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Shoutout to my pookies <3

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Strawberry Fantasia Member Introduction: Lily

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Hello, I'm Lily! One of the founding members of the predebut group, Strawberry Fantasia! I'm an Australian teen with a passion for the arts, especially music! (Sorry if this introduction seems a bit basic, don't worry, I'll start feeling comfortable and speaking with lots of emojis and extra letters soon enough, hehe.)

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��ˊˎ- Name: Lily.

⋆ˊˎ- Age: Minor :D.

⋆ˊˎ- Birthday: 1st of February.

⋆ˊˎ- Gender: Female.

⋆ˊˎ- Colour: Red.

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About me

⋆ˊˎ- Likes: Art (like 5/7 of the 'seven different art forms', music, painting, literature, theatre, and film), reading, dancing, listening to video essays, fashion design and sewing, sweets, manga, etc.

⋆ˊˎ- MBTI: INFP-T.

⋆ˊˎ- More info: Umm, I never know what to put in this section 😭 I'll just list off some of my favourite musical artists (not a ranking):

Stray Kids.

Red Velvet.

NewJeans.

TWICE.

Sharny.

Taylor Swift.

Sabrina Carpenter.

beabadoobee.

Loona members.

The Smiths.

Lamp.

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My fellow member Glitter Queen's introduction will be coming soon :D

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Strawberry Fantasia Member Introduction: Glitter Queen.

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⋆ˊˎ- Name: Glitter Queen.

⋆ˊˎ- Age: 20.

⋆ˊˎ- Birthday: May 21st.

⋆ˊˎ- Gender: Female.

⋆ˊˎ- Colour: Pink.

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About me

⋆ˊˎ- Likes: My Little Pony, sweets, naps.

⋆ˊˎ- Dislikes: Disorganisation, outdoors, math.

⋆ˊˎ- More info: I've been acting for 15 years.

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why is there a LIP card in my skz album 😭 now i have a picture of changbin's lips lmao

anyone happen to be a big changbin bias and want to trade? lol

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crybaby

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(thanks for the tag <333) omg the way my indecisive brain had a seizure over having to choose between things that are so cute, aghghg, also first time tagging my moots in a while lol

(omg whyy do the choices have to be so short, i like overdescribing things lol)

@mylovecardan(haven't tagged you before, i think, so hiii) @lacedheartdoll @pppaper-planes @augustloverforever @urprettylady @stwrcheesecake @femc3ldoll @ooglyeyes-blog @emmaestrella @booksandteaandstuff @coquettestudies

Once again, this post got super long, so what would you steal from my room!

Ty dearly for the tag ^-^

@ultra-raging-ghost @q-starhalo @mysteriouswolf

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thank you thank you for the tag!! <3

last song: green light - lorde

favourite colour: red or pink or maybe yellow, but probably red is my top atm lol

currently watching: scott pilgrim vs the world and before sunrise

last movie: being john malcovic

sweet/savory/spicy: i thinnkkk, sweet? i can handle spice in small doses and savory is chill but like i have a big sweet tooth hehe

current obsessions: MUSIC

relationship status: single (but i have a crush >:) )

last thing i googled: okay... the last thing i searched was very bad looking out of context lol and the other one was my address so the THIRD last thing i searched was Marcheline Bertrand

people i want to get to know better 🥰

tagged by @mcavoyjames, @henrywinteris, and @swkywalker 💖💖💖

last song: lonely is the muse, halsey

favorite color: turquoise/blue and pink 💗

currently watching: house md!!! obsessed

last movie: i think it was beetlejuice beetlejuice! saw it in theaters, was a lovely time.

sweet/savoury/spicy: i love these 3 equally as if they're my children. but my weakest spot is spicy!! i always want that spicy option

current obsessions: house md lol. ummm.. sabrina carpenter. oh! i'm obsessed with those pop the balloon and find love videos on youtube 😂 especially with arlette, her vids are best

relationship status: boyfriend of over 4 years

last thing i googled: what degree you need to be a pharmacist. i was just curious, not gonna do that lmao

tagging (if you want to ofc): @vampirewillows , @heartwasglass , @joequinns , @munsonseds , @hellshee , @widowkills , @waxladrian , @pleasepleaseeplease, @bruceewayne, @saintirulan, @teamred, @obsessedx, @emmaestrella, @lookforanewangle, @tornadocowboy, @winterflell, @stevebcks .

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omggg ty for tagging me <33

(not in any particular order)

hot to go - chappell roan

vegas - doja cat

achilles come down - gang of youths

liability - lorde

cardigan - taylor swift

when you get this ask, you have to answer with 5 of your favorite songs and then send this ask to 10 of your mooties!!! (Not obligatory the last)

Home - cavetown

treehouse - Alex g

Daddy issues - the neighbourhood

Washing machine heart - mitski

Gilded lilies - Cults

Now for tags:

@k-is-for-potassium

@monarchofthequeerpotatoes

@remithegayshoebill

@ernycek

@retic-pithon

@goobsie0

@in-a-mello-mood

@caramel-covered-apples

@demonicallyslaying

@mad0katsuki

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YES GORGEOUS DRESS FROM MY FAVOURITE GALLERY GRHAHAHAHGHGHGHG

this is so pretty ^^

Afternoon dress

c. 1900

Callot Soeurs

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

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Paco Rabanne Fall 1995 Haute Couture

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Anna Sui autumn/winter 1998 rtw

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just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

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a reminder for myself. I met a trans guy the other day who is about to turn 40. Before him I was the oldest trans person I knew in real life.

(detail from ‘Pietà’ c.1876 by William-Adolphe Bouguereau)

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I've been obsessing over this rendition of the Law of Cycles as a kinetic sculpture for a long time, so it's kind of embarrassing to realize there are actually ten witches here, not nine. (In my defense, one is so washed out, it's really hard to tell that there's anything there.) Fortunately, the Rebellion Production Note comes to the rescue again with Inu Curry's original artwork, which is even more interesting to me than the versions that made it into the movie.

Here the "constellation" of witches is juxtaposed with the organ in Oktavia's orchestra. Clockwise from upper right:

HN Elly the Box Witch (also known as Kirsten) from Episode 4;

Sayaka's witch Oktavia's crown made of swords

Nagisa's witch Charlotte's doll silhouettes from episode 3

Patricia (spider witch with the clothesline webs from Episode 10)

Albertine the Scribbling witch (who doesn't appear in the show, but Sayaka fights her familiar Anja in the alleyway before Kyouko turns up in episode 5)

Elsa Maria the Shadow Witch whom Sayaka fights in episode 7

Gertrud the Rose Witch from Episode 1-2

Roberta the birdcage witch that Homura encounters in a flashback in episode 10

Suleika- another witch who never appears directly in the show but Mami dispatches her shadow lion familiars at the beginning of episode 3

Izabel the Art Witch who ensnares Homura in episode 10

None of this is explained in the Rebellion Production Note, by the way; for the designs of the sigils and other information that doesn't appear in the original series, you have to go to the corresponding production notes in the official guidebook "You Are Not Alone Anymore", which somehow I had never seen before. As someone who generally believes works should stand on their own without requiring further research, I am mildly annoyed at once again having to comb through supplementary artbooks in order to interpret this diagram, but such is life as a Madoka Magica fan.

Suleika's name and sigil don't even appear in the guidebook, to the point where the only reason I figured it out was by the process of elimination and the fact that it's a flashlight making the same star-shaped shadows as the lion heads (which are called Ulla). Talk about hidden lore!

Anyway, these ten witches are the ones that I think are most likely to show up in Walpurgis no Kaiten in some fashion or another, with preference given to those who have the most screen time in the original series (Gertrud, Charlotte, Oktavia, Patricia). Those who never appear on-screen in the original series or who only have a very brief appearance, like Albertine, Roberta, and Suleika, are probably less likely to be featured in a larger role, just because the average audience member who doesn't have a PhD in Madoka Studies might not know/remember who they are, but we'll have to see; if nothing else, Inu Curry loves a good esoteric reference.

This is not to say that there won't be witches from other spinoffs in Walpurgis no Kaiten, given that fans have already spotted multiple Magia Record witches in the witch book in the second trailer, but blink-and-you'll-miss-it freeze frame Easter eggs for hardcore fans are an entirely different kettle of fish from meaningful roles. That said, Doroinu Curry directed the Magia Record anime, so, uh, suffice to say that they really, really like Magia Record and it's not surprising that they'd try to slip in as many references as possible. TBD. Patricia was also heavily featured in Magia Record 2x01, which is one reason I ranked her so high on my list.

One thing that's really fascinating about this "constellation" is that Walpurgisnacht is not present in the movie version, even though her elephants appear to pull a pumpkin carriage when the Law of Cycles comes to take Homura away. However, she is present in the artwork in the Rebellion Production Note in the form of the lace curtain above the organ, making her the "stage" upon which the performance takes place. Alternately, the curtain here could refer to Homulilly, who is also associated with lace and curtains, as most of Rebellion takes place in her labyrinth.

Metaphorically, Walpurgisnacht is the dark mirror to the Law of Cycles--both are conglomerations of witches represented by a single entity, but one offers salvation/relief/death while the other offers death and destruction. Given Madoka Magica's tendency to make its metaphors literal, I suspect the two are more closely related than we know, though the mechanics of how exactly that would work remains to be seen.

Another fun tidbit: the captions in the Rebellion Production Note suggest that the "spokes" connecting the witches to each other represent links by fate or some kind of other link that makes them compatible with each other. Thus, Oktavia is linked to Elly/Kirsten because Sayaka fought and destroyed her; Sayaka and Nagisa are partners on the mission to save Homura, but I'm very curious about the other connections there. What do Suleika and Izabel have in common?

Also, I know I've said this before, but wow, does the constellation echo the isolation field that Kyubey puts Homura's soul gem in, so there's something especially poetic about the one being used to destroy the other.

It's still incredible to me I've been in this fandom for four years now and I'm learning new things about Madoka Magica every day!

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WAIT FROM THE RAVEN CYCLE, OMG i'm a idiot, sorryyyy

tyler yang is like if henry cheng got dropped into a vat of unhealthy devotion, incredible, no notes