Cockatrice

The reason Battler has a veil--part of Battler's epiphany is surely the realization that the truth cannot actually be seen in reality unless it is in some sense concealed. In order to "grasp" Sayo he must accept the logic by which Sayo hides herself.

(Article the screenshot is from here. Need to clarify that the author of the article is not himself a monarchist, though it's funny that that needs clarification.) https://einsofist.medium.com/of-a-veiled-sovereign-8f2c3a887257

Art idea: give Battler a witch outfit? He deserves better than his normal clothes plus a cape (a dress would be neat but whatever you think fits his style)

Here you go! You have no idea how psyched I was to take a stab at this LOL

ty to @fisheatingowntail for suggestions/ideas on brainstorming this!

Create your Monstersona! You need to explain three things. 1. what you're doing in Central Europe in the '90s. 2. your connection to the cast. 3. why your wife left you.

Let's get this started.

Mine is Sylvia, an American photojournalist who's vacationing Prague to find out more about her family, the majority of which was killed in the Holocaust or moved to America. She begins finding evidence that one remaining cousin suppressed evidence of his Jewish background and worked for the Czechoslovakian secret police as a subordinate of someone who did not have any consistent name, but who often went by "Franz Bonaparta." Her wife left her over internalized homophobia. Even though she's not religious she was perpetually delaying marrying her partner on account of commitment issues, a belief that it would be against Halacha (which, again, neither she nor anyone in her immediate family keeps) and a feeling that without legal status the ceremony would be pointless.

Utterly obsessed by this image. It being a K-On cd that somehow has jessica battler and ange on the cover. The obviously photoshopped instruments. Why is it in russian

do we think asumu actually is emotionally manipulative and cunning or is she just the homer to kyrie's frank grimes

1. Any other higu internet headcannons?

2. You already mentioned Kyrie feuding with a 14 year old, so how about Umineko internet headcannons? (There is one character that I'm not sure if they'd be saved or made so much worse omggggggggggggh)

uh the only other higu headcanon ive spent much time thinking about is explaining how and why everyone in the cast is at the capitol on january 6th

umineko is like yes sayo taking estrogen wouldnt solve all her problems but 50% of them seems like a reasonable benchmark

favorite cultist simulator hours: the forge of days, the elegiast, the vagabond.

what are yours?

1968

look at this wonderful gif of scallops getting scared and scattering like a flock pigeons

Mild hot take but I don't think a Gnostic or Buddhist or Kabbalistic reading of Revolutionary Girl Utena is necessarily incorrect. I'm used to people dismissing readings based on those assumptions out of hand but I don't think that's quite fair.

Not that this layer cancels out the more obvious and central stuff about gender and fairy tales of course, especially given how heavily gendered Gnostic and especially Kabbalistic symbolism is.

(A thorough reading of Utena from a Kabbalistic symbolism lens sounds interesting but very much beyond me at least, lol. Maybe if I ever read Wolfson and Idel.)

Still while I'm confident the show does flirt with more esoteric and mystical ideas I don't think it views organizations built around those ideas very fondly. Most esotericism is premised on exclusiveness coming from possession of secret knowledge and the groups which position themselves on that ground (the Black Rose society and to a lesser extent the Student Council itself) are portrayed as cults, more or less.

Drew this while my friends were being too loud in the VC