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Sho Minamimoto is my husbando.

Don’t flatter yourself that man holds no love in his heart for anyone

the amazing digital circus is a show about empathy and what it does to you if you go too long without a support system so the show starts with sympathizing with Pomni (the most empathetic person, easy), ep2 is empathizing with an NPC in a game (no flaws), ep3 is empathizing with a man who has dementia, ep4 is empathizing with someone who annoys you when they're unmasking, ep5 is asking you to empathize with a rich white woman and so on....

so it all works up to the empathy boss - a bush era edgelord millenial trans girl who thinks she's Max from Sam & Max and is inherently unworthy of love

and some people failed the empathy test

#tadc

flandrepudding

inspired by Coles Phillips’ Fadeaway Girls illustrations 🌸

#uwagh #tadc

alicentsgf

no you do not need to hold fictional characters "accountable". they are not real.

alicentsgf

taraxippos

I think this is the single funniest artfight rule. Like....I guess?

taraxippos

#this made me laugh Really hard

Mikoto mv tmrw 👍🏼 I’m so ready for milgram to drop the ball on this one

#like if they pull through I’ll be pleased. but I do NOT trust them w this

ot3

on one hand when people call qifrey and olruggio the girls' dads it doesn't bother me as much as it does for a lot of other characters, because credit where credit is due they are in fact raising those children right now. but also it does kind of piss me off in a different way than it does when like, people call's phoenix apollos dad. because the master-apprentice(s) relationship seems to be the default/primary unit of witch society... we are shown that the master and apprentice bond carries equal social/legal standing (or possibly higher!) to that of the immediate family. so like.... calling them their dads almost seems like kind of a downgrade by the setting's standards. isn't it interesting that this is a society structured in a way where you pretty much just hand your child over to someone else to raise for the remainder of their adolescence, and the child is legally entitled to choose who that person is. that's a neat interpersonal dynamic you're setting up there! it's got a different flavor to it!!! but i know people don't want different flavors of things. they want everything to be the same. [starts kicking rocks in the dirt] whatever... whatever... i don't even care

ot3

#like it's such a good degree of agency given to the children I can't really think of any real world equivalent to it#but also it sucks that even with that level of agency sometimes there's still horrible and abusive masters#but just the fact that the master has to put in SOME effort for the kids to just not choose a different master#like wow this world is beautiful children are treated as PEOPLE <333÷#the closest thing to real world could maybe be a boarding school comparison but not even that leaves the kids hands free to leave#it's so good these kids are encouraged to be independent and to grow and to choose for themselves#god it's so good

this is kind of just not true though. like that's obviously the idea behind it but it does not actually work that way in execution, which is suuuper important. i think that witch hat atelier goes pretty significantly out of its way with richeh, rili, and euini to show that masters actually Don't need to put in any amount of effort, and in fact can be actively abusive, while their apprentices still feel obliged to stay with them for reasons beyond 'i'm not allowed to leave'.

like here's the scene from the manga where qifrey talks to euini about this

im sad this interaction got cut from the anime because its soooooo so important... it establishes that the power dynamic between adults and children is such that the child still feels obliged to live and behave by the terms their guardian sets for them, and they're still going to be internalizing everything that is said to and about them by their authority figure. and then there's the fact that On Paper the policy of apprentices choosing their master means any child being subjected to this kind of emotional abuse is doing so "willingly", which provides a structural barrier to actually addressing that abuse, because the adults who do notice and care do not have any formal grounds on which to intervene.

it just adds so much texture to the whole dynamic because witch society is so rigid, conservative, and hierarchical. of couuuurseee their pedagogy is such that apprentices are going to end up internalizing mistreatment by their masters as a personal failing rather than harm being done to them. whatever independence can be said to be encouraged in these children by the laws of their society just kind of serves as a smokescreen for the fact that what they're ultimately expected to Choose to do with this independence is obey and conform.

#witch hat atelier

im reserving judgement until of the devil is released in its entirety but at the rate we're heading morgan is really neck and neck with akane kurashiki for the spot of my fav character ever

thewitchofwonders

all these posts about people wanting more beauty and the beast stories where the woman is the tormented one who has to be understood, and the man is the one in love with her. well, ryukishi07 wrote that. it’s umineko