(Come meet me in the pomegranates. If anyone asks, just say you’re meeting the Astronaut.)
[original comic by @asoftersea]
[ID: fourteen shots from the anime 'revolutionary girl utena' with excerpts of black text edited onto them. the first is of anthy sitting, silhouetted and with her hair down, which billows in the wind. from her body protrudes countless sword blades. text reads: 'out of my head, half-bursting,'
anthy's hand placed atop utena's as they sleep at the table in their dorm together. text reads: 'still filling, the dream condenses--'
a moment from the shadow girls' performance of 'the tale of the rose', in which the witch pirouettes in front of the prince, who is trapped in a cage. text reads: 'shadows,'
a close-up of anthy drawing utena's sword from her chest. text reads: 'crystals,'
a close-up of anthy with her hair down and eyes closed, lying underneath akio. both the background and his body are entirely made of a starry sky. text reads: 'ceilings,'
anthy and utena standing in the overgrown sunlit garden. anthy's face is not visible. text reads: 'meadows,'
a close-up of utena's hand grasping at the handle of the rose gate, her single tear about to splash against her ring. text reads: 'globes of dew.'
anthy collapsed on the floor, clutching her cheek. her face is turned away and not visible. saionji's shaking fist is in the right-hand foreground. text reads: 'under the dull green of lilacs,'
a close-up of anthy's face, barely visible as it is so obscured by the swords of hatred surrounding and piercing her body. text reads: 'out in the light'
anthy silhouetted before a rotating projection of constellations. text reads: 'carving each spoke of the pram, the turned porch-pillars,'
anthy and utena kneeling side by side in the rose garden, staring at each other. text reads: 'under high early-summer clouds,'
a close-up of anthy clutching a candelabra, on which only one candle is lit. her expression appears blank, but her glasses lenses are opaque and obscuring her eyes. text reads: 'i am effie, visible and invisible,'
a close-up of anthy as a child, embracing dios as he dies with a pained expression. text reads: 'remembering,'
utena as a child, standing before the place she first saw anthy, who has now disappeared. a spotlight falls around her as she stares on at where anthy was, her back to the audience. text reads: 'and remembered.' /end ID]
adrienne rich, mourning picture / revolutionary girl utena (1997)
