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I've created a new account, @artisticicecream , where I only upload my art. I'll continue to post art here, I just created that account so my art wouldn't be lost between all the reblogs, 'cause I don't reblog there. so I post my art on both accounts
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I love the sapphic vibes of Nana so much
Their first meeting being Nana K literally falling onto Nana O like a romcom then sitting with her and her internal monologue speedrunning calling her beautiful, handsome, saying her makeup is gorgeous and blushing over her in about 2 minutes flat
Saying in the narration if Nana was a man she'd be the love of her life
Nana giving Hachi her jacket when she was cold (also a classic romantic interest thing to do)
Hachi saying she doesn't need a boyfriend, just Nana because she won't get jealous and then proceeding to get extremely jealous of how close Nana and Misato are, wondering if they're sleeping together when Misato stays over in Nana's room and thinks if Nana was into girls she'd be a top
Hachi saying "I'd rather treat you like a boyfriend than a female friend"
Hachi not telling Nana about her staying over at T*kumi's hotel room (usually something a character would do if they didn't want to hurt a romantic interest/crush's feelings)
Nana saying she felt like a teenage boy falling in love
Nana (although it was Ren first) calling the letter Hachi left for her at their apartment when Hachi moved out a love letter
Nana thinking about how since BLAST had their debut confirmed she could provide for Hachi and her kid (aka take T*kumi's place)
i think it’s really cute how utena and anthy both have their full names perfectly equal and represented in their ship title; most ship names shorten or exclude parts of the name, or lean toward one name or the other in the amount of character given, but Nope! utenanthy. they’re both all there, just sharing their one a. :]
i think that… approximately 100% of the time, parents, teachers, etc… have this misconception that neurodivergent kids & teens don’t know anything about how to handle their neurodivergence.
for years, i suffered through people making suggestions of things that were things i had done, and either weren’t worth the effort or they actually made things worse. i told them this, and if i was still having any issues with the same problem they’d say something about “well if you’re not gonna listen to any suggestions…” when I did. they’re the one who didn’t listen when i told them that doesn’t work for me. They assume that because I didn’t try it in front of them (which is often impossible), I never tried it. I tried doing my homework as soon as I got home. I tried doing my homework at the table, I tried working where I was comfortable. I tried listening to music, I tried working in silence. I tried using a planner, I tried setting reminders on my phone, I tried. I tell people that I have executive functioning issues and they say that I have to work on it like I haven’t been doing that as long as I’ve had to do things and it’s so much better than it was before. I’m as able as I am now because I’ve spent 18 years working on it.
One of my friends has ADHD, and at one point when her grades dropped her parents took her phone, despite her telling them that the only way she can focus on her homework is to listen to music, for which she needs her phone.
I was in a study hall with another friend, who also has ADHD. Sometimes, they would be able to focus and do their work. Others, they would end up being entirely unable to and would do other stuff. The “instructional support” person would start bothering them about it, insist that they try. As if they hadn’t already done so.
I am tired of watching people assume that neurodivergent people aren’t trying, or we haven’t tried. We’re always trying.
Fucking this
Also: after thirty-mumble years of living with autism, I CAN in fact usually tell right away when trying - trying AT THAT PARTICULAR TASK, AT THAT PARTICULAR TIME, IN THAT PARTICULAR WAY - is going to be useless. Just like someone who’d been living with chronic pain for an equal amount of time would be able to tell the difference between a “I can manage if I’m careful and conserve energy” day and a “not going to happen” day.
It’s not being “lazy” or “defeatist” or “not showing the right attitude”. It’s being unwilling to throw good energy after bad in order to satisfy some NT person’s need to make sure we’re “trying hard enough”.
before I got diagnosed with ADHD I realised the only way I could focus on my homework was by alternating between doing it for 5mins and watching Star Trek for 5mins. My parents were not impressed and insisted I stop watching TV. Surprisingly that did not help. I remember my dad telling me to ‘crack on with it’, still get anxious when I hear that phrase lol. Nowadays I use a modified version of the pomodoro method and its honestly the biggest thing carrying me through the boring bits of uni.
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Once again, I am thinking of Mikage as Utena’s mirror
The desire to free someone from an unfortunate fate. The way they cannot see the manipulation that impacts them. Dare I say, the way they both seem to crave a familial unit, regardless of how that ideal gets warped as it’s projected onto them. Pink hair. (That one’s a little bit of a joke, but really, why do that if not to further highlight their similarities?)
Usually in fairy tales, the heroine's connection to animals shows us how compassionate and kind she is. With the animals in question usually being forest critters. But just like any other aspect of femininity, that is also weaponized against Anthy, and she weaponizes it against Nanami which weaponizes it against Anthy which weaponizes it against Nanami in a never ending cycle. If I remember correctly, the first time we see an animal in relation to Anthy, it's a mouse, which of course makes us think of Cinderella, which is probably associated with mice because they are a relatively common house pest, and Cinderella is a slave working in the house all day because of her abusive family and yet still finds compassion for and companionship with something as commonly detested as a mouse. We're alredy finding some similarities. But the next time Utena opens the door, Anthy's there and along with the seemingly "magical" transformation from being a ruin to clean caused by Anthy's labour, the mouse has also went through a magical transformation (keeping with the Cinderella motif) into a colorful mouse-monkey-thing (the marketable plushie type you usually find in magical girl shows), and most importantly, into Anthy's friend and the manifestation of her emotions. Usually, those kinds of connections in fairy tales remain unquestioned, but Utena gives Anthy quite a lot of side-eye for her only friend being a rat. monkey. thing. At this point it has yet to be weaponized against her but anyone, but it is pointed out as weird.
The next appearance I can remember is when Nanami tries to frame Anthy for having snails (an animal seen as digusting and undesirable) in her pencilcase. But Anthy has a certain amount of control in this fairy tale like world as long as she realizes it and has the courage to use it, which, at this point, is usually used at her bratty reflection, Nanami, who, as far as I've understood, started this whole thing, and at this point, Anthy knows. You like your brother, don't you? Isn't he the best, purest, strongest man? Can't he protect you? And yet, instead of helping him, you tear down those you deem competetion. You hate me, don't you? I do too. I know what you're thinking. You want to put a single snail in my pencilcase? I can do better. I can put several. I can put them there intentionally. I can attach myself to those vile creatures, almost as vile as us, and give them names. I can look you in the eyes and smile as I do so. And now you're powerless again, as you should be. No one can hurt me anymore, but I can hurt you.
Animals are repeatedly used to dehuminize Nanami, but every Utena fan already knows that ans its connection to Anthy. Calves are easily bound and slaughtered. Pity the poor family of a girl who would dishonor them by laying eggs.
I might add stuff later, I'm going to bed.
The way Utena conflates godhood with ideal masculinity with an innocent childhood. The way none of them ever really existed. The way they are constantly enforced. I'm so fascinated by the way Utena uses religion as part of its language to convey its themes of gender and childhood. Someone please link me an analysis of how religious imagery is used in Utena
Starting a fun new challenge called:
How long until this cool new artist I found does something antisemitic
Try it today!
i hate the word spicy can we bring back calling things erotic
rolling up to Wendy's to get an erotic chicken sandwich
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tousai is so crazy cuz like. like. ok. imagine telling the man you love that he's never loved anyone, and is incapable of seeing people as anything other than tools-- knowing full well that that's exactly how he sees you. because he knows you love him and you know he knows, and he uses you and you let him because it's the only way to be close to him. but you make sure to tell the man who calls you his 'only true friend' that friendship isn't real and you've never been friends. both as a way to retroactively put distance between you two (can't friendzone me if friends aren't real ha!) but also to let him know that you're not buying his bullshit. like "yeah jackass. you're gonna look me in my face tell me im your best and only friend, and then the second i turn my back you're going to destroy the diary i gave you for safekeeping. because you hated that i had the gall to ask something of you, or because it was a record of my infatuation for a person that wasn't you, or maybe just cuz you could. and you're gonna swear to me you'll treasure it then stare into the flames as it burns. go on do it. i dare you." saionji needs touga to think that the only power he has over him is the kind he handed over willingly--which is a lie that neither of them believe, but hey, the illusion of power is better than none. saionji maintains this illusion desperately, not just because it's the only way to keep his dignity and sanity, but also because it's the only way touga can maintain even a sliver of respect for him-- and saionji, in turn, can maintain a sliver of hope that touga will one day see him as an equal.
all of which is delicious on its own, but reaches a whole other level when you realize that's the exact same lie touga tells himself. the illusion of power, the illusion of choice--because touga's relationship with akio is also a case of abuse, but touga has convinced himself otherwise: he tells himself that it's not abuse if he chooses it, that he's not a victim if he put himself in that position on purpose, that he hasn't truly given up his power if he's doing it willingly. (and if you've seen the movie, you know exactly why touga is so terrified of being in that position. again). and so he abuses because he wants power, and he wants power because he thinks it's the only way to escape abuse. touga offers up saionji, his so-called best friend, to the literal devil on a fucking platter, uses him as both a stepping stool and a shield: "see akio, you may be using me, but i'm also using him. i'm your underling but i have underlings of my own. i'm not so different from you. you're not that much more powerful than me. so we can be equals one day-- right? right?"
no one believes it. but they tell themselves the same lie over and over: that the illusion of power is better than none.
This is literally how the shadow girls talk in utena
I’m thinking about what I really liked about the end of the Utena TV series and it actually reminded me of something I also loved about Madoka Magica’s TV ending. Madoka framed itself as a deconstruction of magical girl anime, one that exposes the horror of young girls being convinced to give up their autonomy and normal lives to fight unimaginable horrors. But by the end it becomes a reconstruction. Madoka states that the purpose of magical girls is to make people happy and she becomes a concept that provides hope and comfort to struggling young girls across the world (a metaphor for the escapist power of the genre). Utena meanwhile is a series in conversion with fairy tales, and especially with their influence on Shoujo. It dissects the myth of heroic princes rescuing princesses by exposing that as a concept rooted in arbitrary assumptions of class and gender. The student council playing at nobility sets them up to be victimised by a monstrous adult, and Utena slowly realises that, to help the one person she wants to the most, she can’t do so as a prince. Her gender nonconformity is her own, but she can’t fight patriarchy while participating in it. And the one character who once used to be a prince, learned a long time ago that this was incompatible with reality, and has since sunk into his own resentment to become the biggest monster in the story.
At the same time, Utena is a story that asks WHY we tell these fairy tales if they’re so entrenched in heteronormativity and false ideals of aristocratic nobility. And its answer is that…well, when you strip away those patriarchal trappings, we like stories about people who act out of courage, compassion and selfless love. The last sight we see of Utena in the show is her lying there dying, sobbing as she begs Anthy to forgive her for not being the prince she needed. But ironically, Utena succeed at being the truest depiction of what that fairy tale hero is supposed to be. Someone driven by nothing more than selfless, boundless love. She proved herself to be truly ‘noble’ free from any kind of class and gendered trappings of that phase. Not because it was princely, but because in a setting full of kids playing at nobility and maturity but who can never really grow up; she made the most adult decision of all. It’s an easy hot take to say fairy tales are patriarchal. Look at the 2000s Buzzfeed articles about Disney princesses. Utena says that’s only true because of who controls the narrative. That we like these stories not because of the roles of prince or princess, but because of the emotions they speak to. And those don’t have to be bound to each other. A story of one girl helping another to free herself from abuse is just as timeless a fairy tale as any other. Given the increased prevelance of ‘romantasy’ in young people’s reading spaces lately, I think that’s a pretty timely message: Why we gravitate to romantic heroes, how they can be so deeply gendered, and how those stories can be liberated from those gender roles to preserve their timeless core.
I’m thinking about what I really liked about the end of the Utena TV series and it actually reminded me of something I also loved about Madoka Magica’s TV ending. Madoka framed itself as a deconstruction of magical girl anime, one that exposes the horror of young girls being convinced to give up their autonomy and normal lives to fight unimaginable horrors. But by the end it becomes a reconstruction. Madoka states that the purpose of magical girls is to make people happy and she becomes a concept that provides hope and comfort to struggling young girls across the world (a metaphor for the escapist power of the genre). Utena meanwhile is a series in conversion with fairy tales, and especially with their influence on Shoujo. It dissects the myth of heroic princes rescuing princesses by exposing that as a concept rooted in arbitrary assumptions of class and gender. The student council playing at nobility sets them up to be victimised by a monstrous adult, and Utena slowly realises that, to help the one person she wants to the most, she can’t do so as a prince. Her gender nonconformity is her own, but she can’t fight patriarchy while participating in it. And the one character who once used to be a prince, learned a long time ago that this was incompatible with reality, and has since sunk into his own resentment to become the biggest monster in the story.
At the same time, Utena is a story that asks WHY we tell these fairy tales if they’re so entrenched in heteronormativity and false ideals of aristocratic nobility. And its answer is that…well, when you strip away those patriarchal trappings, we like stories about people who act out of courage, compassion and selfless love. The last sight we see of Utena in the show is her lying there dying, sobbing as she begs Anthy to forgive her for not being the prince she needed. But ironically, Utena succeed at being the truest depiction of what that fairy tale hero is supposed to be. Someone driven by nothing more than selfless, boundless love. She proved herself to be truly ‘noble’ free from any kind of class and gendered trappings of that phase. Not because it was princely, but because in a setting full of kids playing at nobility and maturity but who can never really grow up; she made the most adult decision of all. It’s an easy hot take to say fairy tales are patriarchal. Look at the 2000s Buzzfeed articles about Disney princesses. Utena says that’s only true because of who controls the narrative. That we like these stories not because of the roles of prince or princess, but because of the emotions they speak to. And those don’t have to be bound to each other. A story of one girl helping another to free herself from abuse is just as timeless a fairy tale as any other. Given the increased prevelance of ‘romantasy’ in young people’s reading spaces lately, I think that’s a pretty timely message: Why we gravitate to romantic heroes, how they can be so deeply gendered, and how those stories can be liberated from those gender roles to preserve their timeless core.
so i made and account on tv tropes and it asked for my relationship status
i went over and was about to put in “single” or “it’s complicated” and, well..
i can’t deal anymore
and the link……
Oh, this is remarkably of its era. I was just viscerally launched back to the specific amalgamation of meme printouts my roommate and I decorated our bulletin boards with senior year of college.
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so i made and account on tv tropes and it asked for my relationship status
i went over and was about to put in “single” or “it’s complicated” and, well..
i can’t deal anymore
and the link……
Oh, this is remarkably of its era. I was just viscerally launched back to the specific amalgamation of meme printouts my roommate and I decorated our bulletin boards with senior year of college.
idea: scene with two characters eagerly stripping each other clearly about to bone, but they keep getting interrupted by finding carefully concealed weapons in each other’s clothing, so they keep just unholstering, revealing and unstrapping increasingly ludicrous amounts of hidden guns and knives as the clothes come off, and it’s lowkey killing the mood a little
Alternatively: it's not killing the mood at all but it's totally making both of them giggle like they're twelve and possibly get lowkey competitive in a subconscious way about who has the most to drop.
The more that I think of it the more I'm seeing the incredible intimacy of letting someone know where you keep your backup knife.
Like my god, the trust involved in letting someone undress you and learn your secrets instead of popping into the bathroom to change where they can't see and hiding all your weapons under the sink
...Oh
second alternative: you go to hide all your weapons under the sink but there’s already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink.
awkward
It’s not that there’s already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink that makes it awkward so much as that there’s so many weapons hidden underneath the sink that they fall out of the cabinet with the unmistakable sound of a knife-alanche, and then the other person comes in like “I can explain!” and you’re just dead-ass standing there with your own armload of weapons like “I can also explain.”
Married version is shoving your hand in your partner’s clothes when you’re out of weapons because you KNOW where their spare is. Or wearing a weapon in a spot you can’t draw from yourself because its now spare storage for your spouse’s weapons.
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