I keep getting messages asking me if my header picture is me and I say yes because it is BUT I feel very guilty because I'm wearing a TON of makeup, much more than I usually do and even a bit of eyelid tape to alter my appearance so here are some minimal makeup selfies 👉👈 (I'm wearing mascara in the first and eyeliner/lip gloss in the second.) My haircolor is also fake (I'm naturally brunette) and I sometimes wear colored circle lenses. To the 4 (!!!!!) girlies who messaged me so far that have made comparisons between my appearance and their own with a very unfavorable opinion of their own I promise I do not look like that picture 99.999999% of the time and in real life I am pretty plain and unremarkableand it is very possible that I would wish I looked like you if I saw you. 🙈
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You obviously know this is about D*rkling or have you misused tags in other fandoms as well? And I am still better than people condoning child trafficking.
i dont believe in cross-tagging, my friend. unfortunately for you i'm the one that made the darkling slander tag on tumblr. if you want a different experience then can i perhaps recommend tiktok? it's a pretty decent hangout for those with no critical thinking skills and the need to argue with thin air. besides, the tumblr slander tag actually has real slander instead of the shallow and incorrect bs i see antis spew. as if it's my fault i'm better at your jobs than you.
also maybe self-evaluate in regard to the last sentence of your ask. best of luck in therapy!
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If you haven't already, could you elaborate on Mythos being similar to Dios?
@acetaminophriends oh my friend
(warning for utena and princess tutu spoilers, some princess tutu ending negativity)
others have said a lot more on this topic, and really I don't have many new thoughts on it, exactly. but I am so extraordinarily Normal about it that I'll take any slight opportunity to talk about it again. SO BASICALLY. compare and contrast utena duel 34 with the opener to tutu episode 24. you have a couple of archetypal selfless princes, who love everyone and whom everyone loves...
...to the exclusion of all else.
they try to save everyone with no regard to their own health or happiness, because that's what you do as the prince archetype/christ allegory/male hero figure. unfortunately, though, that doesn't go too well if you're a real person trying to embody the archetype. both of them drive themselves to near death (for dios it's before anthy seals him, for mytho it's losing everyone he cares about and getting stuck fighting an endless battle) trying to embody this ideal and defeat the evils of the world. and they earn only the hatred/jealousy of the people in the process, because even with all that, dios and mytho still couldn't give them what they wanted! they still couldn't suffer and die for enough people, or couldn't love every person exclusively and suffer and die in a special way for each one of them. which is unreasonable, especially because every time, this is just some kid. literally a teenager. but even so, it's Oops! All Swords (until anthy sacrifices herself) or Oops! All Birds (until mytho sacrifices himself, because he has to be both the dios and the anthy in his own story arc, I guess. can't have shit in goldkrone).
and being used for the selfish ends of others for so long gives them a lot of built-up resentment and a bit of a warped perspective on love! dios obviously has his corruption arc into akio, becoming purely self-interested and seeking to regain the power of dios for the sake of power itself. obviously, that's not justified, but justifying the actions of a Fictional Character and an Allegory is really a futile pursuit. he serves the purpose of examining toxic masculinity and the prince archetype and how aspiring to that ideal can warp someone's mind, and other such things that have been said before by better posters than me, and that's Interesting to look at. and as a character, that's all you really need to be. mytho thinks that "people only love because they want to be loved", stemming from everyone wanting to monopolize his love and Just Get In A Romantic Relationship With Me Already (for more information, profile picture), only thinking of themselves and not really him at all. imo, that's really similar to how "[anthy] was the only one who truly loved [dios]." the show straight up did not let him be mad about it, though, even with the raven's blood, but that's a post for another time. but it sure does hint at that resentment and those feelings on the topic being there! princess tutu hints at a lot of interesting things, really. just doesn't do anything with them.
is it possible for people to be happy without the attention and love of this one figure? is it possible for them to live for themselves? nope! in fact, fuck you for even implying it, we are going to stab you to death with one million swords/turn into birds and try to peck out your heart. this is also why I think prinz und rabe is a time loop even though Rue Exists, because the people still haven't changed. and the last time someone claimed a prince for themselves alone...
...this happened.
anthy and dios are both really important and interesting characters to me. rose crest changed my brain chemistry when I first watched it. and it's so fucking disappointing how tutu took a dios who was still, ostensibly, a decent person. a dios who has a character and screentime and established relationships with others. a character that was poised to formulate a proper response to duel 34. and then said "k, go back to that same fate. it's what you're supposed to do." when we ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENED LAST TIME. BOTH IN THE STORY AND OUT OF IT. EUGH. this isn't to say that I think mytho is going to become akio, just... this isn't healthy, or good for him, even if it is what he originally was. they really could have let him move past the archetype, now that he's a fully realized human being and has been changed by his experiences outside the story (heron and schaf have made a lot of good meta on this topic). they could have looked at utena and the tragedy of the rose and said "okay, that was self-sacrifice and performance of gender roles to the bitter end. it didn't work. here's what you actually do about it," especially since princess tutu already portrays self-sacrifice negatively and is a show, supposedly, about defying fate and challenging established narratives. but they didn't, because as always, Show Hates Mytho. and I'll die mad about it. or write a fanfic, I don't know.
sorry, this was only a little me answering your question, I just have a lot of Feelings on this topic. tl;dr: the real villain of princess tutu and utena was society. who would have thought.
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