#the mother of puppets

[persephone-tim]

Annabelle Cane 🕸️📼

[theanxiousghostartist]

Annabelle Cane

(Lyrics from Team Starkid's Nerdy Prudes Must Die; song - Nerdy Prudes Must Die)

She's such a fun character (:

[murderandcoffee]

web avatars will see drama that 100% does not involve them and ask "is anyone else gonna make this worse" and then not wait for an answer

[joe-mama-lmao]

annabelle cane my manipulative babygirl

small doodle

[rowanraven08]

ANNABELLE.

ANNABELLE CANE.

[thehermitavatar]

Anabelle!

Reference: https://pin.it/5BkNSqs

[clawfootcoffin]

my spotify playlists are themed after tma, so im working on some thumbnails for them 🖤

[harpie-raven]

GUYS I FOUND THE TMA RING SET AT HOT TOPIC — I’m Eye Aligned (this forth, “the ceaseless watcher’s special little girl”), and my bestie is Web Aligned so I’m gonna give her the spider ring—

Not sure who’s getting the spiral yet lmao , but you can’t tell me the person who put this together doesn’t listen to TMA because come ON

[megmahoneyart]

fear avatar girl doodles

[omnishanked]

Anny belle cane ;D‼️

[mischiefisme-amess]

Hyperfixations have me on a chokehold, The Magnus Archives and Metal Family both. So I drew Dee as a Web avatar, might do some tweaking on this one tho. I’m having the urge to give him spiderweb tattoos, but I fear it might make the whole thing too busy.

I might draw him as an avatar of the other Entites as well, he does give off major Eye-avatar vibes after all. Maybe some desolation in there as well.

Anygays

-Mischief out

[persephone-tim]

The ants in hilltop road were payback for the web letting jane die.

The ants in hilltop road were payback for the web letting jane die.

Sobbing.

[just-an-enby-lemon]

In retrospect the fact that there are no tapes of Jon stalking people and forcing them to relieve their trauma becames even more interesting, because yeah it could and in a sense does symbolize Jon's own shame of who he is Becaming and shows that he knows that what he is doing is wrong, that the others won't react well for it and are right not to (also is Jon and no one can convince me he wasn't trying to be in denial that it was even happening) but also it means that the Web doesn't care. There's suffering everywhere and an avatar hurting people is nothing new. It cares about the repercussion, about their pet project archivist but about Jon's loss of humanity and the people he hurt? They are explicitly - more than any other victim - colateral damage. The Web does not give a shit. Jon could have eaten the trauma of all of London for all they care. And in a sense we as the audience, as the people seing it by the curation of the Mother of Puppets, don't really care either. We care about the moral dilema,for what it means to Jon and in a lesser way to the others, but we don't really care for the random unamed person who is now eternaly rehaunted by his trauma thanks to the man that stalked them into a covenience store. I just I don't know how I feel about it, but I do like it. There's something very interresting and weirdly charming of seeing TMA by the lens of this matters to the Web (also I love how after the apocalipse the Web actually got interressed in Jon and Martin relationship, nothing like the end of the world to convince this eldrish god to enjoy a bit of pos apocaliptical romance).

[mag200]

MAG136: The Puppeteer

pen & ink // kofi

[lavender-wiitch]

If honura is a wiling avatar of the web then she coerced madoka into unknowingly becoming an avatar of the extinction, in this essay you already have

DAMN THAT'S SO INTERESTING WAIT A SEC

(for those who aren't aware this is further exploration on something i wrote based on a @wouldtheybecomeafearavatar poll where some people are categorically incorrect in labeling homura as an extinction avatar rather than a web one)

i began thinking further on what you said, and 1) the nature of madoka's powers, 2) her goals and 3) what would feed an entity through her — makes it particularly tricky to pintpoint which fear she'd serve. i was making an entire essay here exploring the possibilities (mainly through an extinction, end, eye and desolation lens) and my brain hurt.

we know that one of homura's main goals is for madoka to NOT engage with the horrors™ much less become a part of them, but her rewinds inadvertently make madoka more and more powerful each loop, which could translate into madoka being marked by a fear more intensely each time. a fear strongly characterized by inevitability, which is what homura is trying to prevent.

madoka's powers as a god are very intrinsically related to the dichotomies of death and rebirth, hope and despair. the way she finds to prevent magical girls from becoming witches is to welcome them to their end before they get the chance to transform. she absorbs their despair, which could mean feeding off of fear and torment, even if it means taking it away from others and placing the burden on her. paradoxically, since she is also a magical girl, that means she'd have to absorb her own misery, which is what prompts the reinvention of reality. magical girls themselves aren't erased, but witches are technically replaced by wraiths as the beings magical girls must fight. they are distortions of madoka's cause and effect of her wish.

what we also know is that fear entities do not give a rat's ass about bringing the peace madoka wishes for humanity. in one way or another, her wish could be warped for the sake of spreading fear. perhaps, in a TMA world, no matter what entity she'd serve, the implications of madoka's wish are even more tragic (as if PMMM wasn't tragic enough!). her unwilling transformation into an avatar inplies the loss/corruption of her humanity and of the very compassion that she feels for the world and its denizens. her hope, which is something so embedded in her core, could get corrupted into something worse (perhaps an extinction interpretation would imply worse consequences for her actions and what magical girls could end up becoming; and a desolation interpretation would reinforce the law of cycles — creating more hope means creating greater grief to absorb and feed on). maybe it would prompt her to seek out more misery, despair and grief to feed on, even if she doesn't want to be an agent of pain, at least not initially. jon didn't want to become someone who takes pleasure and nourishment from violating people's privacy. maybe becoming a concept means a near total loss of what used to make her human, and her motivations would merely become twisted echoes of what they used to be.

imagine the guilt and pain homura would feel. damn all of this would make an awesome AU.

from this point on we can ask a few questions: what her motivations and struggles are (i.e. granting people hope, comfort and release from further eternal misery in life / feeling powerless to stop the horrors™ from dooming the magical girls' fate) and which fear would she cause or feed off of through her motivation and powers, which would have to be warped in some way for them to work for the main purpose of an entity: spreading fear.

an extinction approach would lean more on the rebirth themes and the aspect of replacing witches with wraiths, whether their creation was intentional or not from madoka's part. a terminus route would touch on her new role as this cosmic magical girl grim reaper/psychopomp of sorts, the comfort she offers being twisted somehow into something horrible. a desolation approach would have plenty of dramatic irony, as it highlights how madokami absorbs despair and grief and would feed on the exact feelings of devastation and loss that magical girls are doomed to feel as a consequence of the hope deposited in their wishes. her self-sacrificial nature becomes her downfall as she carries this burden, burns for the sake of others and becomes the most powerful witch (source of despair and torment) of all.

all of these aspects of her powers could be warped into something in favor of these fears and that could corrupt or destroy her as we know her. the thing would be knowing which one would claim her against her will.

what i'm certain of is that the story that would come out of TMA madohomu would be absolutely DEVASTATING and i am HERE for it.

[howtealightful]

“I don’t want that anymore. It’s different now; I’m different now. I’ve worked so hard.”

THE SPIDER: “I don’t care.”