Break the world's shell.

🥀|🌹 They/them | 17+🌹|🥀 RGU + ORV + assorted media sideblog ⚠️BEWARE: Heavy topics ahead, DDdnR⚠️ (mostly RGU analysis). I do my best to treat all topics with respect.

[ot3]

kim dokja moodboard

[marxism-leninism-utenaism]

there are a lot of reasons why someone might become transgender but the most common one is to acquire more powerful sword techniques

[bytedykes]

fun character types

character who is not allowed to kill themself

related: suicidal character who physically can't kill themself

alive character who has successfully committed suicide

character who hasn't died but has committed thematic suicide of the Self

character who thinks they're suffering karmic punishment for killing/trying to kill themself

[bytedykes]

ty to everyone tagging this as their ocs and giving me the lore. im enjoying reading thru them

[giucomix]

Shinji Ikari in RGU: Very conflicted. Pretty likely to treat Anthy like Rei and wanting to protect her just like Utena does, but by projecting his mom on her, so closer to Miki. However since he's a boy, Akio wouldn't manipulate him as he does Utena, but as he does Touga and Saionji. His self-esteem issues would make him the perfect target, as the affirmation of the patriarchy also offers a path to accepting "It's ok for me to be here". Unlikely to break the cycle and save Anthy, most likely to end up as just another abusive Duelist (and not a particularly good one).

Utena in NGE: Although she has no connection to the EVA's soul she can still pilot it intuitively thanks to her basketball skills

[cowardsexual]

ryland grace is kim dokja (unreliable narrator, chronic avoidant tendencies, cocky bastard) and eva stratt is yoo joonghyuk (non-pov protagonist with the weight of the world on her shoulders, has her humanity and compassion dismissed by the unreliable narration) unless she's han sooyoung but backwards ("kim dokja do you think my heart is made out of stone?", sacrifices the world to save one man/sends a man to his death to save the world) which is to say she's anna croft (foresight. formerly close friends and allies but she betrays him as a tactical decision for the greater good. blonde.) which makes grace the yoo joonghyuk (betrayed, amnesia fuelled identity crisis). stratt is also lee sookyung (never_love_an_anchor.mp3) strattland is doksoo except the movie karaoke scene which is specifically doksang. rocky is a little bit yoo joongyuk (impossibly old, alone in space for an unfathomable amount of years) but only because toriel is not in omniscient reader's viewpoint.

[toomanyvocals]

should we tell you how much she loved you?

[muninnhuginn]

love it when characters do a sacrifice play ostensibly to save others but mostly so they don't have to face themselves

[prokopetz]

Level 1: The text supports a transgender reading of the protagonist.

Level 2: The text supports a transgender reading of the author.

Level 3: The text supports a transgender reading of the reader.

[swagophile]

they kicked me out of the bar for being too chuuni they took one look at my dramatic hair swoosh and my mallgoth accsssories and my giant blade possessed by the soul of an evil spirit and they said Youre outta here buddy. they picked me up by my scruff and put me outside i threatened to unleash an infernal blast and everything and they just told me to beat ir and come back in a decade idfk what to do i'm 32

[konoko]

sorry i'm being an absent friend i'm being an absent self too

[orvretranslationproject]

could you please do the scene in chapter 267 where yjh changes form? thank you

In honor of the fact this scene will be in the webtoon chapter releasing tomorrow, happy Punisher day.

[lunarthesugarglider]

google search how to induce ego death with cherry tomatoes

[lunarthesugarglider]

google search cherry tomato overdonse symptoms

These are results for cherry tomato overdose symptoms

Search instead for cherry tomato overdonse symptoms

[lunarthesugarglider]

google search hospital

[gumy-shark]

blorbo from my shows helping me change my patterns for the healthier but in a reverse way

[gumy-shark]

”blorbo would want you to eat healthier/have a better sleep schedule/whatever”: yeah they’re not the only one

“blorbo would do this. blorbo would think these patterns are normal and healthy. blorbo would also fall into this exact self-loathing spiral over not being able to change”: I NEED TO GET BETTER NOW

[billymayslesbian]

see i know a lot of the problems with scales of f/f vs m/m content on ao3 comes from misogyny but i think a not insignificant factor has to do with most people writing f/f centric content having higher standards for their output. m/m writers will literally publish anything

[illeoust]

inspired by Andrew Lyman

[panvani]

There's this huge mythos around Dark Themes that posits that Dark Themes in writing are treated with disdain/suspicion, or that authors that write about Dark Themes are subject to substantially more investigation or criticism within the industry at large compared to authors that don't write Dark Themes. And like. Obviously if your story contains upsetting content, you're more frequently going to hear about people refusing to engage with your story out of hand, but... this is almost always based on personal comfort/preference, rather than Moral, Artistic Opposition. I know plenty of people who won't watch a movie if a dog dies in it, but you don't see swarms of people boycotting John Wick.

The conventional wisdom that stories with Dark Themes will be less popular is pretty obviously untrue if you consider anything about pop culture in almost any period of history. If we speak in recent pop culture (as is generally meant)... Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire is incredibly well known for its depiction of rape/CSA/incest, as is Stephen King's It. Star Wars is subject to parody for its recurrent themes of incest. These are incredibly popular, socially acceptable, mainstream works, criticism of which (on the basis of their content) has done nothing to stop each from making completely insane amounts of money. Whenever I see people claim that a work is avant-garde for its Dark Themes, it's almost always a work that has been incredibly commercially successful with no large critical backlash-- take, for example, Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life, which occupies shelves upon shelves of display cases in Barnes and Noble despite its depiction of multiple explicit CSA and self harm scenes.

What works are subject to scrutiny ostensibly on the basis of their 'dark themes,' like Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita or Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, tend to be far more tame by comparison-- The Bluest Eye contains one extremely short and exceptionally dry description of a man raping his daughter, and Lolita contains no explicit sexual scenes at all. Actually what causes these works to be subject to criticism is the fact that they depict child abuse in a way which causes reader discomfort, rather than excitement. Nabokov actually joked about how he was strongly criticized for the lack of child sex abuse scenes in his novel, and attempts to ban Morrison's novel are usually transparently racist.

And, I mean, sure, there is an extent population that will become strongly critical of a work after learning that it has themes of abuse, regardless of the actual execution of these themes... but somehow whenever I see authors talk about how they're basically Christ on the cross for including a child rape scene in their novel (or fanfiction), they do so from a place of artistic and cultural success, and are lauded for doing so. It's just... immensely tiring.

[orphiclovers-deactivated2026032]

Recount of the 41st regression by the Disaster of Floods, Shin Yoosung

based off of Ch. 44 of A Not so Fairy Tale (webtoon) by hyobin

"Do you know what Yoo Joonghyuk said after losing you?"

'In the future, sea battles will be difficult.'

'I lost a bad shield.'

—Chapter 103, Ep. 21 – Things That Can't Be Changed, ORV