Feelin like a hellhound tryna catch an angel

Do you miss all your old selves?

no they are inside of me i hug them everyday and say u did such a good job

i love posting madoka magica art because without fail half of the interactions will be from blogs with homura pfps and urls like “homuralover2000”

Wise words from Shang Bu Huan.

I've talked before about how the Incubators are male-coded, but I was browsing the Puella Magi Wiki and discovered that the Madoka Magica Café event in 2011 dropped the subtext entirely with their signs for the bathrooms:

*squints at runes* Ah, yes, the two genders: "magical girl" and "Incubator".

Candeloro

Why are you booing me, I’m right.

Man, the latest round of AO3 spam comments makes me glad I turned off anonymous comments on my fics so I don't have to deal with that.

everyone's like wehhhhh why doesn't doctor house gets suuuueeed! like my man. literally every patient he sees is someone that's been trying to find a diagnosis for ages. i could live with a little medical malpractice if it were coming from someone ready to break into my home to look for allergens and not simply half heartedly listen to me before suggesting I lose weight and take ages of back and forth arguing to order a single test

you cannot headcanon your way out of overt thematic structures on which the entire narrative is built

Absolutely no one asked for this, but in case anyone might be curious as to how to pronounce the Thunderbolt Fantasy characters’ Chinese names (since they are never actually said in the voiced show), here is my “haven’t-regularly-spoken-Mandarin-in-20-years” attempt at the names.

The list in which I say the names is as follows:

Lin Xue Ya ( 凜雪鴉) Shang Bu Huan ( 殤不患) Dan Fei (丹翡) Shou Yun Xiao (狩雲霄) Xing Hai (捲殘雲) Juan Can Yun (刑亥) Sha Wu Sheng (殺無生) Dan Heng (丹衡) Mie Tian Hai (蔑天骸)

(Note: “Sh” is pronounced with either the “sh” or “s” sound, depending on whether you want to sound more mainland/northern Chinese (”sh”) or Taiwanese (”s”). For example, I’m of Taiwanese descent, so I pronounce “Sha Wu Sheng” as “Sah Wu Sung.”)

I personally prefer using their Chinese names in writing, because unlike their Japanese names, the Chinese names are actually consistent with the characters and…have some sort of evocative meaning? (ie: the Xue (雪) in Lin Xue Ya’s name is the character for “snow,” and he has a largely snow-colored color scheme? and the Tian (天) in Mie Tian Hai’s name is the character for “sky,” and he has those cloud patterns on his robes? idk).

Likewise, the Japanese names are completely context-dependent (ie: the Kanji of their names would only be pronounced the way they are when referring specifically to the Thunderbolt Fantasy characters–otherwise, they would be read as merely a very odd/nonsensical combination of Kanji characters). But I also still enjoy using the name “Mushou” and all that, too, so I don’t judge either preference.

Please note that I’m foremost American, so if any actual Taiwanese/Chinese/Japanese people disagree with any of my pronunciations or commentary, they are probably right.

Oh, we can burn it and leave For we are the beautiful thieves No one suspects at all

I stumbled across a series of tumblr posts about Tarot imagery in Rebellion, but unfortunately, they only exist via the Wayback Machine, which does not always preserve images.

I have not read through all of it yet, but at the very least, there's a lot to think about, and it suggests that the use of Tarot symbolism in the WnK trailer is not new, only more obvious.

When you see your friend’s likes

Shipping fictional characters isn’t representative of your moral values. It’s representative of your particular psychic damage and the themes and motifs that haunt you. Hope this helps.

Is this not how it happened.

5 things I enjoy writing meme

Thanks, @aptericia for tagging me!

I'll start by saying that every creator has a series of themes and motifs that especially resonate with them and show up again and again in their most powerful works, and I'm no exception. The #vein of gold tag on my blog is devoted specifically to those posts which capture mine when I find them in the wild. Learning to articulate this both visually and verbally was one of the most rewarding exercises I ever did, allowing me to specifically customize my fics for maximum personal appeal instead of hitting it by accident.

That said, here are some more general things that don't quite fit into the tag but I still enjoy writing:

Awkward situations - I really love forcing characters to be uncomfortable, not necessarily in the sense of 'big dramatic terrible things' like injury or death, but in small, petty, but no less impactful ways. These are often, but not always, social, but they don't have to be--I like a certain level of realism even in my fantasies, which translates into a lot of low-level annoyances that are often omitted from stories. I know a lot of people write specifically to get away from that, but I love it precisely because it's so rarely modeled in fiction and it's so true to life.

Experimenting with different structures, formats, styles, tropes, and POVs -- if I read something innovative or cool or different, I instantly want to play in the same sandbox and write my own version of it. Basically, I'll try almost anything at least once, just for the hell of it and as a personal challenge.

Meta essays are like infodumping, but more organized and with citations and once you write them, you can just drop the link instead of endlessly repeating yourself. :)

Witty banter and snark, my beloved! Also puns, wordplay, and literary allusions - anything where I get to exercise my zany sense of humor, which often goes hand in hand with crack scenarios.

I also really like writing for specific people - I do a lot of exchanges, and I enjoy the challenge of finding that sweet spot where my recipient's tastes and my tastes overlap, especially since tailoring a fic to a specific audience is an essential writing skill. Sometimes I'll get an idea and just know someone who would like it, and it's fun to give gifts for any or no reason! Writing can be lonely, so I appreciate the social aspects of fandom, and the interactivity, especially when it generates new and interesting ideas I never would have come up with on my own.

I am the place where memes and tag games go to die, but if anyone reading this feels inspired to join in, please do so!