#used to love this poem and now it’s unfortunately inextricably linked with them in my brain </3

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[ID: ten shots from 'revolutionary girl utena with excerpts of black text edited onto them. the first is of a bandage unravelling from around saionji's hand. text reads: '"you can be so inconsiderate." / "you are too sensitive." / "then why don't you take my feelings into consideration?" / "if you weren't so sensitive it wouldn't matter."'

saionji's exchange diary being dropped into an incinerator by touga. text reads: '"do you love me?" / "of course⁠—; but i resent it."'

saionji pointing a katana at touga, who appears unfazed by this. text reads: '"couldn't we ever speak to each other without irony?" / "sure."'

a close-up of touga and saionji's hands in saionji's memory; touga has just finished bandaging his hand. text reads: '"i love you, you know." / "yes... but why?"'

touga standing on a discarded love letter. a butterfly perches on a poppy near his foot. text reads: '"why do you like these paintings?" / "what isn't there is more important than what is."'

touga and saionji sitting back-to-back on a bicycle at sunset. text reads: '"we should be more open with each other." / "yes." / "shall we talk things over?" / "what is there to say?"'

touga and saionji sitting at the student council meeting table, cameras surrounding them. text reads: '"are you ever going to cut down on your smoking?" / "it's all right⁠— i don't inhale."'

touga and saionji standing in the student council elevator together. text reads: '"sometimes i get very annoyed with you." / "the world is annoying."'

touga and saionji embracing intimately as saionji prepares to pull to touga's sword for a duel. text reads: '"do you enjoy suffering?" / "you can't work if you don't suffer." / "but we suffer anyway." / "i know."'

young touga and saionji in a church, touga kneeling down to utena's coffin to play with her hair; saionji stands behind him anxiously. text reads: '"you're always so negative." / "i feel death all the time." / "are you afraid of anything?" / "not working."' /end ID]

revolutionary girl utena (1997) / lloyd schwartz, who's on first?