California Sunsets And Glistering Waves

California Sunsets and Glistering Waves

girls just don't wander out onto the moors in their billowing white nightgowns like they used to 🙄

i made a uquiz to find out what kind of gf you are

Anthy is THE character of all time. She's the ultimate incarnation of the victimization of women. Back in the nameless past she was valued by her brother just for existing, but after his power alone was not enough, he grew into a person who needed to exploit her power to manufacture his own greatness-- a tiny history of patriarchy carved into a ring's inset gem.

Yet she can also, easily, become a man, as for someone like Mikage, seeking to gain power over the system while using a man rather than a woman, all that is needed is to change the form of the victim, not the nature of their victimization. Mamiya had already burned, just as Anthy was stabbed. In their mutual role as sacrifice, they were indistinguishable. Anthy could wear Mamiya like a dress.

She is beautiful, mysterious. She is afraid of crowds (she knows their power is greater even than her own). She is vengeful, when she can be; she is secretive even in this. She loves deeply, would rather kill than betray her monstrous brother, but would rather die than betray the earnest (if clumsy) Utena. She bears slaps with equanimity, because there are always swords in her back. She's ancient, but she's just fourteen.

The power of Dios sleeps within her. The real magic, the sword that doesn't hate, is Anthy's love of her brother, which he can no longer truly feel for her. Without the bond of love that once made them like gods, Dios is nothing but a shell trying to act as the prince he feels entitled to be. By continuing to love, Anthy both binds herself to the system of her destruction and represents the last seed of possibility for change. She bears the sword to a worthy wielder, even if Akio thinks it's just for him. She waits for someone who is willing to make the choice her brother couldn't-- to withstand the world's judgment that they brought on themselves, rather than choose her or another victim as their proxy. And what reason would anyone have, except love?

With love, she finds a way to a new choice: she leaves. There's no place for her love on this model stage. She takes off her dress and school uniform and puts on a skirt suit. She lets her hair down and becomes someone we've never seen. She goes to find her love in the real world, because even if Ohtori collapses, that won't be the end. Someday, together...

today i’m sad about that one line from the creator’s commetary about how zuko is a tsungi horn prodigy and the little letter zuko, aged 7, sends iroh in “legacy of the fire nation” where he very politely requests that iroh come home and teach him pai sho tricks, because that casts such a different light on their interactions in book one.  it was never iroh trying to push his own favorite things - pai sho and music night - on an uninterested zuko, it was iroh desperately trying to reconnect with zuko by recreating the activities he knows zuko used to enjoy.  zuko, aged 7, once begged iroh to come home and play board games with him and now zuko wants nothing to do with him and you know that eats iroh up alive

There’s a popular post going around that’s like “well tone indicators are helpful for people for anxiety because some people need stuff like “ /nm (not mad)” or “ /nbh (nobody here)” and I absolutely get it because I have an anxiety disorder but like. You can very much add that on the text of a message itself and it will be way more clear and accessible than expecting them to memorize this whole new fabricated code. 

Which one do you think will be clearer, faster to understand, and more direct to the point:

“oh my god someone is pissing me off /nbh”

“oh my god someone (not from this server, don’t worry) is pissing me off”

or

“have you done the dishes? /nm

“have you done the dishes? don’t worry, im not mad, just wondering”

You can be mindful of someone else’s needs and talk to them in a way that is respectful and understanding of those needs. The key is communication. Expecting people to memorize a lot of abbreviations is like the contrary of accessible.