so often, i see homura’s repeated time looping to try to save madoka read as this very negative, tragic thing. a classic “creating that which you sought to destroy” situation, wherein the more efforts homura makes to save madoka, the more entrenched madoka’s fate as the most powerful magical girl, and in turn, the most dangerous witch, becomes
but in rewatching the final episode again the other night, i finally realized that it’s homura’s endless time loops that grant madoka the power to literally rewrite the universe. i really don’t know why this took me so long to realize this, that madoka’s power comes directly from homura. homura made madoka the most powerful & important thing in existence, allowing her to make the most powerful & important wish. madoka’s love & sacrifice for the other magical girls only exists because of homura’s love & sacrifice for her
lesbian middle school crushes really will give you the power to become god ✌️