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Paper flowers in my local antique shop

This is the experience

I would care

if i made a list of the parallels between minkowski and kepler as leaders would yall care??

Why arn't this a thing?

Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Musical Production by puchiko2

Well the giving roses to Juri was not nice gestures but a way to manipulate Juri so she would remember and resurface all the pent up anger she has against Shiori.

"Belive in miracles and they will know your feelings." Juri thinks that's just a load of bullshit. But that one rose Anthy gives her reminds her so strongly of the time she's been betrayed and on top of that Utena has to do something. 

Naive uninformed Utena who reminds Juri of the way Shiori once was. It all drives her crazy until she can't find any other solution but to duel. I will not clarify what Juri duels.

My point with all this is that Anthy is the catalyst always have that in mind when watching this show. 

All those little moments.

All those little joys Anthy took in life.

Humming to herself by the sink.  Playing the piano to calm her nerves.  Watching the metronome bounce back and forth for no reason.  Randomly offering a flower to Juri because Juri was there.  That cute little hand dance she did in episode 7.  All the choices she made about what to say, about how to say it, about who to talk to.  The lunch she shared with Wakaba and Utena for no reason.

They can’t all have been forced on her by Utena’s influce.

They can’t all be fake.

Can they?

Less then 5 minutes left please score a goal!!!

Czechia

You got attitude, like it

Dr. Nerdlove Nerds and Male Privilege Part 2

This is one of the most common deflections when the issue of how women are portrayed comes up. It’s known as a false equivalence – the idea that two things presented together as equal when in fact they aren’t. In this case, the idea that just because women have exaggerated physiques doesn’t mean they’re sexist because the men are just as exaggerated too. Of course, this doesn’t work for many reasons. To start with, it assumes – falsely – that the things that women find sexy are the same things that guys find sexy; that is, the exaggerated secondary sex characteristics. But we’ll get to that in a second.

The other issue is the reason for the exaggeration. Comics and games are fantasy true, but the fantasy aspect differs when it comes to male and female characters. Male characters are a power fantasy; the large muscles and massive torsos are visual signs that this character is an unstoppable powerhouse. Kratos doesn’t look the way he does because Sony Computer Entertainment did focus-market studies and found that women reacted best to that design; he looks the way he does because he represents the powerful alpha-male that gamers want to be.

The women, on the other hand, are sexual fantasies. These are the rewards for the player – the character’s love-interest, the motivation to complete the game. They’re designed as eye-candy; they’re intended as something to be consumed, not something to escape into. Women like to fantasize about being desirable yes, but they also like to be powerful, and their definition of what they would consider to be sexy and powerful doesn’t mean battle-bikinis and thongs of power.

But hey, I’m a guy. It’s easy for me to sit here and proclaim what women find sexy, but I could be talking out of my ass. So why not take it to the source? I put out a completely unscientific poll on Facebook and Twitter about characters that women find sexy – video games, comics, anime, whatever. And the results? Well, let’s compare.

Up top we have the exaggerated figures that are supposedly sexy.

And here are the characters my female readers find sexy:

Notice a trend here? These are not the massive beefcakes alpha-males that are supposedly as equally objectified as Kasumi, Ayane or Ivy. These men have longer torsos with much leaner builds; they’re built like swimmers rather than weight-lifters. They’re not men who scream “unstoppable physical power”. They’re lithe and dextrous, not barrel-chested juggernauts with treestumps for limbs.

And the other critical factor: it’s not just their builds that make them sexy. Gambit, for example is attractive because of his personality and his situation; he’s tortured because he can’t physically touch the woman he loves. Nightcrawler is the laughing swashbuckler, full of wit and flirty charm. Jareth is dark and mysterious and just a little dangerous and oozes sexuality.

Yes, the men are exaggerated as much as the women. But it’s the intent and the message that make all of the difference.

Harpoon or a broom?

On my first listening to the finale I misheared Minkovski and laughed so hard (while I was on my comute I might add) so I had to relisten to that nervwracking scene and then it licked... not a broom, HARPOON.

one of my favorite pasttimes

beating up Saionji

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