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watching utena for the first time she's a dumpling to me.

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my mutuals are so smart and talented i feel like that philosophy ogre

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Himemiya Anthy And The Bad Bitch She Pulled By Being Autistic

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something that people seem to forget about akio for some reason is that he is actually incredibly Stupid, and the only reason he is so successful in his machinations is because he almost exclusively manipulates children over whom he has the power to withhold information, and is believed due to his implicit authority as an Educator. if you don’t have any access to outside knowledge, due to being young and sheltered and those in the position to instruct you are indoctrinating you into a certain set of beliefs, you’re far more likely to internalize what those people tell you is true, and even then, you might question it! nanami is so sheltered that she thinks it’s possible that she laid an egg, and yet she still recognizes akio’s abuse as being wrong and horrible. utena was groomed since childhood to believe in the power of the prince and yet she still resists the patriarchal logic that women & girls are objects to be owned. saionji is a fucking moron and he’s still like “this is bullshit” constantly. anthy finds a way out despite akio’s insistence that she be utterly dependent on him, and ultimately forges her own path. he’s not particularly charismatic or convincing. he says blatantly incorrect shit on astronomy constantly just to impress children and teens who lack the knowledge to correct him. he’s fucking cringe and pathetic and stupid. he feels the need to exert his limited power over children in a desperate bid to relive his glory days. he is the narrator, but he is also not the all-seeing puppet-master he likes to think he is. nanami lambasts him. utena defies him. anthy leaves him. and that’s the point !

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Made a low quality of the paper doll to try and restore her to her skin tone @empty-movement

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analytical shorthand employing utena symbolic frameworks that qualify as coherent character criticism in my book:

they would make a great black rose duelist

they’re in their coffin

they’re being sunlit gardened

they’ve donned the cowbell of happiness

they’re on the carousel

they’re having an eggisode

they’re the rose bride

they’re eating the cantarella

they’re playing the prince

they’re trapped in a locket

they would be on the ohtori student council

they’re in the planetarium

they drowned the cat

they would turn into a car

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maybe they should've kept him like this

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☆*: .｡. RGU Stamps Free to Use .｡.:*☆

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specifically thinking abt his disillusionment with akio at the tail end of the apocalypse saga but sheer inability to convey it to utena in a way that isnt thoroughly poisoned by his patriarchal mindset + the system he lives under + his need to possess her

i believe in touga’s ability to potentially get better and escape the narrative someday i genuinely think there is hope for the guy but also christ alive

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whenever i talk about touga it really is like yeah i hate him so much it hurts he made me realise more things about myself and the world than i care to mention. if you dont believe in his ability to leave ohtori i will blow this whole pocket-dimension academy up i stg

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i believe in touga’s ability to potentially get better and escape the narrative someday i genuinely think there is hope for the guy but also christ alive

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Touga Kiryuu, totally normal boy.

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every time.

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Since we were talking about replacing Kirby can we replace him with Anthy please? She would go perfectly along with the animal friends who would to act as more friends to her animals and Chu Chu who shares a name with one of them. She is funny, mysterous, would have more of a connection to the some of the villain's woes and would give the Kirby series another human.

Also she more deep than the deep blue sea.

this is an adorable ask and i love anthy but hasn’t she been through enough. i think after bearing the weight of humanity’s hatred for so long, putting the weight of the galaxy’s fate on her shoulders is probably Too Much and she deserves a good long break from it all. i think kirby and anthy should coexist in harmony.