#International tensions

[ironunderstands]

Don’t attack me but I really like radioapple, I think it’s so funny, but I could never see it genuinely becoming a relationship. However I must say that stupid rivalry, to stupid rivalry with begrudging respect is a top 10 character dynamic, and Alastor/Lucifer execute it perfectly.

#radioapple #alastor #lucifer morningstar #hasbin hotel #also I am on the aroace spectrum myself lol don’t come after me for that part #The appeal of a toxic queerplatonic but not really- relationship is ever present #don’t ask questions #Sometimes u just want a rivalry with a bit to much tension than what should be reasonable #Just adds a little spice in life #Firm believer that tension is what makes fictional relationships interesting anyways (either internally or externally) #And radioapple is pure tension I love it #I’m rambling whoops

[staticrevelations]

fascinated by the way fhjy is setting up all this academic pressure and focusing on internal conflict and the minutiae of high school life and especially how that is reflected in the world like with Gorgug not being able to multiclass cuz of how he rages and Kristen's god seemingly being a reflection of her follower's primary emotional state and the prospect of a rival adventuring group

#really interested in how brennan crafts a narrative around this #i think it's a big swing to take to possibly make things smaller and more internal after the grand adventure of sophomore year #and so far it's super intriguing #i feel like it might be more like monsterhearts where the internal and emotional stuff is a huge source of tension and drama #dimension 20 spoilers #dimension 20 fantasy high #dimension 20 fantasy high spoilers #dimension 20 #fantasy high spoilers #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fantasy high junior year spoilers

[averlym]

" just...come here. just sit here with me" (...that one scene from princess momonoke, click for better resolution)

#tw death mentioned for the tag rambles!! (sorry) #meme redraw gone wrong (high effort). don't ask me how i did this- i don't know either. consider this perhaps an AU of the pyre scene? #or more accurately just my internal wonderings visualised. sometimes the vibes from the implications don't pan out the same way #i also lost the original sketch somewhere in my papers. alas. i vaguely recall thinking this would be haha funny and then somewhere down #the line it turned to angst. other quotes that inspired this from the show were 'ily. i'm sorry' and 'i will always be so proud of you'. #smth smth they met on the roof!! vincent stops quincy from jumping off and then. vincent tries to die + eventually quincy kills him on the #very same roof. anyway the quincent death scene was spinning around for a bit in my head and out of the miscellaneous sketches this won out #wanted to play w the strong blue lighting + bg + silhouette things that you get w stage lighting // replaced the knife w vincent's scalpel #quincy is kneeling bc poses + idk why it's fun staging for him ;-; // also the proximity + intimacy.. // the pyre is also in the bg #but it's silhouetted behind quincy. i think the last quincy post made me associate symbolism (help??) bc as i was painting i was thinking o #angel wings ksdjfh // not to mention the halos. halos are always fun to paint.. shiny stuff... #and from the last vincent art. i guess the star and eye imagery carried over. hm. tried to get the quincy halo to match so its like a #rounder less spiky star? which hehe aligns w the sun vibes (that i??can't explain??) but more importantly here i was thinking about #binary stars for the glowy parts. two in orbit in pull to one another.. tension.. ue. also the glow for vincent goes to stabby eye so like #behind the face shown to viewer. meanwhile for quincy it goes in front of the face #and of course u have the downward linking implied line from quincy's tears +scalpel + glowy eye. #this is supposed to be rotatable.. in landscape form u can have either quincy or vincent upright (pov) + it should work both ways #//bonus stuff is vincent holding the skask w bloody hands + shadow looks like blood spatters. like it would if quincy did the stabby. #hhhh this is the most. confused i have been making a piece lately.. just toss in a lot of fun visual stuff and mix.. #if the rambling analysis here seems pointless and confused i think that's why. this is why u should plan out your essays o.O.. #oh. stuff i just remembered: the whole impetus for vincent planning his own death was so quincy would be happy / it's already #mentioned before quincy kills vincent that he's severely injured- vincent says it's fine- ig u could intepret it as a finishing blow? #hastened over the phaethon announcement- when they make the second announcement quincy looks up smiling until the admin gives it to #beatrix-he didn't know.. // <- so for this it's possible to infer that vincent wasn't very attached to living anymore.. hence why they look #more accepting above. while quincy is looking very angsty and conflicted. yeah.. // tldr! don't look into it too deeply it's a meme redraw #adamandi #quincy cynthius martin #vincent aurelius lin #tw knife

[opheliaintherushes]

The shots of Rosie's crew airborne, alone, in silence, with bits of planes falling around them - stunning.

#thank goodness I discovered Apple puts all their Friday shows online Thursday night because the tension was too much #I don't know who gets most kudos this episode #Anthony Boyle for his arc from dazed and confused to Raphaelite tears #Nate Mann for his arc from slapstick laughter to internalized disbelief #or my arc of not caring too deeply about Blake Neely's score to being absolutely mesmerized by it #phew #Masters of the Air

[child-of-peace]

The Bad Tension™️

I saw a post on autistic meltdowns and it didn’t address something, so I wanted to ask a question to the autistic community. Do you get The Bad Tension™️ when you have a meltdown?

Bc I get it when I feel both overstimulated and understimulated, but when I feel understimulated, stimming helps. When I’m overstimulated, I end up having a full-on meltdown.

The Bad Tension™️ sits under my skin and the best way I can describe it is like when you have a buildup of lactic acid, except it feels nothing like that. If I don’t stim, it makes me feel so uncomfortable, and so I pace or flap or stretch my arms out to get rid of it. When I have a meltdown, I end up aggressively stimming or hitting myself in an attempt to get rid of it and I’m not entirely in control anymore.

I have an autistic friend who says that she also experiences this so I was wondering if it was a universal experience or not? Is there an actual name for this sensation?

#I’ve just never seen someone talk about the physical internal feeling that comes with meltdowns #so idk if this is an actual thing #The Bad Tension™️ #Actually Autistic #Actually AuDHD #Actually ADHD #Autism #ADHD #Neurodivergent #Autistic Meltdowns #Own Post #Poll

[catty-words]

considering this -

- in contrast to devi and ben's obnoxious, line-toeing tension:

(the rituals are sooooo intricate).

considering paxton's simple advice to fabiola - make the first move and what you say doesn't matter. how you say it is everything - and though fab herself doesn't get to make good on that advice, fabiola and aneesa nonetheless manage to overcome their weird tension with straightforward honesty.

considering you showed me what not to do and aneesa seeing ben's unwillingness to put himself all the way out there making him miserable as reason to offer that straightforward honesty to fab.

considering the way that feeds into ben being a very deliberate antithesis to paxton's proven-successful relationship advice, with his version of making the first move the indirect insertion of himself into devi's path and his how you say it mode of choice being constant negging that thinly-yet-effectively veils his true feelings.

and

he wants to kiss her so bad it makes him look stupid, but he is waiting for devi to fail at finding another option before he makes his move. he needs the plausible deniability, because if it's just a game they're playing, he doesn't have to chance getting his heart broken again. it's an insecurity-fulfilling feedback loop and the perfect way for him to both live in the hope of possibility and the heartache of rejection and i am eating it up with a silver fucking spoon.

#his struggle to be vulnerable for fear it'll drive the people he likes the most further away from him #vs his ability to be the most heartfelt and earnest character of them all #as a constant source of internal tension for him is everything to me. #catty's perpetual nhie rewatch #nhie meta #fabiola x aneesa #devi x ben #never have i ever #ben gross #you served c*nt instead of genuine human emotion again. dumbass.

[anneway-nitheliniel]

Halsin is my emotional support druid.

#baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #halsin #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate halsin #really he is so supportive #and validating #he doesnt bitch when you ask him to stay in camp #when i am down i just listen to him tell my tav how she has surpassed his expectations #the group returns after a day of fighting and running about bd internal bickering #and he just wraps tav in his arms and holds her until the tension seeps out of her

[total-drama-brainrot]

do rice krispies alenoah get together? or do they have a battle to beat all battles? uhm thats probably not the best way to describe what im tryna say, but you probably get it?? uh yeah

bold of you to assume that "a battle to beat all battles" isn't them getting together 🙄

anyway noah bites alejandro again and gives him rabies and alejandro fucking dies. that's how the fic ends.

#/j #🚫 NO SPOILERS 🙅‍♀️ #anon i get why you're asking but the vagueness of their relationship is like. half of the fic's premise. #the tension between them is supposed to be up to interpretation #are they both infatuated with each other? or is noah way to Reasonably Fucking Terrified to ever return alejandro's feelings? #are alejandro's feelings even valid? or is it just possessiveness he feels? does he even know HOW to love? #(will he learn how to love in a healthy way? will he realise that his behaviour is toxic?) #ect ect. you get the idea. #rice krispies fic #replies #shitposting #no main tags we die like chris' interns

[wonder-worker]

"In reality Richard III invented a Woodville scare as a screen for his own conspiracy"

-A.J Pollard, "Richard III and the Princes in the Tower"

#lmao #r*chard iii #my post #I think that's true for all usurpations and coups to an extent #but its 10x more applicable and accurate for Richard III #Not only because of the compressed length of time (a mere 3 months as opposed to years of back-and-forth tensions) #but also because ultimately one of the key reasons Richard could do what he did was because he did it from the heart of the political #institution (ie he was an internal threat rather than an external one) #and he was someone who was trusted and loved rather than mistrusted and hated. His betrayal was political but it also had far more personal #ramifications for everyone involved - most people simply did not expect it from him and cooperated with him precisely because of that #which enabled him to seize power before most people even realized what he was doing #And there's the fact that he actually did stage a conspiracy by accusing the Woodvilles of plotting to attack and ambush him #and produced weapons from his own war in Scotland as fake 'proof' - when in fact we know that HE deceived and ambushed THEM #there's also the (propagandic) lie that they usurped him from the position as Lord Protector when they certainly didn't #either Edward IV didn't appoint Richard Lord Protector meaning the Woodvilles denied him nothing #OR the council collectively chose to have a council rule during Edward V's minority rather than a Protector (something they were entirely #within their rights to do both socially and legally) #so claims that they wrongly defied Edward IV's last wishes or broke the law (which Mancini repeats in his account) must be seen as exactly #that - propagandic lies to vilify EW and her family #when in fact Richard was the one plotting a seizure of power - whether it was as Lord Protector or as King #(of course these are just two things - there's a whole laundry list of others) #so this is definitely applicable to him

[zvaigzdelasas]

"AI can make art without human interaction because at the end of the day, it does exactly what humans do with art - break each new piece of art down to the quantifiable basis vectors that you've implicitly constructed about 'art in general' and then faithfully reproduce a new observation of that 'art in general' by smoothly interpolating between observed instantiations of those basis vectors.

You know, like how humans do"

#the joke is that it can be argued that if you do art like an ai youre not necessarily doing art youre producing commodities #assumption being that 'art' stands in an internal tension with a society whose subjectivity is shaped by the commodity form #which i think is pretty inarguable - the argument is over how that tension can be reconciled #i think a salient difference to point out that distinguishes human from ai is the countability of the set of basis vectors #i wouldnt disagree that humans do 'break down' art in some capacity - otherwise 'style' would be entirely singular #the point is really 'how many numbers are there between 0 & 1?' #'how many subcategories are these qualia broken down into?' #i think creativity & externality depend on uncountably divisible qualia #some kind of infinity needs to sneak in somewhere to point to the outside #all this to say @ anon lol for thinking ai is like an ontological evil #but also lol @ anyone who treats the form of AI as isomorphic to the form of human activity #taylor series can absolutely objectively represent certain analytical functions - as long as the error is monotonically negative #ie so long as each subsequent member of the series 'gets closer' to a natural representation of the analytic function #mandatory disclaimer for new followers: #human use of ai for artistic purposes is art - ai cannot generate art without human interaction at some point in the sequence #ideology of the blackbox is the same as the ideology of plug-and-chug #(i know theyre the same because they transform similar inputs to similar outputs!) #& im on mobile so cant move this tag back up but i dont necessarily agree w the maximalist take of 'commodified art isnt art' #but i also think there is a qualitative difference between commodified art & non commodified art #& the ai form is actually pretty isomorphic to the value form in general imo #it cant replace all human labor but it couldnt replace any concrete human labor ... #...if that concrete form of labor hadnt become reducible to that which can be reached through gradient descent #also if u argue that the black box of 'ai breaking down art to make new art' is isomorphic to 'human breaking down art to make new art' #then an implication of that is that ai ***can make art without human interaction*** #otherwise if the blackboxes are isomorphic then why have humans in the loop? whats the qualitative difference? #the proper framing is seeing ai as an augmentation of the decision cycle of humans instead of having a 'decision cycle' themselves

[noahtally-famous]

tda featuring duntrent, gwourtney, a proper characterization for trent and his ocd, exes gwent and duncney (plus initial awkward tension to sincere friendship and solidarity), and a final two duncan and courtney would’ve slayed so hard

#it would’ve been tension all around stg #Duncan’s slight internal homophobia plus him never even considering being bi until he and Trent grow closer #courtney and gwen having fruity vibes from the Start #duncney being the one to take the longest to move away from the awkwardness of their split #hence why them being the final two would’ve been interesting bc all the tension makes a comeback #them being part of the final four >>> #trent being part-hesitant abt his ocd and part-accepting of it #everyone being supportive (and duncan and gwen and courtney making sure no one insults him) #courtney-trent friendship #plus platonic gwuncan #best of all? no love triangle yet there’s still drama and tension #I can imagine duntrent kissing in the heat of the moment due to pent up emotions #and then dancing around the topic (and each other) #while gwourtney just talks it out like civilized humans and kiss and it’s more or less fluffy #like the extreme cases would be hilarious #and gwen and courtney have to put it upon themselves to get these two pining dumbasses together somehow #for the sake of everyone’s sanity #stg they’d be the hit in nearly every aftermath show lmao #kit speaks #total drama #noahtally-famous #kit stuff #tda #total drama action #duntrent #gwourtney #td duncan #td courtney #td gwen #td trent

[ranger-kellyn]

oh it's over for y'all i did it. i cracked the code. i FINALLY. after all these years of making them my favorite accessory pairing, i FINALLY>>> have an idea for a full airplaneshipping fic where they are the main focus

#THANK U shower after a jog #for YEARS.....YEARS I TELL YOU Y E A R S #WANTED TO WRITE A PROPER AIRPLANE FIC AND NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #it's nothing ground breaking or earth shattering but like #something along the lines of: #elesa is having to take a small break from being a gym leader due to some sort of fashion gig that has her traveling all over the world #away from unova for at least a year or so #elesa and skyla had been tiptoeing a little painfully around their romantic feelings for years at that point #and the separation is putting a strain on that #elesa had internally been hoping skyla would ask her to not go through with it - but she didn't #(bc skyla is never going to let herself be the thing that gets in the way of elesa's career) #and then skyla gets in her head about figuring it's her own fault for not saying anything if elesa finds a real partner while she's away #and then maybe skyla takes a small break of her own from the gym to line up a flight job to one of the cities elesa has a show in #and maybe elesa's manager is cool and skyla works with her to more or less make it a surprise for elesa #and it's just...The Best weekend #and turns into skyla taking more and more time away from the gym to meet with elesa around the regions of the world #i want yearning!!!!!!!!!!! i want longing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #i want the tension to build and build and build until it!!!!!!!! snaps!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #writing tag

[slow-button-off]

I'm sorry but I already kinda have to stan Audi just because the first thing they did was shit on Merc.

#intra German mudfights are the best mudfights #including the Austrian/German tensions with Toto RB and Marko and we are in for a right treat #also I always have small internal crisis when I refer to Mercedes as Merc because it doesn't work in German #but I always say Mercedes the German way in my head but I don't like typing it

[taniushka12]

me every night at 2 am, every single time: what if i write? what if i kept writing?

#grabbing myself by the collar of my shirt: write you bastard!!! write!!! #oh man. That too is alwake i suppose 😔😔😔 #tani's personal shit #ive got those two alan/barry wips and that alicec/zane thingy i need to edit and just generally make better bc rn its pretty mid tbqh #what's funny abt the alanbarrys is that one of them is smut but still the amount of unresolved tension of both fics by the end is High #a mere bj won't solve your yearning & internalized homophobia u_u

[bitchkay]

I need a love triangle story with Toa and Guy with MC in the middle but its actually a rivals to lovers where they fall in love instead with MC as a mediator and they have a big fight, throwing punches, headmasters rules be damned, where they actually rough each other up until someone pulls them apart from eachother and they end up having a talk (against their will) and realize MC really isn't their goal is it?

"Well, if you hate me that much, then fuck off! Let me be someone else’s problem!"

"I don’t want you being someone else’s problem is the fucking problem here! I want--! ..."

"..."

"..."

"You don't actually hate eachother... do you?"

#court of darkness #guy avari #toa qelsum #i don't have the brain cells to produce this #theres definitely a lot of trauma that needs to be unpacked to execute this #not only with their families but also covering the “do i like men?” issue and navigating queerness and internalized homophobia #this definitely would not be a story covered in flowers and glitter thats for sure #its rough and its ugly with jagged broken edges #mc not really being opposed to either one of them were they to seriously try and win her over but watching it all happen in front of her #she realizes ''... this isn't really about me anymore... is it?'' she realizes this is more than just them pursuing the same girl #the tension between them is different than just that of rivals #and mc plays a role leading to reconciliation between the two... and maybe more