#shiori tag

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

really gnawing on my fist thinking about how so much of shiori's scorn toward juri is just another manifestation of her self-hatred. shiori always saw juri as so strong and untouchable, someone infinitely more gifted and beautiful than she could ever hope to be. she still does. so when she learns that juri is in love with her, someone who, in shiori's eyes, is so utterly plain, so utterly average and unremarkable, she's astounded and repulsed - specifically at the thought that someone like juri could have someone as pathetic as her in her heart. her cruelty towards juri is a plea in a way, for juri to see her; an attempt to go as low as she possibly can to see if juri could really continue to love and care about her after seeing how (as shiori sees it) despicable she truly is. THEE mothers of toxic yuri oh my god

[ministarfruit]

good ol' outfit swap

[asanjou]

new slang

[skrunksthatwunk]

kurama has access to forbidden strains + shiori wedding shenanigans

[anggeese]

bnuuy

[windosing]

shiori novella - why she ourple

[heibon-hiroo]

Funny green guy we meet again

[sepyana]

Utena character hair, rose and eye color chart.

[raven]

[yuriolympics]

just a few days left to sign up for this year's yuri shipping olympics!!

the yuri shipping olympics is a 13+ summer event to encourage the creation of f/f fanworks of all types!

TEAMS LOOKING FOR MEMBERS

Team Catradora (She-ra)

Team Kittyuri (XO, Kitty)

Team NamiVivi (One Piece)

Team NyaMimi (Pop'n Music)

Team ReiMari (TouHou)

Team Horror Animanga

Team Final Fantasy

Team Chuuni Media (Fate/stay night, Umineko, Symphogear)

TEAMS LOOKING FOR MEMBERS & LEADERS

Team RWBY

Team SuleMio (Gundam Witch)

Team Juri/Shiori (Revolutionary Girl Utena)

[reasonablyneurotic]

can’t believe starira made the bold and controversial decision of making horses real but I admire them for it

[duskstars]

shiori & fumi redrawn as co-star revue 🏆

sequel to this piece // don’t tag as ship

[asanjou]

questions for god

[skrunksthatwunk]

kinda thinking about how the women who serve as maternal figures/raise kids in yyh are never quite ready for it. genkai's an arguable exception, but like.. atsuko had yusuke at 15, shizuru's basically in charge of kazuma full time in her early 20s/late teens (depending on version) with very very absent parents, and even shiori is given a kid she wasn't expecting, in the form of an old, old demon rather than like. a regular, blank slate ass human baby. and although shiori seems to do quite well with kurama, kurama can never be honest with shiori about who he is, or much of what he's seen. if he was, it'd probably make things far more complicated and overwhelming. atsuko, no matter how much she cares for yusuke, Could Not Have Been and thus wasn't ready to have him at 15. her attempts to make the most of that situation have had middling success at best. shizuru has also been placed into a parental role. we don't really know how long she's been raising kuwabara, but that's.. probably still parentification anyway. she shouldn't have to do that, and she shouldn't have to do that so young. and i think some of her coarseness with kuwa is out of frustration with her own inexperience + inadequacy + uncertainty, his not cooperating, and their parents for putting this on her in the first place. the ones who know the full extent of their situation grow desperate and it squeaks out in unpleasant ways, and the one who seems unbothered by it is the only one who has no idea that she's in way over her head. and i mean. ok. gonna preface this by saying keiko is NOT yusuke's mom in any sense of the word. but she does take care of him in a way atsuko couldn't manage to. she's often looking after him and cleaning up after his messes and stuff. she takes him on as a responsibility, and that is, in a way, a caretaker role. not to say that it SHOULD be her responsibility, but it's how she ends up being.

and when the stress of trying to make someone take care of themselves or be kind or good or Whatever goes awry, again, the violence and arguing and distance and ugliness of caring for someone reveals itself.

and i wonder about that. for a series dedicated to physical fighting as a form of communication, what does it say that this extends to the complicated, quietly desperate situations of so many of the women/girls it depicts, whom our more central characters were shaped and raised by?

hell, even hiei touches on this, because hina loved hiei, but there was no way she was prepared for him, obviously, nor for the pain of losing him. rui (whom i also see as a sort of caretaker figure to hiei, inasmuch as either of them were caretakers) literally throws him off a cliff because she couldn't face down the village elders, and out of some mixture of care for hina and, likely, fear for her own survival. and the guilt and pain of that killed hina and deeply wounded rui.

it's like motherhood, this thing that's so often treated as sacred and beautiful, is a kind of stitched up, painful, eggshell-walking thing that hurts parent and child and it's just. oughh

[triedpklove]

heres a as-high-quality-as-i-can-get pic of one of the rarer variable heart cards that came with the 3rd volume of it^^

this is a small edit bc the original made taro white so the original version of it is under the cut

[rivalkieran]

unova ancestor ocs (and hilbert) (and palmer)