40cakes | Fuck Off, Princess (well, that's sort of the gist)

rashaka enticed me by offering downloads of almost all of Princess Tutu, and I bit and picked up two episodes and watched, not wanting to break yousendit by downloading all of something I might decide I'd dislike. Rashaka and I sometimes have different tastes in anime, you see (See also: Saiyuki, FMA, Naruto, early episodes of Samurai Champloo. Exception: Fruits Basket).

I LOVE THIS SHOW.

kannaophelia, if you haven't seen any, I recommend it to you. It's pretty and at a boarding school where they study ballet and the music's gorgeous and the ~~male fantasy wrecking the characters~~ slashy subtext is already afoot by episode 2.

There's a duck who turns into a girl and the girl turns into the magical girl Princess Tutu and THEY BATTLE THROUGH BALLET and one of the girls in her class is an anthropomorphic anteater and their teacher is a giant cat who threatens to punish them with marriage and none of the characters seem to find any of this strange and that's what the oddest thing of all is.

But in addition to that, I saw this poem while downloading the episodes, and enjoyed it enough to post here. I'm sure

cheekybaby understands the sentiment of this poem as well. XD

If you can't fuck me while I read, fuck off.
You're not the best of what's been thought or said,
Not yet. But youth, with genius, is enough.

Ménage á trois is greatness, not rebuff,
If you gain art from what art's represented.
If you can't fuck me while I read, fuck off.

I want you, and I want a paragraph Of lengthy James; he does go on. My love,
Can you? I shouldn't praise his length? Enough

Of him? The body of work's living proof
We're all rare forms, and living...in the dead.
If you can't A Little Tour in France me while I read, fuck off.

I signal lusts by title, not handkerchief,
Since I'm the sex of all that I have read;
Sometimes I write this sex. Kiss me enough,

And well enough, that I may bear the snub
That reading's not a sexual preference.
If you can't fuck me while I read, fuck off,
Or rave how I'm a work of art enough.
--S.X. Rosenstock

Man, I did a lot of LJ name dropping there, didn't I? Oh well. Download Princess Tutu, fuck while reading, battle with ballet (I wonder if there's a Princess Tutu AMV to "Beat It"), and thanks for all the fish.

>^..^