Listen pal I love going fast as much as the next guy but if I’m speeding and you ride my ass you can bet your buttons I’m gonna slow it down to the speed limit. Maybe a little lower if you don’t take the hint. I’ll take my foot right off the gas pedal. I don’t give a fuck. There’s nowhere I need to get to that fast and I’m a petty bitch.
Tag: i guess
me: my new sketchbook is for serious stuff so I can work on improving
also me: pokemon are cool tho
Man thinking about W.I.T.C.H. really DID take me back to middle school, I’ve been doodling some of the OC’s I started back then (which were very much inspired by W.I.T.C.H. I can’t lie) (I STILL WRITE THEM AND THEY STILL HAVE ELEMENTAL POWERS WHOOPS)
Applied for a job today and accidentally uploaded a pic of Tyranitar instead of a cover letter. I caught it in time but maybe I shouldn’t have.
I mean look at this guy.
I’d hire him. He is ready to work. So ready.
GIVE HIM A JOB. GIVE HIM A JOB.
my mom, about reading fun home, which is about a butch lesbian: oh my gosh this just reminds me so much of you
my mom, like five minutes later: so do you like, want to be a man
me: no, I’ve been leaning towards butch, as in butch lesbian. I’m not a man.
my mom: so you don’t want surgery?
me: …no. I am. not a boy.
this is not the first time she’s asked, I’d understand asking once but she’s done it before. and like, SHE IS READING A TRUE STORY OF A BUTCH LESBIAN. IT’S RIGHT THERE. THERE IS A REASON IT REMINDS HER OF ME. I don’t want to really discuss my gender identity with her because I know she’ll take “not 100% girl” as boy, and the one thing I know for sure about my gender is I am not a boy.
and I’m not even fully butch, my mom saw me in a dress all of a month ago.
Some thoughts about Touga in the series vs. the movie have been sitting in the back of
my mind for a while. He’s not a character I see discussed a lot, so I don’t
know if other people have wrote about this before or not.
I’ve seen a lot of people make a distinction about series!Touga
and movie!Touga, and while everyone’s show and movie characters have obvious
differences, I think at the core they are all the same people with the same
basic issues. Touga, at first glance, seems to be the most different out of all
of them. I think we’d all consider movie!Touga a better guy than series!Touga.
He’s certainly more sympathetic, being dead and all. Movie!Touga doesn’t manipulate
Utena or abuse Nanami, and he seems to be an all-around decent guy.
However, I think his story is the same in both continuities.
In the series, he realizes he loves Utena, but his attempts to save her fail because
the only thing he knows how to do is replicate the same patriarchal behaviors that
he wants to save her from (ie, dominating her and making her his girlfriend).
In the movie, he dies trying to rescue a girl from drowning. In both cases, it’s
the expectations of masculinity, of “princely-ness,” that cause his downfall. Movie!Touga
has to try and save the drowning damsel in distress, because that’s what
princes do. Series!Touga replicates the abuse performed by his role model,
because that’s presented to him as the way to manliness and power.
This isn’t to say we should sympathize with
series!Touga the way we might with movie!Touga, but I think the similarities are
important. They’re two sides of the same coin, and together are a strong
argument for the ways in which masculinity and sexism hurt men.
me: oh yeah I really need to finish reading the YW NMES
me: *opens Deep Wizardry*
me: *starts crying at the epigraph*
sometimes i feel like there was some sort of super secret feminine skills class i missed in grade school or something
no matter what i do or what tutorials I read, i cannot for the life of me paint my nails without it looking like shit
Haha watching that one amazing Princess Tutu AMV like 5 times yesterday gave me ballet dreams.
I think I’ll probably watch it like five times today too.
Sometimes I feel like I’m an Usagi trying to be a Haruka
SittingOverHereDreaming 