me and my nonsense medieval fantasy fantasies against the world
Lady Proffering a Hookah, Muhammad Qasim Tabrizi, 1640s
(Photo credit: Khalili Collections / CC-BY-SA 3.0 IGO)
this just makes it sound like akio is the demiurge. which. you know. probably
I dont know how to phrase this thought i just had but this picture of ohtori school reminds me a lot of a church, and also that gothic churches were built that tall to represent how powerful and big god was, making people feel small there.
Also in some latim-derived languages like spanish Dios mean God, which makes sense when he falls from the castle in the sky and "bless" utena with strenght because of her 'faith' in him (as she sees him as a hero and is her biggest inspiration) and that makes me think of the religious (catholic i believe) symbolism of utena.
Dios is God, as he falls from heaven to bless the faithful. He comes from a castle on the sky that promises miracles such as the eternity of your happiness and innocence. Ohtori academy is the church, as everyone there is a small thing compared to the creator of everything: Akio. The students are children, Akio is an adult there conditioning them in following his schemes (like the boys are powerful princes and girls are helpless princesses and if they refuse that theyre witches), which would make him the God of his own illusions.
The students are just believers, Akio controls them in his own mysterious ways as the end of the world, but them when someone is defying him he has to take the matters in his own hands.
Akio could truly believe he is a God, shaping students as he wishes in his endless timeless illusion, but he isn't. Dios, the real Prince, God, doesn't exists. Akio just thinks they are the same, but in reality, Akio means Lucifer, and his Godly version of himself is only what the people who blindly loved him (anthy, utena) saw
The Virtual Toad Choir Presents: SILENT NIGHT
look who they got working here now that everyone stopped believingπππππππ
experimental linguists hard at work in a top secret facility to discover the Ultimate Universal Slur
Going through tsumihoroboshi now and holy shit I see how ya came to Rena falling into Q. Question is: did she fall into Q in more recent years or did she fall into the reactionary current earlier with something like gamergate or even earlier with something like Wakefield's vaccine scare?
The term 'Pastel QAnon' refers to, specifically, a conscious attempt on the part of QAnoners to reach out to and recruit new agey and more "crunchy" audiences. It feels genuinely surreal to point this out but even like 10 years ago being a New Age type/embracing nonsense about vaccines etc wasn't uniformly coded as "right-wing." QAnoners actively worked to bring them into the fold. To put it mildly, this aesthetic, of new-agey health stuff, pastel instagram infographics, etc, is all extremely heavily coded as feminine, or at least used to be. Rena, coping with previous traumas, superstitious by explicit ideological choice, and armed with a battery of complexes about her femininity, is ideal grist for this mill. I have very little trouble seeing her falling down a social media rabbithole sometime during the pandemic. This is arguably what we see happen.
Umitober 2023 - Days 7-12
"none of these words are in the bible" all words are in the bible
giving eraserhead baby a happy childhood