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you dont think magic exists. you make people laugh. you listen patiently even if a person is mindlessly yapping. you make people feel special on their birthdays. you check up on your loved ones because you genuinely care. you greet people into your home like they are making that place better. you stay up late trying to solve that problem for your friend. you voice your opinions instead of yelling at your parents and you pray less for yourself and more for the people around you. maybe, you are magic.

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Time to start my magical girl journey ✨ ✨

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Magical girl shit is when you care for others and yourself <3

Drink some water, maybe get a little treat for yourself, do something you love no matter how small it may seem, go and exist in the sun for a bit.

You are loved, you Matter.

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strange waters

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Saw some discourse on the Other Website about whether or not magical girls who use technology "count" as magical girls (or something like that) and it reminded me of a few months ago when someone asked me over there what I meant when I said that Tokyo Mew Mew was "less magical" than other magical girl works I've interacted with.

To be clear, Mew Mew to me is definitely a magical girl story. I wasn't really saying that it was "less magical" so much as commenting on how the girls in-universe got their powers. (I did reply to that person, but you can only do so much in 280 words.)

There are (from my understanding based on what I know) multiple ways for a magical girl to get her powers. Sometimes it's a fairy, sometimes it's an ancient relic. Mew Mew has the girls get their powers from having animal DNA spliced into them. Moreover, they are referred to at one point as "biological weapons." Their enemies are also aliens who use parasites to mutate animals into monsters. That's all very soft science fiction in premise. (The English translation of the original pilot calls the magical girl's outfit a "battle suit.")

But the powers still manifest as magical girl outfits and weapons. If you showed someone a photo of the team, they would probably not immediately think "those characters get their powers from animal DNA spliced into them." In the end, it's a very Clarke's Third Law kind of science. You know, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Or perhaps here it's "Science that isn't explained in detail seems like magic."

So yeah, the series is still magical. But it does share a lot of tropes you'd see in science fiction, too. And I think that's pretty cool.

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Got stuck today in a spiral of “Am I really a good person if I get tired of trying to do good? Can I be a good person if being selfless and good doesn’t fill me with joy and energy and make me into a perpetual goodness machine”

And then I remembered. That’s how the Incubators got Sayaka. And I think she’s a damn sympathetic character. Never stopping to care for yourself is how they get you, it’s how they turn your love and goodness and hope into despair and destruction. We are not infinite goodness machines, we need to rest and recover or we risk destruction of ourselves and others.

So like, shout-out to PMMM for halting my anxiety spiral this morning.

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Mewmaid Lettuce 🐬💚🥬

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magical girls anime except they've already finished their magical mission as teenagers and now they're adults still grappling with physical and mental trauma from what they went through while they navigate a world that has commodified their identities as magical girls.

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Witch's Talisman: Magical Girl VN

Hoshiyo Tachibana has always dreamed of becoming a witch, and when she gets that opportunity on her 12th birthday she couldn’t be happier! When she discovers that her classmate, Minari Momiji, is a witch as well, she suggests the two of them become a magical girl duo. Minari rejects her, she has given up on being a witch. Hoshiyo remains undeterred however, and is set on proving to Minari and everyone else that magic can make dreams come true.

If this story sounds interesting to you I would love for you to beta read my magical girl VN! (Working title Witch's Talisman)

All the assets, including sprites, CG, backgrounds, and music are all placeholders at the moment.

This is only the introduction to the story, a sort of "pilot episode", 15-30 minutes playtime depending on how fast you read. I would love to get some feedback on the story, if it feels engaging and interesting, things that you like or dislike about it.

I have download links so you can play it yourself, or a video recording of the work I've done on it so far!

Window & Linux Download

Mac Download

Video

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I think I’ll name her shioreta yuri

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Magical girl show but they keep adding new colors to their collection as they develeop/grow different aspects of their characters

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radiator comics is publishing a print edition of my magical girl webcomic UM !

UM is a magical girl comic about Eugenée, a Black, nonbinary, aspiring birth-worker who finds themself mixed up in a millennia-old conflict between the powers that be and a faction of cosmic, shamanic midwives. UM Vol.1 is intended for readers 18+.

check out the preorder crowdfunding campaign to get a copy & help support funding the comic !

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Gender-neutrality is its' own special kind of magic.

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This scene will always be hilarious to me because wdym the physical manifestation of your sexual frustration, desires, and guilt is unable to give you at least a handjob or something through those wide ass bars. It's amazing how his desire for punishment really goes as far as to make him cockblock himself 😭😭

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They deserve to roughhouse with each other <3

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