Alt text: screenshots from Revolutionary Girl Utena. 1: The shadow girls lean in close for a kiss over a microphone. Text says: “TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE”
2: The castle in the sky crumbling and falling to the ground. Text reads: “ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD”
3: Utena and Anthy’s hands reaching for each other in the finale. Text reads: “FOR NEW PEOPLE.”
4: the silhouettes of all five student council members standing against a sunset background. In the center of them, a table with a watering can full of roses. Text reads: “IT IS TOO LATE FOR US.” End alt text
cannibalism as a stand against rot and decay. fearing the thought of your loved one rotting so cold and lonely in the ground, like some common animal, that you HAVE to forge a better home for them. keep them warm. keep them with you. carry them inside of you so you can always protect them. like snails carrying their homes on their backs you carry your family inside your stomach.
also somwtimes when you dont understand a piece of art it’s not bc ur dumb it’s bc you havent had the very particular emotional experience that it’s trying to invoke in you and you just cant relate. which is also why sometimes you will hear a mountain goats song and say Meh and then you go through some shit and you listen to it again and lose your fucking mind at how real and raw it is. art is how we communicate with each other about experiences that cannot be adequately represented straightforwardly with language. sometimes you have to abstract your representation of the experience in order to truly communicate how big and insane it felt
I love the wording of this. any science news, especially relating to space (and webb) automatically sound like poetry to me and then when they’re also written like that… oh how beautiful.
wasnt bataille simone weil’s little manic pixie dream boy for like a week and then he exiled himself from her presence for being unworthy or smth to that effect. and weil was just like oh yeah him. funny little guy.
“they need to invent cigarettes that are good for you” cigarettes are already good for you they make you smell nice and it’s like microdosing on sucking peenus. my friends and i will all live forever
the exaggerated threat of “not like other girls” circling back to just vilifying women who don’t conform to femininity. but this time it’s #feminist to ridicule them bc they’re the real misogynists for not liking makeup and pink
toxic codependent familial dynamics this. toxic codependent romances that. what about toxic codependent coworkers. i can’t do my job without this guy here or i’ll kill myself.
“parents’ rights” isn’t just a dogwhistle for homophobia, transphobia, racism etc. it’s evil in its own right, even when it means the literal meaning of the words.
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