#mikis thoughts

[imasimpforshanks]

hi hi hiiiiiii ❤️ so can people like pls send in some ideas or suggestions for either the fake texts that I usually do or for headcanons ????? im stuuuuuck and really wanting to write but have no ideas 🥲🥲🥲 i just need an idea to spark something ya know????

like I’m super busy and don’t actually have the time to be doing this but i just want to LMAOOOOOO

(though all suggestions and things are welcome, please know that there’s no guarantee I’ll actually write it) 😚😚

#one piece #mikis thoughts #mikis rambles #please help me

[saionjeans]

ok so. miki’s sunlit garden is the literal sunlit garden where he and kozue played piano together as children. it’s the defining version of this narrative device, and in a way, it’s the most straightforward. miki is leaving the garden and entering the world of teenagers. he is scared of growing up, and he misses the effortless, uncomplicated bond he shared with his sister when they were children, before being inculcated into a world of sexual power and abuse, before his parents divorced and his beautiful nuclear family was rent asunder by real-world complications. i genuinely think every 13-ish year old goes through this grief and a desire to hold onto the past, to remain in this perfect nostalgic bubble through which you view your childhood. it’s probably the most universal and identifiable instance of the motif of the sunlit garden.

then it gets more complicated. nanami’s sunlit garden is her memories of short-haired touga, of her big brother showing her his affection, making her feel special, worthy, and loved. but unlike miki, she doesn’t miss being a part of the ideal nuclear family. for one thing, both she and touga are adopted. of course, she doesn’t actually know that, but it nonetheless problematizes the bioessentialist logic upon which the nuclear family [abuse factory] structure is predicated. secondly, it’s clear that she was always the scapegoat to touga’s golden child. which is why it’s not that she loves her sibling as an extension of her childhood nostalgia, but that her entire value system fundamentally revolves around touga, because he was the only person in her formative years who ever showed her the slightest sliver of affection. and in all her memories of him, he has short hair (like dios, like miki), because subconsciously she doesn’t even want him to be her Prince, her patriarchal savior, she wanted him to be someone who loved her because she inherently deserves love. she does treat him like her prince in the present, but that’s only because it’s how her love for him must take form in ohtori. deep down, she doesn’t want a prince, a lover, or even a brother; she wants a friend who will love her for nothing. but she has no way of expressing that, not in a world that claims true friendship is for fools. so instead she values him for their biological ties, for his status as a kiryuu, for his patriarchal role as the eldest son in their perfect nuclear family. and she refuses to acknowledge how she demeans herself in the process of worshipping him, how she’ll drown herself and cook herself and cage herself, debase herself and dehumanize herself for his illusory love. and that is what the sunlit garden means to nanami.

as for saionji, the sunlit garden also constitutes his memories with touga, of a “before” that is much more definable in the sense that there is clearly a moment where it becomes “after.” one day they are riding their bike through the rain after kendo practice, and they decide to take shelter in a church. and saionji sees touga become someone he fears and also envies. someone who wields the power to project something eternal, to inspire, to save. and he exerts his power in a subtly violent way, by transgressing invisible boundaries. saionji cannot harness that power, so he attempts to exert it clumsily, through immediate, obvious, physical forms of violence. it never quite packs the same punch as touga’s manipulation, no matter how hard he tries. but what saionji really longs for is not to possess touga’s power, but to go back to the way things were before touga decided he wanted power. touga thinks true friendship is for fools, but like nanami, all saionji wants is to be touga’s true friend. and isn’t that just tragic?

of course, that’s not all saionji wants. but his desire is complicated by the fact that he clearly also resents the sexual acts he is being put through by touga, even if in other circumstances, it could be what he wanted. juri’s situation, her sunlit garden, is similar to saionji’s in this respect. all she wants is shiori, but she doesn’t want the shiori she is being presented with. she wants the shiori from an illusory idealized past in which they were true friends, before shiori betrayed her and revealed her ugly feelings in the process. like miki with kozue, nanami and saionji with touga, utena and anthy with dios, mikage with mamiya, juri is idealizing a version of the object of her affection who never really existed. shiori’s ugly feelings were always latent. unlike miki’s sunlit garden, nanami’s flashback to touga’s party and sea of photographs, or saionji’s memories of touga tenderly wrapping his hand, juri does not even have memories of shiori that are not defined by her betrayal. yes she has shiori reaching out, holding a rose, saying “believe in miracles and they will know your heart,” but it’s an obvious fiction. juri doesn’t know shiori at all, and the shiori juri knows is not the shiori she loves. the sunlit garden is always a garden of illusion.

utena’s sunlit garden, which opens many episodes, is perhaps the most obvious example of this fact. she completely rewrote her own formative memory to better suit the dominant patriarchal narratives she was forced to adopt all her life. and you can say that akio actively tampered with her memories, but functionally speaking, that’s the same thing. even more so than the others, her sunlit garden is a palimpsest; she idealizes a past and a prince that never actually existed. sure akio and anthy exist, but her “prince” is not either of them. the locus of her will to live, that eternal thing, is a fiction. but her desire to help others in need is genuine. and that is what differentiates utena’s sunlit garden first and foremost. it is not founded on a selfish desire to cling to a perfect past of illusion, but on the selfless desire to keep moving forward in hopes of a better future. they all want to hold onto something eternal, including utena in her desire to keep her parents with her, and all of those desires are perfectly understandable and eminently sympathetic, but utena is different because that day that akio showed her anthy’s suffering, utena’s desire shifted from a memory to a telos.

mikage’s sunlit garden thus becomes a cautionary tale to all the members of the student council who wish to live in a memory, perfectly suspended, pinned in place like a butterfly on display. just as a caterpillar must become a butterfly, a child must enter the world of adults. mamiya is beautiful because he has the luxury of dying young, of being immortalized on a carousel, of never losing his innocence. mikage is what happens to people who idealize eternity through escaping into nostalgia. the world keeps moving on without them, and they become ghosts, trapped in a past that no one can recall.

so what of akio? he uses people’s sunlit gardens against them, he manipulates time and memory, feeds off nostalgia and the grief of lost childhood. he cultivates his garden to resemble golden days, and as he invites you through his gates, ensnares you. so what does that mean, when his goal, too, is to achieve eternity? above all he wants to forge a sword that will break through the closed gates and reinstate his former glory. of anyone in ohtori, he is the one most deeply entrenched in his oh so cozy coffin. for all that he knows his promises to be illusory, he also clings to that logic, he also mourns dios. he longs for his golden days despite knowing that they’re untenable, despite being well aware of the toll it took on anthy. and even fully aware of the extent of his exploitation, of the fundamental illusion of eternity, he still attempts to attain it, he still instantiates himself in a cycle on the carousel, condemned to ghosthood, a butterfly pinned in place.

finally, we must look to the absent figure, the outlier. what, or rather who, is touga’s sunlit garden? the movie tells us it is utena, that he embodied the princely role in the truest sense and that this is his deepest aspiration. but i don’t know if that’s necessarily how i read him. anthy and touga are foils, two sides of the same coin. anthy doesn’t have a “sunlit garden” per se, because she has long given up on the idea of returning to a time when she loved dios, before the swords of hatred pierced her heart. but she has a literal sunlit garden, and her role is to tend the flowers in it and never leave. she has a literal coffin, guarded carefully in the chambers of her heart. anthy knows better than to cling to an idealized past, but still, she cannot find a way to move forward. so she gets stuck in a circular present, where both past and future are illusory concepts. it is not enough to simply know that the past is gone, one must also strive for a better future. it is why utena and anthy’s promise to drink tea and laugh together in ten years is just so powerful within ohtori’s timeless walls. i’d bet anything that touga also doesn’t have an idealized past. if, again, we use the movie to inform our understanding of him, he was always aware of the abuse that pervaded his world, he was never an innocent. but instead of desiring reform, like utena, of wanting to save those suffering, he wants to be the one inflicting that suffering as much as possible. to cope, he accepts his abuse as a necessary consequence of existence, and assumes that anyone capable of abusing him is simply more powerful, and thus deserves to exert their power over him, just as he deserves to exert his power over those less powerful than he is. so like anthy, he doesn’t have a sunlit garden, but he has a coffin, and a garden, and a carousel. and like anthy, he must choose for himself whether he wishes to remain a complicit victim, or to leave his cozy coffin and find a way to move forward. and that, only time can tell.

#analysis #manalysis #u #UMM. THIS POST WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ONE PARAGRAPH????? OOPS #it’s 2 am now. fuck #the sunlit garden #miki #nanami #touga #saionji #utena #anthy #akio #mikage #juri #shiori #mamiya #dios #this was just me rambling as a way to organize my thoughts #it’s incredibly stream of consciousness #i am in no way trying to make an argument here im just trying to like. parse my thoughts on the sunlit garden #(the land of illusion….. anyone else hongloumeng pilled.?) #long post

[feenixmork]

I love bisexual fire extinguisher rambos

#puella magi madoka magica #madoka magica #the magnus archives #sayaka miki #tim stoker #timothy stoker #glad i finally thought of how to contribure to this meme #i've always wanted to make crossover art of them both #they are so the same #idk if anyone will see the vision #i art 👍

[dolxiba]

robin/pc dynamic is fun. making another person's physical/emotional wellbeing your personal responsibility at your own expense is a surefire way to foster resentment in a relationship

like pc can only keep it up for so long without burning out

robin being so used to being babied by pc that they just grow to expect it... and maybe grow resentful of a pc that becomes more irritable, withdrawn, less attentive

maybe robin idealized pc as their knight in shining armor but becomes disillusioned and bitter as pc fails to live up to the pedestal they put them on

#many thoughts #i feel like it could be a little like the miki/kozue dynamic in rgu #xiba.txt #meta

[stealingyourbones]

I know u usually do dp x dc prompts and stuff, but do u have any ideas about a buzzed unsolved/ghost files x Danny phantom? I feel like there would be a lot of great interactions

srry if ur not rlly into that

luv ur blog btw <3

just finished binging all of their true crime episodes so why not honestly.

(Danny has been mistaken as a cryptid multiple times throughout his adventures through time. One of these instances being the Mothman.) Danny's posts makes repeat appearances in the post mortem and Q&A episodes jokingly saying that "he's talked to the ghosts of the incidents and has it all figured out." and lays out the genuine reason behind the supernatural occurrence or mysterious death of a person. After regularly appearing in the Q&A, they do a Supernatural episode on the mysterious hauntings of Amity Park. Most likely chalked up to mass hysteria or something for the scientific reasoning behind the mysterious ghosts. in the next Q&A, They figure out that the person behind the CelestialGhoul handle is in fact Daniel Fenton, the son of Jack and Maddie Fenton, owners of Fenton Works and creators of the mysterious "ghost portal" which Shane thinks is a load of horseshit. Danny talks about how his Parents were really bad with lab safety and corrected some minor mistakes that the research team of BUN didn't catch. He offered to be interviewed by Ryan and Shane at any time that their schedules can match up. Danny was quite a character and the fans loved his appearance on the show. He was a believer in the supernatural but denied the existence of ghosts in almost every location that Ryan and Shane went to. He cracked jokes with the ghost hunters and seamlessly fit into their dynamic. He was the perfect middle ground. He was bold and brazen like Shane and yet was a believer like Ryan. Danny went on and talked about his parent's terrible lab saftey, the various ghosts that haunted his town, The constant damage the City endured, how this was simply the norm in his hometown, shitting on Ryan for believing that holy water did anything towards ghosts or demons, and the Anti-Ecto laws. (Ryan tried to use these to rub in Shane's face that this was proof that ghosts existed. His boast was quickly swatted down by Shane who countered that the United States also spent billions on UFO research so the Government was just a load of idiots.)

Shane and Ryan get a tad worried on the sanity of this random guy online that they invited to get interviewed on their show when he starts pulling out various ecto weapons and gadgets. He quickly puts them away to their relief and mentions that they were just replicas (that was a lie).

It's a fun episode all in all, more discussion and funny bits ensue and after it was uploaded, fans demanded to see more of Danny. To their surprise, They indeed would see more of Danny Fenton as a crew member for The Watcher.

#bones writes #bones replies #thats longer than i thought it was gonna be #miki-meh #hope ya like it :D #dp crossover #danny phantom

[fairytale-poll]

ROUND 1B, MATCH 6 OUT OF 8!

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Sayaka:

It's a clever play on the story where, rather than the littlest becoming human for love and a soul, instead she becomes a mermaid after loosing both, even gaining the bittersweet ending of having a chance at heaven but she still needs to do good after death

i was surprised to learn that sayaka's story is based on the little mermaid, but it makes more sense the more i think about it. such a heartbreaking, tragic tale that i get emotional ocer every time.

A lot of Madoka Magica fans believe she is based off of the original Little Mermaid story cuz, just like the original Little Mermaid, Sayaka loved a boy and said boy did not reciprocate. SPOILERS, she makes a contract with Kyubey to become a magical girl and in return her wish was to help Kyosuke (the guy she likes) who was disabled. Later on when she becomes a witch cuz she felt she wasn't good enough for Kyosuke and doesn't tell him about her feelings, her witch form is a mermaid. I suck at explaining but I hope my propaganda helps 🙏

(Major spoilers for madoka magical)Okay so I will admit her allusion to the little mermaid ain't super obvious, but let me explain, she is based on the original story for the little mermaid, she makes a wish for the sake of a boy she loves basically sacrificing her soul, well he ends up in love with another girl, and as a result she ends up going on a downward spiral and transforms into a monster known as a witch, her witch form is a mermaid.

Even though she's not a mermaid outside her witch form, her story is made to be a direct parallel to the self-sacrificial nature of the little mermaid, even letting herself die. This isn't the end tho because in one of the happier endings of the little mermaid she still becomes sea foam/dies but she also has a chance at becoming a sea spirit and helps others, this is very similar to Sayaka's final fate in the anime where after Madoka rewrites the universe Sayaka still gets corrupted/dies but instead of becoming a witch, she becomes apart of the law of cycles and helps Madoka save other magical girls. There are way to many similarities to her story and the little mermaid for it to just be coincidence imo.

Poor girl is stuck in a craptastic world where horrible monsters kill you, the only way to fight back is to become a zombie child soldier killing what remains of your own kind for survival, the wish you made will inevitably blow up in your face because the person granting it is a jackass, and the writer is hellbent on shitting on the girl power ethos of the magical girl genre by making it so that girls suffer and die for trying to achieve reasonable desires like "not starving to death" and attaining agency in their lives dooms you even harder because of womanly emotions. She needs a win. Also, she is explicitly paralleled with The Little Mermaid--she is a tragic figure who makes a deal to help the boy she loves in exchange for putting her life on a ticking clock, only to be passed up in favor of another girl. As a result, she dies and becomes something else--in this case, Oktavia von Seckendorff, "the mermaid witch."

Ponyo:

determined 5yo girls are more powerful than god

PONYO!!!!

As a child i did not even realize this was a little merm adaptation, but it really reads. She is sooo strange and other worldly and the movie absolutely captures that dreamlike fairy tale vibe

Ponyo a roughly five-year-old magical goldfish who can transform into a frog-type thing and a human girl. She's the eldest daughter of the literal goddess of the sea and a former human sailor given immortality. She falls in love with the five-year-old boy who cares for her and is thrilled to explore his ordinary yet magical world. She's bouncy, exuberant, and joyful. She loves ham. She doesn't have to give up her voice.

ponyo ponyo ponyo little fishie in the sea!

Little fishy

THEY LOVE HAM

#sayaka miki #ponyo #madoka magica #puella magi madoka magica #studio ghibli #the little mermaid #little mermaid #fairytale #fairy tale #poll tournament #poll bracket #character polls #polls #round 1 #round 1b #the little merpoll #ik i used 2 pictures for sayaka but i thought seeing her witchform was worthwhile bc of its mermaidness

[epickiya722]

I'm sorry, her design was actually too cute for her to have been just a side character for one episode and only mentioned later for dumping Kazuki (who is an asshole anyways).

Bring her back for season 2, give her some more personality and other character traits. Give her a skateboard, too!!

#hear me out #joe and miki happen to be related somehow or they're besties #she dumped kazuki and happened to later get herself a better boyfriend or a girlfriend #just kiya's thoughts #sk8 #sk8 the infinity #sk8 anime #sk8 infinity #sk8 miki #miki

[ravenclod]

ive got a madoka magica au centered on sayaka and kyokos freindship / relationship, its got them as normal girls but im still trying to keep the characterisation and development that they have in the show. most of what i have is sketches and a summary, but would anyone be interested in seeing it? its a completely self-indulgent au tbh but you know.

sayaka plays baseball for the school, and kyoko does dance.

edit : the tag is " dancer and the lonely ocean "

#kyosaya #au #madoka magica #madoka magica au #kyosaya au #kyoko sakura #sayaka miki #they take up all my thoughts oh my god #ravenclodarchive #dancer and the lonely ocean

[minothtime]

just finished episode 8. if this was a happy story i think sayaka and kyoko could've been girlfriends

#pmmm #puella magi madoka magica #sayaka miki #kyoko sakura #kyosaya #i guess idk i'm not looking at any tags after i finish the show AND the movie AND the manga #also FUCK KYUBE raggedy ass bitch i wish he was fucking DEAD #many thoughts on sayaka tho. will update after ep12

[imasimpforshanks]

Hi team <333333

so sorry for being a bit m.i.a!! it’s been a busy few weeks at school leading up to the end of the term!! It’s our last week coming up before the school holidays so I’m sure I’ll be posting again in the next few weeks

lots of love x

#one piece #mikis thoughts #life updates

[nursemimosa]

them and their watches. this was the only thing I could think about when going against amarys.

#i love both miki and amarys they're sweethearts #i know this is comparing apples to oranges but i literally cannot stop thinking about it #and in turn this lead me down a huge rabbithole of my thoughts: aka reaching hard to find comparisons btwn two things i love #honestly something about BB academy and their elite four reminds me soooo much about ohtori academy and the student council #like judging by some of the theories about BB and how it's an underwater school with a false sky... and EVERYTHING about ohtori.. iykyk #(if you couldn't tell already i'm not very far in so no spoilers pls) #i'm just trying to find my people lol. anyway who in GF is the ikuhara freak lol #indigo disc spoilers #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon amarys #miki kaoru #pkmn sv #revolutionary girl utena #mine

[mountain-dew-tickledpink]

She’s trying her best

#Dewey Does an Art #Quote is from be more chill #I thought it would be funny #puella magi madoka magica #madoka magica #PMMM #homura akemi #sayaka miki #madohomu #kinda

[thefreshprinceofjunes]

😌😌😌😑🫣

#puella magi madoka magica #mahou shoujo madoka magica #madoka magica #pmmm #msmm #madoka #mami tomoe #kyoko sakura #sayaka miki #homura akemi #madoka kaname #pmmm rebellion #madoka rebellion #madoka magica rebellion #madoka magica the rebellion #the rebellion story #gifs #ali's gifs #popular #just thought it was interesting that at the end of their transformations #theres a shot of all of them opening their eyes #except for madoka #bc her eyes are already open #[x-files theme playing]

[missn11]

So ryo is canonically bisexual :0?

well, Anon, I think so due to the fact in Violence Jack Ryo fell in love with Miki and he is always in love with Akira in the manga, manga spin offs and every anime adaption.

But its not outright stated at times, and Go Nagai never has him say he is bisexual or gay, just that he is in love with Akira. And some writers do have Ryo be gay or at least only romantically interested in Akira, for example in Shin Devilman written by Hiroshi Nagai who is Go Nagai's older brother and Go Nagai ofc Illustrated it

and yet in Violence Jack by Go Nagai, Ryo is in love with Miki.

and in Devilman Saga Ryo seems to state that him being intersex informs his bisexuality? I'm not sure but this is what his speak sounds like to me, even if its really messy af

So yeah, unless Go Nagai says one way or the other I would say that all we we know for sure is that Ryo/Satan is Queer af and I don't think its wrong to headcanon him as gay, bisexual, pansexual or demisexual since Akira is the only one he loves and he was friends with him first. The point of him possibly being demisexual could explain why Ryo falls in love with Miki in Violence Jack since he actually got to know her this time round.

But again I don't know how Go Nagai envisioned Ryo's sexuality and he isn't really talking about it either so all we can do is decide for ourselves what to headcanon.

#devilman #shin devilman #violence jack #ryo asuka #ryo asuka devilman #manga #akira fudo #miki makimura #ryokira #ryo/miki #asks #anon #missn11 has thoughts

[harurio]

takezai terunosuke and yoshida munehiro in one three-minute shot, episode 5 of mood indigo, 2019.

#cannot stress enough that this is all one very long shot. one. #context is mustache was sleeping with glasses while simultaneously using glasses to switch careers so he (mustache) could marry a woman #and this is glasses finally going off on him. as he very much deserves. scumbag #i didn't even notice this was one shot until i thought about why it had me holding my breath the whole time. and would you look at that! #it's like the equal and opposite of the old fashion cupcake confession lmao #this whole franchise is full of long long takes and i love it i eat it up #mood indigo #indigo no kibun #kijima rio #kido shirou #takezai terunosuke #yoshida munehiro #miki koichiro #mood indigo spoilers #i guess #japanese bl #kijima rio my beloved #japanese bl my beloved #i love loving things lol

[puellatransparents]

Chapter 1 Page 17 Colored Sayaka Miki Manga Transparent

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#( was gonna make more transparents but thought this panel was cute ) #Puella Magi Madoka Magica #PMMM #Madoka Magica #Manga Coloring #Sayaka Miki #Sayaka