Its 3:00 and I have a concerningly high fever, now is not the time to be insane about Zombie Stage.
But that's never stopped me before. (Incoherent neurodivergent rambling below the cut)
What the fuck. What the fuck what the fuck
First of all, gorgeous. The animation and art are actually top teir. The colors, the timing, I'm going to be insane about this and go art study mode later.
The "You are my god. You are my universe" sick. DYING ON THE FLOOR
They look so happy to start off I'm going to cry.and the way it's all bright and happy. You can tell it's Mizi's dream, and Sua just wants to do whatever Mizi wants to. Oh she's awful and obsessive in the sweetest way she makes me sick. She will do ANYTHING for Mizi.
Mizi being sad that sua didn't make it and she did, while Sua just stands there.
Paralleling the Karma scene. Be so for real. But this time its happy and Sua is telling her to go on. Ill. Put me down right now. Oh my god. Sua looks so full of hope and admiration.
The EXPRESSIONS are killing me. This show is so fucking human, it hurts.
Something Something, Mizi's eyes being the consumed part of her. For someone who hates being perceived as beautiful they've cursed her to be only perceived and not to perceive. She can never know who's looking at her. Mizi in pink and Sua still in her angelic white. Sigh.
The camcorder shots :(
Mizi hates being seen as beautiful and desirable, sexualization is truly the extreme of that.
Even closer paralleling, if not directly critiquing idol culture, as the original series tried to do.
Mizi with the curly desaturated hair and blank expression like her birthday art??? Hello???
Are they selling extracted infected body parts??? Comodificatoion, I suppose
Mizi's eyes, the most expressive part of her. Her humanity displayed, and taken, and sold. "The eyes of love" "perfect gift" :(
Always in sexual situations with men. Hm.
I cannot get over in how many shots Mizi resembles Hyuna here. It has to be intentional. The smoking? Sua's expression. Where is that from, the karma suicide scene? Argh!
The fact that they're toxic in every universe. Mizi is always the violent one, too, and Sua just takes it. A slap in the same way that she did as kids in ANAKT.
Sua's clinging and the way Mizi's eyes filled with fear abd anger. She never ever feels deserving of love, and it shows.
Orange sky like karma.
Zombie designs are so sick here.
The way Sua seems to actually like performance here. With Mizi. Even in this form.
This girl is fucking insane and I love her for it. I don't support it, but go get infected by your Zombie gf. Also, the square around her chest, sick I am, sick.
AND PEOPLE CALLED ME CRAZY FOR SOME OF MY LUKA SUA PARALLELS. Look at her now! That's a weige Luka face if I've ever seen it. Sua. Girl. You deserve better.
Obsessive love at it's finest I guess.
There's something so unsettling about the crowd composition.
As a typography nerd, the happy end screen brings me much joy. The pink/white give it a vibe of happiness, but the typeface is rotten meat and bold and capital, it's brilliant.
The lip animation. I'll be thinking about that for a while.
Oh Hyuna. In every universe. Cursed to save.
Little bunny is crazy. What an unsettling tune in this context.
No struggle, just a level of bliss and resignment. Getting beheaded like an animal. It's grotesque.
The dead rat. IVAN AT THE END.
They really stepped up because what the fuck
I'll process this when I don't have a 103 degree fever. I just needed to look at and rewatch this absolute masterpiece.
alice quinn is a complex, driven woman who makes mistakes and has an on-again off-again relationship with one half of the most popular gay ship in the fandom. you can imagine how she's treated. she's fucking awesome and deserves so much better
Okay so I am having thoughts™️ about The Magicians again (what else is new)
But okay- I think the reason the show resonates so deeply with so many people, myself included, is that ultimately it is the deepest story about found family and love.
But not in the traditional sense. We have Quentin- a depressed, nerdy, suicidal absolute loser of a guy who not only is a (sort of failed) chosen one but gets into this group of other people who are all losers/ failed chosen ones who are also suffering in their own ways. All of them have a lot of trauma.
And they become friends. In every single timeline. Every time. And they work together on quests, for the beast, for Fillory, for the seven keys, for whatever has to get done.
But ultimately, fuck destiny and fuck their “jobs” and fuck the timelines they will each do anything and everything for each other in every timeline and in every circumstance. Killing actual fucking gods to save magic? Killing multiple gods brutally to save Eliot? Finding and creating magic no one even knew possible to bring one of their own back (like Alice).
Going to the literal ends of the fucking earth for each other every single time. Just because. Just because they’re family, they’re friends, they’re lovers they’re the only group of people who at the end of the day give a fuck about each other.
No one else really cares about them in the grand scheme of things outside of what they were capable of helping people with- but they do.
They’re a bunch of losers so dedicated to each other that in every timeline and in every universe they are willing to do anything at all- as long as it’s for one of their own.
It’s devotion and love in the purest form and it’s something I find really captivating and moving and entertaining to see.
And also, at its core, it’s just a show for losers and I love and stand by that.
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