#fandom: utena

[specterthief]

hey. don't cry. revolutionary girl utena is free to watch with english subtitles legally on nozomi entertainment's youtube channel

[teletunkie]

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[ayilings]

someday, together…✨✨✨

💌 revolutionary girl utena piece i did for @magicalgirlszine2024 ! POs are up now ♡

[empty-movement]

Welcome to Something Eternal: A Website Forum in 2023 wtf lmao

It's 2023, and a single belligerent rich guy destroyed one of the primary focal points of uh...global communication. Tumblr is, shockingly, kinda thriving despite the abuse it gets from its owners, but that I will call the iconic refusal of Tumblr users to let Tumblr get in the way of their using Tumblr. Reddit killed its API, removing the functionality of mobile apps that made it remotely readable (rip rif.) Discord, our current primary hangout, has made countless strange choices lately that indicate it has reached the summit of its usability and functionality, and can only decline from here as changes get made to prepare for shareholders. (NOTE: WROTE THIS POST BEFORE THEIR MOBILE "REDESIGN" LMAO)

The enshittification is intense, and it's coming from every direction. Social media platforms that felt like permanent institutions are instead slowly going to let fall fallow incredible amounts of history, works of art, thought, and fandoms. It kinda sucks!

A couple years ago, I posted about a new plan with a new domain, to focus on the archiving of media content, as I saw that to be the fatal weakness of the current ways the internet and fandoms work. Much has happened since to convince me to alter the direction of those efforts, though not abandon them entirely.

Long story short? We are launching a fucking website forum. In 2023.

If you remember In the Rose Garden, much about Something Eternal will be familiar. But this has been a year in the making, and in many ways it's far more ambitious than IRG was. We have put money on this. The forum is running on the same software major IT and technology businesses use, because I don't want the software to age out of usability within five years. It has an attached gallery system for me to post content to, including the Chiho Saito art collection. It has a profile post system that everyone already on the forum has decided is kinda like mini Twitter? But it is, fundamentally, a website forum, owned and run and moderated by us. We are not web devs. But we have run a website on pure spite and headbutting code for over twenty years, and we have over a decade of experience maintaining social spaces online, both on the OG forum, and on our Discord. Better skilled people with far more time than we have can and will build incredible alternatives to what is collapsing around us. But they're not in the room right now. We are. And you know what? Maybe it's time to return to a clunkier, slower moving, more conversation focused platform.

You're not joining a social media platform with the full polish of dozens of devs and automated moderation. Things might break, and I might need time to fix them. The emojis and such are still a work in progress. Because e-mails no longer route in reasonable normal ways, the sign-up process instead happens within the software, and has to be approved by mods. Design and structure elements may change. Etc. The point being, that the forum isn't finished, but it is at a place where I feel like I can present it to people, and it's people I need to help direct what functions and things will be in this space. You all will shape its norms, its traditions, its options...choices I could try to make now, but really...they're for us to create as a group! But the important stuff? That's there. Now let's drive this baby off the damn lot already!

Come! Join us!!

PS. As always, TERFs and Nazis need not apply.

[himemeiya]

Had a horrible vision come to me for Pride Month...

Woke ally Akio 🏳️‍🌈

RIP Akio you would have loved pretending to be woke during Pride month... 😔 🌈

Bonus Wokio tiktok edit [x]

[skinzchoerim]

"You're a light, stop worrying/ Throw yourself into that darkness" - Yoojung (OnlyOneOf) 'begin'

"And someday, together, we'll shine" - Revolutionary Girl Utena Ep. 39

[girlonthelasttrain]

少女革命ウテナ//Revolutionary Girl Utena

世界を革命する者//“The One to Revolutionize the World”

Juri: When you think about it, even thought I'm a member of the Student Council, all I ever did was think about myself. Utena: Are you... talking about Shiori? Juri: Why is it... Why can't I set my feelings free? What are you going to do with Anthy?

[eloizy-star]

Take my Revolution~

[transmascutena]

i feel like there are so many people who correctly identify what rgu is saying about the role of the prince being harmful, and how utena could never really help anthy through it because of how dehumanizing it is to view someone as a thing to be saved etc etc. but then immediately jump to the opposite extreme of "utena only views anthy as an object and not a human being and her desire to help people was always inherently selfish and bad" and it's just . you have to realize it's more complicated than that. surely.

[dayurno]

it's so cruel that they're making jean moreau play sports in college when his real place should be reading yuri fanfiction on ao3 and letting those little girls from madoka magic remind him love exists again

[emberwritesinsight]

Observation #1: One way of interpreting Chu-Chu is as a reflection of Anthy's hidden emotions, expressing what she cannot or will not.

Observation #2: Chu-Chu is very hungry a decent amount of the time, eating a lot of food very quickly whenever possible.

Extrapolation: Anthy should probably be eating more.

[specterthief]

gay people in my tv

[cafeleningrad]

Okay, it's funny because when working out that yeah Shiori does feel inferior to Juri, and might not be aware that her attraction to her is lesbian love, she still is the one who tries the mature thing of communicating, apologizing, asking what went wrong between her and Juri, hoping that they could sort their relationship out. My girl tried the mature proper thing and ran straight into a concrete wall. Like, I never want to read jokes of Shiori being the Lana del Rey girl again.

If nothing else, it's Juri's making up a Shiori that does not exist. Juri prefers the feeling of being tragically in love, and understanding love as anguish rather than interacting with the actual Shiori. Juri banished herself into melancholia, and a rigid understanding of the world, considering herself to be doomed for tragedy. If nothing else, Juri is the Lana del Rey girl.

[undedkat]

I'll cross the boundaries of the world just to hold your hand

[rgu-zine]

Two Girl Revolution is Starting!

Two Girl Revolution is a Revolutionary Girl Utena charity fanzine with a more lighthearted approach to Utena and Anthy's dynamic!

🌹Interest Check Starts August 10th🌹

🌹Carrd🌹@RGU_Zine (Twitter)🌹@rgu_zine (IG)🌹

Reblogs appreciated! @anizines @zinefeed @all-zine-apps

[kaxtwenty]

It really is insane to think about how foundational the original Mobile Suit Gundam is to gay literature.