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Magical Girl Mechanical Heart is so great, it's like Thundamoo asked someone to hold her beer while she demolished the standing world record for how many transgender metaphors can be stacked on top of a canonically transgender character. A record that she held previously. Simply amazing.
Earth Guardian Chibis
Continuing with the Magical Girl Mechanical Heart Chibis I did up all the earth guardians in their early story incarnate forms. No class change variants yet. We've got Aurora, Veritas, Minerva, Fulgora, Castalia, and Amaterasu here in that order.
Unironically.
Part of what cracked my plurality egg.
Was reading plural hdg stories… and them being just a smidge too relatable.
Like. Why did smut. Give me an existential crisis.
Fucking hell.
Just finished reading a book that made me feel like I was taken out back and shot 17 times in the chest before getting sent to the hospital. The entire experience somehow filled me with an incredible level of joy and relief once I walked out of the hospital, alive and incredibly traumatized… in a good way??????
Anyway… thanks Thundamoo for Magical Girl, Mechanical Heart. It fucked me up a lot and the crawl back to being okay again was more enjoyable than I ever imagined.
10/10
Would get murdered by this author and story again
Oh, dear beautiful chaotic Anath. I've turned you into a lafufu. Your energy just matches these gremlin things. Go read Magical Girl Mechanical Heart by Thundamoo. It has a robot girl, child soldiers, and so much TRAUMA.
Are You Even Human is reminding me of Worm. I swear this isn't a "Boss Baby vibes" thing, there's a lot of shared ground.
Like, first off, the characters getting powers from some eldritch alien intelligence, whose "speech" is conveyed through sentence fragments, usually one word at a time.
LiKe. Every, my breath catches. Have. EVERY. ... JOY, my muscles tear. ... AGREEMENT, my ears rupture.
Also the sense of a world falling apart under the strain of apocalyptic conflict, in particular the periodic appearance of titanic indestructible monsters. The world has fallen apart much worse in AYEH, which makes sense, since it started in 2024 while Worm started in 2011.
The series's approach to "superheroes" also reminds me of Worm. Which is weird, since AYEH's superheroes are barely superheroes at all. They're just people with powers who the military drafts into service, AFAICT exclusively against the alien invaders, as part of combined-arms tactics that use laser eyes alongside fighter jets and artillery. Certainly there's no secret identities or supervillains or anything like that. I don't think they even get fun costumes. In comparison, Worm's Earth Bet's superheroes look pretty standard. They're just assholes sometimes.
But looking past the details, the general shape is still the same. People with powers being more or less forced to fight bigger threats. The inevitability of being killed in action, sooner or later. The de facto child soldiers. The sense that the world needing superheroes is horrifying.
These similarities would be a problem if Julietta and her circumstances were also very similar to Taylor and her circumstances, resulting in a very similar story. But they're not. (The initial conflicts feel a bit like the Travelers interlude, but that is "Boss Baby vibes" of superpowered people in a superpowered warzone.)
I would be surprised if Thundamoo wasn't inspired by Worm at least a little. But it doesn't feel derivative. The setting and tone and themes are similar, but the story is different.
She's just like me fr
"I think," I answer softly, "that I am going to walk up these stairs and kill so many people that they're going to carve the names onto a rock in Washington D.C."
