#i really hope i'm wrong

[leaves-lilies-and-esther]

Some of you need to use your brains for a second on the Neil Gaiman accusations. You can talk all you like about how the accusations are "awfully convenient", the facts remain that:

a) by his own admission he had sex with women who were decades younger than him, and one woman who he employed. even if everything was legal, he's still a creep

b) he wrote the story "Snow, Glass, Apples", which went into extreme detail with the incest and pedophilia- with the father (as opposed to his six year old) being portrayed as the victim.

c) false accusers are incredibly rare, and several women have come forward on this

d) Neil Gaiman undoubtedly has a gigantic legal team, as most famous people do. why would you choose to open yourself up to a very easy lawsuit by printing false stories about him? and hence hurting your entire career/reputation as a journalist

Yes, obviously look at the evidence when more comes out. But in the meantime you have a moral responsibility to at least take women's accusations seriously. And a good chunk of the people I see reacting to this aren't meeting that bar

[romanticatheartt]

Guys... I don't think I will survive Arcane. I know I will be a crying mess at the end of act 3 and depressed for a long time...

[letbuckfuck]

why do i feel like amir's gonna die at the end of this episode and that's what the body bag pic was from

[superwingscentral]

me taking all the mira crumbs and scattering away

[thommi-tomate]

Just for the record, I always wanted Niki on the team and now I'll have to settle for Kane at an overprice and praying that he doesn't end up being a robbery

[white-eyed-girl]

I was reading that there will be changes in the voting system that will be implemented next year and I'm sad to say, but I can feel my interest in Eurovision slip through my fingers even more than it already was, the prospect of how much clownery televote-only semifinals can unleash is discouraging Why not punish the specifc juries who try to cheat instead of literally ruining the whole contest for everyone, I wonder

[ifyoulikepinacoladas31000]

Watching the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 trailer again and I really hope I'm not right about how the story could possibly go. Could possibly be me just... expecting the worst, but in the end, the redhead woman seems to be alone in front of a pile of corpse (the members of the expedition 33 maybe?) so what if The Paintress is "needed" in a way? Like, you discover along the way that the painting of numbers is inevitable or something, to save the world or whatever reason, and the paintress always turns out to be the sole survivor of the previous expeditions?

[judeschapstick]

I think my roommate has a crush on me. I will ignore this problem until it overwhelms me

[rika-mortis]

Accidentally saw some spoiler screenshots for the season finale yesterday and now after seeing the recent episode I DON'T LIKE WHERE THIS IS GOING FOR PERI

[fairyeunji]

I just listened to the highlight medley of Fromis_9's upcoming album and I really don't think I'm going to like the title track :(

[valc0]

Rogue is Jack

Rogue is the Master

Rogue is a pre-Hartnell doctor

[dragondawdles]

did a piece in the LU server's gift exchange ! something of survival and reunions and smug little shadowguys

[bonefall]

Anyway. Bi and Mspec Lesbians aren't a hotly "debated" topic or even new to queer culture, it's just the newest thing that bullies who REALLY want to be homophobic and even racist use to justify harassing gay people they don't like.

It's the thinnest possible veneer of progressive language wrapped around TERF and reactionary rhetoric so that they can feel righteous for forming an angry mob against vulnerable targets. If you're gullible enough to fall for the newest wave of bigotry within the queer community, and turn on your allies because they're "confusing" or "invading your spaces," the SAME way they turned on bi/pan labels, trans people, xenogenders, neopronouns, and aroace people before this, then get lost.

[mel-loly]

-It's not your impression, he really did it.

[fisheito]

before mirage of scales: I NEED YAKUYA EVENT

after mirage of scales: ah. um. i . i don't need yakuya event so much, anymo.re... hah..a...

[arscorpii]

these aerial shots of the streets in the scene where anthy was about to jump off a building in episode 37 remind me of a network of blood capillaries gradually flowing with some foreign substance (the way the red lines were drawn certainly resembles some liquid substance). the camera panned towards anthy from the 1st to 4th picture, and the streets gradually turned from pure white to white with some red.

before the suicide scene, utena and anthy were enjoying tea and cookies at akio's place, and they were wearing their school uniforms. anthy indirectly hinted at "poisoning" the cookies. in response, utena directly stated that she had "poisoned" anthy's tea. both accepted the poison into their systems (bodies) without any hesitation or qualms. noticeably, in this scene, utena didn't wear the rose crest ring that she took off at the beginning of the episode. i'd like to think of the streets gradually turning from white to flowing with red liquid as the visualisation of the poison they consumed in this scene gradually circulating in the system (via blood vessels and capillaries); thus, these points represented utena and anthy's bond/relationship with each other up until before the suicide attempt (white) and after (flowing with red).

up to at least the moment utena found out about anthy and akio at the end of episode 36, utena and anthy hadn't been honest with each other, despite utena saying to anthy that she could come to her if anthy had any problems, and that they can help each other through anything (episode 25). from the point akio began making bold moves in grooming utena (episode 30 onwards), which led to sexual assaults and rape, utena had started to keep things out of anthy's knowledge/unable to tell certain things to anthy.

a prominent example of this would be the scene in episode 36 where anthy asked about utena's whereabouts the night utena went to the dueling arena with touga. other examples are in episodes 30 and 35. anthy, on the other hand, hadn't been honest with utena from the very beginning. from my understanding, from both sides, the dishonesty with each other came from the dire need to preserve the sanctity/purity of their bond (and the despairing inability to open up about respective sufferings). both utena and anthy didn't wish to taint their bond with their ugly stories of truths. the situation was more adverse for anthy because letting utena know the truth could derail all of akio's plans.

(note the network of streets) with regard to the series, colour theories were ever-present in every visual aspect. white was equated to purity and innocence; red was synonymous with violence and danger. i think these meanings suited the visuals of the post-suicide attempt scene, the purity of their bond was incrementally coloured with violent truths from one another. moreover, i also think the post-suicide attempt scene further reified the cantarella scene. in other words, the post-suicide attempt scene was the more literal take/depiction/iteration of the cantarella scene (if that makes sense), with the visuals of the white streets flowing with red as the connecting factor between the two scenes.

the final visual of the "poisoned streets" before anthy urged utena to leave the school. the poison was freely and fully flowing through every street. throughout the suicide scene, utena and anthy were both in their sleepwear. this may connote a more vulnerable and honest disposition without any facade, as well as a better understanding and more equal footing with one another, compared to when they were in school uniforms during the cantarella scene. utena was also wearing her ring here, which may highlight her choice to play the role of a prince for anthy's sake to the end.

in addition, i think the streets flowing with poison could also be seen as a network of empty/dried blood capillaries finally flowing with blood; akin to a dead body coming back to life. after a person dies, the first visible change would be pallor mortis (within 15 to 20 minutes), wherein the body begins to pale because blood stops moving through the capillaries. with regard to this information, the visuals may indicate a sign of rejuvenation of the bond between utena and anthy after opening up to one another. the bond between them became more human, alive (flowing with blood), as opposed to being hollow (dried out blood capillaries; like death). to me, i believe both interpretations could work simultaneously for the visuals of the streets.