and Co watched Lost Highway in theaters during the production of the Akio Arc and I will not be convinced otherwise.)

So yeah. That's the story, and that's the theory. Do I seriously believe it was deliberate? Maybe. Probably. Possibly. But it fits so well it's headcanon for me, and in the Utena fandom, pretty much all canon is kind of headcanon so enjoy this one.

What an asshole.

[sterling1194-blog]

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A response to [WP] You live in a haunted house with a poltergeist that loves to mess with you via playing with the utilities (flickering lights, gas turning on, TV turning itself on, etc...),you have made peace with it but as a result the utilities are getting too expensive & you need to sort this out.

The television flickered, and the screen froze. I found myself staring at Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson putting his fingers in Pedro Pascal’s eye sockets.

I sighed. She was at it again.

I grabbed a handful of strawberry candy, flung it at the television screen, and closed my eyes. I heard a faint giggle, but I never heard the sweets hit anything. After a while, I heard the crinkling of plastic wrappers, and soon the Viper’s screams filled the living room again.

She just had to stop the episode at the bloodiest part - and make me miss it. Screw you, kid ghost, for always messing with me.

It was quite annoying, but she wasn’t this mild when we first met. I still remembered how she went on the offensive on the day that I moved in. I didn’t have much possessions, but that kid ghost had enough imagination to make everything a weapon.

Somehow, every time I turned around, some furniture seemed to have moved a few centimetres. I hit my little toes of both feet so many times, I thought the nails would have become ingrown at the end of the day. Then, crockery that I placed in the centre of tables would appear dangerously close to the edge. Next, bags would empty their contents on the floor when I wasn’t looking. With so many things falling on the floor and so many threats against my feet, I should have foreseen her final move when my steel Batman paperweight about the size of my fist slid across the table and dropped down….on my big toe. There was a lot of screaming, a lot of time and money spent to get myself to the hospital….and also a lot of faint giggling in the living room while I was enveloped in excruciating pain.

But hey, the house was cheap though.

That was just the beginning. There was once when I returned home drunk with a female friend. Being intoxicated, my mind was filled with thoughts about my companion, so I had forgotten about the ghost and her antics. I also forgot that earlier in the day, I had bought two cartons of raw meat, for a barbecue with my friends the following day.

We were chatting on the couch, inching closer to each other. Things were going well, and I thought I was getting lucky when she leaned in for a kiss. Just before I closed my eyes and sank into the moment, I caught a fleeting glance of a large red patch above both of us. It was like that movie "Carrie", only thing was that it wasn't just pig blood, it was really expensive, high-end meat that cost around....I don't really remember the size of the hole that it burnt in my pocket, I just remembered how heartbroken I was.

Needless to say, she left my apartment with my meat on her face. And she left my apartment and my plans for the barbecue in a huge, bloody mess.

The turning point came when I came home after a tiring day of overtime. I was simply too exhausted to do anything else but sleep, and the first thing I did upon entering my house was to head right to my bedroom and collapse on the bed.

She had hidden small little thumbtacks in the sheets.

I jumped up, screaming and cursing, and threw my bag across the room. It hit the opposite wall and burst open to spill my supply of strawberry candy all over the floor.

I had been crying and begging on the floor, wondering why the world has forsaken me, but I quietened down when I realised that her normally faint giggling had stopped and the pain had subsided. No, not subsided, but completely disappeared. In fact, the thumbtacks had been removed from my face and hands, and the wounds had closen up. And my sweets had vanished, leaving behind only plastic wrappers strewn all over the floor.

From then on, sweets became my way of making a deal with her. I began to invest in sweets, most notably strawberry candies, not only as a way of relieving my own stress, but to pay her whenever I noticed she wanted to harm me. Pretty soon, she got less violent, till she only annoyed me just enough to get her daily fix of sweets. Maybe turning on the television when I was asleep, turning on the gas when I just turned it off, flickering lights when I was trying to sleep, stuff like that.

I always had the impression that poltergeists were either pure evil or just some bored spirits that ruined people's lives just for the heck of it. I didn't know that they could be bought over too.

But with the costs of utilities rising....her behaviour wasn't that harmless anymore. With the current stagnating economy, I had been living from paycheck to paycheck for quite a while now, and while the rent was still manageable, the increasing utilities bill was taking quite a toll on my finances.

I heard a faint whir to my side. Aaaand my desktop was booting up again.

"Look, kiddo, you've got to stop doing that, alright?" I couldn't take it anymore.

The whirring of the CPU fan stopped, but the monitor still showed my homescreen. The LED at the side started flashing rapidly. When it was functioning normally, it would have shown either green or orange, but right now it was flashing red. BLOOD RED.

She was angry.

But I was angry, too.

The show had ended, but the television screen started flashing, almost as rapidly as the LED light of my computer. I kept my stern expression on. I wasn't about to give way this time.

"You've got to stop doing all these ANNOYING SHIT!!"

The screen cut to static, then the speakers gave out a sharp shriek that forced me to lose composure for a while and cover my ears. Oberyn Martell's crushed skull started flashing on the screen. It was in high contrast, such that the blood appeared thick, black and sinister. And she kept distorting the eyes. Or rather, where the eyes used to be.

I smiled. She was getting nowhere with this.

But I was a little scared too. She was holding back; but what's to stop her from wreaking total havoc?

I needed to calm down. To approach it as a rational adult, explaining to a young child.

Yup. I needed to use soft power.

"Look, my bills are rising because of you. I have less to spend now. You wouldn't want me to starve and die, would you?"

Harsh laughter filled the apartment. My phone unlocked itself, and opened Whatsapp. She started typing cheeky and tearful emojis. Then a middle finger.

"Look, if I die or get evicted, you'll have no more strawberry sweets!!"

In a flash, all paranormal activity stopped. The monitor died, the television shut down and fell silent, and my phone deleted the draft text and went back to the homescreen. I picked my phone up and examined it; shit, she ended all the recent apps too. What a good girl.

I grabbed another handful of sweets, and flung it into the air. As expected, they never hit the ground.

This has been the best trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever. Strawberry candies FTW. I love ya, you silly little poltergeist.

Now I wonder if I can pay her to redirect some of my neighbours' utilities to me....

[lizardywizard]

#akio's couches#do I really need to point out the functional utility of plastic covered couches for this particular character though

also the sterile detachment that it takes to like. know you’re going to do horrible shit on that couch. so you buy a cover to throw over it. you pull it off later and you’re stainless. at least in theory

sorry but please... post your akio plastic covered couch tweet here... the world needs to know...

Warning: pics of gross shit happening on the couches

I'll do you one better and include the STORY! So, I, Vanna (note: Yasha mostly does the Tumblr and I mostly do the Twitter,) was smoking enough weed to knock out a large horse or put a very tiny dent in my constant back and shoulder pain, as one does when when they're a middle-aged Registered Nurse in the year 2023. (I'm 39 but it's an old 39, lmao.)

Scrolling through Twitter, I stumble on a fanart of Suletta from Witch of Mercury sitting goofily on a white couch. Now I haven't seen this show yet, but the white couch....looked familiar, and I know the show is very much a descendent of Utena in terms of creative teams. For those that don't know, the series is written by Ichirō Ōkouchi, who also wrote the two Revolutionary Girl Utena novelizations...which if you didn't know about before, you know about now, and can read translated on our site here! (Warning: Touga and Miki uh, in the novels...)

Anyways, so I hop onto my own website and start downloading the images that will constitute receipts, before realizing 1. these images are all on multiple computers feet away from me, 2. the couch isn't an identical match, 3. that'd have been weird anyway, and most importantly, 4:

AKIO'S COUCHES DON'T LOOK RIGHT. OBSERVE:

The edges of the armrests have sloppier upholstery than the blanket I have covering my computer desk. I took the time to tuck seams at least. What is this??

Now it could absolutely be leather, I thought. It would absolutely track. But leather upholstery doesn't look like this. It doesn't wrinkle quite this way. It would have cleaner seams.

No. No that's too shiny for leather. So here I am, presented with this strangeness I'd never really considered in how Akio's couch is drawn, and having spent the last few months learning about my Italian-American family history, my chemically altered ass came to the only reasonable conclusion:

Akio Ohtori has plastic coverings on his white couches, like he's a depression era American in poverty.

Fuck yeah, I though, A HIT TWEET, there, at the end of all Tweeting things. (Yeah I'm working on that, stay tuned, lmao. I of all people know when to bail on stupid men with stupid power.) Because I am me, I framed it as semi serious by pulling a context to explain it out of my ass:

I was joking.

But the replies? They were not. And then I thought about it some more. And I've kept thinking about it. Do I seriously think Ikuhara and Co literally are intentionally drawing a plastic covered couch? Doesn't that feel, Vanna, like a bit of a stretch, even for Utena meta?

Listen to that CRONCH when Akio sits down in episode 31, before Anthy is seen by Nanami. Look, the buttons on the back rest don't quite fit, but the rest? Yeah it kinda does. I was high, but not wrong!?

Akio *does* surround himself with a bizarre hodgepodge of Americana as an aesthetic. The arm garters. The piping and cut of his cowboy-ass shirt. His American car. His mullet. His miniature fucking golf. Why not the plastic covered couch? It's a trope of American poverty that would absolutely have fallen neatly into the diet of American pop culture that influenced Ikuhara. (He makes references to E.T. and The Godfather and Suspiria and all kinds of things in his other work, Utena itself is a little less obvious with individual references but inherits HUGE amounts of vibes from the same content--Ikuhara and Co watched Lost Highway in theaters during the production of the Akio Arc and I will not be convinced otherwise.)

So yeah. That's the story, and that's the theory. Do I seriously believe it was deliberate? Maybe. Probably. Possibly. But it fits so well it's headcanon for me, and in the Utena fandom, pretty much all canon is kind of headcanon so enjoy this one.

What an asshole.