ambi is tired all the time

They would rather pick up a sword to basically threaten their brown prince than use it to actually defend the women they claim to care about. The hate is easily directed towards a more acceptable target, a brown girl, but the witch takes the sword in place of her prince.

Blown away by the impact of seeing the Utena movie on the big screen where I could soak in all the visual details that were meant to be absorbed large.

I knew before even going in that I'd want my sketchbook drawing of this movie to be based on the dance in the rose garden but I was surprised by how captivated I was with the moment right before. Utena, on the ground, vulnerable, the stars and roses around her.

throughout the story of utena, the ones who "revolutionize the world" are generally seen as the ones who buy the most into the patriarchal system and want to uphold it. their "revolution" is in controlling others for the sake of their own ego, not about genuine change. they all see themselves as revolutionary, but none of them revolutionize anything. they are all tools of the system and fail to escape it.

utena's "revolution," then, is when she no longer buys into that system. the "revolution" of rgu is one in which you realize the system is broken and reject it entirely. this could be read as an individualist perspective, but i don't think that's necessarily the case. rather, rgu's core tenant is that you cannot control other people. everyone has agency, and they must decide how to use that agency themselves. attempting to control others is childish. becoming an adult is realizing the only person you can change is yourself.

the reason i don't think rgu is about systemic change or revolution in the leftist sense is because the story ends before we can begin to see how rgu views that process. our characters' arcs are about rejecting the current system, not about building a new one, which is fundamental to the idea of revolution. the world outside the current system is a complete unknown to the characters and the audience. we don't know what a different world would look like. that's part of what's so scary about rejecting the current system, but rgu insists it's still worth it.

new duo i made up after watching adolescence of utena

Finally got some time to do whatever this is happy late pride month

Finally got some time to do whatever this is happy late pride month

Are you lost?

another version

Before I finished the linework, I had zero desire to make Nemuro suffer， just wanted the poses to convey how utterly shattered he is by his relationships. But of course, as soon as people saw the WIP, everyone assumed I was drawing incest…

ITS FINALLY DONE , my fanart for this fic ^^ by @onionstar123 on AO3 , you cant actually tell much from the cropping so heres the full version

😔i will be going on a trip tomorrow so i cant fix the the utena that is kinda unfinished and in a completly diffrent artstyle which is why i cropped her , and i couldnt add the hidden anthy face so i just hinted at her with the mamiya hairstyle being slightly more resembling of anthy in both color and shape 💔