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Made a chart for sorting fantheories

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Nobody understands the bond between a girl and the mediocre book she read when she was 13 years old.

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Feelin like a hellhound tryna catch an angel

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Do you miss all your old selves?

no they are inside of me i hug them everyday and say u did such a good job

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i love posting madoka magica art because without fail half of the interactions will be from blogs with homura pfps and urls like “homuralover2000”

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Wise words from Shang Bu Huan.

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I've talked before about how the Incubators are male-coded, but I was browsing the Puella Magi Wiki and discovered that the Madoka Magica Café event in 2011 dropped the subtext entirely with their signs for the bathrooms:

*squints at runes* Ah, yes, the two genders: "magical girl" and "Incubator".

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Candeloro

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Why are you booing me, I’m right.

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Man, the latest round of AO3 spam comments makes me glad I turned off anonymous comments on my fics so I don't have to deal with that.

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everyone's like wehhhhh why doesn't doctor house gets suuuueeed! like my man. literally every patient he sees is someone that's been trying to find a diagnosis for ages. i could live with a little medical malpractice if it were coming from someone ready to break into my home to look for allergens and not simply half heartedly listen to me before suggesting I lose weight and take ages of back and forth arguing to order a single test

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you cannot headcanon your way out of overt thematic structures on which the entire narrative is built

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Absolutely no one asked for this, but in case anyone might be curious as to how to pronounce the Thunderbolt Fantasy characters’ Chinese names (since they are never actually said in the voiced show), here is my “haven’t-regularly-spoken-Mandarin-in-20-years” attempt at the names.

The list in which I say the names is as follows:

Lin Xue Ya ( 凜雪鴉) Shang Bu Huan ( 殤不患) Dan Fei (丹翡) Shou Yun Xiao (狩雲霄) Xing Hai (捲殘雲) Juan Can Yun (刑亥) Sha Wu Sheng (殺無生) Dan Heng (丹衡) Mie Tian Hai (蔑天骸)

(Note: “Sh” is pronounced with either the “sh” or “s” sound, depending on whether you want to sound more mainland/northern Chinese (”sh”) or Taiwanese (”s”). For example, I’m of Taiwanese descent, so I pronounce “Sha Wu Sheng” as “Sah Wu Sung.”)

I personally prefer using their Chinese names in writing, because unlike their Japanese names, the Chinese names are actually consistent with the characters and…have some sort of evocative meaning? (ie: the Xue (雪) in Lin Xue Ya’s name is the character for “snow,” and he has a largely snow-colored color scheme? and the Tian (天) in Mie Tian Hai’s name is the character for “sky,” and he has those cloud patterns on his robes? idk).

Likewise, the Japanese names are completely context-dependent (ie: the Kanji of their names would only be pronounced the way they are when referring specifically to the Thunderbolt Fantasy characters–otherwise, they would be read as merely a very odd/nonsensical combination of Kanji characters). But I also still enjoy using the name “Mushou” and all that, too, so I don’t judge either preference.

Please note that I’m foremost American, so if any actual Taiwanese/Chinese/Japanese people disagree with any of my pronunciations or commentary, they are probably right.

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Oh, we can burn it and leave For we are the beautiful thieves No one suspects at all

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I stumbled across a series of tumblr posts about Tarot imagery in Rebellion, but unfortunately, they only exist via the Wayback Machine, which does not always preserve images.

I have not read through all of it yet, but at the very least, there's a lot to think about, and it suggests that the use of Tarot symbolism in the WnK trailer is not new, only more obvious.

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When you see your friend’s likes

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Shipping fictional characters isn’t representative of your moral values. It’s representative of your particular psychic damage and the themes and motifs that haunt you. Hope this helps.