This is a static copy of In the Rose Garden, which existed as the center of the western Utena fandom for years. Enjoy. :)
satyreyes wrote:
Akio goes in for the floral stuff. Touga likes incense that he can describe as "delicate, yet full-bodied." Saionji grabs all the Nag Champa and doesn't leave any for anyone else.
ETA: After typing that, I decided to rephrase.
Akio likes his incense like he likes his women: innocent and flowery.
Touga likes his incense like he likes his women: delicate and full-bodied.
Saionji likes his incense like he likes his women: Indian.
I was going to say that they all smell like varying levels of depravity and shame, but that works, too. XD
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satyreyes wrote:
Saionji grabs all the Nag Champa and doesn't leave any for anyone else.
Man after my own heart.
Actually we seemed to break it down that Saionji favors woodsy or green scents, pines and cedars and sweetgrass. Touga favors the flowery gets-him-laid stuff, gardenia and sandalwood rose, and Akio went with the wildcard or exotic scents, opium and coconut.
Needs hobby.
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Actually we seemed to break it down that Saionji favors woodsy or green scents, pines and cedars and sweetgrass. Touga favors the flowery gets-him-laid stuff, gardenia and sandalwood rose, and Akio went with the wildcard or exotic scents, opium and coconut.
I think I just found a nice detail to put into part 3 of my Seinen Kakumei Utena fic (2 parts out currently)!
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...you think Time Judged All(a.k.a. the Tajadol theme), from the Kamen Rider OOO soundtrack would make an INCREDIBLE Duel theme.
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... Human!AU Lion King porn turns into a vehicle for yet more Utena analysis.
Seriously, tell me I'm not alone in thinking this is totally the kind of thing Miki and Kozue's relationship would degrade into had the revolution not occurred
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....you find a seller on Etsy called Lady Rose and are surprised when the store is not stocked with vagina related items, nor has a seller girl with pink or purple hair.
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...you're watching the 3rd season premiere of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and when Twilight and Spike go up the spiral staircase, you wonder why Zettai Unmei Mokushiroku isn't playing.
...and now I'm wondering if King Sombra wasn't really Akio in a former life...
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...you start learning how to do a handstand so that you can pull an Akio on the highway one day.
...you have an overwhelming urge to take every kitten you see, lest some crazy-ass blonde shove it in a cardboard box and throw it in the river. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!
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When you start mass producing rose signets made from wire and duct tape and give them out to your friends.
When you show off your ring to your little brother, and he asks you if you got it from Akio.
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I did this a while ago, but since I've only begun delurking recently, I haven't shared it here:
My computer's external hard drive has two partitions. One for automated backup and one for music (and other things, but mostly music). They are named Miki and Kozue, and the names are relevant to their functions.
I have an Apple computer, and the automated backup program is called "Time Machine". So my backups go to Kozue, as that is part of her duel song. Ten! Two! One! Zero! Take off! Miki is a musician, so of course he keeps my music library.
Incidentally, my computer itself is named Nemuro.
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Kozue kind of gets treated like an emergency backup by him, too. I hope yours is more reliable on that front.
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Imaginary Bad Bug wrote:
Incidentally, my computer itself is named Nemuro.
So, does your harddrive frequently melt down? Or does it have the top secret information of 100 carefully selected boys on it? Is it prone to having its clock freeze for days at a time? Does your computer even exist?
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My Kozue drive is quite reliable, fortunately.
TheOnlyFlorence wrote:
Does your computer even exist?
satyreyes wrote:
Your computer's girlfriend tells it that it's too computerlike.
I like these answers.
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Your response to everything is "...I have no choice but to revolutionize the world."
You somehow think writing a fic where you insert your RL friends into the roles of SKU chars would be a good idea.
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Imaginary Bad Bug wrote:
My computer's external hard drive has two partitions. One for automated backup and one for music (and other things, but mostly music). They are named Miki and Kozue, and the names are relevant to their functions.
Imaginary Bad Bug wrote:
Miki is a musician, so of course he keeps my music library.
So the music partition isn't just for storing music, huh? ;)
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Elin I. wrote:
So the music partition isn't just for storing music, huh? ;)
It's like 90% music. There's a few random videos and stuff on it, too, along with the Katawa Shoujo visual novel which I have yet to start.
It is missing a shining thing, though...
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Listening to J.A. Seazer in the car makes driving anywhere seem ominous, like I'm going to the End of the World or something.
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...when you want to design a Grave of the Prince from the movie in your garden.
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When you're making an omelette on a Saturday morning, and you start to recite the speech about how the chick must break its shell and revolutionizing the world... >>
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When you recite the egg speech without realizing you're reciting the egg speech. In front of all your friends. Who are staring at you like you've lost your fucking mind.
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...you watch the RWBY "White" trailer, and you think that somehow, Weiss is the daughter of Utena and Anthy.
Or something like that.
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When you listen to Seazer's track too much; No seriously I can't spend a day without listening to the Duels themes in fact I'm listening to Tainai Tokei Toshi Oruroi multiple time as of this post.
Also I think some fan artist here should cross over SKU with Mario and Bioshock infinite just for the fun of it
One more thing; as of this post I'm in the middle of watching Sailor moon(Fan Sub), I'm up to episode 7 and I'm enjoying the show so far; Also I loved Kotono Mitsuishi(Misato and Juri) as Sailor moon because of how adorable her voice was.
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Necro!
-Uh... when you wanna pick up piano again just to play The Sunlit Garden and other Utena songs that have sheet music.
-When you feel a tinge of guilt before eating beef or eggs.
-You make freaking Nintendo Miis based off of Utena characters.
-You find yourself thinking about cars way more than you ever have in your life.
-The names/surnames of the Utena cast are forever associated with them. Any time you see a character from another series with the same name you automatically think of the Utena character. (Right now I'm playing a game that has a female character with the last name Saionji and I was amused at the idea of our Saionji having a little sister. She's skilled in traditional Japanese dance and that made me think of Saionji and his kendo interest.)
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Kiseki wrote:
-The names/surnames of the Utena cast are forever associated with them. Any time you see a character from another series with the same name you automatically think of the Utena character. (Right now I'm playing a game that has a female character with the last name Saionji and I was amused at the idea of our Saionji having a little sister. She's skilled in traditional Japanese dance and that made me think of Saionji and his kendo interest.)
High five. And there's another one in the same game whose surname is Nanami.
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