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it's scary outside the sacred garden

for years i didnt know mlm ships were genrally more popular because i'd spent a signifigant portion of my teenage years consuming media like touhou and love live where there just. straight up arent any men that matter (rinnosuke does NOT count). so finding out a lot of other fandoms hated women was a culture shock like wdym...... i've been sheltered in my beautiful yuri paradise......

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happy pride to kris dreemurr

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So people talk about how the infamous beef stroganoff clip in Symphogear has even more impact in context by by being a complete tonal whiplash. From utterly serious plot ponderings straight to school home ec musical song.

Thing is, that is an intentional gag by the show. It's exactly what they're going for, as they do it several times over the years, and it's one of Symphogear's many secret sauces.

I picked out two of my favorite demonstrations of that here, bookending S3's stroganoff with a moment from S1 and a moment from S5, to show just how consistent and self-aware the writers and animators are.

In S1, Tsubasa is at peak post-Kanade BROODING and EDGINESS. She makes the decision to be antagonistic towards Hibiki from the get go, treating her like she's a criminal under arrest, and gravely intones that "Smiles have no place where we're going". Immediate smash cut to "Come on, put on a smile!"

In S5, sopping wet poor little meowmeows Noble Red continue to never catch a break from the narrative. Their angst stems from having been experimented on, then ostracized for having those monstrous bodies. Noble Red's primary motivation until now has been to regain human bodies (treating their current forms as just heavily modified, which therefore can be reversed), only for Shem-ha to have casually naturalized their state. As Elsa and Millaarc weep, Vanessa laments, "The terror and loneliness of being apart from mankind will never heal." And then they IMMEDIATELY undercut the tone with that HILARIOUS swiss Arm(y) knife. A+

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Kiss thy knights

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trying to depose a princessgirl, can't use violence lest you end up with a dozen girls with snuff fixations trying to reestablish the monarchy in hopes they'll meet the same end, best shot is doing some Puyi shit to her I reckon

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my medical records say I was given forcefem hypnotherapy when I transferred here but that must be an error because I've always been a girl?

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kiana with a wolfcut

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[oc] “girl, you really got me goin' / you got me so I don't know what I'm doin'” 🎵

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[oc] you know that it would be untrue / you know that i would be a liar / if i were to say to you / girl, we couldn't get much higher🎶🔥

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deltarune begins by discarding the appearance and name you choose, then immediately proceeds to show the protagonist being called the name their mother likely chose for them. at school, they encounter susie, an outcast who's treated as a deadly monster (even by her teacher) despite the fact that she never follows through on her violent threats. kris and susie are then forced by their teacher to go into the closet, a dark place whose residents are oppressed by wider society. there, they meet ralsei, who initially covers his entire face and body with a cloak and tells them with an air of resignation that he's been waiting his entire life to meet them so he can fulfill the role of the prince of darkness that's been forced upon him. it's difficult to read it as anything other than a transfem allegory, and I struggle to imagine the kind of cognitive dissonance it would require to understand it as anything else

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Elegant doll-like robot maid: P-please put this one down at once!

Heavy industrial robot butch: Apologies. Was attempting to "pick up girls." May have misunderstood the phrase.

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went to my best friend’s house last night and saw a little plushie dog and plushie cat that had been sewn together down the middle into a two-headed chimera. I said, “did you do that?” she said, “yes, I saved them.”

turns out at her old job when the last two plushies hadn’t sold and became deadstock, her boss told her to cut them up and throw them out. so she cut them each in half, preserved their heads, and then rebuilt them together.

cannot stop thinking about the way these little plushies were approached with the instinct of a Vampire or some sort of ancient god. “Let me save you [turn you into a monster].”

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in wigan, it's as good as gone

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Btw you should hug that t girl who's always putting others before herself

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mono_kigu

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it should be illegal to take a nap and still have a headache when you wake up. like no i shut it off and back on again why are you still here

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oh ok