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Description
Celestial age.
Primeval oceans
Erosion and sediment
3 billion years
The birth of life
Geological eras
Cambrian
Ordovician
Silurian
Devonian
Stromatolite
Molecules
Bacteria
Collenia
Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous.

Lycopsida
Selaginella
Caytonia
Gennetites
Bennetites
Ammonite.

Rose of the sea
Lily of the sea
Apple of the sea
Bud of the sea
Angel of the sea
Mirror of the sea
Gate of the sea
Haze of the sea
Carboniferous, Permian, Paleozoic.

The Oceanic you
the oceanic me,
Are the Paleozoic within the body.
Continuing to live
Continuing to die
The endless story of the Paleozoic.
Just like the whale.
Just like the dolphin
Just like the seal
I travel down into the depths of the sea
The Oceanic me
Down through history in the depths of the sea
and at the bottom I find myself

Ammonite

Paleozoic within the body - Revolutionary Girl Utena

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I should not be allowed to draw after 1 am.

Anyway.
For whatever reason, out of all the dueling songs this is the one I always remember most clearly. Not for it's tune which is more or less just as similar as the rest of them but for it's lyrics. I'm not sure what that says about me XD;;

The song plays while Saionji has his second duel with Utena. All the while he is boasting how even though Utena is wielding the sword of Dios it means nothing since you need skill to be the better swordsman. Everything in Utena has a double meaning.

Saionji continues to preach how without skill and training you can't hope to get anywhere. Your capability in life is measured by how much knowledge and experience you've managed to obtain While he's doing so his dueling song sings about the ages the Earth has gone through and it's growth through Prehistoric ages and how long the Earth has moved through them, evolving.

But by the end the song sings of regressing through the history and growth of the Earth within one's self and how we as a complex animal came from these primitive eras ourselves. It's a testament to the growth of the world. However the song goes on, singing how that the truth remains that if you strip away our evolutionary progress and growth and experience as a species and you travel back to our origins you find the most primitive of animals, the ammonite.

It's at this point when Saionji loses the duel.

Skill and experience are important because they get us where we are. But it's important to honour that growth as well and understand the foundation it's been built on. Saionji may have been more skilled than Utena, but her foundation as a character was stronger.

In Saionji's case the song was about his shortcomings, however I believe in Usagi's case it would be a positive message because even as a little kid Usagi has always been a nice person. And with a strong starting point it means his growth and accumulated knowledge is stronger as well.

However, stripping away personal experience and acquired knowledge till you have nothing but your inner self left is an unnerving and frightening experience because when you do so, you have nothing left but your true inner essence, for better or worse. Seeing yourself and who you truly are can be a terrifying experience regardless of what kind of person you are.

.....

or maybe he just fell off a boat into the sea in which case one of his friends had better fish him out quick.

I'm rather proud of the finished result of this picture
Everything (apart for the spots on Usagi's Kimono) was done by hand and without reference or tutorials.

I probably made Yagi no Eda's handle too long but oh well

Also... to my newer watchers. I tend to draw really bizarre stuff every now and then just nod and move on.

Drawn between 11 pm - 4 am.

Description
Celestial age.
Primeval oceans
Erosion and sediment
3 billion years
The birth of life
Geological eras
Cambrian
Ordovician
Silurian
Devonian
Stromatolite
Molecules
Bacteria
Collenia
Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous.

Lycopsida
Selaginella
Caytonia
Gennetites
Bennetites
Ammonite.

Rose of the sea
Lily of the sea
Apple of the sea
Bud of the sea
Angel of the sea
Mirror of the sea
Gate of the sea
Haze of the sea
Carboniferous, Permian, Paleozoic.

The Oceanic you
the oceanic me,
Are the Paleozoic within the body.
Continuing to live
Continuing to die
The endless story of the Paleozoic.
Just like the whale.
Just like the dolphin
Just like the seal
I travel down into the depths of the sea
The Oceanic me
Down through history in the depths of the sea
and at the bottom I find myself

Ammonite

Paleozoic within the body - Revolutionary Girl Utena

---------------

I should not be allowed to draw after 1 am.

Anyway.
For whatever reason, out of all the dueling songs this is the one I always remember most clearly. Not for it's tune which is more or less just as similar as the rest of them but for it's lyrics. I'm not sure what that says about me XD;;

The song plays while Saionji has his second duel with Utena. All the while he is boasting how even though Utena is wielding the sword of Dios it means nothing since you need skill to be the better swordsman. Everything in Utena has a double meaning.

Saionji continues to preach how without skill and training you can't hope to get anywhere. Your capability in life is measured by how much knowledge and experience you've managed to obtain While he's doing so his dueling song sings about the ages the Earth has gone through and it's growth through Prehistoric ages and how long the Earth has moved through them, evolving.

But by the end the song sings of regressing through the history and growth of the Earth within one's self and how we as a complex animal came from these primitive eras ourselves. It's a testament to the growth of the world. However the song goes on, singing how that the truth remains that if you strip away our evolutionary progress and growth and experience as a species and you travel back to our origins you find the most primitive of animals, the ammonite.

It's at this point when Saionji loses the duel.

Skill and experience are important because they get us where we are. But it's important to honour that growth as well and understand the foundation it's been built on. Saionji may have been more skilled than Utena, but her foundation as a character was stronger.

In Saionji's case the song was about his shortcomings, however I believe in Usagi's case it would be a positive message because even as a little kid Usagi has always been a nice person. And with a strong starting point it means his growth and accumulated knowledge is stronger as well.

However, stripping away personal experience and acquired knowledge till you have nothing but your inner self left is an unnerving and frightening experience because when you do so, you have nothing left but your true inner essence, for better or worse. Seeing yourself and who you truly are can be a terrifying experience regardless of what kind of person you are.

.....

or maybe he just fell off a boat into the sea in which case one of his friends had better fish him out quick.

I'm rather proud of the finished result of this picture
Everything (apart for the spots on Usagi's Kimono) was done by hand and without reference or tutorials.

I probably made Yagi no Eda's handle too long but oh well

Also... to my newer watchers. I tend to draw really bizarre stuff every now and then just nod and move on.

Drawn between 11 pm - 4 am.