#anti parallels

[dyingroses]

House of the Dragon (2022)

Lady Macbeth (1889)

#art #house of the dragon #lady macbeth #19th century art #19th century painting #19th century paintings #19th century #john singer sargent #alicent hightower #queen alicent #the green council #hotdedit #hotd #hotd season 1 #21st century #art history #art parallels #anti parallels #post #Michelle

[almostbeabeauty]

Aemond being a dark mirror to Jaime Part 1

Aemond loses an eye as a child after gaining a dragon (power). Jaime as an adult loses a hand after saving a woman from rape (love).

Both replace hand and eye with Jewelry (Sapphire eye and Golden hand)

Both became Kin(g)slayers as teenagers

Aemond accidentally kills his nephew in a show of power. Jaime kills his King on purpose to save his family and thousands of other people.

Both kickstart the domino effect that leads to war in their respective times. Aemond by killing Luke and Jaime by trying to kill bran.

Both are known as dangerous swordsman's of their time. Aemond doesn't care about or participate in tourneys, while Jaime liked to participate and was quite good at them.

Jaime told no one the truth of why he slew Aerys II Targaryen so was judged more harshly. The same will probably happen with Aemond, as he will not want others to know he couldn't control his dragon because it will make him look weak.

Jaime killed his King for saying he was going to "Burn them all". Aemond burns down half of the Riverlands.

#jaime lannister #aemond targaryen #asoiaf #hotd #fire and blood #there are many more detail oriented parallels but that is for part two #anti parallels

[ohgaylor]

castles crumbling 🤝 nothing new 🤝 the archer 🤝 dear reader 🤝 mirrorball 🤝 anti-hero 🤝 coney island 🤝 you're on your own kid 🤝 this is me trying

#the piercing depth of an anxiety-ridden taylor song #see my reblog with the detailed parallels #taylor swift #castles crumbling #nothing new #the archer #dear reader #mirrorball #anti-hero #coney island #you're on your own kid #this is me trying #parallels #mine #1k #2k #3k

[outtagum]

A very strong Tik Tok debut from PENN BADGLEY 😂👏

#taylor swift #anti hero #music video #cinematic parallels #tswiftedit #pbadgleyedit #tswiftgif #dailymusicqueens #dailymusicians #tscreators #flawlessbeautyqueens #newrcmantlcs #usermusicdaily #popularcultures #everythingdaily #cinematv #dailycelebs #tswiftdaily #penn badgley #you netflix #joe goldberg #anti hero mv #midnights #musicvideoedit #*parallels #parallels #*

[high-voltage-rat]

I think it's fascinating that the quotes:

"Have you forgotten sir, we were at war? A fight with an alien race for the very survival of our species. I feel I must remind you that it is an undeniable, and may I say fundamental quality of man, that when faced with extinction, every alternative is preferable."

"When you spend every day fighting a war, you to demonize your attackers. To you, they're evil, they're subhuman. Because if they weren't, what would that make you? What I'm trying to say... is I've been afraid to see you for what you really are. You're our brothers. Our sisters. And the things we've done to one another are unforgivable."

"These guys want to use us, take us away from our families, and send us all over the dad-gum galaxy just to test if their agents are ready for the big fight? Well... guess I'm interested in showin' em exactly what a big fight is all about! So I'm not ordering you to go. I ain't even asking. You do what you gotta do, Private."

came from the same series whose standard fare is lines like:

"What in the hell are you two doing?" / "We're being executed by our own men, sir." / "Cut it out."

"I only drink the blood of my enemies, and the occasional strawberry yoohoo."

"You always said I could sleep when I’m dead, Sarge, and guess what? I am dead. This purgatory is about to become purga-snore-y, yawn!"

...and both categories manage to be a poignant statement about the nature of war and what it does to the people in it.

#everyone always talks about the more dramatic bits of rvb with the speeches and the 8+ seasons of plot development as the anti-war part #but the comedicization of the violence and death that the characters go through. the tongue-in-cheek gung-ho attitudes. #the way that they're so desensitized to the idea of death or gruesome injury to the point that it's!!! a comedy show!!! #all of that is just as much a statement of the fucked up nature of war!!! #it's like Col. Flagg and Frank Burns in M*A*S*H. they're so simultaneously into and detached from the war and it's a STATEMENT #idk I'm just. thinking about my favourite anti-war media. drawing mash-rvb parallels. and suddenly had to scream about it #might reread the paper on rvb being anti-war media. for enrichment. #not video games #late nights with ali #ali watches rvb #rvb #red vs blue

[saltair-and-palemoonlight]

it’s me. hi. i’m the problem. it’s me.

@padfoot-lupin77/@ryebreadgf/why am i like this? - orla gartland/the letters of virginia woolf/@dreamer-but-realist/anti-hero - taylor swift/sylvia plath/@jaggedjawjosh /@body-to-flame/making the bed - olivia rodrigo/anti-hero - taylor swift

#lilly talks #Lilly’s weaves #poetry #poetry quotes #parallels #web weaving #web weaves #poetry parallels #compilation #Sylvia plath #Mitski #a burning hill #anti hero #Taylor swift #lyrics #lyric parallels #olivia rodrigo #making the bed #doomed by the narrative #self destruction #virginia woolf #just realized how terribly I ordered this one but it’s too late for me to care lmao

[lumaxramblings]

#jonathan byers #will byers #max mayfield #anti billy hargrove #stranger things parallels #came across that tweet while scouring thru some stuff and knew i had to make this #this parallel makes me want to jump in a lake. Btw

[esotericswiftie]

1. anti-hero, taylor swift / 2, 19. “taylor swift’s ‘sexy baby’ lyric is more than a ‘30 rock’ reference,” sophia june for nylon magazine / 3, 4, 12, 22. taylor swift ages 14-16, photographed by andrew orth / 5, 23. dominique swain age 15, photographed for lolita (1997) / 6, 17. “the fetishization of girlhood,” m.c. easton / 7. lolita (1962), dir. stanley kubrick / 8. 22 (mv), taylor swift / 9. anti-hero (mv), taylor swift / 10, 14, 18. nothing new, taylor swift ft. phoebe bridgers / 11. “2008’s country lolita: taylor swift,” gavin edwards for rolling stone / 13, 21. lolita (1997), dir. adrian lyne / 15. okcupid dating chart: age preferences by gender / 16. all too well (ten minute version), taylor swift / 20. university of pittsburgh 2021-2022 undergraduate catalog / 23. would’ve, could’ve, should’ve, taylor swift

apologies for this ridiculously long megathread, but i found a ton of these photographs of taylor from when before she was famous, around ages 14-16, and ooh boy, did they get me thinking…

sometimes i wonder if she just really lucked out with the mostly desexualized “innocent girl-next-door” persona becoming her brand throughout her early career, because it looks like things could have gone in a very different direction for her in another universe.

like you can literally see taylor being de-aged between her debut and fearless era as her public image cemented…the posing, the makeup, the hair, the clothing…it’s all very deliberate and sinister.

and now, all these years later, no one knows better than taylor herself that the most desirable thing a woman can be is not a woman, but a girl…a sexy baby, if you must.

her heart-shaped sunglasses, nothing new, the ten minute version of all too well, would’ve could’ve should’ve…she knows all about society’s sickness, its simultaneous fetishization and destruction of girlhood. she knows because she’s lived through it.

we don’t often categorize her or think of her as one, but she was a child star, and she barely escaped its curse. just barely. but unlike so many other child stars, unlike dolores haze, she survived with her voice and her pen, and she can see it all now, it was wrong.

#web weaving #parallels #connections #thread #taylor swift #midnights #midnights ts #dolores haze #swifties #girl blogger #girl blog #girlblogging #girlhood #lyrics #lyric analysis #nothing new #phoebe bridgers #dominique swaine #anti-hero #would’ve could’ve should’ve #all too well #all too well ten minute version #thoughts #feminism #feminist

[chenfordsource]

#something about the women tim falls in love with mistaking his infinite care and support as him having such high expectations that they're only doomed to fail #which cuts deep because after his childhood it's one of the things he'd hope to never instill on someone else #even unintentionally #tim views things in black-and-white but to lucy and isabel who rely on the shades of grey there's room for so much miscommunication #fascinating and heartbreaking in equal parts

#the rookie #therookieedit #chenford #chenfordedit #lucy chen #tim bradford #isabel bradford #multi #s1 #1x12 #s6 #6x03 #parallels #ours #by becca #req #pls keep any anti isabel tags off this gifset :) thank youuu

[soliloquent-stark]

tony's been on both sides of the ultra-specific situation of confronting mortality on the ground, towered over by a friend, and wondering if this is it. if that's the last face they'll ever see.

tony and steve.

peter and tony.

but in the face of possible death, tony and peter were nothing alike.

the discomfort of facing a death caused by someone you're supposed to trust versus the comfort of departing in the presence of someone you love.

the shame of allowing someone you admire to witness your weakness versus the regret of showing them your pain.

the last defiant act of accepting your faith, maintaining eye contact, and daring them to do it versus trying to fight your destiny, looking away, and apologising for not being able to stay.

the millisecond of disappointment when you realise you'll survive versus the millisecond of utter misery when you realise you won't.

tony got up both times, and life went on.

marvel parallels 13/?

robert downey jr and tom holland in captain america: civil war (2016) and avengers: infinity war (2018)

#NOT anti steve rogers #marvel parallels #irondad and spiderson #gifs by soliloquent #tony stark meta #peter parker meta #tony stark #peter parker #iron man #spiderman #rdj #tom holland #tony stark gif #peter parker gif #captain america civil war #avengers infinity war #peter parker and tony stark #mcu gif #marvel gif #avengers #avengers gif #mcu

[sarahivess]

I think I’ve seen this before

And I liked the ending

#byler #jancy #anti milkvan #anti st4ncy #st parallels

[messrsbyler]

EEEEEEKKKKKK!!!

#when melvin parallels stancy but byler parallels jancy #we know who are the good couples here do we not? #byler #byler tumblr #anti mileven #anti melvin

[ihatehomework]

i can explain why zutara DOES NOT work because of maths. all anyone ever talks about is how they have so many parallels. fire/water, banished/respected, painted lady/blue spirit etc. "nono that only makes them a better couple" guys parallel lines never meet. they dont intersect. AKA THEY ARENT TOGETHER. AND LIKE IF WE WERE TO COMPARE ZUTATA TO ZUKKA YOU CAN SEE ZUKKAS BETTER

older brothers, prodigy sisters - similarities

fire/water, bender/non bender - differences

its a healthy balance smh

#zukka #sokka x zuko #atla #avatar last airbender #avatar the last airbender #anti zutara #parallels #it just makes sense

[bylerisrequited]

notice how mike blames other people for causing his fights with el and doesn't own up to his mistakes

but he blames himself for causing his fights with will and actually apologizes and realizes he was wrong.

#byler #byler parallels #anti mileven #will byers #mike wheeler #stranger things

[thethiefandtheairbender]

Thinking about how Zuko aligns Aang with Azula ("You're like my sister. Everything always came easy to her") and then in his first real chance to bond with Aang, the kid is flunking firebending hard and is actively scared of it, requiring Zuko to give him some nice encouragement ("You can do it. You're a talented kid")

#zukaang #antis don't interact #CAN'T BELIEVE I HAVE TO SAY THAT AS A ZUKAANG SHIPPER BUT. the cognitive dissonances are unreal apparently #otp: kindred spirits #brotp: and now we're friends #parallels #yeah he's a talented kid he's regularly kicked your ass lmao #atla #mine

[doriandrifting]

Ah yes, Milkvan and my other fav romantic dynamic Dustin and *looks at smudged handwriting* Dart?

Giant E.T. figurine by Dart's cage vs. Mike dressing up El like in E.T.

And this is not to dehumanize El, like obviously the entire point of El's arc throughout the entire show is about breaking out of the dynamics that she is put into where she doesn't have agency. But if we compare S1 and S2, we can see that the writers have created this sort of meta situation with the audience becoming a part of Lucas and Dustin's projection of romance onto Mike and El's dynamic—a dynamic that the writers are very much poking fun of in S2 by recreating a bunch of the scenes with Dustin and Dart at the focus.

#season two rewatch is something #also I know a bunch of these have been pointed out I just fell down a wormhole of neverending parallels and needed to talk about it haha #there was even more but I was about to run out of room lmao #anti milkvan #byler #mike wheeler #st s2 #st s1