My background is still Elan and Norea gwitch fucked me up
“why did you pick the het pairing” BECAUSE THEY WERE BOTH SCARED CHILDREN FORCED TO BECOME TOOLS. THEY WERE FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES AND THEY WERE SO SCARED AND THEY KNEW THEY WERE EXPENDABLE. AND THEY WERE SO ALONE BUT THEY UNDERSTOOD EACH OTHER. BECAUSE IN THE END THEY TRIED TO BUILD A BRIDGE TO ESCAPE THEIR WORLDS AND IT WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM. BECAUSE NOREA AND SOPHIE ARE NOW TOGETHER AND ELAN IS ALONE BUT HE WENT LOOKING FOR THE LANDSCAPE NOREA SKETCHED BECAUSE IT WAS HER
El5n never got to accept Suletta’s kindness the way El4n did and he was so nonchalant and such an asshole he was convinced that he was unlovable but he understood Norea. He saw Norea at her worst and he understood that she was like him, that she was a child forced to fight in a war he didn’t start, that she was scared and alone Im just foaming at the mouth over here dkfjsñofhaweofawefnwef
Hey, please don’t take this the wrong way, but…
Obsessing with making sure that everyone you interact with online is “good” and shares in all your beliefs and ideals, that you only have “good” hobbies and interests, that you condemn anything and everything even slightly dubious both internally and externally, that you stay away from all “bad” things in case they taint you, and similar behaviors are actually seriously unhealthy and may be a sign that you’re developing or living with moral scrupulosity OCD or a similar condition.
I’m saying this as someone with OCD. It’s not healthy to see everyone around you as corrupt filth and a threat to your own morals. That’s an extremely dangerous mindset to have and to encourage in other people and if you’re falling into those kinds of cycles, please get help from someone.
My background is still Elan and Norea gwitch fucked me up
“why did you pick the het pairing” BECAUSE THEY WERE BOTH SCARED CHILDREN FORCED TO BECOME TOOLS. THEY WERE FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES AND THEY WERE SO SCARED AND THEY KNEW THEY WERE EXPENDABLE. AND THEY WERE SO ALONE BUT THEY UNDERSTOOD EACH OTHER. BECAUSE IN THE END THEY TRIED TO BUILD A BRIDGE TO ESCAPE THEIR WORLDS AND IT WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM. BECAUSE NOREA AND SOPHIE ARE NOW TOGETHER AND ELAN IS ALONE BUT HE WENT LOOKING FOR THE LANDSCAPE NOREA SKETCHED BECAUSE IT WAS HER
Yuri as a genre has been built around a set of tropes and styles and motifs, you can watch a show where someone may not explicitly say “i am a lesbian for you” but you know these girls are in love because of how it plays with the standards and archetypes of the genre that were established decades ago. So it always annoys me when people do this whole “is it yuri or just vibes” thing. Im sorry they’re not scissoring on screen but I promise you yuri is still yuri.
Absolutely true.
I’d like people to consider for a moment, also, what good drawing lines about what is “real yuri” and “not yuri” really does.
Secondly, as much as I hate to say it- because this phrase is often used as a cudgel for people to deny queer romance- there are genuinely some cultural considerations at play when it comes to yuri. And all of these are a part of the very fabric of the genre.
There is an age where having baby crushes and infatuations for other girls is expected to be left behind, but (historically, at least) a blind eye was turned to relationships between young girls. Yuri takes place in- and is sheltered by- the ambiguity of girl’s relationships, and the casual intimacy girls are allowed to have with each other. It lives in the uncertainty, in testing the boundaries, in trying to feel out if the feelings the other girl has are the same. It is both a veil of protection, and a veil of obfuscation. Yuri takes place in absence and in allegory- but that does not make it any less real.
This puts yuri anime in a unique position, on a corporate level, where any affiliated company- let’s say Bandai, for example- can deny any overt support of LGBTQ rights by stating a relationship between two women is “up to viewer interpretation,” which is beneficial for their bottom line. If you’re versed in the language, you know what the interpretation is intended to be. It’s extremely clear!
But this sort of public stance of a company insisting it’s “up to interpretation” often leads to Certain Types of western anime fans crowing “see! They aren’t lesbians!” and people who didn’t watch it to write it off as “queerbaiting.”
When that happens, I can’t help but be reminded of my own coming out, and people’s insistence that “you can’t be sure you’re a lesbian, you’ve never been with a man before.”
And while I’m not saying you’re doing the same thing by saying “I don’t think these two anime girls are REAL gays because they didn’t Prove It,” I am asking, “why does Proving It matter so much to you?”
there’s something to be said about the fact that the door to anthy’s coffin couldn’t be opened with a sword but instead with a girl’s hands but i’m not gonna be the one to say it
To me, that represents the very essence of Akio’s flawed attempt at regaining what he once was - he still believed in the idea of the prince and the princess, the binary of the savior and the saved. The dueling system as a forge to create the perfect prince, so their sword/heart could be used to force open the door to restore the (false) past.
But the binary is a lie, the world isn’t fixed by anyone forcing open the door to restore the persons involved to a specific title, role, or essence. The world isn’t something we can fix, but the way forward for Utena and Anthy is not for Utena to save Anthy, it’s to show her that she is not an object. That when all roles and symbols have been stripped away, she is a person. And deserves to be free, which gives her what she needs to save herself.
If Utena had “won”, they would have lost, because then they would still be bound by the logic of that hateful world.
please excuse my hater moment but i hate when people see two characters that have the most insane dynamic and they’re like but what if it was wholesome :) okay well what if they fucked nasty style and tried to kill each other all the time also
I love Jalter bc Jeanne d'Arc is the patron saint of my mother’s family but I also despise the french
what are you even supposed to do when youre angry. cant scream at anyone cos im not a dick. cant break anything cos i paid money for that. cant rip my hair out cos i need it on my head. literally what now
