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The horrifying possibility that someone might be both a Bad Person and a Good Artist.
We built this on OpenGL because it was the only reliable, cross-platform 3d framework.
Now it's not reliably available anymore. You're expected to just write your 3d code twice.
Happy Birthday(?) to OTW/AO3.
I heard a great cry, as if thousands of fanfic writers cried out simultaneously.
Any data that is collected can be subpoenaed. Don't collect data.
(Hard mode) Any data that _can_ be collected, you can be forced to turn on that collection. Don't run servers.
And the related problems of Elvish aging. Certain characters have to be born in certain places and married in certain places, and if the Elvish aging rate is inappropriate for that then things fall apart.
There's a lot of ink spent answering this problem.
Part of the answer to this question is:
As discussed in Vol. X, JRRT considered, then rejected a heliocentric creation for Middle Earth.
There is a large collection of writing which never became part of any major text dealing with the problems this caused.
Wow, there's a lot of... poorly expressed analysis of Utena through the lens of feminist theory.
There are probably good feminist analyses of Utena, but you'll have to dig through a load of dreck to find them.
I'm tempted to write a contrarian analysis out of spite.
Oh, and the YouTube upload is legitimate and from the real licensor.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrrh84y760v-hDEulas0Tp_wiQy0FcjLl
I started the thread with _Revolution #1_, but I should have used _Every Rose Has Its Thorn_.
Anyway, it's worth a watch if you're not terrified by cell animation, slow burns or homosexuals.
I do want to know what Akio showed the other duelists to get over their reluctance.
I'm going with seduction, unless anyone has a better suggestion.
The show implies that they have tried this several times, so I bet he's good at it by now.
The endgame arc really heats up. Maybe it's the new approach/transformation sequence, which also places Anthy as part of Utena's team and not just a prize to be fought over. Or maybe it's that we know everyone so well now.
They leave all kinds of details in the first arc that pay off in Black Rose that you weren't even expecting.
But black rose is so full of other people's stories that dueling with Utena is kind of a formality. Utena herself might be a formality in that arc.
Speaking of long, this is a slow burn.
There's a fairy tale rule of three thing going on where in the first arc Utena fights a duelist, then fights their other half in the black rose arc, then fights the pair in the endgame arc.
And the setup is nice.
But... Lesbians Exist might have been groundbreaking in 1997*, but it's not groundbreaking now.
That doesn't mean it's not good; it is. Just don't expect it to be like nothing you've ever seen before.
* I'm not sure it was then either.
And... they sure did keep me going Oh God are they going to admit it yet long enough that the betrayal at the end took me by surprise. So good job there.
In other words, Juri Arisugawa had to be in the closet then so Kanbaru Suruga could be out now.
No doubt people will duel forever over if Utena and Anthy are actually lesbian sheep or if it was all manipulation.
(Duel to be resolved via fanfic. Meet at AO3 after school.)
The ultimate anime recommendation flowchart calls it a Gender-bending Feminist Classic; the Evangelion of Shoujo.
And that's probably true, but I think there's a case of the _Citizen Kane_ effect here: many of the ways it was groundbreaking have been adopted into the standards.
That's the show.
So, what's my takeaway?
Absolute Destiny Apocalypse!
