This is a static copy of In the Rose Garden, which existed as the center of the western Utena fandom for years. Enjoy. :)
#76 | Back to Top03-06-2010 04:18:29 PM
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"All men have a blade in their heart. The purer the heart, the keener the blade." - Gankutsuou
So Akio/Anthy's sword cuts through Utena like a Japanese folded blade on some sashimi, but Utena's blade couldn't even bust up the ivy on Rose Gate? 
Akio, you have nice turns of phrase, but your points aren't clear and you have no textual support. I can't give this a passing grade.
~ Professor Arisa Konno, Eng 1001 (Freshman Literature and Composition)
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#77 | Back to Top03-18-2010 06:30:37 PM
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Seeing anything that's a light shade of pink makes me think of Utena, I actually bought a pink lanyard because of this.
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#78 | Back to Top03-18-2010 08:00:51 PM
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Re: Little things that make you think about SKU.
^ lol
kind of but not really related to the above- YGOAS Seto Kaiba makes me think of Touga. I feel like Mr. Kiryuu might actually say "Screw the rules, I have money!"
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#80 | Back to Top05-28-2010 04:38:15 PM
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I was half way through making a sandwich for lunch out of left over salmon and vegtables from the night before when I realized what I was doing 
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#81 | Back to Top05-28-2010 04:41:23 PM
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Re: Little things that make you think about SKU.
Ruggahissy wrote:
I was half way through making a sandwich for lunch out of left over salmon and vegtables from the night before when I realized what I was doing
...Is this actually edible? Cause... That sandwich always sounded VILE to me.
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#82 | Back to Top05-28-2010 04:49:42 PM
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I was able to drown my horror in the fact that it was delicious. Specifically the sandwich was comprised of:
-Garlic cheddar bread (toasted)
-Salmon (pan seared last night)
-Some pesto I had lieing around.
-Avocado
-Asparagus
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#83 | Back to Top05-28-2010 08:55:12 PM
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I was wading through a few hundred wallpapers that I got off 4chan using the Down Them All! attachment. It's always a guarantee I'll have no idea what I'll end up with. This time I ended up with 'Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of a New Man', by Salvador Dali.
Break the world's shell...
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#84 | Back to Top06-11-2010 05:33:52 PM
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Ya know, I was wandering around a friend's blog and I just found there Saionji's umbrella:
Damm kids, get out of my lawn!!!
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#85 | Back to Top06-11-2010 06:50:44 PM
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birds getting surprised by windows, shiori style.
don't think twice
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#86 | Back to Top06-11-2010 08:30:38 PM
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Zabel Z wrote:
Ya know, I was wandering around a friend's blog and I just found there Saionji's umbrella:
I saw that at a store, and I would have considered it if I wasn't so freakin cheap.
Also, I don't think I could keep that AND my dignity at the same time while walking around.
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#87 | Back to Top06-12-2010 10:09:24 AM
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allegoriest wrote: Also, I don't think I could keep that AND my dignity at the same time while walking around.
HO HO HO 
True!
Damm kids, get out of my lawn!!!
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#88 | Back to Top06-12-2010 12:41:22 PM
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Roses and sensetive girls, You know...
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#89 | Back to Top06-15-2010 07:27:28 PM
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Ya know, I was wandering around a friend's blog and I just found there Saionji's umbrella:
http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/9500/gu215421.jpg
I want this; can someone post a buying link?
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#90 | Back to Top06-15-2010 10:10:04 PM
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SexingTouga24/7/365 wrote:
Zabel Z wrote:
Ya know, I was wandering around a friend's blog and I just found there Saionji's umbrella:
http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/9500/gu215421.jpgI want this; can someone post a buying link?
I believe J-list had a couple of umbrellas similar to that, only they had touches of color (royal blue and yellow, I think) and came with cloth "sheaths" with straps so that they really so look like samurai swards when worn across your back.
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#91 | Back to Top06-16-2010 07:35:01 AM
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*Anytime I see or hear the word "Revolution"
* Rose gardens, or just roses in general
* Circular stairs, or walking up a long flight of stairs
* The words "Duel" and "Duelist"
* Being in a elevator (Sometimes it also makes me think of Die Hard, which makes very interesting juxtaposition)
* Seeing any group of people with differently unnatural hair colors
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#92 | Back to Top06-23-2010 04:48:27 PM
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I was in the campgrounds of fort wilderness, Disney. I was camping without a toilet or anything so they provide a shower and toilet and general plumbing just a small walk away.
On my last day there, I was looking down at the rubber floor mat in the shower and I suddenly understood this floor tiling, and the significance of its triangles .
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Its an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be in San Francisco-Oscar Wilde.
Anyone get the feeling finding Utena is going to be a lot like where in the world is Carmen San Diego?
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#93 | Back to Top06-24-2010 07:55:34 PM
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Raspas... oh the raspas...
I just had apparently THIRTY OUNCES of frozen goodness.
Anthy must get back at her princes with BRAIN FREEZE.
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#94 | Back to Top06-27-2010 01:23:25 AM
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allegoriest wrote:
Raspas... oh the raspas...
I just had apparently THIRTY OUNCES of frozen goodness.
Anthy must get back at her princes with BRAIN FREEZE.
I was going to say this but you apparently said it three days ago. D:
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#95 | Back to Top07-03-2010 09:17:00 PM
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OH GOD ITS NANAMI.
RUN KITTIES RUN
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#96 | Back to Top07-06-2010 04:10:32 PM
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OMG and LOLZ!!!
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#97 | Back to Top07-06-2010 04:42:55 PM
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I giggle every time that commercial comes on tv now thanks to you, dear allegoriest.
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#98 | Back to Top07-08-2010 03:09:50 AM
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The car 'Dualis' seeing as it's similar to the word duellist
In lumine tuo, videbimus amor ('In your light, we shall love') Slippy slippery mambo~ everyone at Ohtori is in some kind of spiritual land, created by Goddess Anthy and her brother Akio?!
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#99 | Back to Top07-08-2010 03:11:56 AM
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How about the Kaji in the second Evangelion remake movie hits on everything that walks and pulls a total Touga with the cold can on Shinji and then whips out a 'Just kidding' then there's a sequence strangely reminiscent of the climax of SKU?
I know Ikuhara and Anno were buddies and communicated a lot during the creations of SKU and Evangelion, so I feel like I shouldn't just write off any connection I see as paranoia.
Akio, you have nice turns of phrase, but your points aren't clear and you have no textual support. I can't give this a passing grade.
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#100 | Back to Top07-08-2010 01:25:38 PM
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Thing 1 - I've been watching America's Got Talent, and I can't help but think Utena everytime I think of Prince Poppycock...he's a pink prince personified....
Thing 2- So this lady came into work not too long ago with something very similar to the twirling roses tattooed on her wrist... I made some kind of statement about revolutionary rose tattoos...she didn't take the bait, so I'm guessing that was purely coincidental.
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