#dog motif coded

[dailykafka]

— November 6, 1915 / Franz Kafka diaries

#oh franz you poor thing #dog motif coded #November 6 #1915 #november #franz kafka #daily kafka #franz kafka diaries #quotes #alt text

[god-compussy]

I think when House spins his cane it’s a wagging tail of sorts. Similar concept when he whacks the shit out of Wilson’s shins but evil & mischievous

#House is VERY stray coded Ik u see urself in dog motifs you wet towel #house md #hatecrimes md #gregory house #greg house #hilson

[motifcollector]

It is like a dog driven off by his master that comes back to bark in front of the house at two in the morning. Not to be let in—he knows his master doesn’t love him—but to make his presence known. Can you imagine, my dear? Two o’clock in the morning, when sleep wraps you in safety and the world seems far away, beyond the darkness? Yet each time the master takes his gun and shoots—as is his right—the dog melts away into the darkness of the night. A wasted bullet.

Agustín Gómez-Arcos, The Carnivorous Lamb

#sorry but this is so succession coded #literature #currently reading #agustín gómez-arcos #dog motif

[joe-spookyy]

Dude tell me your thoughts about Daniel Cain + any headcannons??

hi what greatest ask i’ve ever received because all i ever have are thoughts about daniel cain. sorry this is gonna be an essay. um.

tldr - dan cain is a super fascinating character (especially when you read him as queer) and his high empathy makes it difficult for him to make the hard but necessary choices found often in the medical field, but easy for him to be manipulated by those he thinks can help him do the most Good. also he is not immune to herbert west. full post under cut and it’s pretty good you should read it.

ok first off he is literally JUST like me for real. but second. i really think he’s a fascinating character no matter how you read him. his empathy is Soooo high and it affects literally everything he does - sometimes for the worse cause he’s a doctor and honestly cannot afford to be getting this upset every time he loses a patient. but it’s part of him, which i think makes him a super interesting counterpart to herbert. he’s so distinctly Human and he cares so much about the people around him, and he’s a horrible doormat/people pleaser. this is, obviously, not at all like herbert. narrative foils oooooh. when i met bruce abbott he told me he thinks dan is a “spineless worm”, which may be technically true, but i think the way dan is so easily convinced to go along with herbert is because of this heavy empathy. he wants to do everything within his power to make things better, and what could really be better than conquering death? how much pain could he stop just with that?

because of that, i think it makes SO much sense that it was so easy for herbert to initially manipulate him into working together. plus i also think later on in the films his feelings for herbert get in the way of his judgement to. an incredible extent. herbert just has to ask and dan will immediately be at his every beck and call. hes like a dog. he wants out but he can’t stop coming back to herbert. i struggle to find any other way to explain why he’d still be living with herbert after the first movie - after all, herbert kind of did kill everything dan ever loved (girlfriend, cat, legitimate medical career). and i think these things affected him on a really deep level (which. yeah. obviously) but the way he acts in bride is so indicative of what that kind of trauma does to a person and it’s fascinating to me. he projects so hard on to gloria because of how guilty he felt for not being able to save meg. he shuts down in a lot of the more serious situations. sure, he did have his little going into shock moment in the first film, but it’s a reoccurring thing in bride. he doesn’t seem to have such a strong moral code anymore, but that empathy is still there - even though what he’s doing with herbert and their little bride project isn’t quite morally Right, all he really has left is herbert and he is dying for a way to get back to the normalcy that herbert has pulled away from him. and yet, he’s never able to really Leave. he can’t move out, he can’t stop helping herbert, he can’t really get meg back as much as he tries. but he’s too far down the rabbit hole to really care at this point. he just cares about getting what he loves back.

and sure. did he abandon herbert at the end of the first movie for meg? yeah. did he abandon herbert at the end of the second movie for francesca? also yes. did he rat herbert out to the authorities? yes (but that’s a character choice i simply cannot get behind he would not do that shit after everything he still does obviously love and care about herbert if he was gonna be a narc he would have done it after the first movie herbert didn’t even do all that much wrong in the second movie like come on he was just getting creative. whatever. anyways.) now, his choice to save meg in the first movie makes a lot of sense, in my opinion. he assumed herbert was dead (which. not a bad assumption tbh) and meg was his girl - it makes a lot more sense to save her than someone he hasn’t known for nearly as long. but when he chooses to escape with francesca and leave herbert behind, it’s a little bit jarring. he’s obviously gotten close with herbert. they still live together, they bicker like a married couple, and if we’re being honest he kind of follows herbert’s every command. again. like a dog. and plus! they just created life together in a quite homoerotic fashion!!! why in the world would dan fumble this?? well, i think i can explain it. herbert represents a lack of societal normalcy. think like doctor praetorius in the bride of frankenstein. herbert’s heavily queercoded, he actively defies god, he kills and he disrespects the dead and he’s terrible socially and he shoots up drugs (sorta) and he is all about medical malpractice. this is the opposite of what someone like dan SHOULD want. dan’s straight passing (or straight if you want to read him that way which i don’t recommend cause otherwise this analysis doesn’t make as much sense), kind and friendly, and wants a good, normal career in the medical field. and he loves his perfect girlfriend. meg (and later francesca) represent these “good” and “normal” things that dan wants and is expected to want. herbert, again, represents the opposite. so for dan to choose herbert and save him over either meg or francesca, he would be choosing to step away from the life he is “supposed” to live, the socially acceptable life. people are already suspicious of him and west as we see in the novelization of the first movie, and to save his visibly queer strange little “roommate” over the woman he’s supposed to love would have certain implications that would draw dan away from this life of normalcy that he wants so badly. but most importantly. herbert always comes back. he’s a part of dan that can’t be escaped.

well. that was a lot. headcanons. umm. i think you probably got a lot from the novel i just wrote but here’s more.

- i loveeee the dan starts smoking after meg dies hc

- i don’t believe he ratted on herbert. i think they’re still working together making freaky shit to this day. even as old men.

- i know i just said queer the whole time i was talking but he’s bisexual and you aren’t allowed to disagree with me. herbert’s gay though. emphasizes the differences between them - dan CAN choose that “normal” life but herbert can’t.

- i think he ends up needing glasses as he gets older. he wears em to read in the first movie and i think his vision declines.

- also he goes grey earlier than herbert imo cause of all the stress. herbert makes fun of him for this but herbert’s hairline is. ummmn. less powerful. so dan has ammo to fight back.

- i don’t think he’d ever be able to get a cat again after rufus. or really any pet. i don’t think he trusts himself not to damage everything he touches

- i think he’s a huge talking heads stan. you could argue this as canon because of the stop making sense poster above his bed, but i think he’s a super fan. and maybe i’m projecting. so what.

- no matter how many times herbert does it or offers it to him, he refuses to take any of the reagent.

uhh. yeah. sorry that this post is so long i hope it is sufficient to what you were looking for. thank you sincerely so much for asking this was the most fun i’ve ever had. bless up.

#reanimator #re animator #reanimator 1985 #dan cain #herbert west #daniel cain #meg halsey #megan halsey #horror #analysis #film analysis #character analysis #sorry for posting reanimator #bride of reanimator #bride of reanimator 1990 #hp lovecraft #danbert #dog motif #camp #queercoding #queer coding #bride of frankenstein #bruce abbott #jeffrey combs

[hella1975]

when alex g said i'm gonna crack a rib when i get home i'm gonna bury you in my favourite hole i made a bloody mess in the kitchen sink i tried to fix myself but i didn't think and when alex g said leave your body leave your mind don't you know you're out of time and when alex g said i don't want to see me i wanna be trapped in you i don't want to be me but im gonna pretend for you and when alex g said string the sinner by his wings in his head a brittle bone and when alex g said mary is the girl that leaves you to rot she says 'i am real and you are not' and when alex g said don't you know she's been here all along in a dream and when alex g said she loves me like a dog and when alex g said nothing compares to the fever dream it's what i do i wait for you and when alex g said dry your eyes i won't tell your mother she won't ever discover the things you kept under the covers and please don't cry i am not your brother i am not your lover and there is nothing wrong and when alex g said you know what they do to little dogs like you and when alex g said every day is a blessing as i walk through the mud if i live like the fishes i will rise from the flood and when alex g said you were born inside your head and that is where you'll be when you are dead you are just a boy you are no man and nobody you know will understand and when alex g said remember when you took too much i didn't mind being your crutch i loved you then it's not the same i don't like how things change and when alex g said you're starting to look really weird yeah your face is out of place and i can't make you out and when alex g said-

#AND IT'S ALL SUNG IN THAT REALLY RAW BORDERLINE BAD VOICE LIKE IT'S JUST SOME GUY SINGING INTO HIS PHONE IN A BASEMENT. YOU AGREE #really surprised that tumblr the home of bone and flesh fixation and dog motifs and mental illness hasnt latched onto alex g more yet #like he's doing all that and yet his tag is full of 5 note posts. where are my people #do you know how much worse you could feel if you listened to one (1) alex g song #he's sooooo my hometown coded. everything is miserable and grey and everyone is on something to cope. yeah the love persists regardless #alex g

[mattodore]

this is what i do when i'm having bad days 🤺

#river dipping #mattodore as a coping mechanism 🧘 #i'm actually having a better day than yesterday i'm just grumpy atm from lack of sleep 🚆🚶 #i stayed up last night watching old jerma streams yk how it is #made a character page yesterday but i’m not sure if i want to keep it… the character pics are TEMPORARY!!! btw. #i gotta take new plain bg cas pics for it but i was thinking abt making my own cas poses first 🤔 #finally went back to finish writing the [redacted] scene with mattodore #have been super slowly adding more aesthetically pleasing images to theo’s text heavy board 🚬 #also this picrew having a blue and red background option 😋 #anyway… that’s my little update 🫡 #i’m going to make theo’s custom beauty marks today and then i’ll get in blender to make this mattodore pose that is. #just. dog motif. you know. you understand the dynamics i don’t need to say anything else. #i’d show it off but for some reason matthias’s ripped sims all are missing his teeth cc…? so. can’t. the teeth are important to the pose ☝️ #i’ll share pics when i actually go in-game later #‘later’ <- when i feel like turning on my desktop #i should do it soon tho that way i can slap new pics onto that oc page and see if i like it or not #i decided to try it out since it’s mobile friendly like my actual blog theme #like if you open up a browser on your phone and type in my blog or this character page’s url they both look nice ! #i hunted for my blog theme for agesss but i found this character page pretty fast #it’s nice… it’s relatively simple looking (the code isn’t tho lmao) which i like. sometimes character pages are just. a lot. #and i think i prefer simple over complicated atp

[butchjess]

jess mariano + dogs in Here Comes the Son.

#jess dog motif……. yes he’s literally a cat but also hes dog coded. i cant explain it #its about jess begging to be treated with the same kindness given to a stray dog #‘​i swear i will bite you back’ character thesis statement. jess will bite the hand. #jess mariano #gilmore girls #gg meta

[x-itzzzzzz-x]

it always comes back to the dog motifs…

#csh #loves me like a dog fr #lonelly #car seat headrest #dog motif #autism #social anxiety #bpd #rsd #i will always be a dog even if it’s not what i want #nana hachi #she’s so dog coded #and literallt me #hachiko #nana komatsu

[skeleton-mischief]

Rus Serrif

You can smoke all you like, drink away your woes, but you can't escape your mind. SF!Red Papyrus, my silly skeleton with dog motifs

- Official height is 6'7

- He/They

- Heavy alcoholic

- Plays electric guitar

- Consumes BBQ Sauce

- Unhealthy amounts of dedication for those he loves

- Good friends with Coffee, Stretch, and Cash

- Very touchy and clingy if he likes the person's company, but he's distant otherwise

- Engineer

- Writes as a hobby, but drawing is his secret hobby

- Admires Red

- Curious of people, but he is weary of them. He'll give them a chance though if they show that they're willing to put in effort

- He would often try to be close to Carmine underground. He was desperate and was willing to cause a scene at times

- He adores praise and shows it

- He doesn't like to fight and will divert from fighting unless cornered. The only time he'll confront someone is if someone he cares about is being bothered

- Stingy if people owe him, keeps track of debts and is good at returning them

- He prefers dogs

- Has severe anxiety and attachment issues

- charming, quiet, observant, loyal, carefree, intuitive, lazy, impulsive, cynical, protective, lethargic, nosy, pessimistic, clingy, and untrusting

- He curses frequently

- Has around four rings, usually always wears them

- Doesn't feel the need to tell others he's intelligent, so some monsters and humans assume that he's lazy and stupid

- Not afraid to speak up despite his reserved and quiet nature. He hates seeing someone getting pestered

- He is very flirty when drunk, but still very much respectful

- The most loyal Papyrus

- Slower to trust others, he actively remains neutral with others unless they sway his opinion of them on their own

- Fan of PDA but he's willing to compromise if needed

- Sees Powder, Wine, and Razz as an older brother overtime

- Magic smells like Maple, magic tastes like spiced apple and cider

- Has a bit of a drawl in his tone, his nickname sounding like "darlin'"

- Loves pies and curry, and appreciates his brother for making them

- He knows sign language even if he doesn't remember why, he used it to befriend Coffee

- Can be extremely jealous and protective

- He has a huge sweet tooth

- Has heightened senses

- Will call Carmine "milord" if he thinks his brother is being overbearing and on his high horse. It used to be a nickname he'd call him since he knows it annoyed him, but now it's in a teasing manner and a reminder to Carmine to tone it down

- Smokes with a Zippo lighter

- Has yellowed bone

- Has two golden hip chains that act as leashes for his gaster blasters when they are activated. I thought it would be cool since UF Sans (Red) has his rings count as leashes for his Gaster Blasters and also has gold chains. Design choice babyyyy

- Used to drink and cause chaos for Carmine when their relationship started to deteriorate, but at the same time he was extra clingy and emotional. He would even reach a point he forgot their tension and just was desperate to be close with his brother

- A romantic who can be super sappy with others

- He can be a rude ass motherfucker when drunk if he is pissed with someone, as he is more blunt and would smoke in their face without a care

- Likes fist bumps when greeting friends, and uses a small wave as a greeting instead of a handshake. He only uses handshakes if he wants to test someone

- Calls Chara "Runt"

- Sniffles and whimpers when crying, tries to be quiet but ends up being loud

- He informs Carmine where he goes, and he appreciates when Carmine checks up on after they move to another timeline with the other skeletons

- Let's Coffee cling onto him when in crowded areas, but he'll cling onto others when Coffee isn't present

- would call his lover darling

- Loves to listen, and so he doesn't ramble a lot

- When he is really interested in something, such as a video game, he has to be asked first for him to actually see that someone is willing to listen to him ramble. He gets a little embarrassed and a little shy though

- He doesn't take disrespect for his brother or loved ones, even if he does nothing for someone talking direct shit to his face about him. He's passive aggressive, and finds ways to make them shut up

- He is wonderful at collecting black mail and gathering information about someone. However, he's reclusive and this means that no one is good at figuring out information about him. The closest anyone has ever gotten to knowing about him and the truth about his history was his universe's Undyne, but he destroyed that information before she could find out. Only the Queen truly knows, and this is used against him, which makes him "loyal" to her as a result

Closing Notes: he's so dog motif coded like oh my god this dude has racked my brain and I swear that this skeleton has left me thinking about him for hours before because wow he's so silly but oh my god I need to hold him and let him cry because he needs it. I'm so normal about him.

#headcanon #undertale au #alternate universe #swapfell red #swapfell #swapfell papyrus #rus serrif #hes so dog coded #dog motif #im normal #because im insane #he makes me feral #i get sad when i think about him #i could make him feel better #i could take care of him #im wailing #also why was there so much Fontcest?? #too much fontcest dude oh my god #i hate fontcest #i hate it i hate it i hate it #anyways #the fandom is fixing him #thank the stars #cause holy fuck #big yikes

[catinfroghat]

This was what Logan was thinking about when he called Colin his best pal btw

#no but if I'm being serious for a minute... #the song is about a man having a crisis because he is contemplating death and feels like his life has been wasted #at the end he gets the redemption he needs by paying attention to the beauty of the world around him rather than just being self-absorbed #of course logan never gets this redemption but. #the stuff about him asking where his wife and kids are the dog motif the stuff about hints and allegations... logan coded #maybe I'm just being turned insane by the number of times this has been on the radio at work #succession

[clowndensation]

a character in true blood does something shitty and i throw tomatoes at the screen and boo and hurt them with many mean words and phrases, i see eric do something shitty and i go "eeeerrriccc that's problematic!" and my friend who is not even in the same room says "eeerrrrriccc don't be problematic!" and that fixes him and he actually stops being problematic in the show immediately because he's sensitive and receptive to feedback.

#true blood #he's dog motif coded because he does something bad and i want to spritz him in the face with water

[bitessback]

@johnnysslaughter asked : “ why can’t you look me in the eye ? ”

𝘲   :   (   𝘸𝘩𝘺   𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵   𝘺𝘰𝘶   𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬   𝘮𝘦   𝘪𝘯   𝘵𝘩𝘦   𝘦𝘺𝘦?   )

oh that   voice   would   be   the   death   of   them,   the way that twinge of a southern drawl makes them 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘬 & the gruff undertone that reverberates through their chest makes their heart 𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘱. ( 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 ) but it's obvious in the   way   their   breath   catches  despite how they try to hide it.   they   were   never   all   that   good   at   holding   his   gaze.   wilting   under   it   and   always   the   first   to   look   away.

❝   ha, didn't   take   you   for   the   romantic   type.   ❞   they   huff   playfully,   slight   grin   twitching   at   their   lips. the attempt to dispel their nerves only partially effective.

𝐚   :   (   𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞   𝐈'𝐦   𝐚𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐝   𝐲𝐨𝐮   𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭   𝐬𝐞𝐞   𝐦𝐞.   )

they   don't   speak,   once   again   glancing   away   even   if   he   tries   to   catch   their   gaze.   swallowing   thickly   as   they   draw   their   face   away.   once   again   shying   away   from   his   gaze,   slinking   to   shadow   and   trying   to   hide.   but   no   matter   how   they   hid,   he   always   found   them,   didn't   he?    (   &   𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺   𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘥   𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵.   )    found   them   at   the   precipice   of   the   rawest   moment   they   could   be   -   something   unfiltered   and   desperate   and   hungry   and   he   took   every   part   of   them   in   without   hesitation. 

❝   does   it   matter?   ❞   of   course   it   did,   otherwise   he   wouldn't   have   asked   would   he?   but   they're   so   flighty,   a   stray   that   wandered   and   wandered,   but   like   every   dog   :   𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴   𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦   𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬.

❝   I'dunno . . . never   been   good   at   it   --   ❞   they   mutter,   adding   it   on   at   the   last   minuet   as   if   that   was   much   better.   they're   close   enough   to   feel   his   breath,   and   they've   let   him   draw   out   pieces   of   them   they've   tried   to   stifle   their   whole   life. ---

they let him carve out a place in their dog heart and brush away all the whittled off edges that would define who they could be & who they were.   but   looking   him   in   the   eyes,   letting   him   see ?  raw and unburdened by any front they could try to hide behind ?  . . .

---   no,   that   was   too   much.  (  too   close.  )   they   still   feared   the   ache   he   made   them   feel,   wanting   more   was   foolish.  [ fickle heart baying : 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘳 ! -- 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 ! ]

because   strays   do   not get to   want,   they   do   not get to   beg,   they   are   not   welcomed   at   the   foot   of   your   bed   on   the   cold   nights.   they   linger   in   your   doorway   at the height of   a   storm hoping for the pity you take on them,   take   what   they're   given   and   leave.   𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠   𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫.

no, they know better by now . . . they know they   were   not   something   that   was   meant   to   be   𝐤𝐞𝐩𝐭.   not   something   to   be   𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅.   not   meant   to   be   𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏. least of all, something meant to be 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯.

( 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘢𝘪𝘯'𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦 --- 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘯𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯 )

❝   --   little   too   intimate   for   my   tastes.   ❞   they   mutter   against   his   skin,   an admittance under the guise of some half-joke while   they   tuck   their   face   into   his   neck.   closing   their   eyes   and   leaving   themselves   at   his   mercy   for   the   moment.

° ˈ· • [ 𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙼𝙿𝚃 ] . . . accepting !

#╰ ( 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑙 ) / 𝐈 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐆𝐎𝐓 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊. ❛ in chara. #╰ 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘮𝘦 𝐃𝐈𝐄. ❛ johnny & jamie. #johnnysslaughter #I'm very normal about them your honor <- deranged #hgngh me when the dog motif character & the wolf motif character #the dog existing as something that notes the similarities with them & the would but realizing they cannot be the wolf & vice versa #the bait n switch with the dog coded jamie being the one who's been away from their family for a LONG time & can't commit #shaking it around in my mouth like a squeaky toy

[aidenwaites]

I almost added this image for Charlie and it took a lot of strength not to

#charlie is. extremely dog coded #it was kind of accident but then i kept leaning into it and he is very much my like #one Dog Motif character

[chstart]

THEE night-coded character

#kirito you will always be famous #i love my sunshine protags but Man........... theres just smth SOOOOO about a protag who's positive but in a darkness-coded way #the home motif................. night as a time to recuperate......... a safe harbor.... #ooc. butterdog. the dog with the butter.

[shallowseeker]

Optimism freeform meta

Jack, Harper, and the folly of pursuing of immature, illusory Perfection as the antidote to life's many disappointments.

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Okay, here it comes. It's our rambling, group Optimism meta from discord that I promised once upon a time I'd post here. Apologies ahead of time if I get your Tumblr names wrong.

Harper's flat is decorated in ooey-gooey symbols of love.

Green for growth (though Harper's growth pattern is certainly arrested), and red for passion. We have the green-Italian amore in the symbolic kitchen of life, and a bright red heart near the entrance.

BEWARE: You're entering Harper's heart. It's black and bloody.

We also see that her home is full to the brim with books and stories. She clings to them, hoping they'll bring her life meaning. The blood-red-pink-purple color theme continues in the form of her array of romance novels.

Harper herself is clothed in red, in a Sayles-coded corduroy, perhaps a mate to the hunter's anorak jacket. Her little scarf is certainly Scooby-Doo-Daphne-esque, but it's also a RED BANDANA calling to mind that she's an OUTLAW, like Dave Matthews in the Tombstone episode.

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But her bedroom is more serene, stuffed with zen colors, serene green, and a bedful of childish stuff animals. It's dominated by strong protector-types like lions and elephants.

via @honeyedwhiskey: okay so I got intrigued by the fact that she has these particular stuffed animals. the lion, symbolizing stalking her prey, elephants for their memory and their brutality (maybe a nod to wanting community) and the tiger for her actual isolation. the puppy seems to be an older addition, maybe from childhood, and the smallest and most vulnerable one is being protected by the dog which seems to be a bear cub? reference to maybe a mama bear that protected her? the three at the top are what interest me the most though because harper is represented by the heart and the color red so the mouse is her, and the two pigs seem to be her parents, with one being a combination of colors and patchwork looking. so it seems to me that one of her parents was zombie-fied, maybe from a young age.

I like the symbolic nature Whiskey acribed to the stuffed animals above a lot!

I too think her reaction to abandonment and Vance speaks to something really fucked up in her necromancy family, like maybe a necromancy-coming-of-age-trial that went REALLY REALLY badly and wound up with her being totally alone.

Maybe it's like how Sam jokingly told Charlie: "You're not really a hunter till you've come back form the dead." Or like Cas told Jack of his own death, "It's something of a rite of passage around here."

Maybe you're not really a necromancer until you've killed and brought your family back and ofc Harper failing that test would fuck her up forever.

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I noticed the teddy bear, too! There's a tee-tiny nod to the teddy-bear lovers' symbol above her bed, same as Marvelous Marvin has a red heart on his chest in season 15's Gimme Shelter. (And Dean's I Wuv Hugs from a million years ago.)

[The stuffed bear is] a simultaneous motif...of sexual intimacy and The Lover, it's also representative of The Beloved Child resulting from their contact.

(Jack is Marvin.)

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Here's love in the corner, illuminated by two lamps. Harper is getting Jack a book, a book about her little beloved hometown, McCook.

Deep down, Harper is lonely, and unlike her disdain for her other suitors, she's a little different with Jack here: she wants to be understood.

She wants him to understand her and her hometown. Just a little. She's prodding at the niggling, unusual, UNFAMILIAR feeling. So, she sits down and invites him to sit, to learn more about her.

By this point, it's possible she's figured out he's a hunter, which opens up the possibility of revealing her true self, for better or for worse. It's an intoxicating thought for Harper.

Jack hesitates, clearly interested but also a little bit "!!!!"

He's framed by the heart on the wall. Indeed Jack, like Dean and Mary, is a "heart" character. He's even clothed in one of Mary's key colors: dusky orangey pink. (Aside// You'll notice Connor also wears this color in Gimme Shelter.)

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Unlike in Tombstone, where Jack wasn't (via script) all that interested in Athena and Dave's relationship, now Jack's clearly grown. He's even interested in physicality.

Even though his emotional core can be kinda prickly, like Dean and Mary, he's at root a very affectionate character, interested in experience affection/connection with others:

So, he sits. Perseveres through he awkwardness. And lo and behold, Harper is as weird as he is.

They talk about having a positive outlook, even though they've had and terrible pasts, have done terrible things. And hey, look--she's getting the lamp treatment! How lovely.

They sit on the blue couch, as Harper tells him more about her past, subconsciously seeking his acceptance. The blue of the couch mirrors the blue color of her past, of her prom dress. We see her little prom queen crown, and we wonder...Harper is so awkward...

...does she really seem like the Prom Queen type?

I suspect it was fake. That she manufactured her own popularity with bit of magic. To meet the perfectionistic obsession with her romance tales. She is at core a fearful character, fearful of messing up, or being imperfect, of not living up to The Dream (TM).

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Jack makes a quick getaway. In this shot, he's effectively the trope of the divine masculine, fleeing from love, "amore."

It's interesting that the kitchen, a bit like the bedroom, is earthier in tone, filled with more "valley" colors: of browns, greens. The kitchen is about the imperfect strivings of every day life, divorced from the high-dollar reds of Harper's romance-novel decor.

In the bathroom, Jack is clearly interested in exploring "love."

To Dean, he says, "Just in case (she is in love with me)...tell me everything you know about sex. Go!"

Jack is a curious-and-courageous character, too. He's prone to experimentation, which is also why he so often gets the drug ("I like cocaine!" and The Who) motifs. Like Cas, he's maybe a little scared, but he's going to go-for-it no matter how silly and awkward he might look.

That courage is probably something Harper senses in him. It's attractive to her, like the symbolic stuffed-animal lion-and-tiger protectors she has in her bedroom. She wonders:

"Is he strong enough to love the real me?"

In THIS sense, the thing with Vance isn't completely "a naughty nurse game." Deep down, at her root psychological base, Harper is testing the potential lovers' strength. Very classically mythical, really. And she's disgusted by her suitors because they keep failing and failing.

No one is like Vance. Not even Vance is like Vance. Her idea of Vance was never real, and she was never prom queen. But admitting that to herself is so painful, she constructs this horrible pattern of death and destruction.

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"Her apartment has a lot of wallpaper/furniture from the 50’s! Or with that general aesthetic!" -Cal (@13-01)

It's so interesting, because this 50s retro theme is something that Jack, Dean, and Cas carry a lot, especially in terms of their "old-school" button-up pajamas and dressing downs. (Cas himself, with his overcoat, could be plopped in the middle of Mad Men tv series and fit into the surroundings, haha. And although we rarely see Sam carry the motif, but he dips into it in Peace of Mind as well.)

At the end of this episode, we'll see Harper seated in her own retro cafe with the same 50s vibe as well, a Charming Acres-sort of feeling. To me this symbolizes a backwards-looking illusion of perfection, that everything used to be simpler and better, and with enough effort, it can be simpler and better again.

Also there are dragonflies in her bathroom, a bit of a parallel to the lonesome fly plot that Sam and Charlie are on (in this same episode).

This too is the backwards-looking motif, of holding onto the illusory idea of Happiness (TM) so tightly that it becomes tragic and destructive.

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Since even her idea of Vance isn't real, it's become like Amara's illusory idea of love. It can never let her down. "It can never hurt her."

#harper sayles #spn optimism #jack stuff #jack kline #spn season 14 #spn 14x06 #spn steve yockey #jack relationships #jack discord #honeyedwhiskey #cal

[nullbutler]

CW: mild body horror

so this is my AI AU...i dont have all of the pieces done yet, but I think this will be part one of 3 little collages I'm going to make hehe...the basic summary of the AU is, What if Black Butler BUT ROBOTS????

R!Ciel and O!Ciel are a pair of extremely intelligent bots made by the company Angel Wing (a company trying to put human sentience into robots to specifically help prolong the lives of sick children). The two of them are called RCL and OCL (R-C-L, O-C-L, pronounced just as you'd pronounce r!ciel and o!ciel, since it's cee el) and they're the newest little toy...

That is, until RCL goes missing from their little padded cell of monitored stimulation and information learning. And, then, a strange nebulous 'virus' infects OCL. Suddenly, he's on the run -- or rather, something is running and he's in their arms!!

Sebastian Michaelis (nicknamed, The Daemon, because he almost exclusively codes in hebrew and it looks Very Intimidating) had his eye on these little bots (called: dolls). He wants to know the true depth of their humanity, whether or not they actually 'have a soul' or if its a big hoax. Consider that a morbid curiosity of his. And so by hacking the mainframe of the company and infiltrating, he's finally able to extrapolate what's going on...

Kinda.

Anyway, while they're on the run, they have to crash at the fantastic transgender catgirl hacker (a very common trope, I know) Grelle's bachelorette pad.

details i can't fit in

OCL is 4'4, RCL is 4'5, they're quite a bit smaller and lighter since they're hypertech robots

They can't walk on their own for very long, their legs are functional but they were not designed for that

OCL...um....can bleed. something. something is going on. they're not really sure what he is.

He doesn't remember anything either

Sebastian's current hacker name is DOG because him and Grelle had a kitty motif for a while, but then he lost a bet. At the end of the month hes nerfing his account (like he'd even last that long before being caught)

characters that are important and WILL show up later: Alois, Jim, Claude, Undertaker, Ash, other important ones

something bad happened to RCL. OCL cannot remember it, though :(

no grelle's ears are not real. its a headband for the aesthetic. shes in her playful era. its between the 50 different shades of crimson eras

I've been calling this thing Cosmo Circuits. If you even care

#Cosmo Circuits #black butler au #sebastian michaelis #ciel phantomhive #r!ciel #o!ciel #grelle sutcliffe #grell sutcliff #ai au