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[phopollo]

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Double date

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More vintage stickers

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[strawbsonmars]

[dumplingsun]

oh hey hi!!! 💛

[aspureasamelody]

[sanchoyoscribbles]

aaand here's my full piece for @dotzines prismagic zine! go grab a copy here, it's free and full of wonderful art of so many magical girls! 🍒

[mahoutoons]

on the topic of men in magical girl shows being treated worse than women in shonen... mot only is it not true but a lot of men in magical girl shows are actually nuanced, full fledged characters with their own personalities and characters arcs.

mamoru chiba may be the poster boy for the male damsel in distress in magical girl shows but he's actually very helpful to sailor moon, supporting her both emotionally and in fights and doing everything he can to be useful to her. he even had a whole arc in the dream arc about wanting to be more useful to usagi.

syaoran li starts out as a rival to sakura and proves to be quite capable, even collecting a few cards on his own. he slowly becomes friends with her and eventually, her boyfriend. in clear card he's a very loving boyfriend and does everything he can to support sakura and make her happy.

touya kinomoto is sakura's brother who knows about her powers but doesn't tell her. he watches sakura from a distance and protects her in any way he can.

yukito tsukishiro is the alternate form of yue. he only knows about this near the end of the sakura card arc. but even then he's a good character with a full fledged personality. also he and touya are such a good couple.

masaya aoyama puts on a facade of the perfect, popular boy but deep down he's cynical and hates humanity because of what they're doing to the planet. but him meeting ichigo and spending time with her opens his heart. he also takes on the role of blue knight to protect ichigo.

shugo chara has many magical boys. tadase hotori, kukai souma, kairi sanjou, and nagihiko fujisaki are all just as important as the girls and they have their own character arcs. even ikuto is quite a complex character, that is if you take away his whole deal with amu.

princess tutu has just as many main male characters as female characters, probably even more and they're all extremely important to the story. mytho is the prince from the story drosselmeyer wrote who went into the real world after he shattered his heart to seal away the raven. fakir is a descendent of drosselmeyer and starts out mean but eventually grows to care about ahiru and plays a very important role in the finale. drosselmeyer is the driving force behind all the events in the series.

the precure franchise, although it did some of its male characters dirty (*cough pikario and takumi cough*) also has some great male characters.

seiji sagara is megumi's childhood friend who finds out about her being a precure. even though he doesn't have any powers he does his best to support her and her friends.

prince kanata is the catalyst behind haruka becoming a precure and he's a capable fighter who does anything to protect his kingdom and supports the girls whenever he can.

henri wakamiya is the first ever male cure (although he's not on the main team) and gives a wonderful lesson about gender expression.

masato aikasi starts out being very conservative but after his heart is opened by henri, he starts to learn that gender roles are stupid and even stands up for his sister against their grandfather.

and now we have cure wing, who is going to he the first main male cure in the franchise.

even though there are male characters in magical girl shows who are either done dirty or quite useless, a lot of the time the authors actually develop the male characters just as much as the female characters.

and this should be an example because if these shojo magical girl authors can put just as much care into their male characters as their female characters, then what's stopping these male shone authors from doing the same to their female characters? shonen being aimed at boys and the authors not knowing how to write women is not an excuse. if shojo authors just said they don’t know how to write men, they would get laughed at. so why is it seen as an acceptable excuse for male shonen authors.

and even if there is a lack of men in these magical girl shows, so what? men have like 148293 shonen anime with generic male protagonist #738383 who beats up bad guys and gets a love interest whose only purpose is either the damsel in distress or fanservice bait. let us have a genre made for women by women. it won't hurt you.

[shinhonkaku]

[sprinkanao]

[wotcherangie]

“I want to see your SMILE again” 💔

DISCLAIMER: this is an Arcane season 2 study, I replace the characters for my AU

“When Masaya found out about his past and his true origin, the forgotten memories and the shimmer mixed together awakened the alter ego the Zaun rebels were waiting for…. but Ichigo was not ready to fight against the one she loved the most”

[spectralreplica]

Every so often I remember that the very beginning of TMM establishes that in-universe ALL cryptids are caused by alien parasites and somehow this NEVER comes up again. I feel like this is a concept the fandom should do more with!!! Where's the fan content of Ichigo fighting mothman?!

Anyway, style swaps are always a super fun design challenge, but I couldn't resist also doing Mew Mew Mabel + Dipper. They're based on the fur-bearing trout and jackalope

Does this AU imply that Ford has been put in the Ryou role?? Is Stan forced to run a cutesy cafe????

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Finally got my hands on these vintage stickers!

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[strawbsonmars]

not to be dramatic but actually i'd die for every single one of them

[roseillith]