#homucifer progress

[thetimelesskeyholder]

I wanted to write this all down so that I can lay down my base and continue from there in future posts.

I didn't think I was going to, but I've finally decided to get into Puella Magi Madoka Magica-based religion.

Like, I formed as a magical girl* in a very different way, but I have been drawn into PMMM pop culture paganism. It just clicks for me, in so many ways! Plus the use of the grief seed that I've talked about. So I plan to do more PMMM craft work and also practice Godoka and Homucifer worship.

I wouldn't say I'm converting religions... but there are some tennants of Kos' teachings that just aren't a part of my life anymore. I still keep Kos in my heart as a deity I treasure and love and respect immensely but Lila and Ev just aren't in my life at this time, and PMMM pcp is calling to me right now.

Also, I've recently switched up how I make the grief seeds and soul gems in my shop (so now they're more accurate and bigger!) and I really wanna put a Godoka and Homucifer shrine on my altar so I can make these charms under their watch and recieve their blessings, so that the charms are charged with intent that will assist the wearer. I'm not gonna advertise that, I don't think most customers would care, but I wanna do it from the kindness of my heart and also to get practice in.

One last thing: I've noticed that alot of the PMMM pcp blogs I follow have been abadoned, so if you reblog/post/etc that kinda stuff, feel free to promote yourself on this post! I plan to post more of that too, soon. Ngl I might make short videos about it, idk if I wanna do Youtube shorts or Tiktoks but either way, I'm mustering up the courage to share my craft.

*I am fine being called a magical girl because it honors the girls who paved the way and also I am a fan of making gendered terms like that gender neutral and accessible to everyone.

[natsumebookss]

finally starting to work on my madokami doll custom after tons of delays! i wanted to at least start her on easter weekend in honor of her character themes and the pmmm finale, which was released on good friday! (if i didn't have hella pms cramps yesterday, i would've actually started working on her on good friday, but them's the breaks)

doll customizing is something i'm still pretty new to, but something i got into because i wanted to see my favorite characters as dolls. madokami will only be my third custom, but i hope to do her justice! here are my two past customs (luz was my first and cure moonlight was my second):

doll #4 won't be homucifer, btw. i wanna cover a lot of different franchises before doing another character from the same one (getting this out of the way now since i got questions about if i'm going to make an amity right after making luz, lol). amity and homucifer are both charas i wanna do someday, tho!

doll #4 will probably be nico robin, which will come as great news for any of my followers who are joint owl house/precure/pmmm/one piece fans (if anyone on here other than me is, i'd love to be friends, lol). in the meantime, i'll keep you posted on my madokami progress!

[magicalgirlagency]

Did the Witchfinders wind up in Gehanna, along with the Incubators?

No, Gehenna doesn't work like that.

The dimension exists exclusively as Homucifer's prison, and it is invisible to all; it's not a place where wicked people go after dying. The Witchfinders have no idea of Gehenna's existence.

The Witchfinders are normal earthlings who were granted magic by the Incubators, in exchange for their evil services; the aliens play them like fiddles by using the same tactics a religious nutjob would use.

A Witchfinder's job is to accomodate the Angels on Earth by eliminating the Hellspawns to please God. Once the Angels are properly adjusted, their Consciousness will arrive for the ultimate cleansing process, and the New Order can begin.

Translating this to sane terms becomes: A Witchfinder's job to oppress and terrorize minorities and defeat the Magical Guardians, so the Incubators can gather a huge amount of vital energy. Once the parasites have gathered enough energy, their Demoness can break out of her cosmic cage, claim the Queen for herself, and rebuild her personal utopia.

Anyways, the Witchfinders are earthlings through and through. They're people with an unnatural phobia of things like change, progress, solidarity and diversity, and will go above any beyond to maintain the Status Quo, so their comfortable life styles can remain unaltered.

[birdantlers]

Homucifer

[madokamagicasecrets]

Ok, so here’s the idea for my AU.

I’ve already talked about this briefly in the past, but the AU is focused on magical girls outside the usual spectrum of candidates, aka girls outside the typical age range and who have mental illnesses. I’m going to focus more on young adults as well as systems, depression etc. 

The first arc surrounds a girl who wishes to purge witches with holy flames, and who ends up turning into a witch and being assimilated into the then-in-progress Walpurgisnacht. She has a white and gold plague doctor aesthetic and is trying to get revenge on all witches because her younger sister died at their hands.

The second arc is when we get into my favorite character, Saria Kira. She wished to have the power to kill other magical girls, and could be considered a magical girl serial killer. Her power is being able to see the magical threads that tie magical girls and their weapons and soul gems together, and a pair of scissors that let her sever these connections. Over time she starts learning more about these threads and how they can be manipulated, and is able to do things like mentally suppressing girls, disabling their magic, and even cutting a connection and tying it to something else, effectively “body swapping”. Saria is pretty frail and actually has to use magic to enhance her body to get to a normal girls’ strength, but by cutting apart magical girl bodies and using magic to fuse them together and body swapping, she’s able to get herself a stronger body. 

From here, there’s a side arc until Saria reemerges. Saria has started a big ol’ cult and plans to use her newfound soul manipulation to enhance her own raw power and become a pseudo-god, something similar to Madokami or Homucifer (but not as powerful). I haven’t yet worked out the ending to this, but the key to her being defeated is the Vessel of Gods she uses to access this power (more on that later).

The basic thesis of this story is to strip away the “magic” of magic and scientifically quantify it, basically to expand the capabilities of magic but also almost make it less magical by stripping it and making it clean and organized. I’ll elaborate on Saria and her mechanics more in a separate post

[wheremytwinwatches]

[Where My Twin Watches]: PMMM Rebellion - Final Thoughts

Alright! After taking some time to peruse discussion threads and read some fanfics, I think I’m finally ready to discuss the movie semi-coherently. First off, thank you all so much for avoiding spoilers, and your patience with my erratic updates. I loved reading all of your comments, and I am so, so sorry for where I left off before the last post! You are all wonderful people, thank you all for giving me motivation to see this wonderful show and movie. But yeah, let’s discuss that.

I feel like I just saw two movies that were woven together, one sweet and charming, the other… not. The first one was about the overall Madokrew, how they were caught in a trap by the Incubators but through enough Hope and Determination to make Kamina cheer they broke out and ended their scheme. Throw in a look at how the Madokrew could have been, a beautiful Magical Girl duel, and HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANDS, and it was an amazing movie. Tephi has told me that she was crying during the scene where Madokami came to take Homura to Magical Girl Heaven, I of course am a MAN who would never cry over such a thing. It’s just a coincidence that I was chopping onions at the same time. And then Homura turned her head away. That brings us to the “second” movie. The one where Homura starts to pick up on the flaws in the world, and I was sent spiraling among dozens of false theories. The one where Homura is being used as bait to trap Madoka. The one where Homura snaps. Homura is messed up, I don’t think anyone can argue that. Caught in a cycle of watching Madoka die/Witchify over and over despite her best efforts, basing her purpose on saving the Pink Magical Girl until Madoka saved herself. And that could have been the end of it. But Homura was still hung up on her Wish to save Madoka, even when she didn’t need saving again. The biggest problem I see is that Homura does love Madoka, but she doesn’t value what Madoka wants over what Homura thinks she wants. Yes, depowered-Madoka in the flower field did say that she wouldn’t want to “go away” and upset Homura. But the fate of all Magical Girls was at stake! By making her sacrifice, by choosing to make her sacrifice, Madoka saved every Magical Girl from Witchdom. Sure a Madoka minus the knowledge of the show would say that she doesn’t want to upset her friends. Having that knowledge, though, I can’t imagine her making any other choice. And the big rub is that Homura disregards this. By stealing Madokami’s power and becoming Homucifer, Homura was saying “I do not view your choices as valid. I believe that I know best for you, and will do whatever it takes to protect you.” That is not love. Love is equal consideration between partners, understanding and empathy. Sayaka was right when she called it earlier; this is obsession. But it gets even worse! See, it was one thing to save all Magical Girls, but there was still the issue or the original purpose, the one single thing I’ll agree with the Incubators with even as I scream at them about everything else; the collection of emergy to prevent the end of the universe. We were clearly shown at the end of PMMM that the system, while modified, was still in place. Sure the Incubator complained at how “slow” the method was, but it still worked. In Homucifer’s world? I see no sign of that. Homucifer says that she’s keeping the Incubator’s around to “handle all of the curses of the world”. So what, you’re replacing Magical Girls with the Incubators? How does that even work? Because having MGs involved seemed essential to the process, seeing as Madokami kept that around in the Second World. Not having this system in the Third leads me to think that the system is flawed, that the purpose is no longer the collection of emergy, but purely the preservation and oversight of the imprisoned Madokrew. Homucifer? If your plan leaves me wondering if you have doomed the universe, it is not a good plan. Basically, I want to walk up to Homucifer and do this:

All of that said… I adore this movie. How could I not? The animation was incredible, the fights beautiful, the buildup to Madokami’s return leaving me wide open to Urobuchi’s hammer to the feels with Homura’s betrayal. I could gush on and on about this movie, but many other people have said it better than me at how it was fantastic. I have no complaints about the movie itself, all of my rage is at the natural progression of Homura’s character, completely understandable but still infuriating. I’ve seen a lot of comparisons to this movie and The Empire Strikes Back, and it’s really fitting. This was a dark, moving story, that ends with our heroes in a worse position. But more than that, it is clearly a “middle” film. And there’s nothing wrong with that, it stands extraordinarily well on its own. However, I cannot imagine that this will not be continued some day. There has to be a continuation, just like Star Wars could not have simply ended with a familial reveal and one of the main characters in carbonite. This is an incomplete story. An excellent one, but incomplete. We have seen Strikes Back. Now we need to see A New Hope. Until then, this is Ranubis, signing out. *Goes back to reading To The Stars*

[levistillalive]

I want to post more cosplay progress but haven't been able to work on anything ;3; Devil Homura: @ale.ru.du . . . . . #cosplay #cosplayer #madoka #madokacosplay #madokamagica #madokamagicacosplay #madokami #madokamicosplay #godoka #godokacosplay #ultimatemadokacosplay #ultimatemadoka #homura #homuracosplay #homucifercosplay #homucifer #devilhomura #devilhomuracosplay #demonhomuracosplay #demonhomura

[danishcream]

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. 

[skarpetkowa]

I think I should add some thoughts to this wholesome analysis.

First comes little but probably not insignificant detail - Kyouko never defied Catholicism because she grew up in a family following some other denomination (Catholic priests don't have families) also there is a possibility that homosexualism (if we accept all the strong lesbian subtext as canon) isn't against this denomination (I know of some Protestant denominations accepting homosexualism unlike Catholicism). Of course it's very likely that Kyouko's conflict with her father is a metaphor for a religious society that doesn't accept homosexual acts tho.

Second detail: it's not only first 3 letters of Kyousuke and Kyouko's names. Both names share the very same kanji character 'Kyou' and 'suke' / 'ko' are very generic parts of respectively male and female names.

I must admit that the image of Madoka's heaven/Homucifer's world as a way for freeing women from opression does not appeal to me fully. I see women and men as complementary, equal forces with their respective strenghts and weaknesses and special roles to fulfill. In the ending of Rebellion Homura is torturing Kyuubey - I wonder if it means overthrowing male domination? Or defying traditional social roles as a whole? If the latter, I think Homura's actions are completely wrong - widely defined tradition conveys the full history of civilisation's progress and destroying it completely means not only purging all the bad stereotypes and prejudices (that fuel male domination for instance) which are only byproducts of civilisation but also destroying civilisation itself. It may be way too far-fledged overinterpretation but if you read Homucifer as an aggressive force of the 'new world's order' that breaks the traditional rules without discriminating good and bad ones, it's pretty obvious why she's a villain.

Anyway I don't like the idea of the world where the male and the female elements are doomed to fight for domination.

Sorry for my bad English X D

Madoka Magica as a Commentary on Sexism

I was having a discussion with friends earlier today, and one brought up an interpretation for Madoka Magica that I hadn’t fully considered before: the anti-sexism themes.

It’s kind of difficult for me to think of at first because, after all, the 5 main characters are all strong women, most being lesbian, who conquer their despair and fight monsters. So where’s the sexist themes, and specifically the messages against it?

(I own this shirt, btw, and it’s awesome) The first big thing is that the girls in the show can only be happy via the use of an external force, aka, Kyubey. It’s mentioned that almost all influential women in history were actually magical girls, indicating that without Kyubey they never could have done anything. It’s a historical fact, of course, that women have been consistently looked down upon. The idea that they need to be cursed by Kyubey in order to make a difference in society is pretty sad. It’s also worth noting that “Incubator”, although feminine sounding in nature considering the imagery of Kyubey incubating eggs, plus the head shape of a uterus, could be interpreted as “Incubus”, a male demon, which indicates that these girls need the help of men to be uplifted, only to end up cursed in the end, regardless. This also makes sense considering the statements given by directors, about girls being punished for having dreams.  (Also after puberty hits it’s safe to say a uterus is definitely hurting girls globally)

It’s also worth noting that apparently, Kyubey only harvests energy from girls. This, most likely, was originally intended solely for shock value (turning a cutesy magical girl anime into a horrific and tragic experience), and there’s even a rationale behind it, namely, Kyubey learns solely from observation, and since he has no emotions, he may well not understand Japanese culture as well as cultures across the planet, which would influence the levels of emotion shown in men and women (and since we have yet to see any PMMM spinoffs in America, or at least in modern America, we can’t be sure there are no magical boys). However, if we were to consider the current theory, the anti-sexism message, we may recognize that the oppressive male force chooses to feed on vulnerable women. It’s probably not coincidence that something whose name can be drawn back to incubus preys on naive and innocent girls, leading them on and cursing them, only to not understand what’s so wrong about it. 

Speaking of oppressive male power, we should talk about witches and lesbianism, 2 things this series absolutely LOVES. Historically, witches were defined as anybody you didn’t like, and crying witch was used as a means of getting advantages and working your way up through the ranks by literally getting your opposition killed. And considering how little people cared about women’s rights, it’s safe to say that a woman with power being considered a dangerous witch may well be a symbolic piece the series is going for. Keep in mind, magical girls also only become witches when they fall to despair. Is it not a little wrong to suddenly call a woman a monster because she suddenly doesn’t want to smile or fall in line anymore? And regarding lesbianism, it could be considered a means of escapism from male society, which of course also ends in a curse (I wonder why). Notice that Sayaka starts by being crazy for Kyosuke, someone who although not abusive has been portrayed as cold and uncaring for his partners, and then moves on to Kyoko, a girl who has defied the Catholic traditional church, and who even has the same first 3 letters in her name. That’s just not a coincidence. 

But the series ends happily, right? (Beyond Rebellion’s cliffhanger, that is) Well, let’s talk about the goddess who made it all possible, and why. Madoka Kaname can be considered a very purehearted and innocent girl, the only kind of person who could truly be all-loving. The fact that she has yet to face this kind of male oppression, especially considering her family, which consists of a stay-at-home dad and a working mother, plus their presumably successful monetary life, creates the perfect formula for the only person that could shelter suffering girls who were considered sinners in one form or another. Rather than the unproductive means of killing those you consider to be a threat (witches) she instead treats them with kindness and helps them conquer their despairs and use them as fuel to be stronger. She demonstrates that the struggle is worth it, because just like Jesus being crucified, one must be willing to suffer to be reborn. That doesn’t just apply to women, either.

In light of this, I find it even more cruel that people have considered Madoka Magica to be a fundamentally sexist or misogynistic work, when it so clearly lampoons sexism in a way that only someone who truly felt the fury of that kind of societal imbalance could. Watching every character you have grown to love succumb to despair and die tragically is a heart-wrenching experience that ties back to the idea that in a male-dominated society, women are doomed to be punished for trying to be happy. This is anything but a pro-sexism show, this is a tragedy that attempts to throw the horrors of sexism right in your face. And I love that.