#like metaphorically speaking

[raziraphale]

maybe the thread I'm hanging by is getting just a bit thin but someone commenting on my fic to say "welcome to the family" makes me want to lie down for a thousand years (complimentary) and then combust (even more complimentary)

#thank you 🥺💕 #i love strolling into a new fandom and finding out the fic area has a table with cookies on it for me #like metaphorically speaking #reilly.txt #my fanfic

[saltpepperbeard]

What he says: It's everything about that! It's EVERYTHING about fishing.

What he means: I want simplicity. I want sweet nothings. I want you to love me for who I am, for who I want to be. I have been trying to shed my skin, trying to shed who everyone wants me to be. I want to be Ed, not Blackbeard. Just Ed.

And it's scaring me. Seeing you around all of this fame is scaring me. Seeing you not be stoked about my simplicities is scaring me.

Because, deep down, I feel like people only liked me for Blackbeard. People only respected that name, not my real one. And now? I'm folding stuff. And that's okay.

But you weren't okay. I shaved my beard and you ran. I caught a fish and you complimented me only to "make me feel good."

I'm so scared you only like me a certain way. I'm so scared I'm not enough.

I'm so scared you'll leave me because I can't be who you want.

#OFMD #OFMD Season 2 #OFMD S2 Spoilers #Edward Teach #Gentlebeard #Blackbonnet #Revenge Rambles #LOOKING INTO LINES MY BELOVED #LOOKING INTO DEEPER UNDERLYING MEANINGS MY BELOVED #like ed darling goodness gracious #ED DARLING GOODNESS GRACIOUS!!! #SPEAK YOUR MIND MY LOVE #YOUR METAPHORS ARE WONDERFUL BUT HSDJKSDHLKS #//SPEAK YOUR MIND//

[theoldkyokodied]

Uploading all my Tomgreg art at once from the past few week before season 4 hits, who knows in what kind of mental state i'm gonna be once it does :')

#tomgreg #succession #dont even talk to me i started watching this show when i had nothing to do at work and now i watch it with averiel my good friend averiel #and we are going to watch s4 together and i feel physically ill from bein so excited #so ya thats what ive been up to... anyway. i love these idiots they desever nothing but the worst (affectionate) #im also a tomshiv lover btw. im the one who yells 'THIS IS HOW TOMSHIV CAN STILL WIN' while they are actively losing on screen #thats the kind of person i am #dont look at me (lying on the floor) #okay i was not going to say stuff in the tags and let the art speak for itself but i NEED to point out details in the wine Painting.. #i put a lot of work into that one. thinly veiled metaphors and symbolism yknow.. #greg is gripping the stem of the wine glass with his full fist. tom and greg are dressed in the same outfit (sock garters included) #greg look appalled but he is not doing anything about the spill. tom is fondly pouring greg more and more wine. he is doing him a favor #i colored the red wine the same way i would color blood :) oh and tom is not really touching greg #only holding the chair in place. greg is making himself look smaller than he is like usual #oh and @ the person who said that it's the inverse of the tom and nate scene i love the way you think. i did not think of that before #but god. yeah. i actually thought about the scene change from when roman uhh.. christens his office in s1. the one with the coffee machine #i always go insane at that cut. this is not exactly the same since it's more.. about emotions but yknow.. it can be.. the same...

[krashoutluv]

jason todd’s the type of boyfriend to tell you,

“I want all of you. All of the parts you can’t bear the world to see, all of the parts you dont want, give them to me. Bless me with the parts of yourself you don’t want, especially the parts you hate the most.”

he’d promise to care for them better then anything else, he’d tell you how much THESE parts mean to him, he’d promise to show you the beauty of it.

he’d tell you that he’s already blessed with the parts of you that you love. he’d tell you that in your imperfections it is objectively perfect.

he’d tell you to give him every part of yourself that you don’t want so he can show you how to love them too.

this all happens while he’s drunk btw, drops down on his knees and everything.

sorry. jason todd is so

mentally disturbed angel!reader who is extremely empathic x human wee-little-man!jason todd coded (metaphorically but literally would be cool too) ((im gonna write this))

#YOU #AINT. #GETTIN SHIT BACK THO #jk #he’d be like a sad puppy #when he gives it back #but not really bc his existence is immortalized with you now #metaphorically speaking #arkham knight x reader #jason todd x reader #jason todd #red hood x reader #jason peter todd #🪼krash rambles about jason todd #its 11pm and my brain stops working at 9pm sorry if this doesnt make sense

[faithblob-says-things]

Dp x Dc prompt 2

Danny gets punted into the Dc universe somehow and loses his memories along the way. Team Phantom and maybe some of his rouge gallery are currently scrambling to find him.

Meanwhile Ma and Pa Kent are very happy to have another son that fell from the sky.

#Ma and Pa Kent: adopting another child that fell from the sky: It's not much but it's honest work #this could also be ghost king danny #mainly because i like ghost king danny. funky little child king. #superman just pulls up and sees danny floating helping with farm work and is just: #🧍‍♂️''Ma and Pa is that another Kryptonian'' #and they just give an explanation that's really just a metaphorical shrug #''we don't really know he fell through the barn roof earlier this week in a super getup and now he's your brother'' type beat #idk i just really love it when Ma and Pa adopt danny it just scratches an itch on my brain #it's also really funny when Superman meets Danny and immediately goes ''He's Just Like Me FR'' <- thinks he's Kryptonian #dp x dc #dc x dp #dp x dc prompt #dc x dp prompt #dp x dc crossover #dc x dp crossover #danny phantom #danny fenton #team phantom #blobus speaks

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

there really is something about light not even being the one to write L's name in the death note. he wasn't even afforded that level of intimacy... i would be deeply upset if that were me ngl

#sorry thinking about Things tonight #lawlight #if i were going to kill of my enemy i'd want to at least be the one to do it myself #though i suppose light always did kill in a very distanced kind of way #but still. that was his like. number one obstacle and he wasn;t even the one to pull the trigger (metaphorically speaking)

[hahnsplatinum]

As much as a love Kim, I also think there’s just something so important about Cuno discovering the phasmid with Harry.

The angry little boy who steals away locusts and houses them with the same well meaning (albeit rudimentary) care he extended to Cunoesse. (She too, is a skittish, biting thing far away from home). “Locust City” is such a prime example of the thin line children like him toe between grasping for any opportunity to exert control over the little things they can grasp hold of and the arguably innate comfort found in providing care and comfort to others. The locusts are trapped with him as much as they were in the phasmid traps. As much as Cuno is trapped in Martinaise, in his father’s tiny apartment, in the infuriating prison of adolescence. He can’t control what happens to him. The locusts can’t control what he does to them. Cuno saves them from bait traps and builds them a mud city sheltered out of the cold. He houses his not quite sister, not quite friend and gives her a name when she has none. Cuno’s father terrifies and enrages him in ways he doesnt have the introspection to express properly. So he throws stones at a bloated corpse and tries his best to build a safe haven amongst the trash of that shack and screams awful things at people who dont even spare him a glance anymore.

And then he watches a man only a stumble away from becoming the same angry drunk that sleeps in his father’s bed reach out toward the most terrifying insect he’s ever seen like it’s something beautiful. Something worth paying attention to. A lone creature thats seen so much of the world and still loves living within it anyway. People cared about the phasmid before they even knew it truly existed. Cuno exists too. Why doesn’t anyone care?

#look i just have a lot of thoughts about bugs and disco elysium okay #insects as a metaphor for caring for others #is that anything?? #also i cuno should NOT become a cop jesus christ that is The Bad Ending #in my mind he should become like a uh whats the word for bug scientist?? or maybe an ecologist?? hell even a cryptic hunter would be better #disco elysium #cuno de ruyter #hahns speaks

[possumsarenice]

It’s nice to that The Sun and Moon Show has some cis representation with Moon. I mean, he’s the only one in the entire cast, but it’s still nice

#SUN IS TRANS DAVIS TOLD ME IRL/j #But like CANONICALLY SPEAKING #Lunar goes by he/they #Earth goes by she/they #Monty is genderfluid #I saw a post talking about how Eclipse could be a trans metaphor (but I would like to add that this could specifically be the #“Trans egg who’s trapped by internalized transphobia” experience) #Bloodmoon is just the “Numerous Bees” meme #and the nano-machines add to the trans vibes #And KC’s arc could hit with some trans peeps #Gemini was probably using gendered pronouns to “make things easier for Earthings” #AND EVEN IF SUN IS JUST A FEMBOY ITS STILL A LITTLE FRUITY #BUT TRANSFEM SUN WHO DOESNT WANT TO COME OUT OR EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE IT BECAUSE SHE NEVER GOT THE COURAGE TO TELL OLD MOON AND NEVER WILL #GOOD SHIT #sun and moon show #sams #the sun and moon show #tsams

[pizzagame4000]

we all know human vigilante… but what about… slightly human vigilante

#pizza tower #pizza tower vigilante #the vigilante #vigilante #the noise #pizza tower au #if i was made of cheese i would probably stress-eat my hair too #ily vigert ebenezer lantte #some design notes: #vigi will always be short and fat to me. anything else just feels off for some reason #also as we all know #the way indigenous people are shown in this game is Horrendous #so as a native person i was like #hmm. native codes your vigi #it’s subtle cuz it’s not plot important or anything #it doesn’t rlly change anything except flipping the cowboy movie stereotypes #so i thought it would be fun #the turquoise bits on his outfit are inspired by Diné jewelry and metalwork :3 #the braids are just cuz it looks cool not cuz braids = native lol #also holy fuck epiphany: native vigi speaks to the mixed experience #HEAR ME OUT HEAR ME OUT #you are native in the sense that you have native family and community u grew up with #but you are also #made of cheese #something decidedly incredibly not native #bc the entire concept of dairy was imported to the americas by europeans #you are mixed native and white👍 #he’s literally me fr #ANYWAYS. don’t take any of that very seriously but it is an interesting metaphor #sorry for the essay in the tags. it will happen again

[moonshynecybin]

the thing about marc being a whore is that it often starts as a goofy shameless bit but you can literally tell that it is 100% the truth. one hundred percent. his desires literally just get filtered through a thin veneer of ridiculous tomfoolery. like it’s one thing to do a funny little dance. there’s a guy singing on stage throw him a shimmy who cares. it is ANOTHERRRRRR to make that dance entirely whorish and shake ass in front of god and also literally my mother

#which is why. the it was like kissing a girl metaphor haunts me. it haunts me. #motogp #callie speaks #marc marquez #i will say i think the dance got her. i think she’s there andhbsjsksms

[francy-sketches]

asoiaf characters roleplaying as their sigils is so much cringier when said sigil is lame and/or ugly 'the chequy lion' shut the fuck up omg 😭

#.txt #house osgrey has to be in the top 10 ugliest sigils #why is it like that #were all the plain colored lions taken #imagine being lancel iv. killed by some little bitch with an ugly version of your sigil. cringe #also the fossoways speaking in apple metaphors. ur so conry omg

[randomwriteronline]

Oh btw. Things that make me insane:

this Entire Fucking Chapter never fails to have me going absolutely rabid with happiness but specifically i did distinctly remember that Kopaka smiled in this occasion - not smirked, smiled, which is something that i dont think he does often especially in the first few books. On my first read I wholly believed he would have turned around and thrown something directly at Pohatu's head while yelling at him but no, he hears his voice and his first reaction is Pure Unbridled Joy

He was so relieved he literally forgot that hes the cold distant one and actually expressed an uncompromisingly positive feeling of care. I choose to believe he smiled so honestly that he was literally radiant. Like looking directly at the sun. Blinded everybody in a twenty five km radius for one singular hot second.

And then of course he went SHIT WAIT MY COOL DISTANT GUY PERSONA

#bionicle #thats not mentioning the Two Small Eulogies he fucking gives pohatu #OR the fact he screams for him for a while before admitting defeat #OR the fact that pohatu still followed him and saved his ass TWICE even after kopaka insisted he get lost #and while he does snap at him it never gets to a point where he yells at him #i also wholly believe that upon seeing him be alright kopaka actually rushed up to him to grab his arm n pull him into a hug/sustain him #thats probably me projecting but also jusy the way he speaks gives me that idea #random talks #i also like the implication that a fair chunk of the po-matoran populace has now peered beneath the veil of Kopakas metaphorical mask #which means that they cannot take his 'toa of not caring' charade seriously bc they know. they know he cares. they know it so well. #pohatu #kopaka

[literallyjusttoa]

Could you tell us more abt ur au where Apollo doesn’t come back exactly right after surviving being so close to chaos 👀

Yes!! Actually I had a fic that I really wanted to write about this, and I am planning on still doing that but I will tell y'all the gist of it bc I cannot contain myself. (Also this is a bit different from some of the things I've said before about this so I hope you still like it lol)

Ok so, the fic was gonna be a 5 + 1 fic, where Meg and Apollo both realize that something's ... off about him after the trials. His powers and abilities are fluctuating for seemingly no reason. Sometimes he's just a normal god, but sometimes it's like he's still a mortal. And he's also having times where he's way stronger than a god should be, like, near primordial levels. It's causing him a lot of issues, for example:

Gods don't need to eat or sleep, but mortals do. If Apollo doesn't realize his energy levels are going down, he will just end up crashing from lack of food/sleep. This leaves him perpetually exhausted and shaky.

His blood is now all kinds of crazy colors, and it changes based off of where he is on the mortal/immortal scale.

When he's in a "mortal" state of being, he's pretty similar to a demigod. Meg and Apollo learned this when Apollo accidentally did some lightning bending one day. This is not something Apollo has ever wanted to be able to do, and he freaks out appropriately.

One day, Apollo woke up sick and tired of this whole situation. He jokingly wished that someone else could just take over the sun for the day. However, Apollo hadn't realized that he had just gotten a huge power boost overnight, and his harmless little wish just created a second sun. Haha whoops.

Eventually, Apollo ends up breaking his father's rules and visiting Asclepius just so he can get some answers about this, so here's a little rough comic based on the scene I wanted to write explaining this whole mess.

#Is this whole thing an excuse to write whump? ... maybe #Also I imagine Asclepius describes illnesses to his patients with odd metaphors #because he's still his father's son at the end of the day #trials of apollo #toa apollo #lester papadopoulos #sunny speaks #apollart #ask #This isn't exactly related to my whole “Apollo becomes more chaotic after chaos” thing i've written about a couple times #but I hope it's similar enough that you still like it #also I will try to answer the rest of my asks today bc y'all have sent me some really nice stuff

[puppyeared]

Little brother

#in other words. one of the shows producers finally gave context for wukong staring at the stone #apparently he was trying to find MK by ripping thru memories but the scroll kept returning him to the same spot #so he didn’t know MK is a stone monkey either. also confirmed that MK was born from the stone BUT that doesn’t technically make Swk his dad #although bodhi does mention that MK was born from the same stone egg unless he was speaking metaphorically. or that was a translation error #idk man I’m waiting for the dub to come out. shrugs #I do like the idea of wukong being more like an older sibling to MK. even if not technically #I feel like there is dad energy there but older sibling just makes me go ‘ah yea that makes sense now’ #I do have to say I fucking hate perspective and I never want to do it again #edit: ok fuck wait I went back bodhi said he wasnt born from the same egg as Swk. but still #my art #myart #doodles #Lego monkie kid spoilers #lmk spoilers #monkie kid season 4 #monkie kid #lmk #Lego monkie kid #lmk season 4 spoilers #lmk s4 spoilers #lmk s4 #lmk sun wukong #lmk monkey king #sun wukong #lmk MK #technically #lmk xiaotian

[micamicster]

Point Break (1991) dir. Kathryn Bigelow

If desire is the differential between need and demand, desire always exists outside of the corporeal wants and wishes that have a pressing agenda all their own--desire becomes its own project, indeed yanking at the sometimes wayward, resistant body to which it's tethered in the effort to fulfill its unfulfillable, limitless agenda... Desire floats and fluctuates above, below, beyond us, always goading us, never revealing, satisfying, or fulfilling us.

-David Greven, Contemporary Hollywood Masculinity and the Double-Protagonist Film (2009)

#im being soooo incredibly normal about my point break rewatch. real luke from lovesick moment for me <3 #point break #kathryn bigelow #this opening title sequence is like... #hello. water is a metaphor for sex. guns are a metaphor for sex. surfing is especially a metaphor for sex. enjoy a movie :) #did not gif any of the keanu doing the fbi course scenes because i'll be honest. i was fucking the coloring up. idk what to do with them #so it is surfing only in this set! but know that smoking guns = sex is very much a part of this movie! #this quote is not strictly speaking about point break but it was one of the examples given in the article so i used it anyway <3 #1990s #filmedit #idk what tags people use nowadays... wahtever

[magnusbae]

au where hob wears a jewelry crafted to him by dream and dream is absolutely normal about it

#a bracelet with small dream stones for example #needed to write it before i forget it #dream would be so PLEASED also so captivated by how much it matters to him #d friends feel such possession over their friends? #seeing hob wea his craft his gems is like an admission of belonging in the supernatural community #it'll make any being stir clear out of his way for fear of spiting morpheus #and everyone knows he's a petty bitch who once struck someone sleepless for a hundred years for parking in his lot #metaphorically speaking #the insomnia was not methapotic #dreamling #dream of the endless #hob gadling #buns.hc #buns.all