Clone rights!

[clonerightsagenda]

telling my parents' cat that she has shoujo legs

[clonerightsagenda]

The other one has disproportionately huge paws so Yaoi Hands and Shoujo Legs: the manga sisters

[clonerightsagenda]

It appears this Black Rose arc is about a power hungry group convincing a bunch of suckers that they should blame all their personal problems on the nearest brown woman. This is much like following US politics

[clonerightsagenda]

"You really care about her," Utena says to Akio after commenting "I guess you're a pretty good older brother" to Touga. My girl does not have creep radar

[clonerightsagenda]

why did Miki's piano teacher just grab his ass

[clonerightsagenda]

Miki wants to introduce Anthy to his ass grabbing piano teacher? does she not have enough problems

[clonerightsagenda]

why did Miki's piano teacher just grab his ass

[clonerightsagenda]

telling my parents' cat that she has shoujo legs

[lizardsfromspace]

Out of control Edwardian youths refuse to clap at production of Peter Pan, force distraught J.M Barrie to pull out rarely seen "Tinkerbell Fucking Dies" ending

[julianova44]

You probably know this but shitpost ruining fun fact for anybody who doesn’t:

When the play first was performed, JM Barrie et al were so concerned this might happen that they instructed the orchestra to drop their instruments and clap at this point, just in case

[lizardsfromspace]

I did not know this and I'm grateful for being informed

[sisaloofafump]

Peter Pan edited by Anne Hiebert Alton (2011)

(sorry to interrupt joke post but) this is true!

Children not clapping did happen too, (and some were even expected to have hissed, which was later written into the 1928 playscript and 1911 novel). But my all time favourite anecdote about it is from Pauline Chase (who played Peter)'s intro to Peter Pan's Post Bag 1909:

Children love to clap their hands at the play because then they feel that they are really part of it, and you can see them holding their hands poised ready to seize an opportunity. Their great chance is when I ask them to clap their hands if they believe in fairies, and so save Tink's life. But they are very wrathful if any one claps who has the reputation of being a cynic, and once there was quite an uproar in the front row of the dress circle because of a girl who clapped. Those about her pulled down her arms angrily. "How dare you clap," they cried, "when you know you don't believe in fairies!" There was one dreadfully hard-hearted little boy who came to the theatre not to clap. That was his object for coming, and he came round "behind" to tell me so in the middle of the play. His teeth were firm set. "I won't clap," he said doggedly; "I'm not going to clap." And when the time came he didn't clap; above the clapping of all the others I could hear him shouting from a box, "Peter, I'm not clapping."

(Tink was revived each time anyway)

[bethanydelleman]

I am a certified hater of audience participation but let me tell you, it is almost impossible not to clap during this scene. Even as a full grown adult.

[clonerightsagenda]

This new guy doesn't need 100 brainwashed duelers to destroy the Rose Bride; he just needs some Japanese beetles. My plants are dying

[clonerightsagenda]

Picked up Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon in the hopes of acquiring new terrible space facts. So far the tone has been obnoxiously jingoistic, but it did include this fun little tidbit from NASA's press conference with the first seven astronauts (audio here):

Reporter: It is noticed that three of our seven young men are smoking. What will they be doing when they get up in the capsule? NASA official: Well, I think they're pretty mature men and we'll leave it up to them in large part.

[herpsandbirds]

[sycamorality]

polyamory and aromanticism would solve so many stupid relationship issues

[tragbarerpanzrabwehrkomplexfagot]

[child-of-crows]

really enjoying the wikipedia page

y'know what yugoslavians, based.

look this is on the organizers for not letting this poor guy prep better

how does this keep happening

they're bullying kazakhstan

they're bullying serbia

good job buddy

why do you even HAVE that

there's a wide variety of pop songs accidentally played

REPEATED fuckups

[clonerightsagenda]

How esteemed can a secret society be if it was started by a current high schooler, anyway? The thing about having all this sinister student council shit is that behind all the trappings of tradition, it's like 4 years old max. This is nouveau nonsense.

[clonerightsagenda]

I did not expect Akio to have a fiance. Anthy doesn't seem to be taking her very seriously though

[saulwexler]

shamed:(

[roycohn]

[stuckinapril]

[stuckinapril]

happy if you have scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with your sexuality july

[clonerightsagenda]

So episode 13 was mostly a clipshow, but there was one interesting nugget. I had assumed the purple prince was Anthy's terrible incest brother (Akio, right?) but Akio has appeared to monologue at the purple prince. Are they in fact two different guys? Or is this a symbolic dialog with the self? I guess we shall see.