#Goodbye Storage

[muffinrecord]

Goodbye Storage was pretty good and I have some thoughts after finishing it-

First off, it's another example of how Magia Record will choose the most convoluted explanation whenever possible instead of doing something far more simple and understandable and SOMEHOW making it work. Additionally, it'll have like... a lot of exposition that you just can't look at too hard.

Like Mikoto starts off the first ten minutes with a billion revelations on how her new parasite-powers/witchdom stuff works. How the fuck does she know any of that. How did she piece that together while she's in a dark void. How.

But you know what? Once you get past those three minutes, it's all good. Hanna and Mikoto have such a good god damn dynamic, wow. There are moments with surprising heart and clarity. Moments that make you think, "someone writing this really went through something." Hanna and Mikoto feel like real people-- they go back and forth on things. Sometimes Mikoto will feel one way and then completely backtrack and feel another, and it's not in a character-breaking way, but it feels more like someone who is standing on unsteady ground, who thinks one way and feels another.

Hanna does the anime trope thing of "I will be a villain to prove that heroism is right" which tbh I kind of hate because who the fuck does that irl. No one.

But it's okay, because honestly-- Hanna is not in a good state of mind here at all. Girl is clearly going through it. She had a horrible start to her life, still going through the horrors, she made her first friend then that friend BECAME A WITCH RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER IN A HORRID PAINFUL MANNER. THEN THAT FRIEND BECOMES A GHOST??? LIVING IN HANNA'S BRAIN??? LIKE. BRUH.

It doesn't surprise me that she's made her plan all convoluted. She's clearly not mentally well at the moment. I don't mean that in a diagnosis kind of way, but like the girl is traumatized and not thinking straight.

There's also all sorts of ways that you can dig into the event. It's straightforward on some stuff so you have a place to latch on to but it's ambiguous enough on other things so that you have enough wiggle room to have interesting interpretations and variances. Like;

Is Mikoto's presence making Hanna do things that she wouldn't normally want to do? Hanna wants heroism to win out. She wants to lose. Is that because, deep down, she's doing something she doesn't want to do?

I mean, Hanna has never been the nicest person either. It's possible she would have done this anyways-- but it's also possible that Mikoto's presence made Hanna even more extreme than she was before, or pushed her more than she ever would have gone.

There's just a lot of good stuff in it.

If you haven't watched it, I highly recommend it. It does have weak writing moments sometimes but it also has really really strong ones. I think it's def up there as one of my favorites now.

It's kind of a shame that both of them are dead, cause I really digged their dynamic. It felt very... earnest. Sometimes they yell at each other, sometimes they disagree and misread one another. They both want to make the other one happy, but they go about it in selfish ways that the other one doesn't want. But that's not a bad thing. It feels like it's because they're young. Like they need to make mistakes to learn how to love the way they want to be loved and to love another.

But that's the whole problem, isn't it? Mikoto is dead. Hanna will be dead soon too. They're not going to have a future where those mistakes build a foundation for them. This is it for them.

IDK. It's good bro.

[randomrandomalright]

With Wanderer being in 4.8 it gives more chances to take more pictures of him and Kazuha together! :)

[yvesbuprofen]

I think the situation with my dad is making me spiral into depression and since I always relied into whatever I'm into to get out of it, it's been difficult without Loona. I just have to be positive. I can't just keep crying in shock.

[xayspancakeee]

have you seen my boyfriend?

( ˶°ㅁ°) !!

can I smoosh your pretty face with mine pls?

[pointlessjey]

Goodbye Spaceguy chapter one releases tomorrow (8pm BST/3pm EDT)! Be sure to check it out!

[cheezyharu]

Big, big design dump I did while I was gone

[shower-racoon]

just got my new laptop! going to install Linux on it as soon as I figure out how, but after that, I can finally post from there instead of this laptop!

[bat-the-misfit]

I CAN'T WATCH IT MY MOM'S USING THE TV

[toasterhasabucket]

I think I'm going to need you to ignore my cameras bad quality pretty please it looks decent in person I swear !

[ajdrawshq]

talking consistantly in the isat discord has ruined me in the way that i cant use isat emotes anywhere else .. what do u mean i cant put loopteehee after every sentence here..

[stigblomqvists]

[timberva]

Valentine idea for arthurian legend nerds out there:

A love letter that opens up by removing a sword from a stone.

The idea: envelope is held shut by the “stone” (a drawn rock) and a tiny paper sword is attached to the envelope by a string, its sharp end stuck into the paper stone somehow holding the envelope shut.

The paper for the letter: parchment or some aged-looking paper with borders inked onto it. Shoot, I might have to learn calligraphy.

Maybe something like “You might not want to be King of England but you are worthy of my heart.” (because the whole thing with the sword in the stone is that the person who pulls it is worthy to be king of england right??)

This is gonna take a lot of engineering I don’t really know how to do. My partner is a fucking nerd on Arthurian legend and all I know about it is what they’ve told me in great detail. Unfortunately my brain is smooth, but I want this to be nice and detailed for them to geek out over.

Anyone have any ideas?

[sageofthestarz]

Looking through my wips rn thinking ya'know maybe I am a whore at heart

[theworstcreature]

I have a feeling making these bracelets is going to quickly become a hyper fixation and consume my every waking thought

[qstarhalo]

Oh how I miss talking in chat until 5 in the morning o(-(

[brw]

Copying over my gay and stupid photographs to make space in my gay and stupid camera to take more gay and stupid photographs