#MADOKA MY BELOVED

[roselineduskbloom]

I need more hobbies (all the budget was spent on madoka)

[angelic-andi]

Desperately fighting the urge to rewatch madoka magica with my notes open and keep track of what motifs follow what characters and write an entire master doc about it

[spoinky39s]

one madoka before i actually watch the show and bear witness to the horrors

[l-747]

Another madoka in class yay

[lotus-pear]

characters that lose the most important person to them and are devastated by having to live in a world without them and get stuck in a futile time loop that turns them crueler and crueler and more and more fervently obsessed with the person they initially lost because they just want a world where that person is alive and are initially written off as heartless before the sickening realization that their devotion is so painfully human. you will always be dear to me.

[paintdust]

“Always, somewhere, someone is fighting for you. As long as you remember her, you are not alone.” - Madoka

[liridus]

It's actually really important to me that one of Sayaka's breaking points was her overhearing men being sexist and gross before absolutely losing it. Because it further emphasizes that Sayaka's main tragedy is not a boy not falling in love with her.

I think you can start applying this to Sayaka's character from when Mami first warns her to be cautious. What Mami tells her about think of why she's making her wish, I think it still applies, but not as her wanting Kyosuke to love her. I think Sayaka wanted to do good for others, but at the end of the day she wanted something out of that, primarily justice, change, a chance to make things better.

Her main tragedy is trying her absolute best to care for people, to be righteous, to use the powers given to her, to carve a better world; but to be given nothing in return. No reward, no foreseeable better future. Just suffering. And her eyes open to the suffering of others just for her to not be able to do anything about. Again and again and again.

And she tries to do this selflessly, like Mami indirectly told her to. To be fine with her efforts not being recognized, to be fine with people finding happiness without her, to be fine with people not respecting her right to make her own decisions. But at the end of the day that doesn't work and it tears her apart.

She wants to do something for the world, and risks her life to do it, the only thing she gets in return is her bodily autonomy being taken away. She's turned into a husk of a soldier without fully knowing what's going on. She's not even the best soldier (like her best friend could be), an average one. And she still tries to use that to keep fighting, because it has to be for a reason. It has to mean something. Because she's essentially given up everything, it has to mean something. It has to help her reach her goals in some way. Right?

It's not just a messed up way to cage her in a system that forces her to add onto the injustice she's fighting against. Right? Right?

(Maybe she calls herself stupid because she thinks she's stupid for trying to change things, for believing that things are capable of change)

[biggesthomuradefender]

kinda long homura rant/analysis

“homura doesn’t care about anybody but madoka !!!!”

literally homura:

originally tried to save all of the girls before she eventually gave up bc it was literally impossible,

literally ran like hell to get sayaka’s soul gem back after madoka chucked it off the bridge and even closely inspected it w such care to make sure it wasn’t damaged at all,

admitted that she has hurt people (most likely the magica quartet, aka all of her friends, bc who else?) and feels immense guilt abt it and wishes she could erase it all (she literally says that hurting mami hurt HER),

can’t bare to kill mami (she looks so conflicted and sad when pointing the gun at her) and can’t even look at her when she shoots her in the leg bc she rly doesn’t want to hurt her,

subconsciously created a desired reality that she brought all of her friends (even kyosuke and hitomi, implying that she even cares for them as well) into where alive, happy, and together (ppl seem to forget that homura’s labyrinth was literally what she’s wanted deep down before it started to fall apart as she realized it was fake; sayaka literally points out how a witch who just wants to keep everyone happy and out of harm can’t be that bad, and kyuubey points out how homura would have most likely preferred to stay in this fake, happy world instead of realizing the horrible truth),

apologizes to kyoko for “getting her involved in this” after she realizes that she herself is the witch, aka most likely apologizing for wasting kyoko’s time when she asked her to go to kazamino city w her and for calling her,

rewrote reality in order to bring sayaka and bebe back to life and give everyone the happy life they always desired and deserved (she is literally willing to proclaim herself as “evil” and “the devil” and be unhappy if it means that madoka and everyone else gets to be happy and alive, safe from all the pain and the incubators who are still trying to prey on them and all magical girls)

… but she only cares abt madoka?

[scriblesandbits]

Wake up, puppet boy!!!!!

[picatchu]

homura always gets to keep a piece of madoka but she can never have the full thing

[korryd]

my page for the pris-M-agic zine with @dotzines ! Go check it out on itch.io, everyone did a spectacular job . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁

[mahoumisfit]

[creepfactors]

the simple pleasure of drawing a fave in the outfit of another character you love

[radioactivemelody]

Do not underestimate Madoka Kaname. 

It's something we all should know at this point but I feel like there are people who do nonetheless. Yes, Madoka is primarily known for her never ending kindness and compassion, however, she is able to stay strong while holding those values at heart. It's one of her biggest virtues, I even dare to say. 

Remember the metro scene at timeline III? It was clear Mami was leaving Madoka to be last because she didn't think she would be brave enough to lift a single finger to harm her, let alone kill her. And yet, she did. Madoka Kaname, this one sweet girl, murders her mentor and sister figure to save Homura. No hesitation as well. You would've expected Madoka to yell a “no!” or “stop!” and try to convince Mami to calm down. Talk to her. In a split second, no matter how much it hurts her – considering the agonizing cry she lets out after doing that –, Madoka instead mirrors Mami’s previous action of shooting and shattering Kyoko's soul gem, which kills her instantly.

I am not aware of how much the girls knew about their Soul Gems in this timeline but I think this detail is worth noticing. Madoka is someone who's capable of committing extreme actions in extreme situations. She is capable of putting aside her emotional side she, oh, so wears at her sleeve and thinks quickly and rationally. At that moment, all she saw was Mami having a breakdown and attempting to murder the rest of her friends when she had already lost Sayaka. 

Because it was after that where Madoka realized it wouldn't work. I mean, didn't she try to get Oktavia to stop attacking them via talking and pleading, minutes before everything went south? Because that wasn't the Sayaka she knew? That she noticed how it went to nought?  And it would again if she tried with Mami? Was it a lack of faith for her friend? No.

Mami just made the mistake of not seeing all sides of everyone. 

[theexpirederror]

[averagegrianfan]

“And you dare call yourself human?

“Of course i don’t. Neither should you.”

Watcher grian always gets me out of art block :3