Lately, what creative talent I have has been very sadistic with me: giving me drawing ideas when I want to write, and giving me writing ideas when I want to draw. But at least I get a little bit of both done.
Notes for the first (Madoka spoilers):
There are a lot of things that bothered me about the ending to Madoka Magica. But I gotta say, one of the standouts is the part where we see that Homura, and only Homura, remembers Madoka’s sacrifice. I really dislike Homura, and it irritated me that the anime series ended up focusing on Homura and Madoka to the exclusion of all else, even to the point of nullifying the relationships Madoka had with anyone else but Homura.
A while ago, I read a fanfic where Homura decides that she is not the only one who should be given a chance to remember Madoka, and shares her second ribbon with Mami. As Homura only wears one red ribbon in her hair in the anime ending, where’d the second one go?
And all of two days ago, I started watching the first three episodes again with an eye towards screencapping, for the purposes of making more tflns to submit to Texts From Walpurgis Night. In the very first episode, this happens:
Of course, Junko tells her to go for the red ones, which she does for the rest of the series.
But what if Madoka had carried the yellow ones around too?
So that’s the basis for this quick drawing. I figure Kyouko would get the other red one, since it fits her colour scheme, and she’d just wear it as a replacement for her black hair ribbon. Mami and Sayaka get the yellow ones; Mami wears her ribbon on her beret (and puts her soul gem on as a bolo tie instead), and Sayaka wears hers around the collar of her cape.
I just don’t want the puella magi to forget the friend who gave everything up for them.
Also, I do believe this is the first time I’ve ever drawn Sayaka. It shows.
And the second picture is just a random doodle of Kyouko that I drew when I should have been writing instead. (I also accidentally drew it too far to the left of the paper so I got cut off. I'm such an idiot.)