he/they lesbian & chronic quitter that got slapped with the fun combo diagnosis of adhd and asd. Revolutionary Girl Utena is a very good show and you should not watch it.
laptop husbandry tip: the fans spinning up just means its EXCITED, not DISTRESSED. this is a COMMON MISCONCEPTION and it does not need to go to the vet
what r ur thoughts on the sun/moon symbolism with shizumafu
*yanks out a scroll that rolls until the horizon* i pulled out the good ol' Bleach 'the rain drags black sun down/but the rain dried by white moon' poem to throw at @yashkonu's head, to tell you how absolutely Normal I'm being about all this. (i also came up w some very simple archery motif lyrics but i won't inflict that 'til it's a bit more polished. i want at least lullaby level.)
i first wanna touch on their 3d models' symbolism for a moment. because of course, some things are rather obvious: the sun medallion and motif of Shizuku's, the blazing moon of Mafuyu's. but there are smaller symbols with the half-full, half-hollowed arrow vane, that decorates the apple-shaped earrings and hairpiece Maf has, as well as the snowflakes, the clover cut-out on Shizuku's leggings... the new outfits showcase, as whole pieces, some of the biggest influences on them that affect their self—and if you want to connect it back, their lights on the world, and how they shine upon/affect it.
now there's the baseline significance of applying sun/moon symbols, of course. two bodies representing two parts of a whole, two opposing/contrasting parts that cannot be disconnected. the simplest/obvious connection one can draw to Shizuku and Mafuyu is how they are quite alike, in how they have a shared experience of people's perception and expectations of them have led to them suppressing their real selves and desires, with the major difference, insofar, being that Shizuku has gotten the support to be her true self while Mafuyu is a WIP.
...though, the fact that cheerful days is going to be coming up again in Shizuku's plotline makes me wonder if having this event before that is meant to be a chance for Mafuyu to be looking into it/watching, and seeing/gaining some recognition of that shared quality. but i digress.
i think for fuller appreciation of ShizuMafu's outfits this event, i think it's necessary to layer the sun/moon symbolism with their shared theme of perception, both by others and themselves. this is suggested by the previously mentioned 'other' elements of their outfit. The influence of MMJ, and the influence of Mafuyu's mother, respectively, are indelible parts of Shizuku and Mafuyu, and that—and this is key—they're both currently aware of. Presumably out of some subconscious self-preservation and just Plain Old Trauma, Mafuyu's memory of how her mother has treated her and made her feel as been blanketed out/muffled. But she's facing it more now, and that's why the elements suggest also that theme of self-perception, aside from that being the 'tie' between Shizuku and Mafuyu.
i think the outfits also suggest the specific perception Shizuku and Mafuyu have of each other. Because I think if you asked Shizuku, I would imagine she would say she's trying to be 'sun-like' but wouldn't actually see/think about how she is like that already. And well, for Mafuyu Reasons I definitely don't see her saying 'yea I'm actively trying to be a light in the dark'.
But if you consider how they think of each other, and consider the event? How Shizuku considers Mafuyu to be someone who helped her when she was struggling with finding a space to simply Be at the start of high school? How Shizuku is able to echo the favour Mafuyu did her, and bring her back to a place of calm focus, of warmth, after the disruption of her mother's message, and has always just tried to help out how she can and shown concern whenever she's noticed Mafuyu feeling ill at ease?
The gacha's name, is, after all, 'Descending Mercy'. Consider who'd be calling it 'mercy' :).
This post needs a conclusion at some point so I'm finishing with some comments on the card art.
Mafuyu's trained card has quite a few things going on (school bag, aquarium plant, bunny, crack dividing her face into shadow and light!), but I want to focus on the charm near the arrow's vane. a clear moon right? and a dark shaft, with feathers being dark towards the shaft and only light near the end.
Consider the arrow Shizuku has in her hand, practically lit from within, and its own charm—with the light she's bringing into a dark place—and the one she's descending to pick up. Largely dark, but the white feathers of the vane seeming to glow too now, and parts of the shaft white too.
All arrows with charms.
The untrained art too has its own notes. Mafuyu, with her face largely shadowed in this moment years ago, the only light being from reflections and not distinctly outlined...
And then her face, while still largely in shadow, lit in the moment where Shizuku helps her refocus after being disturbed.
Had another belated symbol realisation about Mafuyu's card: the crack in the glass seems to come from an arrow, and the crack highlights the divide of Mafuyu's expression—it is Shizuku and Mafuyu's time together in archery club, that makes Shizuku aware of how deeply different Mafuyu acts in her 'honest' moments, and how deeply disturbed she was by her mother's text message.
the relationship between a girl, and her favorite discord emote that captures exactly the right emotion and that she hates that she can't use as an emote on tumblr, is yuri
THEY DID IT THEY ESCAPED THE NARRATIVE!!! THERE IS A WAY OUT!!! THE STORY CAN BE ALTERED!!! YOU ARE NOT STUCK- THERE IS AN ESCAPE!!! THERE IS A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL BUT YOU HAVE TO WALK TOWARDS IT!!!!
I was in a college psych class, and the teacher was doing some kind of exercise about memory, patterns, and retention. He began with, “for instance, if I asked you what number the first letter of your name is in the alphabet, you wouldn’t be able to tell me right aw–”
“Ten,” I said.
“What?”
“J. J is ten,” I said again.
He stared at me.
“I happened to learn it while looking at the alphabet when I was five or six, and it just stayed in my brain,” I told him.
Then we did an exercise on retention. “I’m going to tell you a story,” he said, “and then I’m going to send you out of the room for five minutes, and when you come back, you have to repeat as much of the story back to me as possible.”
He told me a long and meandering story with no plot or structure, just a random series of events, place names, actions, etc. Then he sent me out of the room.
I looked at the wall for a while.
He called me back in five minutes later, stood me up in front of the class, and asked me to repeat “just as much of the story as you remember.” Apparently while I’d been gone he’d been telling the class about how eyewitness accounts aren’t reliable because people don’t remember things well after a certain period of time.
So I told his story back to him– not verbatim, but certain phrases were exact– and watched the consternation in his face as I accidentally blew up his (valid! and extensively studied!) lesson about how bad people’s retention is.
“It’s like a song,” I tried to explain to him, and the class. “Or a poem. Every part of the story has a little tag to remember it. I looked at the chalkboard while you were saying this part. My leg itched while you were saying that part. A chair squeaked during the next part. Then I just have to come back and go over all the sensations that I had while you were”
“Sit down,” he said.
I sat.
Turns out I’m Autisms Georg adn should not have been counted
ADHD version: A friend asked, on a field trip, why I knew the scientific name for Caltha palustris, “Well, we did that [one week long] field ID course [three years previously] and we saw it in one of the bogs”.
This, I was informed, is very much not a normal reason to remember the scientific name of a plant for the rest of your life.
It took me five whole years to learn when my partner’s birthday is.
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