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deadandphilgames · 10 hours

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Okay so I can not stop thinking about dinok. If dinok were to happen(🤞🤞🤞), the concept of it is essentially a tv show with the plot of dan in an alternate universe where he never met phil and became a lawyer right?

Since he talked about it in why i quite yt, ive thought about the plot so many times and obviously a big theme would be dan coming to terms with his identity, which would mean that romance/sexuality/partnership would 100% a part of it. Maybe not the main aspect, but it would be a part of it.

And my brain just can not imagine a conclusion to dans identity crisis, even a fictional AU lawyer dan, involving any person other than phil. Like dan and phil are the most real example of soulmates ive ever seen. So many couples I could see how in different circumstances there would've been other people who could be their "other half" but dnp are as yin and yang, fictional soulamtes, romance novel, hall mark movie as it gets.

Like dan "I will find you in any world" howell just doesnt have a happy ending with steven from accounts im sorry.

So in my head dinok is an 8 episode story arc of dan figuring out who he is and what he wants, joining a local theatre group or something, finding his passion, finally accepting himself and coming out, and then the very last scene is just dan on the tube or something and he accidentally bumps into a stanger and dan goes to apologise and the camera pans up and we just see phil. And then it ends. And it would be perfectly dnp. Showing the audience they are meant to find each other, but leaving the details ambiguous and up for interpretation.

Obviously anything dan makes would be absolutely perfect, but this is the story that has been in my head since the moment he announced the concept.

it would be objectively hilarious and iconic if dan spent all this time and money to make a lawyer!dan nonyoutuber AU meet-cute

#it would be . quite self indulgent (the concept itself is already<-lovingly)#asks #anonymous

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spicybylerpolls · 3 days

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@"we're not pure magical fairies" anon!

Damn, I've been thinking about this topic so much. And getting heated about it. It's no secret that fandoms in general tend to be dominated by women, and in the case of the byler fandom, it's also overall a pretty youthful fandom. Sexuality is such a charged topic, it's so powerful and personal and runs so deep and THAT is why I need to see it portrayed with utmost authenticity. So truly, it's hard to take when people try to censor conversations surrounding a topic that means so much to me (having grown up gay in that time period). I appreciate people's thoughts and interpretations but a hearty FUCK NO to trying to censor or police gay male sexuality. I mean, damn.

Really, when people referred to hosegate as "sexualizing" mike and will, that was disheartening to say the least. It implies imposing sexuality, framing it as something separate from the characters - rather than us just interpreting the scene (and others) as intended: mike and will are hot for each other. Oh lord! Imagine! I just came away from all that feeling quite weird about my own sexuality for the first time in many years. I should seriously know better than to let such things get to me. But shame runs deep. Gays who survived the 80s know. And not only them, of course!

I've actually been looking forward to post st5, because I believe that's really the time when we will get a broader perspective of gay and bisexual men's thoughts and feelings about this storyline.

#spicy byler #byler #mike wheeler #will byers #spicy byler meta #no poll

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fedyaplushie · 3 days

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an analysis of the fyodor breakdown scene—the truth, an act, or something else entirely?

warning: !!minor spoilers for the brothers karamazov!!

To believe Fyodor is an honest person is the way of the fool, but to mistrust every word he says and view them as lies will not put you in a better position, either.

By dismissing every dialogue of his, you are still, in a way, putting trust in him. Putting trust in the fact that he is a liar. And thus, you may miss out on important, vital information.

He could be hiding some specks of truth in his words, in his actions, and you will never know, because you already marked him as a liar. Yet he is most definitely not a truthful person, either.

So, it is hard to know... when is he lying? When is he telling the truth? When is he leading us to believe that a truth he told is actually a lie?

With Fyodor, it is very difficult to tell, and one of the moments that proves this the most, is the infamous Fyodor breakdown scene from Chapter 108.

Many people have already discussed the Fyodor breakdown scene which has led the fandom to two major conclusions: either he is genuinely being plagued by a second personality (be it via possession or otherwise), or the entire scene was an act, as Fyodor himself claimed.

I myself have thought about this scene many times, and even wrote up my own thread, in which I discussed the possibility of Fyodor suffering from a real mental breakdown after seeing the note, and then quickly coming up with a bullshit lie of having a second personality to throw Sigma off-guard and claim the upper hand, which he was in need of after showing such a vulnerable side to one of his enemies.

As of right now, I have not yet discarded that possibility, for I want to remain open-minded, no matter what curveballs Asagiri may throw at us. However, I wanted to consider other options, too. We always talk about whether Fyodor was acting or not, but what if there's more to it?

Let's break down the scene:

Sigma shows Fyodor, while holding him at gunpoint, the note he found on the ground of the Meursault hallways, the one which has the Russian translation for "help me" written on it.

Fyodor inspects the note before suddenly scooting back and screaming, leaving Sigma confused. He keeps muttering "help me" to himself, continues screaming, until he goes silent, waits a few short seconds, quickly shoots up and asks Sigma, "What year is it?"

The inclusion of that question has definitely rung alarm bells after recent chapters have revealed that Fyodor may or may not be much older than any other mortal human being—it is at least fair to assume that he was somehow alive centuries ago, if his memories are to be believed.

However, I'm much more interested in what happens next...

He speaks of a demon. The demon that is his ability, the ability that took over him due to his own weakness. He switches from using "him," to refer to the demon, to "I," implying that the demon is a part of himself.

Some have taken this to mean that he is possessed in one way or another (especially with the most recent chapters), but I would like to offer up a different interpretation.

Let's assume the entire scenario was genuine... I am not able to answer who may have written the note or why a Russian "help me" would be enough to trigger Fyodor, but let's assume it did, and his breakdown was real.

My thought was, what if this entire spiel with Sigma came as a result of his own mind?

He has allegedly lived for a long time, seeing himself as a servant of God in his quest to bring humanity to the promised land. Living so long, following such a goal so strictly, would have a toll on one's mind, no? We don't know what Fyodor was like before his ability and/or his immortality manifested, so who's to say that serving such an abstract goal for such a long time wouldn't cause one to have a distorted sense of self?

Moments ago, he was screaming and curled up on the floor. It wouldn't be unlikely that such a moment of mental vulnerability would cause his more distorted sense of self to show itself. Especially when one considers that he asked Sigma what year it was the moment he calmed down, he was clearly quite confused over his surroundings.

So, my conclusion was, that the one he calls a "demon" could simply be referring to the parts of himself that his inner self, deeply buried within, despises, or, maybe more accurately, fears the most. Someone whom he can mentally shift the blame onto, speaking of the demon and his ability as if they were one and the same. If the manifestation of his ability (which many believe is what is causing him to be potentially immortal) was what originally caused him to think that he must have been chosen to fulfill some grand quest, then that makes it all the more likely.

In short, with this interpretation, I do not believe he is possessed. I don't think he has a second personality, either. Both the demon/ability and Fyodor himself are parts of Fyodor, with this scene giving insight into what he truly thinks of himself—a feeble being who was easily overcome by his weakness, and the temptation of his ability and viewing himself as a servant of God.

And then there's the part with the Sword Kladenets (if we're to assume that he was telling the truth about their holiness and that the part about it being a simple guard's knife was a lie), where he asks Sigma to kill him, which is a whole other aspect to consider, if my interpretation is correct...

The one thing that throws me off is how quickly Fyodor came back from all of this, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he could easily overcome such vulnerable states and act as if it was nothing. We're talking about Fyodor, after all.

Now, I've held this interpretation for quite a few months now, yet I waited until now to bring it up. Why? Simply because my interpretation had no basis. There was, as far as I was aware, nothing to back my thoughts up, and I didn't want to talk about something I myself barely believed in. This interpretation was solely an idea, maybe a gut feeling, but it was never solid in any way.

Until very recently, when a friend of mine texted me to talk about a scene in The Brothers Karamazov... the scene where Ivan Karamazov speaks with the devil. And the scene which Asagiri himself has stated served as an inspiration for Fyodor's character.

Yet that scene is not Ivan's first encounter with the 'devil.' He strongly implies throughout the book that he has had multiple encounters with "him," yet it is not until that very scene—the scene Asagiri which was referring to—until we, as readers, are able to experience it ourselves, through his—Ivan's—lens.

In this scene, Ivan experiences a hallucination as a result of his illness (delirium tremens)... a hallucination where the devil is speaking with him.

The "devil"—whom Ivan acknowledges as an embodiment of his own "thoughts and emotions, though only those that are most loathsome and stupid."

Sound familiar?

Well, I could go on and on about the "Ivan speaks with the Devil" scene and how well it fits into my interpretation of Fyodor's breakdown scene, but this analysis is already quite long, so I may save that for another day...

But I believe I have reached my point—that my interpretation, which I developed solely through gut feeling and creativity, sounds eerily similar to what Ivan experiences, especially in the scene we are privy to... the scene which, once again, has been confirmed by Asagiri to have served as an inspiration for Fyodor's character.

Yet, despite this, I am not entirely convinced, though definitely more than I was before.

While my interpretation may be correct, it's also possible that Asagiri is pulling an UNO Reverse Card and that, while the BSD scene truly could be inspired by the TBK scene, Fyodor was only using the mention of a demon as a lie to throw Sigma off, while in Ivan's case, it was 'genuine.' It is also entirely possible that Fyodor did have a talk with the devil—a.k.a. the part of himself he loathes the most—at some point in the past, and used that experience to make his lie more convincing. Who knows, maybe I'm looking into this way too much and those two scenes have no relation to each other, whatsoever!

"People are quick to believe they are thinking of their own free will. [...] we trust that everything we discover is valuable. We're loath to believe that our thoughts are being controlled."

And thus, we start looking for meaning in panels and dialogue that are either red herrings or don't even have any meaning at all... I am wary of that. Which is why I have elected to stay open-minded, instead of believing in only "one true theory."

But I still want to have some faith in my interpretation and that is why I am sharing it with you. Even if I end up being wrong, I am happy to be able to share my thoughts!

(Forgive me, if I am not the first one to share this idea. Due to spoiler warnings, I have avoided any Fyodor analysis posts, that contain TBK in any way, therefore, I am unaware of the content of said posts.)

Thank you so much for reading this far! I appreciate it!

Shout-out to @/xKolyaMxxx (Twitter) for giving me the motivation to write this analysis by sharing and discussing a similar idea with me!

Huge thanks to @creantzy for making me aware of the content of the TBK scene, for sharing photos of the English translation of the book, and, most of all, for discussing this topic with me, and helping me out a lot!

#bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd fyodor #fyodor dostoevsky #fyodor dostoevsky bsd #fyodor dostoyevsky #fyodor dostoyevsky bsd #the brothers karamazov #ivan karamazov #long post

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catabasis · 10 months

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“Am I doing him right?”

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musical-chick-13 · 1 year

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So I guess ultimately my question is why are we assuming that Nayuta specifically meant “Denji belongs to me definitively, and you are trying to take his attention away from me?”

Aside from the fact that narrative misdirection is a thing and that I think it would completely contradict all the themes of the story thus far to just have her be Makima 2.0 and inherently evil...

We don’t actually know if she and Yoru recognize each other or not? Even on a subconscious level. If she does recognize Yoru (and, reasonably, knows how her powers work) calling Yoru a thief could have meant that “You are trying to steal Denji’s spinal cord to make a weapon” or even “You have stolen this random girl’s body to use for yourself.” (Even if she doesn’t know specifically that Yoru is sharing Asa’s body, she might still be able to tell that something weird is going on?)

She’s still a child, she might have just impulsively said the smallest amount of words that would sort-of convey what she was feeling.

I’m not worried yet.

Yet.

#I know people are pointing to the 'don't kiss me in front of her' as evidence of her posessiveness over denji but. she's also a child?#lots of children just don't like seeing kissing in general. especially involving family members. it's also possible that...idk they were #watching a movie once with a kiss scene and she made a disgusted face or something and denji just interpreted that the wrong way #I mean. I know creators like to troll people especially ones who are essentially human cryptids like fujimoto but...he did say that part 2 #would be different from part 1. idk he's not a stupid writer I don't think he would go this hard on Themes™ of love and connection and how #they enrich our lives and then backtrack on that? I don't think he would highlight how Things Will Be Different if it didn't mean anything?#MANY THOUGHTS HEAD FULL #I'm still sad we didn't get a discussion between yoru and nayuta about eating crayons I'm thinking too much about that one comic #nayuta #yoru #chainsaw man #chainsaw man spoilers #chainsaw man manga spoilers #csm spoilers #csm manga spoilers #csm chapter 119 #(I think that's all of the tags people might have reasonably blocked if they don't want manga spoilers???)

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zeb-z · 8 months

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ok listen. you're badboyhalo and having the worst week of your life. you're willing and wanting to give anything, anything, to get your kids back. forever, your crush/enemy/friend/date partner?/ president sits you down and asks you to marry him. he's on a drug that makes him manically happy and has an extreme level of brainwashing for federation purposes.

you consider for the briefest moment saying yes, because you're drowning in your grief and hard in bargaining, but it won't do anything to help bring the eggs back, forever doesn't know anything. forever wants the eggs back as much as you do, the real one at least, you know this.

you're surrounded by roses. you ask him what you can do to help him, what he needs, asking the forever that you know is in there somewhere. any other personal feelings aside, he's your friend and he clearly needs help. he asks you to marry him again. he tells you to stop making some noise that he's clearly hearing through auditory hallucination. you just want your kids back, you keep telling him this, until he snaps and starts shooting mines under both of you.

forever is still out of his mind. your kids are still missing. the roses are burning.

bad said no to the proposal, of course he did. that's not forever, the kids are gone, this is no time or place for such a thing even if forever was himself. but I don't think forever asked because he feels "opposite than what he usually feels" under the pills. he's manic and under the influence and half brainwashed - he wants every day to be the best day.

and how heartbreaking is that? that bad is only being proposed to while forever is out of his mind. that forever wants bad to say yes because that would make the day the best day ever for him. that under any other circumstances, on that bench with the roses all around them, it might have been something good?

#idk man like take this with a grain of salt too know but l'm taking a stand against every twt user that's been annoying me with their takes #you can't view all of this under a purely platonic lense because of the way they've been playing their characters. you also can't see it as #oh forever finally proposed!' because he's not! it's a whole fucked situation there's nuance and complications and so many factors #like don't be upset bad said no forever is clearly not himself? and who knows if he would even say yes in the first place?#but also on the opposite side like chill out? they've never been read as purely platonic? it's all fucked yeah don't be weirdly like #idk it's the people who are like that's fucked up and you're fucked up for watching it' with no media literacy. like yeah we're all aware #anyways. my view is that they've got incredibly complicated feelings towards eachother. forever would be happiest marrying bad #bad might not say yes under normal circumstances because again they've got a whole complex situation. he isn't sure of his own feelings on a #good day #idk. I need to write an essay about this and what bads internal monologue or thoughts might have been because #it's like. he's angry at forever. he has feelings for forever. he doesn't want to be with him but he doesn't want him with anyone else #there's a world where he could marry forever and be happy. but not here and not like this. idk #these are my interpretations at least!#either way the whole bench scene was phenomenal well done #z speaks #qsmp #mcyt #bbh #forever #q!bbh #q!forever #reposting this so my organizational tags work ✌️#4halo

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wheelercurse · 2 years

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going insane how the lack of intimacy in Mike’s monologue is pretty much intentional.

How this wasn’t a private moment between these two, probably even Vecna could hear Mike lmao. How Will was behind Mike in many shots and he was a big part of the composition when he said ily for the first time. How there’s no sign of connection or closeness between these two, one was literally in another dimension. Mike didn’t know if she was hearing him. El had her eyes closed the entire time, and we saw many shots of her eyes closed. And they weren’t on the same level, so the camera angles between these two differed.

#byler #that scene is soooo good when you interpret it as the scene that buried that relationship and not fixed it #ok this is my last post about this topic #or maybe not #i have many thoughts

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chibi-scone · 1 month

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It’s been said before and the fact that I’m an Izzy simp aside like having a character who survives the most certain death shit ever (shooting himself in the head at point blank) and literally being nicknamed by another character “indestructible” and then become a symbol of protection for a whole group of people die from a fucking bullet to the side that was established in universe to have no vital organs in order to “atone for his sins” or however you wanna spin it and have him say he wants to go after (see point one) literally trying to kill himself in the show that is literally about growth and betterment of the self in a cruel world that wants you dead and where the main (and mostly queer) characters survive the most batshit insane injuries is like COSMICALLY stupid writing like I don’t even understand how you get there and the fact that it’s supposed to be a kind/ happy/meaningful ending is beyond me

#and Izzy’s whole speech to Ricky before that could be interpreted as what like #being about even if you kill and try to eradicate queer people we’ll always be here #and then have RICKY deal the killing blow ????#wahhhh it’s symbolic #ok it would’ve been more symbolic to have the fucking queer character live like idc you’re all stupid god bless #ofmd critical #tbd #maybe #oh and then I mean not even talking about how it’s supposedly all good #because the main gays who had borderline no redeeming qualities this season had their picket fence ending #literally what’s the point of having Ed come back from the dead #so he can learn that death is not the answer and that there’s love and betterment for him #and have that whole scene with Jim and Archie where they refuse to kill one another because there’s more to life than the cards #they’ve been dealt and they can be the difference #JUST TO HAVE THAT ENDING #my god I just #sorry if you guys are sick of me ranting about ofmd like 5 months after the shit show supreme #but these are like all thoughts that I’ve just had in my head for months but tried to forget #and now they’re just spilling out like idc anymore #ppl have made so many good posts that all say what I think but ig I still need to rant myself jvhsjnv #how long can your neck be for it to allow you to bury your head so deep in the sand #where you truly believe this is good writing idk #side note but gifs of cats randomly blowing up are my favourites #‘Izzy bettered himself before dying so it’s aaaallll good’ hits you hits you #stupid ass shit argument but also that was across maybe a week and dude was piss drunk dissociative half the time

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milo-the-professional-yapper · 4 months

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I will say- despite the controversy surrounding it, I still think Hazbin has so much potential. The fandom only really knows about the first half of the season (most of it leaks out of context, at that), and multiple critic reviews have said that the show does get a lot better the more it goes on (even if they’ve technically only seen to episode 5).

That’s is why I won’t let other people dictate how I interpret the show. Especially some random person on the internet who didn’t like the show to begin with. I will watch it in full and come to my own conclusion with the writing and story direction. I know I shouldn’t be concerned with peoples opinions on the internet anyways- but, I’m usually very open to discussing criticism against something I like. For instance, there’s a few things with the creator in general I’m very much against- but that doesn’t not damper my love for the show itself. The show and the creator are two separate entities. That being said- With the amount of unnecessary hate this show also gets, I am going to take most people’s opinions of it with a grain of salt.

There’s potential here for Hazbin to be amazing- and I really do have faith in it. It may be off to a rocky start, but I think once it’s all out there- it’ll settle down. It could also be terrible- who knows? We won’t until the full season is out.

Anyways, I apologize for yapping so much. I may come back and edit this once I actually watch the full season- but right now I have a lot of hope for the future of this series. The only thing really bringing it down right now is the rampant unnecessary hate.

#hazbin hotel #opinion #my favorite thing to do ever is analyze media and interpret it in my own way #so you better bet I’ll be doing an analysis of each episode that releases #I have a professional degree in yapping fr #actually it’s chemistry but I did really well in English in high school trust #yes I have many thoughts about that one Angel dust scene as well #you will hear them #if you don’t like the show that’s fine #just don’t invalidate people who do/actually resonate with the story #vivziepop #vivzieverse #helluva boss

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iwritenarrativesandstuff · 1 year

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Hey hey guys this is a really important clarification here and I'm hoping someone can help.

In the latest episode, which I was... just able to watch (😔) there was a sharp discrepancy in the subtitles from the book. I was only able to find Yen Press' translation of Untold Origins, which can be... a little eh, sometimes. I don't have the original Japanese and I can't find fan translations to check.

In the scene with Oda, he describes V as an organization that kills "as a ritual" in the anime. In the novel, he says they kill "for justice". Those are two very different things with very different implications, both for V and for Oda's character.

Could someone help me figure out which is more accurate? Was the line in Japanese actually changed?

#please help i am confusion #i had so many thoughts based off the justice line but with ritual... now that's very different #i have no doubt both would stem from the same driving motive but it changes the framing of the organization #and why oda took issue with them #also fukuzawa's reaction came across differently in the book to the episode and i just... :/#i'm not 100% sure how i feel about it and i'm now wondering if i interpreted the scene from the novel incorrectly #anyone know?#bsd #bsd untold origins #bsd season 4 #(ps i loved the episode though!! don't get me wrong i just really want some clarification!)

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mariathechosen1 · 1 month

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Was Anyone But You a good Much Ado About Nothing adaptation? No, not at all, but fuck it was fun!

#y’all know I have many thoughts about this play and these characters #but even though the movie didn’t completely live up to my expectations as an adaptation #I still really enjoyed it!#and I really despise all those people making posts about how sydney sweeney can’t act #idk it seems a little rude #my main problem is how they messed up the benedick and beatrice characterization and dynamic #I love that they played up the ex lovers thing (which is left up to interpretation in the play)#and i love love queer Hero and Claudio!!!#but their hatred of each other didn’t really pack the same punch as in the original #I suppose I wish they weren’t afraid to make the characters bigger assholes?#ya know- give them more flaws?#because right now the enemies part doesn’t really feel believable for big parts of the movie #They really could have leaned more into making Bea a bit of a cold and snappy mess (as she is in the original)#and Ben more of…ya know…actual human disaster who can’t commit #both of their characters in the play are driven by their desire never to marry and their distrust for the opposite sex #They included this a bit with Bea (her not believing in true love and all that)#but her break up with Jonathan (because he was too nice???) didn’t really convince me of it #They also keep insisting that Ben is a fuckboy but we never really see it demonstrated?#I personally don’t mind the fact that they changed up the whole ‘convincing them that the other secretly loves them’ bit #especially considering this is only loosely based on much ado #but I do think they made it a bit messy considering they included the gulling scenes but only as a joke #I wish they’d either leaned fully into the much ado plot or ditched it #I think what a lot of adaptations get wrong is that they’re either too afraid of leaning into their og media #or too afraid of seperating themselves from the og media #oh god I’ve reached the tag limit help #anyways- rant over #anyone but you #maria talks about things #much ado about nothing #beatrice x benedick

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edenfire · 2 years

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"so this is where your justice ends..."

Shuake Week Day 5: Bad End

i've had this in my head for years, and i can't believe it took me so long to sketch this out lol

call this willful misinterpretation, but the scene in the interrogation room, after goro shoots akira, and the camera zooms on goro's smile, i can't help but picture goro looking absolutely shattered at what he had to do.

like i always picture goro making a face like he's struggling not to cry after supposedly killing the only person in his life who ever understood him; ;

i just have a lot of thoughts

#shuakeweek2022 #shuake #goro akechi #persona 5 #p5 #i have so many feelings about the interrogation scene;;;#like the very first time i played i was caught so off guard that goro wasn't heartbroken #or at the very least conflicted #at the idea of having to murder the only person who cared about him #smh #this kind of inspired my headcanon that goro knew of the pt's plan #and he just pretended he didn't know bc deep down he wanted them to win #bc he knew it wasn't real is what allowed him to enjoy ''defeating'' his rival #i know none of this is canon to how akechi feels in the game but its fun to think about lol #he's just fucked in the head lol #buuut there's no way goro isn't even a little heartbroken at killing his rival especially in royal #i stand by that #sorry these thoughts are such a hot mess #i wanna hear y'alls interpretations of the interrogation room #pls hassle me #<3 <3 <3 <3 #shitty #(< that's my art tag)

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lavenderjewels · 7 months

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I’m too busy rn to write a whole thing on my thoughts on this jjk chapter (now it’s officially translated and out) but it’ll be good to have more time to sit on it

#soooo busy but having real life be so hectic actually helps lol bc I’m not too sad or angry about the chapter #maybe I would’ve been a few years ago when I. cared more about media in general but school and life is too much to add that on top haha #saying this as if any chapter w yuuji focus won’t crush my heart completely :(#buuuuut thinking about the chapter rn #don’t like how we got to gojo dying. or how the time skip is placed. bc those questions have to get answered #but I would’ve preferred some to be sooner than later. or at least more time w gojos internal thoughts that aren’t fight related #I do love the actual airport state of death scene. those in between states are my FAVORITE in jjk #and imo nothing seems ooc I like how the scene can be interpreted in many ways #love that nanami gets to be so prominent too. it’s fitting #I don’t really care about gojo being ‘offscreened’ since the flashback was him dying #but yeah all my issues are things that I think could’ve been solved in previous chapters but this one in itself is fine #also how I view all this depends on where the story goes ofc but I’m just here for the ride #jjk spoilers #jjk 236 #need to reiterate this but mark my words that next chapter is just kashimo fight #I’ve known jjk long enough to understand there’s never breathing room when it comes to any deaths 😭

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seabird-bard · 1 year

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just rewatched luca. i miss my silly little fish guys :(

#p.s luca will always and forever be a queer film for so many reasons and i could totally do an in-depth post about it #because i have put so much thought into this and it is destroying me rn #like. any way you slice it fr #allegory? it's queer. face value? it could absolutely be interpreted in that way #i could discuss this for hours and not get bored #never forget that one time #that a member of the creative team confirmed they took inspiration from call me by your name for the farewell scene #dear god.#tldr: i love luca and will probably make a superlong post about how gay it is one day #but for now i will sit in the corner crying while citta vuota plays on loop

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aelswiths · 2 years

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If you want to read my nonsense rambling feel free, but I make no claims of being eloquent or correct in my interpretations. Like I could be way off base with my thinking here.

So I’ve been thinking about Aelswith’s decision to stay in Northumbria, and the comic relief aspect of that aside, the more I think about it the more it makes sense.

Since we saw that Aelswith was living with Aethelflaed in Mercia, I’m assuming she’s been living there since her poisoning. Now we don’t really see a lot of Aelswith and Edwards relationship, but it seems like they’re not very close. Maybe that’s because of continuing resentment because of Ecdwynn (which is understandable) or maybe it’s because of Aethelhelm, but either way that don’t seem to have the same closeness that Aelswith and Aethelflaed share.

After the events of s5 it makes sense that Alefwynn would stay in Northumbria. Excluding her relationship with Cynlaef, Aelfwynn has good reasons to stay. She doesn’t have a place in Mercia, and given that Edward usurped her I highly doubt that she would even consider going to Wessex, so staying in Northumbria is a good decision.

Given that Aelswith has had years to build up a good relationship with her granddaughter, it makes sense that she would stay where Aelfwynn would. After all, Aelfwynn is probably the only person that Aelswith has left. While she does have Aethelstan and Aelfweard, those relationships are either very distant or nonexistent.

Aethelstan was sent to live with Uhtred, and given how Aelswith and Aethelstan interacted, they seem familiar with each other but not incredibly close. Aethelstan has spent all of his life with Uhtred and co. He has a support system, and while he would probably find it nice to have that relationship with his grandmother he doesn’t need it.

Aelfweard was never given a chance to get to know Aelswith. In s4 we see that Aethelhelm and Aelflaed keep Aelfweard at a distance from her, and give the assumption that Aelswith has been living in Mercia all this time, they never would’ve had any chance as Aelfweard grew up to get to know each other.

So at the end of the day who does Aelswith have left?

There’s no one left for her in Mercia. Given Edward and Aelswith’s relationship, and the lack of one between her and Aelfweard, Wessex doesn’t seem viable.

Once the dust has truly settled where can she go? Northumbria, it holds the only person she has left.

But god it makes me so sad for her because all she wanted was for her family to thrive and be secure. And, from my interpretation of what we see on screen, they all do except for her. She seems to be left with almost nothing.

#this is me rambling #honestly my interpretation of this could be so wrong #i just have so many thoughts about aelswith #like they truly did her dirty this season #but there were some really good scenes #and I’m just constantly thinking about where we leave her at the end of the show #like all her life she has done her best to ensure her family is secure and will thrive #and in the end she succeeds but is also left with almost nothing and no one #tlk aelswith #the last kingdom

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