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I'm the difficult bitch with the RAGE. Estinien sketch.

What if Carcosa is not another planet? What if it is a dimension that exist right here simultaneously with ours? What if it is a mirage, that we can only see in certain circumstances, and thus why it is called ‘lost Carcosa.”

Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!      — The King in Yellow.

every so often i remember this poem by langston hughes & am inconsolable

watching, and waiting

found it

The rest of the series is basically a lighthearted combination of recurring fashion montages with increasingly outlandish customised bodies and the team abusing their conditional immortality to do stupid hold-my-beer stunts while the animal sidekick frets about the budget.

There’s an arc where the team starts running out of energy to transform and the cute animal sidekick scolds them for being so profligate, but it eventually turns out that their budget is fine and the real reason for the shortfall is that the animal sidekick has been committing embezzlement. The reveal segues into a recurring educational segment about various types of white-collar crime.

(I grant that doing a fake-out where it seems like the protagonists are being shamed for wanting things, then having it turn to be part of a scheme to exploit them for monetary gain is a bit on the nose, but since when have I been known for subtlety?)

(Oddly, the cute animal sidekick is still there; the team hired them back after the Magical Girl Authority fired them, figuring that their skill at manipulating magical financial systems would come in handy. The complete reversal of the power dynamic between the team and the cute animal sidekick is a frequent source of low comedy.)

A Quirky Animation Follows a Determined Cactus Farmer as She Tracks the Man Destroying the Environment

despite all my dread i am still just a rat made of thread