Which witch
Aug. 19th, 2011 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swatkatIt isn't that I am ignoring you, internet, it's just that real life has left me with little energy to come up with anything more than a fragmentary tweet (@swatkat24, for the record; I don't use it a lot, but it's quite handy at times). I log in, I read, I lurk and I have nothing to say. However, things are becoming more manageable, and I live in the eternal hope that someday people will stop mistaking me as one of my students.
Meanwhile, I took advantage of the long weekend - Monday was Independence Day, and being a very patriotic citizen I spent most of the day sleeping - and finished Revolutionary Girl Utena, which, WOW. It has to be one of the oddest and the most fun things I've seen in a long time. I would hesitate to recommend it to everyone - especially if incest or dubious consent is a squick, or if the trippyness isn't your cup of tea - but I'm in love. Late to the party, I know, but IN LOVE, I'M TELLING YOU. I remember being a little frustrated by the first two sagas, wishing for more character development for Utena herself instead of everyone else (not that I don't love them, I really do), but then the final arc more than made up for it: epic friendship, betrayals, girls saving the world and themselves (and destroying gender stereotypes while they're at it). When I first watched Madoka Magica and looked around for meta, I heard a lot of 'Utena did it better' and wondered where they were coming from (having no frame of reference). I get it now, I really do. I don't have the brainpower for the meta this demands right now, but as soon as I do, I will read everything everyone has written about it EVER.
PS: WHERE IS ALL THE JURI/UTENA? I couldn't have been the only person to have noticed Utena's ginormous crush on Juri could I? I love the Utena/Anthy too, but I just think it's a really fun ship. In fact, I ship everyone with everyone on the show (except Akio, who scares me and should not be allowed near people again).
Meanwhile, I took advantage of the long weekend - Monday was Independence Day, and being a very patriotic citizen I spent most of the day sleeping - and finished Revolutionary Girl Utena, which, WOW. It has to be one of the oddest and the most fun things I've seen in a long time. I would hesitate to recommend it to everyone - especially if incest or dubious consent is a squick, or if the trippyness isn't your cup of tea - but I'm in love. Late to the party, I know, but IN LOVE, I'M TELLING YOU. I remember being a little frustrated by the first two sagas, wishing for more character development for Utena herself instead of everyone else (not that I don't love them, I really do), but then the final arc more than made up for it: epic friendship, betrayals, girls saving the world and themselves (and destroying gender stereotypes while they're at it). When I first watched Madoka Magica and looked around for meta, I heard a lot of 'Utena did it better' and wondered where they were coming from (having no frame of reference). I get it now, I really do. I don't have the brainpower for the meta this demands right now, but as soon as I do, I will read everything everyone has written about it EVER.
PS: WHERE IS ALL THE JURI/UTENA? I couldn't have been the only person to have noticed Utena's ginormous crush on Juri could I? I love the Utena/Anthy too, but I just think it's a really fun ship. In fact, I ship everyone with everyone on the show (except Akio, who scares me and should not be allowed near people again).
