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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN DAY 🧡🤍🩷

Sparkly Utena 💖 This drawing popped off on Twitter, so thought I might share it here too

FOUNDERS OF YURI 💜🩷

Utena ⚔️

the thing about Revolutionary Girl Utena is that on any day where she doesn't have a duel she is presumably still tearing it up on the b-ball court

Mondays: Free throw practice

Tuesdays: Cardio drills

Wednesdays: Swordfight with someone whose worldview and/or neuroses are embodied in the events of the fight itself

Thursday: Ohtori Academy vs. St Ignatius Non-Yuri Catholic School (Go Shooting Stars!)

someday, together

something of a redraw of this from 4 years ago and a complimentary piece to my cg one ^^

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something i didn't really notice until my latest rewatch is that utena's response to her depression being especially bad is still to curl up in a dark and/or claustrophobic space. sitting between two pieces of furniture while hugging her knees with the lights turned off.. like damn she really didn't ever leave that coffin, huh?

[image description: a still from revolutionary girl utena of utena in the position described above]

Happy Pride month! 

I’ve had the sketch of this lying around for a while due to art block induced by hopelessness caused by the flood of AI-generated art. :/  But I COULD not let it get to me at this time of year. 

nanami utena anthy and akio really all lived in that apartment together. i forget how long it lasted but holy shit the rancidity of that arrangement. poison in the tea and the cookies and anthy bringing out a fucking saw. everyone wants to fuck each other and nanami is just there

actually if not for akio this could have been a fun lesbian roommates situation. nanami just found out gay sex exists and she can’t help staring at utena and anthy wondering if they do it. but utenanthy are too busy having metaphorical tea parties and stargazing to actually have sex. nanami laying in the weird bed unable to sleep lest she catch cooties. utena never cleans up her gym clothes and anthy makes the world’s most passive aggressive and hateful chore chart

thanks tumblr for giving me a notification that this post is at 2000 reblogs when it very clearly has nine

#ngl op the 2000 reblogs notif image makes it feel even more like utena (via @jiggit​)

I hope this makes sense. I am open to suggestions and critiques.

Inspired by: a juri post and a miki post by @horse-girl-anthy, the boy princess by @iztarshi, the Palace Perspective, and a post that calls Juri a "boy shaped girl" and Miki a "girl shaped boy" but I cannot for the life of me find it (if someone can, please send it to me)

0 the Fool

[image description: a digital illustration of utena tenjou from revolutionary girl utena, framed as a tarot card. utena stands amidst pink clouds, in front of the upside down castle in the sky. she holds a sword over her shoulders with a suspicious expression. the card frame is captioned, "0. the Fool."]

miki, trying to be supportive: so what does dutch mean? is that like dom butch?

utena: …no… my aunt lives in amsterdam.

saionji, age ten: so where are you really moving to? i don’t want to hear any of that minecraft nonsense

touga: …are you saying that when i said i was going to spend a year in the netherlands, which is a country in europe, you thought i was referring to the nether, from minecraft?

Revolutionary girl

[id: an edit of a twitter exchange between utena (username utena_tenjou, who is verified) and anthy (username nanami). anthy tweets: “making breakfast for my husband <3”, utena tweets: “who tf is burning down my kitchen”, end id]

I am not the type to get emotional over fictional characters, but if I was asked to pick one character I relate to, I'd probably say Utena Tenjou from Revolutionary Girl Utena from the top of my head – naturally, drawing her has been on my mind for a long time, so I finally got around to do so ~

I'm actually quite pleased with the result.

in a way arent we all rose brides in this dueling game called capitalism