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saturnniidae · 2 months

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Hi since it's aro-spec week I'd like to just highlight one of my absolute favorite things about httyd, from the viewpoint of an aromantic:

The importance it puts on platonic relationships.

The whole franchise is of course, centered around Hiccup and Toothless' bond. They're friendship is from the beginning built on unconditional trust. They care for each other so much. They are best friends, hey mean everything to each other and have a bond nothing else (even romantic relationships) could ever rival.

(I could say so much more about them honestly but it's all probably been said before by someone better at articulating their thoughts so whatever)

Another aspect I love is while there are romantic relationships and plots, they're not shoved in the audience's faces. Other than certain episodes dedicated to Hiccstrid's development, it's mostly just, there. Neither the story nor the characters' lives revolve around it and it's honestly a bit refreshing.

Hiccup and Astrid very clearly value they're friendship. In the episode they got together, what Hiccup said to her very clearly implied how important to him she is, and he'd be fine even if they weren't romantic partners, as long as they can still be with each other.

And that's so special to me.

Like, it is not something you often see in media. And even when they do start dating, they primarily put their friendship first—and not just with each other, like there's a whole rtte episode basically dedicated to why they need to value their friendships just as much as they value each other.

And of course, the friendship between the dragon riders as a whole. As much as they fight, and despite their actions towards Hiccup in the past, they all clearly care for each other immensely and unconditionally. It's so unfortunate that they're just side characters in the movies, I really wish they're friendships got more of a spotlight but at least we have Rob and Rtte.

(Imo it does a very good job making these characters relatable whether you feel romantic attraction or not.)

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jojo-schmo · 2 months

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More Schmojo!! And I decided to name her dark matter friend living in her bubble rod, “Beauregard.” >:3

Plus some doodles I thought of during work, and a lighthearted poke at myself lol.

#like the adhd I have irl they are not evil or broken. just something that coexists alongside me.#I can yell and scream at it to go away and get frustrated at its existence #or I can learn to understand and cooperate with it so we can draw strength from each other #…..or something. hahaha they’re not true personifications of my diagnosis or anything but it’s just something I consider #like talking to myself almost haha. my inner thought process. and how I sometimes feel like I have two different halves to my personality.#not like I’m two faced tho!#like…. I experience opposite extremes of emotions sometimes #-twirls hair- can’t help being a Gemini!!#ANYWAY here’s more directors commentary for you #again they are not personifications of my diagnosis. I will throw both versions of my sona aro #*around my head like jumping beans teehee #kirbysona #art #Kirby series

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blorbingqls · 7 months

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"We accept the love we think we deserve" - seeing this quote in terms of love and control as subjects in Only Friends

With @tomatoland 's brilliant post on TopMew on the above quote here , i think that with 7 eps in, we have understood that love and control are very well linked with ephemerality as a subject.

As i have previously linked epheremality with control here, i would like to talk about how love also makes us lose control with the impermanence of life. This is a long overdue post for 4 eps now.

linking the ephemerality squad here so that you can also share your opinions on this @waitmyturtles @lurkingshan @slayerkitty @respectthepetty @ranchthoughts (anyone else i am missing, pls tag, i really appreciate it)

TopMew

As Tomato (@tomatoland i hope you're okay with that nickname; i really tried to find a name on your blog for you) has referred in their post, Mew left his bubble of insecurities and got his heart broken. Completely legible and correct on his point. Top really loves Mew but now Mew has no reason to believe him anymore. With the play in their power dynamics, both of them loved each other and lost control of the way they wanted the relationship. Yes, if Top and Mew has stuck to their original plans - just reaching to the point of ideality and sex, then, this relationship should have ended after they got their goals. I dont think that sex was a goal for Mew as much as it was for Top, but, we can say it was in the secondary.

But as they fell in love, they, especially Top understood how the love he received from Mew is so much more than he thought he deserves (taking into account his trauma and past experiences). So , even though Mew is projecting his hurt by doing things that literally are asshole-ish as fuck on his accord, Top is willing to let go all of that since even he knows he is in the wrong this time and he is willing to lose all control he has on his life - of fame, money and insecurities in order to have Mew back. Top is willing to be as obsessive as Mew said he would be in a relationship in order to get and accept the love he think he deserves from Mew, even if it won't be good.

But, I also feel, the concept of love as explored in the series so far, not just runs along with TopMew because of the books, but also with all the remaining couples in the show. I won't discuss P'Yo and her partner, CheumApril in this segment, because I want more angles on this from the coming episodes in order to validate my point. But, I'll discuss this point with our other views on the couples: RayMew, TopBoston, SandRay, and BostonNick.

RayMew

Now, RayMew is a pairing that is being enforced on the viewers for the past 3 episodes now and the last episode shows a pretty good view of how as characters, Mew and Ray view each other.

For Ray, his love is unconditional for Mew because it correlates with that fact that Mew was the only reason who made him stay in this world - who made him believe that he deserves the love from his friends, the love which he didn't get from his parents or any potential partners. But potential partners were never in the scene because Mew was Ray's emergency contact. Their relationship runs deep and however much you may think, even if Ray thinks Mew's love for him could be more as a friend, he also believes that because as he is so damn shitty and a fucking burden to society, he can't ask for more from Mew for the sake of their friendship and his esteem. He keeps entertaining the idea of them as partners several times, but, until ep 7, Mew has never entertained the idea that his love for Ray will be any worthy of more than a friend. Because, Mew wants to continue making the boundary and keep the control, according to me.

Now, as Mew has entertained the idea, i am interested how it pans out in the next episode (not very promising tho). just linking this out here because its so fucking interesting.

TopBoston

We will mainly take here Boston's viewpoint since Top gave up on this since the very beginning and became firm with it post ep 3. He gives no flying fucks about the possiblity of it. Top considers Boston to be a one night stand and a one night stand only.

Boston, as has mentioned so many times, considers Top to be top tier; the person who gives him something as close to love because as an Machiavellian prince (refer here) Boston considers Top to be the only worthy competitor in his reign. And he really doesn't care if he hurt others feeling. Mind you, Boston has been the most truthful to himself, maybe not to others. And as a prince, his love speaks volume through keeping them in their reign because ultimately Boston wants power and control in his arena. That's the fucking politics of it. And Top is the only worthy contender who can damage his reign. Hence, he wants the top tier power as much as possible, and only Top can give him that. Him fucking off to America, that can easily happen through Top, because he is a very well known hotel chain owner/manager. So, Boston wants his loves, because he very well thinks he deserves it and he accepts it as much as he can. But, he also knows that for him, he can't make this love into a weakness, because that will be out of his control.

Boston however, as Mew so incredibly pointed out, is gullible. Ray couldn't see through him, but, MEW FUCKING DID. That is why even though Boston didn't consider Mew as his competitor, he was fucking jealous of him because Mew got Top and was chosen over eventually by Top. Mew has the power that Boston didn't think he had, till now. And tbh, Mew is now winning the game, despite his insecurities with his relationship with Top.

THE WAR HAS BEGUN, MY FRIENDS.

SandRay

God, I have so many feeling for these babies. Where to start? Okay so, you know in second episode, Sand built that boundary with Ray regarding friends with benefits? Well, it has backfired on him. COMPLETELY.

As ep 8 preview says, I love how Sand realised the fact that they were never friends to begin with, for even to have made that boundary to make sense. Sand is a pathetic little man, as so many of you have pointed out, but, why is he the way he is?

His incredible nature to be so caring of others around him has made him feel like its his responsibility to take care of everything. His mother, his business, his money and job, his style and even his fucking roommate. Now, Sand is so emotionally attached to this damsel in distress, pathetic burden to society (affectionate) Ray, that even before they became friends, he made Ray his responsibility. Sand has no right to ask for love from Ray, because they are not friends, lest friends with benefits to ask for any care towards himself. But he selfishly asks, for the first time.

Because, as a person who keeps on taking care of others endlessly, it is harder for them to ask for the care and love they expect and deserve from whom they love while keeping their self esteem intact. And for Ray to completely shut him down at that time, and him still following Ray while he was drunk, makes him so much real because you feel responsible for that person. You are their emergency staff, even if they don't consider you to be.

While Ray comes from another perspective itself. He initially wanted to know Sand more as a person, because he is a person who wanted to explore the life beyond what has been given to him. He is a spoilt brat, and when he realised that he can't buy Sand's love, he explored it with him.

But because I think Ray believes that Sand will always be for him, even when he does asshole-ish behaviour (because thats where everyone leaves) he has taken Sand for granted. The backup option. Anything goes wrong with his ideal relationship, he can always go running back to Sand, because Sand has become his addiction.

Apart from drugs and alcohol, Mew and Sand are the only people he can keep coming back to. For Mew, it is only at a cost. At some conditions, only for something personal. While maybe Ray wants explore that possibility with Sand, but he is afraid. He is afraid that Sand will go away. just as Mew did. A person who can only consider him a friend and nothing more. Even if he wants to explore that possibility with both of them, loving them at the same time, he can't make people his priority, because he doesn't know how to do that. Nor does he think he's worthy of it. So, he accepts whatever he thinks he deserves off Sand's love and care.

I am interested to see how it pans out for these idiots once his relationship with Mew falls out. I am concerned for Ray so much. Give him access to therapy and rehab soon pls. Sand and Ray's father I think are going in that direction, with this speculation by @prapaiwife.

BostonNick

Now, our final pair has been the most interesting couple in this show so far. Why do I say that?

Well, for Nick, Boston is one of the top-tier gays. As pointed out by Boston, he likes bad guys. And lets be honest, Boston, most dishonest, cunning bastard out there. So, Nick believes that he will be that gay who lands the top tier dick and fix this problem. Right?

Wrong. Nick very well knows this won't happen. Still he keeps hoping for more as Boston doesn't know how to not be a hypocrite as a prince. He keeps giving some here and there false hope through his actions, not words which makes Nick believe he's special, but he's not. He takes whatever love he thinks Boston gives him, despite him not being his number one, despite Boston cheats on him over and over again. He just wants whatever of love as actions that Boston can give to him because that proves wrong all of his low self esteem. So he accepts whatever he thinks he deserves because he can't ask for more in a bed friend relationship. With Boston's guard so up and his will to leave the country, Nick knows he can't do anything but try to make him stay. Even if that's a 99% chance of not happening. He tries because he doesn't want Boston to hate him. He only wants him to love him. Because for him, thats enough.

The sadness keeps on piling up for these outsider, hard working roommates, doesn't it?

While, for Boston, he is nothing but a rebound from the angst of not getting Top. He wants a serious relationship, and maybe, he does look for it in Nick, maybe not, but he doesn't love Nick. He doesn't love Top either. For Boston, Nick is a toy he wanted to play with.

Because he cares about his reign, his reputation. And, Nick realised that. Hence, Mew contacted him and Nick gave that information to Mew. They will bring Boston down together because Nick somewhere believes he can get him back.

But Nick babygirl, he doesn't love you bub. He doesn't. And, it hurts so much. Because Boston keeps on taking from you, whatever he deserves. And that is your care for him, for granted. He is a leech bub. He is.

Now, how does it all link to ephemerality and control?

Well, love itself is impermanent. It doesn't stay.

The world knows this and still we chase it. And at an age as our characters, we chase love and freedom like anything. In order to gain control. We take up jobs, more courses to learn, experiment with love and relationships, with people because the time is ticking and people say now is the age. We break hearts and get it broken.

As P'Jojo says "This show is Hurt People Hurt People", tell me who hasn't been hurt by love, by control and by living at its time? And also by missing out each of these experiences because you were lonely with your own life and burdens?

We accept the hate and love the life gives us, because this is what we think we deserve out of this. And tbh, these feelings, are never permanent. They keep changing with time, and that's the only thing thats permanent.

Change is the only thing that remains permanent.

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chamoemileclown · 6 months

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I love the way u did the soulfire egg is so cool ( i love ur art in general very cute and soft its cool)

thank you anon!! its legit my fave out of the series i think it would just be so fitting for qsmp purgatory to have a fragile little egg with a porcelain cup on its head running around in egg hell

#it genuinely means the world to me when people send me nice stuff the qsmp has inspired me a lot #and im really glad my 3d and 2d art can coexist and people can enjoy both because I really enjoy making it #i don't articulate it well and i can't thank everyone that has been so nice to me but i do appreciate it a lot #i can be really experimental and change my artstyle up and that's really nice #i might rerender this guy with different lighting because the default blender shading light makes them look really cool but i wanted it #to fit into the series with the other eggs #moewips

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carnivalcarriondiscarded · 2 months

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Apparently how to train your dragon was a book series? Some reviews says it’s a fun book, but it gets, like, dark. But still fun. Quite different from the movies.

i once read it! i don't remember much, but yes it got Intense! but it was still fun, i remember enjoying it greatly even if i could read an entire book in one hour

#toothless was a fun little Common Garden Dragon #very sarcastic and spiteful little thing...#hiccup could speak dragonese!#and vikings and dragons were already coexisting - dragons were common pets!#the viking right of passage was stealing a young dragon from a nest!#& then theres like... the green death which almost fully eats hiccup ummmm #oh the green death was Fun.#ummm then there were like. romans? and yea it got wild #rambles from the bog #the little doodles & informational Passages were always fun lmao #very charming little series...

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everlarksquell · 3 months

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« I’m sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it’s mostly for their own good. Lie to Katniss about the rebellion so she doesn’t do anything crazy. Send her into the arena without a clue so we can fish her out. Don’t tell her about Peeta’s propo because it might make her sick, and it’s hard enough to get a decent performance out of her as it is. »

i am aware that at the end of the day it may be for the better, and i think i understand most of the reasons behind keeping things from katniss, but i feel like she should have the right to know more about at least a bit of what’s happening instead of just being used like a puppet and treated like an object that can break easily, because it is definitely not improving her mental state.

#can those opinions coexist?#idk if i’m explaining myself clearly #mockingjay #katniss #katniss everdeen #district 13 #panem #rebels #the hunger games #thg #thg series #the hunger games series

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throttlegainwell · 7 months

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Iconoclast (ST WIP)

“You’re making too big a deal out of this,” he insists. She doesn’t want to do this. It’s a low blow. It’s awful to put this thought in his head—to invoke this specter that’s clearly haunted his nightmares. But she says it anyway, reaching for the part of herself that had once tied her frightened little boy to a cot and ruthlessly tortured a monster out of him. “And if it were Will?” His demeanor changes like a bolt of lightning has passed through him. Immediately, he’s tense and agitated, face dark. “Don’t do that. That’s not fair.” “Jonathan, listen to me right now.” She wraps careful fingers around his shoulders. If she could will her resolve into him, she would; if she could, in her desperation, press this understanding through his skin, down deep into his bones, she’d do it. But this is the best she can do. “If something is too terrible to imagine it happening to Will, then it’s too terrible for it to be okay when it happens to you.”

I just have a lot of feelings about the two of them, and this story is where they wrestle, pretty much.

#joyce byers #jonathan byers #stranger things wip #luckily i cultivate a diverse crop #the angst and the smut and the humor happily coexist in the same field and indeed often the same story #but omg not this one this one has TEETH #the lightest thing that happens in this story is that jonathan dyes el's half-inch hair to cheer her up #because joyce as a character does not lend herself well to understated or irreverent internal narration #and she's pretty tortured about like 90% of her parenting decisions #iconoclast pdwm #please don't wake me series

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thatstoomanysausages · 5 months

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Let’s be real here, the desert was too hot for Grian to have a whole ass jumper on, he had to have stripped down at one point, and I’m talking down to the gritties. Him and Scar had matching ponchos to protect them from inevitable burning, you people are just cowards. FREE THE GRITTIES‼️‼️‼️

#grian #goodtimeswithscar #life series #life series smp #3rd life #3rd life smp #traffic smp #scitties and gritties coexist peacefully on this blog #anyone else have a red dot on their- *gunshot*

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bpmorepjo · 6 months

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Clicking on the Percy Jackson tv teaser in YouTube and then having the avatar the last air bender live action teaser suggested next is so insanely surreal. Like I’m living the future i thought about back in 2020 when both these projects were in the early works.

#regardless of how they turn out #it’s so crazy these series coexist #IMAGINE A CROSSOVER???#it canonically cannot happen #but stillll #so insane #percy jackson #Percy Jackson and the olympians #avatar the last airbender #atla #pjo #pjo tv show #netflix #disney+

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d3ad-eye-andy · 6 months

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And yet, it's what he had to choose in the end anyway

#Marvel #Loki #Loki S2 #Loki Series #Loki Spoilers #Tom Hiddleston #“I'm incredibly proud of him” and “Loki is the most devastating character that I know” are two statements that can coexist

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coexistencetheseries · 2 months

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New cover art I made for our Webtoon comic! 🥰

Read Coexistence now on Webtoon!

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lupusfloslunae · 7 months

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MY BOYOOOOO

I love him. And I always will.

#fate grand order #gawain #fgo #fate #fate franchise #fate series #art #fanart #digital art #fate stay night #fexc #fgo gawain #gawain fgo #fate experiment of coexistence

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chambers003 · 4 months

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the life series is mumbos hot girl summer. be fr. he loves the enrichment. yes it stresses him out and canonically traumatises him way beyond most of the other players (source: inthelittlewood dub). but hes also having the time of his life.

#my post #trafficblr #mumbo jumbo #listen as much as i love the angsty takes . i really do i love love love angst #two things can coexist #he loves violence and also do you people not remember that one clip from the southlanders .#life series is really somethin else huh #something in the water supply

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marshmallord · 8 months

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i was so caught up in feeling bad for nick that i forgot he’s a creep

#like he’s my sweet precious son #but he’s also a creep #the two traits can coexist #only friends #ofts #ofts nick #only friends the series #thai bl #gmmtv

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tomwambsmilk · 11 months

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Okay I’ve thought about it some more and I think I actually do have exactly one (1) criticism of the finale but it’s not really an artistic critique so much as a worldview one. Both Jeremy Strong and Jesse Armstrong have talked about the fundamental bleakness of the show, and Jesse’s worldview that people simply don’t change, and I think that the ending of the show (particularly the last 5 minutes) has been written and cut to drive this home. I think that’s a really valid artistic vision, I think it’s executed well, and I think it’s not out-of-step with the world of Succession and it’s characters.

But, on a fundamental worldview level…. I disagree.

I agree that many people don’t change, even if given the opportunities to. Change is long and slow and painful, and you can try your whole life and still never fully escape the patterns and habits and worldviews you were raised in. But I don’t agree that there is no hope of change. I believe pretty firmly that people can always try, and they can even make progress, and they might backslide but that what progress they make is still worthwhile.

And because of that, I believe that the ending of Succession does, objectively speaking, have little glimmers of hope in among the bleakness. There is hope for Kendall in him not being CEO, and there is hope for Roman in him not being with Waystar, and there’s both tragedy and hope in that final shot of Tom and Shiv, in them holding hands but not. What is the hope for? I think that’s open-ended. I don’t think it’s any one thing. But I think there really is hope in the fact that they’ve all found themselves back at the beginning. The tragedy, of course, is all they’ve suffered for apparently nothing, in the lack of progress they’ve supposedly made. And yet, in that ‘reset’, in that return to the status quo, as awful as it is… I think there’s hope for the characters. There’s possibility. They very well may not take it. But it’s still there, even if the show itself refuses to acknowledge it.

…. And I think it’s maybe a tiny bit disingenuous not to acknowledge it, actually. In part because the only people who don’t get a bittersweet ending, whose ending feels purely bleak, is the three siblings. And also because, as bleak as Jesse’s worldview may be, the show has always featured some hope, some silver lining, even in its bleakest moments. The siblings fail to go up against Logan but they're finally united in 3.09. In 2.10 Shiv is forced to make a horrible choice which ultimately results in Ken pushing back on Logan. Even in 1.10, the horror of Kendall killing Dodds is tempered by the wide shot of the dance floor to 'Somebody Who Loves Me.' The show has always said that yes, these are bad people, yes, they make bad choices, yes, they harm each other immensely. And yet! And yet there's still something there, some glimmer of love, and the fact that glimmer exists provides some form of hope that maybe they can find their way back to it. Probably, they won't. But they could if they wanted to.

So the choice to end Succession on a series of shots which convey such bleakness and misery, without any glimmers of real hope to offset that, just doesn't sit right with me. But a lot of that is subjective; there's a whole other camp, likely including Jesse Armstrong, that would have found it disingenuous to include those glimmers of hope, because their worldview is fundamentally different than mine. I can't really argue with that. All I can say is that its a choice which simply doesn't work for me.

#succession spoilers #succession #really I think the ending works well as an episode and as a season finale. but I dont think it works as a series finale for just that reaso #also I think its a bit cruel (as well as disingenuous) to deny us that hope at the end of a season which has been so thoroughly about grief #it sends a message that the grief is forever. which... yes BUT ALSO the hope eventually comes back. speaking from my own experience #with my dad's death anyways #personally I think hope and bleakness can coexist. I think hope is sometimes strongest in the bleakness #hope is not the absence of bleakness but the decision to persist in spite of it

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