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just got my car totaled in a hit and run w/ a vehicle that had no front license plate. happy april fools

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wow, the Shi/Yu arc was… not great

I mean Yu’s entire character was awful, and Nagisa’s Magia Record story (not including Nagisa’s Wish, which was great aside from Yu) wasn’t any good either, so I wasn’t expecting much.

but Shi had such potential as a character and they just… did nothing with it. nothing she does has anything to do with anything that previously happened. there’s no causal relationship. things just happen. they set up all this interesting stuff with her dreaming about victims of violent crime, and then write her as being completely indifferent to it and only motivated by tragic yuri. they also can’t even stick to their own rules of her dreaming only about potential magical girls, because she dreams of the victims of Yu’s retribution too.

and they couldn’t stick with consistent characterization for Yu either. Last Bird’s Hope tries to push this bizarre “insanity=innocence” message and portray Yu as innocent because her mind is too disorganized to form an ego or sense of right and wrong. this is directly contradictory to Nagisa’s Wish, in which Yu says she knows what she does is wrong and doesn’t care because she feels entitled to the lives of others. hell, a major plot point of Nagisa’s Wish is that Nagisa thinks she isn’t a good enough person to become a magical girl until she meets Yu, after which she thinks that if someone like Yu can become a magical girl she’ll have no problem. and then Last Bird’s Hope makes a huge point of portraying Yu as innocent and Nagisa as jealous of this innocence, like ??????????????

I get that the point of the event was to show that all is never truly well, there’s always a new villain rising and an ever-greater threat looming on the horizon, and while some overcome their traumas others simply perpetuate the cycle, but it’s just so poorly written. it also has some of the worst pacing in the franchise, and that’s saying something. what a disappointing send off for the game.

just… eugh. I’m gonna keep pretending the game ended after Puella Historia.

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"Somebody hand me my nails. I'm about to give a church a visit."

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Months of planning ruined

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yeah i have an outside husband lol i know its unethical but he just loves exploring

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this is my favourite thing ever

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Plot twist: the two boys you're choosing between are polyamorous, but they also hate eachother's guts so you still have to pick one

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“I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.”

— Henry James, after a request by the Times Literary Supplement to cut three lines from a 5,000 word article (via annadevries)

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i keep misremembering the new madoka game's name

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thinking about when my friend found a book from the 70s in a church office with truly some of the most insane prayers I have ever heard

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i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.

this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.

anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you: