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I love when fiction makes the audience feel guilty about their role as the audience. When something fucked up is treated as a joke but later it's recognised how fucked up it was and the audience feels guilty for finding it funny. When a character breaks the fourth wall to plead for help, and you can't do anything so you just watch. And you know that the characters pain isn't real, but they're begging for help and you're not helping because their suffering is entertainment for you
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that beautiful tall dommy ukrainian cosplayer lady who's big with the chinese lesbians is so awesome because she probably drowned her abusive husband in the indonesian ocean and no one cares
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Kate Bush photographed by Gered Mankowitz, 1979.
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I’m very much a did-nothing-wrong camper in spirit of it, though Homura did actually do something wrong in taking away Madoka’s agency to make her own decisions (though imo it was a necessary evil in a lot of ways).
You can see this playing out through the entire tv show as well. Before Homura begins her time loops, her dynamic with Madoka and even Madoka’s personality is completely swapped. Madoka doesn’t naturally deal with the same kind of self esteem issues that she does in later timelines - due to Homura’s meddling and desire of becoming her protector. Ultimately, the selfish part of Homura’s actions have always been about her trying to be Madoka’s knight in shining armour, a dynamic which pushed Madoka into a disenfranchised damsel in distress role. Lacking agency.
Madoka was always selfless, but never to the degree of becoming intentionally self-sacrificial (because without being able to protect her friends in turn she begins to view herself as worthless). She claws back some agency by becoming god, but it’s an incredibly bittersweet end since a person who thinks they’re worthless choosing to end their existence isn’t exactly empowered.
Rebellion is just a continuation of this. It’s very true that being a god is probably incredibly lonely at best for Madoka, but instead of there being honest conversation about it and Madoka with all of her memories and knowledge changing things for herself, it is a Madoka who doesn’t recognize the circumstances behind her choice who pushes Homura to act for her. Of course the tragedy of it is they never really had the chance to talk things out given the state of the world and the Incubators’ plans.
Homura’s decision is probably the best she could have made backed into that corner, since it allows the possibility for them to talk it out and keeps Madoka safe for now. But it does come at Madoka being forcibly wiped of her memories and kept under the watchful eye of Homura.
Both of them are incredibly self destructive characters who struggle greatly with self-worth and accepting love. This is a good video on the topic and last I remember I agreed with almost all of his points.
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Hoping on the Homura did nothing wrong train, can someone tell me why they believe Homura did do wrong?
I'm not trying to debate or refute points, but I feel like if I knew what some opposing opinions were, I'd be able to make a stronger, evidence-supported reason for my beliefs. Being in a constant echo chamber is one way to ensure your opinions and thoughts aren't challenged, which makes for a shaky foundation to theorize because you NEED opposing views.
Anyhow, if someone could write/DM me a list of actions/flaws/thoughts or theories of things Homura did wrong, or things directly wrong with Homura, I'd greatly appreciate it. Again, this is not so I can debate with you, I just want to see some different viewpoints.
#madoka magica#pmmm analysis#madohomu#they make me insane. it’s just miscommunication trope 1000x magnifier#Youtube
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I had a blast drawing for the Earth Love 2024: Madoka x Earth Day Zine by @dotzines
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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".
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holy fuck we could've had it so good...
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also someone replied with "apollo gift of prophecy" to one of my collectorblogging posts. and yes that's funny and I appreciate it but
i was just connecting the dots with the stuff i already knew inspired the show and the themes that were already present! like the collector titan war prediction still rattles me but at the same time i got to that conclusion by using the mythology inspirations and the themes of diametrically opposed cultures that were already in the show
#anyway uh would love to go back 2 years#2022 (spring to summer mostly) was a blast for many reasons
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ok wait
i just realized i connected the garden of earthly delights to the collector in that one post... before the actual promo art came out that tied the collector to that painting?? huhhh???? i think it was because dana mentioned it in an article as being a personal favourite and inspiring the BI but thats also fucking crazy that i used it as a connection
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why should i care about taylor swift when the killer remains at large
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First of all thank you 'silverlady7' on Reddit for discovering the following, I would not have known at all myself. I think we can pretty reliably figure out who The Collector is because of this - so this is just going to be my full analysis post. Long read ahead.
The Collector is most likely based off of Yugi from Tenchi in Tokyo, which did air on Toonami in the early 2000s. Yugi was an incredibly powerful child who was imprisoned in a tomb for three thousand years after she and the creatures she created ravaged the planet she came from, though in her mind they were just playing. It seems she was conscious all those years, but completely alone, and never aging past the mind and body of a six year old.
The thing that locks this in is that we already have a reference to this show - Eda's design and personality was directly based off of Ryoko.
It makes it more interesting with the use of these floating rocks around the Collector's little prison bubble, which can be seen in the anime as the way to seal / defeat Yugi where she's literally begging not to be left all alone in the dark again.
She's ultimately redeemed at the end by the main character (in one of the fastest redemptions I've literally ever witnessed from watching the clip, lol). It's fair to say we can expect that to happen in the end with The Collector - and I'd prefer it greatly, I'd like Belos to remain the main big bad.
It bodes well for the idea that King and the Collector will become allies too. Not during the redemption part, but before that. Even while Yugi has reawakened and is doing her most villainous deeds on Earth, she creates an alternate persona for the sole purpose of being able to play with her only friend Sasami (who is in another connection, the princess of the planet that Yugi destroyed thousands of years ago).
So, up to this point: The Collector was literally just a kid drunk with the sheer power he held, who one day went too far and was imprisoned for it. They learned to want revenge solely for the sake of it, after being lonely for thousands of years.
Now, part 2.
The Collector wasn't even from the Demon Realm. They're from a third celestials dimension.
Now this is a very famous painting called the 'Garden of Earthly Delights' by Heironymous Bosch depicting eden, earth, and hell. Bosch was a big inspiration for The Owl House - Dana cites him and his works multiple times as the aesthetic behind the Boiling Isles. Boscha you might notice, is also named after him.
Oh yeah, the whole show is based off of religion. I first got the idea of the Collector being a (fallen) angel because of the oddity of Belos deciding to put so much trust within him - despite the Collector also being magic and an inhabitant of the Demon Realm.
The theory has a lot of weight with his aesthetics and the mural paintings from King's Birthplace. Their design directly invokes the sky - the sun, the moon, and the stars.
The Collector's imagery is all over the temple, but in this mural I believe the comet coming down could be a sign that the Collector was 'born' from a comet falling from the heavens, which stranded them alone on the Boiling Isles those thousands of years ago. Furthermore and back to Yugi, she was likewise sent out on a comet that eventually found it's way to earth.
The mural and whole design is also an interesting signal that the relationship between the Collector and the Titans may not always have been so fraught, or really wasn't that much at all. I don't think you'd decorate a temple / your baby's nursery with the symbols of your species' greatest enemy all over the place. I believe it may have just been the fallout of two kinds of godlike beings who's ideals eventually clashed with each other; which carries on every other theme in the show so far about families being torn apart.
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angel wings t-shirt from tanaka daisuke ⋆
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with the stuff that I'm into now, I'm afraid that the wegg lore was actually NOT that crazy in comparison
#they only have ONE alternate universe. low level type shit#and not even a time loop?#tho even back then i remember everyone saying it was batshit and i was always kind of okay with it
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just curious as they're always things i've never questioned just doing but people in my life are often surprised that i don't mind doing them alone
🔁 pls reblog for sample size
#depends for some because of safety reasons but I’m very comfy doing any of these#going to the movies alone is actually bliss
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