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Phi zero escape makes me sick. She is so ahhhhhhhhhffghhh. She learns Latin because of a pin given to her by her mother. She uses that skill to read a passage of a diary written by her father who wrote it in Latin because he knew she'd one day be able to read it. Her pin and name were given to her by her mother and father because they already knew her and treasured and missed her dearly as a friend. She spent her whole life agonizing over a fraze about how no one can change the past only to develop time travel like powers. Her parents also have time travel powers. Not even Jupiter can find a lost opportunity. But the lost opportunity is her parents being able to raise her.

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for anon

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strawbebbie………. 🍓 blubberrie…….. 🫐 oraneg……… 🍊 peeache…….. 🍑

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ppl who celebrate fictional character birthdays are annoying pass it on

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Following the anagram naming convention, toby fox should make a third game called “unrelated” that has nothing to do with undertale or deltarune and contains zero lore or references to them. It’s just a baseball simulator or something.

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Cats!

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hehe another shakerrr

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hello ze fandom. hands you my resume

luna fit inspired from this post!!

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shoutout to moot who wanted to see me draw palutena (moot does not use tumblr and will never see this caption)

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So there's these horses.. and they race

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observing creatures of play

i changed their designs like 3 times while drawing this shit. dont do this. i still dont even know what color palette i want for them

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while you studied the blade i studied the forge so i could make you the very best blade in the world! love you baby

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Sable :>

You should play it :> :>

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sable

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Oh yeah actually come to think of it: I'm not a huge fan of the debate over whether or not a magical girl's wishes were selfish or selfless tbh. I don't think it's a fair way to frame it, or necessarily that productive either.

The girls are introduced to the concept of magical girls as a noble calling- fighting evil witches, and protecting the innocent from harm. Magical girling is a vocation, a noble sacrifice made by these girls for the greater good. They're actively encouraged, by kyubey, by how society socialises girls, by their own generally upright morals and values, to see this thankless sacrifice made by them as ultimately worth it. The girls are ultimately all good people, with good intentions, which is why they take on the task.

However magical girl life is gruelling. It's thankless, dangerous, and never ending. Once you commit you can never stop. You're forced to give up parts of your normal day to day life, like spending time with friends in order to kill witches to sustain yourself. If you became a magical girl for a selfless reason, such as to protect others, your moral compass likely won't let you take the day off. The witches will still be hurting people, and it'll be your fault for not doing your job.

In the series, the advice we DO hear given about what to wish for is basically 'get your money's worth.' Mami and Kyouko have been living this miserable lifestyle, and thats why they understand that the best way to survive it is to make a wish that you can accept and live with, even when youre miserable.

If anything, 'selfishness' is the cudgel being used to beat the girls with. We see Sayaka twisting herself in knots over the morality of her wish, over whether she's selfish for regretting becoming a magical girl, because she's reasonably upset shes been tricked into irreversible body alterations she never consented to. Her desire to live up to a perfectly selfless magical girl ideal causes her to punish herself for being upset that her horrible sacrifice goes unacknowledged by anyone.

Treating selfishness or selflessness as an all-or-nothing binary IS what's hurting her. The fear of selfishness is specifically exploited and weaponised against these well-intentioned kids, especially Sayaka and Madoka, in order to make them feel guilty for wanting happiness or safety for themselves. By harping on about whether or not a wish aligns into this binary of selfishness or selflessness, we play into the exact same rhetoric Kyubey uses to guilt these girls into disregarding their own wellbeing.

I mean we see it in real life all the time- humans are literally not capable of 24/7 selfless all-giving charity work. The people who try it are the ones who will burn themselves out the quickest. You need to put on your own oxygen mask first before anyone elses. However since society glorifies selflessness above all else, it cultivates an ideal of 100% all or nothing moral purity all the time, that people feel pressured to live up to, or else they are morally 'impure.'

Tldr: the magical girl system actively encourages girls to martyr themselves by targeting girls who care about protecting others, who will then feel pressured to disregard their own wellbeing on behalf of this cause. Debating whether or not a girl is being selfish by wanting something for herself when she makes her wish is just playing into this. I ultimately feel that most girls make their wish with good intentions, to the best of their ability, and none of them should be declared selfish for that. Acting like their wishes are only worthwhile if they are 100% morally pure is ludicrous. These children should not be expected to martyr themselves to save the world and punished if they don't.

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Just watched all 12 episodes of Puella Magi Madoka Magica to study some magical girl shows.

What the fuck

THAT'S MADOKA MAGICA?????

THAT. IS MADOKA MAGICA.

WOW.

so I cried

holy shit what a show. I'm incredibly impressed. I had NO idea what I was getting myself into- clearly- and I could not be more impressed with this series. Hats fucking off to this. My god.

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he's free now