#Symbolism is my best friend

[redtippedfox]

Fall of the Monarch

(Coming Soon)

What happens when you push a hero too far? Do they bend and overcome it as all the superhero movies say they do? No. They break, and that's exactly what Marinette did. She broke and fell into the dark abyss of depression and once she stopped stabbing herself, she took the knife and gave into insanity. If Hawkmoth wanted to be a Monarch, then that's fine, Marinette doesn’t mind taking him to the Guillotine. If Felix wanted to be a peacock, then that’s fine, Marinette loves hunting pretty birds.

…And Marinette can’t wait to steal that pretty little crown off of Monarch's detached head and wear those gorgeous rings stolen from his broken fingers all while staying warm from the feathery coat of plucked peacock feathers that were held together by a beautiful brooch. 

And no one was going to stop her from getting back her kwamis and living the life she deserved

Not the ungrateful Parisians 

Not the pitying black cat

Not the heartbroken Fox

Not the worried classmates

Not the pathetic too-late love confessions from Adrien

And not the last cries of the pigtailed hero who was dying under the skin of the monster that Monarch had created.

#Fall of the Monarch #Insane Marinette #Anti-hero Marinette #Oh look another Dark miraculous au #miraculous ladybug #marinette dupain cheng #Marinette commits murder #Gabriel better pray to god she doesn't find out about what he did to the miraculous. #unhinged marinette #Feralnette sorta #but shes insane #Symbolism is my best friend #Felix is doomed #miraculous ladybug season 5 fanfic #ah shit here we go again

[bytebun]

my piece for @thecodywanzine! thanks to the mods who let me go completely ham and cheese on this bad boy. this one's about living longer than you ever expected and not knowing what to do with it

#they're having a leftover sale with free shipping if you want a ridiculous amount of art and merch for an insanely low price #codywan #commander cody #obi-wan kenobi #star wars #comics #codywan zine #i went kinda nuts with the sun symbolism on this one. even i feel like its hamfisted but like listen am i not going to self-indulge #if not in a shipping zine piece then where #hope and love and the sun and etc can be an. omelette. spanish omelette specifically. that you share with your fambly #food cw #its also about looking at your best friend over a table and going. i lvoe you. i love you. i want to spend the rest of my life with you #i want to see the future with you. im so glad we're both alive even though i thought we'd both be dead by now #bytebun draws #lets not talk about the way there is zero consistency in my art style. <3

[cvmcicle]

we are so back

ib; flower idea credit to @potato-lord-but-not ..? (hope tag okay)

#the picture of dorian gray #the picture of dorian gray fanart #fanart #my art #dorian gray #basil hallward #sibyl vane #lord henry wotton #basil hallward my beloved #my best friend #basil hallward my boyfriend #dorian gray looks not evil enough in this but whatever #no1 lord henry wotton hater btw #hot victorian twink in your area #gothic literature #oscar wilde #flower symbolism #okay awesome #goodbye

[maskedteatime]

self destruction

giygas is such a fascinating situation. imagine being so overwhelmed that your physical form dissolves

#earthbound spoilers #earthbound beginnings #mother 1 spoilers #earthbound #art #digital art #giygas #giegue #gyiyg #i love animal symbolism #this is an insane contrast to my last post but whatevs #he looks like a dog because because. mans best friend. #and ninten's family probably loved dogs #and he he looks like a goat because. sin symbolism.

[doctorsiren]

keiji mogami

(w/o effects + sketch under the cut)

#doctorsiren #mob psycho 100 #keiji mogami #mp100 fanart #will wood #digital art #my art #procreate #tw sui implied #<- bc he has the noose #cw eye imagery #moth wings with eye spots unnerve me HJKDJHOD #BUT MOTHS THEMSELVES ARE SO CUTE #I have so many thoughts about this guy #it’s funny because 7 years ago my best friend and I made a discord server called Mogami Hate Club #and now 7 years later. I am doing stuff like this #😭 who would have thought #the symbolism of bugs and ESPECIALLY moths for Mogami has GRR GRGRGRGRG captured my gremlin brain #why is he William Afton Chara Undertale ? #but yeah that’s why I reblogged that drawing yesterday that I did of Afton #bc the energy and the posing is almost the same Oopsie

[ventiswampwater]

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981)  dir. John Landis

#an american werewolf in london #aawil #horror #david naughton #griffin dunne #mine #I finally managed to download a decent quality copy of this fckin movie hjsdfhjhfds #which means I'm back on my bullshit. not that I ever left my bullshit. but we're so back 😌🔨💥 #who would've guessed that higher quality footage yields higher quality gifs (answer: every giffing tutorial ever) #ofc these are still kinda wonky but there's?? marginal??? improvement??? and that's a win in my book lmao #pls be patient w/me in this trying time (as I slowly bamboozle and blunder my way thru learning gifmaking) #anyway. I ain't never seen two pretty best friends. #one always gotta be turned into a werewolf on the moors unwillingly #and the other? doomed to walk the earth in limbo until the werewolf's curse is lifted #smh 😔................................... #(sidenote: not sure if it's intentional. but the blood? on the sheep next to jack? eating the symbolism up w/a spoon tysm for asking)

[gay-ppl-real]

Did y'all know I have a pair of absolutely ancient jeans that I use as an embroidery canvas.

No, you didn't, because turns out I've apparently never shared my Layton or Encanto patches on here I guess??

Well, I made a Welcome Home patch on them!! My buddy was kind enough to help me take some pics wearing it while I was in town today.

What symbols for which characters under the hood :)

Wally: apple, eye, his lil face! Barnaby: his pawprint and his hat Julie: pink and purple flowers Frank: their tie, butterflies (plus hearts) Eddie: a multicoloured letter (plus hearts) Howdy: a caterpillar Poppy: the little wings she draws next to her signature, and a cupcake Sally: Stars!

Having more things dedicated to a specific character doesn't have any significance, it just means I had more ideas for them or they fit nicest to fill in a space haha

#welcome home arg #welcome home fanart #welcome home #innisart #embroidery #yes I am wearing rainbow socks #The fit was fire ok I was v pleased with my look today but alack could not get any pics #You can still see my stitching markers around Barnaby's paw LOL #those will come off in the wash adsfakjsdf #My bud didn't take a pic where you can properly see but Frank's tie and Eddie's letter are next to each other and surrounded by hearts #also the butterflies are purple (Eddie's fav) and yellow (Frank's fav) #idk man I just think that them. #y'know. #and Wally's face is next to Barnaby's hat #and Julie's flowers are always near Frank's symbols #because they are best friends :)

[thormanick]

Me, going about my day: i really like alhaitham and kaveh and whatever is happening between them. precious boys need to keep them safe

Evil Thoughs tm popping up in my head once in a while: canonically, Kaveh wants to be remembered. Alhaitham is a Scribe, which implies that he's keeping records. Alhaitham is closest to Kaveh and knows him really well. Alhaitham will be the best at remembering Kaveh. Therefore it might be a possibility that Alhaitham will outlive Kaveh, and by much-

Me, suddenly distressed: shut up shut up shut up-

#ah yes don't you love it when your thoughts go and do. that #anyways wishing nothing but the best to the boys may their respective reruns happen soon #genshin impact #genshin impact thoughts #genshin impact headcanons #genshin impact kaveh #genshin impact alhaitham #haikaveh #kavetham #alhaitham x kaveh #afinna explores teyvat #this was actually partially inspired by the idea that Vision holders give something up in order to receive a Vision #and if the Vision encompasses the most sincere wishes of the weilder #what will happen when the weilder achieves these dreams while still being alive #in my hc achieving the passion that Vision symbolizes like. annihilates you from existence on a certain level or smth idk #on this point. in-game we've seen people gain visions. get their visions taken away. and die while having a vision (kazuha's friend). #i wonder what will happen to a person when they achieve the goal that allowed them to get their vision in the first place #i think that would be interesting #also idk sometimes i look at kaveh and go 'ah yes you have the narrative potential of dying at some point of the story and I. Am. Worried.'

[virfujiwara]

He doesn't drink blood btw

#BFUCU #sleepless art #Steven Lim #watcher entertainment #Phil 🦇 #doodle dump #My art #Vampire #He's broke he owns a nightclub he's a vampire he's immortal but he's got limited memory #Filthy McNasty #He's physically immortal but the mortality he experiences lies in no longer being the person who once was #He's drawn to items made of gold and finds solace in the symbolism of death and ritual #He has student debt he's bad at names he's an edenite vampire he doomed his best friend forever he's a funky and kinds little dude #we are watcher

[frayedcircus]

secret life smp lizzie designs!!!!

i saw lizzie’s final episodes and immediately lost my mind

she’s living a sad little fairytale and there is significance and tragedy in everything that happens to her !!

sorry everyone else but lizzie is the main character. secret life ended when she died. i don’t make the rules.

pumpkin head, yellow and red life versions below v

(sorry i ended up writing a LOT in the tags whoops)

#please help me choose the best design!!! #i hate costume design but she deserves a cute little dress #she’s a sad little pumpkin princess of nothing in her little pink forest with her dead cows and horse and only one friend #a friend who indirectly caused her last death i’m losing my mind. guys she died in the end. come on. #her bit with cleo in the end felt like a symbolic dream. sorry the end is now lizzie’s dream and cleo is her mystical guide who live there #her being INVISIBLE and then people only showing up after she died #not to be dramatic but uh. there was never any true malice to her actions. only sorrow and loneliness from a world that hardly cared. #the thing with this is that it’s not really true #it’s only there if you look for it #lizzie ldshadowlady #ldshadowlady #secret life #secret life smp #trafficblr #traffic life smp #traffic smp #mcyt #mcyt fanart #art #artists on tumblr #digital art #my art #character design

[voidthesquished]

Fuck it, Jonah’s a ghost haunting an unaware Adam because why not

also feel free to ask about them in the asks thing lol

(shoutout to @adammurrays for the inspo)

#mandela catalogue #the mandela catalogue #adam murray #tmc #jonah marshall #ghost Jonah au #might write a fic for this if I feel like it #imagine just haunting your best friend who left your body on the side of the road #friendship goals #imagine ​Jonah hearing adam say that he wasn’t Jonah’s friend #omg what if he gets to meet Dave #so many ideas #brainrot consumes #hehe flower symbolism my favorite

[redtippedfox]

Timey Wimey without context

Past vs Future

(Also heads up the tumblr on my iPad isn’t allowing me to make a post which is bad)

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous tales of ladybug and chat noir #miraculous au #timey wimey…uh oh au #marinette dupain cheng #symbolism is my best friend

[vynnyal]

Turns out Sunlit Trail isn't quite done just yet, so after all that they just send you to a dead end 😂

#rain world #comic #rw chasing wind #sunlit Trail #Hunter #Art #Chasing wind spoilers #I can't imagine anyone filters that tag but just in case sksksks #ANYWAYS turns out mod is way better than I expected and it's super well made. #So far made the trip as hunter (first time) then riv and now working on arti. #For arti I realized that howling rifts led to sub and sub led to dar shore so I was like sweet! A shortcut! #Now imagine for a sec trying to get through a parkcore + miros bird gauntlet with a corpse and a worm within 5 cycles #before the scav ran out of karma and you were stuck inside forever. Yeah #Besides that tho I've been messing around and been very tenderly modding the game. #Turns out you can have a bit of fun with most sprites without too much effort by simply cloning the MSC mod in your files #Then changing the copy's mod info so it doesn't clash and simply swapping images out for whatever you want #As long as you have the sprite name you can do this. You can also change region names and decals and music all sorts of stuff. #In short I've been brewing a custom mod for a friend to make her suffer as much as possible <3 #Thanks to a buddy on the rw server for showing me that trick btw lol. The best cesspool I've ever participated in #Oh before I forget- the symbol on CW's head is completely made up. They just looked so... Bald. #Tbh I wasn't expecting their personality to be so... bright? Most interpretations make them kinda solemn and gloomy #But nah this CW is what NSH should've been 100%. I like them. Not gonna spoil too much but their situation is somehow so... chill. #Still bad tho! #Other fun news! There's a scammer going around on discord that's basically like ''bad news I reported you for fraud'' #And they're getting a lot of people. My buddy that owned my home server got hit and we lost everything. It's all OK tho nobody was hurt #I keep trying to ask them questions on my alts but they're ignoring me... I kinda wanna bait them into doing the scam with me #to see how far I get before they catch on 😜 #Wasting a scammer's time is never a waste of time #Ah I had more to say but I reached my tag max. Till next time- hopefully my animation project will be done by then!

[peonights]

Shadow Magic vs Dark Magic

I find it fascinating that Black Clover makes a difference in its magic system between shadows and darkness.

Most darkness we see comes from shadows, that's how places get lightless most often—but they are just one way. For example, nighttime brings darkness too, but is different as it's the dark outer space. Darkness is the absence of light. Shadows are one way that light can go absent.

So, unlike other fantasy media I've seen (for me, notably Shadow and Bone), Black Clover acknowledges that there is a difference. Shadow and Dark are two different magic attributes.

And that's interesting because the one Shadow Magic user we meet—Nacht—is the vice captain and ex-best friend of a Dark Magic user, Yami. Using magic to highlight character foils is nothing new, as a fantasy reader it’s everywhere.

However, unless I live under a rock, I haven’t seen two prominent foils to each other ever be shadow and darkness before! They’re always conflated and pitted against light.

This time though, we have a pair, Yami and Nacht, who started out the same—two best friends against the world with their similar magic attributes.

Then Yami joined the Magic Knights and befriended the Light Magic user Morgen. The two became a duo of light and darkness, as we normally see in media. Adhering to media’s norms makes sense for the lawful Morgen and the expectations of the Magic Knights.

Meanwhile the rebellious Nacht distanced himself from them both. This is worsened after Morgen’s death and Nacht’s switch to rationality. Still, in the end, shadow and darkness are two different things—and so are Nacht and Yami.

At last, the two mend their relationship and we go back to the beginning.

Here, it’s a zigzag between the similarity and difference in Shadow and Dark Magic, which highlights the zigzag in Nacht and Yami’s bond over the years.

TLDR: I love BC’s use of an unconventional yet similar pair of magics to highlight the complicated dynamic between Nacht and Yami. Can’t you tell who my favorite vice captain is?

#longposts #black clover spoilers #black clover #black clover analysis #black clover thoughts #peo’s thoughts #analyses #magic systems #nacht faust #yami sukehiro #morgen faust #which isn’t even getting into yaminacht being best friends—enemies—lovers - arguably my favorite dynamic #and the symbolism of morgen being more christian-themed while nacht uses a lot of occult and pagan influences #peo’s nachtposting

[maxwelljacobfriedman]

Highlights of MJF and Cody’s unhinged relationship

#mjf #maxwell jacob friedman #cody rhodes #codymax #he was my heel #father-son brothers best friends third introduced into the marriage without permission. so many things #cody is incapable of staying mad at max #pretend i didn't accidentally cut the part of the clip where flip says mjf so it's clear that cody is defending max's honor #i'm feeling so normal about max wearing cody's green jaguars jacket in the nightmare factory footage #or he just owns the same one but i think it's more likely cody's and that he was wearing a shirt they didn't want in the video or something #also i forgot max was going to murder dustin on bte and i can't get over it #cody: does a promo about symbolically killing the attitude era by beating dustin #max: cody wants his older brother dead #this was hard to condense and probably still longer than people will want to watch oh well

[good-beans]

My hottest milgram take/prediction fueled by symbolism alone is that, instead of trying to hurt himself, Haruka is going to attack Muu in some way.

With the guilty verdict telling Haruka he was wrong (and maybe giving him the implication his mother's abuse was right) it’d make since that all of Haruka’s ‘motherly’ feelings will sour. Just like the crime that landed him in Milgram, he could take his feelings of self-loathing out on another, weaker person. He killed animals and bugs -- going so far as to crush a flying insect onscreen -- and Muu has completed her bee transformation. Muu is in "power" over Haruka right now, but we saw what happened last time she was at the top of the hourglass. I just think there's a lot they could do with their sets of symbols, you know?

#milgram #haruka sakurai #muu kusunoki #i dont want either to happen 😭 i want them both to be happy and healthy and best friends come t3 😭😭😭 #but my symbolism brain went off and i feel like its at least a possibility to look at #rose posts