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Y’ALL. 

The rise of overly dark Magical Girl shows, which contain suffering for no other purpose than to display said suffering, largely stems from a complete misunderstanding of what Madoka was, and what made it great.

Madoka spends two and a half episodes setting up a happy, cheerful, Magical Girl show, and then spends eight and a half episodes rejecting that premise, showing that hope only leads to despair, that a wish will lead to a curse, that things cannot fundamentally improve, and that trying to make things better will only bring suffering upon yourself and others. This is what derivative "tragical girl" shows were about; the suffering of young women for its own sake, as if that was the point of Madoka, as if the suffering was the entire point.

The last episode, however, has Madoka herself rejecting the show's entire premise. She's told hope leads to despair, and exclaims "If someone says it's wrong to have hope, I will tell them they're wrong every single time.". She's told that the very foundation of the universe leads to suffering being inherent, constant, and that the only thing one can do is to endure said suffering as long as one can bear, before falling to despair and inflicting the suffering one has experienced unto others; she's told that any wish will become a curse, yet ends the show saying "All those Magical Girls who held onto their hopes and fought against witches, I don't want to see them cry—I want them to stay smiling until the end. If any rule or law stands in my way, I will destroy it. I will rewrite it. That is my wish, that is my prayer.""

Walpurgisnacht had been set up as the most terrible witch to ever exist up until that point, and the viewer had been led to believe they'd fight to the death against it, and inevitably lose—as a Magical Girl seemingly always does in the Madoka universe. Madoka does not fight her, Madoka shows compassion, simply stating "It's okay. It's okay now, you don't have to hate anyone anymore, you don't have to curse anyone anymore. I'll go back, before you took that form, and shoulder that burden for you". There was no fight, and Madoka simply took on her despair, as she took on everyone else's, allowing them to once again have hope.

NO, radical feminism doesn’t suddenly become a-okay as long as it’s trans inclusive

NO, you being traumatized by men doesn’t give you an excuse to threaten random people you perceive as men

NO, someone’s identity not making sense to you isn’t a personal attack against you or the queer community as a whole

NO, you can’t call intersex people disordered or deformed

NO, intersex people DO want to be included in the queer community, stop speaking on our behalf

NO, using the f slur AS A SLUR isn’t reclaiming it, regardless of whether it applies to you or not

NO, having kinks isn’t a gateway to becoming a horrible abuser

NO, it’s not okay to threaten random people for having contradictory labels

NO, sex work is not inherently predatory and always abuse

NO, men CAN AND DO have periods and get pregnant (YES, including those icky cis men. intersex cis men exist)

👑 kingofengland

questing literally sucks. i miss my wife

🛡️lance.du.lac

me too :(

👑 kingofengland

??????

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🔑seneschal-kay

PLEASE stop signing up for tournaments under fake names. im so serious. if we get any more of these we are literally going to call off the games this upcoming whitsuntide. and this includes lancelot. there are no exceptions. i will throw you out if you give me a fake name. i don’t care who your dad is. i will kill you

🕶️fair.unknown Follow

hi

🔑seneschal-kay

BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU

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🧪 tristan-from-cornwall

lancelot i know this is you

#your obsession with me is getting embarrassing #also she is literally also named iseult so i dont see what the problem is

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🧥la-cote-male-taile

wait guys im actually really confused about sir mordred lmao. is he arthur’s nephew or his son

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿queen.morgause.70 Follow

tbh not sure you’re going to love the answer to this one

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🛡️lance.du.lac

hey guys! just an update since i know i’ve been gone for a while! i’ve just been taking some time to myself just to relax in the woods and i feel a lot better now. i’m done being insane and on my way back to camelot :)

🛡️lance.du.lac

insane again

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🧚‍♀️morgan-le-fae

#tbh cape that sets people on fire is a favorite of mine #but also the gwencelot stuff is pissing me off #especially because lancelot keeps vagueblogging about it #as if everyone doesnt know what’s going on

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💅mrs-bisclavret Follow

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#personal #my husband has been missing for like 2 days and i think he is cheating on me #i havent really wanted to come to terms with this because it just sucks but i dont really know what other explanation there could be #:(

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🏹werewolftracker Follow

spotted on west grounds of camelot castle 03:47 4/26/1066

(submitted by @ bedivere77)

👑kingofengland

anyone want to go hunt this with me??

#have been having kind of a rough week but maybe hunting will lift my spirits #also a package just arrived for me so thats exciting!!!!

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❤️queen.guinevere

just so you guys all know, there is someone sending people random anons pretending to be me but it’s not me who sent it!! so if you get anything weird that seems like it's from me in the next few days it's probably not. sorry and i hope this gets figured out soon!!

💔false.guinevere

>:)

❤️queen.guinevere

wtf

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🪓oldest.orkney.gawain Follow

does anyone else think beaumains or whatever his name is looks super familiar

🛡️lance.du.lac

dude i think he's your brother

🪓oldest.orkney.gawain Follow

ohhhh yeah that would actually make so much sense. on an unrelated note does anyone think fair unknown looks super familiar

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🎭dinadan-the-knight Follow

courtly love is actually such a joke. the queen does not care about you lmfao. get a life

👑kingofengland

:(

🎭dinadan-the-knight Follow

i am so sorry my lord this post was not about you

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🗡️per.ce.val

on the grail quest and i think galahad just died???

🐗sir-bors

on the bright side we did find the grail!

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