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HATE ISN'T THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE!! HATE ISN'T THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE!! HATE ISN'T THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE!!
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missy doesn’t understand that she’s in the wrong genre. she believes she’s in a darkly alluring gothic romance instead of an optimistic sci-fi show. in her genre, gifting your estranged ex/enemy/lover/best friend/twin flame an indestructible undead army to prove to him that your will to power is identical is the most romantic gesture imaginable. it’s victory via surrender, it’s control through abdication. all her scheming to “corrupt” him, to demonstrate that they’re the same deep down, that his sanctimonious morality is nothing but a method of keeping his own conscience clean, that’s the hannibal gene, the lestat gene (*obviously the dynamics aren’t 1-to-1 similar, but… close enough) and missy’s tragedy in death in heaven is in that, within the narrative format she’s trapped in, she can never succeed
#dw#jamie catches up#death in heaven#missy#twissy#the narrative#thoschei#twelfth doctor#twelve#doctor who meta#dark water#doctor who series 8#the master
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last one for now!!!
dungeon meshi text posts 13/?
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#the narrative#I really love dunmesh#dungeon meshi#gin arts#dungeon meshi manga spoilers#dunmesh textposts#winged lion#laios touden
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doomed by the narrative? no, no, tortured by the narrative. the narrative hates Sam Winchester, the narrative wants Sam Winchester dead but Dean Winchester, the audience and the antithesis to the narrative, does not want him to be anything but alive. in fact, the story is only a story if Sam is in it.
#eternal love#sam winchester#dean winchester#sam and dean winchester#supernatural#the narrative#samdean#wincest#naturally#Dean loves Sam#two children in a motel
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some thoughts on photography and memory in utena:
on the wall in nemuro memorial hall, there are pictures of real people. i'm not sure who they are, but i assume they're of people involved in making the show. either way, they're obviously not real; in the close-up shots of them, they change into pictures of the black rose duelists and other imagery from the show. i imagine it's there as a fun detail by the creators, but also to show how weird and inconsistent reality itself is in the black rose arc.
as for the black rose duel images themselves, it's possible that they are literal as i've talked about in a previous post, but what i think is more likely, is that utena noticing them is a visual representation of her connecting the dots of what's really been going on in this arc.
when mikage brings up the idea of memories and eternity, we see the picture on the wall behind utena, of her at her parents funeral. and behind mikage we see one of his own defining memories.
a pretty clear line is being drawn between memory and photographs. in fact, memories are so important to mikage that photographs are his black rose duel symbol. it's the one he keeps of mamiya and tokiko, altered to look like anthy's disguise, just like his memories are. through mikage we see both how memories of the past can keep you trapped in it, as well as the malleability of these memories. let's look at everybody else:
saionji has a framed photograph of him and touga as kids on his desk. he values their friendship, or at least the memory of how it used to be. he idealizes the time touga was less cruel (or maybe just the time saionji wasn't aware of his cruelty.)
miki doesn't have any literal photographs of kozue or the sunlit garden, though his memories of them are often framed as such. he also keeps a picture of anthy amidst his sheet music. she is his idealized memory now.
juri has the locket of course, inside of which is a cutout of shiori from a picture captured in the moment that ends up defining their entire relationship. is this the version of shiori that juri idealizes? not really, but she is fixated on her resentment of shiori's percieved cruelty, just not the cruelty of taking the boy away. juri keeps this photograph closer than anybody else does with theirs, but she also keeps it hidden. this could mean she treasures her memories the most out of everyone, and is also the least open about it, although i'm not sure i believe the first part.
nanami has the photo-album of her and touga; she idealizes her relationship with him, as well as their childhood. when she makes the connection that touga is adopted, the photos are scattered all over her bed, probably to represent her emotional state.
touga doesn't keep any photographs from what we see, which makes sense with everything we know about him. unlike the rest of the council, he doesn't have any idealized memories of his childhood. but he does use akio's camera, so let's talk about that.
the camera is, much like the car, a tool that only akio is shown to own (although, wakaba does mention a photography club in episode 34.) like the car, it is used to facilitate his grooming (specifically of touga and saionji when he takes those shirtless pictures with them.) and, also like the car, he offers to lend it to touga, to make him feel more like an equal part of the whole thing. unlike the car though, touga accepts the camera.
the photoshoot scene in episode 37 has a transition where the camera shutter sound effect is played over the previous scene. over the shot of utena and anthy holding hands after confiding in each other about akio. i think it's to show that he's always watching, and that they can never truly be free of him as long as they're in ohtori.
i think it also shows the idea of akio framing the narrative of the show as a whole. he plays a sort of director role in it, in that he directs the events happening, as well as how they're portrayed. it's no coincidence that he is quite literally behind the "camera" in episode 33. like the car, a symbol of akio's power and sexual abuse (which is not-coincidentally also present in all of the photoshoot scenes,) his camera (his narrative, his biased framing of events) is ever-present.
and then there's the most important photograph in the show, the frame it all ends on. the picture utena and anthy took together is, unlike every other photograph, used as a look into their future. the reason they take it in the first place is because utena realizes she has no photos of anthy, which distresses her, presumably because she worries that their friendship might not last forever, and she wants something to remember anthy by. this obviously comes with the risk of making anthy an idealized memory, like every other person put in a photograph in this show, but instead it ends up as a symbol for their love. akio may have set up the camera, but anthy (with the help of chu-chu) manipulated their positions so her and utena could hold hands. she also cuts akio out of the frame, much like she cuts him out of her life in the last episode. she doesn't want his presence to tarnish her and utena's memory anymore (although he isn't completely gone from the photograph either, as he will never truly be forgotten.)
#id in alt text#finally finished this post#these are not the only photographs in the show just the ones linked closest to the themes i wanted to discuss here#revolutionary girl utena#analysis#utena#mikage#saionji#miki#juri#nanami#touga#akio#anthy#m#the narrative
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me when fated soulmates
#get ready for so many tags#zolu#kagehina#bokuaka#shuggy#asanoya#lestappen#galex#literally so many others#i just love narrative foils#doomed by the narrative is OUT#gently crafted together for each other by the narrative is IN#ineffable husbands#THE NARRATIVE#I FORGOT SATOSUGU#satosugu#in my defense#i havent slept
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obi-wan & anakin: you are cain and he is abel and this is how it always ends
[star wars: episode iii - revenge of the sith novelisation // star wars: episode i - the phantom menace (1999) // john darnielle // star wars: episode ii - attack of the clones (2002) // dante émile, 'after abel' // star wars: episode iii - revenge of the sith (2005) // rosanna warren, gods and mortals: modern poems on classical myths, 'turnus' // obi-wan kenobi (2022) 1x06 // richard siken, 'planet of love' // star wars: episode iv - a new hope (1977) // richard siken, 'war of the foxes']
#tragedy#the narrative#doomed by the narrative#brothers#anakin skywalker#obi-wan kenobi#poetry#star wars#prequels#kenobi series#web weave#web weaving#webweaving#my stuff#obi-wan & anakin#sibling dynamics make me insane go figure#thicker than water
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the way prorev was literally just six weeks like imagine you spend six weeks fucking your guitarist in front of god and everyone and then at the end you’re like surprise!!! I’m getting married :) and everyone’s like to a woman???
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— smoke signals, phoebe bridgers
#I DIDNT KNOW YOU THEN AND ILL NEVER UNDERSTAND WHY IT FEELS LIKE I DID#red string of fate theory#the narrative#soulbounded#destined to play together#etc etc#there are soooo many phoebe songs that apply to mitch and soo many boygenius songs that apply to 1634 like its over#toronto maple leafs#mitch marner#auston matthews#1634#ausmitch#pheobe bridgers#smoke signals#web weave#webweave#web weaveing#theme: red string of fate#theme: being in love with your best friend#theme: soulmates#theme: THEY MAKE ME FUCKING CRAZY
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why were they literally up on stage doing light puppyplay im abott to kill myself
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#codependency!!! my beloved#jamie catches up#dw#hell bent#doctor who#clara oswald#twelve#twelfth doctor#twelveclara#whouffaldi#richard siken#web weaving#doctor who series 9#tragedy#the narrative
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we talked and talked about daniel coming back to redbull and what it means for him but the narrative that redbull had tried to replace daniel for years and failed and the only one who can fill that seat is daniel himself is sooo delicious
#this made me feel iNSANE#i am rocking back and forth#it's 22:21 but i nEED my therapist to pick up his phone RIGHT NOW#anon#asks#the nARRATIVE#FUCKING HELLLLLL
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IM GOING TO ABSOLUTELY FREAK THE FUCK OUT
#the golden retriever goalies are SPEAKING!!!#god. the narrative#the NARRATIVE#seattle kraken#kraken lb#bruins lb#boston bruins#jeremy swayman#joey daccord#in an alternate universe theyre... a goalie tandem#i fear
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George and Daniel leaving a nightclub together | Ibiza'23
#the narrative#also why do they both look so hot#the basic fit from daniel is actually going so hard. if you all must know: the fuckboy linen party shirts are NOT made equally#some are simply better. more sheer or they drape differently bc theyre thinner#anyway i see george waiting for daniel 👀#f1#daniel ricciardo#george russell
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i think it's interesting when people talk about rgu's narrative, specifically in the context of the narrative condemning the abuse it's depicting, but also stuff like how it treats its characters. because to me, utena's narrative exists on two (if not more) levels. like there's akio's narrative within the show and the way he frames and directs events, and within that framework his abuse is almost always obfuscated or romanticized, not condemned. just as an example, often the music used in the scenes of akio grooming utena is coding them in a very traditionally romantic way, and distinctly not as the horrible and sinister thing that it is. he's manipulating her, but he's trying to manipulate the audience too. a lot of what he does would, in any other show, be played straight as a romance. and yet we understand that this isn't what the show itself is trying to say. it is not trying to paint akio in a good light; akio is trying to paint himself in a good light, with the control that he has over the narrative. which of course in itself is part of the show's themes and allegory.
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