#interesting parallel about existence

[carnevol]

Masters Of The Air

Part 1 | Part 4 | Part 9

for @hogans-heroes

#austin butler #callum turner #gale cleven #john egan #masters of the air #mota #interesting parallel about existence

[fumifooms]

Kaka compilation

Because everyone is sleeping on him. Witness his greatness!! First two Kaka colored icons were colored by me, lineart by Ryoko Kui though!

Kaka & Kiki are kinda like Laios & Falin… Kaka being stoic and giving repressed energy like early Laios, Kiki being cryptic and always smiling and kinda soft-looking. Autism siblings 2, ostracized and othered as kids and have a deep bond due to sticking together through it all, though unlike with Laios their parents are very loving so Kaka developed family as a big value more than Laios (bc asides for Falin Laios doesn’t care much about it).

In the gnome festival comic you can see Kaka is more emotive than he seems! Full with a :3 face, and he’s the one crying at the end. He’s insecure about his legs and being tall… It really got to him. Conceal don’t feel. In the gnome festival comic you also see him sensing others’ gaze on him and that something is off unlike Kiki, again Laios-like in the way that judgement from others gets to him more than her.

#The twins are so autistic swag #A falin just as chilled out and smiling and a laios who never stopped repressing #They’re so neurodivergent and they’re allowed to just exist I love you Kui. Kaka is just literally me #I looove characters that are hard to know and hard to read/easily misunderstood. They’re my favorite thing #LOOK AT THE WAY HE SMILES THE WAY HE BLUSHESSS HE’S PERFECT and I would take a harpoon to the chest for him thank u #I do love Kiki too btw but I’ve been seeing her in fancontent and posts way more than Kaka so I had to give him some spotlight #But also Laios is my fave of the Toudens so this very much checks out #Their pre-Flokes story would be interesting to analyze too #Dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #kaka floke #Kaka #Kiki and kaka #floke twins #As you may guess from my new-ish icon I am in my kaka era #ALSO I SWEAR TO GOD STOP BEING MEAN ABOUT HIS NAME #KA IS A SYLLABLE IN MY IRL NAME. YES I WAS BULLIED AND CALLED KAKA AS A KID. MY NAME ALSO MEANS UGLY STUFF IN A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE #KAKA’S A PRETTY NAME I’LL DIE ON THIS HILL. IT’S NOT WEIRD IF YOU DON’T MAKE IT WEIRD #Oh also another laios falin parallel: they both sort-of-date the same woman

[thevelaryons]

Rhaenyra and Addam by Nozomi Matsuoka // A Feast for Crows, George R. R. Martin

#I JUST REMEMBERED THIS ART #A FAVOURITE #valyrianscrolls #asoiaf #addam velaryon #rhaenyra targaryen #jaime lannister #arthur dayne #addam & rhaenyra #art #addam/jaime parallels my beloved #I’m actually not certain whether it was rhaenyra herself who knighted addam #as the queen she would have the authority to do so #although it could have also been one of her kingsguard #interesting to consider which one of the seven it could have been #lord commander lorent marbrand is a likely possibility #the knight of the burning tree would be a fitting choice since addam is associated with trees too #now that I think about it the only arts that exist of addam & rhaenyra are this piece and one other where she is also knighting him #otherwise fanart of these two together is kinda nonexistent

[brother-emperors]

Could I ask for your thoughts on why you say that Cassius should have been Crassus' political heir ?

so largely I’m half referencing this collection of quotes and the various attempts to fill in the space/grave with a body (like Cicero! Cicero was a contender for this!) and I’m sort of taking shots at Antony for fun and whimsy.

like in sports!! I gotta root for my man Cassius over Antony, especially because no one can actually fill the space left by Crassus after his death (literally, the political landscape makes this impossible), but Cassius assumes a command position due to everyone else (notably, Crassus) dying (so: inheriting Crassus’ leadership position) and wouldn’t be a bad follow up to Crassus in the realm of military command since they have a similar (strict, as opposed to friendly in a way is commonly associated with Antony) relationship with the men under their command.

& also bc Marcus Crassus jr seems to be disinterested in taking up space in the political spotlight on his return from the Gallic Wars otherwise I’d be advocating for him on the basis of family tragedy compounded. it’s time to fill the space/memory/grave of your father and brother, buddy!

#no one can actually fill the role of Crassus and after the death of Pompey it’ll be impossible for a Crassus-like figure to exist #because Caesar has redrawn the lines and you can’t achieve the tris homines dynamic with those lines #ALAS. shoutout to Caesar for making things fucking boring. The world got smaller and worse for it and that’s something #you can share with Alexander the Great! along with your allies forming a conspiracy against you. that’s another parallel #I do appreciate Antony as a terrible body substitute for Crassus tho it’s extremely interesting from a Roman Memory standpoint #and also maybe as an examination of Caesar. but also I don’t want to think about any of that for too long bc I have to start #breaking out the olde notebook with all the political alliances and dynamics written down with highlighters and etc #it does make me wonder what Antony’s opinions on things would be but i’d have to construct them from his later behavior #it’s almost compelling enough that I’ll probably do it for a couple of one shot comics focusing on Antony actually. get haunted buddy #a non linear haunting specifically. I’m so mad that once again Crassus has me thinking abt comics for people I do not feel otherwise #motivate to do comics of. AUGH #ask tag

[roseferncal]

*cardi b's voice* what was the reason!?!

#no seriously what does this scene mean why does it exist i cant stop thinking about it #the bear #the bear fx #the bear s2 #the only thing i can think of is that each of the characters have a moment of connection one-on-one with another person #syd and her dad #tina and ebra #richie and chef terry (although richie has like ten thousand one-on-one tender moments dont even get me started) #carmy and claire ofc #but also carmy and mikey #or mikey and sugar #I CAN KEEP GOING #anyway #the thing is marcus by this point has already had his one-on-one moment with Eyebrow Chef #and there's obv some nice parallels between that scene and the richie-terry scene #but this scene is SO different from all the others #and when i mean all the others i mean ALL the other scenes. not just the one-on-ones #i cant think of another moment like this in the show not even s1 #its so interesting and important to me idk #the only other thing that comes to mind #is in relation to that comment Eyebrow Chef makes about being Out There. that THAT'S what it's all about #and then boom marcus is faced with this random serious situation #christopher storer drop your location i just wanna talk real quick #my posts

[kellystar321]

my mrd ocs Gossamer (rat) and Glass (heart), aka "Sad Rat Dead"

"Gossamer is dead… right? Glass, their heart that's falling apart, isn't so sure, because even though the despondent rat has given up and gone ghostly, their heart is still beating. While Gossamer has accepted their death, Glass doesn't want to give up the ghost just yet. They urge Gossamer out of their cage to find a way to regain corporeality, and together they learn what it takes to want to keep living."

"C'mon, Gossamer! Don't you at least have a final wish for your last day?" "I don't know... I don't think I do..." "Well then... let's live long enough to find one, okay?"

#mrd #mad rat dead oc #mrd oc #mad rat dead #general oc tag #glass isn't fully developed yet design wise; id rather them be easier to draw and this broken design isnt very good yet. idk #generally their entire shtick is that gossamer is the ''depression and acceptance'' part of grief and glass is ''denial and bargaining'' #obviously we don't need anger because mad rat exists already hfkhd #it probably plays like a roguelite version of mad rat dead because gossamer doesnt have the reversing time mechanic (since it requires- #(gossamer to ask their heart to want to relive their final day; which they don't really care about. but glass wants to!!) #they learn more about each other as the story goes on and understand each other's way of thinking and help each other grow. #very big allegory for living with depression. like its not even subtextual; Gossamer very much has debilitating depression. #i think its an interesting parallel to mrd! rat struggling to live his last day on earth learning to accept his death in the end #and then a rat waiting to die on their last day on earth learning how to want to live again. #i think the story's bound to be very cheesy but hey; it's mad rat dead after all hgkjh #my favorite color is queue

[theothermaidoftarth]

Baela and the Myth of the Child Fighting Pits

Not sure why I keep seeing from green-leaning accounts that in Fire and Blood, Baela visited the child fighting pits. But this is what F&B says about Baela post-Dance:

Nothing about child fighting pits. In fact this is what shows up when I search ‘pits’ in Fire and Blood:

The definition of a rat pit according to awoiaf:

Not the best of places, I’m not going to defend it but there’s nothing about children there (also lower down it’s stated Mushroom said these are the places Aegon II would frequent, which the show turned into child fighting pits).

Also saw it said on here that Baela celebrated Jaehaerys’ murder… Her reaction was not recorded.

Baela is many things and she is not perfect but what I’m seeing is just not accurate. And that’s not even getting into what I’ve seen on Reddit where they say she wasn’t faithful to Jace before his death and was kissing squires while he was in Winterfell. (Narrator: she wasn’t.)

#Fire and Blood #baela targaryen #forget media literacy #actual literacy seems to be dead #though I lean green in some ways this is why I’m not really into the whole ‘team’ thing #except ‘team chaos’ tbh #hotd #kinda #since one account which espoused what’s said above also said Baela’s a bully in the show #Were we watching the same show #Guess they’re talking about the fight with Aemond and I like Aemond but all the kids were in the wrong there #the girls less than the boys since they were grieving #dealing with a deadbeat dad who barely acknowledged their existence the whole time they were there #and they also hardly knew anything about the bullying and taunts Aemond had faced growing up #all the kids were in the wrong but I could see why they all did what they did and how it escalated #the blame should be on the adults above anyone #the fight between the children was a microcosm and consequence of the animosity between their parents #I also think it’s interesting the amount of parallels between Viserra and Baela #Not just the pits but the drunken rides through King’s Landing and betrothals arranged btwn them and men old enough to be their grandfather #I don’t think we’re supposed to take Baela’s actions post dance wholly as a leisure jaunt #They’re also rooted in trauma from most of her family being dead in a bloody and brutal civil war

[yardsards]

can i ask about your experience as a quaker (or growing up as one? i just saw you mention bein one in some tags)

i jus don't know much about them

so i was not raised quaker, i was raised baptist. which was. 0/10, do not recommend. all the guilt of catholicism with none of the stained glass lmaooo

like, i did resinate with the idea of there being some sort of higher power and i liked the idea of getting together with other believers to discuss spiritual matters but as i got older and started thinking for myself i realized i really didn't like a lot of things about the church. i hated the bigoted beliefs of its members. i hated the emphasis on blind obedience to authority. i didn't believe that the whole literal truth could be found within one book, specifically one group's interpretation of said book. and the idea that people were born inherently bad and sinful and that a supposedly kind and just god would condemn people to eternal suffering just for not believing the "right" things just did not sit well with me at all

when i went off to college i decided to try out a few different churches around town. i ended up settling on a progressive presbyterian church. the community was great and very accepting of queer people. i had some minor qualms with the theology but it wasn't like with my parents' church where every sermon made me feel increasingly nauseous, and i generally felt *good* during and after the services

and then covid hit and while they did stream their sermons, i lost that sense of community and just kinda... fell away

throughout all this i was researching different faiths online, both christian and non-christian. and one faith that kept popping up a lot that i liked the sound of was quakerism. like at one point i remember taking some online quiz of like "what religion do your values most align with" and quakerism was very in the lead. (before this, i'd only really been exposed to quakerism in history textbooks and assumed the religion died out alongside puritanism)

in the end what got me really interested was actually a video by a youtuber i liked, a queer/disability advocate and historical fashion enjoyer who also happened to be quaker

and after looking more into it, i decided to try attending a quaker meeting. which was easier due to covid cuz i could find a church online (located physically hundreds of miles from me) that did their sunday services over zoom

and so i attended and the people there were great and were doing actual good in their communities. and the way services were run, and their beliefs about what god *was* and all of that just hit me with an intense feeling of like. holy shit this is what i've always wanted from religion.

the video explains the sort of core beliefs and practices of quakerism better than i can but the main belief is that like. every person is godly. as such, it's our job to treat all living people as equally and kindly as possible. additionally, since we all have god inside of us, we need to look inwards and come to our own conclusions about our own religious beliefs and practices (and generally respect other people's religious beliefs even if they differ from our own, so long as they're not causing real tangible harm)

i haven't attended any meetings in a while, due to that group going back to semi in person (they still stream it out but it feels more like being a spectator than a member) and there being no quaker meetinghouses in the tiny town i currently live in, coinciding with me being too depressed to regularly attend anything. but i'm planning to start attending quaker meetings again once i move to a real city

#eliot posts #christianity cw #quakerism #tangentially: another faith that popped up a lot in my searches was reform judaism #from what i read it had a lot of the same things that i liked about quakerism. and was second place in that quiz i took lol #also my big sister was really interested in judaism when she was a teen (tho never converted) #bc our mother's side of the family is ashkenazi jewish but just ethnically not in practice. and my sis was interested in our roots #so i have a bit of a soft spot towards the faith because of her lol #but i decided i didn't wanna try and join any synagogues even online unless i was really serious about considering conversion #figured they didnt need a clueless gentile bargin in and being Confused and i felt too awkward to directly ask any individuals abt it #which was prolly like 20% a reasonable conclusion and 80% my anxious tendencies telling me i'm just a nuisance #but yeah lmao i think in a nearby parallel universe (if those exist) there's an eliot that converted to progressive judaism lol #long post

[onewholivesinloops]

one of the things that makes the umineko cast work so well is that they're very tightly written in terms of how they parallel each other but also how they parallel yasu first and foremost and i've always felt like that's an approach sotsugou tried to replicate with the higurashi cast and satoko

#it's obviously not as competent as umineko and it'd be crazy to suggest this #but it's also unfair to pit them against each other in terms of quality when one is ~100h sound novel and the other is an anime #anyway the most obvious and interesting is satoko and rika being narrative foils #but besides that the takano focus in the last episode of gou is all about drawing parallels between her and satoko #it's satoko inheriting the takano role so this exists to emphasize how similar they truly are #there's oniakashi rena and wataakashi mion which are all about drawing parallels with satoko's character arc albeit in different ways #even teppei in tatariakashi isn't meant to be seen as a character as much as he's a symbol #there's so much nuance in terms of what teppei stands for in terms of being the fantasy of the father figure she wishes she could've had #but he's also a mirror of her 'worst' self #even hanyuu's focus in the beginning of kagurashi can be drawn back to satoko's motives #i think sotsugou makes the most sense when you parse it as being the satoko show before anything else #i think this is something the original does with rika too but it's also a little different #the original isn't as rika centric #even if she's the hidden protagonist and the true heart it's still an ensemble story #but sotsugou feels like it's a love letter for satoko in the same way umineko is one for beatrice #not that this means the other characters don't matter it's just that everything is kinda about them? #not sure if this makes sense but it does in my head and i can write so many words about all the parallels #gamo.txt

[worthlessandembarrasing]

#they're the best characters your honour #i feel so many ways about gansey and the pig #like you could say gansey (narratively speaking) serves as the vehicle for the story; despite the fact that he was supposed to die #and even tho the pig keeps breaking down gansey keeps forcing it to power through #just like how he forces himself to keep going even as his time is running out #i don't remember if this actually happens but the pig eventually runs on magic instead of its engine #which is a parallel to gansey being kept alive with magic (noah and cabeswater's sacrifice) #and as for crowley; I think the bentley embodies everything that he's trying to supress #we see this more clearly when aziraphale is driving it and it willingly lets him change its colour; the music; and the speed #i always found it interesting that whilst crowley keeps trying to convince aziraphale he's not the way he is bc he's a demon #he also uses his demonic aesthetics as something to hide behind; just like how his sunglasses act as a wall between him and everyone else #he lets aziraphale assume he's used a gun before and he leans into the whole “demons lie” rhetoric #and yet the bentley is the most honest version of him we get to see bc it exists without restrictions (aside from the ones crowley imposes) #anyways it's probably not that deep lol #gansey #crowley #good omens #trc #the bentley #the pig

[dreampearls]

for all that i might compare colleis writing to scara with scara working as a weird sort of mirror world alternate look into collei if she wasnt smited by misogynistic writing decisions. scaras writing is not all that good either

#like his whole thing w rebirth and tying that into sumeru as a whole + paralleling nahida is well done #but if youre to take his quest at face value it think it can very easily and very dangerously come across as going #''well. Killing myself is the answer.'' and then that . not actually being meaningfully refuted #<- which okay arguable. they do take the time to say he was wrong for it. which is. a whole other thing on how genshin handles #suicide/self sacrifice in the first place. but i digress. its just the fact that materially him attempting to erase his existence #..did kind of absolve him from his problems. WHICH. AGAIN. complicated topic. ik its meant to tie in with his rebirth thing but wholesale #divorcing him from his past without any catharsis of punishment or consequence probably isnt the best way to go about it #like i dont think everyone forgetting their memories of him is in of itself bad writing tbh its a very interesting angle #to approach a character who is obviously seeking self punishment but being being denied it at every turn #but we all know genshin is not approaching his character from this angle

[afieldinengland]

trying to work out if the iraq war occurred in the mainline universe of the thick of it or if it was solely restricted to the later equivalent in in the loop

#because in the loop is set in a parallel universe….? it’s not a great film #<- on a hiding into nothing because it doesn’t matter but it’s interesting to think about #much like ‘education education education’ and granita popping up in offhand lines / deleted scenes #i mean— from one such offhand line— saddam hussein exists in the mainline world of the thick of it

[imminent-danger-came]

"I can't handle the fanon depictions of anyone", this is so true it hurts 😭

I‘ve never been so hyperfixated on a piece of media, without being able to read anything about it. The way every character get‘s flattened like a pancake and forced into a archetype is unreal.

I have like- 5 stories I can read and don‘t really engage with with the fandom in any way.

It‘s all just:

Monkey King is depressed and MK has to mother him and kiss all his boo boo‘s.

Macaque never did anything wrong in his life, it‘s all Wukong‘s fault. He is also secretly a mom.

What is Mei? Do you mean the month? Bitch can‘t even spell right.

Red Son‘s parents are still assholes, because parents changing for the better is impossible and children can‘t have decent parental figures I guess.

-Casually bastardizes everyone into an asshole so my fav has a reason to be sad-

"What is Mei? Do you mean the month? Bitch can‘t even spell right." IS THE FUNNIEST THING. HOLY SHIT. I'M CACKLING.

"I‘ve never been so hyperfixated on a piece of media, without being able to read anything about it" is also so relatable. I've never had my fandom experience be so self-generated before. I'm just kinda stewing over here, having fun, making my own gif sets and analysis posts. Maybe I reblog some fanart from time to time.

#and you know that's alright by me #Maybe some other folk want to scream with me #oughgh but your summaries are so accurate it hurts #At least canon is fucked up. #I should really finish my Red Son and MK fic. I have never written a fanfic before but hopefully it'll be palatable #the summary: it's post s4 special during the beach party. Red Son notices MK sneak off and follows him to Monkey King's cave #There is some convos about like. Idealization and living up to legacy and grieving a person that never existed. #MK is sad. Red Son does his best to provide some insight. #Tis a fic spawned from "hmmm DBK V Red Son and SWK V MK parallels are kinda interesting'' #And I thought it'd be fun if Red Son was like ''Look MK i've been there. But you gotta accept the reality and keep moving'' #Cause like. I think Red Son slowly realized who his father really was. And while he loves him obviously #Perhaps...there wasn't anything to live up too. And the Great Demon Bull King failed just as much as anyone else. #And post ''A Lifetime of Mistakes'' I think it would be cool if MK started to realize that too #aw beans I ranted too long in the tags again #oops #asks #lmk #lego monkie kid #imp's a little feisty

[lasnevadaslaborunion]

I genuinely do love the prison arc and find it fascinating and I wish it was easier to find content and analysis about it that didn't veer to any of the Very Not Fun extremes

#my observation is that only people who enjoy both c!tommy and c!dream are capable of writing prison arc c!q #if they only like c!dream then q gets turned into a heartless hollow monster who exists only to wring out angst #if they only like c!tommy then the torture is either barely acknowledged or gets turned into a haha funny girlboss move #both of you are boring. where are the LAYERS. #and c!sam. guy has such a compelling fall from a well-intentioned and tender-hearted dude to somebody who will kill and torture so easily #i think it's very possible to acknowledge that both of them parallel c!dream by design without. like. drawing direct equations? #parallel lines don't intersect after all. #and acknowledging that c!dream is the victim of something incredibly unjust doesn't mean absolving his past injustices #it's just... the more time goes by the more weary i am of the ''who's worse than who'' competitive brand of analysis #i'm so much more interested in how these characters got to where they are. how they justify themselves. and how they will go forward. #and how everybody around them reacts! vibrations in the web and all of that. how does it affect people and what message do they take? #still holding out hope for c!sapnap to hear about the torture from c!q #let's see how much weight those making-amends letters really hold #and for c!sam to have a talk with c!tubbo. maybe muster up an apology. process what he did so he can move forward. #and for us to see literally anything about how c!dream is coping with whatever the fuck all of that was #my guy. my dude. WHY would you do that. there is nothing in the world that is worth it #he's hurt too many others and been hurt too badly himself. he needs the ends to be worth it but nothing ever will be. #they're all three slightly different flavors of horrible and they're all just so fucking tragic #anyway i think i've ranted long enough in these notes #i just needed to get this out somewhere #dsmp

[moe-broey]

Moe strikes an interesting balance between functionally being a self-insert while also adhering to canon aspects of Kiran. I can't extrapolate on this as much as I'd like to bc I feel like I don't have the words for it rn LMFAO but this has some really interesting side effects!

I think most importantly though it has been a really cool exercise in exploring a variety of different traits -- some of my own, and some that are exclusively Moe's. Either extrapolated from Kiran, or came to me in a vision HAHA. Either way, I think this actually gives it the potential to Be a compelling character by itself, if I can capture it right.

#moe tag #i think also something interesting is the re-contextualization that comes with like. making a guy. vs putting your whole pussy out there #WHICH LIKE. nothing wrong w that! honestly it's cool. the whole reason moe exists is bc i'm not comfortable w that for myself. #but in making moe it's led to some very interesting bits of re-contextualization AND experimentation #things i wouldn't have done otherwise were i only thinking of myself (making it nonbinary as a nod to kiran) #when i'm exclusively just a guy. and coming with that has been some really interesting ways to conceptualize/explore gender #again that i don't typically do because! well. i am just some guy i'm just doing it wrong on purpose LMFAO #that's just one example but there's many other cases where moe has been a fascinating proxy for me #to re-examine something i wouldn't have even thought about that way were i only thinking through my own lense/view of myself #ALSO gives me more freedom to emphasize parallels. and REALLY dig into them. #without like. feeling like i'm airing out my dirty laundry HAHAHAHAHA #BELIEVE IT OR NOT. i am actually a very guarded person #i just like to have fun and be silly and talk about everything i love at great length! for enrichment. 👍

[asmfic]

I know that Sadness Prayer states that Koito talks to Oriko for the first time after Komaki's death but I'm firmly throwing that out for ASM. I think leaning into Oriko's human connections and the extent to which they clash with her desire for a purpose and her magically-assigned mission is sooo fun.

#Also paralleling Koito and Yuma is fun #I don't get to put much about older Koito into the bad timeline but she is around #but yeah I love the idea of Koito and Komaki both having interacted with Oriko in their own ways #and then canon having Komaki die unintentionally in the path of this mission #in the drive to have a purpose #and Koito becoming a magical girl in the wake of Madoka's death #it's all interesting #but I especially like to lean into them having some kind of existing dynamic for asm #since Komaki lives and now both Asako's are forces in her lives #this all boils down to Oriko gets a little sister figure and also a grumpy dog #authorial rambling