“There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.”
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This was perspective practice that turned into an obsession lol
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how could you hate rebellion when nagisa is in it
i mean look at her shes delightful
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AITA for pulling my (14F) gf (14F) from heaven despite her begging me not to, becoming the devil, and then rewriting the universe?
okay, i know the title SOUNDS bad but hear me out...
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what listening to rebellion story's score all the way through and on repeat for several days in a row does to a mfer
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This isn't my usual fare, but in celebration of the newest trailer reveal for walpurgis no kaiten, I'll share some madoka magica AMVs that I made several years ago; mostly revolving around Rebellion.
The first is a tribute to Rebellion Story as a whole, set to New Order's The Perfect Kiss. The second one is more madohomu-focused, and is set to There is a Light That Never Goes Out by The Smiths. They're dinky in quality and a little corny in some ways, but I hope someone out there enjoys them. I certainly did, while making these all those years ago.
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Watching a video essay on the Madoka Magica series and something just clicked for me. I am officially changing sides. Put me down for Team Homura in the post-Rebellion discourse.
The essayist was talking about Madoka as a metaphor for capitalism, and my friend and I were joking about Madoka seizing the means of production. And then I realized something.
See. The thing is, when Homura splits Madokami and breaks Madoka off from her? That is a thing I do in my career a lot. It's my bread and butter.
Homura looked at the system Madoka had made and went, "This is good, but can't we automate this? I don't think it needs to be a manual process."
The original series ends with Madoka making a beautiful sacrifice for the greater good of all Magical Girls everywhere. But Homura makes a compelling counterargument: Maybe sacrifice isn't beautiful, and that's just warped Christian values getting the better of you. Maybe "beautiful" is when people get to live and be happy with the people who love them, and the good thing they would have achieved with their sacrifice can still exist.
Maybe it's just cynical to think that someone should have to suffer for everyone else to benefit. Madoka sacrificed everything to become a law of physics, but maybe a law of physics doesn't have to be a conscious person.
Maybe, just maybe, instead of Madoka becoming Madokami, she can be proud of building Madokami instead.
Can't we automate this?
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ive always found it strange how some people are like "but homura feeling like she's evil for being in love with another girl is BAD!!!!" as if anything in the narrative ever suggested it was trying to say it was right that homura feels this way about herself. homura is pretty explicitly written as a character with internalized homophobia due to religious trauma, and at every other opportunity pmmm is showing how the love between homura and madoka is a good thing.
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