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[slasherfreakz]

Haappy national tie up ur fav character day

[dailyfigures]

Chiaki Nanami ; Daganronpa ☆ Good Smile Company

[feenixmork]

I bestow upon you all - tiny creatures

[eelsabound]

using google keyboard alchemy to create the most miserable emojis possible

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[thatsyrupdrinker]

using google keyboard alchemy to create the most beautiful world possible

being alive with mama

[manleytea]

 Normal non-obsessive teenage girls

[akissthroughtheglass]

Even though I've believed for quite some time that it doesn't matter what sexual orientation the Utena characters are, I've come to believe in my current rewatch that Anthy being a lesbian is key to the structure of the dueling cycle. Explanation under the cut for length.

The first reason is that a man literally could never replace Akio; as her older brother who knows all her dirt and the first person she truly loved and relied on, he is her primary source of socialization with men. He's also the oldest and most powerful man in Ohtori by design. So in order for the duels to work, there needs to be some alternative presented that tempts Anthy, in some way, to actually replace him. That's where the girl princes come in-- he selects girls that appeal to Anthy as well as himself. That also explains the inclusion of Juri, who otherwise (having no incest and not even really trying to be a prince) is a baffling inclusion in the dueling circuit.

The second is that Anthy can't pretend to love a man to save her life. Even in the first round of student council duels when she's not really supposed to express autonomy, she goes out of her way to flame the men who lose to Utena, like calling Saionji senpai or straight up cheering for Utena in front of Miki. She can't even convincingly love Akio-- she acts like a doll around him, just saying yes and no, and of course big brother like he's Saionji or Touga.

It goes so far that even when it's her job to pretend to be gentle, loving Mamiya for Mikage, she literally acts like a depressed robot. She never once laughs with a man or enjoys being around one. It's not even that she isn't attracted to men, there's a pretty solid case to be made that she absolutely hates men and loves to see them suffer. When she leaves Akio, it's with her most scathing burn to date: "by all means, feel free to stay in your coffin and continue to play prince". She was waiting to unload on that son of a bitch.

But most crucially, to me, Anthy vocally rejecting the idea that a girl could be her prince is the spiritual climax of the duel called revolution; whether Akio wins or loses, he's going to turn to Anthy and wait patiently for her to stab the duelist in the back and tell her a girl can't be her prince. The entire cycle of duels leads up to an extremely coerced declaration of the supremacy of heterosexuality-- one that ANTHY has to do, not Akio, because Anthy is the one it's supposed to hurt. It's supposed to be a big rug pull: yeah, Anthy believed in you so much she pulled a sword out of you. Yeah, she brought you up here to see her little coffin. She might even love you. But even her gay ass knows the rules. "Right, Anthy?" "Yes, Big Brother."

The duels reinforce that Anthy has no hope of escape by specifically teasing her with the exact circumstances she would need to be free of her brother and then forcing her to turn away from them. It's corrective theater papered over corrective rape, engineered to make her hate the girls she loves and herself for betraying them.

And in the aftermath, Akio tells her it's a shame this one couldn't do it either, oh well, better find another girl prince while I marry this failure. Let's kill this one-- you hate her anyway, right? And the cycle continues.

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Oni by farfin

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[mobulavermis]

空空胃

[dorothylovezraccoonzz]

A drawing I’m working on :p

I’m trying to draw as many Hatsune Miku figures that I can to help me with poses and stuff

[akimarshmallow]

RGU handles the topics of grooming and sexual abuse well imo, in particular I think that Utena being groomed by Akio was scarily realistic. The way she misinterprets her own feelings of uncomfortableness and fear as being in love, how she begins losing sight of her identity, how she loses her appetite and hesitates to share what's going on with her friends, the way it portrays the very real feeling of "I feel uncomfortable and scared around this person, but I don't know why because they're just so nice to me, they care about me, it's not like they're hurting me" and as a former victim of grooming its just. OUGH. It's simultaneously scary to feel so seen but also very cathartic

[theenbyroiderer]

My pile of crochet mushrooms. Because seeing them in a pile made me laugh.

[plaidos]

it’s kind of crazy how here on the so-called feminism website you literally can’t say something as simple as “dude is an inherently gendered term” without literally dozens upon dozens of people who consider themselves feminists showing up to say “idk i use it in a gender neutral way”. like idk how to tell you this but the fact that masculine words are considered default/neutral and feminine words are not is, in fact a reflection, of a patriarchal society.

[plaidos]

it’s like clothing. have y’all realised that a lot of clothing brands have started referring to the t-shirt on the left as “default” or “gender neutral” when it was obviously designed to be a men’s. note how the “women’s” or “feminine” cut on the right isn’t considered gender neutral — because it’s designed for women.

putting on our feminist thinking caps for a moment, what do we think it might mean that masculinity & manhood is considered interchangeable with a gender neutral default in a patriarchal society, whereas femininity & womanhood is not? perhaps we even have a word for this phenomenon,

[maths-witch-is-here]

The "men" toilet symbol looks like it could be anyone, but the "women" toilet symbol looks like a 1950s housewife. Almost like half the population are being expected to fulfil a very narrow role and the other half can do whatever, so long as it doesn't involve showing emotions.

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posting old art here…..

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[tothepointofinsanity]

Bewitched.

Loose sequel to this.

[akissthroughtheglass]

"Their Eternal Apocalypse" is such a crazy episode.

Utena moves into the Bop House. Wakaba is like wow I wish the charismatic adult owner of this house for groomed teenage girls liked ME, Utena! Akio sees Anthy having fun with girls her age and mean mugs hard as hell so the audience knows just how sick he is.

Anthy starts being just the tiny bit honest with Utena. We always talk about "If you ever have a problem, I want you to come to me first. That's the kind of friends I want us to be" but we never talk about the immediate flashback of Dios standing over baby Anthy as she says "I understand. From now on, we'll live to help each other." We think about how Anthy said Akio was more like a father than a brother. Anthy backs down from telling Utena about it and goes upstairs to Akio.

"Come to me, Anthy." Just like before. But instead of her blank, obedient, "Yes, big brother", she hesitates. Looks down. He bodily grabs her and pulls her in. If you didn't know by now, you get it. It's never been about love. He's never done anything for her sake.

The sword of Dios doesn't appear. Anthy believes in a different love now. But this, too, is part of the cycle. How many times has a young girl with a noble heart sworn to be her friend and protector? How many times has Anthy moved from the dorms to the Akio Tower and watched those girls be eaten like prime steak by the man who abuses her for fun?

"What's it like, having a little sister?"

"Like the moon. She doesn't serve any purpose, and there's no reason to keep her around. But every once in a while, you look up at her, and it makes you feel better."

Akio Ohtori when I catch you--