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唐可可 oshi Shiorimaxxer Believe in miracles and they will know your feelings( ◠‿◠ )

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Yearly Keke birthday art!!🩵🩵

I’m actually spending her birthday in shanghai rn. Happy birthday Keke（*´▽｀*）

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mirai zura

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Can i request Kotopana being all cute and kissy and pure love

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Hbd to the reason I watched love live in the first place💘💘

[cquaer]

incredibly excited for the new extra juri & shiori get married chapter

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Blink* blink* 😔🥺 😔🥺

So cute 💔

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I’m so hug deprived rn I MISS MY FRIENDS :((((((

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Tiny little shiori's cuz i love her ♥

[radonine]

don't tell me you wound up dead

i'd never believe you anyway

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Fit idea

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I look through my irl friends’ blogs every 2 hours and get disappointed when there’s no new posts

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Post-revolution juriori

Sorry if its stupid but i kinda think like they would be closer after revolution but still shiori playing silly games to keep juri attached to herself npt showing her love to juri but using juris love to feel better.

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Shiori yapping about metaphysics and spirituality

Juriori ideas never end...

[roamingcatholics]

sometimes I’ll see clothes and think they’re utena as hell 

this is supposed to be an inktober shhhhh

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Girlfriends girlfriendss grown upp

Shiori wearing something a bit fancy cuz she cant go out basic while juri is like a fashion icon next to her (juri is not paying attention on what shiori is talking about at all) at first i drew shiori with longer hair but like her bob is just way to iconic to change so.

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Azure, Paler Than the Sky

FINALLY finished this piece, which I started over a year ago. Juri's 2nd duel is one of my favorite moments in Utena. There are so many gut-wrenching shots that I couldn't get out of my head, so I had to draw them all. This'll be available as a print at Lightbox Expo this year!

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Locket vs. Stopwatch

Putting aside the practical reason he uses it, do we think Miki’s stopwatch is his equivalent to Juri’s locket? Both represent time passing, specifically their strong fixation on a version of the past.

Unlike the locket, Miki’s watch has no direct ties to Kozue because he’s still trying to find his “shining thing” while Juri’s already kind of resigned herself to yearning for Shiori. Stopwatches are reset every time they’re done recording a (usually short) interval of time passing, so that could possibly symbolize how the ideal of a “shining thing” only lasts for a short amount of time until the rose-tinted glasses break, “resetting” the cycle afterwards in pursuit of a new one.

Juri’s motive for dueling is more pessimistic in nature. Her locket is worn on a chain around the neck, which is a more vulnerable area. It acts as a leash, giving her respective item a sense of both control and strangulation. These don’t apply to the stopwatch since it’s always held in the hands, which is one of the most externally active body parts. It’s light, functional, used openly, and unless it’s a super luxury stopwatch, has less monetary value. This is all in contrast to the locket which is heavier, hidden away, not particularly functional, and probably more expensive.

So while Miki’s stopwatch represents time moving in a cycle that always returns to one moment in time, Juri’s locket represents staying in and being exclusively focused on one moment in time. Both items represent stagnancy in different ways. In the end, neither of them are really moving forward.

I think the real culmination of Juri and Miki’s parallels is Ruka. As much as it hurts to say, his purpose in the story in relation to the fencing club covert-misogyny-towards-girls-with-purple-hair duo is really interesting so I’ll probably make a part 2.