#magi rambling

[emagios]

jackienat izombie au...

idk we start with married jackieshauna then jackie dies and wakes up to forensic scientist nat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[leviathansbiggestkinnie]

Me n who frfr (I'm Homura trust)

[ghostdeals]

It bother me so much that people misunderstand sayaka miki's descent into madness in madoka magica. She doesnt become a witch "just because of a boy." Sayaka is a character who ties all her self worth into being in service of others. We can see this right from the start with her idolization of mami and everything that she was. She saw mami as this "perfect hero" even though mami i would say is mentally the weakest of the holy quintet. In the timelines where mami finds out about the incubator's true goals she always immediately breaks and goes crazy, trying to kill the other girls in her own twisted way of trying to "save them". Instead of seeing the fragile person that mami was, sayaka instead sort of treats her as a martyr, a goal to achieve. We continue on to sayaka's magical girl wish. Instead of wishing for something for herself, she instead sells her soul for the sake of kyousuke. Then when he starts dating hitomi she spirals not because she's sad about the rejection but because she feels replaced in his life, that he doesn't need or want her around anymore. Then she throws herself into her magical girl work not seeing that she's harming herself because she justifies it with "well im saving people that means what im doing is a good thing." She doesn't see that she's becoming more sloppy, more ruthless until its too late. It's only in the end when she turns into a witch that her story gets resolved.

Sayaka Miki is an incredibly sad character to me. While her actions have the illusion of being selfless and "for the greater good" she is actually incredibly selfishly motivated. Everything she does is in service of wanting praise and admiration from the people she cares about. If she helps kyousuke he'll appreciate her and love her, if she becomes a hero she'll receive praise and admiration for being a good person. This is why it is important that of all people it was kyoko that fought sayaka in the end. To homura, sayaka is someone to be saved. To mami, sayaka is her sweet apprentice/younger sister figure. To madoka, sayaka is her energetic and happy go lucky friend. Kyoko is the only one who from the start called sayaka out on her bullshit, seeing straight through her. And at the end, kyoko is the one who truly accepts sayaka. Sayaka as the witch Oktavia von Seckendorff is stated multiple times in official material to be "looking for love." In the end it it kyoko who gives her that love. Even when sayaka has lost her humanity it is kyoko who accepts her for the entirety of who sayaka is with all of her selfishness and desires. She is the one who sees what sayaka has become and stays together with her till both of their ends. Kyoko choosing to die with sayaka is her saying "I'm here for you, i know all of you, and I will love you regardless."

[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)

[megaultrasuperhypergodkiller]

I feel like a lot of MadoMagi copycats miss that MadoMagi doesn't really hold any malice towards the magical girl genre at all and if anything embraces it fully, it just takes its concepts and interprets it in a darker sense. A lot of media that tries to replicate misses that and just go "Pfft magical girls are so stupid and childish, we should make a show where they all die, and are miserable and depressed, and it's dark and edgy for the sake of being edgy."

[rosenlied]

If I had a nickel for every time people blamed a teenage girl for making dumb (well not really dumb in Via’s case) decisions as opposed to the actual adults who messed up or the demons manipulating them I’d have three nickels.

No because the sheer amount of awful takes I’ve seen on these three is baffling, teens do dumb shit and all of them had completely justifiable reasons for what they did. I truly hate the Internet.

[xaytheloser]

hey

*pokes you*

hey hey

what if Delusional! Megatron manages to rip out the matrix out of Optimus, while also removing Optimus' T-cog to,,?

....... .... HIS Orion is finally back, in his eyes anyway,,

basically Megs pulls a Homura Akemi,,, kinda,,,, forcing Optimus to participate in his sick delusions, being forced into his old name of "Orion Pax",,,,,,,, raaaaaughhh,,,,,,,,,,,,,

making parallels between PMMM and TF my beloved,,,,,

can you guys tell I'm not normal?? :33

[lamemummy59]

started watching madoka magica recently and decided to draw mami lol

[lionacuty]

something something about looping =w=

[songsofwaterandnight]

"I love the world so much that I'd sacrifice myself for it a million times over" vs "I love you so much that I'd sacrifice the world for you a million times over" is already such a crazy dynamic then they gave it to two gay highschool girls

[bingusteaweeb]

Danny phantom × madoka magica/precure au....

[0uroboris]

little homura figure core

she looks lobotomized in the second one

[bitchliteraria1906]

Trying to write about how Kyoko and Homura being religious affects their characters but I'm not smart enough to make it coherent.

[11syrups]

“You believe me like a god, I betray you like a man”

[liridus]

Thinking of Homura Akemi again. Thinking of how she needs to be more powerful to save the people she loves, but no matter how much she tries, she can't be. Thinking about how she never wins the final fight. Thinking of how if Walpurgisnacht is defeated in a timeline, it needs to be Madoka defeating her; and how that means Homura can never truly stop her from getting involved. Thinking how Homura knew she could never be a God like Madoka and proclaimed herself to be the devil. Thinking of how to Homura, Madoka is selfless, and noble, and pure when Homura can never be any of those things. Thinking of how Homura sees herself as a disposable pawn to aid her queen. Thinking of how Homura's wish was for her to be brave and protect like Madoka, only for Madoka to always be more capable than her regardless of what she does. Thinking of how she seems all knowing externally, but internally she's desperate, and small and powerless. Thinking of how Homura tries to be a savior, Madoka's savior, but she's always stuck being the person being saved. Thinking of how Homura can never be anything like Madoka, even though she desperatley wants to be.

ID: A close-up of Homura's tear-filled eye in Rebellion, with the subtitle reading, "I knew it, they suit you better." The 'it' here refers to Madoka's ribbons. END ID

Thinking of Homura Akemi.

[missholloween]

Gift of the magi is mostly from Della's point of view, and we don't spend much time with Jim except their first scene together, "my hair/my watch" and the last scene of their story. The show itself plays with this expectation in "What did you do", where we see a really mean Jim that has nothing to do with the guy we've seen happily singing "christmas eve" some minutes ago and Della herself admiting that he won't do that.

But then we reach Jim and Della's reunion after she's cut her hair. The narrator is right by saying he has a strange expression that is hard to read, as Curt is conveying so many emotions at the same time: we see confusion, sadness, some dissapointment and a slight regret just by one look. Jim takes some time to talk, which makes Della even more anxious than she was. This rubs into the spectator too, doubting Della's words and afraid of what Jim is going to say. But then he says, with the brightest smile in the world "You're more beautiful than ever". And that's the best summary one could do of who Jim is.

I really love how Jim is written (and acted!) because of how this scene is played. During the whole gift exchange, his only goal is to make Della happy and comfort her after what she has given. And when Jim realizes what they have done, the first thing he does is be closer to her, ask her to spend time with him. I reallly like that Curt and Janaya hug during Clark's verse, and that they include a close up of them in the pro-shot. Jim and Della deserve a quiet moment to display their affection, but it is also a really realistic portrayal of these kind of conflics and affection. This joined to the switch of gifts at the ends just wrappes one of my favorite Starkid stories period.

The sincerity and heart of this story, as well as the other two, is one of the things that make VHSCCs such a special project. It's just so earnest and you can see how everyone (especial shoutout to Curt and Janaya for their performance) loves the story just as much as we do and understands their importance. Thank you Clark Baxtresser for such a wonderful show <3