how strange it is to be anything at all

It is absolutely immoral, completely counterproductive to the goal of learning things, and turns out incredibly subpar work.

Round One, Bracket 1

Propaganda below the cut:

my propaganda -> sayaka was a 14 year old who watched someone she considered a friend and mentor die suddenly & violently in front of her & was then manipulated by a creature who considered her nothing more than fuel into selling her soul & become a magical girl to fight the same thing that killed her friend that sameeeee day. & its revealed that becoming a magical girl means removing your soul from your body & crystallising it into an object so your body literally becomes a shell she considers herself not a human person anymore & chases a path of self-sacrifice to save as many people as she can at the detriment to herself (she turns off her own sensation of pain so shes not slowed down by being wounded.) because thats her only purpose now that she's in her eyes little more than a corpse. & eventually she snaps & kills two misogynists on a train & when shes confronted by another magical girl after she turns crying to her, asking what the point even was & saying she was so stupid before she transforms into the very thing she's been fighting the whole time because magical girls exist in the first place to succumb to inevitable and cultivated despair & transform into witches because the sheer energy of that emotional collapse is being used as an energy source. & in every timeline in every different version of the story that homura redoes to save madoka SAYAKA IS DOOMED IN EVERY ONE. & AT THE END EVEN AFTER MADOKA BREAKS THE MAGICAL GIRL CYCLE SHE CHOOSES TO NOT UNDO HER WISH & STAY DOOMED BECAUSE HER WISH HELPED SOMEONE ELSE & SHE WON'T TAKE THAT AWAY. sayaka my doomedgirl i love you forever.

anyway as you can imagine fans consider her stupid & reckless & annoying & naive for reacting as best she could in a literally unwinnable situation. despite the fact that she's a deeply compelling & sympathetic character exploring & exemplifying hugely significant themes central to madoka magica as a narrative. because god forbid a teenage girl do literally anything.

Megalonyx jeffersonii, a ground sloth from Late Miocene to Pleistocene North America.

It was a large, heavily built animal about 3 m. long.

This is how big Luca is in the Big Luca Dreams