It’s been 5,000 years, it’s the old song and dance, w/e, okay. Rather than make any ambitious promises or speculation about activity henceforth, I am simply going to drop things on my mind as they come, and if this happens more frequently, cool! If it doesn’t, then this is certainly a post that exists.
This was supposed to be a short post (“some reads, some writes”) and then the reading rec section turned into like, four-ish (not-quite-)book reviews in a bigass trenchcoat. Cut cut, motherfuckers.
Random recs from recent, all of which made me Think for some reason or another: ( ✂️ )
Just gonna casually quote myself from Discord (minor #spoilers):
my main thoughts are something like “Homura get therapy” and “if madoka is jesus/ascends to god and homura becomes the devil then what the fuck is sayaka” and “dang, bebe is A (Human) Character now” and “what the fuck is going onnnnn”
also I loved it
More spoilery version:
( homura pls )
Uh.
Hm.
I’m not satisfied with that ending, but I don’t think I’m supposed to be…?
( i want madoka to dismantle the establishment )or: In which I continue to fall down the psychoanalytical symbolic anime girl rabbit hole, except instead of losing it over heavily-implied incest I’m mostly flexing the general analysis muscles and gushing over how damn well this is playing out.
Binged Puella Magi Madoka Magica with my partner today, up to (and not including) episode 7! Since it was a live-watch all I have are fragments from chat, which means I’ve been forced to actually [gasp] compile my thoughts into a more readable format. (Granted, I’m not sure how much my RGU reactions make sense out of context, but sometimes I actually bother to copy lines of dialogue and such. Obviously that cannot occur if I’m typing as I watch without pause.)
I think my biggest takeaway, thus far and probably overall, is that this entire show is the meme of the woman screaming at the cat.
( young girl shakes fist at cat )
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