#narrative tag

[chamerionwrites]

"The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.

Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried. Equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work. Folk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told. Murder will out. Remembering and telling the truth about terrible events are prerequisites both for the restoration of the social order and for the healing of individual victims."

--Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery

#trauma #narrative tag #restorative justice #ethics tag #judith herman #mental health #cultures of dissociation #my posts

[hawkinsp0st]

i just rewatched “the piggyback” and oh. OH. !!!!!!!

i kept getting hung up on why, if mint chocolate chip isn’t endgame, they would have mike saying i love you to el before the most crucial battle of the episode?

but it just clicked for me.

they show us his monologue to show that it doesn’t help.

look at that image. does it look like mike’s confession saved the world?

the final half of the ep: it’s bleak. we’ve never seen stranger things this dark. there aren’t monsters hidden behind walls or in labs anymore. hawkins is cracking open. this battle is a true loss for eleven, in every sense of the word.

mike says i love you to el at the climax of the episode. and then? they lose. they don’t “almost” lose—they lose. max dies. eddie dies. people in hawkins die. eleven loses.

the way the episode is set up, mike’s monologue marks the start of the episode’s climax.

if this climactic monologue was meant to be a positive turning point, the “falling action” that comes next would be something hopeful—a good example of this is the falling action of cinderella, when the prince is testing glass slippers on all the ladies around the kingdom. hopeful + a resolution is promised soon.

so if mike’s confession were setting up a win and a happy ending, we would’ve seen a victorious battle after that.

but this was no happy ending.

mike “confesses”, the battle takes place, and then the most heartbreaking sequence takes place in the falling action.

may i present to you the outcome of the battle that started with mike saying i love you: max dies. lucas and el are grieving her. hawkins splits wide open.

mike says “i love you”, and then they show us how his inauthentic confession was not enough. his love was not what the heroes needed in that moment, bc it isn’t true love.

they even give us an example immediately after of how love is enough to win, when it’s real. eleven gains strength through her love for max to bring her back to life. eleven’s love for max is why the gang has any hope at all right now. so yes, the show has proven that love can do it.

but mike’s monologue—pointedly—did not allow our heroes this victory.

tldr; the “you’re my superhero” monologue serves the same narrative purpose as the dead mario lopez flowers, and you can’t tell me otherwise.

#i’m sure this has been said #i just needed to scream #this shifted everything for me #byler #narrative tag #s5 tag #s4 tag

[mlchaelwheeler]

once again, i'd like to point out that stranger things is a tv show. the characters are not real. why is this important? all scenes and narratives are written a specific way, they don't just happen by themselves. for example, this means:

in 1x03, the writers chose to emphasize mike's reaction to will's "body" being found in comparison to lucas and dustin's reactions. they easily could've shown all three of the boys' reactions, but instead mike was the focus and got multiple scenes of his shock and anger over will's "body" being found.

in 1x04, the writers chose to focus on mike being depressed over will's death. they didn't do this for dustin or lucas, even though all four of the boys are introduced as a group at the beginning of the season.

in 1x04, the writers chose to have mike shove troy in the gym for making homophobic comments about will. any one of the boys could've taken offense to that, but instead, mike is the focus while lucas and dustin stand off to the side.

in 1x04, the writers chose mike to be the one who recognized will's voice over the radio. they could've easily had the entire party there for that scene, but instead it was just mike who immediately knew will's voice.

in 2x01, the writers chose mike as the one to follow will out of the arcade and bring him back inside. it could've been any of the party members, but instead mike was singled out as having noticed will disappeared.

in 2x02, the writers chose to have mike be the one to comfort will after his "episode," even though the whole party is trick-or-treating together. it could've easily been written as group bonding where will tells everyone about his visions, but instead the writers gave us the crazy together scene.

in 2x03, the writers chose to focus on mike at school when will is acting weird. it was specifically chosen that mike was the only one to notice will was "quiet today" and that it was weird he missed class, while the rest of the party didn't notice anything was wrong.

in 2x08, the writers chose to have mike be in the shed with the rest of will's family. there could've been a cute scene of the whole party trying to reach will with stories of their dnd campaigns, but instead mike is the only non-family member present (not counting hopper because he didn't share any memories).

in 3x01, the writers chose to make the movie theater full enough that mike/will and lucas/max couldn't all sit together. this was directly after lucas implied going to the movies was the equivalent of "spending romantic time" together.

in 3x03, the writers chose to have mike and will get into an argument at the wheeler's house, even though lucas was also there. lucas didn't just happen to stay behind in the basement. it was a clear choice that mike and will got into a fight, just the two of them.

in 3x08, the writers chose to give will and mike an individual goodbye scene, even though the only other individual scenes were jancy and mlvn (two couples). there could've been a scene of the whole party saying goodbye but instead the writers specifically had a (flirty) goodbye scene between mike and will, directly contrasting the (extremely) awkward mlvn goodbye.

in 4x09, the writers chose to give mike and will another heart-to-heart in hopper's cabin right at the end of the season. will could've easily told everyone there that he still knows vecna is alive (this is probably what should've happened honestly), but instead only told mike-- when el was right there! the clear choice to give them a special talk right at the end of the season was very telling.

#anyways. just to point out that these narratives are all crafted a specific way for a reason #and there's SO many more examples but these are the few i could think of off the top of my head #bc like. that movie theater could've easily been empty. the group could've all sat together. but no. the writers made a clear choice to have #byler and lumax sit apart after just talking about how that was the equivalent of a date #just worth pointing out i think #byler #narrative tag #sarah.txt

[miharuhebinata]

idc how cliche it is, it will ALWAYS hit when the main theme of a story is that love will save the world >>>>>>

#like.........yeah :'))) #love is what it's all about #narrative tag #send tweet

[arunneronthird]

pov you just tried to express an opinion in a wayne party. youre a super

#i think keeping the sunglasses for alfred was relevant to the narrative #the only person having fun is jason cause he craves chaos #oh god the tags #batman #bruce wayne #dick grayson #damian wayne #tim drake #duke thomas #cassandra cain #alfred pennyworth #jason todd #dc comics #my art #ladies. gentlemen. you have eaten well.

[pigin-is-so-rad]

The Watchers’ Favourites

#grian #jimmy solidarity #martyn inthelittlewood #itlwart #grian fanart #solidaritygaming fanart #martyn itlw #inthelittewood fanart #traffic life #trafficblr #traffic smp #how do you people function there’s so many tags #I like to call them “doomed by the narrative and hated by the gods trio” #Pigin is artistic

[thatdamnokie]

i love you fairy tales i love you folklore i love you myths i love you stories as old as humanity itself i love you oral traditions i love you characters carried through time on my ancestors’ tongues i love you story i’ve seen a million ways and want to see a million more i love you archetypes i love—

#personal #uh tags #fairy tales #folklore #mythology #stories #academia #memes #fiction #narratives

[iphigeniacomplex]

it’s very easy to tell the good satires and pastiches from the bad ones because the bad ones are too afraid to live within the form. like if you are doing work with fairy tales and you are refusing to look closer at the underlying logic and unspoken rules of what can seem at first to be a senseless form, you are not going to create meaningful work. to borrow a turn of phrase originally used by maria tatar, if you refuse to enter “the house of fairy tale” as anything more than a gawking tourist, you will miss the particular order to the way the table is set, the rooms that are locked vs the rooms that are simply difficult to enter, the set of the floorboards and the position of the furniture. whatever you build will then be a gilded imitation of how you believe the house of fairy tale ought to look, the table set according to your educated specifications and every door open. there can be no interrogation of themes from a writer who views the form as beneath them!

#it speaks! #sondheim understood this with into the woods; the deconstruction of narrative itself is able to happen because we are able to believe in -> #<- the fairy tale logic he employs prior to this. #its a kids book but adam gidwitz understood this with a tale dark and grimm!! #cant speak for the rest of the series but that first book uses the absurdity of fairy tale logic to speak about the absurdity of -> #<- adulthood and the pedagogy present in many fairy tales to discuss the ways parents hurt their children. #rule of threes is important but theres so much on my list ive yet to read; always welcome recommendations. #fairy tales #into the woods #<- this comes from musings on how successfully i feel that musical functions so it gets the tag

[sidras-tak]

#sparklepants #for me it’s the memory loss #never seen that trope done well. ever. and I’m actively mad about it every time it happens #tv tropes #narrative tropes #there’s like no good way to tag this huh #but I do want to know everyone’s thoughts #also hoping I didn’t miss something obvious as a choice

[brother-emperors]

something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.

it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.

and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.

on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.

edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.

Perseus, Daniel Ogden

Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet

#it's all greek to me #perseus #danae #komiks tag #long post #every other week i start to say something about how greek heroes are a good case study in diaspora and exile trauma #but man perseus makes me so sad. so does danae. she loves her son :( #perseus turning a whole island to stone is a huge mood. i would also do that if i were him #anyway (salutes) take care everyone i gotta watch yunho's new video it looks like a fucking movie im so excited #(i singled out ovid bc i remember the fucking shit perseus discourse that ran through this site. i remember #im preemptively loading a gun and pointing at it before it can touch this post #it hasn't died out either i see it on twitter all the time in the most ANNOYING ways possible i am TIRED #esp bc they're actually doing medusa a narrative disservice like congrats! you made it worse! stop telling me it's better!!!!)

[chamerionwrites]

"Witnesses as well as victims are subject to the dialectic of trauma. It is difficult for an observer to remain clearheaded and calm, to see more than a few fragments of the picture at one time, to retain all the pieces, and to fit them together. It is even more difficult to find a language that conveys fully and persuasively what one has seen. Those who attempt to describe the atrocities that they have witnessed also risk their own credibility. To speak publicly about one's knowledge of atrocities is to invite the stigma that attaches to victims.

The knowledge of horrible events periodically intrudes into public awareness but is rarely retained for long. Denial, repression,and dissociation operate on a social as well as an individual level. The study of psychological trauma has an "underground" history. Like traumatized people, we have been cut off from the knowledge of our past. Like traumatized people, we need to understand the past in order to reclaim the present and future. Therefore, an understanding of psychological trauma begins with rediscovering history."

--Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery

#trauma #narrative tag #whistleblower tag #restorative justice #judith herman #mental health #cultures of dissociation #my posts

[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

[mlchaelwheeler]

people always say "what about will?" "what about mike?" let's talk about el for a moment.

el who was trapped in a lab and told what to do for the first twelve years of her life. who was told her powers were all she was good for. then she finds a group of friends who seem to love her for her, and mike, who is soft and careful with her. he kisses her, she likes it, and she saves him.

a year goes by and she can't see him, but she watches. she checks in. she makes sure he's safe. she passes the time by watching romance tv, learning what it means to really love someone. she really thinks she loves mike. but she still needs answers, about who she is, about who her family is. she seeks out mama. aunt becky. kali. she finds her sister, learns more about her powers, and saves her friends.

she spends half a year with mike, in hop's cabin. they kiss, they don't really talk, but that's ok. el doesn't want to relive her trauma just yet. but something doesn't feel right. she feels trapped. max opens her eyes to a whole new world of possibilities. el can like whatever she wants! and when she dumps mike, it feels right. she can finally have fun and do things she enjoys. sure, she misses him, but as a friend. her fun is cut short by another battle. suddenly she's lost everything. hopper, her powers, her home. so she clings to the one thing that reminds her of happier times. mike.

el moves and finds a new family, but continues to hope. to dream. if only she can see mike again, maybe it can be like it was before. when she was safe, loved, and happy. but when she sees mike for the first time in nearly a year, it's not what she wanted. he's not really there. he seems interested, but everything is surface level. so she snaps. suddenly, she is offered a way back to her old life. her powers. maybe then she can fix things, bring them back to how they were.

it's not enough. she reunites with mike, with her brothers, but her friends are still in danger. el is the only one who can save them. mike tells her he loves her, but it's not how she wants to be loved. it's fake. she can hear will urging him to confess in the background. it distracts her and in a moment, max is gone. slipping through her fingers and away into the dark. so el hides herself away. she doesn't need mike anymore. she needs her friends, her happiness, max. she's not letting her go, she's not letting henry win. she is getting max back. and she's finding herself in the process.

#idk where this came from but. EL <333 MY GIRL. #this is how i understand her journey at least hopefully you all agree sjdhfjf #el hopper #byler #sarah.txt #narrative tag

[miharuhebinata]

the trope of two characters understanding each other on a level no one else ever will, but also every single time they try to show or tell the other just how much they care, they can only ever seem to say it in a way the other can't understand (not through lack of trying! they are just saying it in a way that that person fundamentally does not understand, due to different morals, thought processes, differing levels of emotional intelligence, etc), & it results in this long & vicious cycle of miscommunication & hurt...... yeah you best believe i eat that shit right up.

#i'm specifically talking about two of my ocs here but obviously this applies to a lot of ships too #tropes #narrative tag #character tag #ci tag #send tweet

[qiinamii]

You gave Xiao your heart.

He thought it was a spar invite.

[Next]

#qiiarts #xiao #lumine #frisk #the art i got too self indulgent about that undertale always has a special place in my heart #also me thinking wouldnt it be interesting to use the flirt route not as frisk #and my fondness to xiao and traveler in particular at this point in time then bam this comic #they're close friends at best with how i see their r/s but putting the tag just in case #xiaolumi #i wasnt sure to upload this at first cus theres a second part and then over time i had figured out a full narrative #soon enough in the future ill do it :3 yes this is a tiny for-fun crossover series incoming #just these two failing horribly at expressing Interest #genshin impact #undertale

[shorthaltsjester]

The Mighty Nein; On Hope.

@/mumblesplash // “Episode 76: Refjorged” - Laura Bailey, Liam O’Brien, Taliesin Jaffe, and Travis Willingham // “Episode 46: A Storm of Memories” - Marisha Ray // “Mighty Nein Reunited: Uk’otoa Unleashed” - Liam O’Brien // “Episode 120: Contentious Company” - Matthew Mercer // “Episode 93: Misery Loves Company” - Laura Bailey // “Episode 112: The Chase Begins” - Matthew Mercer and Travis Willingham // “Episode 30: The Journey Home” - Sam Riegel // “Mighty Nein Animated Intro - Your Turn To Roll” - Kamille Areopagita and Kevin Areopagita // “Episode 94: With Great Power…” - Taliesin Jaffe // “Episode 69: The King’s Cage” - Matthew Mercer and Travis Willingham // “Episode 86: The Cathedral” - Taliesin Jaffe // “Episode 140: Long May He Reign” - Laura Bailey and Matthew Mercer // “Episode 97: The Fancy and the Fooled” - Liam O’Brien // “Long May He Reign” - Laura Bailey // “Episode 141: Fond Farewells” - Laura Bailey and Taliesin Jaffe // “Episode 131: Into the Eye” - Ashley Johnson // “Fond Farewells” - Matthew Mercer // “Long May He Reign” - Taliesin Jaffe

insp.

#saw those tags and was immediately haunted by the unrelenting hope of the mighty nein's narrative #i gotta stop making these but good grief. the mighty nein are everywhere #the mighty nein #mighty nein #critical role #cr2 #campaign 2 #fjord #beauregard lionett #caleb widogast #essek thelyss #nott the brave #veth brenatto #jester lavorre #mollymauk tealeaf #caduceus clay #yasha nydoorin #travis willingham #marisha ray #liam o'brien #sam riegel #laura bailey #taliesin jaffe #ashley johnson #matthew mercer #web weave #my posts #webweave #web weaving