#into believing in her narrative

[lilpuffyart]

MV human characters who were badly used but had such an interesting idea around them, I love you (looks at the KOTM and GvsK crew)

#puffy talks #this is mostly around kotm crew tbh #speciallyyyyy the Russell family #god i could go a whole essay about them #i looove that emma is implied to be that type of mother who seems so sweet and kind but actually is very manipulative and gaslit (?) you #into believing in her narrative #to the ppint that #if you were to bring it up people wouldnt understand your poiny bc 'but she was so nice wtf do u mean' #both mark AND emma had a huge ass issue with seeming to ignore that yes Andrew was dead but their daughter was ALIVR and she NEEDED thrm #and then maddies trauma over everything that happened #god i wish they went forward with the russells and their connection to godzilla #i would imagine Madison would probably take goji and studying the titans as escapism #abd thats why i have my godzilla au <3333 #their relationship (goji and madison and mark) are very important to my au #mostly bc of gojis issues with humans and maddie being one of the first in a long time hes comfortable with and in a way that changes how he #sees humans as a whole #i have a comic for that #but godddd time short #gonna try to finish this one with god #*godzilla and maddie so i can work on that other one

[ministarfruit]

day 7: come back soon ♡

(femslashfeb prompt list)

#minifemslashfeb2024 #vtuber #hololive #holomyth #iname #ninomae ina'nis #amelia watson #clawing at the window #CAN'T BELIEVE I NEVER POSTED INAME #THAT CHANGES TODAY #they're so sweet. gawd. they're so sweet #I'm always inspired by people who make iname art #they're so smart and have so many cool ideas about the narrative #can't believe it took me until day 7 to draw amelia watson #I love her so much did you know this #I hope I will be more confident in drawing ina too...

[jaybybyby]

I'M GOING TO LOSE MY FUCKING MIND

#my posts #adventure time #fionna and cake #simon petrikov #fionna and cake spoilers #FIRST SS IS FROM S4E25 AND SECOND IS FROM FIONNA AND CAKE EPISODE 8 #KILLING MYSELF #BETTY IS THE GHOST THAT HAUNTS THE NARRATIVE BTW. IF YOU EVEN CARE. #betty grof #<- i can't fucking BELIEVE i i forgot to add her tag what is wrong with me

[needlepine]

I’ve been thinkin about Needletail again recently, so here’s her boyfriend Rain

He goes to another school

#he’s alright i guess #he serves his purpose in the narrative #i’m biased bc i refuse to believe needletail likes men #well. here’s a design for her high school boyfriend anyways lmaooo #designs #warrior cats #warriors #the kin #rain

[l832]

[visenyaism]

what are your thoughts on nettles?

understanding nettles and criston cole as narrative foils is the key to unlocking the secret good fire and blood that is about unpacking ways in which the targaryen dynasty maintained control through class, gender, and state violence. and also dragon magic.

#asoiaf #i have a notes app essay about it and it’s incredibly not cohesive. but i believe this #no i’ve talked abt nettles a lot in the past this is just the thing i haven’t said out loud yet #love her. queen of escaping the narrative

[lovegrowsart]

"aang didn't tell katara to forgive just to let her anger out and let go" ?!?!?!?! litcheraclly the WHOLE false dichotomy presented by the narrative of the episode (using AANG as the primary mouthpiece) is forgiveness vs revenge like please watch the episode again and pay actual attention to the words coming out of aang's mouth.... so many tsr takes ignore the words in aang's mouth to interpret him more positively while putting words in zuko's mouth to view him more negatively, all the while pretending katara never said anything at all about HER OWN TRAUMA

#tsr actually manages to achieve some really profound nuance despite the limitations of the simplistic moral narrative its partly pushing #and yet the takes are SO fucking rancid my fucking beloathed forever #holly talks bs #aang critical #katara #zuko #i fully believe that if aang hadn't known or said shit about k and z hunting down yon rha she would've made the exact same choice #to not kill out of mercy but not forgive out of justice #because its not aang or even zuko that knows katara best #but katara that knows herself best #she did not almost lose herself in tsr #she FOUND herself #and to quote zuko #she did it on her own

[chiangyorange]

hey why s2 got the messiest worstest terrible awful fucked up compelling tangled dirty filthy complex nasty ass family drama ever. mianite was killed by his father using his mother's sword. how fucked up is that. hey do you know how fucked up that is. hey. hey wake up h

#mianite #mianitefa #mianite the character #ianite #dianite #mcyt #my art #i hate extrapollating compelling narratives of a chara bc every one of these clown dont realize how good of a story it actually is. #also s2 ianite was a bitchass coward but yall arent ready for that conversation yet #and before you even START i do not hate her she kept running away from her problems and when she DIED she did the same fucking thing oh my #HEY WHEN THE MOST HONEST GOD OF S2 IS THE GOD OF CHAOS? HEY? HEY WHAT? FUCKING. HUH? THE ONE WHO INVENTED ECONOMY? THAT BITCH? #full believer that alyssa countrybat would NOT fuck w/ s2 ia for obvious reasons but WILL fuck w/ s1 ianite bc at least s1 would tell her #she burnt down her fucking home village. #WHAT DO YOU MEAN S2 IANITE TAUGHT ALYSSA HOW TO SHOOT A BOW AND GENERAL KICKASSERY #i OBJECTIVELY refuse.

[gayleafpool]

i think i’ve said like this exact thing before but there r few things that piss me off as much as people making aus where leafpool loses her arc and place in the story and then have the nerve to be like “it’s bc leafpool deserves better than crowfeather and should have a happy peaceful life☺️” as an excuse to just ignore her like bro the fact that bad shit happened to her and that her life was unfair is part of what makes her so compelling ur not fooling me i can tell u just dgaf about her

#leafpool #obv there are things i dislike. mostly the fact that the narrative paints her as in the wrong and u can tell the authors actually believe #she was #+ crowfeather never facing any consequences #but that doesn’t mean i wish her story didn’t happen 😭😭😭😭 her arc is so interesting why would u wanna take it away

[milfcamilanoceda]

"Haha if toh had been a lesser show written by worse writers it would be Lumity being ambigious and Huntlow being front and centre" You fools!! You are all thinking too kind, if toh had been a lesser show with way worse writers Eda would have ended up as a law abidding COP!!!

#Like we all really dodged a bullet there a really really big one #Anyway toh spoilers up ahead #But i really like her being a principal/headmistress #Especially for a university that is teaching wild magic #It highlights her arc and growth as a mentor #And she is trying to bring back and cultivate the part of her culture that was demonized and ostracized for years under Belos #That caused HER to be demonized and ostracized by the government for still following it #And she was in the right to do so!!! And she was rewarded by the narrative for doing so!!! #And now she gets to mentor and raise many more wild witches like her #who would have much better learning and accepting enviroment than she ever had #Also she following footsteps of Bump who was one of the only teachers who actually believed in her :') #Anyway cop Eda doesnt exist and never will #All hail principal Eda #edalyn clawthorne #the owl house spoilers #toh spoilers #the owl house #the owl house season finale #this was inspired by that one tweet #You know the one

[hawkinsp0st]

holy shit, this post just made something click for me.

both will and mike’s arcs have revolved around being separated from each other again and again and again.

every season they’re torn apart in some way, and one of them is desperately trying to get the other back—s1 physically, s2 spiritually, s3 emotionally, and again in s4 by physical distance…

yeah, their arcs are woven together and it went totally over my head. their happy ending is each other. it’s written this way.

#i can’t believe this is real life??? #byler #even mike’s arc…….yes el is a part of it bc she’s a main character too and their arcs are intertwined to an extent #but el spends most of her screentime each season dealing with the UD/lab/powers related stuff #not her relationship with mike #but nearly all of mike’s screentime away from el revolves around will and whatever current separation byler is facing #yeah holy shit. holy shit #el’s arc is about finding and accepting herself starting to heal her trauma & finding her real family #byler’s arcs are about falling in love. plain and simple #mike’s arc having two parallel love stories going on……….one with el and the other with will……….it’s done narratively on purpose to draw #attention to mike’s experience w romantic love #we’re supposed to be paying attention to that #i have chills. #narrative tag

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

most insane making scene of all time perhaps that bit in Agamemnon where Cassandra tells the chorus that no one has ever believed her and they say no! we'll believe you! we know about your curse and we promise! and she says ok well Agamemnon and I both are about to be murdered and the chorus says surely you're lying.

#INSANEEEE LIKE THEY KNOW ABOUT IT #THEY KNOW ABOUT THE CURSE #THEY'RE NOT EVEN REAL PEOPLE #THEY'RE THE NARRATIVE ITSELF AND THEY DON'T BELIEVE HER

[fischiee]

someone tell me why every yorkalina fic explains away the lighter thing as york being a smoker and carolina tries to convince him to stop by taking/being given his lighter...

you're really going to tell me the girl thats hardened by war at 24, has the world's most damaging relationship with her father, and has an addictive obsessive personality ISN'T a smoker like come on...

#his whole 'if i started with a pickup line i never would have seen her again' makes perfect sense in this narrative ok #also carolina was probably hardened by war before that but w/e #i choose to believe in the timeline where she's like 23/24 by the time she joins pfl so #anyway the church's all have addictive personalities and carolina has NEVER been one to try and hold somebody accountable like that #especially since their whole relationship was YORK trying to stop carolina from doing self-damaging thing #this is no hate to anyone who writes yorkalina fanfics like this i adore your please keep doing your incredible work im in awe of you #also no need to actually tell me i understand the message of it.. the trust... the love.. #yorkalina #rvb #red vs blue #agent carolina #agent york #agent new york

[kuroshika]

oh my god what the fuck.

sorry, can’t let things die. more abigail hobbs posting. (sort of inspired by @bloodaria and their post this morning? it’s referenced at least)

look at these three gifs. i know that the will and abigail one wasn’t actually real, but LOOK AT THE BODY LANGUAGE.

abigail is struggling against garret. she’s fighting for her life. she knew he was going to kill her. she had always known that. from the moment she had started helping her father target girls, from the moment she realized just how similar they were to her, she knew she was going to die. the way garret tries to cut her throat is quick and meant to finish the job quickly. despite being the one to kill her, garret didn’t want her to be in pain. he wanted her to go quickly.

the way will ‘kills’ her is the exact same way. he’s holding abigail the exact same way that garret was, down to pinning the same arm to her body and the way his cut is quick and broad - his arm swings the same way garret’s did, uninhibited by gunshots. will knew he was going to end up killing her and she wanted her to go the same way garret had wanted her to.

but hannibal’s method is completely different. his is slow, precise. methodical. he doesn’t restrain her and she doesn’t fight him off. he digs the blade in and he drags it across her scar - he doesn’t slit her throat, or go for any artery, he reopens the wound. it’s breaking the teacup that has come back together.

it’s slow because it’s a punishment. it’s not a mercy killing, it’s not getting rid of abigail so that the fbi don’t get to her. abigail didn’t think for a second that hannibal would kill her. she trusted him, more than she trusted her own father and more than will thought she trusted him. she handed him the knife to finish the job - the same way she had broken her tea cup when she had that drugged tea with hannibal, she’s breaking the teacup herself. just under hannibal’s influence.

#abigail knowing garrett could kill her at any moment #abigail knowing she was expendable to garrett and trying to pry his hands away from her neck #abigail believing hannibal wouldnt kill her #abigail trusting hannibal so much that the thought of him killing her isn't one she has often #she is FOREVER HER FATHERS DAUGHTER #LOOK AT HER #DOOMED BY THE FUCKING NARRATIVE #DOOMED TO DIE ON THE KITCHEN FLOOR WHILE HER FATHER BLEEDS OUT NEXT TO HER #FIRST IT WAS GARRET BLEEDING OUT FROM HIS GUNSHOT WOUNDS BESIDE HER ON THE KITCHEN FLOOR #THEN IT WAS WILL BLEEDING OUT FROM BEING GUTTED #NOTHING EVER CHANGES BECAUSE NOTHING EVER CAN #her fate was to die in that kitchen and that was why wills vision was of him killing her at his lake #because despite his fears about him killing her he KNEW he never could #hannibal nbc #hannibal #nbc hannibal #hannigram #hannibal lecter #will graham #mads mikkelsen #hugh dancy #hannibal parallels #kuroshika.txt

[jemmo]

and the moral of the story is you can’t make a man too much of a green flag bc if they put a single foot wrong the story will tell you it’s their fault for having trauma

#I could’ve got past it after the argument but the way they used in in the last ep rubbed me all the wrong ways #Jimmy how I would’ve loved to see you get to be a character that gets his feelings validated and appreciated for once #but no they offscreen gave that arc to porjai for some reason and like girl deserved it but so did mohk #this family could’ve done for mohk what they did for her gave him a place and people and made him feel like he could be happy despite all #the hurt in his past #but no #and im not saying it needs to be equal yes the relationship works bc mohk wants to be giving and kind he doesn’t expect that in return they #have their dynamic and it’s how he shows his love but you can’t then turn around and say that him caring #is too much it’s pity when that’s what you love about it what day loves about him it’s literally how they grew close through mohk caring #it’s not pity. don’t try to tell me it’s pity narrative I don’t believe you #last twilight

[dollypopup]

thinking about the 'I would never court Penelope Featherington' scene again and how angry our fandom has been at Colin for it for the last two years and wondering. . .what exactly was he meant to say?

Lord Fife and his friends are *slimy*. They are gross. They have 0 respect for women. Fife isn't *Colin's* friend. Fife is *Anthony's* friend. Fife runs in Anthony's circles. Misogynistic circles with misogynistic language. Fife and Co. are out here saying the debutantes are only good for being 'wed, bed, and bred'. Fife is the one out here, well into his 30s and with an established title, fucking an 18 year woman raw on her first year out in the marriage mart with 0 intention to marry her. That is 10000% an act of violence in this society. And you *know* he's bragging about it. Hell, he was probably bragging about it right before he asked Colin about Penelope.

Colin's not in those circles. Colin has female friends. Colin respects his mother. Colin cares for his sisters. The worst thing Colin has EVER said about a woman was to call her 'cruel'.

So. . .what is Colin meant to say? "No, we're just friends" isn't going to fly for people like Fife. As IF he wouldn't reply with 'Yeah, suuuuuure, wink wink nudge nudge'. Thus ruining Penelope and fucking over her future completely. A lesser man than Colin would have let them think what they wanted, and that would have still ruined Penelope in their eyes. Silence? Incriminating.

And he doesn't want FIFE of all people to know about his close friendship with Penelope. Fife who has never once been seen respecting a woman. Fife who has never once viewed a woman as a person and not a sexual conquest. Penelope is a safe place for Colin. Is precious to him. He KNOWS that conversation could have destroyed her reputation.

People talk about how he 'ruined her prospects', but in actuality, Colin responding the way he did. . .likely SAVED her prospects. There was NOTHING he could have said except for a vehement refusal, completely shutting down the conversation, that would have spared her from their judgement and cruelty. Sure, they laughed, and maybe it was at Pen. Maybe it was at Colin. (frankly, how good of a twist would it be if they WERE laughing at Colin? Colin the 'green' boy back from his travels after being oh so gullible and getting lied to by his ex fiance? Anthony made fun of Colin for being a virgin, we think these men, all 10+ years older than him, wouldn't do the same?) But at least they didn't go 'yeah, I guess she's a ruined woman' about it, because that *would* have destroyed her reputation

We talk about how Colin could have worded it differently, but honestly?

I think he said the exact right thing in those circumstances

#polin #penelope featherington #colin bridgerton #bridgerton #lord fife #lord cho #fife and company are so gross to me i do NOT understand the narrative of fife just wanting pen for himself #she's a little too old for him at this point considering he's looking for his girlfriend on a playground don't you think? #sorry not sorry i will forever be a colin apologist #no but really what should he have said???? #'oh yeah we're fucking six ways to sunday?' #'no she's just my friend'? - Fife doesn't believe for a MOMENT that a man can value a woman as a friend #colin is the best man in that entire bunch but somehow he's the one we've demonized? #make it make sense #and sure he should apologize for talking about her behind her back- but Penelope should also then apologize for the same #we talk a lot about him being 'knocked off the pedestal' but in reality we've put him on the highest pedestal possible #colin is a GOOD man #he is arguably the best man in the entire series #at least he's the man with the best intentions and the least harm #and so when he fucks up we feel it ten fold because he was already so good #but when gross dudes fuck up we just expect it of them and give them a pass #we expect colin to not only be better- but to be perfect #and he isn't he can't be #he didn't say it perfectly #but OBVIOUSLY his intentions in that scene aren't malicious #and it's not locker room talk either? #look at the optics: Colin is 22 being asked by these 30+ year old dudes 'sooooo are you boinking the girl'? #one season after his engagement blew up publicly #in the season where no one listens to his travel stories #the season after he was virgin shamed