You're going to be amazing

Rachel | Late 20s | She/They | Bi Icon credit: your-faves-are-bi

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[ludfaace-deactivated20260315]

here’s for my irls and my moots to know precisely what I’m thinking at all times

[chthonic-pain]

Video Description:

A pale person with short brown hair who goes by the handle tboytiefling speaks to the camera. The video is captioned "In honor of OCD awareness month I recorded a bunch of insane OCD thoughts I had this month (the ones that I remembered to record)". The thoughts are as follows.

The teriyaki chicken that you're cooking right now, you actually didn't put teriyaki sauce in it, even though you checked twice, you actually put an entire two-liter of Dr. Pepper in there, so you should probably just dump it all out.

Yeah, when you were grabbing a straw just now, you actually grabbed one that had the wrapper open a little bit which clearly means that someone put poison on the inside of the straw so you should clearly go to the hospital.

You have colon cancer.

On the way home from work you saw that somebody drew a swastika on the side of a bus stop. That was actually you, you just don't remember.

You're not wearing pants right now, you just think that you are.

The drink you just ordered looks like someone already kind of drank out of it, which means that somebody did drink out of it, and that they have herpes, and they gave it to you, and you're gonna be the first person to die of herpes.

I got a drink today from a coffee shop that tasted awful, like physically undrinkable, and this is because obviously they gave me the cup with the rat poison in it when they were making my drink. They keep rat poison in a cup to scare off the rats, this is a very common business practice, obviously.

You bumped into someone in the bathroom also wearing purple, and he knows that you stalked him and decided to wear purple because he was wearing purple and that you're secretly in love with him--stay with me here, I know it's hard to follow.

The reason your friend isn't texting you back right now is because that one time you thought something bad about her in your head, she read your mind and now she hates you.

Whatever's on your phone right now is being screenshared with your entire class, your mother, your father, your grandparents, your aunt, your uncle, everybody can see exactly what you're seeing on your phone, so, keep it PG, I guess.

The 49'ers lost today because I wasn't watching.

Your friend hates you! She must have heard you say something bad about her even though you didn't!

My pupils are different sizes right now, I just can't tell, and I'm having a concussion? Or some sort of stroke, I think is what that means.

End Video Description

[closet-keys]

I have said before that I don't agree with the reactionary tendency to blame "social media" for broader issues, especially at this current moment where (particularly in north america and europe) we're being propagandized constantly to allow increasing censorship and surveillance via "common sense" rhetoric about how evil social media is.

with that said, I think it is necessary to understand policing of online public space as a dimension of the policing of public space more broadly. there is no ''just go outside'' solution to these issues, because ''outside'' is policed as well.

for example, the way that sex workers have been ruthlessly and structurally targeted for social death online is completely in line with how they are treated offline as well. these things work in conjunction. if you make sure someone cannot find and vet clients online, they must do so offline. if you make sure they cannot meet clients indoors, they have to meet them on the street. if they have to meet them on the street, police have more access to these workers (to harass, assault, sexually violate, abduct, and kill them). the whole system works together. every prediction I heard from sex workers in 2016 is the reality today.

so when transfeminized people are talking about being relentlessly harassed off of every social media platform, that is not just an "online" issue. it is happening alongside their being driven out of all public space, online or offline (e.g. with bathroom policing, denial from employment, housing, and shelters, etc.)

when people from the global south are being labeled as "scammers" or "foreign bots" and getting their accounts banned repeatedly, it is part of the exact same ideological justification for border policing, detention, and deportations--it is the constant reinforcement of the idea that these people are "criminal" and here to "take what's yours" and "might appear to be someone struggling but they're not really human."

when images of people with racialized features, fat bodies, facial and skin differences, visible disabilities, intersex and transsexual sexed traits, etc., are repeatedly hidden by algorithms, marked "mature," and censored, this indicates a resurgence of "ugly laws" as part of the broader ascendant eugenics movement. this cannot be divorced from the stigmatization, defunding, dismantling, and criminalization of healthcare for "undesirable" populations.

social media is part of public space. if someone wants to prevent a population from accessing it or being seen within it, this needs to be understood as a call to keep that population out of public space more broadly. if someone who does not own private property (most people) cannot be in public, they must be either trapped within a setting where autonomy is severely limited and communication is surveilled (prisons, detention centers, psych wards, etc) or dead.

[tetrameryxx]

Fursonas are too hard to decide; it's time for radish plantsona.

[playdoughpal]

[image description: Art of a person made of a radish. The bulb is the head, with the white root serving as a long nose. The radish person has a tail and a tuft of hair made out of leaves. They wear jeans and an orange jacket. End ID]

[sallyisdrawing]

Ninth Saint

[ndnbutch]

I get in theory why people complain about het ships or whatever, I get wanting to watch queer media I really do, but I guess where y’all lose me is like. I saw some asshole on a post about Sinners complaining it was “hetslop”—this person was specifically doing so while also claiming Remmick was a queer character and thus they were justified in caring more about him than the Black protagonists. which is a whole other disgusting can of worms that has been well addressed by others at this point. but even in the absence of that part of the argument, like, no, i actually don’t think that a hunger for queer stories is an especially good excuse to deride and dismiss a piece of landmark Black filmmaking, especially as a non-Black person. I have a post that’s been going around encouraging folks to engage with more Native stories and characters, and I had someone come onto that post saying in the tags that they’d need these stories to be queer in order to care. and I just think that, you know, sucks! like obviously as a queer Native I also want to see more of those stories too. but idk how else to put it other than to say that Black people and people of color shouldn’t have to be like you in order for you to care about our narratives and experiences. and I think some of y’all are using this disdain for heterosexuality as a cover for your unexamined racial biases. it’s not okay to be racist to people just because those people happen to be straight, and you continue to be white before you are queer.

[ndnbutch]

on an even more basic level than that, also, I simply just think some of y’all NEED to learn how to interact with media and storytelling without ships and fandom in mind. like if not being able to write fic about two men kissing is genuinely going to be a dealbreaker for you I think that’s actually something you need to work on within yourself because at that point I think you’re no longer really interacting with art and themes and narrative so much as just kind of playing with toys. which is, like, fine I guess. have fun. but it wouldn’t kill you to disengage from that from time to time. especially if would allow you to actually appreciate rich and deeply moving cultural stories from communities of color that you desperately need to learn how to see as human

[taraxippos]

Had been thinking about this post (which is a fake excerpt from an imaginary narrative written to mock 'tumblr prose'), and how most "no actually this is good" comments are highlighting how the construction of individual sentences is interesting, how some of the language is evocative, how it Goes Hard. Because that post is written badly in a very thoughtful manner that focuses on core structural issues rather than going for low hanging fruit of poor technical proficiency with the written word, it is not bad in the most "obvious" of ways. So I think this is a legit learning opportunity, but also I don't want to dunk on anyone so instead I will just preach to the choir of My Followers.

But yeah like to be more constructive than just going "lol tumblr prose bad", really the issue in Large part that characterizes "tumblr prose" (which to be clear I don't think is a discrete thing and at most is a combination of several writing tendencies influenced by the medium of Online) comes down to the lack of real contrast in Any aspect of narrative construction, and an obsession with being quotable and constantly being at 100% of Going Hard (which go hand in hand).

In that post, the character voice is indistinct from that of the narration, and the characters quote one-liners that look Meaningful as excerpts and are borderline nonsensical as dialogue. There is no more than the faintest, most generic hints of characterization; these people exist as vague concepts to say deep words for the reader. The sentence length has little variation from its staccato beat, and so it is awkward to read and fails to complement the action or accomplish anything with the pacing (save for the slight slowdown when the torturer feels all that damp animal electricity). The timing is awkward and exaggeratedly dramatic. The description is a flowery kind of tryhard visceral and seems avoidant of describing anything too directly ("something dark and arterial" where there's nothing being accomplished by conveying uncertainty about what is currently gushing out of the injured character and the simple use of "blood splashed across the stones" would actually be 10x more effective), in a way that does disservice to what is supposed to be a torture scene, and leaves it weightless and ungrounded. In fairness to the people saying "this is good", that is MUCH easier to say when reading this fake excerpt as the standalone piece it actually is, but this kind of writing Cannot function in an actual narrative and is not what an excerpt from well constructed narrative fiction is going to look like basically ever.

It reflects a lot of very typical amateur writing issues that just about everyone has to grow out of (the minimal diversity in sentence length, simulated non-attention to scene pacing and timing), and issues common to fanfiction-influenced writing on social media (allergy to paragraph lengths of more than two sentences, little to no description of the characters or setting because, in fanfiction, the reader already knows their physical characteristics and mannerisms and it doesn't need to be lingered upon, Unlike In Original Fiction). But this particularly hits on an issue I think is semi-unique to narrative writing in the social media milieu, which is a focus on being quotable. This may not even be a conscious impulse at all But It's There. This kinda apparent terror of any moment not being as beautiful and hard hitting as possible (or for comedy, any moment not being A Joke). Everything "Goes Hard", so nothing actually does. A lot of "tumblr prose" type writing is less a narrative, more a string of quotes loosely assembled into narrative that vaguely gestures at things like Plot and Character. It substitutes depth for Suggestions of depth by utilizing stock symbolism without building it into the narrative, and by gesturing at weighty contexts without actually engaging with them. There can be little contrast or effective use of tone, pace, description when your story is a series of Hard Hitting Quotes.

I'm reading Watership Down right now and I think it's a great novel overall and can work as an example of how important it is to utilize contrast in your writing.

This segment is the lengthy first description of the titular down, which the rabbits are now encountering for the first time:

Adams is slowing the pace here to introduce us to the setting of the next segment of the book. The average sentence length is very long and keeps us lingering in the sensory detail, while still varied and thus smoothly readable. This new place is introduced by simultaneously conveying its physical description in vivid detail and conveying its feeling and character, and getting the most out of every described feature to do so. The thorn trees are "wind stunted". The air is "scented". The language takes on a very flowery character and heavily utilizes simile and metaphor. Woodland is "tumultuous with evening", sunlight filters through grass "like a wind" to the small creatures below, in contrast to laying "like a gold rind" on the hill when seen from a distance. This grandiose description is heavily functional and conveys both exhaustive physical detail and a feeling that this place is beautiful, awe inspiring to something like a rabbit, and full of life, though not without quiet hints of danger. It hits because Not Everything In The Book Is Described This Way. It means something that we're lingering like this and stopping to get a sense of this place on every possible level, and moving away from more direct, simple prose to convey the feeling of the place in depth.

This segment describes the rabbit Bigwig being found caught in a snare:

The prose here here has the opposite approach of the first excerpt. The language is concise, direct, and brutal. It only veers slightly away from the literal to describe Bigwig's voice as 'bubbling out' from his mouth, both conveying that the saliva and blood in his mouth is literally bubbling as he speaks, and implying the unsettling way his voice sounds as he's being strangled. The sentences are much shorter on the whole, as fit for the pacing of a tense and rapidly changing scene, and the timing closely complements the action - "There was a pause" not only conveys That There Was A Pause but interrupts the rhythm of this segment; the moment of uneasy stillness is echoed in the act of reading itself.

The scene this is excerpted from is extremely effective and does in fact Go Hard, it's well constructed in of itself but its effectiveness mostly lies in its place in the narrative. It's the culmination of a long, tense buildup as the reader becomes more aware that something is deeply Wrong about the place the rabbits are in, and the payoff is effective in being blunt and visceral, which hits because Not Everything In The Book Is Described This Way. Nothing about these excerpts are particularly quotable because that is actually not what good narrative writing is about.

[not-adequately-small]

bill & alice // DIE YOUR DAUGHTER

[biglawbear]

I'm instituting a new policy of "if I can't easily read your crusty scanned PDF then I'm sending it back to you, telling you to get your shit together and save your .docx as .pdf, and causing snakes to manifest inside your house"

[christaaah]

this but also if you are in accounting and you have an Excel file please do not save it as a PDF or take a screenshot of it and then paste it into another Excel file

[biglawbear]

I take it back whatever you have going on is way worse than what I was dealing with holy shit

[firstbornsons-deactivated202605]

@thesummoningdark hello?????

[thesummoningdark]

yeah no this is a real thing an actual human being said to me

[biglawbear]

Good afternoon to everyone in the notes having a horrible time! Y'all are fighting demons I never knew existed!! I think every person that makes you do stupid time wasting shit like this because they refuse to learn basic computer literacy should be fired!!

[shadowsong26x]

image descriptions: several sets of tumblr tags

image 1: uncredited #shoutout to the person from the admin team who once sent me an excel sheet #and told me to print it out and fill it in BY HAND #and then scan it and send it back to her #and when I cautiously asked if there was a reason why I couldn't just fill it out on the computer #she gave me a look of mild surprise #and replied 'oh you could do that I suppose' #?????? #what the fuck is your team doing up there??

image 2: tags from lordmaddie #Once one of my colleagues, after asking a user for a screenshot of the error they were seeing #Received, some days later, a letter from said user #They'd taken their laptop to the scanner, SCANNED THE SCREEN #printed off the scan, and POSTED IT TO OUR OFFICE

image 3: tags from nukenai #my job is literally reviewing documentation that has been submitted #things have to be uploaded digitally #either by the consumer or by a worker assisting them #the amount of times i receive photographs of phones with photos of ID cards on them is insane #like. just upload. from that phone. #the phone you are photographing #why are you photographing your phone with another phone why are you ding this

image 4: tags from jarino #i used to have managers print out their filled out forms and then send me a picture of said form #instead of just...sending the form

image 5: tags from hematiterings #I used to work on PDFs by annotating them with the Adobe tool #and once someone replied to my comments on a pdf #by making a PowerPoint with screenshots of the pdf and writing their answers to me in the comments of the ppt #I have no idea why they did this btw

image 6: tags from iljanne #work and it related: i had to share links to all our sharepoint folders for a coworker #no one could get her access for 2 years and counting #and then my other coworker turned to me after i explained what i did 'oh yeah thats what we did for the boss! ah.. we. couldve done that #for nadia. huh...' #like yeAH #TWO YEARS #You had the SOLUTION??

image 7: uncredited, partially cut off email me what was clearly a printed out Excel file that they'd then filled out by hand and scanned back into the system #Presumably something they did when they realized they couldn't fax it over #I am not kidding when I say I don't understand how society continues to function when the tech skill level is so low #Even in my own office it's disturbing #There was an office-wide freak-out bc I used the color-categorize option on some emails. #Where all these colors coming from?! #I don't understand!!! #The handful of ppl in the office with a brain tried to explain to them but they were like chickens with their heads cut off :/ #The other day it was two of my coworkers not understanding how to message someone on Teams that wasn't already in their chat history #...we've used Teams for like five years now. And even if you didn't already "know" the process for it it's so easy/intuitive to click around #and find out? This has to be that fundamental lack of curiosity thing some people have going on #Bc believe me. I get it being difficult--ever since I became visually impaired it's sooo much harder to learn new tech/software-- #but it's not impossible

image 8: tags from lensdeer #my boss regularly sends me the worst fucking excel files in history so yeag i believe that #shes sent me crusty phone pictures of excel file printouts and asked me to input what she wrote into the file

image 9: tags from moonybyte #literally what it's like whenever I have to order stuff at my job #most of the stuff we can just fill in and send around/save as a file perfectly fine #but if I have to order something? #print the sheet #sign it #scan that back in #put the scanned document into ANOTHER document #save that document as pdf to send it to my superiors #who then supposedly print that out and send it via actual non-digital mail #the process of all that always makes me question things sometimes

image 10: tags from cryptidfloyd #one time my boss printed out 40 of the exact same sheets and told me to write the same thing on all of them #and i tried to say "couldnt i just do one sheet and copy it 39 times" but she kept interrupting me telling me "just write x on them" #i did the copies anyway #i think she was mad i thought of it and she didnt #she probably would have told me no if someone she liked didnt tell me how good of an idea it was (help me) #she is constantly making shit endlessly more complicated than it needs to be

image 11: tags from hollowedskin #my partner who supervises the robot packaging section of the factory #and has to report numbers at the end of every shift #told me recently that his boss #(a man who makes more than twice as much as him) #cannot figure out how to open an Excel file that has been emailed to him #and requires my partner to screenshot each page #print them out #and walk them up to his office #mans fucking JOB is LOGISTICS

[loveridden1999]

Hi Vio, do you know of any reputable organizations that take donations for heatwave relief in India?

actionaidindia seedsindia planindia project tapan

you can donate as less as $2 and it'd make much difference and even if you cannot just keep talking & spreading awareness!!

[spiralstaircased]

people are getting high as fuck on new stupid drug called "night drawing" its making them stay iup all the goddamn night drawing. and brother let me tell you. the drawings. not even good

[bexism]

the pitt | i got soul but i'm not a soldier

[catjacket-scribbles]

that mouth of yours is gonna get you into trouble

[positivelyqueer]

[ID: digital illustration featuring Frank Langdon and Trinity Santos from the tv show The Pitt. Their portraits appear on a purple and blue gradient background along side definitions of the word "Hardmouthed." Text reads: "hardmouthed, adj. [the phonetic spelling.] 1. (of a dog) possessing a lack of proper bite inhibition, resulting in a tendency to chew or mangle intended game." Beside is a portrait of Frank, labelled "fig. 1." In the corner is a hunting dog holding the neck of a large waterbird in its jaws. Text continues: "2. (of a horse) not easily directed by the pressure of a bit in the mouth, a product of desensitization from rough handling." Beside is a portrait of Trinity, labelled "fig. 2" In the corner is a rearing horse, wearing a bit and bridle. The lead rope is being pulled by a rider on another horse mostly out of frame. Below is an illustration of a stethoscope, labelled "fig. 3." Text concludes: "3. (in character) headstrong, self-willed." /end ID]

[starfoozle]

Heatwave Recipe Recommendations

The heat’s been brutal this summer but we still gotta eat! If you’re like me, heat might suppress your appetite, and the last thing any of us want is to sweat over a hot stove and oven when it’s already boiling outside. Here are some of my favorite hot-weather recipes to keep hydrated and fed with when the weather is unbearable! (All recipes should be un-paywalled).

NYT’s best gazpacho (lives up to its name!!)

Persian cold cucumber soup (if you like tzatziki you will like this!)

Eric Kim’s cold noodles with tomato (infinitely riffable Korean flavor profile — for a creamier and less brothy take, try these cold sesame noodles too)

Vietnamese chicken and herb salad (this is an excellent time to get a rotisserie chicken so you don’t have to turn the oven on)

Radish sandwiches with butter and salt (and in a similar vein, if you dig this flavor combo you should try this Polish cottage cheese dip on some good rye bread or even crackers)

It’s still a little early in the season, but you can never go wrong with a BLT (or, if you don’t eat bacon, try this tomato furikake sandwich in its place)

Infinite iterations of pasta salad! You can use anything you got but here is a template I like.

Assorted dense bean salads. This back pocket canned salad is a weird combo of jarred ingredients but it slaps, this hoagie-inspired one is super satisfying, and cowboy caviar is a classic for a reason.

Poke bowls! Canned tuna mixed with some kewpie mayo and sriracha is a budget-friendly riff on the usual ahi and makes everything taste like a spicy tuna roll, but use whatever proteins you like, this is more of a loose template.

Please feel free to add some of your own favorite summer recipes in the replies and comments! We’ll get through this together. 🤝🤝🤝

[flintandpyrite]

If you can buy pre cooked or canned beets at the store, chłodnik (beet yogurt soup) is a great choice. You can leave out the radishes if you can’t get them.

I also love sardines on fresh bread and butter with assorted vegetables. Buy the fanciest canned sardines you can afford but even regular ones are pretty good. Plus, very healthy!

[coffinbutch]

This requires cooking some of its ingredients but here's another eastern European cold soup that I like:

Okroshka (Cold Summer Soup)

Cold summer soup Okroshka is made with boiled and fresh vegetables, eggs, fresh summer herbs, and meat. Perfect option for hot summer days

I make it vegetarian by leaving out the meat and adding some white beans + upping the seasoning

[spookfished]

Mul-naengmyeon (Korean cold noodles in chilled broth) 물냉면

Korean icy cold noodles are so savory and refreshing, they are an awesome way to cool down in the summer but I eat them all year round. Why?

its a bit elaborate, but im a big fan of mul-naengmyeon! its a cold noodle soup :] maangchi has a cute video for it here

[peatbogbody]

https://thewoksoflife.com/spicy-cold-tofu-liangban-dofu/

i always try to have at least one block of shelf-stable silken tofu on hand so i can make this

[undeadhousewife]

My go to summer meal is Balela. Extremely easy to make, requires no cooking, and can be doctored up to your tastes by adding things like feta, sunflower seeds, etc. I usually serve it over lettuce.

Balela Salad (Mediterranean Chickpea Salad)

Balela salad (Mediterranean chickpea salad) is bursting with fresh herbs and zesty flavor from the fresh lemon garlic dressing!

[gvalesdraws]

picture "raimond davinos' genes never stood a chance"

[jadeandquartzes]

[id: artwork of maya and julien davinos. they are drawn standing beneath a green and red archway or border, made up of vines, a sword, and an armored hand holding a rose. A pink-orange sky is visible behind them. maya is taller and older, wearing a green dress with gold edging and several layers of necklaces. julien stands beside her with his hands behind his back, wearing a black and gold doublet over a red shirt. both of them have similar long, curly black hair, and the same dour facial expression. end id.]

[chevrefoille]

rgu + How to be a Dog by Andrew Kane, part 2

part 1

[theatricuddles]

[ID: A series of screencaps from Revolutionary Girl Utena with quotes from the poem "How to be a Dog".

The first image is of Anthy and Utena looking at each other with text reading "Of course you must learn to love'.

Young Anthy is placing her hand on Dios' forehead with text reading "to love always".

Touga, shirtless in his bandages, tucks a hand under Nanami's chin and uses it to tilt her head up with text reading "to love entirely".

A silhouette of Anthy being pierced by the thousand swords of hate with text reading "and to be wounded by nothing so much as the violence of your own love".

Nanami, standing in her nightgown, presses a hand to the glass to look out at the stars with text reading "You must learn to be confused".

Anthy is laying in Akio's lap as he traces his hand against her cheek with text reading "but never disappointed by".

Dozens of swords criss-cross in front of Anthy, framing her eyes, with text reading "a deficiency of love".

Nanami stands in front of a giant glowing egg with text reading "You must give up your children and not know why."

There are several members of the fencing club standing "You must lose yourself wholly in activity".

Touga is riding his bicycle with Saionji perched on the back of it, with text reading "you must never feel an itch that you do not scratch".

Utena is sitting off of the bed she shares with Anthy wearing her pajamas as text reads "you must learn how to wait at the foot of the bed and hope".

Anthy lays on the bed with nobody on the opposite side of her looking at the ceiling with text reading "silently".

Most of the screencap is black except for a small section like a window with cocktails full of ice. Text reads "that somebody is drunk enough".

Touga lies on his back with his shirt open, resting his hands on his chest, with text reading "or lonely enough".

Utena is naked and Akio is framed over her, his hand clutching hers, with text reading "to invite you up".

Utena and Anthy are standing on opposite sides of the table in Akio's apartment as text reads "and you must learn not to show your excitement or overplay your hand".

Young Utena, dressed in her early prince uniform and standing proudly, reads "if you want to be a dog".

Utena is slumping over the edge of the path after freeing Anthy from her coffin, "you must learn to believe you are not in fact a dog at all".]

[chevrefoille]

rgu + How to be a Dog by Andrew Kane, part 1

part 2

[theatricuddles]

[ID: A series of screencaps of Revolutionary Girl Utena with text from "How to be a Dog" edited over them.

In the first image, Anthy looks up at the ceiling of the planetarium with text reading "If you want to be a dog, first you must learn to wait".

The second image shows Anthy in her coffin with a crack of light pouring in. Text reads "you must wait all day until somebody returns",

The third image shows Utena and Anthy falling asleep across the table holding each other's hands. "And if someone returns late, you must learn to wait until then."

Akio rests a hand on top of Dios' shoulder as the text continues "Then you must learn to speak in one of the voices available to you"

Anthy waters her plants inside of her rose garden with text reading "high and light".

Utena holds a hand up showing her rose ring as text reads "or mellow thick and low".

Nanami stands scowling with her arms crossed as text reads "or middle-range and terse".

Young Anthy stands outside the cottage with the angry mob around her shouting and text reading "Whichever voice you learn to speak, you will meet someone who does not like you because of it,"

Saionji slaps Anthy across her face with text reading "they will be wary or annoyed",

Anthy sits at the piano in the same style as flashbacks showing Miki and Kozue, "or you will remind them of something".

Anthy holds her hand out with an orange rose and text reading "or someone else".

Anthy is standing in the shadows underneath the bridge, light glinting off her glasses. Text reads "Once you have learned to speak, you must learn not to speak".

Anthy pulls a sword out of Utena's chest with text reading "until you absolutely must".

Touga stands in the foreground, watching Nanami and Utena fight with swords with text over them reading "or to speak as much as you feel you must".

The headlights of a car shine through an archway with text reading "no matter how many times you are told to stop".

Kanae sits in a chair waiting as text over her reads "or sit".

Nanami sits on the floor outside of the greenhouse with Touga and Keiko inside, arm wrapped aroudn herself with text reading "or placed behind a door".

Dios is dancing with two different women, Utena in her princess attire and Anthy in her rose bride attire, with text reading "this will depend on what kind of dog you want to be."

Text over the student council (Touga, Nanami, Miki, Juri, and Saionji) reads "and indeed there are many kinds".

Touga pulls Nanami close to him in the aftermath of their duel, "It may not feel as if you get to choose, and that too is a kind of dog."

Utena is sitting on a horse with Akio, clinging to him, as text reads "Next you may learn to relinquish all control over everything you wish to control".

Utena is reflected in Anthy's glasses as she tries on the earrings Akio gave her, with text reading "You must learn to prefer to be led about by the neck on a piece of string,"

Anthy is lying, undressed and in pain, on the stairs that Akio abandoned her on, with text reading "or staked to a neglected lawn by a length of chain,"

A closeup of Anthy and Utena's entertwined fingers as text reads "You must learn, once you have sampled the freedom of a life without chain"

Anthy drives a sword through Utena with text reading "that it is better to return and be chained again".

Anthy sets her glasses down next to a pile of letters with text reading "Or you may learn that it is not,"

Anthy walks out of Ohtori with her suitcase as text reads "a fugitive is also a kind of dog".]

[manglestar]

looks like mama

[anistarrose]

[ID: sprite redraws of Carol and Noelle from Deltarune with similar intense expressions, staring at the viewer and scowling angrily. End ID.]