I'm Neph. On this blog I'll mindlessly reblog crap I like, pretend to talk about my writing or my game (Lain's Horrible Adventure), and plenty of other stuff.
Sometimes I’m looking for something online - often “how to” articles - and I want to filter for - like - a website that was clearly built in 2010 at the latest, which may or may not have been updated since then, but contains a vast wealth of information on one topic, painstakingly organized by an unknown legend in the field with decades’ worth of experience.
I don’t want a listicle with a nice stolen picture in a slideshow format written by a content aggregator that God forgot. I want hand-drawn diagrams by some genius professor who doesn’t understand SEO at all, but understands making stir-fries or raising stick insects better than anyone else on this earth. I don’t know what search settings to put into Google to get this.
thank you for articulating this cri de coeur for me
ngl these days i’m just happy when it’s not a video
The search engine calculates a score that aggressively favors text-heavy websites, and punishes those that have too many modern web design features.
This is in a sense the opposite of what most major search engines do, they favor modern websites over old-looking ones. Most links you find here will be nearly impossible to find on a regular search engine, as they aren’t sufficiently search engine optimized.
“It is a search engine, designed to help you find what you didn’t even know you were looking for. If you search for “Plato”, you might for example end up at the Canterbury Tales. Go looking for the Canterbury Tales, and you may stumble upon Neil Gaiman’s blog.
If you are looking for fact, this is almost certainly the wrong tool. If you are looking for serendipity, you’re on the right track. When was the last time you just stumbled onto something interesting, by the way?
I don’t expect this will be the next “big” search engine. This is and will remain a niche tool for a niche audience.“
i clicked around for a few minutes searching various things and I now have two fourteenth century pie crust recipes and an apple filling recipe i want to try, so thanks!
it has been twenty minutes and I am deeply in love with this search engine.
INCREDIBLE. I *do* want to know how to test Windows 95 for Y2K Compliance and I am glad that someone is still hosting step by step instructions for that.
tl;dr: search.marginalia.nu for the old or old looking and just plain serendipitous stuff that google or Duck duck go are gonna not find/bury on the 20th page. For perfectly good reasons, but …
My absolute favorite part of having made this post - other than causing people to be introduced to this site - are the people in the tags/comments talking about their interests and stuff they found about their hobbies.
Actually, I think Mami was the one Homura cared about the most after Madoka. Remember, Mami was the first magical girl Homura met after Madoka, and they spent a lot of time together throughout Homura’s timelines. Not to mention that Mami saved Homura’s life in the first timeline too, not just Madoka.
We know that everyone in the Holy Quintet (even Kyoko before she lost her idealism) greatly respect and idolize Mami for being the ideal magical girl. And why wouldn’t they? She’s strong, poised, kind, elegant, experienced, and a great mentor. I have no problems believing that Homura, in her earlier time loops, greatly admired Mami and probably even leaned on her for guidance as Homura learned how to be a magical girl.
And then the incident happened. Where Mami found out that magical girls become Witches and attempted to murder-suicide all of her teammates. I think that by doing this Mami essentially took a hammer and smashed the pedestal Homura had her on. Homura realized, in the worst possible way, just how fragile Mami was. She realized that she could no longer truly rely on Mami for help. Her senpai, the person who was supposed to be the leader, was unreliable.
I think that may have made Homura feel betrayed. Mami, who had been such a source of stability for the entire group, was in reality the most unstable of all of them. I bet that must have made Homura feel even more alone too, because now she had one less person to be able to rely on in her mission to save Madoka.
That being said, I don’t think Homura ever stopped caring for Mami as a friend. In the main series, she desperately tries to warn Mami about the danger Charlotte poses and seems genuinely upset when she realizes Mami was killed. Also, in the Rebellion movie, there’s a scene where Homura reflects on Mami, saying that despite the fact that she puts on a brave face she has the weakest heart of any of them. But then Homura immediately follows that up by saying this:
If Homura didn’t care about Mami, she wouldn’t give a shit about Mami’s feelings and it wouldn’t hurt her to reveal the truth of the magical girl system to Mami.
So no, I don’t think Homura hates Mami. I actually think that Homura cares about Mami a great deal, especially in her earlier time loops.
