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im-caky

dusty days concept stuff

sastreon

pomni ❤️

#tadc

sunchie

hurt slash comforts you

drew ragatha again

The amazing dream circus🎪👁️👁️

I can't wait to see the new episode, but I'm also scared…….

Hehe

teeny tiny

that is all

also rewatched the first episode of rgu last night and was thrown off by the mention of a regional basketball tournament. can you imagine being a regular school basketball team and having to play against the surreal psychological horror metaphor and allegory school team

#rgu

abettertomorrow

nothing frustrates me like the belief that following utena was obviously the better choice and that anthy stayed with akio because of being duped or simply lacking courage.

an incomplete list of reasons utena gives anthy to distrust and despise her:

not only forgetting about her completely after making a grand promise to save her, but fixating on the occasion as a romantic promise with dios. this alone justifies the stabbing

idolizing her abuser in general while anthy knows exactly what he is. of course anthy would doubt her judgement

aspiring to be a hero with no experience of the sacrifice anthy knows deeply, wanting to save anthy without knowing that anthy made a choice to be the rose bride or why. utena didn't show her that selflessness or nobility was possible, but that somebody else would finally do it for HER

being oblivious to her own charmed position and not understanding that anthy cannot make friends the way she can, downplaying the adoration she receives from other students, pushing anthy to socialize when she doesn't want to, being unable to grasp the resentment of the black rose duelists, even her own close friend

the affection of someone who doesn't know you and lashes out for the "betrayal" of you being incested is not reliable. akio is nothing if not committed to keeping her

we remember that dios wanted to be a prince and couldn't take the burden when it wasn't just being praised and escaped from it by vilifying anthy right

please put more respect on anthy

#rgu

sugurt

Pomnis epic move

I made this in between breaks while working hehe

#tadc

twisted8wasted

Never got the chance to turn one of these into an illustration :(

Old thumbnail sketches i did of my new favorites , i love love love love love them fr

Ask me why Miki has spirals in his hair

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frostbitfawn

I hate rgu fan's refusal to accept the idea that the show is racist. anthy is a south-asian coded racialized character who unfortunately plays into a lot of stereotypes associated with south asians. the only reason we know she is south asian is because of the bindi on her forehead. akio as the representative of the patriarchy is south asian and plays into the "brown rapist" stereotype. the only reason anthy and akio were racialized was to Other them. to say that the show is a thoughtful depiction of racism and colonialism is to give the show far more credit than it deserves. to say that race is a blind spot in the show is doing much the same. that's not to say that any analysis of utena through the lense of race is worthless, it actually adds to the show's critique of the structures of oppression. especially since racism is kind of inseparable to them. but that analysis can go hand in hand with acknowledging the show's inherent racism. a lot of south asians, including me identify with anthy as a character and they have given a lot of excellent meta that enriches the show but i don't want anyone to use that fact as a card to deny her orientalized depiction.

to add to this, a lot of rgu fans who try to analyse the show through a racial lense will impose western ideas of race onto the characters, this feels like ignorance of the very idea that racism can exist beyond the white/poc dichotomy and it's racism within itself. every character in the show is japanese in a japanese setting, anthy and akio are racialized due to being the only south asians in a majorly japanese setting. any analysis of utena that doesn't take this fact into account is worthless.

#rgu