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mikogalateaThe room visit scene from episode 29 of Utena is one of my favourites when it come to Shiori and the Juri/Shiori relationship, so when I saw a gifset based on it around 2 years ago, I couldn't help but have feelings about it.
Rather than put my rambling into a direct comment on the gifset, though, I ended up splurging my feelings in a series of tags, as was my habit sometimes when I didn't want to bother graphics OPs with my rambling stuck onto their work. Here's the "tag essay" in question, which I'm not going to bother putting under a cut for a change because it basically only amounts to a single paragraph:
this scene hurts me, friendly reminder that juri contributed to shiori's pain here, because she walked away from shiori being publicly dumped by ruka as if it had nothing to do with her, because she's only come to talk to her long after the fact, because she's only come to talk to her AT ALL because utena called her out on ignoring her, so is it really so shocking that shiori would lash out like this? especially when she's feeling worse about herself than ever?, it doesn't make her behaviour RIGHT by any means but it's at least understandable how she feels, her hand on the doorknob still gives me a lot of feelings too, that's shiori's hand holding the door open, she's the one who wants to reach out to juri, (see also: ep 17), but she can't because she put the chain on the door herself, it's amazing how one frame can say so much about shiori as a character, brb having utena feels, tag essays ftw
Rather than put my rambling into a direct comment on the gifset, though, I ended up splurging my feelings in a series of tags, as was my habit sometimes when I didn't want to bother graphics OPs with my rambling stuck onto their work. Here's the "tag essay" in question, which I'm not going to bother putting under a cut for a change because it basically only amounts to a single paragraph:
this scene hurts me, friendly reminder that juri contributed to shiori's pain here, because she walked away from shiori being publicly dumped by ruka as if it had nothing to do with her, because she's only come to talk to her long after the fact, because she's only come to talk to her AT ALL because utena called her out on ignoring her, so is it really so shocking that shiori would lash out like this? especially when she's feeling worse about herself than ever?, it doesn't make her behaviour RIGHT by any means but it's at least understandable how she feels, her hand on the doorknob still gives me a lot of feelings too, that's shiori's hand holding the door open, she's the one who wants to reach out to juri, (see also: ep 17), but she can't because she put the chain on the door herself, it's amazing how one frame can say so much about shiori as a character, brb having utena feels, tag essays ftw
