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sayaka digital painting I will most likely not finish

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my little Sayaka plushie arrived today!

the plushies manufacturer is banpresto, the print in the background is by slowerorbit on etsy and instagram and the papercraft template is by spispapercraftsrins on pinterest!!

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BOUGHT DELTARUNE!!!!!!! DELTARUNE TODAY!!!! now its time to filter all deltarune content until exams are over.

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The way in which magical girls are treated simply as assets/commodities by kyubey is something that I consider uncannily similar to real life. A magical girl is promised a wish (to achieve a goal) in exchange for a lifetime of fighting witches. They are selling their lives and labour off under a contract that is rather deceiving under the belief that they can achieve their goals. It sounds a lot like false class consciousness to me, but once they gain consciousness of the inherent cruelty of the system they’re too far in to get out (much like how you can’t just quit a job or else you won’t be able to afford necessities and you will end up dying one way or another). Regardless, once a magical girl meets their end by becoming a witch or having her soul gem shattered, kyubey will simply find another person to turn into a magical girl (employing another person to fill in that vacant role again)

The magical girl system is like employment under capitalism is what I’m trying to say. So I guess that makes kyubey their shitty boss.

And by extension, when madoka rewrites this system, being a total reform, I feel like it’s a lot like a revolution. Does that make madoka magical girl karl marx?

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[PMMM SPOILERS]

The way in which magical girls are treated simply as assets/commodities by kyubey is something that I consider uncannily similar to real life. A magical girl is promised a wish (to achieve a goal) in exchange for a lifetime of fighting witches. They are selling their lives and labour off under a contract that is rather deceiving under the belief that they can achieve their goals. It sounds a lot like false class consciousness to me, but once they gain consciousness of the inherent cruelty of the system they’re too far in to get out (much like how you can’t just quit a job or else you won’t be able to afford necessities and you will end up dying one way or another). Regardless, once a magical girl meets their end by becoming a witch or having her soul gem shattered, kyubey will simply find another person to turn into a magical girl (employing another person to fill in that vacant role again)

The magical girl system is like employment under capitalism is what I’m trying to say. So I guess that makes kyubey their shitty boss.

And by extension, when madoka rewrites this system, being a total reform, I feel like it’s a lot like a revolution. Does that make madoka magical girl karl marx?

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okay maybe I actually do like coloured pencils

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the seed in homura’s magireco transformation

I have no idea if this has been pointed out before but in homura’s magia record transformation (about 13 seconds in) there’s the timelapse of the seed sprouting, which then reverses itself again.

I noticed that it reverses before it can fully bloom, which I thought was very similar to homura herself - she’s stuck constantly reliving the same thing over and over again without being able to truly move past it (never “blooming”)

you could also maybe interpret the seed as madoka’s fate - where the sprout blooming could be this. homura keeps winding back time to try to pretend this when the outcome is always the same, much like how you can’t stop a flower from blooming (unless it dies prematurely).

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some whiteboard fox art

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seloris!

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picky eating IS such a good test of whether or not someone wants to be an ableist bully in a socially acceptable way tbh. like do you need to know why someone is a picky eater and for what reasons do you deem it alright to not mock and dehumanize and infantalise someone because their disability impacts the way they eat. what justification for why they eat a certain way is good enough for you to not treat someone like shit.

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my monthly Phighting dump srry for reposts gang

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mabayu fanart I drew for someone! She’s actually a lot of fun to draw :3

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Have I shown you guys my Sayaka itabag yet.

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okay so I didn’t like the old one here’s a new one

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them

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ranting about how good the arcs are in tgswiiwagaa!!!!!

I was thinking about how Mitsuki had been so true to herself since she was little, but thought that it was always at the cost of friendship, because of her experiences at elementary school. She knew she couldn't lie to herself, but when her friend got really hurt because Mitsuki couldn't fit in, she realised that it meant she had to be alone. She had zero friends for years. She thought that being herself = loneliness. She was willing to pay that cost, because it was impossible to do otherwise.

When Aya first meets her, Mitsuki is in her element, being herself, at the CD shop. She's completely different from her school self, where she's alone and out of her element and unable to express herself at all, so much so that Aya has no clue who she is and thinks she's a guy! Even though they sit next to each other in class! Showing just how different Mitsuki is away from school. She's so much more confident that she flirts with Aya, a popular girl who she hadn't spoken to at all.

Part of the reason Mitsuki plays along with being this Oniisan character is because she feels liked for once, and she feels like there's someone who admires her when she's at her least "people-friendly". She's her true self, but also not really, because her true self is so unrecognisable to Aya, and she can't bring herself to shatter this. This grows into not wanting to let Aya down as they get closer, because she's finally got a friend! Mitsuki ends up in this mess and doesn't know how to get out.

So it's incredibly ironic and beautiful that Aya goes from mistaking her as someone else, to ending up being the one who coaxes Mitsuki into being her true self at school! Aya sees Mitsuki's real self and true potential over the course of the story, knows both sides of her (largely through the power of music <3), and is able to bring the two sides together, and bring out the best and most honest parts of her to the surface. In return, Aya has found someone who she can be herself with too, and talk about her interests with.

Because of Aya (and a few others of course!), Mitsuki is able to heal and to realise that staying true to herself really does pay off, and that she doesn't have to be alone. Having friends and being herself don't have to be mutually exclusive things. Aya loves who she is and loves what they can bond over and has so much admiration for her, even when they seemed totally different from just their surface level school personalities <33 aaaaa

end rant :] in summary i am unwell over what this manga says about being yourself and about loneliness especially for teenagers and i love it