utena 2: smiling flowers? i love undertale

Galaxy brain thought: dueling is sexually charged via Intentional Phallic Imagery, and I also know RGU is inverting the Princely Ideal (masculine!) somehow. To win a duel one must knock the rose off the opponent, therefore dueling functions as a f. as a def. flwo. Remove Flwoer, De

i’m not being fully serious with that but I was trying to think of a good title joke and realized I still don’t know what the rose means. Freud bashing my head in the gutter aside, this episode’s title likens the rose to Anthy, who just declared she “belongs” to Utena, so that’s interesting.

( let’s get this show on the road! )

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comment crossposting: aimless rambling on identity & fandom

See, I know myself better than to make any promises about Getting Active™, but I’ve been lurking around some more active corners of DW today and decided to cosplay an extrovert talk to some strangers. Wanted to crosspost this thought so I wouldn’t lose it, starting with a quote:

( the separation of public and private/personal spheres is good and important, but also increasingly hard and I am forever mulling over it )