#looking away motif

[raayllum]

2x03 / 5x08

#fun fact about me is that this ruined my life #caylangst #rayllum #it's about the Framing #2x03 #5x08 #mine #looking away motif #almost forgot

[hinamie]

red postman

#my art #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #fushiguro megumi #megumi #fanart #jjk fanart #i look away from this piece and my vision is Green #also the file name is 'strapped in' becasue thats just a seatbelt #but fashion #anyway this is a red supremacy zone shes so versatile #i appear to be in my butterfly motif era this will make sense momentarily

[chiropteracupola]

neon flirtation

[I saw a tie-tack shaped like handcuffs at the antique store a few days ago and I wanted to draw something about it]

#em draws stuff #eyestrain #em can have little a mondrian motif as a treat... #this was supposed to be a curt mega spiesareforever but I got carried away and it stopped looking like him #(it is hard for me to draw realguys which is why I hardly ever do it) #and also I have been watching so so so much drawfee lately so it's a bit of a karina technique study! #essential karina elements: thin thin purposeful inks and sharp bold shading and most importantly Hunky Dudes #back to our regularly scheduled oldtimey lesbianisms forthwith but sometimes one does need a hunky dudes in eye-burning colors break

[m-kyunie]

taking EVERYTHING in me not to reread the second exorcist arc & instead just dream of a perfect world where Alma stays w Kanda

#alma karma #dgm #d.gray man #lotus motif bc if i dont convery that theyre dating whats te point of drawing anyting #THEY WLDVE LOOKED SO GOOD IN TEH NEW UNIFORMS TOOOOO #anyws. Alma always scrabbling around the moment their assigned a mission looking for Kanda to demand a goodbye kiss #knowing Kanda is gonna reject them bc he hates PDA #just imagine Alma peering over a balcony n waving his enitre arm going 'Yuuuuu!!! up heree!!!' as Kanda is walking out to train or smtg #n Kanda looking up. making eye contact. and walking away #n Allen seeing a dismayed Alma n motioning them 2 jump down #catching Alma w Crown Clown sighh #Alma thanking Allen n running away w a kiss on the cheek #n Allen is left flustered bc he has the biggest crush #n Lavi appearing outta nowhere teasing Allen 4 not confessing yet. cries. Allen is intimadted plus Alma obvi is dating Kanda #Lavi knowing theyre polyam n hinting at Allen to go for it anyws #UGH MY MIND IS SO BIG BUT MY HANDS SO WEAK #sometimes if i imagine hard enoug i pretend its a doujin in my head

[fru1tt0ast]

i sit at the door

curled up on the rug

wondering where you are.

wondering why you left.

i feel as if ive been locked in a kennel

in a dark, empty room again.

when you took me home it was different.

but now you have left.

you said you were leaving for a while,

that you might come back.

but i do not believe you.

yet still i sit at the door.

and i wait

and i wait.

and i wait.

hoping you have not abandoned.

it has been 4 months.

i do not believe you are coming home.

but still,

i wait.

#mom pls look away i am MENTALLY STABLE #this isn't about a romantic relationship but you can look at it like that if u want #guys this is about someone in literally STILL FRIENDS WITH i just had an evil af moment bc we didn't talk for a while #the seasonal depression was hitting heard too #i wrote this december 1st #you should've been a poet #dog motif #queer poetry #queer poets on tumblr #poetry #dog symbolism

[jack-kellys]

For the sketch requests: Katherine with the spoon crown?

send me sketch stuffff

the boys deserved front page but at least give her page three…

#THANKAS ASF #katherine pulitzer #katherine plumber #newsies fanart #newsies art #fizz answers #fizz draws #fizz freaks #i do think. giving medda the lady liberty motif makes more sense than kath. since medda often houses the newsies. but #(​and protects them from those who want to uhhhh do away with them shall we say) #she looks slay

[quickhacked]

– WIP DAY.

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the broker fic is coming along nicely and i'm currently prepping chapter 13 so i can drop it next week, it's gonna be a fun one >:^)

‘Listen,’ the man said, once again pointing his finger in Vitali’s direction.

‘I’ma give you to the count of five, and if I don’t have my eddies back by then- all three thousand of ‘em- that dark red suit o’ yours is gonna be red for vastly different reasons.’ ‘Really now?’ Vitali asked, raising his eyebrow and slightly tilting his head, a smile taking shape on his face as he let his eyes trail the crowd; people were starting to get rowdy, starting to cheer. A rush of adrenaline was already soaring through his system, reminding him of the street fights he used to participate in- Sure, he was there for business now. But he could have a little bit of fun. ‘One!’ the guy yelled, his voice barely audible above the buzz of the club, the music suddenly a lot louder than before; though it could just be Vitali’s imagination, straightening his back and redistributing his weight to his left leg while grabbing his cane halfway down the shaft. ‘Two!’ ‘You sure you’re going to do this, jefe?’ Judy asked. ‘Viktor’s gonna kill you.’ ‘Only if I get hurt,’ Vitali replied, rolling back his neck as the man yelled out a loud three, dragging it out a little bit longer as if he was trying to give Vitali time to reconsider. Another day, another client turning against him. Far from the first time and far from the last; though usually Vitali dealt with these sorts of things with a bit more finesse than he was about to do. ‘Four!’ He did not care. His reputation preceded him; the bruising of his knuckles as dark as the rims underneath his eyes, everyone knew Vitali Dobrynin was a fighter first and a fixer second. All to protect, all out of love- but no one cared about that. They only ever saw what was on show. ‘FIVE!’

#tag games #nuclearwriting #so many fun bits in this chapter i'm very excited to post the rest >:^) #this is just some random guy also don't worry about it #that last part though. reputation preceded him. fighter first fixer second. all to protect. all out of love. but no one cared. #i'm fucking normal about him i wanna fucking smash my head through a window #this is EXACTLY what matvey wants. take away the context to make vitali look like the villain in all this #to take everything away from him. people only ever see what's on show. aha xoxo #never thought i'd have this much depth in the whole fic but here we are baybeey... themes... motifs... [dies] #also. once again. if anyone wants me to yell more about the fic my asks are open and i Love yelling about things so. teehee #if you have any quastions. >:^) let me know >:^) <3

[muthaz-rapapa]

Their movie exclusive forms >>> base forms

#i just realized their base forms are meant to resemble party decorations more than food #with a subdued waitress motif with the aprons #but still half the time im always wondering ‘what are you? what the HECK do you want to be??’ #(the exception being Finale who outright said she wanted to be a parfait…and now she gets to be GOLDEN flan 😂) #and that just pushes this season further away to the back of my head when it comes to concept design #the movie brought it back out tho cuz they actually look more mahou shoujo this way #the plaid transculent bows are a very nice touch #Precious got a better hair dresser #and Yum Yum’s twintails look even more like curly fries! 🤣 #also idgad anymore Spicy is always going to be a fizzy soda drink and not a sandwich 🥪 #finally pam pam looks the best out of the humanized mascots 😜 #delicious party precure #cure precious #kome kome #cure spicy #pam pam #cure yum yum #mem mem #cure finale

[raayllum]

Callum + looking away motif

In season four, Callum has a very specific pattern of body language in regards to when and how he looks away from Rayla (and when he doesn’t). Now, I’d noticed the importance of eye contact in Callum’s character before, as well as the Book One novelization in particular (separate from the series’ eye motif in general), in rather small ways, specifically in regards to the differences in his ‘confession scenes’ with Claudia and Rayla. 

In his confession to Claudia, Callum repeatedly looks away from her. However, in both Callum’s accidental (3x04) and purposeful confessions (pictured above) to Rayla, Callum never looks away. He keeps his eyes on her, and stares into her eyes, the whole time, even as she’s befuddled or unsure. 

So it was interesting to me to see how this reverse played out in season four, as well as how the motif was built throughout all previous three seasons. So let’s talk about it!

Now, it’s not as simple, of course, as maintained eye contact equalling intimacy with looking away being a lack of intimacy. There are plenty of scenes where Callum is facing characters and it’s not an emotionally intimate scene, or scenes where he isn’t but it is emotionally intimate. However, I do think that season two builds on this motif, as does season three, in ways that makes season four engaging with it at the forefront in ways that are meaningful and emotional (and indeed S4′s repetition is what made it click in my brain for the rest of the seasons in the first place). 

So let’s talk about looking away as a turning point, severance, or lack thereof in S4.

Season One as a Turning Point

Obviously, much like in S4, Callum and Rayla’s bond starts with him turning around to face her, she takes off her hood, and their story with each other (already with its parallels and unique setup) truly begins. 

And then we see the way Callum re-engages with this motif of turning to face her at crucial moments where their bond is being developed, particularly in 1x03.

But in some ways the most important scene with this “looking away vs looking towards” motif is when they’re in the dungeons, in terms of set up, foreshadowing, and communicating future dynamics without a word. 

While on the surface Callum looking away from Claudia and to Rayla is just a storyboard beat, it also shows his processing and inclination. He’s listening to, and agreeing more, with Rayla in this instance over his childhood friend - and he will continue to do so, particularly in season two (which has its own parallel to this very scene).

We also see this continue throughout the season in small ways. Callum continually moves (often seen in the ‘chasing after her’ motif/pattern) to place himself in Rayla’s line of sight, most notably in the boat bonding scene in 1x05, placing his hand on her shoulder on the shoreline as well, and when he swallows his pride/reservations and hands the egg over to her as well. 

He pivots and literally turns toward her in order to specifically highlight and strengthen their bond. But if season one is about turning toward as an aspect of bond building, then season two establishes looking away as an act of severance. 

Season Two as Severance

Again, this isn’t something that doesn’t exist in season one. Rayla often looks away when putting up walls or boundaries to try and protect herself from Callum’s persistent (gentle) prying or ability to read her when she doesn’t particularly want him to.

However, season two is mostly when we see Callum employ looking away from people (Claudia, Rayla) in his own body language, in ways he just didn’t before in season one. Callum for better or for worse is typically very confrontational. His anger largely means pursuit, even if we start to see exceptions of when he’ll avoid things (mostly things he isn’t sure of how to process, like grief). Thus, when he walks away from Rayla in the beginning of 2x03, it’s a signal to us - or at least a way to instigate fear (and the fear that she’s feeling) that she’s losing him. He won’t look at her at first with her chasing after him, for once, and then he turns away from her entirely to walk back on his own.

And this perfectly parallels where he was an episode earlier: knowing he was hurting her, and unable to look at her while he did so. 

C: I can see you believe it. But I’ve known Claudia and Soren for years. You and I... don’t have that yet.

So we’ve had Callum looking / walking away in attempts to create distance with Rayla, each time to no success, but where does that motif come in when he actually severs a bond? Well... It’s this one: 

He turns away from Claudia and he never again treats her as a friend or with compassion (although we’ll have to see if that changes at all in S5, but I doubt it). While he briefly tries to reason with her in 4x08 (although he doesn’t have a lot of alternative options), it’s clear that the relationship is broken in 2x03 when you take a look at 2x07. But 2x03 begins and ends with Callum and Rayla’s dynamic becoming stronger.

His ending scene begins with him looking behind at the past (Claudia) and away from Rayla, and ends with him looking at Rayla as she literally turns him away from Claudia and toward her (and the future they could have together). Not only is it enough to raise his spirits, but we see this pattern be continued in S2 with Rayla turning him away from well, his self loathing, and toward her and whatever comfort she can provide instead.

Season Three as Continued Intimacy

Season three then continues this intimacy of eye contact and turning toward on another with, well, a lot more emphasis and scenes with maintained eye contact to begin with. 

There’s not too much to say here, as it’s fairly self explanatory with our previous base, and I’ve already gone over how much Callum looks away while confessing to Claudia, in contrast to the continued and persistent eye contact he makes with Rayla. Once he looks at her on the ambler, he never looks away until after he’s kissed her and worries that he’s screwed up somehow. Therefore, looking away for Callum becomes a matter of either lovestruck shyness or well, lovestruck decisiveness. 

So if looking at Rayla is chosen and continued intimacy, then not looking at her is

Season Four as Denied Intimacy 

One of the first things I noticed about Callum and Rayla’s reunion is that, after the initial face-to-face shot of them gazing at each other (Rayla hopefully, and Callum shocked/tearfully), he can barely actually bring himself to look at her, even when he is unwilling to leave or unwilling to send her away. (Rayla can also barely actually look at him, instead looking often times at Stella, when she’s being more vulnerable in their reunion scene too, but again: smaller post for another day perhaps). 

This is on par even with his conversation with Ezran in 4x01, in which he repeatedly looks at the moon and/or away from his brother, particularly in moments of vulnerability. 

And Callum keeps looking away from her throughout the season, trying to put up walls or unable to take them down, even as he can’t bring himself to put anymore physical distance in between them after two years apart. 

And al of this beautifully comes to a head in the parallels between Rayla’s decision to leave and Callum’s response to it in 2x07 and 4x09 respectively, a parallel I’ve pointed out many times before because it is always so poignant and heartbreaking to me. 

Because after a season of denying his feelings, or trying to shut them down, or not wanting to deal with them, or any and all of the above... after a season of looking away... 

He finally, finally, looks back. 

And he doesn’t look away again. 

Unlike in 4x03, he doesn’t try to leave. Unlike in 4x05, he lets her walk away but he watches her go to this time. He’s concerned primarily about her while everyone else is mostly relieved Zubeia has saved them. He’s the first to find her in the rubble. He holds on tight with both hands. Directs her gaze to him, and then hugs her. 

Because he loves her. He always has. And “I’ll never able to look at you without loving you.” 

Conclusion

This meta (like many others) doesn’t really have so much of a conclusion, as it’s a consistent enough pattern that, if/when you notice it, amplifies what’s already there, rather that indicating what may be. It’s not always this straightforward, and aspects of looking away vs looking at or toward weave in and out (Callum’s confession to Rayla in 3x05 starts off not looking at her, after all. That said, I do think the consistency is interesting, and it’s a ‘motif’ I’ll be keeping my eye out on, particularly as we move forward.

As always, thank you for reading & I hope you enjoyed!

#rayllum #tdp callum #looking away motif #arc 1 #arc 2 #s1 #s2 #s3 #s4 #parallels #tdp #the dragon prince #tdp meta #analysis series #analysis #caylangst

[shivunin]

da2 princess bride au

#someone take my keyboard away #I'M BUSY stop giving me new story ideas brain #you see this was after lyrium but before red lyrium #varric obviously still narrating #i think hawke would have to be westley but like maria looks so good in red also #I'll just have tp swap color motifs #*distant wailing* but instead of the pit of despair it's me being crushed under the weight of all these story ideas #dixeram

[baezdylan]

but they believe it from the tears and the teeth right down to the blood at her feet

Amy Pond, Doctor Who | Time to Dance, Panic! at the Disco

#there are Motifs and Narratives #facing away from 11 as she's reluctant to accept her faith and looking right at him as she seals it... </3 #amy pond #doctor who #amy pond unrelated media universe #amy pond 🌻 #dw the most show ever #mine 🧫 #and... THEY BELIEVE IT!!!! THIS IS HOW SHE'S REMEMBERED!!!! FOR THE ROLE SHE DIDN'T CHOOSE!!!! #styling it as a horror film because it is one <3

[red-dyed-sarumane]

omg hi i went insane and decided to go thru every single mushoku toumeisai entry (theres about 4800 songs this time!) one by one until i found null's entry! after going thru around 600 songs over 2 days & finally caving & going thru ones i didnt already on the ranking I FOUND IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

shiawasekai!!! recognized null instantly i was yelling. its got null's signature emotionally charged sound with the guitars & and the tuning on teto. not to mention the word play in the title, fusing shiawase & sekai like that. it's only null's 3rd upload thats why i was so desperate to find it & see if they're keeping the same direction both redraw and ai wo have and it sounds like they are!!!! very cool go give them some love!

#also if anyones cares Q. is obviously aira's entry theyre the only one that tunes like that. thats aira for sure. #living dead ranker (i think the last word is ranker?) is meddmias upload too. also very obvious. everything screams meddmia its meddmia #i dont know if i found dopamines entry yet. my best rn is city pop fan club i think. yes hes my second fave vocap no i cant pick him out #idk if yagumo yuuki entered anything but im betting on brain dumb do if they did #self fixer feels like zensen to me but im also not a major zensen fan i could be wrong #yowai sakana did shakai ga kowai! its so similar to hatarakitakunai i recognized them instantly too #havent found szri or fuyuu yet but im also not going song by song to find them. both of them are easily recognizable i think #if i did happen to click on their song itd be instant. oh!! them!!! #i saw someone say theres a rumor magu submitted something & i could prove or disprove that if i really went thru every song #but im NOT going thru 4800 songs for them to not be a part of the event #they joked about the time limit bc i think they wanted to be funny & submit the 70000 second song. but i dont think they submitted anything #theres no way its wouldnt be found by now magu has SUCH a recognizable style. plus if its a series song the motifs or lyrics #give it away way too easily & i think theyd want to be a little stealthier than that #im still going thru entries but im really only looking at anything with an interesting title or rime. #so i may still find fuyuu since they use rime a lot

[opal-owl-flight]

My thoughts are FUCKING SCRAMBLED but. I saw RPGmonger’s new lore vid and I got thoughts. About the Ancients again bc of course

We know that the Ancients who were in the Forgotten Land made the rift tech. We know that they travelled to several dimensions; Another Dimension and Popstar’s dimension are the ones we know about. The guy said that these were the Tech Faction Ancients.

The Magic Faction has always been there in Another Dimension. Did they know about Rift spells? Elfilis and the Doomers are natives, and they both know how to do that via magic (I guess. Lets say that they do). Anyway; these two factions worked together, traveling across the galaxy and spreading their influence until the Jamba Heart crisis.

Theres three planets that come to mind when thinking of where they settled down (and rpgmonger said these too) — Popstar, Shiverstar, and Halcandra. At one point, both factions settled there. If this was the last stop, this is where the split occurred. This is the last planet the Tech faction settled on before…something happened to the planet (cough Haltmann? Cough…or it could be that the split of the factions wrecked the planet, who knows?)

We know that the Magic Faction is Hyness’s clan. If the hc of the Tech Ancients being Human is correct…

What if. What if Magolor was from the Magic Faction? What if he was a part of Hyness’s clan, descendant of the banished? (If not one of THE ORIGINAL BANISHED) What if he got sick of their anti-tech stance, their worship of Void? Got curious about the Tech faction, Investigated them, grew to appreciate them? Tried to become them?

If not that. Tried to become what the Ancients were in their peak — a combination of Tech and Magic. Look at how they influenced…conquered? The Universe when they were working together! If hes like Hyness with the desire to restore their clan…and angry enough that he wants justice…proud enough to know how to run the Universe “like the Ancients did in their peak”…

Wouldnt seeking an artifact that grants ultimate power be the way? An artifact that he knows is hidden on his old home planet. A planet he was banished from.

When he said he was from Halcandra, he was saying a partial truth. Like everything else he says…

#kirby #magolor #hyness #opal owl hoots #this means the humans are considered Halcandrans too if this interp is correct #I wont use this in my current interp bc I like my race of cat egg people ISKSSJ #but this could be an alternate interp. maybe an interp where the Haltmanns didnt conquer Halcandra and the humans just destroyed it- #without the magic faction keeping some things running or in check; the tech paradise just went HAYWIRE #finally an interp where Mags and Susie COULD be friends #I saw the translation error stuff. rpgmonger mentioned it too! but Im keeping the mistranslated stuff bc Legacy arc is SO GOOD #as if Im not JUGGLING SIX VERSIONS OF MAGOLOR #INTERP/AU NUMER S E V E N #this MAY be the closest to canon explanation I can come up with though #Mags looking like Hyness though Im LOOKING AWAY. #if hes not the original banished hes probably a new generation of the clan #wore the gear motif bc he liked the tech dudes. similar to the false halcandran interps I saw before! #instead of imitating the ancients as a whole (hes technically one already) he takes on elements of the faction hes not a part of #a combo od BOTH factions. #okay ramble OVER SSKEK

[biromantic-nerd]

#i'm op so all of these apply to me :) #polls #specific polls #i got roped into fake dating someone?? in a gay way. but only during class and occasionally lunch #and my teacher was so mad but NOT bc of the gay. she just hated that student and i was a beloved teacher's pet. #like those corny tropes where the dad threatens the daughter's boyfriend. except my teacher and my good friend who i fake dated #and YES had a crush on #fake dating irl before i even knew it was a trope and then reading it in fics and going 'well people would Know if they liked each other' #girlies my fake dating friend kept recommending i watch Rocky Horror!! #in hindsight maybe i was too harsh on characters. #but anyways while i'm at this drive thru oversharing #so i have a crush ony fake dating friend my teacher hates. my teacher thinks i can do better. which is wild. i'm like 14 and insecure. #*on my #also at this point i still think i'm straight even though a LOT of people have clocked me and keep telling me i 'look gay' #every day my friend calls me a term of endearment my teacher looks like she is considering taking away her free seating for a seating chart #just so that so can keep the ruffian (bad essay writer in her opinion) away from her beloved student (comes in early to talk about motifs) #my free spirited teacher thing to not restrain us: free seating chart! #*trying #my friend: sitting next to me and passing me love notes and flirting #my teacher: [debating whether she should revoke seating in order to stop this one student or continue to let the class be free] #i think being 14 is one of the funniest things to ever happen to me actually #especially because there is an overlapping period of time where a separate group of people IRL shipped me with someone else. i'm not joking. #so you had my teacher actively rooting against shipping me. and a whole swarm of people who shipped me but with someone else. #and they all had no clue of each other bc they did not intersect. #i'm not joking either like people had invested opinions in my love life which makes me sound like cassanova no. i dated NEITHER of them!! #people were just oddly opinionated about it! Which honestly i think makes it fubnier that i wasn't and didn't date either of them. #i think being shipped and i guess UN-shipped in an overlapping period of time IN REAL LIFE is probably the funniest thing to happen #but also i think it means i can weather the storm and NEED to be in a band. i can handle it. #anyways if anyone is still reading this #i've fallen asleep MULTIPLE times in class!! and every time all my teachers have gone 'i didn't want to wake you up 🥺'

[starlight-ascension]

thinking about my aikatsu stars/precure crossovers again and i'm now imagining a collab between makopi and one of the aikatsu girls

#who should she feature on her next single #someone whose themes and motifs complement hers #ok so makoto's symbols include spades suits and swords and the colour purple #those are the obvious ones #hang on lemme just *pulls up my text document where i came up with aikatsu auras for the cures* #in that i also incorporated music notes but more importantly i incorporated little wings #bc her big hit single is called songbird and she has those wing shaped sleeves #...what would makoto's star wings look like? #what would urara's star wings look like? yuni's? emiru and ruru's? #wow this is carrying me away i'd say i'm on a roll with this crossover but it's more like the crossover picked me up like a flowing trail #of rainbow light and glitter and magic energy on the wind #and then it carried me off into the stars to show me the wonders

[sashathephoenix]

so today at work i remembered that Neo fell too (and also that someone pointed out that she’d started transforming at the end of her shot in the trailer)

and uh

i’m just gonna throw out the theory that this shot is *Neo*, not Jaune

#rwby #rwby9 #rwby9 teaser trailer #rwby9 spoilers #would be a great way to throw them off #especially if they kick her ass there and she runs away or something #and then they encounter the real Jaune later and are paranoid about him #ooh maybe she saw them about to cross paths with Jaune and posed as him on purpose #to cause whatever pain she can #(maybe they could try to make an RvB reference with the ‘why are we here’ bit in season 15. I love that scene) #also i could very well be reading too far into this but a shot that looks like Jaune - #-captioned with a line about leaves and wind? feels like a reference to the leaf motif of Arkos #(I had to look up the Neo post and ended up taking a screenshot of the teaser)