neon genesis ritsukoさんのイラストまとめ

parallels

its that babe

early show has these little moments of actual friendship btwn these two & i think abt where they're eventually taken and it makes me v v sad tbh

she is both hot and also adorable for pixels

rebuild!shinji also seems less consumed by the ~male gaze, most Obvious in ~this~ broken parallel. so i do think its fair 2 say his Rebuild arc is less concerned w struggles w patriarchy+"becoming a man". rebuild overall is pretty ambivalent to gender (and psychoanalysis).

so shinji experiences gender anxiety conditioned by misato/asuka & mediated thru, imo, gendo (QM+i talk abt the importance of gendo's "gaze" in signalling Things). there's also this interesting cap in EoE that a lot of tumblr users used 2 talk abt, where shinji "has" rei's body.

nge acknowledges that gender is not fully biological (or, minimally, doesnt fully commit to biology). i noticed during my last rewatch that misato+asuka contribute significantly to shaping shinji's relationship to masculinity. there are so many examples of this

💕me in my therapy appointment at 19 showing off my carefully curated kin blog to keep the cluster B personality disorder at bay 💕

shes so cute -_-

Naoko's crime scene extends into MAGI Balthasar, the Mother aspect. Ritsuko identifies Naoko-the-Woman as someone she hates. In EoE, she refers to Casper as Mother, who then ultimately betrays her. The flavor! NGE said We are actually ambivalent to the mother-connection.