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melly, 21+, she/they

hello! i’m mostly here to rave about my interests. happy to talk, but slow to respond atm. if you have any soundtrack recs (or just music in general), i’d be happy to hear them!

current interests are Witch Hat Atelier, Octopath Traveler, Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy (mainly 14).

more will be added here. eventually! blogs a work in progress

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It’s us against the world

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Witch Hat Atelier Official Anime Teaser

#witch hat atelier #it looks so good. it looks so GOOD #here’s hoping the rest of the series looks just as consistent!!#i’m losigngn my mind that’s coco and qifrey animated aaaAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Coco & Agott

#witch hat atelier

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Background commission

#sky cotl #stunning!!

been playing sky again lately

so here’s a very, very old sketch of a skykid from 2021. he’s been sitting in my wips for so long… what should i name him?

#sky children of the light #sky cotl #my art #he’s just a lil’ guy… bundle of fluff n’ starlight #i’m honestly overwhelmed from all the new content that’s been added #there’s so much…

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its an utter tragedy that people only get into witch hat atelier for qifrey/orufrey and end up ignoring everything else. when the manga is soooo good and there's more to it than orufrey. the disability rep with tartah? the criticism of the education system with richeh's story? that one chapter that handled the topic of sexual assault in a respectful way? euini's story? the conflict with the brimhats? the four mcs also get pushed aside in favour of the men which is such a shame because coco, agott, tetia, and richeh are wonderful characters. and even the sapphic ship involving the main character (arkco) isn't as popular as orufrey.

like don't get me wrong, orufrey is great, i love my gay witches who cannot apit their feelings out. but then getting attention over everything else in wha, even the mcs, is sadly another case of the female characters being ignored and pushed aside in favour of men, and the sapphic ship involving the main character is sidelined in favour of the popular mlm ship. its sad that this is a problem even in media where girls are the centre.

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witch hat atelier spoilers below

i got into witch hat atelier for orufrey, and discovered an incredible manga that is detailed, well written, and i feel myself seen in. even the details that go into the sealchairs and the comparison between a poor disabled person and a rich disabled person - how they both face struggles, but one FAR more (vistas vs beldaruit) and how they handle those struggles. the way poverty and being cast aside and not being told the whole truth is what pushes someone to evil and destruction rather than disability itself.

the complex critique of the witch government system is amazing too, there’s also a gay couple that’s overtly canon, i believe something a character said to one of the people in this relationship was a microagression implying he wasn’t really his partner’s family. it’s all very well done. also so much of the hinting and foreshadowing? the art style?

that doesn’t even touch on the girls or how well developed their personalities are, which really deserves an entire ramble for each of them. but i haven’t read a book that writes child protagonists as well as witch hat atelier does since i was a child myself. the combination of realistic childhood emotions and the depiction of them as their own people who can make their own choices, as well as the discovery of new friendships and ways of doing things, is just so good. coco and agott’s developing friendship and agott’s genuine apology (and coco’s response) made me so happy. i see my child self in coco, and as dark as the story can get at times, coco’s childish wonder at magic and new things makes me smile every time.

anyway yes, i am here for orufrey, but i am also here for the entire story. it really is amazing. the mangaka is such an incredible storyteller!

#witch hat atelier #this. all of this!#wha is such an incredible manga. i cannot fully express how much this manga means to me #the art and the panelling alone… each one is beautiful in how it captures the feel of a painting almost #the details that go into each scene… aaaaa #and then the story. the characters and the worldbuilding #the disability rep especially… i feel seen #i’ve never fallen in love with a franchise so quickly

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Agott my precious girl🤧

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#witch hat atelier #them!!#agott’s expression… aw

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The eleven(?) year old protagonist successfully threatened one of the witch popes with the continuing legitimacy of his position into agreeing to a technical violation of a centuries old pact.

She's been on a roll this arc. Lying, hiding a fugitive, fighting/running from the witch cops, cooperating (under duress) with brimhats, breaking ancient pacts, and now extortion.

Love Coco, she's an amazing protagonist.

#witch hat atelier #she has a point but knowing this manga she's going to eventually bite off more than she can chew #<- with how things are going i honestly feel like that’s going to happen VERY soon

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some more thoughts I had while reviewing a few banters, that I can't quite fit into the analysis I'm currently writing...

In the "New Paper Plays" banter between Temenos, Agnea, Castti, and Partitio, Temenos mentions that he wrote and illustrated his paper plays himself, noting that he specifically tailored them to be appealing to children. This got me wondering about all the "mistakes" he makes while reading these plays to children, which I've wondered about a lot because Temenos is clearly very familiar with all the scriptures (to the point where he can share certain stories at a moments notice when he feels they're fitting for the situation), so it seems strange that he would mess up the details.

And then it hit me--Temenos is probably making the mistakes on purpose. This would achieve three things: 1) It allows the children to have fun learning the scriptures because they can laugh and correct Temenos on the details he messed up, 2) It helps the children to build their confidence because they feel smart when correcting him and aren't afraid to speak up and correct him, and 3) It teaches the children not to blindly rely on and trust others for things they either know to be true or could otherwise investigate and learn the truth themselves, even when (or especially when) the information comes from someone who should "know what is correct"--which is the core of Temenos's approach to his faith. The third point I feel is what Temenos is specifically trying to get at with his mistakes, since he is an "authority" figure, and if the children aren't afraid to stand up and correct him, then they may become adults who likewise aren't afraid to question and investigate things for themselves.

It's rather clever really, since Temenos isn't outright saying "hey, you should doubt things that are presented to you as true and told not to question". Instead, he's modelling the actual actions for the kids by presenting them with something they know isn't correct from someone who should "know best", and allowing them to question and correct him.

It's a very "Temenos" approach to teaching the scriptures, and considering that doubt and questioning and coming to one's own conclusions can be a form of faith, it isn't even antithetical to his role as a cleric. It's a really neat bit of characterization that I didn't even notice until I realized that Temenos clearly put a lot of thought into how his plays were constructed, and that his purposeful and careful thought process is central to a lot of his characterization, so of course the "mistakes" he makes while reciting the plays would be thought-out and purposeful as well.

#octopath traveler #all of these little details… i love temenos sm #this is. so well thought out i love it

i cannot stress enough how excited i am to hear the soundtrack. i’m looking forward to seeing this animated… imagine the music and sound design that goes with it!

i’m so intrigued to see how they’ll adapt some of these scenes

coco drawing her first spell, that initial wonderment and excitement leading into the foreboding shadows (and dread, to the readers) looming over her a few pages later…

this manga does panelling beautifully, and it’s honestly one of my favourite things about it next to the storytelling and how it handles heavier topics. with animation being a completely different medium, i wonder what it’ll end up looking like in the end..

…i don’t think i can wait until july

#witch hat atelier #wha #i think i’ll be happy regardless as long as the soundtrack hits #to think it’s been so long since we’ve had news. it’s surreal #the characters are obviously another huge favourite of mine but this post would be incomprehensibly long if i wanted to write about them

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What I Want for the Kingdom Hearts Missing Link Ending

The final cutscene is a recreation of the cutscene from Dark Road where the elderly Player passes on while watching Xehanort on the beach of Destiny Islands. Except the camera focuses on Player's heart floating away before the scene fades out.

Next we cut to a scene of a woman preparing a meal. When she's done she says, "Sora, dinner's ready! Sora?"

#kingdom hearts #oh this would mess w me so bad