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[prinzundrabe]

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About:

I’m @yurious-george, amateur ballerina, operatic soprano, and folklorist. I’ve been a fan of Princess Tutu since the mid 2010s, and found it endlessly fascinating in its breadth of knowledge. Here, I intend provide resources to further research, official materials, and preserve fandom history, for the edification of new fans and preservation of information.

This blog is primarily research-focused, but I will occasionally post my own analysis. Queue is running on one post per day, if I fill it.

Essays on the back burner:

Clothing symbolism in Princess Tutu (& how it pertains to Mytho specifically, aka why he’s not wearing pants)

Drosselmeyer, the Tales of Hoffmann, and the Sandman: Hoffman and a history of the Drosselmeyer character across media

Two Sigfrieds and a Swan King: Wagner’s operas and King Ludwig II of Bavaria

The Nutcracker & Swan Lake: how the two Tchaikovsky ballets influence the role of every major character in Princess Tutu

A role that doesn’t fit: how rue is forced into the role of seductress, and the deconstruction of the whore/Madonna complex

Beginner's guide to ballet: a dictionary of ballet steps, positions, and mime

Asks help me focus my ideas, so if you’d like to read any one of them, shoot me a message.

Tag List:

a: ____ - artist

b: ____ - ballet

ch: ___ - character

o: ____ - opera

m: ___ - music

f: ____ - fairytale/folklore

l: ____ - location

ep: 0x0 - episode, by season and number

e: ____ - event (usually anniversaries)

misc: _ - miscellaneous

misc tags:

fandom - fandom-specific history

meta - analysis focused on other works and how they intersect with princess tutu

Analysis - analysis of princess tutu without using external media as reference,

official material

development notes

costuming

discussion

reference - masterlists & style guides

Affiliates:

@princesstutumeta: more focused on collecting tumblr posts discussing Princess Tutu rather than research, but a great resource.

[yeepof]

I understand that tall men are our POV characters, but surely being like a foot taller than everyone around them would have some occasional consequences

[sparklebyte]

“here’s what we know about the uhc shooter”

WRONG! He is a suspect and we should treat him as such. He should be treated as innocent until proven guilty, not guilty until proven innocent. He’s a person of interest not the killer. I don’t care what the media or authorities are saying, he’s a human being who deserves a fair trial and deserves to be treated as innocent until proven otherwise.

[copepods]

crazy how 4 hours of work will literally take up my entire 15+ hour day. who allowed this

[mayhemchicken-artblog]

in the hour or so it took me to draw this op turned reblogs off

EDIT: reblogs are STAYING OFF. op was right and correct and i have never regretted making a post as much as this one. if you want to reblog my art you can reblog something else from my blog. or commission me, lord knows i deserve financial compensation for the nightmare this post has put me through

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[lgbtlunaverse]

The world exists in such a baffling state of simultaneous sex-aversion and sex-hegemony. Every social platform on the internet is trying to banish sex workers to the shadow realm but I can't post a tweet without at least two bots replying P U S S Y I N B I O. People are self-censoring sex to seggs and $3× but every other ad you see is still filled with half-naked women. Rightwingers want queer people arrested for so much as existing in the same postal code as a child and are also drumming up a moral panic about how teenage boys aren't getting laid enough. I feel like I'm losing my mind.

[valtsv]

it's always very entertaining when someone is so afraid of dying that they decide they're going to defeat death itself and in the process of pursuing this entirely reasonable and achievable goal end up inventing Death Two

[bizarrebazaar13]

what if your doppelgänger wasn’t evil it was just a person. what if your doppelgänger wasn’t trying to replace you it was just trying to learn to be a person and you were the best model it had. what if your doppelgänger looked at you with your eyes and said with your voice that it just wanted to be loved. what then.

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

[cinematicnomad]

(tweet 1) (tweet 2) (article)

[pangur-and-grim]

one thing that took me embarrassingly long to learn is "sometimes when people say things, they will not be true."

I used to tell people about this revelation and they'd be like yeah.....duh.....but like, why wouldn't my base assumption be that you're communicating to me in a straightforward manner. anyway, I get scammed a lot.

[cork-run]

the names of certain mob-involved trans women have been changed

[trudlejack]

(+part 2)

[gay-little-izzet]

Made this a while back and never posted it, but I figured I should now that I actually started T!!!

(Not a self portrait, this is just some guy)