#'forgotten by the narrative'

[ifyougoillfollow]

you know, we talk a lot about characters and/or relationships (of all kinds) being 'doomed by the narrative' around here, and how haunting and gut-wrenching that can be, especially when it so often takes the form of death and destruction and tragedy.

and we should keep doing that, obviously. death and destruction and tragedy kick total ass.

however. can we please spare a thought for the clowns trapped in that same (burning) room?

after all, what is a comic relief character if not doomed by the narrative to always act like a buffoon despite any and all circumstances, all for the sake of relieving narrative tension?

how must it feel, to have everyone around you dropping dead, losing limbs, losing loved ones, and otherwise being on the receiving end of unending torment - and all you can do is stand there and prattle off another zinger at your allotted time?

and what if you lose a loved one yourself, o jester mine? what if - hear me out - you lose multiple loved ones? what if it never ends? what will you do then?

well, if you're lucky, you'll get to mourn for all five of the seconds you're allowed to before the size thirty shoes go back on and the narrative moves on to other, more plot-central characters.

if you're not - well. it's a good thing clown makeup is waterproof, isn't it?

anyway, shout out to all my comedy kings out there doomed to play perpetual funnyman to their more plot-central counterparts despite being in undeniably comparable pain. you may be doomed by the narrative, but you are beloved by me <3

#fiction #writing #tropes #doomed by the narrative #yamada hizashi #present mic #yes this is about mic #as is everything tbfh #i've been wanting to make a similar doomed by the narrative post about nemuri for a while #but lbr in midnight's case it's less 'doomed by the narrative' than 'ignored by the narrative' #'forgotten by the narrative' #'fucked by the narrative' #it's not even 'sacrificed by/for the narrative' either because a sacrifice has to fucking mean something substantial #nem was killed more or less for shock value and to balance the scales after the villains lost twice #that's it #and before anyone comes after me - no i am not opposed to her death just because she's a female character and/or my fave #a look through this blog and my entire ao3 body of work will show that i am distressingly compelled by- #the tragedy of her death and what it means for her character and her loved ones #but hori has done exactly none of the work to pay off on that so i will not give him the credit for it #anyway. #don't mind me just ramblin' #meta

[akiacia]

the myth of eros and psyche

#akia art #olba #baxter ward #thought this would be a fun parody/au! (ignoring the other trappings of the myth) 🤣 #in hindsight the veil looks goofy but it worked in my head LOL #step 4 later maybe (i wanted to make sure i hadn't forgotten how to do illos #also all i initially rmbed and what inspired this was eros being a drama queen + psyche sicced w a million trials #but the finer details are wild af #i think eros/psyche is tame by olympus metrics but (my) modern sensibilities disagree 🤣 myth as allegory vs narrative ig

[hychlorions]

they match :')

#.png #SIBLINGS! #this is what i think happens. in the future. in some distant hypothetical future that capcom refuses to acknowledge now #either because their current aa writers couldn't be at all assed to go through the past games in order to have their narratives in order #or because they went through it. and still decided it would've been funnier to throw in a siblings or dating joke #in addition to their other egregious crimes in regards to tie-in narratives for a game that is part of a SERIES #anyway yeah i think after their sibling reveal thalassa relinquishes the other bracelet to trucy #i think she's only ever kept it and not given it to trucy bc it's either the only thing that connects her to apollo #or (i've forgotten if she thought he was dead or not or if it was mentioned) she's been hoping he would find her #and recognize the bracelet. and see it's a match #i'm rambly today wow #this would've been a good day to stream my drawing process LOL #would've said all this in a vod i wouldn't keep and it'll die forever #but i didn't. so now it's in the tags mwah

[renardsruses]

This stranger was warmly familiar, but his name was hazy to recall, crackled in your memory like weathered words on a headstone.

Happy Wolfwood Wednesday! here’s a fanart of @shelternmberone ‘s Ghostwood AU

#and he was dressed in white like a long forgotten bride at the altar #this au is everything op #his design is so good and cool #trigun #trigun fanart #ghostwood #trimax #tristamp #trigun stampede #trigun maximum #wolfwood #nicholas d. wolfwood #trigun wolfwood #wolfwood wednesday #el woowoo #el woowoo wednesday #he literally haunts the narrative now #wolfwood stealer of hearts and haunter of narratives #my art #renardsruses #renardsrusesart

[leftduck9986]

Foreshadowing, out of order?

In storytelling, is there a single word that means "the opposite of foreshadowing"?

WARNING: in trying to wrap my head around this, there will be wittering!!!

Wikipedia tells me that a flashback is a method of foreshadowing.

The Bullet Catch in the NZF minisode, being a flashback as well as told before the "present day" [speculated] event it sets up a clue for, well, that's what I've understood foreshadowing to mean until now, because isn't foreshadowing always presented before the event it foreshadows comes to pass?

The flashback/memory minisode, A Companion To Owls, is told after the "present day" event it foreshadows. Does that still count as foreshadowing, or is it instead considered "the big reveal" because it is told after?

And is this all that is meant by various things in Good Omens 2 being "out of order"?

The Hiding Miracle and the Memory That Both Foreshadows and Reveals It?

Indeed, it was a tiny miracle - as titled in the soundtrack - that worked as planned and "barely moved the dials" (but still a miracle in which "Noone will have noticed A Thing" however tiny it was, and that "Nobody notices he's here (...) Nobody can spot him, (...) especially if they're looking for him").

I believe it was the first of three events that happened that night, which, became the main focus of this "quiet, gentle, romantic" season, but paling in comparison to the other two events. Moving on!

Returning to how A Companion to Owls isn't told until after The Hiding Miracle and clues us in as to what was actually going on: this tiny miracle was made to appear far more powerful than it actually was, with the use of showmanship:

The ceremonious setup of being positioned on the circle in the middle of the room hidden under the carpet, between Aziraphale and Crowley; he could have been standing, but instead, "Jim... Sit in this chair." And it's a beautiful chair, like a throne, but Jim being taller wouldn't have worked for the image of the 'W' (similar to the 'W' shape made with Shadwell standing between Aziraphale and Crowley at the airbase, in the book Good Omens.)

ta-da!-look-at-this-very-complicated-and-powerful-miracle-that-we-are-doing

Why perform at all then, for an audience of none?

Ah, they're not alone, oooOoOoOOOoOoOooo, spooky. Go and see for yourself: check out the bottom left area of the screen when Crowley returns to the bookshop and says, "I'm BACK" (this is to do with the "framing opportunities" secret mentioned in the Gavin Finney BTS article https://britishcinematographer.co.uk/gavin-finney-bsc-good-omens-2/) Aziraphale calmly replies, "Yes, I can see that" and later gasps, reacting to something happening off-screen at 40m41s.

So this performance, not yet knowing who their audience might be, could be as a precaution, just in case.

Gabriel instinctively crosses his hands and is confused when Aziraphale and Crowley uncross them - or likely because Aziraphale was even standing there at all - because he remembers, or rather, in his mind's eye, sees the shape left behind by a missing piece of furniture.

The ceremonious setup of being positioned in the centre, between Sitis and Job, this time in the background to have Bildad appear a little shorter in height for the stylized 'W', then crossing his hands. The pot containing Sitis and Job's children being the circle, hidden by the circle of carpet (robes) made as Sitis and Job embrace.

ta-da!-look-at-this-very-complicated-and-powerful-miracle-that-we-are-doing

Had we seen Jim's and Crowley's conversation about memory before The Hiding Miracle instead of much later in episode 5, then it would have been foreshadowing, yes?

*temper rising* A "reveal," or "out-of-order foreshadowing"? (VBUAXNAUSX*keyboard smash*NYVIFGNOMAI) grrrrrr!

...

After the Job story is told, (save for the final scene) and Aziraphale calls for Crowley, my head-cannon used to be that Aziraphale wanted to talk about hair -

Aziraphale: Crowley, I gave you lovely long locks in my retelling of this story, how about you? Crowley: Nah, "shoulder-length bouncy 'bob'" is what I put - a "Lob" I think is what they're calling it these days.

But now I think that, to book-end Crowley's beginning with, "Your boss said that to Job, do you remember?" (imo they are so good at blending in, they can act human better than any human can act human! So, while feigning the memory span&loss&retention of a human, of course they can remember most everything. Angel stock: constitution of an Ox, memory of an Elephant.) Aziraphale may have wanted to remark on Jim's crossed hands from the night before and how similar it was to Crowley's doing so; that it was evidence of Gabriel still somehow being able to connect with images from his memory. "Crowley? You also did that thing... does Gabriel remember?"

If each minisode contains something that foreshadows or reveals what magic tricks occurred during this season's present day events, I feel that the only thing left is from "The Resurrectionists" minisode, where Crowley Goes Large (woah, woah, woah, another case for The Song Is The Clue?!?) ... or makes himself, something or someone else tiny.

"Size and shape are simply options" after all, so I do wonder about Hell's Usher, where the only time we've seen him is when he is small enough to fit in a bathtub and yet he is HUGE in the opening title sequence of season one. Behind him, Noah's Ark stranded between two damaged buildings (or one damaged building and maybe the Pleasure Cruiser Morbillo?)

Something else that may be revealing of stories yet to be told of the past, while also foreshadowing a near-future event:

Based on what Crowley said, this is not the first time Crowley and Aziraphale have performed a half-miracle together! Whatever biiiig miracle they're about to do (speculated event #2) could still be completely balanced and undetected, but then a plume of miraculous activity emerging from the circle gateway (privately speculated event #3) is what poor Aziraphale will appear to take the blame for.

Things being out of order may have started with the question, are season two's present day events being told out of order? There are other things appearing out of order as well, for example a change in the order of colours in the Rainbow (for "present day" episode two only I think, beginning Violet then Red, etc.) Or, in this case, narrative devices being so intertwined, one flashback-event can contain images and phrases that both foreshadow something yet to happen as well as to reveal what happened in a part of the story already told.

As always, please no asking or tagging Mr Gaiman as this blog post contains theory and speculation, thank you.

#The Hiding Miracle and A Companion To Owls #wittering on #please forgive me #Good Omens 2 #foreshadowing #out of order #the big reveal #narrative devices #relearning something forgotten or learning something new? never too late #overthinking technical words and probably VERY wrong about it #Good Omens 2 theory #The Song is The Clue #Good Omens book reference “stylized W” #Tiny Miracle #Crowley Goes Large #“Size and shape are simply options” #Hell's Usher goes large? #Good Omens #Good Omens Opening Title Sequence #Good Omens 3 speculation #first time making GIFs such fun! #good omens meta

[time-is-restored]

do you guys every think abt death vs immortality as a thoroughline in like. literally all of the mechs albums.

old king cole is explicitly warped by immortality (never to forgive he would eternal live, his hands dyed red by gore - can be read a few ways depending on where u place the emphasis, but at the very least communicates that his wrath is facilitated By his immortality), and the olympians commit attrocities in order to hold onto their wealth and the immortality that it grants them (murdering arachne, yanking heracles' chain the second he tries to go freelance, having a monopoly on the acheron etc). the value they put on immortality and living forever, and the fear they have of ever possibly losing it, has completely warped their morals and priorities.

and while it comes up less in tbi, there's still significant emphasis placed on how odin has been in power for a century (both thor + the narrator bring it up, and there's also an emphasis on how long ago the bifrost project was started, and how 'no one left living' can explain its science). her villain monologue in rangarok iv places the extinction of asgard as an honour - a ruin that no one can possibly rebuild from is called 'apotheosis'. and as she says at the end, the idea that no one can possibly outlive her is a key draw for odin. asgard dies with her.

in hnoc, the only really immortal character is brian (and we only really know that bc of knowledge we get from outside the album), but the axis of life and death as a privilege vs a curse is still very present. 'mordred's gift to Arthur could be love in his own eyes / fating him alone to keep the life to which he clings', not only posits that the gift of survival isn't inherently good + kind (which the audience would immediately recognise as love, not possibly love), but places emphasis on the fact that arthur is now utterly alone. the station's death at the hands of mordred is hardly a happy one ('Its people damned, doomed by a man who's lost all his regrets'), but arthur's fate is arguably worse. severed from the finality and closure of death, what does he become? [insert that one cool theory abt hnoc arthur becoming old king cole here]

it's like. on a meta level, the reason we as fans don't put much emphasis on the depravity + cruelty of the mechs is bc the people portraying the mechs are all charismatic + skilled performers. in live gigs they're all portraying the fun side of their characters - roasting each other, bantering with the audience, making fun of the characters they're singing about, referencing off-screen violence - bc if they portrayed their lore too literally they'd be comitting felonies LMAOOO

but narratively, its like. literally every album is a meditation on the ways that the glorification of immortality can ruin civilisations - can ruin galaxies. whether its rooted in the fear of you specifically dying, or of being outlived, or overpowered or forgotten, or if its done for the sake of someone else's survival... it's all corrosive. if u refuse to accept the indisputable impermanence of life, you lose the ability to value it, and u numb urself to the reality of just how fucked up it is to cut another person's life short for any reason.

like. i do think some of the mechs started as good people, and some of them even might still have ethical standards, but i REALLY cannot stop thinking about how fucking. fascinating it is that this group of immortals who are KNOWN for basically considering nothing but how fun and/or violent any given activity will be, have basically filled their entire discography with songs about how their continued existence is corrosive and brings tragedy + ruin wherever they go.

so how self-aware are they? do you think those old morals + ethics still linger in their mind, when they're writing down these tragedies? they willingly self identify as liars + thieves + bastards, etc etc, and they seem to have no trouble identifying the 'bad guys' in the various albums (ie: humanising snow + cinders + rose, but not king cole), but do those concepts actually mean anything emotionally, or even theoretically, for them all beyond their dramatic potential? do they remember their lives before they were mechanised as it actually happened, or do they remember it as lyrics to a song? is it possible to be entirely self aware abt ur own capacity for violence (as jonny in paticular claims to be), if you no longer relate to violence as anything other than a narrative device - a means to an end, whether comedic or dramatic?

#the mechanisms #mechanisms #mechs #its not even that i have a specific passion for super grimdark mechs characterisation #just from a thematic perspective it is SO interesting to have these characters #narrating tragedies who themselves dance in and out of narrative conventions + signifiers of good + evil #and also like. literally transform themSELVES into narratives via backstory fiction + songs #its all so like. was there ever a truth here? if its all been forgotten + replaced with stories? can any of them care about good and evil #anymore on a level beyond how it will make an audience react? #idk. i care them #mine #my writing

[vellichorom]

preacher for the dead; for the high crime of mortality among gods, we will turn our backs, & you may join the ones who fell before you. return to your only family. let's see you cry wolf without a body.

// sorry for still being a little insane about @ihazmunchies91's THE NARRATIVE PARABLE, kind of; have YOU read the latest update?

no really have you because I don't think I blogged about it-

( ft; @indigo-art's Arthur, @blackkatdraws2 / @blackkittensketches's Black, & @sad-ist's Harry! as well as the cord of @ melancholys-inc's Pixel! )

#uwu art #The Stanley Parable #The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe #The Narrative Parable #TSP Narrator #the narrative parable spoilers #// ask #Paraverse #Narratorverse #body horror tw #body horror cw #sorry for having ermmmm vaguely sacrilegious daydreams about thierry's connections in the fic #something something the grim reaper being the only voice of dead / forgotten souls you know. SLAMS MY HANDS AGAINST THE FUCKING

[writeouswriter]

You ever have a major breakthrough on your WIP and write it ALL down and then idk, just black out and completely forget it ever happened until you stumble across it however many months or whatever later and are like hey, wtf, this solves everything, when did I write this, I'm a genius, I'm an idiot, I've known this for ages, I've just learned this now, what is happening

#writing #writeblr #writer things #yeah found a note on my computer i did not remember existing #and it has the answer to one of the main plot things i've been struggling to figure out for like a year or 2 #and i made it in f-ckin january what #little shoemaking elves up in my laptop moved onto writing instead #I mean it doesn’t solve everything but it’s a major theme I’d forgotten that definitely helps focus the narrative

[gmaybe666]

people having byler doubts maybe need to rewatch the show just saying <3

#you've forgotten the ancient texts you've forgotten the blue and yellow the purposeful story arc and narrative choices! #go back go back!!!! #like ur listening to David harbour?!?!? why?!?! I don't trust the cast's word except like finn .. #no offence <3 #byler #with the whole noah [and Brett g] thing: I am doing separation of art from artist and plan to watch st illegally #im still a bylerhead. im here for the character

[musclesandhammering]

Hard pills to swallow: Cas isn’t gay & Misha Collins is annoying

#spn #to clarify: castiel is 100% absolutely not straight #he’s most likely panromantic and somewhere on the ace spectrum #he’s not a male homosexual factually speaking #he’s been attracted to women in canon #and he’s not even a man he’s nonbinary and angels don’t even seem to gaf about the gender of anyone #he’s a multidimensional wavelength of cosmic energy and consciousness like…. #why would you want to reduce him down to ‘He’s a male who only likes other males uwu’ #and Misha continuously pushing the ‘cas gay haha’ narrative just to pander to the d*stiel dumbasses is just- ugh #and I haven’t forgotten about him claiming to be bi for shits and giggles and then going ‘SIKE I’m actually hetero’ #and then not rly understanding why folks got so upset #anti supernatural #anti spn #spn critical #castiel #anti destiel #anti destihellers #dean critical #anti misha collins

[avirxy]

Five headcanons for the Arcane Blight au

1. Once Jim fully becomes a troll, due to the amulet, it’s permanent, he won’t be able to change back, there’s nothing on earth that could undo the curse. That’s exactly why he’s been warned so many times against using it to its fullest abilities.

2. Mary hasn’t told anyone, because they’d probably take it from her, but the longer she keeps the Shadowstaff close the clearer the whispers become, leading her, encouraging. She also has barely any experience dealing with grief, especially of this magnitude, so if this can make her feel a smidge better what’s the harm?

3. Aja’s lost pretty much every scrap of motivation she ever had, with her aunts and Krel though she’s eventually coaxed to meet with a therapist, Mandy is very familiar with everything going on in Arcadia and magic so none of what Aja could tell her would seem outlandish. It takes a few sessions to get words from Aja, and she slowly begins to open up and inch toward a better state of mind, but she’ll never be the same again, the grief won’t ever leave her entirely.

4. Darci and Toby often find comfort in the quiet together, they’ll sit in the graveyard or if Morgana isn’t home they’ll go to Claire’s room, someone has to keep it tidy after all. It’s gotten so terribly dusty from not being lived in, that’s alright though, they’ll keep it clean for her.

5. After Eli is released from the hospital, in much better condition than when he arrived the other four steer clear, not out malice or uncaring but because he’s quite literally unnerving to be around. He’s got this twitchy glint in his fully exposed eye, always watching, always listening. Still under the spell.

6. The infamous pit, like Lazarus, Arthur was talking about is under his manor in a crypt like structure, after Merlin was killed he raided the wizards workshop and combined a bunch of the elixirs into the natural pool, it bubbles and froths black liquid, anyone, dead or alive, thrown in there comes out extremely wrong.

7. In chapter 40 the ‘I don’t—‘ that Claire never finished wasn’t I don’t want to die, it was ‘I don’t, want to be brought back’ more than anything she didn’t want to be a puppet and if that meant staying gone she was okay with the possibility, after all she thought she was going to see Enrique and her parents again.

#not sure why I decided on inexplicable violence and whump today but here we are #also the came back wrong trope would so be utilized if you know who came back #like the little preferences at first then bigger things that just completely make her a different person but what’s really left #after two revivals #also love the idea that she just forever haunts the narrative never to be forgotten #trollhunters #tales of arcadia #toa #jim lake jr #toby domzalski #mary wang #darci scott #asks #arcane blight #au

[discountalien-pancake]

Somewhere in me there is an essay about how anti-spoiler culture is a direct product of and feeds back into a decline in quality of storytelling. The short version is that foreshadowing is a critical skill for writing a good story and the hypervigilance against spoilers in fandom has caused many a writer to neglect it. Audience no longer want to engage deeply with their media, therefore/because writers provide nothing to engage with. It’s a vicious cycle.

#something something you’re so afraid of being predictable that you have forgotten how to write a cohesive narrative #the goal you should aim for is to make your audience go #‘is it??? am i right? am i RIGHT?! OMG I WAS RIGHT’

[feellikemonsters]

#mo xuanyu #mdzs art #self harm tw #mdzs #hes just so #the way he haunts the narrative and drives the story and is totally forgotten #makes me kinda sick #hes writing Wei Wuxian btw

[megatraven]

doodle of a concept ive been playing around with, titled hera's daughters

#lovestruck voltage #lovestruck #astoria: fate's kiss #astoria: lost kisses #labyrinths of astoria #astoria #afk mc #afk mom #afk hera #hera #my art #megatraven draws #the original concept was mc with her mother's ghost behind her standing in front of a portrait of hera #mc being excited to work at the agency; alive #her mother happy for her- and proud; watching over her #hera looking serious (troubled); dead and unfortunately not forgotten #haunting the narrative and all that #anyways this is just a fun doodle cause im havig fun :] #in this specific piece hera's hand rests over mc's eye- mc is blind to her purpose and hera wants to keep it that way #her other hand rests on mc's mother's arm- the one cradling mc's face signifying that her feelings are the same as hers #while also signifying that her mother is hers; theyre still connected despite her having died #mc's mom is cradling mc's face; she wants her child to continue smiling. she wants her to be happy. #the other hand is on her shoulder- a show of support and that she's there still #and mc is none the wiser- excited to become a field agent

[compacflt]

COMPACFLT, ma’am, you’ve absolutely wrecked me with: “My father—my father was kind”. I can’t even tell you exactly why, but that just struck right in the chest with the force of a sledgehammer, gosh. If it’s alright with you, could you please share your headcanons about Ice and Mav’s fathers? I know I’m, like, quoting your own work back to you but I can’t help it: “Well, dead pilot dads, that’s one thing we have in common.” —But do they? Or is one dead pilot dad vastly different from the other?

ice’s dad (Thomas kazansky sr.): asshole army major OH-6 and UH-1 pilot who got shot down over Vietnam in 1967. son of far-eastern-european immigrants. anti-commie. wanted ice to ALSO be a chopper pilot in the army, so ice went navy instead. daredevil dipshit who died & left ice’s mom alone with two young kids & whose death encouraged ice away from breaking the rules or being unsafe (esp. in the air). not necessarily a great person or a great father but died when ice was 8 so also not a huge influence on his life (i know val kilmer has said ice’s father was a big influence… I’ve written elsewhere about why i personally shifted ice’s narrative away from daddy issues and more towards Navy authority in general issues, in light of ice’s character and rank in tgm. GOD i need a master post sorry, but i think you can find it if you search “edts notes” on my blog and scroll for a while). ice’s LACK of a father -> no man to model himself on -> overcompensating & not getting it exactly right (doesn’t know how to talk to other men) -> maverick immediately clocks him as gay -> the plot of my fic.

Maverick’s dad (peter “duke” mitchell sr.): a genuinely awesome person. funny & kind, warm & loving, a truly good father & a great fighter pilot. big american patriot. Comes from a long long line of us navy personnel—maverick has the navy family name & the pedigree ice, as a second generation american, does not. Im still not sure who raised maverick—it’s one of those things I don’t have a strong opinion on, so it could go either way (i posited in the airplane one-shot that he was raised by relatives, aunt & uncle, but I know it’s a popular hc here that he was a foster kid—all equally plausible to me) but I do think he grew up exceedingly bitter, hearing about how great his dad was and how there was just no way! his dad could’ve failed the Navy the way he supposedly did, because he was just such a good person… there’s a real bitterness about original maverick that TGM maverick kind of lost. His bitterness only shows during the “it’s not the plane it’s the pilot” “EXACTLY” exchange (incidentally the scene that gave me the idea that Bradley thinks mav pulled his papers bc he’s openly gay…it’s the pilot not the plane, ouch). but i still think maverick is like deeply deeply bitter about how the navy handled his fathers death, which is what the excerpt i posted on wednesday is actually about—he confesses to ice how disillusioned he has been with the navy as an institution since he found out the truth about his father’s heroism. I know i just just just said that Maverick’s patriotic conservatism is his reason for existence in the meta “why we make mil propaganda movies” sense, and i stand by that, but i think on a human character level there probably has to be a little bit of deep-seated resentment towards the Navy for smearing his father’s good name and his own good name in the process. My maverick grew up a good Christian kid, called himself peter jr. after his good guy father, who never broke ANY rules until he was radicalized by not getting into the academy (“punish the son for the sins of his father”) and basically lost his mind for 30+ years. “If my family name automatically makes me a sinner in the navy’s eyes, then I might as well sin anyway.”

#i really don’t like Maverick’s character in tgm #which has been dulled down and his original motivation forgotten (upset at not getting into the USNA) #for the sake of…. pulling his OWN son’s papers from the USNA??? #to serve the mil propaganda movie aim of recruitment as ive written about elsewhere on this blog #i tried to rectify this in my fics but it also meant that my exTREMELY bitter maverick is at odds with #the gentle soft-spoken slightly neutered maverick TGM actually presents us with #🤷🏽‍♀️ imo the bigger narrative evil is making maverick pull Bradley’s papers (punish the son for the sins of his father) so that was my main #fix-it priority. #mav’s bitterness is a side-effect of Bradley’s papers getting pulled anyway #yes to some extent they all have daddy issues #but i think it’s more complicated than that #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #top gun #top gun maverick #bradley rooster bradshaw #and also yeah i know it’s cool to make ice like representative of navy lineage but #imo theres a reason they gave him a Russian name in the 1980s. like.. he’s the semi antagonist #It’s overt Cold War propaganda. he is Soviet-coded. hes meant to invoke anti-american sentiment. #so personally I shifted ice away from navy lineage… he’s from an immigrant family he has a lot to prove and a lot standing in his way #ive written about icemav & religion but if i haven’t made it clear: the Navy is their religion.

[the-moon-pal]

Thinking of Snake Actor Mark surprisingly and now I'm thinking of running with an idea HDHDH

#damien talks #Markiplier #surprising i know! #actually imma talk about it here- tho also keep in mind i have noooot thought about him in a bit and i may have forgotten stuff about him #but basically.... HSHDJDJ SO.. I don't know much about it but i know cannibalism seen as love is popular these days.. HDHDHD #so adding with how controlling of the narrative is the actor and how y/n could be basically be the perfect [whatever he chooses] #idk why i thought it be neat to have like.. an other mother situation #like wanting the narrative to go so much his way that maybe literally entirely having yn (as a meal lol) would be like the best for well- #a literal snake in this case HDHDHDHD #IDK I FEEL LIKE im doing this more for fun than anything lore related but. also this is the most ive given though over actor mark #i hope this is ok to put in the tag. imagine if suddenly mark came back and saw this HDHDHDHD #anyhow i might draw this.. later maybe HDHDJ #tell me ur thoughts if u see this?? if u want #actor mark #snake actor #ik he had a tag im my blog but i forgor