Zettai unmei mokushiroku is stuck in my head, I'll just be minding my business getting ready for the day and my brain goes "Hey you know what's cool" and I go ":D what" and it goes

ZETTAI

UNMEI

MOKUSHIROKU!!!!!!!!

And suddenly everything is different. They have looked at each other.

"The path you must take has been prepared for you. You have no choice but to revolutionise the world."

REVOLUTIONARY GIRL UTENA 🌹 BLACK ROSE ARC

My brain is just a sludgy, heterogeneous soup of random RGU thoughts that sometimes clump together long enough to make a post out of

i need every media I like to feel like a fever dream actually. If I don’t watch it/read it/listen to it and go “what the fuck was that” then it’s not my favorite media

so much of anthy's life is a tragedy, but i like thinking about the parts of it that are just kind of normal despite it all, and what those must be like for her. crushing on a girl in the way that teenagers do, a way that doesn't fit into her carefully crafted role of martyr and victim and manipulator. she just Likes utena in a way that would be simple if not for the circumstances. she's not supposed to care for her outside of their respective roles, but she does anyway because she can't help it. she thinks about her while she's with touga because she misses her and liked being around her. she likes having tea with her and watching her play sports and seeing her get along with chu-chu and holding her hand and talking with her in bed and looking at her while she falls asleep. she thinks about kissing her, not because she has to but because she wants to, and sometimes maybe she's even able to forget all the reasons they can't be together. and yeah sometimes she also hates her guts. but that's normal too.

there are a lot of reasons anthy falls back on her role as the rose bride, and a big part of it is that it's easier for her to have this clear set of rules to follow, these instructions of how she should feel and when, rather than having to think about how she actually feels about any of it. but at the end of the day she's just a girl who has fallen in love with another girl, something so mundane that i doubt she even fully comprehends it

something something how much of lesbian eroticism especially as a teenager is able to be passed over as a ‘bit’ or ‘joke’ and thus un-processable

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so i watched Adolescence of Utena

they're besties

you people joke about this but “revolutionary girl utena is a silly lesbian anime about magical sword fighting girls!” IS IN FACT how i got roped into that fucking show. and as someone who is not triggered by any of its topics i can confirm that it may be the funniest way possible to watch rgu

dead end.

one thing i am so grateful for in utena is that it refuses to demonize gender nonconformity or butchness… so many stories with a character like utena would present her wearing the rose bride gown at the end as a Positive Good because “Let Women Be Feminine!!!! and wear dresses and makeup and skirts!!!!!! #girlboss!!! 👛👗🎀🛍💄”

it is rare to find media that includes masculine women/gnc people to begin with, but it feels like stories which present our existence with any nuance beyond “just a phase” or “toxic masculinity” or “man hater” are all but nonexistent.

and yet the first arc culminates in utena trying to conform, trying to be normal, trying to be feminine — not because some teacher dress-coded her with a written rulebook, not because she realized that her gender-nonconformity was ~a phase~, but because she was manipulated in a much subtler and damaging way. she was told over and over again that she could never be good enough as a “prince”, that she could never have agency or fall in love with a woman or try to protect the people she cares about, because she’s a “girl”. and that arc resolves thanks so much to the love of other queer women: wakaba loves her enough to call her out when in any other story she would be giving her the “makeover”. juri gives utena her sword from one gnc person to another when in any other story she’d be the mean bullying lesbian who’s #notlikeothergirls. and instead of becoming the image of a good straight gender conforming woman, utena uses that queer love to reclaim her true self.

i love utena because she’s not a good, palatable gnc person. she’s not the palatable tomboy that’s gender-conforming in every way that matters and especially not a Gross Yucky Lesbian. she presents masculine. she acts in ways that are scolded (and admired!) for being too “boyish”. utena self-refers using masculine pronouns. she’s called “girl-boy” in a way that felt very true to my own experience growing up. she wants to be a prince, not a princess, and eventually she abandons those gender roles completely. she falls in love with a woman and loves her enough choose her, and enough for her to save herself. i just love utena.

Something something… 14 year old anime girl Jesus Christ crossover… something something

There is no thought only ✨THEM✨

Utena was so gender for this

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