#she's an icon !! she's a legend !! and she is the moment !!

[notbballstars]

WE LOST A MF LEGEND TONIGHT. I don’t care what anyone says. Angela is iconic!!! She survived the block multiple times and got the Veto used on her. Never ever gave up , was part of the most iconic moments of this game and of course her exit was so dramatic and ridiculous !!!! 😭big Brother did their big one casting her. She will be missed.

[ghostintransit]

Lanfear Wheel of Time S2 Ep4 "Daughter of the Night. She walks again."

[lovelydrusilla]

aren't you tired of being nice. don't you just wanna go ape-shit

[the-stars-in-between]

Never felt less patriotic than when Simone Bills and Ilona Maher show up on my screen. I mean, they're everything. What do you mean I'm supposed to cheer for my own country ?

[renrapp]

BIANCA BUSTAMANTE | F1 Academy Weekend Wrapped

[m3tam0rph0s1s]

*knocking noises* artemis fowl fandom let me innn

[epickiya722]

Hatsune Miku was right when she said the world is hers. Happy birthday, you icon!!

[tryinginvaintobreathethefire]

leave my girl ALONE

[hopeymchope]

Arisa Narumi, Puella Magi's bully-busting badass

Arisa Narumi is a character from the Puella Magi Suzune Magica spinoff. And although Mami Tomoe will always be my favorite Puella Magi character, Arisa is definitely up in my top five.

But why? What's so great about Arisa?

Arisa starts out as a shrinking violet who is brutally bullied, tormented, and beaten at school on a daily basis. So when Kyubey comes into her life? Her wish is obvious.

The day after her wish is granted, a group of girls comes around to mock her and demand tons of money from her or else they'll beat her down. And nervously, she finally speaks up for herself, letting them know that she'd like them to please leave her alone from now on.

They don't respond well. One immediately launches into attacking her. And Arisa? She catches the attacker's fist in midair...

...and slowly CRUSHES it.

The next day, we learn she sent the entire gang of bullies to the hospital. Even Arisa is shocked at her strength. Talk of it spreads throughout the school. The result is that now, she's no longer the pathetic target of everyone's unjustified hatred; now she's feared. And it gives her a confidence she's never experienced before.

It's such a satisfying, powerful turnaround, and it fills me with absolute delight every time I read it.

Now the other students whisper about her in hushed tones. They scurry away when she approaches. She's finally free to live her life, although it's not like any of this earns her any friends. Curious, she thinks, how her an increase in her strength has completely changed the way people interact with her.

But Arisa's newfound confidence soon turns to cockiness. She starts to skip school whenever she feels like, flouts school rules by eating during class, and during a montage we also see her using her newfound strength to rough up some guy—there's no context in the there, so we're left to wonder what he did to provoke this, but we can probably all fucking imagine. (The manga's artist later creates shareda short strip on his Twitter showing Arisa standing up to and beating two men who are sexually harrassing her, so... yeah.)

All of this earns her negative attention from another magical girl in her school—Chisato Shion. Chisato is a pretty strict rule-follower and decides to provoke a fight over it, but when she beats Arisa in combat? Arisa becomes positively suicidal. Poor Arisa felt like the ONLY thing she had going for her was her strength and ability to fight for herself now, and if she can't win a fight? She might as well die; after all, she claims it's not like she has anyone who'd care.

Luckily, Chisato cares. She dextends her hand in friendship, offering to bring Arisa into her own squad of magical girls and help her grow stronger in the process. So concludes the origin of Arisa Narumi.

What else can I say? Arisa's depression, loneliness, vengeful justice— I both relate to and adore it SO HARD. She is an inspiration, frankly.

If I have one complaint about her? It's that, well, her magical girl outfit is a bit tacky for my taste. Of course she can wear whatever she wants, but ultimately, this outfit was designed by a male artist; it wasn't truly chosen by the fictional teenage girl in question, ofc. :P Although it's not as revealing as most of the outfits the girls in Suzune Magica wear—which is a whole other kettle—she's still rocking some sort of weird boob targets, which comes up in damn near EVERY conversation you see about this character. Suffice to say that there's a reason why multiple users such as @thefairywithdrawings and @dullanyan took the time to make costume edits for the Magia Record art of damn near every Suzune Magica character or at least Arisa in particular, respectively.

I suppose that, given that we live in a world where I see girls of all ages walking around daily with similar clothing that puts focal patterns on their breasts and/or butt cheeks (spiral-boob shirts and "JUICY" shorts, anyone?), I can't say it's not realistic... but it feels like carrying that sort of self-sexualization into our fictional teenage girls feels unnecessary and a bit distasteful. You could argue it's representative of Arisa's newfound self-confidence, though?

Ultimately, I'm not going to let one pattern on her outfit define her character. Make no mistake: Arisa Narumi is a badass among magical girls and still an absolute legend in my book.

Keep on crushing bullies' fists, Arisa.

[thefairestfacts]

So...

I thought of something...

(hope you like it)

SO. GUYS.

I immediately thought about Apple White as soon as I saw those pictures and then BOOM, Apple's fanart.

I'm gonna draw this on computer too, but first of all I wanted to see if it was worth it.

I was also thinking about making other drawings of EAH (expecially memes), so... SPELL YOU LATER👋👀

[candiceswans]

Janella Salvador as Regina Vanguardia in Darna (2022) | S02EP23

[tomato-ace]

fellow revue starlight stage plays enjoyers, I have a question, why have I never seen anyone mention TENDON MAYA?????!?

[elitehoe]

THATS MY CHAMPION KRIS STATLANDER THE ONLY CHAMPION WHO MATTERS

[lovelydrusilla]

miriam margolyes please be my friend

[hurremsultanns]

Hürrem lording her wins over Ibrahim is so deserved and so satisfying.

And she throws 'Don't bite more than you can chew' back in his face too. Iconic.

[viciousgold]

sigh. the way I want to (and let's be real probably am going to) add President Barbie to my multimuse.