#svch1

[blv-maniac]

mahiru gives me malewife vibe he's just simple man yk so kuro's lucky he can shopping, cooking and laundry what else ??

also love their interactions,, they're cracking me up lmao

i miss sloth pair give them back pls tanaka-sensei

[luna-whiskers]

How to cheer up your sailor senshi when she’s sad:

Step one: Be A Cat.

Step two: Do Cute Cat Things.

That’s it. That’s all you need. A+ comforting skills, works every time.

[luna-whiskers]

After all that, she kept the bow.

After the guy who suggested she wear it turned out to be a lying, manipulative, literal monster, she kept the bow.

Because he was her first crush.

Because he was her first kill.

Because the day she wore it was the day she became Sailor V.

Because she thought she wasn’t pretty enough to pull it off.

Because it is a cute bow, dammit.

Because Minako doesn’t forget the hardest lessons. And Minako doesn’t cry.

[luna-whiskers]

So a strange animal appears in Minako’s house and begins speaking to her, and what does Minako do? She gets pissed. How dare this cat barge into her home when she’s only wearing a towel? How dare this cat talk? I mean, that’s so rude! Here she’s trying to have a relaxing night at home, and this feline comes trespassing on her property, breaking laws and good sense. Unbelievable!

Arty took that fall like a champ. Chucked from a second-floor window? NBD.

In fact, look how pleased he is! He’s so proud of his violent teenage daughter. And look, if Artemis has been wandering around with only himself and Moon Siri to talk to, he’s probably accidentally set off a lot of alarm bells with other humans. He’s probably seen people scream in terror when he lets a word or two slip. Or just as bad, watched the denial kick in, as they quickly try to explain away the magic right in front of them as some kind of prank.

Minako does neither. She has a moment of initial shock, but quickly regains her balance and reacts to Artemis as though he is a perfectly normal threat. She not only immediately accepts the existence of cats that talk, but makes a series of logical leaps from that knowledge.

Just look at this handy flowchart I drew up to show the mental leaps that Minako made in the span of maybe one and a half seconds.

Perfectly logical if you sit down and think about it! That’s the thing about Minako. She seems ridiculous and airheaded, but only because she’s moving at the speed of light. And maybe her snap judgements aren’t always correct, because she’s moving through this thought process too fast to gain all the relevant information. But she reacts based on the information she has at hand, and she commits to it.

[luna-whiskers]

Naoko Takeuchi: *casually pulls up a distant, foggy image of Magellan Castle*

My Silver Millennium Lore-Loving Ass: Tell me moooooooooooore

This is SUCH a tease! The castles don’t even get mentioned in Sailor Moon proper until the Dream arc, and here way back in the prequel Naoko’s like “oh yeah here’s Venus’s castle and you’ll never see it again okay bye.”

Anyway I love the design of Magellan Castle, how it’s like a giant diamond. Imagine the sunlight shining through it like a giant prism.

And I can’t go on without pointing out that NASA created a line of fake space travel posters, and their poster for Venus looks suspiciously familiar.

“Observatory.” Sure, Jan.

[luna-whiskers]

I feel like if you really want to appreciate the difference between Usagi and Minako, all you have to do is look at the first few pages of their respective comics.

Usagi’s very first appearance is of a girl who slept in late. Minako’s very first appearance is of a girl who is a huge damn showoff. She’s athletic. She’s confident. She has to go first. She has to overdo it. Minako wants to be the best, and more importantly, she wants everyone to see that she’s the best.

Or to put it even more succinctly: Minako is introduced in a gym uniform. Usagi is introduced in pajamas. Minako is that girl who shows up to your classes looking irritatingly healthy and radiant with a gym bag and a bottle of water and her makeup somehow perfect, wearing yoga pants that looked like they were made to perfectly accentuate her butt, and you just know she got up early to work out while you just rolled out of bed 20 minutes ago, and even though you kind of resent her she’s nothing but nice and cheerful so of course you lend her your notes every time she asks.

[luna-whiskers]

Mina being comforted by the light of the full moon after her first day as a sailor senshi is the sort of thing that makes me way too emotional. She still doesn’t know why the moon is important. She doesn’t know why she’s got all these moon-themed gadgets or why she wears a crescent moon on her head. But it can still comfort and heal her, this false Moon Princess.

And I love this little detail about the Crescent Compact charging in the moonlight. It makes it clear that this is a gadget. Most of the items and weapons used by the senshi are clearly just tools made to amplify their natural powers. They don’t need any outside power to charge them, because their power comes from the senshi themselves.

But Mina, technically, isn’t a full senshi yet. She’s not Venus. She’s just V. She needs extra tools to help her out.

It also occurs to me that if the Crescent Compact is powered by moonlight, where was it meant to be used? There is really only one planet close enough to the moon to actually see moonlight, and that is Earth. What a highly-specific weapon, made to work only in one place. Maybe it was made specifically for V in present-day. Or what if a certain princess, who did not have senshi powers of her own in the past, needed something to protect herself on her secret visits to the Earth? A small mirror, easily slipped into the pocket of a gown, easy to mistake for a pretty gold trinket? Perhaps that crescent moon on V’s forehead is not the only thing of Princess Serenity’s that she uses.

[luna-whiskers]

“I’ve never seen Aino cry before in my life.”

“That’s because I never do!”