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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.

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