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I will forever respect Animorphs for tricking kids who are just really into animals to read a book series by going “Hey you, you daydream about what it’s like to be a dolphin or a bird or a wolf? Have I got a book for you!” and then slowly radicalizing them with 50+ books of “There are no winners in war. Whatever ‘victory’ you perceive comes at the cost of sacrificing your own morals and killing the part of you that is human. In the end you will resort to murder, torture and war crimes and the knowledge of what you have done will haunt you for as long as you live.”
I also respect the author for putting them all online for free
Why not find out they’re all online for free
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Anonymous asked:
do you think Homura hated Mami?
Actually, I think Mami was the one Homura cared about the most after Madoka. Remember, Mami was the first magical girl Homura met after Madoka, and they spent a lot of time together throughout Homura's timelines. Not to mention that Mami saved Homura's life in the first timeline too, not just Madoka.
We know that everyone in the Holy Quintet (even Kyoko before she lost her idealism) greatly respect and idolize Mami for being the ideal magical girl. And why wouldn't they? She's strong, poised, kind, elegant, experienced, and a great mentor. I have no problems believing that Homura, in her earlier time loops, greatly admired Mami and probably even leaned on her for guidance as Homura learned how to be a magical girl.
And then the incident happened. Where Mami found out that magical girls become Witches and attempted to murder-suicide all of her teammates. I think that by doing this Mami essentially took a hammer and smashed the pedestal Homura had her on. Homura realized, in the worst possible way, just how fragile Mami was. She realized that she could no longer truly rely on Mami for help. Her senpai, the person who was supposed to be the leader, was unreliable.
I think that may have made Homura feel betrayed. Mami, who had been such a source of stability for the entire group, was in reality the most unstable of all of them. I bet that must have made Homura feel even more alone too, because now she had one less person to be able to rely on in her mission to save Madoka.
That being said, I don't think Homura ever stopped caring for Mami as a friend. In the main series, she desperately tries to warn Mami about the danger Charlotte poses and seems genuinely upset when she realizes Mami was killed. Also, in the Rebellion movie, there's a scene where Homura reflects on Mami, saying that despite the fact that she puts on a brave face she has the weakest heart of any of them. But then Homura immediately follows that up by saying this:
If Homura didn't care about Mami, she wouldn't give a shit about Mami's feelings and it wouldn't hurt her to reveal the truth of the magical girl system to Mami.
So no, I don't think Homura hates Mami. I actually think that Homura cares about Mami a great deal, especially in her earlier time loops.
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what are some indoor hobbies other than blogging and drug abuse
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You'll get more chances. At friendships. At relationships. At job/school related progress. At following your dreams. At chasing your passions. It's not now or never. There will always be other chances and other opportunities.
What ever happened to 4kids
They got in trouble for illegally not paying royalty money to Tokyo TV for Yu-Gi-Oh, and their legal troubles kept compounding until they went bankrupt.
Walpurgis and Kriemhild Gretchen are supposed to make a pair.
I might have a hunch why.
Kriemhild Gretchen usually appears after Madoka has died defeating Walpurgisnacht. Gretchen seems to be the lower part of the sand timer, the part that is filled after the top is emptied.
Walpurgis seems to represent the time we have before something, she also has gears like a clock, some of which tick down until time is up.
Time until…
Walpurgis is the time ticking down until the end of the world.
Kriemhild Gretchen is what happens when the timer has run out.
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I have a new essay up!!!! Cha boi got to talk about all the reasons why fanfic is awesome and worthwhile and beautiful, go check it out <3
listen. l i s t e n. LISTEN. *read this essay* Some highlights:
- “Respectable is the very last thing that fanfiction should ever be.” you’re RIGHT and you SHOULD say it
- “It’s a door of the world flung wide open with a neon billboard saying, “Welcome to the infinite free buffet!” and there’s nothing but food as far as the eye can see—every possible kind of every possible quality. If there’s something you’ve been longing for years to eat, you can find it. You can, possibly for the first time in your life, not just be fed but be nourished.” Don’t mind me I shall be over here. CASUALLY W E E P I N G
- “I have a collection of metaphors and arguments that I have amassed over the years to explain to a skeptical and patronizing boy why Fanfiction Is Cool Actually, but all of them do the genre a disservice to some degree.” THIS IS A WHOLE ASS FANDOM MOOD. An Incomplete List of Metaphors i have used to describe fanfiction: - a laboratory full of Smoke and Explosions and Excited Scientists - like going back in time and telling stories around the campfire with no stakes except entertaining yourself - Academia, but Feral - the only viable way to have a conversation with media on any kind of equal footing
AND SPEAKING OF THAT:
- “It is a sandbox, open for anyone to come in and play, and build castles, and kick other people’s castles down, and learn and grow as writers, as critics, as people. It is a living, breathing conversation with both itself and with the professional canon.” SO YOU SEE WHAT I’M SAYING.
AND ANOTHER THING WORTH NOTING:
The longer I live, the more profic friends I have, and the more I have seen those profic friends come back to fandom, or come to fandom for the first time. And they come to realize how special fandom is.
Fanfiction is nothing more or less than the distilled core of Why We Write: it is the freedom to explore ideas, and friends to explore them with. I don’t need respectability or a metaphor to justify that shit.
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Canon: [breaks my heart]
Me: [angry] Fine, I’ll go to fanfiction! They never let me down.
Fanfiction: [breaks my heart but with more precision and accuracy]
Me: [sobs] Much better!
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reading/writing fanfiction about your otp be like:
@kikiomori this is us with Jeff and Annie lol
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Reblog the writers’ fortune cookie for luck!
Guys I reblogged this and then wrote an 8000 word story I didn’t even have a solid plan for. Reblog this shit.
Please, great fortune cookie of writing. I beg of you.
huffle-puff-ego
I need this right now man!
🥺 I need some help breaking through writers block
Gimmie!!
I didn’t even reblog, just tucked it into my likes, and wrote 2.5K when I got home
koldbrew reblogged
Best trick I ever picked up. Seriously.
I have also learned this is great for [PICK A COOL NAME FOR A SHIP] and [LOOK UP THE FACTS ABOUT OXYGEN LEVELS] and [WHAT’S THE WORD] and [DOUBLECHECK CHARACTER’S EYE COLOR] and ALL KINDS OF THINGS.
Anything that isn’t critical in the moment, and could be filled in later while I’m currently trying to burn through writing pages that will be lost if I don’t get them out right now? Brackets.
This is seriously the best advice, and it really helps put it into perspective that the first draft is just that- a draft. There’s no reason to agonize over a particularly tricky bit of writing when you could just leave it in brackets and skip to the good parts, the parts you’ve visualized. I also use brackets for [fact-check this], [use a stronger verb], [is this in character?] and other notes as I write, just so I don’t forget what I want to work on when I go back and edit.
This works for academic writing too. If you know where you’re going just leave yourself notes to fill in later. I do this all the time,
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Well put. (Source: Writing About Writing Facebook page)
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I think one of my favorite feelings is laughing with someone.
Back on this app I suppose.