Clone rights!

[clonerightsagenda]

Learned today that the original English spelling of oboe was hautboy (from the French hautbois). I spent years playing the hotboy...

[queenburd]

this is the stupidest goddamn thing i've had to lay my eyes on today.

[clonerightsagenda]

Interesting that Anthy seems to trigger the duels and/or tempt the reluctant into them... playing the piano to remind Miki of his sister, offering Juri the flower to remind her of her crush. Is this something she chooses to do or something she's required to do? Will we learn she's the one who displayed the love letter to Saonji to tempt Utena into challenging him?

Unrelated but I respect how the Utena animators refuse to draw a single frame more than they absolutely have to.

[clonerightsagenda]

Anthy suggests Utena take Touga flowers and then brings a kitten, infuriating Nanami who turns out to be a dark horse dueler. Is her brother sending her cliff notes or something

[clonerightsagenda]

Setting aside the downstream GI complications, almost seven months out recovery for the jaw surgery itself is going pretty well! The scars are almost invisible (not that I'd mind if I had cool throat slash scars to scare people with) and I'm getting prickly feeling back into my numb cheek. There's still a bit of swelling under my chin, but it's gone enough from my face that I can feel the implants, which is very weird. Since they're screwed onto the existing bone that's given me a hollow/sunken cheek look, but if I eat enough ice cream I can probably overcome that. Jaw opening is getting better, and I'm eating medium firm stuff although I've definitely developed a bad habit of not chewing my food very thoroughly. Haven't gotten used to hearing the metal on plastic sound of my joint working yet. When I take my first bite of any meal I get a shooting prickle through my right joint and maybe that'll end up being permanent, but we'll see. (I also get prickles through my joints whenever I'm startled? Must be clenching my jaw without realizing it.)

Healing would probably be going even better if I was done with orthodontics, but they've given me no end date in sight unfortunately. They've got me on aggressive elastics that've sent my facial muscles into spasm - after I went through all the trouble of Botoxing them into submission too. Really looking forward to when I can stop getting tortured on a monthly basis.

[clonerightsagenda]

Was wondering if I should break my year long streak and shave my legs before my dermatology appointment but a quick search suggests actually shaving is a bad idea because it can irritate the skin and cover up problematic spots. Hell yeah

[clonerightsagenda]

As part of prepping for my new fourth sub-job doing ADA consultations, I checked out our LMS's new "AI-powered!" accessibility checker and it told me my plain Word doc with black text on a white background failed to have sufficient contrast and suggested I change the font color to bright red. So that's going well

[new-hyperfixation-every-month]

hello carpenter nation

[clonerightsagenda]

I think if the dean of the campus tells me "there were sighs of relief when I brought your name up" in the division chair meeting I should get a raise

[clonerightsagenda]

After I started listening to TAZ, I followed a bunch of related blogs. There was a strong image description culture with TAZ fanart, which got me reading about digital accessibility more broadly, and when I started my job I tried to emphasize it when creating online materials and kept learning more as I went along. Fast forward to 2026 when our district level administration didn't even bother offering resources until after the original web rule deadline passed, and the dean called me today saying "everyone sighed with relief" when she told them I had experience on the topic. So now I'm the on call consultant for all campus faculty. Thank you McElroy brothers I guess

[gingersnooze]

Back soon 💋

[clonerightsagenda]

Student council: Whoever is engaged to the Rose Bride has the power of miracles thanks to her mystical powers.

Utena looking between student council and Anthy (only visibly Desi student there): Wait are you guys just being racist

[haru-dipthong]

Haru Dipthong's Utena Fansub Masterpost

On the 23rd of September 2024, @dontbe-lasanya and I began a project to retranslate the anime Revolutionary Girl Utena. The project finished on the 7th of August 2025. The goals behind the project were to provide more natural dialogue between characters, do a better job of conveying the themes, and provide a nonbinary perspective on Utena the character, and I believe we achieved them!

To summarise my translation approach in one sentence, I would say I focus on rewriting the script as though it were originally written in the target language. This means, for example, never using honorifics like "sama" or "senpai" in the English translation and instead making up for it by using ways of indicating relationships and hierarchy in English such as changing the way characters speak around each other.

Translation Notes

Episode 1 - The Rose Bride

Episode 2 - For Whom The Rose Smiles

Episode 3 - On The Night Of The Ball

Episode 4 - The Sunlit Garden Prelude

Episode 5 - The Sunlit Garden Finale

Episode 6 - Take Care, Miss Nanami

Episode 7 - Unfulfilled Juri

Episode 8 - Curried High Trip

Episode 9 - The Castle Said To Hold Eternity

Episode 10 - Nanami’s Precious One

Episode 11 - Graceful And Ruthless; The One Who Picks The Flower

Episode 12 - For Friendship, Perhaps

Episode 13 - Tracing a Path

Episode 14 - The Boys Of The Black Rose

Episode 15 - The Landscape Framed By Kozue

Episode 16 - The Almglocken Of Happiness

Episode 17 - Thorns Of Death

Episode 18 - Mitsuru’s Growing Pains

Episode 19 - The Song Of The Fallen Kingdom

Episode 20 - Wakaba Flourishing

Episode 21 - Nasty Pests

Episode 22 - Nemuro Memorial Hall

Episode 23 - What Makes A Duellist

Episode 24 - The Secret Nanami Diary

Episode 25 - Eternal Apocalypse For Two

Episode 26 - Miki’s Birdhouse (The Sunlit Garden, Arrangement)

Episode 27 - Nanami’s Egg

Episode 28 - Whispers In The Dark

Episode 29 - Azure Paler Than The Sky

Episode 30 - The Barefoot Girl

Episode 31 - Her Tragedy

Episode 32 - The Romance Of The Dancing Girls

Episode 33 - The Prince Who Runs Through The Night

Episode 34 - The Rose Signet

Episode 35 - The Love That Blossomed In Wintertime

Episode 36 - And The Doors Of Night Open

Episode 37 - The One Who Will Revolutionise The World

Episode 38 - The End Of The World

Episode 39 - Someday, Let’s Shine Together

[clonerightsagenda]

Touga is a creep but unfortunately "because I'm a feminist" is the funniest possible thing to say in both of those situations

[clonerightsagenda]

me whenever I hear someone singing America the Beautiful: nice Westing Game reference

[clonerightsagenda]

pov you are flossing with a very delicious minty cat toy I would like to eat thank you <3

[clonerightsagenda]

I have not watched a ton of anime and none of the shows to my recollection had filler episodes but is Utena's filler particularly batshit or is it all like this

[clonerightsagenda]

Interesting that Anthy seems to trigger the duels and/or tempt the reluctant into them... playing the piano to remind Miki of his sister, offering Juri the flower to remind her of her crush. Is this something she chooses to do or something she's required to do? Will we learn she's the one who displayed the love letter to Saonji to tempt Utena into challenging him?

Unrelated but I respect how the Utena animators refuse to draw a single frame more than they absolutely have to.