#pmas

[witchofanguish]

While Adfligo Systema is the most stereotypical 2010-2015 style quest in existence, the specific aspect of Sabrina being the literal manifestation of the thread to the point of suffering time blindness when the time differential between the outside world and quest time is too much is something I've never seen done before or since.

[lukore]

Is it gay to cleanse another girl’s soul gem of grief

[azdoine]

it would be utterly antithetical to the quest fic format but can you imagine the version of PMAS where the other characters get to keep their agency denial powers. bright-eyed bushy-tailed Sabrina inserts on her page one, makes her wish, and immediately gets picked up and seduced by a confident Homura who has spent the last 10 time loops getting unconditional emotional and physical support and how-to-person instructions from a counterfactual player base while also getting increasingly comfortable bossing her swiss army human weapon around

[standardizedbogey]

Jacq is a genuinely great choice to pair with Volo in the same vein as Sophocles was for Cyrus. And I really, really hope Masters sticks this landing.

Like the major thing Volo doesn't have in Hisui is community. Not only someone who shares his interests, but someone who genuinely wants to be around him. Most people treat him as an acquaintance who's into strange things. He may be respected and liked, but it's on a very surface level. Or he has Cogita who is deeply invested in history, but she just constantly takes shots at him.

None of that does anything for his very bleak outlook. But someone like Jacq actually could. To be with someone who wants to be around him and share the things he is passionate about, but is also actually optimistic about how things are going?

Perfect.

[burnorgetburned]

Through scrolling through sad madoka posts I was reminded that some people may not have seen this gem:

Puella Magi Adfligo Systema

Save the world, save one girl - what's the difference? You might have all the power you could ever ask for, but some things remain difficult

“Save the world, save one girl - what's the difference? You might have all the power you could ever ask for, but some things remain difficult.”

I’m not sure if many people here have seen this, but it’s a quest (a sort of open text-based game where all players vote on the decisions that the character executes) where you play as Sabrina Vee, a weird confused amnesiac that knows all of Madoka Magica, side materials and all, for reasons that are explained in-story.

It’s fix-it story where the main character has great powers, which solves little of her problems because her problems can’t be solved with violence. “It’s always about the people” is repeated over and over as a main theme, and it shows.

literally the name of the quest means “System Breaker”. That’s exactly what it’s supposed to do: break Madoka Magica’s cruel Witch-based system without ascending anyone into lonely nonexistence.

tons and tons of discussion about the themes and characters, with people who absolutely adore them.

all characters are treated with warmth and respect. So much respect. You’ll get people having multi-page wars about how to gently break information bombs to every single character, but that’s only because they care so much. They do not want to mess this up.

The players care so much that they have their own wiki.

HAPPINESS and FLUFF without downplaying the suffering faced by the characters in PMMM. Because the story is itself based on addressing their pain!

Not a single person has died yet. The player character has managed to even befriend (and spare) Oriko and Kirika, who are reoccurring characters.

Homura gets someone she can trust with everything. She gets to be real friends with everyone again, she gets a support system, Sayaka sees her as a mentor. She gets so much kindness and sympathy and admiration and. and. I love Sabrina, guys.

actually everybody gets a support system. Especially Mami Tomoe.

lots of mystery and speculation. Is it Post-Rebellion? A wack timeline? Is Sabrina actually a witch/Walpurgisnacht/dewitched Ultimate Kriemhild Gretchen/a stack of Clara Dolls in a trench coat?

… Can you solve de-witching? (The author is a physicist, he has internal rules for magic).

and it’s all well-written.

Please check this out. It’s so much fun, it loves the characters so much, and there are many, many hilarious hijinks throughout both the story and the quest discussion pages themselves. If the discussion itself looks too long for you, there’s a Story-Only mode that lets you read only the story parts. And of course you can jump in and help Sabrina when you’re all caught up!

[panoramicvacuum]

This man's passion for rocks knows no bounds. Also wtf this is really beautiful tho???

[lutzsan]

Mikuni Oriko and Kure Kirika from  from Puella Magi Adfligo Systema/Madoka Magica, a lovely commission for @jefardi

Once again, thank you so much for commissioning me!!! Commission | Ko-fi  

[soulquirk]

@myherowritings

when kirishima sees someone being unmanly: