#and they know the ground reality

[getawayheaven]

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[radpool]

Atomic Fission/Fusion

once again I am imagining what it would have been like for them to atomically hold themselves and one another together in the immediate aftermath of the Time Ripper blowing... what could be more intimate I ask you 👀

[julijbee]

girlbossing too close to the sun.

[itzphynix]

Yeah, so while I was on my "I'm going to read into Vanny/Vanessa as much as possible" journey, I noticed an odd quirk in her animations in how she moves. At first, I thought it reminded me of a ballerina, 'cause she's kinda tip-toeing, & she has this way of keeping her head & chest in one place as she moves, but I looked again & realized --

That's not ballet! She's doing a tight-rope act. Like, look at this one:

This is like standing up on the wooden boards before you do the actual tight-rope walking, & the ring leader is hyping you up as you do some fun movement for the crowds. &, then, these:

These are all instances where she walks with one foot directly in front of the other. In that third, she's doing the "woaaah" wiggly-ass balance movements & everything, as if she's swaying up at the top of the tent, even though she's down on solid ground.

Idk, I feel like the way her feet are placed isn't accurate (pretty sure they should be pointed left & right, not both forwards...) doesn't make this 100% correct, but I like it. It also connects back with her first SB teaser, wherein she's up in the rafters.

[captainjonnitkessler]

How do I put a filter on my posts that stop anarchists from scolding me about the labor movement in the notes unless they are an active member of a trade union

[iidsch]

also more codelyokoposting but I really really dig XANA as a villain. It's not a person with a complex background that led them down the path of evil, it's not a morally grey character you sympathize with but condemn. It's a powerful AI capable of controlling almost anything in the real world. It doesn't have a face or a body, we only know it for its symbol and for the monsters it controls in the virtual world. It's willing not just to kill people through various methods (poisoning, drowning, car crash, fucking space lasers too?) but also Earth as a whole (it tried to blow up a NUCLEAR PLANT and crash two trains with toxic chemicals in them). And we don't even know why it does this, at least not for now. It may not even have a particular reason, just some sort of virus or malware in the form of an AI that seeks nothing but destruction without any goals in mind. This "pure evil" characteristic doesn't come off as childish, like in some children cartoons, it's just kind of scary to think that such an incomprehensible and destructive force exists, almost feels like a natural disaster

[zerozeroren]

Feeling wistful feelings over the fact that the form of Ahiru the majority of us viewers end up loving and rooting for the most (girl Ahiru) is also the most illusive and unreal of the three

[oddly-casual]

Homura Hc’s (or a mini appreciation post tbh)

Homura is one of those characters we see only a handful a times. I think we see her maybe three times in the show, and a couple times in the merch. Mostly Hesokuri wars.

But despite the fact that she has about two speaking roles in between three seasons and a movie, the writers try to keep her personality in tact and I like that they do that.

Most of this comes from Jyushimatsu Dolphin (season 3 Ep. 8). Where Homura sticks her neck out to help Jyushimatsu follow his dream of being a dolphin.

We don’t know exactly how cannon these skits are, but certain characters are chosen for a reason and I think we can take away a lot from some of Homura’s decisions and actions.

Like the fact that she even agrees to help Jyushimatsu at all despite not knowing him (in this skit at least). She tells us directly that it was because she was moved by his passion, but staking your job on something as flaky as passion would be- what some people call- a dumb risk.

Despite being the only one in his corner, Homura gives her all into training him. In her first appearance in season one, Todomatsu call her “Weird” And I think this skit goes into depth about how weird she actually is. Homura hardcore trains him in the ways of being a dolphin that she is familiar with, even if that means nearly drowning him.

This girl that we met in season one, who we knew as soft and sad, is in fact a weirdo.

Like just look at how everyone reacts to her! Go off queen!

I really like how this skit gets rid of any assumptions about Homura’s character. From her first appearance alone you would think maybe she’s weak willed or fragile- but she really puts her all into the things she cares about and doesn’t let anyone slow her down.

Homura doesn’t even call it out or try to explain herself, it’s just how she is and I love that for her.

We also see pretty consistently how she handles conflict, or failing.

In season 1 she calls off ever seeing Jyushimatsu again because she has to go home, and you can tell it hurts her to just outright reject him like the that.

The fact that we possibly know her background also adds context to her decision.

It’s possible she just wants to get away from that industry and the people, maybe too many people know her from the porn dvds and she just needed a fresh start somewhere else. Maybe she felt like she was lying to Jyushimatsu because she couldn’t tell him all she’d done- who knows?

There’s a lot of ways you can look at it but I think most of all, the skit in season 2 could reshape how we looked at her reaction to conflict in season 1.

When faced with failure, Homura gives up.

She gave it her all, and it still didn’t happen. Homura is grounded in reality to an extent. While the Matsuno’s live by their own rules and do whatever they want- it feels like Homura found a way to work within the rules. To try everything she can, but not to exhaust herself with something that’s not baring fruits.

She doesn’t seem disappointed that Jyushimatsu will keep trying, she’s angry. Homura yells at him and calls him a block head because he’s being stubborn- but why try so hard to get him to give up when it’s his dream? Why does she want him to quit? He will continue with it without her so why?

There’s a possibly that she doesn’t want to see him hurt. Like season 1, Homura distances herself from Jyushimatsu specifically after he confesses.

We can assume it’s because she would be in a whole other city, and with the past attached to her, she didn’t want to hold him back. Either that, or she didn’t want to face rejection if things didn’t end up working out.

But I also think it’s important to note that Homura was moments away from ending her own life. In the end, she chooses to take herself to a familiar place rather than to attempt again- showing signs of gaining some perspective or some motivation to keep going.

My main take away from Homura as a character, and outside of her potential relationship with Jyushimatsu, is that Homura is a character ground in reality who is a little silly.

Homura takes things seriously, no matter how goofy they are (like wanting to be a dolphin- like an actual dolphin), but she also likes to laugh and have fun like everyone else.

Homura knows not to spend time on something that possibly won’t work out, and this could be because she’s been beaten down before and knows the prolonged pain of hope. She also has a past we know nothing about that could’ve shaped the person she is today.

Homura is a silly weird girl, but unfortunately life got to her first. That doesn’t stop her from being weird and silly though.

[roystartt]

I so so so appreciate this fandom. The BTS all does look very promising but i love how everyone is still very much grounded (pardon the pun) and 90% of the posts I've seen it is clear that people know it's not a 100% guarantee and even on the likely event he is back, it doesn't guarantee they get back together. Even just all the use of the clown descriptor, we KNOW what we are and we aren't taking it too seriously and I love that for us.

[yourlocalfairygothparent]

Raiden holding Kung Lao in his arms and singing lullabies in Chinese to him in the middle of the night when he has nightmares from MK1’s events

[six-demon-bag]

this is for all of you who saw two (2) seconds of the thunderbolts* trailer, where john walker is sitting next to his healthy, safe baby in a crib looking at his phone and decided that means he's a neglectful awful parent

[viaphni]

I'll never smile again...

I drew this wirh my finger on my phone in an hour at 2 AM when i couldn't sleep. In complete darkness and silence. because the Ruined Reality parasite is slowly worming its way back into my mind (i blame my friends entirely) and the concepts presented are too crushing to not create something off of

Anyway Light fighting with Cliff's pickaxe destroyed me

[thoughtfulchaos773]

@ambeauty and I were curious in a conversation about what made carmy basically FREAK OUT after sleeping with Claire. I just had a thought that maybe the jeremy was right because Claire scared the shit out of him and she's so great, and, in the end, Syd brought him back to realize it was a good thing. But that was the kicker. He could have used Mikey's words to let it rip if Claire was so great it scared him. He always used that when he was afraid.

So, he’s sitting there, thinking about how Sydney told him he was excellent and wonders why he’s back home, you know, where Claire and the family are. The idea of Sydney coming back and saying “What are you doing here?” actually calms him down a bit, like everything changed, and Syd is the now the reason he's there?

Claire is so great and joyful that it scares him so he needs Sydney to ground him and claire is the peace. Doesn't make sense, you know?

[starstruckodysseys]

the problem with paralleling the nsbu finale is that i have to attempt to figure out how to make sense of whatever the fuck happened in the nsbu finale

[wackywatchdotcom]

i will say im not super invested in the idea of the show giving us too much information on c&a. like itll be super cool if we find out about it! and im sure itll be relevant information if we do but i think the information we get is going to be not super indepth, because im not sure itd match the tone of the show? its less about mystery and like The Lore and more about the characters and examining how different characters respond and have been responding to the environment set up by the show

(it WOULD be fun to learn more details about c&a and i AM curious i just dont think itd actually enhance much abt the show itself, and as such, i dont think its super important writing wise for the audience to learn about it either)

that SAID i do ascribe to the idea that ALL of the cast members worked for c&a before the ended up in the circus, no exceptions. i dont really know how say gangle or zooble wouldve ended up there, but i feel like they all ended up there one way or another. and i think most of the cast doesnt talk about their life in the real world bc its gone and theres no reason to dredge it up (or theyve forgotten it or most aspects of it), but it does make it fascinating that not even pomni, who has the least reason to avoid these topics at least early on, broached the subject of what in the WORLD is c&a UP to. it literally is never brought up ever as of ep 4. which makes me think the company was probably always super shady in some way to the pt that its employees were kinda desensitized to the idea that its c&as fault that horrible things happen

[vagrantmiki]

@shibemuses liked for a starter! ♥ (directed at: ENA)

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It sometimes paid off to stray on the busy highways and search the surrounding smaller cities. Occasionally, they were snapshots of past Japan, which she couldn't care much for when she was safely in Kamihama. But now, they were welcome reprieves and good changes of scenery. But it was just after she wandered past a misty (or was it smoky?) hill that she realized the scenery had changed far too much.

For a while, Sayaka thought she had entered a Labyrinth unknowingly. She viewed the sky as redder than she had ever in the past, and the shadows cast along the humble buildings lining the outside of the city she had been approaching gave everything an undescribable vibe. The closest businesses were shuttered close, smoke seeping out from within. There was a scent of lavender tainted by that of rotten milk wafting from somewhere. And the more she walked forward, the more oddities she found.

An alleyway layered in rows upon rows of carpets leading far enough to be consumed by the darkness in the horizon. A mannequin laying in a fetal position on the inside of a stall. And she thought, for a moment, that she saw a pair of tiny legs splash up and then down on a small goldfish bowl left by someone's window.

Sayaka's mind spun with these unexpected sensations.

"What in the world is this place? ... Or is it me that's hallucinating?"

She closed her eyes to feel her Soul Gem resonate with something. Or someone? She got the feeling it was a someone. It could be another magical girl, or it could be Kyubey. Normally she didn't approach other magical girls willy-nilly unless they were already in danger. But given what she was seeing, she just had to find someone to reassure her she wasn't losing it.

So she ventured further in, eyes out and scouting for another magical girl...