my savior who came to ruin my life

Brown eyes are so iconic and beautiful

Green eyes are even more iconic and beautiful.

If i met a white person irl I’d beat the shit out of them and mug them just because of this post. Because of you. Maybe even kill them. Because of you. You had to say this and now some random cracker bitch is gonna die. Are you happy? Was it worth it?

it is the 37th anniversary of the USS vincennes shooting down the civilian airliner Iran Air Flight 655, an action that killed 290 innocent passengers, 65 of which were children. the US never issued an apology and as part of a legal settlement the US refuses to ever admit liability for their violent and reckless actions.

it is the 38th anniversary of the USS vincennes shooting down the civilian airliner Iran Air Flight 655, an action that killed 290 innocent passengers, 65 of which were children. the US never issued an apology and as part of a legal settlement the US refuses to ever admit liability for their violent and reckless actions.

I actually think the lack of race politics is probably the weakest factor in rgu (as well as the fandom) bc like. the dynamics of patriarchy are in fact inextricable from the logic of colonialism in many ways? and so it makes me feel crazy that everyone in ohtori is always like “let’s kill the one brown girl we know with knives for no reason” and then nary a single fan is like “this is surely not motivated by any sort of visual signifier of alterity that she may be assigned by a racializing gaze” and in fact some of them are even like “everyone who wants to kill her is right for that probably bc she’s evil”

thats because rgu's race politics is frankly bad and orientalist, see nanami goes to india to find spices episode. it is racist in a way that sort of beggars belief that the show actually intends to say something coherent about racialisation instead of just uh assigning the incestual sexual violence to the brown people in the show.

yeah, okay, maybe “lack of race politics” wasn’t the best wording when what i actually meant was lack of meaningful and productive race politics. because obviously making anthy and akio brown is itself a meaningful choice whether or not the creators intended it as such, and yet their racialization is never addressed, and the crass orientalism of that nanami subplot (in an episode that i would argue is one of the least significant of the entire show) being the only example of any sort of racial commentary whatsoever is clearly a bad look. i completely agree that the writers did not intend to say something coherent about racialization; it’s pretty clear to me that any sort of reading that can be inferred from anthy and akio’s racial alterity is one that lies beyond the scope of authorial intent. but i also think those readings that have been made over the years by brown and black women in particular regarding anthy’s role as a racialized subject are no less valuable for drawing conclusions and making connections from implications that are clearly present whether the writers intended it or not. im not saying that the text of rgu is itself anti-racist and performing such commentary — another example of rgu’s racism and orientalism is the egregious lightening of anthy’s skin in the movie, which serves no narrative purpose other than to piss people off! but i also think it’s a bit unfair to suggest that anthy and akio are depicted as brown due to their incestuous relationship when there are multiple pairs of incestuous siblings in the show, and their parallels to one another are central to the show’s themes. i do think the narrative choice to make anthy brown was intended to otherize her, and while you can certainly argue that this choice was implemented for orientalist reasons on the parts of the creators, i also think that reading further into a text that invites a multiplicity of readings and truly parsing through the implications of what such racialization suggests and entails can be a useful analytical endeavor, even if the writers may have been too myopic to understand certain implications of their own narrative.

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