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So i uh 👉🏻👈🏻 made an art account recently.
I wanna post my art again but insta sucks

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Jules of Nature
occasionally subtle
wallacepolsom
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
Cosmic Funnies
hello vonnie

pixel skylines
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"

Kaledo Art
RMH
Sade Olutola
$LAYYYTER
cherry valley forever

祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Today's Document
KIROKAZE
Aqua Utopia|海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
Not today Justin

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Princess ✨🕸️👑
So i uh 👉🏻👈🏻 made an art account recently.
I wanna post my art again but insta sucks
One reason Homura is doomed to suffer is that her relationship with Madoka is built on a fundamental paradox. Homura loves Madoka for her kindness, her compassion, her willingness to save others, all of which are epitomized by their first meeting at school and again when Madoka saves Homura's life. At the same time, those exact same traits are what pull the two of them apart in every single timeline, as Madoka's kindness, compassion, and drive to save others drive her to her death.
Homura fights Walpurgisnacht in order to save Madoka, yes, but in a very real way, she's also fighting against Madoka's fundamental nature, and she can never, ever, win, as the ending of Rebellion proves. No matter what the circumstances, these are Madoka's core traits, the ones that define her as a person (consider how in the flower field scene, Homura identifies Madoka as the real thing by her "kindness" and "warmth" as opposed to literally any other traits). If by some magic, Homura could erase them, the girl that emerged wouldn't be Madoka anymore, just a stranger with her face and voice.
That in itself would be enough to induce complicated feelings in any relationship, but it gets worse because of Homura's lack of self-esteem: she doesn't feel she is worth saving. Her reaction to Madoka's first death in the original timeline is telling: "Why? Even if you were going to get killed all along, it wasn't worth saving me if you're not alive!"
The third timeline is even more explicit, with Homura envisioning a world where she and Madoka are together forever as witches, where Homura's abnegation of self and her love for Madoka could find a stable balance that would never be overturned--and Madoka rejects it completely and irrevocably, without any warning whatsoever.
Instead, she asks Homura to go on living without her because Homura can go back in time. People are usually focused on the part where Madoka asks Homura to save her personally, but before that Madoka asks her to "change everything... so we don't end up like this". The "we" here is ambiguous, but Madoka also means Mami, Kyouko, and Sayaka here, not just her and Homura. (Remember, this version of Madoka murdered Mami to save Homura, and has been understandably traumatized by it!) And not only does Madoka reject Homura's offer to die together, she also rejects Homura's worldview completely--stating explicitly the world is worth saving, in spite of the horrors--and asks Homura to kill her in order to prevent the very fate that Homura advocated for them both just moments ago (i.e, becoming a witch).
This is, in my opinion, one of the most pivotal scenes in the entire show, the one that catalyzes Homura's worldview, that changes her life, that transforms her utterly, that is so deeply seared into her psyche she can never let go of it (as we see in the climax of Rebellion). The fandom tends to focus on the grief and guilt and self-loathing, which is obviously a huge piece of it, but you can also see in that moment why Homura might hate Madoka for it, too: for saving Homura's life once again instead of her own, when Homura didn't want it; for forcing Homura to keep on living and fighting in order to see her again; for asking Homura to mercy-kill her (the one thing that traumatized Homura more than anything else she ever experienced).
Over and over again, Madoka keeps leaving Homura behind, and it's perfectly understandable why Homura might resent that, why she might hate it, and hate Madoka for doing that to her, even though she loves Madoka, because the things that she loves about Madoka and the things that she hates about Madoka are fundamentally the same. This is what I think the concept movie trailer was getting at with its references to "that cruelty, that gentle radiance", which also appears in the WnK trailers as "a radiance so kind, that it is even cruel".
Rebellion explicitly states that love and pain are intertwined for Homura, and I think all of the negative feelings Homura might have for Madoka are a part of that, even though Homura will never (consciously) admit to them. It's one reason why the Clara Dolls, those avatars of Homura's unconscious, are throwing fruit at the Madokami stele while Homura worships it--on some level, she hates Madokami even as she loves her (because she loves her), but those negative feelings are suppressed and acted out via proxies instead.
You could argue that Homura doesn't actually hate Madoka, just the Madokami part, but what exactly is the difference between them? Homura's rebellion is predicated on the assumption that she can remove the girl from the Law of Cycles, but instead of getting the same reaction from the flower field scene, Homura discovers that she can't remove the impulse that created the Law of Cycles from the girl--simultaneously the trait she loves most about Madoka and the one she's been fighting the whole time! The primary differences between amnesiac human Madoka and Madokami are ones of power and agency, not kindness and compassion. No wonder Homura is in hell.
The irony, of course, is that so much of Madoka's self-sacrificing tendencies are driven by her own lack of self-esteem and self-worth; she is not so different from Homura in that respect. However, from Homura's perspective, Madoka is enough as she is because Homura loves her, hence Homura repeatedly telling her she doesn't need to change; Madoka's relationships to her family, friends, and most especially Homura, are enough to justify her continued existence. In context, this request to "not change" is about Madoka becoming a magical girl or not, but on a larger level, Homura is asking for the impossible: in order to be the sort of person who could "stay the same" the way Homura wants, Madoka would have to already be someone other than who she is!
At the same time, Homura's inability to let go is her core trait and Rebellion ends with her doubling down on it. In order to be the sort of person who could "move on", Homura would also have to become someone completely different, and I genuinely don't know if that's possible. [In real life, absolutely, but characters are not real people, and it's hard for me to imagine Homura without her core traits, just like its hard for me to imagine Madoka without hers.]
Okay, so if changing Madoka and/or herself is off the table, what other course is left to Homura? Well, if the world is such that Madoka feels compelled to sacrifice herself, maybe change the world so she doesn't have to. This is what Homura was trying to do by defeating Walpurgisnacht by herself, but even if she'd succeeded, it would have only been a matter of time before something else happened and Madoka was compelled to do something about it. (In the PSP game, there's a scenario where Homura manages to win, although she dies in the process, and Kyubey is like, "well, that didn't work out, but I'm sure something will come up that will make Madoka want to contract and I'll be right there when it does".) And becoming the devil also changed the system, but not enough - Madoka comes perilously close to reverting right in front of Homura's eyes.
One solution is to destroy the Law of Cycles permanently, so that Madoka can never rejoin it and leave Homura behind again. This is bad for everyone else for obvious reasons, but it would allow Homura the opportunity for a do-over on the whole "become witches together" offer that Madoka rejected the first time around. This is something that the original Homura is (probably) not ruthless enough to go through with, but I suspect the other Homura might find it an ideal solution. TBD.
Homura and Madoka coexisting as concepts sounds great, except for the fact that their current concepts are mutually exclusive, to the point that I'm not sure it's possible for both divine forms to exist at the same time. Maybe this isn't the case, and it's fine, but I don't know how it would even work - Madokami doesn't need a counterbalancing devil, and the devil set up her entire system explicitly to keep Madokami out of it, so it doesn't seem like there's much room for coexistence there.
What Homura and Madoka really need is a new system, something that will allow Madoka to save people (either without dying or because she's reached an end state where death/change is no longer possible), and Homura to stay with her forever - a world where each of them can be happy without sacrificing their core traits for the other, perhaps as a new kind of being that doesn't exist yet. They have to be together, they have to be equals, and they have to be inseparable for any kind of long term stability. That's a tall order, but I think it's possible - but only at the end of a long, circuitous, and increasingly improbable road that creates the exact set of circumstances necessary for its creation.
Or at least I hope so, because that's the good end. We already had the end where Homura failed and kept on going (original anime), and the one where she technically achieved her goal, only for it to slip away from her (Rebellion), so the only options left are to change, to die, or a secret third thing. I'm not a betting person, but given the odds and Urobuchi's general theory of character development, I'm placing my hopes on a secret third thing.
one of my favorite bits in lord of the rings is something the movies didn't really try to do because it's entirely internal, but sam's carrying the ring and it starts trying to do its work on him, so he's having these intrusive visions of himself marching at the head of a vast and terrible army, and he just starts laughing because, me? samwise gamgee? sam gamgee the general sam gamgee the dark lord are you for real? man i just want to go home and do some gardening. and the ring gets frustrated and it starts trying to figure out other stuff that would actually tempt sam and it's finally like, okay, but hear me out: imagine if you could have...A REALLY REALLY BIG GARDEN
if you haven't read my comic you should read my comic..especially if you like queer fantasy and transmasculine fairy tales...first chapter is free!!
its about a man that mistakenly kills a unicorn and gets cursed with unicorn traits. finding his way home he's treated simultaneously as a pariah for committing the taboo of hunting a unicorn, AND as a unicorn himself due to his body that can exploited for money. its about how trans men are treated like evil traitors who killed off their own feminity, but also as objects to be exploited and used due to our 'female' bodies. I like operating in allegory but haelan is canonically a trans man, and the story is about being a trans man. its about how haelan finds peace with his identity and his place between two worlds in a way that feels whole and affirming. haelan must learn to accept his transness, his "unicornness", in a way that doesnt deny who he is as a man and as a human being
chapters 1 to 3 are out now, and chapter 4 is coming a little later this year :)
can't believe the only options are 30 minutes early or 10 minutes late. if only there were some other way. but what can you do
WHY HAVE I SEEN NO ONE TALK ABOUT HOW THE GRACE SCULPTURE LOOKS LIKE THE LITTLE DUDE FROM THIS MEME
THAT WAS LITERALLY MY FIRST THOUGHT UPON SEEING IT IN THE MOVIE
I had to xD
It's okay if it takes a little longer than you thought.
it really does only take one basket of laundry you procrastinate putting away before your whole life turns to shit huh
(repeated like a mantra while rubbing my temples) i will stay silly and not allow the world to make me bitter and cruel. i will stay silly and not allow the world to make me bitter and cruel. i wi
i tried to make a venn diagram but my migraine is ironically too bad for me to have the brain power to take the time to fix the proportions and then i locked one of the text layers and got pissed off and gave up. but i kind of like it all fucked up like this
May I add some Bloody to your Mary with a dash of Adrian-Simon bestism?
Art by • Frank Frazetta
I think about this story two times a week:
i can sense that I am not the only warrior of light in this popeyes bathroom
A want, so disgusting (OC Fate) The thread and the scissors, but you are bound, never to be free from your "fate"
Human bodies are so weird like the upper half consists of every single vital organ and the lower half is legs
ctrl+f is one of the greatest things to happen to academia and indeed this world
it seems like some people don't know keyboard shortcuts so here are some of my favorites. each shortcut is a set of keys that you will press at the same time:
ctrl+f, obviously: search/find, will search a page/document for a word or phrase
ctrl+c / ctrl+v: copy/paste, highlight text and hit ctrl+c and it'll show up again when you hit ctrl+v
ctrl+x: cut, it does the same thing as ctrl+c but it deletes the text, again it'll show up when you hit ctrl+v
ctrl+z / ctrl+shift+z: undo/redo. ctrl+z will undo whatever you just typed, ctrl+shift+z will put it back.
ctrl+a: highlights all the text on a page. this one is a real unsung hero.
ctrl+p: print document.
ctrl+s, ctrl+shift+s: save, save as (for when you're working on a document or project that needs to be saved. note that i don't think ctrl+shift+s works on microsoft word anymore for some godforsaken reason)
also, if you're working with text and you press control while pressing the arrow keys, your cursor will jump from word to word instead of letter to letter. saves a lot of time if you're proofreading/formatting.
be sure to check individual programs and system settings to see what other shortcuts might be available to you. some people have mentioned ctrl+t opening a new tab in a browser, for example.
if you go into your system settings on your computer and search "shortcuts" you can probably also change these or set up new ones. for example i always use a shortcut to switch between keyboard layouts quickly so i can go back and forth between the greek and latin alphabets on the fly. which is epic and awesome!