Small thoughts

[malymin]

I'm fascinated by how this series of essays on sibling incest in Revolutionary Girl Utena has, as its second-to-last part... not an essay, but a fanfiction.

The fanfiction itself is being used as a means of analysis, here - as a culmination of everything that was previously discussed about the dynamics of family, romance, gender, and abuse at the heart of Ohtori Academy.

I think this is what most draws me to fanfiction as an artistic medium to work in, really. Being asexual, aromantic, and sex-repulsed, the general culture of shipping leaves me sort of... cold. It's fine for other people, really, but... I end up more drawn to other things: deep dives into a single character's interior being, constellations of multiple relationships in interplay. Lore, worldbuilding, and setting when I want to play with its constructs like toys; metaphor, message and themes when feeling strongly about what the work is trying to say.

All art is derivative, and I don't want to have to obfuscate what I'm building on.

Comments

[stepnix]

oh this is very cool

[malymin]

Isn't it? I'm glad it's all saved on Wayback, but honestly it still makes me sad that the actual Tumblr blog is deleted even with having access to the captures... even if I wanted to delete an entire blog, if I'd put that much effort into something I'd written, and hadn't posted my analysis on some other platform, I'm not sure I could bring myself to. ;_;