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*writes two paragraphs after months of literally nothing and it took three hours*

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I just found the funniest font ever

Like. What is this. Why is this. Who is the target audience of this?

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*smashes the reblog button*

I will fall in love with you

Over

And over again

I don't care how

Where

Or when

No matter how long it's been

You’re mine

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obviously he’s on the track team

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If not for her bag, they might never have gotten together. We owe a great debt to her school bag.

“Usako… Your bag.”

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He checks wind current reports every morning.

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You know, I think I'm ready for Neo Queen Serenity to rule the world. I think she'd solve all the world's problems

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Sock hop

In her latest care package to Mamoru, Usagi sent a pair of Sailor Moon socks—the latest merch—and insisted he send her back a picture with them on. He obliged without much thought, snapping a photo in the campus square one morning before class because he knows that photo will 100 percent be uploaded to her socials and she will fuss if the lighting is terrible.

Now, he did get some machismo shit from his classmates about the socks...until he attended a study group that happened to be mostly women, and they all sighed when he told them (with that devastating sincerity of his) that the socks were from his girlfriend and it was a small way to make her happy from afar.

Not long after, the Sailor Moon Sock Club was born, not with the purest of intentions, but Mamoru likes to think of it as Usagi's playful spirit making its way around the world, one foot at a time.

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So cute. So grumpy. 💕💕

he mad

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Magical girl and Superhero tend to have a lot in common (both are pretty broad descriptors though) but one thing I’ve noticed is that there can be a subtle difference in how the “self” is viewed.

Both magical girl and superhero have the civilian and superhero self come into conflict with each other, but in my experience, magical girl views both identities as the true version while superhero tends to pick one.

For example, Superman is Kal-El, the last Kryptonian. He’s a strong alien and Clark Kent is his secret identity. Bruce Wayne is Batman and Bruce Wayne is the thing he does when he isn’t Batman. There’s usually a hierarchy.

Meanwhile, magical girl doesn’t tend to pick one. Sakura is the card captor and the normal girl as a singular identity. For Sailor Moon, Usagi has an arc in both the 90s anime and the manga where she feels conflicted between if she’s Princess Serenity of the Silver Millennium, Sailor Moon the guardian of justice, or Usagi Tsukino the normal girl. And the conclusion of this arc is that she’s all of these at once, not just a singular one.

I think this comes down to how the self is historically viewed across cultures. In the west we tend to consider a “true” unchanging self, while most eastern philosophy doesn’t consider a singular true self. I wouldn’t say this is a conscious bias in either case, but a lot of cultural concepts can still be traced back to historical philosophy. Superhero comics originate in the west and magical girl comics originate in the east, so both genres generally reflect their respective historical philosophies.

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Church with Stained glass.

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Freemium evil laughs

Thought I had yesterday morning while running an errand.

There seems to be tiers of evil laughter when it comes to brainwashed good guys, though this could also apply to the bad guys themselves as well.

Being controlled by the monster of the day/episode is like the free tier, so the evil laugh would likely be more comical, maybe high-pitched or nasally, and you can just hear their imminent failure at being bad in between the inflated "ha ha ha"s.

Being possessed by a minor villain, like a recurring minion, is like the freemium tier. This evil laugh is decent. The pitch isn't instantly laughable, and it might even actually make you the tiniest bit worried about the fallout of what dirty deeds they are manipulated to carrying out. But there is still something reticent about it, as if the writers were like, "No, use the discount laugh because we gotta save budget for the real bad shit."

Being brainwashed by the main baddie, the final boss, the reason the show or series even exists...this is the premium/paid tier. This evil laugh is deep and resonating and sinister and makes dread pool in your gut like oil from a leaky well. It might make you scream or plead at the screen for them to stop their truly heinous deed because you may not survive won't be able to resist the scores of wrenching redemption, angst, and therapy fics that will surely follow. This evil laugh is serious. It leaves you Not Okay because your Feels and moral compass will conflict with that little dark corner of your soul that is scared, but also finds the evil laugh seductively delicious.

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