Mild Hot Take But I Don't Think A Gnostic Or Buddhist Or Kabbalistic Reading Of Revolutionary Girl Utena

aborted otaku older sister: i would have loved to yell at you for touching my $200 scale figure.. if i were alive..

Dumb Cultsim/Book of Hours memes I made for some reason

Someone has been arguing back and forth in the comment section of one of my BNHA fics for almost a year now. The world is full of people.

Jonah, illumination from the Qisas al Anbiya, 1577

Fountain beak: buffoon. Old Netherlands (?), second half of the 15th century. Bronze

Courtesy Alain Truong

my mom had a nightmare years ago that george costanza tried to kill her and sometimes when we're watching seinfeld and george starts yelling about something she'll be like "that's what he sounded like when he tried to kill me"

last night my partner held a somber little passover seder to show me what it’s about and when they got to the part where they were supposed to open the door for elijah they paused, frowned, and said “oh. huh. there is a clown.” and I looked out. and sure enough. there was a clown.

Shri devi (Palden Lhamo), Central Tibet, circa 1750-1850.

This becomes. Substantially funnier. Knowing who his voice actor is.

krauss ushiromiya has to be the just. guy of all time. i think the funniest thing is when he's introduced, he's by far the worst of the siblings. deeply stupid, domineering, leverages past abuse against his siblings, disrespects his wife big time.

and then he dies soon in the next two timelines. and then in the next one we learn he was even WORSE as a teen, being just disgustingly sexist.

and then. everything after that that we learn about him is. neutral to better? like you get the worst over first.

like. okay. he recognizes how awful he was as an older brother and accepts that his siblings would be justified to hate him for the rest of their lives. okay, too little too late, put him in the juicer. he'd be supportive of his daughter's relationship to one of the servants? ...clearly an illusion, doesn't mean anything. oh he survived the initial salvo of ch4 and is revealed to be good in a crisis? that wasn't a fluke last time? al...right? has moments of being a not terrible husband? ...i mean. damage control. was his wife's only ally after she got dragged into a humiliating arranged marriage, and took her lots of places during honeymoon to try to make up for that? ...huh. is ready to divorce his wife and daughter so that, when the family collapses from his terrible business decisions, they'll be spared and only he will be ruined? ...surprisingly...good? he's surprisingly good to the servants? what. what is happening.

even better is that it's in contrast to eva getting a lot Worse (and then better really late!), rudolf having a rollercoaster of getting better and worse and better adn then a lot worse, and rosa being a constant trainwreck you just keep getting details of. like after his ch3 flashbacks it's uphill.

the funniest part, though, is that he is objectively the least problematic of the Ushiromiya siblings/their spouses. never murders anyone in any timeline, and never does any child abuse. like it's just so funny that he starts out the worst and then ends up with by far the least blood on his hands.

Umitober 2023 - Days 7-12