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a rgu fan from my country & u seem really awesome too.... ipak ima nade za nas čak i van mojih art school i onlajn grupica :3 🩷🩷
you're so sweet💗, ima nas zapravo puno c:
hi idk what to ask i just wanted to say ur so cool
hi 💗 pls tysm:,)) dm if u wanna be friends or anything I've been kinda bad at talking to ppl recently omg
would you date a girl online? if that's not too invasive to ask ofc! hehehe
haha it's not invasive but I don't think I would at this moment!
what female animanga characters do you identify with?
i actually don't know bc i see myself in everyone and project a lot so I always think my perspective is skewed but let's say shiori rgu for younger me and then later a bit of nana osaki
sorry if this is a dumb question, but do you have any recommendations of feminist readings/literature? i would love to get more into feminist theory but i don’t know where to start
angela davis' "women, race and class" was a good starting point for me personally :) or dworkin's "woman hating". don't let myself be the only person u ask this though! :)
wanted to hate for comparing bum ass rhaenicent to rgu but ngl I see it
😭😭😭
do you have a favourite film with feminist themes?
hmmMmmmmM i have a lot of films i love that have feminist themes either explicitly and intentionaly or i just like to interpret them that way :,) so let's see, some that i watched recently: cleo from 5 to 7, funeral parade of roses, black girl, marble ass, pariah, je tu il elle, the watermelon woman (from the top of my head)
are there any videos, threads or longer posts you’d recommend for diving deeper into revolutionary girl utena? i’m on my second rewatch, but i think i’m missing out on good analysis in order to enjoy it properly
of course!
i always tell people to start with this series of essays: the palace perspective: nanami kiryuu at the heart of the world -- it's essential reading to me...i can't stress that enough. it's a series of essays about sibling incest, the way it's handled in utena, and gendered abuse within the family unit, its manifestation on a larger scale, its cyclical nature, etc. i love the way it's structured and the way it articulates the show's core themes bluntly yet cautiously. you can access it here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220126221139/https://palaceperspective.tumblr.com/
if you're interested in dissections of the movie, a video I go back to regularly is "film cuts back | transfeminism in utena" from seebeee -- its quality lies not only in the analysis itself and information it provides but also the production and editing, i like how it feels like a documentary movie and it's done with a lot of passion and knowledge behind it. https://youtu.be/fJ-RANs0TH4?si=VTWxO1WvWdA1-Vvb
these are the only essays and videos i really go back to a lot but there are a lot of good video essays on youtube, even if I don't agree with everything they say, they bring interesting perspectives. there's this playlist [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyKT0co9jZvRHZD8u-3YKCDydlp3N9UjX] that has some of them and I think I've seen them all at some point and I'm pretty sure they're all interesting and informative. also you prob know about jay scott and his really well structured website [https://satirist.org/essays/utena/] abt his interpretations of utena, I don't agree with some of the things he writes but I appreciate how detailed it gets.
i like this interpretation of "internal clock, municipal orrery" (the song from the akio duel, one of my favorites) https://ohtori.nu/analysis/08_caleb_internal_clock_explained.htm (i guess you could also comb this website through for more essays sorted into specific topics relating to rgu, they've been archiving them for years/decades; i haven't rly dug into it so i can't point you in any specific direction but yeah. if you've been around for a while you know abt ohtori.nu already)
who's your fav sailor moon character
ive only seen the 90s anime (some arcs more than the others though lol) and im currently reading the manga (rn on the dream arc) and i think i have different faves in the two versions
anime: haruka, usagi, seiya, michiru
manga: usagi, setsuna, hotaru, rei (so far)
what's a good shojou you like besides rgu?
oniisama e, sailor moon, nana, rose of versailles, the guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all, tokyo mew mew, tomie
good luck with your exams btw!!
thank you so much! <3
it's always when the pawn but never why the pawn... how the pawn... can the pawn... SHOULD the pawn...
should the pawn hit the conflict? can the pawn think like a king? why does he throw the blows when he goes to the fight? how will he win the whole thing before he enters the ring?
do you like to play and draw
i enjoy it a lottttttt
have you ever seen senidah live
yes 😎
name a fiona apple song you would relate to hit lesbian tv show house of the dragon?
hm i think relay is the best illustration of the show's general theme of cycles of abuse ("evil is a relay sport / when the one who's burned turns to pass the torch" "i resent you for never getting any opposition at all / i resent you for having each other")
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