#Boundary Narrative

[give-soup-please]

we need to talk about the fact that for many of the posters in season one, they are literally on opposite sides and/or have a dividing line between them

and now they're literally crossed over in some way for the season 2 posters

THEY'RE LITERALLY ON THEIR OWN SIDE NOW, PEOPLE!

CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS?

#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #losing my mind again #yeah uh #can we fucking talk about the crossing of established boundaries as a narrative device? #yes i know it's obvious #but like #LOOK

[womensartprojectasia]

Installing Treasure House 2022 for the Love and Hope~2022 World Women's Art Confluence Art Festival // We/Women's Boundary Narrative ~ Continuity, Flow and Convergence.

Therefore, at this moment, we gather the female artistic power of Taiwan & the world on the east coast of Taiwan, to view the roles & creations of contemporary female artists from different perspectives. A contemporary context of boundary dialogue & extension in contemporary Taiwanese women's creations, and provides a medium for viewers to think about the relationship between themselves, others, & the societies we live in. On the one hand, it is a metaphor for the brewing of new things from existing things, & at the same time, it is exploring the connected to extend, evolve, & to grow meaning.

Exhibition Venue: Taitung Art MuseumExhibition Date: 25 Jun to 4 Sep 2022 Instructor: Ministry of Culture｜Organizer: Taitung County Government, 

｜Sponsors: Taishin Bank, Itayuan Hostel Taitung County Aboriginal Culture Association, Norden Ruder Hostel - Taitung Branch, Qu Tao Man Hotel - Taitung Hotel Cham Cham Taitung, Women's Bookstore, National Women's House

｜Equipment cooperation: ViewSonic

#taiwanwomenartassociation #treasure house #Tiffany Singh #Jui-Pin Chang #Boundary Narrative #contemporary art #taitung fine arts museum #installation art #social practice

[sparring-spirals]

Bell’s Hells: *successfully defeat a big robot*

All of us, unaware, fools: *applauding* Incredible! Bravo! How exciting! Nothing can top this!

Episode 50, abruptly and without warning:

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#I was reading tags from the ep and had such a strong memory I had to share it #anyway I’m now rewatching this narrative telephone and it’s still so good. BOUNDARIES. #critical role #cr spoilers #c3e50 #shitpost #video #narrative telephone #beauregard #cr cast #liam obrien #this is a joke bc beau and caleb being there is actually very reasonable plot wise #however /i/ was bamboozled in the moment despite intellectually understanding that. so. thats what really matters

[sketching-shark]

Been a couple of years, but I still think fondly of Grace Monroe from Infinity Train for achieving that very rare redemption arc narrative of "the people you hurt are allowed to sever all ties, and you can still become a better, happier person."

#grace monroe #grace infinity train #infinity train #in a sea of demands that you must always forgive the people who hurt you no matter what #it was nice to see a plot that gave good weight to feelings and motivations on both side of the equation #hm. #come to think of it #it seems a lot of redemption arcs usually go the route #of redemption through death #or very quick if not immediate acceptance into team the people you traumatized #much more rare to see a redemption arc #where the one on the journey to redemption has to accept that at least some people they've hurt can't or won't forgive them #but that this doesn't automatically mean they can't become a kinder person #hell in grace's case it was pretty shocking/refreshing to see that it was precisely because someone set a hard no-contact boundary with her #that she lost someone she loved but still hurt #which really forced her to reconsider what she was doing #it was a true 'oh no not the quencies' kind of story #but also a 'you will accept the quencies and go forward with your life & hard gained knowledge' narrative #redemption arcs

[thequeenofmyownscreen]

Laudna asks an extremely important question, now that they're back on Ruidus... How far will they go in this information-gathering mission ?

I feel like the second time is kind of a bonus time, to find out more. They did much already - and yes, it would be frustrating to know there's a capital city and not go there, but also the capital will be FOR SURE the most dangerous place. So it's extremely important to establish a frontier, a situation where they bamf out... Boundaries.

#they kinda did not answer her #also yes the boundaries is from the Beau story from Narrative Telephone #critical role #cr spoilers #cr campaign 3 #CR3E86

[astrologicaldreamin]

Neptuarian Placements

I almost question if most of the "errors" people with disrupted or prominent Neptune placements experience is second-hand and not individually stemmed, as if we were taught to ignore our intuition because, socially, it seemed misplaced. People with tense Neptune-Mars aspects are not weak within their drive and ambitions, but are confined to the expectations to act like so; etc.

#just a thought #im a little tired of the weak neptune narrative #neptune is an expansion of the mind we're taught to avoid #boundaries permitted always ofc #neptune #neptune aspects #astrology #astrology observations #zodiac signs #zodiac #astro observations #astro notes #astrology notes #astro placements

[geneticdriftwood]

i’m having thoughts about batman vs green arrow, and how the central characters shape the stories their supporting casts are allowed

like, in batman comics, bruce’s story is about being permanently shaped by a grief he can never move on from (his parent’s deaths, and later jason’s death). the premise of batman, bruce’s unyielding dedication to his mission, requires that bruce always be living in the shadow of his formative trauma, always responding to it. structurally, he can never be allowed to heal (because a happy bruce wayne isn’t batman), which means he can’t really grow. his supporting cast can develop and grow in their own right, but they can’t leave (bc they’re batman characters), so they stay stuck in the same unhealthy dynamics with bruce. this creates a narrative paradigm where positive change rarely sticks, cycles aren’t broken, and the easiest story to tell is a tragedy. bruce isn’t allowed a happy ending, so nobody who loves him gets one either.

now compare this with green arrow, where ollie’s stories are so often about having the humility, courage, and determination to take accountability for your mistakes and change for the better. transformative change is his whole deal! it’s the point of the island! and his relationships with his supporting cast reflect this. ollie messes up, he learns from it, and his relationships with other characters develop and improve accordingly. the point of the story is that ollie changes, making change possible for everyone. and so green arrow books present a paradigm where characters are allowed to grow in ways that stick, where harm can be learned from instead of brushed aside, and where happy endings aren’t guaranteed but do largely feel possible. yk?

#is this even anything? idfk #apologies to arrow fans if i’m off base. i’m still pretty early in my ga reading but this is what i’ve gathered so far #this is a pessimistic take on batman but like. my favorite character is dick grayson so can you really blame me? #this is why batman comics accidentally do such a good job depicting the cyclical nature of abuse #bruce isn’t allowed to heal so he keeps hurting his kids in the same ways #and his kids can’t set boundaries that stick bc they have to come back and be his supporting cast again #bam! inescapable toxic family dynamics! #dick’s case is the most tragic to me on a meta-narrative level #because he’s a major character in his own right so he sometimes escapes being bruce’s supporting cast (and thus bruce’s abuse) for a bit #either as nightwing or in titans books #but he was bruce’s sidekick for irl decades and he'll never fully be allowed to break free #dc #bat tag #arrow tag #ollie queen #oliver queen #green arrow #dc meta #mine: dc #not main tagging this with bruce or batman bc that's hitting the hornets nest lets be real. #and anyways this is for ollie fans and my dick grayson tragedy enjoyer mutuals

[spider-man-2o99]

ok so apparently i can just never articulate my Deep Thoughts on purpose and can only do it by accident whilst rambling in the notes of a bookmark where the veneer of anonymity feels like a false-protective coat to hide behind, or somesuch-something like that. idk. anyways. anyways. i don't like how fucking mean-spirited across the spider-verse as a film seemingly is for literally no reason at all other than just bcuz it Could Be. y/k.

#talking tag #atsv #spider-man #spider-man 2099 #miguel o'hara #miles morales #suicide mention #suicide tw #& i am talking abt the Actual Textual Content of atsv btw not the Fandom Interpretation of it. bcuz those r 2 different things lmao. #every additional piece of context that we learn abt the behind-the-scenes too. it just. Sours this film to me. like drinking rotten milk #only ONE person outside of his family unconditionally supports miles. ONE. ONE!!!!!!!!!! the whole film!!!! #(obie obie broauwn i hate the AM i hate the PM u will live in my heart for ever) #and Knowing now how much the writers obviously didnt give a shit abt Mig.. it all just reads like that rotten any1 can wear the mask but yo #and that echoes in the narrative disdain for the one other spider-man in the whole movie whose origin is /like miles/. #who DID have a spider-man in his world who died before he got his powers who IS motivated by fear by wanting 2 be good but thinking he cant #You Cant Wear This Mask. The Only People Who Are Like You Actually LIKE You Are Twisted And Wrong And Warped Inevitably By That Wrongness. #Nobody Will Ever Understand What You Have Been Through And You Were Stupid And Naive To Ever Try Otherwise. You Petulant Child. #and the spider society treats miguel like shit like im honestly surprised that was just such a Casual Thing in the movie but no #they microaggress him 2 hell and back they insult him to his face they do not respect his boundaries they flat-out just Dont Respect Him #and he Takes It. of course he takes it. it is Literally All He Knows. taking it and hating himself and knowing that he is Different. #Christ almighty. what a shitshow.

[danmeichael]

both ad lib lovers and the summer hikaru died to something really interesting wherein they take typical genre conventions and set-ups of BL and place them into a genre other than romance, while still portraying the romantic undertones. where the summer hikaru died does this with horror, ad lib lovers does this with comedy.

as opposed to hikaru's focus on horror, in ad lib lovers, jealousy, desire, and a fear of inadequacy and loving someone more than they love you is portrayed through the lens of improv. this accurately depicts that having a crush on someone as an adult is humiliating.

#not fandom #the summer hikaru died #sokuseki ad lib lovers #is it weird i could talk a lot about how well executed ad lib lovers is #like OF COURSE i can talk about the summer hikaru died and horror as an allegory for queer coming of age #but ad lib lovers seems significantly less narratively dense on the surface but is (in my opinion) so perfectly executed #the mix of diagetic and non-diagetic comedy is so fantastic and both are executed really well #it's also INCREDIBLY grounded in a way a lot of manga focused on comedy really aren't #oh my god stop talking this was supposed to be a joke post oH MY GOD #it truly feels like two guys trying to be funny. i believe that their act is funny in-universe #as well as finding the non-diagetic jokes that are for you the viewer really funny. #reframing common BL tropes for couples getting together as them getting their COMEDY DUO together #while also doing a really good job of developing a very sincere (if goofy) romance just outside the boundaries of the cliche works so well #i think there is a tendency to undervalue the effort that goes into making comedy work #comedy is seen as the lowest common denominator #but this is a manga that is just mechanically incredibly well executed on top of being really enjoyable #in my opinion idk #AND ANOTHER THING another thing these works share is societal. #horror and comedy are two places that queerness was historically allowed to exist in media mostly unquestioned #you are allowed to be queer if you're the butt of the joke #you're allowed to be queer if you're the monster. #in this way that makes them such a poetic canvas to explore a genuine and sincere love story between same-sex characters

[zvaigzdelasas]

Convos about whether AI art is "art" are not only boring, but also tend to blur the line between a human interacting with AI to make art, vs an AI "making art by itself", which necessarily implies the AI having Agency & a Sense of Actuality outside of its training data

#my position & also the right position: using ai for art is an artistic tool. there is no point where AI can 'make art by itself' #whatever the boundary of human input is on the AI/system of AIs is precisely where the capacity for art begins #ai does not have agency & any debate which ascribes them agency is buying into AI as a christological narrative #if you make an ai which 'makes art without human input' then congrats - that entire system is your artistic creation #sorta like a rube goldberg machine

[sword-and-stars]

With every day this becomes more and more relevant.

#for the record your boundaries are about YOU #you cannot control anyone’s behavior but you can control your own #‘if you do _____ then I will _____’ is an appropriate boundary #‘if you do ______ then you’re just a bad person so don’t’ is not #boundaries are enforceable things that you do for yourself #like blocking or removing yourself from the narrative or situation #this post has been brought to you by the comments on a video about dog nutrition that word-for-word #could have been a fourteen year old’s anti rhetoric-filled manifesto

[trekkele]

Oh? You like [popular ship]? Which one is always making "unecessary boundaries" and is "emotionally incompetent" and which one is always stomping over those boundaries in the name of "emotional competence"?

#hi expressing boundaries is not emotional incompetence be so fucking for real rn #like yes this is about superbat specifically but it happens so often!!! with ships!!!! #bruce saying 'no I do not want a relationship' and then being pushed and pushed by the narrative isn't a fun little thing #its fucking annoying #if I had a crush on someone and they repeatedly ignored my boundaries to talk about it I would probably not have a crush on them anymore lma #the funniest thing is how canon Bruce is a HUGE romantic #man is ready to fall in love at the drop of a hat #he won't act on those feelings without the other person expressing interest because he is self aware about being a train wreck #meanwhile Clark has told one person his identity and then immediately married her #id love a fic where Clark pushes and pushes past Bruce's boundaries and everyone else points out how rude that is dude #playboy therapy does this actually it's great

[menciemeer]

It's interesting to me that (unless I really missed something) after the point where Hannibal sends Dolarhyde after Will's family, Will stops framing his work on the Red Dragon case as something altruistic.

Prior to that, Will talks about saving people. He even, immediately before the attack on his family, tries to convince Hannibal to help him via an appeal to his better nature (!!!)

WILL GRAHAM Do you know who they [the family that Dolarhyde is going to target] are? HANNIBAL Yes. WILL GRAHAM You're willing to let them die. HANNIBAL They're not my family, Will. And I'm not letting them die. You are.

(Which, just, listen. Hannibal is maybe the single least likely person, ever, to be swayed by the argument "maybe it would be better if fewer people died." Honestly.)

I just think it's interesting that after the attack on Will's family, that whole motivation (or pretense-at-motivation) is quietly dropped. It's not about saving the next family and it's not even really about the fear that Dolarhyde will try to finish the job. ("I can't go home until the Red Dragon is out of the way" reads more psychological to me than a statement of actual physical danger, although the viewer does also have more direct insight into Dolarhyde than Will does, and we know that he doesn't really seem interested in trying again...)

Will starts drifting further into Dolarhyde's mindset right at the end of the season, and by the time the final fight at the cliff house happens, it doesn't really feel about anything other than self-actualization. Will enacts his own becoming upon Dolarhyde. It's not about who Dolarhyde is or what he might do in the future so much as it is about Will, and what Will wants.

Anyway. The whole point of this is that it's a fun alternative (and, yes, compatible) motivation for Hannibal to direct Dolarhyde at Will's family in the first place. Will came back to the FBI and he came back to Hannibal, but he wrapped himself in a shroud of morality that doesn't align with Hannibal's view of Will's underlying self. Beyond the jealousy angle, Hannibal is making Dolarhyde bad in a way that is immensely personal to Will, so that Will can't deny that how good it would feel to hurt him.

#this was meant to be short but maybe it's medium now #oh well #i've got some postscript thoughts too #which are that #i'm not particularly sold on the idea that will's final evolution is a particularly justice-oriented killer #i don't really have solid evidence to point to which is why this is going down here #it's more just a personal preference than anything i can argue for #it just feels like a whole lot to go through just to end up as a vigilante you know #like you did all that so that you could become a marvel protagonist #really? #so. it feels like there would be more of this chipping away at will's boundaries and self-narrative in their future #from “a man so bad that killing him felt good” to just #“killing him felt good” #hmm hmm hmm #hannibal

[phosphorescent-naidheachd]

Nikolai : The Darkling  as  Wylan : Kaz

#it's about the narrative foils who have so much in common despite drawing their moral boundaries in different places #w/ the first set of characters knowing when to step back while the second set keep barreling ahead #but also the first set having certain privileges (both on a watsonian and doylist level) #that conveniently allow them to escape having to make some of the worst difficult decisions that the second set aren't able to escape #idk i have Thoughts™ about this #including thoughts about the way that the primary canon love interests for nikolai and wylan #are characters who initially were into their foils (the darkling and kaz) #there's just a LOT to dig into here #// #nikolai lantsov #the darkling #aleksander morovoza #wylan van eck #kaz brekker #grishaverse #the grisha trilogy #shadow and bone #sab #soc #six of crows #six of crows duology #grishaverse meta #well sort of?

[jlf23tumble]

"Maybe I drink too much for a singer. Maybe I smoke too much for a singer. But it can be quite demanding, this life. So, for me to have those little vices, it's important." - Louis for The Telegraph

He even acknowledges himself that he smokes and drinks A LOT. but he sees it as his little pleasures in life. He says he needs it because he finds the life he lives demanding. He also once said that he needs a drink before the show to calm his nerves. So that sounds very much like he uses alcohol and cigarettes as a coping mechanism. That is NOT healthy. Wherever the memory loss comes from, he still has a problem with drugs and alcohol. He admits it in almost every interview! He just doesn’t see that it is a problem. Just like you :) instead of making fun of people who are concerned about Louis, you should at least acknowledge the fact that these concerns are very reasonable to have at this point. You don’t have to agree but making fun of it makes you look like a fool who is deeply in denial about reality.

#i'm not gonna acknowledge that at ALL #and i don't care if i look like a fool #at this point you have two choices: support local smoker/drinker louis tomlinson or don't support him #the secret third option of sending anons to people who don't care if he does or doesn't isn't really a thing #hate to spoil the whole parasocialness of it all #but you don't get a say in what he does or doesn't do #you only get a say in whether you support him or don't #and that's a fine line baby #but it's there #telling other people anonymously how unhealthy it is feels like it skirts the boundaries of unhealthiness in its own way if ya feel me #and as a heads up: this kind of handwringing nonsense is just gonna earn vintage smoking and drinking ads #i've got 'em for days #i have a scorching hot take i don't dare put on main but my lordt i'm thinkin' it #i keep going back to read the top of this and i'm floored that you can pull a direct quote #and then MISQUOTE it to fit your own alarmist narrative #to pinterest i go

[shallowrambles]

Metatron told Cas to cut out the heart of an innocent, and he did it. Then I see takes where people position Metatron as trustworthy and Cas as a shrinking violet.

No. Cutting open an innocent was the very first task. Let my man be flawed.

#cas + agency #cas + mistakes #cas referred to her as innocent #metatron confirmed SHE IS innocent but i didn’t say it’d be easy #and stop saying dean is a magic narrative who exists to punish cas for undertaking said tasks #they were exposed as evil tasks from the jump #when you ascribe cosmic events to dean’s emotions that’s how we got into this whole mess of dean as holy scapegoat who isn’t allowed #to have his own emotions and boundaries #and how he gets pinned with others’ mistakes #simply because he has understandable emotions about said actions #you cannot crucify someone for being intuitive #and dean’s intuition runs out after his existential crisis in season 15 #he can’t tell up from down and that devastated him #devastates him