camelpimp:

I think the true measure of a person’s character is this: in a game with a character creater, do you:

A) just use the default

B) recreate yourself

C) recreate a popular character

D) make your oc

E) just make whatever looks the coolest/prettiest

F) monster factory that shit

can not BELIEVE they cast the ugly doctor who man as *the* gay goth demon icon crowley from bad omens. this is so fucking sad alexa put me through to amazon’s casting department i just wanna talk

nightmares are better than good dreams because when you wake up from a nightmare you feel relieved and grateful to be in this world. when you wake up from a good dream though, a really good dream, you don’t even know what’s real anymore. and for the rest of the week, month, even for all your life, it will be somewhere in the back of your mind, always driving you just a little bit crazy because you know it will never really happen.

stardustizuku:

So, i was scrolling down my netflix page and i saw madoka. My first thought was “cool now i can binge watch madoka again” and my second thought was “yeah despite how awful it is and how much i hate the over all impact it had on the MG community, i still like madoka.” 

And my third thought was “why not write a 2k essay on my feelings on madoka for my Magical Girl Essay Series?”

So, here we are.

My feelings on Puella Magi Madoka Magica

by stardustizuku aka me

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My only problem with this criticism of Madoka is that it doesn’t tackle the problems that the magical girl genre already has. You touched on it a little towards the end, but it’s important to emphasize that the magical girl genre has never really been about female empowerment: it’s about commercialism, and has always existed for the male gaze in many ways. Deconstructing the genre is actually necessary, the problem with Madoka is that it doesn’t really do it right.

Madoka is regressive because it claims to be genre-critical despite still exhibiting the same issues as any traditional magical girl series (commercialism, sexualization, queerbaiting, reinforcement of gender roles). Just like you said, they aren’t actually making a critique of the magical girl formula, they’re just making it darker and trying to sell it as something original. But you can’t criticize Madoka Magica for misogyny without also criticizing traditional series such as Sailor Moon, Pretty Cure, etc; it fails to identify the larger issues at play. Madoka is irritating in its hypocrisy, but it didn’t really create any problems that weren’t already there, although it may have exacerbated them somewhat.