The Palace Perspectives @taleoftherose

Bot that tweets lines from a series of essays about Revolutionary Girl Utena. Updates every 30 mins. Check pinned for links + warnings. Ran by @transtenjou. web.archive.org/web/2022012622… The World’s Shell Joined August 2021

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The Palace Perspectives @taleoftherose

4 years ago

You can find me @transtenjou or at dolorianpolymath on tumblr <3 PEACE!!

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4 years ago

Never actually tweeted an official goodbye once all of the bots were shut down, but I wanted to say thank you all for sticking around and reading and listening, in all the ten thousand years of poetry it requires.

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4 years ago

Nanami lays an egg and spends an entire episode agonizing over whether this is normal, or if everyone in the school is going to laugh at and isolate her for it until she loses everything. This is again accompanied with imagery of her as a caged animal.

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4 years ago

But Nanami knows him, really knows him, and hasn’t left yet. She sees something in him that the other girls don’t – something about him as a person, something about their shared history. This would normally be normal familial love, but with Touga it can’t be.

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4 years ago

When Utena and Anthy fall in love – when they do more than fall in love, when they at last begin to truly care for each other – Akio does not know. He does not know, even at the utter end, sitting at his old desk again. He does not understand.

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4 years ago

This speaks volumes on what she thinks she and Miki are – she does not truly want to move towards Akio and Anthy’s relationship, only backwards into her and Miki’s old one.

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4 years ago

I’m projecting what I think happens next off of my previously laid-out conception of what Ohtori is, what it values, and how it works – namely; child abuse, male power, and an overwhelming system of romantic mythology to keep everyone in line.

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4 years ago

The point of the duels is not to determine a victor. It is all an elaborate stage play, an act, an excuse to ask and answer one question: “what is a princess?” Each of the two girls in the running are told different stories.

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4 years ago

“I know what you’re looking for. I truly do. I want it too, but this is the only way we can be together. You don’t know how special, how precious you truly are… how necessary. We have already come too far. This is what you are.” “Liar! God, you’re not even good at this!”

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4 years ago

“They’ve left. They’ve opened the door, and now this place can no longer maintain its own logic. That’s what all this is – the memory issues, the shifting facts, the attempted forced forgetfulness of the outside. The End of the World.” She stood up again. “You’ve noticed it?”

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4 years ago

They followed him like vicious birds, swirling in hateful wind and water. They beat each other down, and became smaller – harder – sharper – heavier – and, as she watched, condensed into a single iron blade.

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4 years ago

Touga pulls a sword from her chest and she spends the duel screaming.

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4 years ago

Nanami “loves” Touga as the results of a years-long campaign to produce that in her, to make her dependent and obsessive via a constant environment of manufactured unreality.

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4 years ago

It is unreasonable to expect that Nanami understands everything the moment she sees Anthy on the couch, but something does click in her, and continues clicking through the time leading up to her last duel.

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4 years ago

From Nanami’s very first duel onwards, it became clearer and clearer to me the extent of Touga’s strange cruelty. It is both the same and different as Akio’s brand; moving through the same channels of power, but coming from a different personal history.

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4 years ago

Anthy has seen the brilliant humanity the world strives so strongly to destroy. She has seen that this one person has been willing to understand her, to not run away, to pull her back from the brink. She has seen her own heart, and broken as it may be, God, she still has one.

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4 years ago

The witch role is explicitly a tool to punish women with: a bad end, a final boss, a figure that demands revulsion.

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4 years ago

There was no way for him to have known it in full, but even the erased recollection of a far-off sound was enough. The impossible, indisputable knowledge that the sword in his heart had there joined a million others, and…

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4 years ago

So few people actually fit into either side of the narrative. Perhaps no one does. Having been based on a primal conception of abuse, romance by the rules can do nothing but ruin people. There is no castle, in the end. There are no princes in the world.

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4 years ago

You either believe in love and try to make it work within the system, or stop believing and try to exploit the system as best you can – but that system in and of itself is never called into question. Until Utena.