u/Weekly_Flounder_1880

Maybe a bit late to this discussion, I’ve spent the past 2 or 3 years watching videos abt Madoka and I just thought I’d share some opinions

This is a biased opinion because I am a psychological egoist (belief humans are inherently selfish)

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I’m not saying Madoka is not “selfless”, what she did was pretty “selfless”, but not the “ultimate selfless” act, which is supposedly the most selfless thing you can do.

The wish she made went against Homura’s wish, it did not save Homura, she didn’t necessary save everyone. Madoka saved everyone but herself, Homura saved no one but Madoka.

Madoka rewrote the universe in her favour. In the end, magical girls still have to fight to death against wraiths or nightmares or whatever that comes in place of witches.

If she wishes to save magical girls, then magical girls won’t be here still fighting to death and wait to be saved by the laws of cycles, that is not quite salvation.

Homura is actually quite similar to Madoka, she, too, wrote the universe in her favour, she gave magical girls a chance at normal life without fighting (I think), another chance at a “normal life” where everyone is alive and well, and a world where Madoka is here. I’d even say this world is somewhat better compared to magical girls fighting to their deaths. Homura is not an actual demon, she just claimed herself to be a demon. As she pulled god from heaven as sacred as she is, and splits her apart, that single act defies god, and no one other than the devil defies god.

I know what I’m saying doesn’t make much tense so I guess I’ll summarise it.

Madoka did stuff in her favour, she also went against Homura’s wish. She didn’t save everyone. I think this is too complicated to brand Madoka’s wish as the ultimate selfless thing, or that Madoka is 100% selfless. She is/was still a human, and humans by nature have selfish desires.

I am a native speaker but nowadays people don’t write songs like this anymore + neither my parents nor friends know these songs

Here are the songs I like:

帝女花 (the opera from 50s)

圓月彎刀

笑看風雲

故鄉的雨

上海灘

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Is there any other ways to contact Twitter like you can’t contact support, and appeals doesn’t do shit…

Stupid mods suspended me for no reason

I know I’m a very small furry artist with like 200 approaching 300 followers, I do this for a hobby but I get commissions by my old followers or followers who kindly promoted my art on discord.

And just when I thought things got better and maybe I can finally dream about getting 1 or 2 more commissions by the year and build up my following…

I got suspended in March.

And it’s not like I don’t promote myself, I have countless social media platforms where I post my art (Facebook, Bluesky, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Discord servers) but no one seem to see them at all. I have maybe 10% of what I used to have

I built my account brick by brick for 2 years and my followers loved my art, they wanted to see more of them, that’s why they follow me in the first place. And thanks to them my art reached more people and more people will want to commission me.

This makes me hella mad I was just seeing some progress but now it’s dead, all dead. No more commissions, very little people seeing my art

Edit: yall go to twitterhelp subreddit or smth, a lot of the users are getting suspended for absolutely no reason. After 3 months and almost 20 appeals…

I can literally see and feel one of my teeth move when I bite on it. This is my 4th day wearing braces.

I am so concerned

It’s my first molar (one behind the premolar) and I also have my expander there and a hard gel thing there (“so I won’t bite my braces off”) and it’s only this one molar

I was in middle school and a teacher asked me to help him organise some bank rolls. I discovered a coloured hockey summit toonie, I kept it. And right after I graduated and and got into high school, I started to keep an eye on the coins I get and the more I looked the more interesting it got

I don’t have your balding head and 30 years of experience

That doesn’t mean I’m stupid or spoiled and uneducated.

They always say things like “get hobbies” or “yours too young”

You know what? I have a lot of hobbies! I draw, I make languages, I learn languages, I worldbuild, I write stories and characters, I learn coding, I play games. And yes I finished my homework.

I can’t express how much I love my mother, I don’t consider myself spoiled

I may not know what I want, I may be inexperienced and dense sometimes, but I am also trying.

We know that even “native speakers” of conlangs have pronunciations influenced by the language they speak at home. Such as English or smth. As seen with videos of some people speaking toki pona or lojban

Then it got me wondering

What is the “native” accent of a conlang? Say if our conlangs are actually natlangs and we have their native speakers speak the language, how would it sound?

I tend to imagine that the conlanger themselves have the most authentic accent because they made the language themselves.

p/s: my native language is Cantonese. Therefore I have a Cantonese accent. After giving a thought about it, my accent also affects the way I speak my conlang…