@Zarya: Pls just launch me into the sun

Jill-She/They-UK Occasionally writes but mostly just plays games. Certified Mess

[orphanedsource]

goruope KING

[c0ulrophilia]

This is still such a funny talent tbh. I will heal anyone who needs it unless my wife is nearby because I love my wife and NEED to give her healing.

[booksandchainmail]

I've been seeing bits of discourse float by about western magical girl works having an overly narrow reference pool (mostly just pmmm and sailor moon), and how that leads to over-fitted derivative works that ignore the breadth and depth of the genre (with the counterpoint being that those works are influential and well regarded for a reason).

But leaving aside all the actual discussion there, I'm now amusing myself by picturing the conclusions about What Magical Girl Shows Are Like one could get to by drawing exclusively from a reference pool of a couple random shows with absolutely no broader knowledge of the cultural imprint of magical girls. Like,

person who's only seen Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Mai-Otome, and Symphogear voice: magical girls are a sort of paramilitary special forces group attached to various governments, rulers, or international organizations. They may or may not hold formal military rank, but generally operate as a detached unit separate from more conventional troops.

[booksandchainmail]

person who's only seen My-HiME and Magical Girl Raising Project: I mean, magical girl shows are just Battle Royale knockoffs

[booksandchainmail]

person who's only seen Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Ilya: kinda weird how magical girls shows are just spinoffs of explicit visual novels

[booksandchainmail]

person who's only seen Precure Full Bloom and Magilumiere: the average magical girl protagonist is a career woman in her twenties

[punishedsaints]

[cosmosrebellion]

Here's an extremely important Maria frame for all the sapphic Symphogear fans out there.

[butchfagminotaur]

it’s nice seeing other people starting to open their eyes to what i’ve been saying for a while in that the current use and proliferation of the term “gooning” is an outright tool of fascism

[butchfagminotaur]

the second “gooning” stopped referring to a specific sexual practice and started to be used as a replacement for “masturbation” we needed to kill it immediately and sadly we didn’t

[butchfagminotaur]

if you call someone a “masturbator” in a derisive way you sound like a fucking mormon but suddenly you switch to calling them a “gooner” and you’ve created a way to express the same puritanical beliefs around masturbation that is not only palatable to the average person but the attached underlying implications of the term make people way more susceptible to adopting those beliefs themselves

leftists need to fucking stop using the term “gooner” right fucking now

[butchfagminotaur]

demonizing human sexuality and treating masturbation and sexual activity as deviant and disgusting are straight up fascist tools and it’s startling how successful this aspect of it has been the last few years

[sunbentshadows]

tiktok that is good

[gayvampyr]

[viralfrog]

[pache-au-lait]

estrogen and progesterone are nice but they need to hurry up and come up with a third thing that makes your tits grow even bigger even faster

[doggirlpaws]

[sunnysunsins]

If you're wondering why Sky has freckles, it's because i love how the horse had little black spots all over his coat, it's cute

[saiyaman-deactivated20231010]

a non comprehensive list of The Sweeps

rich girl sweep: a specific pose used for a lot of sweeps that just happens to often be given to ojousamas or “rich girl” characters. usually consists of propping themselves up with one arm and sticking both their legs out at a diagonal angle but they can also be at 90 degree angle to the ground.

the bison slide: named after m. bison’s iconic sweep, the bison slide is a traveling low normal where the character stays standing upright and using their feet to slide across the floor a long way in front of them. noob killer.

the grappler sweep: not exclusive to grapplers, this sweep has the character jump into the air horizontally where they then fall to the ground. usually low crushes.

the vega slide: a type of sweep named after claw/vega from the street fighters series. oppose to other types of sliding sweeps like the bison slide or the gordeau slide this type of slide requires the character to be low to the ground with one leg out and the other one bent beneath them resembling someone riding a surfboard. also a noob killer.

the gordeau slide also known as the 3h/3c: gordeau from under night in birth was not the first one to have a button like this but i associate it so much with him that i call it that. very similar to the vega slide but instead of tucking a leg under them they slide on their asses with one leg outward and the other bent.

the low profile: not defined by the animation, the low profile is simply a sweep that low profiles. if you play a character with one of these you're based.

the ol' one two: another not defined by the animation even if a lot of them do tend to use a similar animation. the ol' one two simply means the sweep hits twice.

the break dance: a sweep where the character props themselves up on their hand and spins around their legs in the air resembling a break dancer. like the ol' one two these can hit twice.

[human-pet-they]

normal guy playing wordle: "i really recommend ATONE and GUILT" for starting words

[spyder-on-the-wall]

🕷️null_yukikaze🕷️

[fangs4faggots]

i think we should start openly mocking male creatives who can't figure out how to write women. like actually i think it's embarrassing that it took elliot page transitioning for christopher nolan to give him a good role. why did it take like ten years to get the first female lead in a marvel movie? why is it a Known Fact that stephen king can't write women? why is 50% of the population omitted from large ensemble works? i asked my friend to name a movie directed by a man with a majority female cast and he said ghostbusters 2016. ghostbusters. ghostbusters. g

[dummy-dot-exe]

by Wanderjegson@wanderjegson

[nerdy-as-heck]

I saw this and felt like it should be shared here too

[rubaedo]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimes

[demilypyro]

it's funny how "press F to pay respects" was such a gigantic meme that it seems to have permanently affected the way we talk online. people use it completely genuinely and unironically. had a bad day? F. died in a videogame? F. I see it constantly in Discord, Twitch and ingame chats. like it's actually being used as common shorthand. when it only gained prominence because of how hilariously stupid this screenshot is