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it’s the holidays again! that means it’s time for… OMOCAT’S 5TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY!

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…Would you fuck a clone of yourself?

Monika writing poetry for you and about you 📓📝💌

Monika telling you about books she’s read 📚

Telling MONIKA about books you’ve read and her listening and then going to read them herself 💓

Monika dressing up in cute clothes because she wants to impress you 👗😍

Monika dressing in your favourite colour, and in hers, to show how much she loves you!! 🌈🎨💚💜

Monika listening to music with you! 🎶

Monika writing more songs for you!! 🎹

Monika stealing your clothes 👚👕💞

Monika helping you with stress/depression/anxiety/any other problems you have 😞💗

Monika taking time to get to know you!! ☺️

Monika learning more about your interests! 🏅🎀

Monika and you having differences of opinion! 🤨

Monika and you have philosophical discussions!! 💭🤔

Monika and you eating vegetarian dishes once in a while, just to make her happy! 🥕🥒🥦🥗

Monika having her own friend group and developing a life outside of you 😁

Monika laying her head on your chest and listening to your heartbeat ☺️💓

Monika meeting your friends and family and being both shy and excited! 👥 😃

Monika not being as perfect as she made herself out to be, and coming to terms with her own imperfections and you loving her anyway! 💖

Learning how to bake cupcakes with Monika, just like Natsuki makes! 🍰

Monika RELISHING new things because her old life was so monotonous and cliche 🤯😄🎆

Monika being free to express herself!! 🌈

Monika being free from her virtual prison and being able to be with you!! 💻🚫🌎💑👩‍❤️‍👩💕

Files on computers are never completely deleted until the person tells the computer to delete it, such as the recycling bin. But there will still be traces of that thing, like sometimes empty folders and shells of files.

If the computer attempts to use or run the file, it will sometimes piece together things in a desperate attempt to run at least something.

manga SKET DANCE :

I want to start this meta by saying this – I love Sorachi Hideaki! He is one of the best mangaka in the industry and I am so glad that despite everything he managed to keep Gintama alive in the industry where corporate heads prefer to prioritize money over original ideas and artistic freedom.  

Instead of going for typical “hero’s journey” narrative where everything serves to progress main character’s power trip, Sorachi tells more introspective story. At first glance, Gintama is not that different from any shonen manga: it has its big fights, heartfelt speeches about power of comradery, the Main Villain of the Arc narrative, etc. However, there is something more going on in this story. Unlike other manga that tend to focus solely on the Main Protagonist (or at best the MC and his closest friends/rivals), Gintama uses the fact that it doesn’t have the main goal that characters want to achieve (or does it?) and takes its time to focus on every character in this story. Everyone has the time to shine in Gintama, but there are certain characters who receive much more focus than the others do.

These characters serve for Gintama in three ways – they progress the main plot, they serve as the way for Sorachi to explore certain themes and their character arcs help Sorachi to structure Gintama in a certain way. Gintama isn’t just chaotic parody galore – it’s a very carefully structured narrative but instead of using the main plot to make us invested in it, Sorachi uses his characters to make this job done.

While we can clearly understand that the focus of the story is Yorozuya trio, they are not the only main characters of Gintama – you can actually see the whole main cast in this last poster.

And I want to talk about one of these characters in particular – the one character who sparked a lot of controversy in this fandom – Tsukuyo.