#imagine me & utena

[elevatortherapy]

average day at ohtori

original comic by @/its_soup on twitter under the cut, and shoutout to this cute gideon edit i saw last week for reminding me of this comic's existence

[empty-movement]

When shall we expect the James Somerton take down podcast? Around New Years’s or somewhere in January?

TODAY FRIENDS, MERRY CHRISTMAS

[ohtori-dropout]

Kozue and Nanami captioned I’m cringe and I’m fail create post

[sadrockandwaltzes]

Just some crappy Mikage drawings based on images from the show cause I need practice... I feel like I'm really getting the devianart experience tryna draw him😅😭

He looks much better in the show I assure you...

[writing on top left says 'Mikage Death Pose' since it looks very simpson death esque; writing for glasses (he looks so cool in his prof outfit) says 'stylish professor turned stylish librarian after pick-up attempt' (cause I accidentally gave him lipstick😅); middle left writing says 'shading fail' and 'dude being shady- not blushy; and bottom writing says 'Gah... She kept me waiting again!']

Favorite's definitely the bottom one

[aroanthy]

idk why people are so taken by the ‘long hair = masc’ thing with utena. not because characters with long hair arent masculine, but because long hair in utena is much more obviously and meaningfully associated with sensuality, which is then gendered based upon various other factors. like a character’s long hair does not feminise them, but it doesn’t make them a manly masculine man either. it gives them sex appeal

[ghostsontelevision]

shoutout to people who read utena as a butch lesbian, shoutout to people who read utena as transmasc, and of course shoutout to people who read utena as a transmasc butch lesbian

[alice-gehabitch]

Go ahead... Consider Wakaba...

[wastrelwoods]

i think i have to stop walking into a new fandom and pressing play on machete by amanda palmer and watching it synch up perfectly

[kurai-kage]

Utena's duel songs go so hard man. It's such a shame other animes don't have anything similar to them

[seasaltmemories]

I was wondering why I tend to more enjoy shoujo that predate the 2000s than contemporary stuff and at first thought it was history leaving the stronger works of past decades easier to find, but turns out there could be more than bias at play

Turns out there has been a censorship law since 2006 specifically targeting shoujo manga around sexuality. And suddenly the fact that shounen can get away with some much more content-wise than shoujo suddenly makes sense

[mmmthornton]

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a spectacle.

At that time, at that place, who was actually there and who was not?

This dream you're chasing, where you end up at the top of the mountain, all eyes on you... it's the dream you never wake up from.

I was looking at the stars. I don't want to look at the real stars.

What's a bad miracle? They got a word for that?

She's a fool because she doesn't realize that her miracle is standing atop someone else's sacrifice. But that's the sort of person who receives miracles.

Right here, you are going to witness an absolute spectacle. 

Someday, Together, We'll Shine.

[frogs-in3-hills]

everyday i think about the extremely-long-but-still-technically-three-act utena ballet that exists in my head and is perfect and wonderful

[villalunae]

the design of the rose bride dress being a literal rose....effervescent

[gentlyouttatime]

things 1000xresist is making me think of so far:

evangelion

arrival

wolf 359

gridman/dynazenon

[ammoniteflesh]

I am so fucking busy and I hardly have time for my ongoing fics butttttt I am once again rolling Spuffy Revolutionary Girl Utena AU around in my head. Godammit.

[aroanthy]

instead of getting angry about people’s bad takes about characters being ‘doomed’, im going to redirect my energy towards a discussion of representations of disability and illness in utena and say this: isn’t it weird how the only characters that the vast majority of us agree are For Real Dead are ones who died of unspecified illness (mamiya and ruka)? like, there’s so much death in rgu, so much of it is taken allegorically, and i think it should be, but it’s interesting to me how little people question these vague illnesses. meanwhile people are locked in threads discussing whether or not touga is actually dead despite the fact i think it’s quite straightforward to say ‘maybe the show that’s about how you can escape abuse and actually live even having done bad things isn’t going to suggest that if you’ve been abused and perpetuated abuse you should just die’. like. guys. imagine if ruka was like mikage but 1000x more incel-coded. what if the real mamiya was also pranking mikage by faking his death???? i don’t know why this is just the mikage dunk hour but you know what can you do. anyway has anyone heard from my buddy kanae recently im getting kinda worried about her..