#it's revolutionary honestly

[meteortrails]

it’s literally endlessly fucking funny to me how certifiably insane post timeskip sabo is about his brothers. he remembered who luffy and ace were and they immediately rocketed to #1 on his priority list with absolutely no contest. he devotes himself to being an older brother with the same fanatical obsession that he’s been using to lead revolutions and luffy is so used to ‘older brother’ meaning ‘guy who has attached a significant portion of his self worth and meaning in life to you’ that it fully doesn’t even register as weird to him. he manages to secretly make luffy a vivre card and luffy acts this is reasonable rational behavior!!! just normal older brother shit for them to be fully neck deep in your business without ever mentioning it!!!! cannot believe they ever managed to make us think sabo was the normal rational one. what the fuck lmao

[maybe-boys-do-love]

Someday someone at GMMTV will wake up and realize that Force Jiratchapong, who keeps getting cast as the alpha male seme, is actually meant to be...

the Regina George...

the Sharpay Evans...

the Carla Santini...

Let him be THAT GIRL, the diva he can deliver. Let him be the spoiled nepo princess. Let him be petty and fashion, the cattiest gay bitch in the club. Make Book his service top (and actually put in effort to the relationship for once). Let him use his actual speaking voice and kill every girlie who thinks they're at his level with just a glance of his side-eye. He was not gifted with this face and attitude for us to waste it on boring traditional ideas of masculinity!!!

In short, #freeforce

[lenin-it-to-win-it]

im making text post memes for the whole student council but nanami gets her own post bc shes gods specialest little princess

[littlemut]

if you haven’t watched Utena- NO. you have to 🌹

[sassypantsjaxon]

Sometimes I wonder if Cora ever met Dragon or if the Monkey family being annoying skipped a generation

[buff-muffin]

I remember seeing this guy talk about raising his sons and it kind of made me think of a modern AU Dadan and how I think she would also use one of the methods this guy mentioned. I don't remember the guy who posted or how long ago it was before it resurfaced in my brain, but essentially. he knew his boys needed to rough house, get out the energy of being well behaved all day so he bough a few gym mats and punching dummy's and threw these kids (lightly) around. Which, in of its self, is an amazing thing to give a small boy? a place to be rough and tumble and loud, an outlet for the exhaustion of the day and a place where they could actually practice their strength.

Now the ASL brothers are by no means as gentle and really they're fighting with teeth and claws regardless. but I love the mental image of like. After hours of these boys fighting every second of the day. who gets the first bath, who gets the bigger sandwich, who has to sit middle in the car, who gets the good snack or the last serving or the shower or the top bunk. or whatever other reason they decide to have a BRAWL IN THE FUCKING LIVING ROOM. Dadan finally gave in. going round back of an gymnasium she manages to score some old worn out tumble mats. drags them out to the shed and says "this is where you fight. not in the bedroom. not in my kitchen. not at school. here. and the only rule is you cant cause enough physical injury to have CPS called in my ass again."

now when an adult gives you a round about way to let you beat your siblings ass? you're gonna take it. and the collection grew, second hand boxing gloves, pool noodles cardboard shields and the dangerous stay piece of bamboo. they had their battle arena and would run home to settle a fight from hours before. And also gave Dadan a reason to kick them out of the actual fucking house when they got too rowdy over mario kart.

Of course they still got hurt. punches too hard, slamming into the concrete, a lost tooth a broken limb. But I truly think those memories of running to the shed to fight over who got the last slice of dessert at 9pm must be some of those boys favourites. Dadan considered it a slightly duller head ache

[arielluva]

tried my best to draw in the official art style :33

little progress gif under the cut

[sabo-torao]

happy pride month! here's sabolaw bc i can't be normal about them ever

[theprodigypenguin]

Dragon literally pulled a reverse "I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you" in this chapter.

Man really was like "if you pry into this shit you're gonna have to literally fucking kill me." Poor Kuma just "man what????" He IS that overdramatic friend.

[arscorpii]

little observations of episode 16 of revolutionary girl utena: cowbell of happiness

(these are just some thoughts i had. i tried to organise and articulate the ideas the best i could.)

(all dialogues are from the empty movement website)

this is a nanami-centric episode. it begins with the regular fairy-tale-like scene of utena meeting prince dios when she was younger.

this is an interesting screenshot from episode 16:

the dialogue for this scene (as in, for this specific shot):

as anyone can see, utena wasn't wearing her red socks here (she wore the red socks even when she decided to wear the girl's uniform in episode 12 [screenshots from episode 12 below, for clarity]). thus, this shot caught my eye.

another shot where utena wasn't wearing her red socks in episode 16:

the dialogue for this scene (as in, for this specific shot):

at first, i surmised that these were just animation errors because these shots lasted for only several seconds. however, upon watching and rewatching several times, the only times utena didn't wear her red socks were when she's directly confronting nanami about the cowbell. utena was the only person openly calling out nanami about it, as opposed to others who either ridiculed, ignored, or tiptoed around the matter. tsuwabuki tried saying something about the cowbell to nanami, too, but was quickly shot down by her:

generally, not wearing socks while wearing shoes can be somewhat uncomfortable, especially for long periods. it's much worse when one walks or runs while wearing shoes without socks, as this could cause skin irritations, foot blisters, etc.

when people buy certain types of shoes (or any, i think), it's common to buy shoes with a little room for toes and heels, rather than a tight, perfect fit, for comfort. when worn with a pair of socks, these shoes would usually fit perfectly. without socks, these shoes can feel loose and thus, affect gait/movements (i believe this depends on the type of shoes).

based on some readings i've done, some of the common interpretations/themes of nanami's situation in this episode (oversimplified):

exploitation and abuse of girls and women via indoctrination of patriarchal norms that simply equate them to mere livestock; raised as subservient as a calf to then be slaughtered and reduced to a piece of meat to be consumed by men.

nanami was so blinded by the love she held for her big brother that she was willing to do anything to keep that love, to maintain her bond with him. she was willing to make a fool of herself, and ignore the ridicule and concerns from others. however, deep down, she was aware of how this could all go wrong and hurt her terribly later, and all of this could very much be orchestrated by her own beloved big brother. (i hope i worded these properly)

to relate the themes of the episode to the visuals of utena not wearing socks and her dialogues: in my opinion, i think utena calling out nanami on the cowbell puts utena in a somewhat uncomfortable position (hence, wearing shoes with no socks); it's akin to challenging detrimental societal norms of a patriarchal system. notable examples that come to mind regarding detrimental societal norms are fashion and beauty standards (as in this episode). people usually don't take too kindly to the safety of their realities and status quo being challenged/questioned critically, because these are what they have been raised with, what were taught to them, and what they have been made to believe to be right and true. therefore, the person who challenges/questions these is often ignored or triggers aggressive reactions, even from the individuals who have been detrimentally affected by the status quo, in this case, nanami. "the deeper the attachment to the status quo, the greater the willful blindness." this quote by clark (2023) from his writing about challenging one's organisation's status quo felt fitting for nanami's situation (although the case with nanami definitely requires more nuances than what the quote can present).

nanami said that utena's boy uniform was very weird (dialogues above) in response to utena calling nanami's cowbell weird (2nd picture). they perceived the other's pursuit as weird because it didn't align with their ideals (an adult's fashion sense versus a noble prince). these things weren't quite the same, in a literal sense: nanami essentially wore the cowbell to appeal to the students of the academy, to be an idol of the school, to stand out, be special. meanwhile, utena wore a boy's uniform to become a prince/emulate princely ideals. however, fundamentally, both did not truly understand (at this point, at least) what these truly entailed (to be the most special girl at school versus to be a prince).

when nanami said that utena's uniform was very weird, the focus was on chu chu drinking milk from a bottle. then, at the end of the argument, chu chu was shown to have been stuck in the milk bottle, after drinking the milk. these visuals may be indicating how nanami and utena's attempts at striving towards respective impossible ideals they envisioned for themselves may be self-fulfilling at first, but will eventually have them equally trapped and hurt, you know, something like "in the end, all girls are like rose brides." (i may be wrong here)

a look at other episodes: one may say that the shots where utena didn't wear her red socks were indeed animation errors based on this shot from episode 24:

however, this shot was from the scene of episode 16 as narrated by anthy based on what was written in tsuwabuki's diary. we can see this as tsuwabuki's perspective while the previous shots as the audience's perspective (this is how i chose to see it, at least).

watching through other episodes, utena also wasn't wearing her socks when her foot was injured in episode 30, throughout episode 33, and in episode 37 when utena went on a date with akio. i pondered the correlation between utena's sans red socks moments from episode 16 and those specific events. based on episode 12, i think one can conclude that the pair of red socks was a part in which utena expressed her sense of self (because it made up her whole outfit of emulating a prince). hence, i think that nanami's situation in this episode was also a foreshadowing of utena's future, in a way (this was also illustrated with the chu chu stuck in a milk bottle imagery after drinking the milk during their argument, as above). as described earlier, utena called out nanami twice on her cowbell; on the second time, utena thoroughly explained to nanami in japanese that a cowbell is a bell that cows wear, as in the dialogues below (the following scene after these dialogues was the 5th picture; 6th picture contained the corresponding dialogues):

i think it's safe to conclude that nanami may not know what the english word "cowbell" means. this was further emphasised by utena admonishing nanami for not knowing what a cowbell is all about (see the 6th picture). everyone around her called it "cowbell" and knew what it was (what the word meant). upon explanation by utena, nanami finally came to her senses (as in, turning into a cow). relating to utena's case in later episodes, i think this could be synonymous with the fact that utena was unaware that akio was actively grooming her. several people noticed the changes in utena due to akio's grooming: juri and miki in episode 36, where juri said that utena looked more like a girl; touga asking whether utena was in love with akio in the same episode. and of course, anthy was the most aware of what akio's doing to utena throughout.

the point detailed above regarding nanami's situation in episode 16 foreshadowing utena's future can be further supported by the fact that the cowbell and the earrings akio gifted to utena were closely identical in design (interesting to note that the cowbell was purchased by anthy for her cow named nanami while the earrings were picked by touga on behalf of akio).

from my understanding, nanami turning into a cow may be equivalent to utena accepting akio's proposal to be his bride, to take kanae's place. much like a calf raised to be slaughtered for consumption (nanami's dream), akio groomed utena to be his bride. and similar to how wearing shoes without socks can be uncomfortable, utena was evidently uncomfortable in these scenes as well (the worst being episode 33). in episode 30, utena's left foot was injured. akio offered to help her, then proceeded to kiss her. akio was grooming utena to be fully dependent on him. also, since the red socks were synonymous with her self-expression, these moments (episodes 30, 33, and 37) were when her true sense of self was gradually repressed through akio's grooming. utena not wearing the red socks during the most gut-wrenchingly blatant depictions of grooming and sexual assault ⟶ how grooming and abuse can ultimately strip you of your personhood and cultivate this cycle of dependence of victims on their groomers/abusers, not being able to stand on their own feet.

after nanami turned into a cow, utena tried, and succeeded, in taking off the cowbell from nanami. i think this would be analogous to utena rejecting akio's proposal.

nanami then turned back to her human self ⟶ utena wearing back her prince outfit.

to reiterate:

critiquing the status quo may induce harsh feedback even if it's done in good faith.

nanami's situation in this episode can be seen as a foreshadowing of utena's fate in later episodes.

[fungh0u1]

bubble! pop! elec! tric! (redraw :P)

[surreal-sapphic]

RGU Not Like Us edit I’m surprised I haven’t seen be made yet, so I made it myself.

[saphushia]

i'm sooooo normal abt mediocre anime men. i like them a normal amount.

[quinloki]

Quin's Terrible Two's

Here we are at the back half of the Tumblrversary event \o/ Some polls are closed, Some Are Still Going (go vote!)

The votes have been counted, the results have been assessed! Now it's time for What Happens Because of All of That <3

So without further ado -- /hands the results of the poll off to Marco, while Sabo's already caught you with his gaze/

Split Desires

CW: oral received, oral given, inappropriate use of DF, face sitting, over-stimulation, the gloves stay on, naked reader clothed blorbos

Sabo looks at you as Marco looks over the poll results.

“Smash both won, yoi.” He says evenly, eyes shifting from the results to your face, before looking over at Sabo. “I did get a few more votes, but it’s a slim difference.”

“Quite alright,” Sabo hums with a grin, reaching out and putting his gloved hand gently against the side of your face. His grin breaks into a smile as you nuzzle into the touch, lips parting softly as the pad of his thumb runs over them.

He presses just a little and you open your mouth, letting him press the leather of his glove against your tongue.

“Divine.” Sabo husks as Marco stands behind you.

Marco pulls the zipper at the back of your sun dress, leaning down and pressing kisses into your shoulders as Sabo watches you lick and suck his thumb. Soft hums moan against his digit as Marco presses gentle pleasures into your shoulders with his lips, brushing the sleeves of your dress aside and slowly lowering the garment down your arms.

“Nothing underneath,” Marco hums as the thin material falls around your feet. “Glad you were looking forward to this.”

Sabo’s eyes don’t move away from your face, still watching as your body flushes, teasing his thumb with your teeth and lips. You’re trying to look back at him coyly, but it’s hard to match his intensity. Marco has you widen your stance a little and then he whispers into your ear, but you can feel his eyes on Sabo.

“Be a good girl and sit on my face while you suck on something a little more… satisfying, yoi.” He hums, sending a thrill down your back. You think you should ask if he’s sure he wants you on his face when a long, deep blue, tapered tongue wraps around Sabo’s thumb.

Your eyes go wide and you watch the tongue go back to Marco’s  mouth before you swallow thickly, nodding a little as the hooded eyes finally pull your gaze away from Sabo’s for a moment.

Marco lays down on the couch and helps Sabo help you to straddle his face. The couch gives you enough room to put your knees on either side of his head, and steady yourself against the armrest. Marco puts his hands on your thighs, steadying you even more and easily shifting you as he needs.

Sabo steps back from the arm of the couch, just far enough away you can’t reach him, eyes watching your face as Marco’s normal tongue explores your folds for a moment. The skilled muscle slips between your labia, lapping and pressing against everything until he licks up in a rush and flicks the tip of his tongue along your clit.

Gasping, your legs shiver as he gives the sensitive bundle of nerves more and more attention, his longer fingers reaching between your thighs and spreading your lips open. You moan and nearly double over the armrest.

Sabo steps closer, pulling back his jacket for you and putting his belt close enough you can reach it. He doesn’t say anything, the action speaking loud enough, and you undo his belt buckle, and then his pants, freeing his hard cock. The flushed tip begins to leak as you lick your lips.

“Take your time, dove.” Sabo coos, stepping a little closer, keeping his hands on his hips, holding his jacket back.

As you lean forward, Marco sucks on your clit, causing you to cry. A soft gasp escapes Sabo at the sight, and his fingers tighten inside his gloves before you finally lick the tip of his cock. The expression on his face is easy and soft, but his entire body is tensed as you lick and suckle the tip, working your way down slowly, taking more and more, humming against his skin every time Marco bullies you.

After a moment Sabo sheds the coat he’d been holding back. Reaching out he brushes your hair back, holding it out of the way so he could watch you go down on him better. As he moves your hair aside Marco shifts between your thighs, his tongue prodding your entrance. The rigid tapered tongue presses in slowly and carefully, massaging your walls as his nose settles against your clit.

You moan against Sabo’s cock and his hand tightens in your hair, though he’s careful not to tug on it.

Large hands roam your legs, fingers squeezing your ass as his tongue coils and pushes in deeper. The control he has over the transformation has your eyes rolling back, just barely catching sight of Sabo’s tongue slipping along his upper lip. He pushes into your throat, his first truly active action since this began and you moan deeply.

“Listen to you,” he muses, voice low and soft as he pulls you deeper onto his cock. “You sound like you were starving for me.”

Pulling back a little you nod, rolling your tongue against his tip and looking up at him with the most focus you can muster, considering Marco’s tongue has found your g-spot. Your legs shudder, eyes going a little cross as Sabo uses both hands to hold you in place while Marco forces you over the edge.

“Keep your mouth open, dove.” Sabo instructs, his voice carrying more command and volume than it was earlier. He’s slowly sliding his cock against your tongue as it hangs out of your mouth. Uncouth sounds dribble from your lips as your fingers white knuckle against the leather of the couch’s arm rest, spots dappling your vision as what you thought was the peak was only the beginning of your ascent.

“You’re bullying her,” Sabo muses, his words more for Marco than you. “Quite effectively,” he sighs as he starts pushing himself deeper and deeper into your mouth.

Marco’s finger presses against the tight ring of your ass while his tongue coils inside your cunt enough to make you groan from the feeling. You breathe in deep as the long-building orgasm finally crests and Sabo shoves his cock down your throat. Marco’s iron grip holds you in place as he laps up and prolongs your orgasm, and Sabo grunts as he cums down your throat, coating your choking cry of pleasure with his own release.

He doesn’t linger, pulling out of your throat and helping you stay up right as you cough and gasp, breathing in deep and almost growling as Marco’s continued bullying has you moving toward a second orgasm before you’d even begun to process the first one.

“Saahh- Sabo,” you gasp as he cups your face and kneels down to be at eye-level with you. “I’mma, mmmmmngh… kuh-again, I’mma,” Sabo puts his thumb against your tongue, holding your face in place. His eyes are on his thumb in your mouth for a few seconds before he looks up into your eyes and smile.

“Try not to bite my thumb off, sweet dove. I don’t think he’s going to stop until you squirt on his face.”

“Ah ‘ever un at,” you try to explain you’ve never done that with Sabo’s thumb on your tongue, and Marco’s tongue licking your soul, but the words don’t really come out. The stimulation and exertion has tears in the corners of your eyes, causing Sabo to lean forward and carefully lick them away with the tip of his tongue.

“I’m sure you’ll have it down to a science by the time we’re done, sweet dove.” He assures you, drinking in every shivered expression on your face. You feel the warmth of his gloved hand against your breast.

“Allow me to help.”

[beanghostprincess]

the only reason sabo doesn't stay long with luffy when they meet is because he knows that if luffy asked him to stay and join his crew he would instantly say yes and then he'd get murdered by koala

[thesuntookgoodcareofme]

Been seeing a lot of discussion on rgu and race(and racism) recently which I think it's great. I plan to do a coherent little analisys on it some (not near) time, but for now, there's this thing that has been on my brain since my first watch;

About Akio, that has all control overs Ohtori being a brown man, and Anthy being the sufferer of all oppression not only for being a girl, but also clearly different in the academy for being brown (suffering with what can really be interpreted as racism, because of the constant sexualization, objectification and villifying of her). It's a contrast between the two siblings that has to do i'd say with the inherent links of types of prejudice: misoginy, racism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism go ideologically and systemically hand in hand.

Anthy is a brown girl that endured the thousand swords of humanitys hatred, prejudice. She carries with herself the open wound of all the girls under patriarchy, but not just this, she is vulnerable. A trafficked brown queer teenage girl victim of systemical abuse. And although the anime 'focus' its themes on gender, still, we can clearly pick up on multiple adding interpretations of Anthy as the representation of girls of marginalized groups.

Akio is not vulnerable, as he is an adult, an authority figure, the patriarch (and almost its god, when he paints himself as Dios) of ohtoris system, the academys Headmaster. But he is a brown man that, as we know, is also a marginalized group. And Akio, despite his positions as both teorically Dios and symbolically Lucifer, is also inserted in his own system. He is not the owner of Ohtori, and pardon me if I mix up the titles and positions names i'm vry tired, he's being a substitute to the actual guy, Kanaes father. So, even in this position so high of authority, we can see that even he has to play his own game and fall beneath someone with more power than him. Because that's how hierarchies and patriarchy works. And it makes me remember of when we see his and Anthys backstories:

So now, the part I've been thinking about since ever:

The place where Anthy and Akio stay is a wooden cabin with hay, which is similar to the ones that were built in america in the beggining of colonization. I apologize deeply, but I forgot about the name of the structure and the name of the article that discussed Anthy being brown, but I'll link it if I find it again. Anthy wears this very humble red cloth, that is indubtly more simple than Dios and the peoples clothing. It shows the beggining of ostracization. Dios clothing is white and similar to a tuxedo like the crowd is wearing, and anthys is red just like the rosebride dress.

For me, that seems to show us how the man and woman gender hierarchy is a colonizer idea.

Anthy dresses in a piece of cloth of the same colour of her bridal dress, because her as a brown girl is not a princess, not worth of value, a witch, and only valuable as an man serving object. And Akio, being now categorized as a man, even though he'a a child, dresses in a white tuxedo similar to the ones worn by grooms. He's higher in the hierarchy, but still used. And when Anthy helps her brother herself, despite being the lowest in the worlds hierarchy, the crowd attacks her and it consolidates the system that Akio knows dives fully into, as the master, but also not unharmed; at least from when he was a kid.