#the shojo novels in question are called douseai and are about ‘romantic friendships between girls’
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Oscar and Andre are so necrocav coded send tweet
#the devotion the service the imablance of power the carnage#I’m pretty sure that ANY of the lines that Palamedes drops about Camilla in GtN would be right at home on Andre’s lips#honestly I think that’s not coincidental. not in the sense that RoV influenced tazmuir’s work#but in the sense that the relationship between Oscar and Andre was modelled off of a type of friendship and romantic relationship that’s#uncommon today. from the wikipedia article:#‘[Deborah Shamoon. a professor of Japenese studies in Singapore] considers that the Oscar-Andre relationship follows the pattern of pre-war#shojo novels which feature same-sex love between girls.’#the shojo novels in question are called douseai and are about ‘romantic friendships between girls’#but which are ‘distinct from romantic relationship… in that it is used to describe platonic relationships based on strong emotional bonds#and very close friendship’#WHICH. IF THAT ISN’T CAMPAL IDK WHAT IS#Campal is romantic but it isn’t romantic. it’s platonic and familial and socially demanded but it’s also none of those things#Rose of Versailles#mine
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