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for all the vastness of space, i still had the misfortune of meeting you.
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vampire chronicles pdfs
It's come to my attention that libraries and bookstores have been running out of VC books because of the AMC show, so please feel free to use these PDFs I have saved. I use them for fanfic ref, but now I bestow them unto you with this Drive folder
I suggest you refer to the complimentary literary condom I wrote up before diving in
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patalliro fan art by nihonbashi yoko
Source: hanayumeonline.com
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Mid-1990's American Paperback Editions of The Vampire Chronicles
i bought this specific copy of totbt because it was so pretty… what a beautiful set !!!!
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In Defense of Akio Ohtori
While many fans of Revolutionary Girl Utena would refrain from employing such reductive terms to describe a narrative that so heavily critiques and deconstructs the role of archetypal figures in storytelling, it is nonetheless a widely held belief, albeit implicitly, that Akio constitutes the ultimate “villain” of the narrative. Akio constructs the borders through which their world is framed, and is thus uniquely culpable for all its violence. And yet, I would like this challenge this notion somewhat. While Akio may be the primary frame through which the narrative is constructed, we cannot ignore the hints that this narrative may also be, at least in part, retroactively framed. During the famous “Cantarella scene,” for example, the audience is shown that Utena and Anthy will ultimately escape the world of Ohtori through a cut to an empty room, time overlapping as the possibility to imagine a future becomes realized. Thus, if the narrative lies partially beyond Akio’s scope, it is fair to argue that Akio is being framed just as much as he frames others.
No character within the narrative, whether a bit player or a protagonist, is bereft of a complex psychological motivation underpinning their every action. So why is Akio, one of the most crucial players in the show, denied his nuanced psychological portraiture? Akio is as complex as any other character, if not more so, and thus merits our attention and analysis. In this essay, I will read Akio through a framework of Lacanian psychoanalysis as I interrogate and unpack the deeper implications and motivations that indubitably undergird his challenging and variegated psychological landscape, in an attempt not only to understand his violent patterns of behavior, but also, even, perhaps, to justify them.
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beta server stress test going on so we are now the beatles