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opheliaintherushes · 1 year
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There really was so much of Lear in the finale, which says as much for Shakespeare's indomitable understanding of humanity as anything, and I don't just mean Tom finally fulfilling his role as Albany, a man who sways with the wind and stumbles into leadership by virtue of his wife poisoning the waters in a fatal act of jealousy:
There are many tragic moments in King Lear, but the most perhaps is that once Lear has finally had his revelation of humility and reconciled with Cordelia, he is at last content. Away like caged birds they go, he consoling Cordelia that at least they'll be together in defeat: "So we'll live, and pray, and sing, and tell old tales and laugh at gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues talk of court news." And then even that acceptance is shattered by Cordelia's death, the final unfairness in an unfair world. And here in Succession, the tragedy is that the siblings had it, a moment where they had each other's company and that was enough, but they couldn't be satisfied and so brought their own ruin, leaving Colin to shadow Kendall to the riverside like Kent following Lear to eternity.
It's a double dose of tragic, because Logan was never able to reconcile with his younger children, and I think my favorite scene of the episode shows why: the dinner recording, Logan relaxed and enjoying himself with his old comrades and his eldest son. There is a Logan there that Kendall, Roman, and Shiv never got to see because they were successors. But not Connor, harmless and ineffectual; not Kerry, devoted and without history; not Gerri and Karl and Frank, who had been in the trenches, who knew the rage of Logan's whims but always came back: "The oldest have borne most; we that are young shall never see so much, nor live so long."
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suiheisen · 14 days
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MONKEY MAN (2024)
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cracklewink · 1 month
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My Mane 6 Redesigns all together! I was going to post them separately but ended up finishing them all before I got around to it lol
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hopsof · 1 month
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Lamb to the slaughter
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markodragic · 3 months
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I dont think anything on this earth tickles me so hard as how busted white people look in the yakuza franchise
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its so dhsjdjfjxjfjgk
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heartnosekid · 9 months
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monkeycatluna on ig
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ineed-to-sleep · 7 months
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Collection of bg3 sketches I've been nibbling at over the month. teehee
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ash-and-starlight · 6 months
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humble contribution
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anotherpapercut · 8 months
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genuinely it will never stop baffling me how people will wear twilight shirts and talk about team Edward vs team Jacob and then the same people will be like "I'm not basing my personality off of a piece of media (harry potter) made by a transphobe 😌" like good that's great! so you can excuse racism but you draw the line at transphobia? good to know
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The products of trying to recreate what was going on outside the frame during the kiss. (for ENTIRELY SCIENTIFIC purposes)
@actual-changeling altered my whole outlook on life with this post about Aziraphale's left hand (I'd only been looking at his right hand) and I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I painted the rest of the fucking owl (and his bf).
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so normal about this
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lazylittledragon · 5 months
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more domestics to warm the soul <33
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golyadkin · 3 months
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it's because i wouldn't let you kill the bounty hunter isn't it
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stromblessed · 5 months
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Mizu, femininity, and fallen sparrows
In my last post about Mizu and Akemi, I feel like I came across as overly critical of Mizu given that Mizu is a woman who - in her own words - has to live as a man in order to go down the path of revenge.
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If she is ever discovered to be female by the wrong person, she will not only be unable to complete her quest, but there's a good chance that she'll be arrested or killed.
So it makes complete sense for Mizu to distance herself as much as possible from any behavior that she feels like would make someone question her sex.
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I felt so indignant toward Mizu on my first couple watchthroughs for this moment. Why couldn't Mizu bribe the woman and her child's way into the city too? If Mizu is presenting as a man, couldn't she claim to be the woman's escort?
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However, this moment makes things pretty clear. Mizu knows all too well the plight of women in her society. She knows it so well that she cannot risk ever finding herself back in their position again. She helps in what little way she can - without drawing attention to herself.
Mizu is not a hero and she is not one to make of herself a martyr - she will not set herself on fire to keep others warm. There's room to argue that Mizu shouldn't prioritize her quest over people's lives, but given the collateral damage Mizu can live with in almost every episode of season 1, Mizu is simply not operating under that kind of morality at this point. ("You don't know what I've done to reach you," Mizu tells Fowler.)
And while I still feel like Mizu has an obvious and established blind spot when it comes to Akemi because of their differences in station, such that Mizu's judgment of Akemi and actions in episode 5 are the result of prejudice rather than the result of Mizu's caution, I also want to establish that Mizu is just as caged as Akemi is, despite her technically having more freedom while living as a man.
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Mizu can hide her mixed race identity some of the time, and she can hide her sex almost all of the time, but being able to operate outside of her society's strict rules for women does not mean she cannot see their plight.
It does not mean she doesn't hurt for them.
Back to Mizu and collateral damage, remember that sparrow?
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While Mizu is breaking into Boss Hamata's manse, she gets startled by a bird and kills it on reflex. She then cradles it in her hands - much more tenderly than we've seen Mizu treat almost anything up to this point in the season:
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She then puts it in its nest, with its unhatched eggs. Almost like she's trying to make the death look natural. Or like an accident.
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You see where I'm going with this.
When Mizu kills Kinuyo, Mizu lingers in the moment, holding the body tenderly:
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And btw a lot of stuff about this show hit me hard, but this remains the biggest gut punch of them all for me, Mizu holding that poor girl's body close, GOD
When Mizu arranges the "scene of the crime," Kinuyo's body is delicate, birdlike. And Mizu is so shaken afterward that she gets sloppy. She's horrified at this kill to the point that she can't bring herself to take another innocent life - the boy who rats her out.
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MIZU'S ONE MOMENT OF SOFTNESS AND MERCY, COMING ON THE HEELS OF HER NEEDING TO KILL A GIRL TO SPARE HER THE WORST FATE THAT THIS RIGID SOCIETY HAS TO OFFER WOMEN, AND TO SPARE A BROTHEL FULL OF INNOCENT WOMEN WHO ARE THE CASTOFFS OF SOCIETY, NEARLY RESULTS IN ALL OF THEIR DEATHS
No wonder Mizu is as stoic and cold as she is.
And no wonder Mizu has no patience for Akemi whatsoever right before the terrible reveal and the fight breaks out:
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Speaking of Akemi - guess who else is compared to a bird!
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The plumage is more colorful, a bit flashier. But a bird is a bird.
And, uh
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Yeah.
I like to think that Mizu killing the sparrow is not only foreshadowing for what she must do to Kinuyo, but is also a representation of the choice she makes on Akemi's behalf. She decides to cage the bird because she believes the bird is "better off." Better off caged than... dead.
But because Mizu doesn't know Akemi or her situation, she of course doesn't realize that the bird is fated to die if it is caged and sent back home.
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Mizu is clearly not happy, or pleased, or satisfied by allowing Akemi to be dragged back to her father:
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But softness and mercy haven't gotten Mizu anywhere good, recently.
There is so much tragedy layered into Mizu's character, and it includes the things she has to witness and the choices she makes - or believes she has to make - involving women, when she herself can skirt around a lot of what her society throws at women. Although, I do believe that it comes at the cost of a part of Mizu's soul.
After all, I'm gonna be haunted for the rest of this show by Mizu's very first prayer in episode 1:
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"LET" her die. Because as Ringo points out, she doesn't "know how" to die.
Kind of like another bird in this show:
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blondie-drawings · 6 months
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can't stop thinking about those skeleton lesbians (pt 1)
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siarven · 11 months
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Saw this post by @doppelnatur how dandelions are pretty good trans symbols and got inspired! Happy pride everyone 🏳️‍⚧️
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stil-lindigo · 1 year
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the calamity.
a comic about being seen.
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