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The worldbuilding for Madoka Magica is so laughably ridiculous the more I think about it. There’s an entire conspiracy of alien ferrets bolstering human evolution because we are canonically so stupid we could not have done it on our own. Said alien ferrets have learned to harvest human emotions as an energy source to prevent the heat-death of the universe but EXCLUSIVELY target teenage girls because that’s the only demographic that emotes hard enough to do this viably. They also think having emotions is a mental illness. They start poking around the soul of a teenage lesbian and accidentally turn her into Satan and she is now hunting them for sport.

Battle Couple Battle Round 1!

NagiHono (Futari Wa Precure) VS Connverse (Steven Universe)

Nagisa and Honoka transform in every episode by holding hands and being surrounded by a pillar of rainbow light. They hold hands in order to use their magic finisher, large lighting lasers. They hold hands to pull themselves out of rubble. They hold hands just because.

One time they were arguing with each other, and they were so in sync WHILE ARGUING that in their anger at their argument being interrupted they scared their enemy away. They truly fight as one, and often don't need to even exchange words. Their fairy partners, who give them the power to transform are deeply in love to a sickening degree. They have official figures of them in wedding dresses. They once played Romeo and Juliet in a action adaption of it in for their school play, as insisted on by their class because of their dynamic, and then when they were attacked during the play, their relationship is so real that the audience just thought they were acting. They barely know each other at series start and by the end they are the most popular duo in school. Honoka finds the idea of potentially dying "interesting". Nagisa has been known to complain about wanting food, even after the world has pretty much ended. They are perfect for each other.

Cure Black(Nagisa) and White(Honoka) are not called legendary warriors for nothing. I cannot adequately describe their fighting ability in words, but know that the show was directed by the director of Dragon Ball Z. Please look up a fight scene if you can. The girls have been thrown through buildings. They can throw things dozens of times bigger than them effortlessly. They held up a falling elevator with people inside in their second episode (By holding hands). Nagisa and Honoka fight a force known as the "power to consume all things". They don't need weapons. They'll fight to the death with their bare hands. They usually only use magic to finish a fight, sending their enemies out in a blaze of black and white, after they just doused themselves in rainbows.

They started a 20+ year long magical girl franchise that has been referenced by the likes of Pokemon and My Hero Academia among others. The movie the image above is from has a Guinness world record. Nagisa and Honoka are ICONIC. I could go on all day, please don't let them lose like this.

the faith tag on steam has been the defacto touhou tag for years so seeing confused devs just kind of. throw it on their game even though that’s a nonsense tag otherwise is really, really funny.

“hmm yeah this tag would be perfect for my game that happens to have a cult in it. that’s a coherent thing people are looking for. not worth taking a closer look.”

spiritually nourished by listening in to the admin meeting and hearing that work is having trouble recruiting staff for their understaffed, very part-time afterschool positions. the peace that passeth understanding, etc.

their first two suggestions for improving staff morale and mental health were "have everyone attend a mandatory mental health seminar" and "ask the staff how things are going" bro at least have a pizza party...

bro I have been in therapy for years, if you make me sit thru a PowerPoint about journaling and taking time for myself when my top two stressors are 1) you and 2) also you but in a different way, I will shit my pants during the seminar, god bless <3

just remembered my all-time-fave tweet:

Surprisingly, this is not a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reference, but an actual fact. From Burnout: Solve Your Stress Cycle, by Emily and Amelia Nagoski

I think Doctor Emily Nagoski has a PHD but YEAH

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[bold, centered text] Forty-Two Percent [bold ends]

So how much is “adequate”?

Science says: 42 percent.

That’s the percentage of time your body and brain need you to spend resting. It’s about ten hours out of every twenty-four. It doesn’t have to be every day; it can average out over a week or a month or more. But yeah. That much.

“That’s ridiculous! I don’t have that kind of time!” you might protest - and we remind you that we predicted you might feel that way, back at the start of the chapter.

We’re not saying you [italic] should [end italic] take 42 percent of your time to rest; we’re saying if you don’t take the 42 percent , the 42 percent will take you. It will grab you by the face, shove you to the ground, put its foot on your chest, and declare [image ends here, mid-sentence]

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Here’s the last paragraph, completed courtesy of Goodreads:

We’re not saying you should take 42 percent of your time to rest; we’re saying if you don’t take the 42 percent, the 42 percent will take you. It will grab you by the face, shove you to the ground, put its foot on your chest, and declare itself the victor.

jk rowling's new reputation will never not be funny to me. when you see her name now you dont think "oh yeah thats the chick who wrote harry potter" you think "oh lord, this TERF bitch again" like bro how do you fuck up so bad that your fuck ups overshadow writing the third most read piece of literature in existence