#parallel paradise

[crisoldepapel]

Parallel Paradise, Lynn Okamoto (2017)

Angry Mary

#manga #angry #parallel paradise #lynn okamoto

[simon-newman]

It’s a specific kind of pleasure to see an arrogant character being humiliated and shown their place.

#Parallel Paradise #Leighmary

[otakunews]

Parallel Paradise Chapter 214: Ngày phát hành & Spoiler

Parallel Paradise Chapter 214: Ngày phát hành & Spoiler

Fan manga của Parallel Paradise muốn biết chuyện gì sẽ xảy ra với Lumi và Youta. Chap trước đã để lại cho mọi người trên một vách đá. Liệu những người phụ nữ có thể sống hay không? Người hâm mộ bị bỏ lại với rất nhiều câu hỏi. Đây là tất cả những gì chúng ta biết cho đến nay về ngày phát hành Parallel Paradise Chap 214, tóm tắt cốt truyện và hướng dẫn đọc. Thiên đường song song nói về điều…

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#Parallel Paradise

[gemslittlelibrary]

There are plenty of theories about parallel universes. But what if parallel worlds exist in our own universe? Not in the scientific sense, but in the societal.

This concept is an interesting element of Mayapee Chowdhury's latest novel, Parallel Paradise. Although the idea is fascinating, the execution unfortunately falls flat, leaving the reader with a lightning-fast read that doesn't really flesh anything out.

The main character Bindi is a budding pop star about to go on tour. Before that, though, she's visiting her cousin in India, due to familial pressure. Her cousin is a playboy alcoholic and his wife Rimli is stern and traditional. That's how she appears at first, anyway. After a party on Bindi's first night in India, the two women sleep together in a nonsexual way. Soon enough, though, they're having a full-blown affair.

Now, I love a good queer yearning romantic story. This story has all of the elements: Conservative families/culture, an unwanted husband, and someone unsure about her sexuality. And yet, Parallel Paradise barely feels like a romance at all. Bindi and Rimli begin a sexual relationship days after meeting. There's no real hesitation, fear, or confusion. The relationship itself is shallow, and Bindi constantly complains about Rimli being too clingy. Readers are constantly told that this is true love.

Events throughout the novel are sporadic and barely described. Bindi goes on a tour and becomes quite famous, despite being barely known when the story begins, not that we see much of it. We get a few scenes with her and Rimli having drama behind the scenes. Their relationship apparently deepens as some amount of time passes (how much is unclear), but they have absolutely zero growth. There aren't very many characters, so the parallel worlds idea of Bindi and Rimli having a wonderful relationship while hiding from their community isn't really shown at all. Even the climax of the story, where Rimli's husband refuses her divorce and threatens to out them both, doesn't really feel like a problem, partially because it too is sped through like a video on 2x speed.

The novel ends with a one year time jump, where everyone is fine and accepted(sort of...Bindi's mom isn't happy but also does interviews with drag queens, which confused me). Bindi mentions that the LGBTQ community has been welcoming, and that's about it. There's not a single scene to back that up.

I wish this story were better written. I love reading about queer relationships from other cultures. Heck, I love reading about queer relationships in general. They don't need to be full of homophobia and conflict at all, and I don't want to come off as someone who doesn't believe in queer happy endings. The lack of proper pacing and character depth just ruins this book for me. If someone wrote another story with a similar concept, I'd love to read it. Hopefully it would be better than this.

Final rating: ⭐⭐

Edit: I was hesitant to mention the depictions of India, as I didn't want to overstep. After looking at other reviews, I feel comfortable to say that the way India was portrayed was quite stereotypical and with a sort of disdain I was not expecting.

#parallel paradise #mayapee chowdhury #tw homophobia #tw alcoholism #realistic fiction #queer romance #booklr #book review #bookworm #booklover #lgbtq

[renegadesstuff]

DOES IT EVER DRIVE YOU CRAZY, JUST HOW FAST THE NIGHT CHANGES 🫂🤍

#the rookie #lucy chen #chenford #tim bradford #tim and lucy #lucy and tim #tim x lucy #lucy x tim #the rookie series #the rookie edit #the rookie rewatch #the rookie season 1 #1x20 #free fall #the rookie season 6 #6x03 #trouble in paradise #the rookie parallel

[oplishin]

In both 2022 and 2024, you can see the exact moment Roman throws logic out the window and decides to hit Seth with the chair. again

#man this moment was emotionally rewarding in ways i didn't imagine it even could be #i love his expression in the last one #roman reigns #seth rollins #rolleigns #i love drawing parallels to 2022 #jrestling #insufferable bird of paradise #red-winged blackbird #jifs

[zaricats]

i am what you made me: unlovable

LETTER TO HIS FATHER (1919, franz kafka) FRANKENSTEIN (1818, mary shelley) GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1860, charles dickens) DEXTER (2008, "our father", dir. keith gordon) ELEKTRA (420-414 BC, sophocles) THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT (2005, stephen adly guirgis) PARADISE LOST (1667, john milton) SHARP OBJECTS (2006, gillian flynn)

#web weaving #comparatives #parallels #parallel post #frankenstein #dexter #sharp objects #dexter morgan #mary shelley #great expectations #charles dickens #elektra #sophocles #paradise lost #the last days of judas iscariot #franz kafka #letter to his father #dexter showtime #gillian flynn #john milton

[opal-owl-flight]

does your 4 recall anything from being parallel cannon? did being controlled affect them? I know they submitted to order so she could be "better" but still

“It was bliss, I was plunged in the sweetest dream. Until….”

#splatoon #splatoon fanart #agent 4 #opal owl’s nest #side order #side order spoilers #parallel canon #for the old followers: lets just say she got false paradised

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

Speech Parallels

Leverage S04E18 The Last Dam Job / Almost Paradise S01E01 Rise of the Kalangay.

#leverage #almost paradise #eliot spencer #nate ford #alex walker #kai mendoza #you can't tell me these speeches are not obvious parallels of each other #both eliot and alex are begging for the same thing #'just please please don't turn into me' #devlin series parallels #long post #ghostly'sgifs

[favvn]

Idk. Just. Jim Kirk, death, and life after Tarsus IV.

#star trek tos #tarsus iv #jim kirk #the conscience of the king #a taste of armageddon #this side of paradise #errand of mercy #who mourns for adonais? #holding back on the “it's all about tarsus iv? always has been” meme bc that's how i keep watching episodes #drawing parallels and recontextualizing as always #tos parallels

[yellowbluemoonshine]

Gabimaru & Chobei; Their Humanity & Some Parallels

Both Gabimaru and Chobei are one of the most dangerous, strongest, violent criminals of the story. Even though, they dont interact much because they have their own story and journey, its like there is this Aza brothers and Gabi-gang. Be carefull for the spoilers :)))).

1- Humanity of Two Crazy Savages;

Those two characters are easiely one of the most interesting characters in series because of humanity in them, despite the fact that they are bloody criminals and what makes it better is its different for both of them.

With Gabimaru, every interaction and connection he made with others shows a different side of him. First, with his wife Yui, first person who ever kind to him and we get cute, blushy side of Gabi and later with Sagiri, she saves his life and despite the fact that her job is killing him, she empathise with him as person, not only it helps her to grow better and she also helps him to grow too, they connected deeply. And his interaction with Yuzuriha is sassy and they dont really get along but it still feels geniue, like sibling relationship. And with Mei, he decides to help that little girl because he remembered that she was treated horribly, just like Yui was and he empathize her desire to live normal life which is something he desperately wants too. And with other comprades he made with Tamiya, Fuchi and others, he naturaly gets along with him because why not? They dont have any reason to fight and all so we get this another side of Gabi with the connections he made with multiple people. We get version of him being flustered, sassy, grumpy, nekomaru etc, its fun to explore of him because he is not hollow. And the fact that he is small guy makes it funnier, lol.

With Chobei, another criminal we explore his humanity, during the story but in opposite way because Chobei doesnt really care about other people the way Gabi did. He has no interest in them and he has no motivation to change and to him, he already has everything he needs. Power, respect, Toma. He is egoistical barbaric guy who can easiely get along with others but he simply dont want to so what makes his character interesting isnt the ‘interaction’ he had with multiple people, it is just one person, his little brother Toma. Everything he did, his beginning, his ending, his motivation, everything is connected to his love for his brother. Chobei become a bandit to survive so that he could protect Toma. His one of the most important memories are being big brother. ‘Break down. Come apart.’ Something he repeatedly said from that specific memory. He doesnt mind dying for getting hurt for him and always ready to protect him. He loves Toma, he wants to protect him, he wants to be with him. It is interesting because he is very self-absorved character who couldnt care less about other people, except he will throw it all away for Toma.

If this story was longer and if Toma wanted to have normal life, i think Chobei would abandon his bandit king life. Their relationship is easiely one of the most interesting thing in story because it affects each others character, they mess each others up by only closing theirselves off from others, they are trauma bonding and has several abandonment issues but also their love is so pure that at least they have each others. Its just, no matter what happens, they will always be each others number one. (One of the funniest thing about this is the fact that only reason Chobei didnt try to/murder main squad is simply because they just little take care of his precious brother.) And no matter what kind of life they have, they would most likely still be close as possible, because thats how they are. (Relationship between Aza brothers is too much to talk so for now, thats it.)

Both characters want to go home, something they mentioned during the story. Gabi wants to Yui and Chobei wants to Toma because its their home, their humanity. I guess, what makes Gabi and Chobei different is for Gabi had nothing, so its about him finding people whom he can see as family, friends, lover etc while Chobei lost all of it at once except Toma, so he wants to protect that one family he has forever, he doesnt need others because to him, Toma can fullfil all roles for him.

2- Parallels; The Hollow and Bandit King

Gabimaru was born into nothing, he lost his family before able to knowing and fully connecting with them. He has nothing, this is why he was empty, until he met his wife. Chobei was once had everything. He was royal boy who has nice family and cute little brother but then, one boy one, he lost all of them except his little brother. Ironically, the reason they become ‘villain’/criminals are opposite. Gabimaru became criminal because he had nothing, Chobei became criminal because had something to lose. And ironically, being criminal made Gabimaru prisoner of his messed up village while it made Chobei free from messed up rules of society.

Gabimaru had no reason to feel any feeling for those he killed because thats how he was raised but Chobei wasnt raised that way but he still had to survive, he had no choice but to adapt to protect the one he care about. Chobei mirrors the people who stronger than him to adapt sitution which eventually turn him into bandit. We can say they both didnt have much choices in life.

Later after meeting his wife, Gabimaru found something he doesnt want to lose, he started to regain his humanity and during his journey, he regain it more, with the help of Sagiri and other people he encountered during his journey. He and Sagiri connect and later, he decide to help Mei anyway and he connects with others.

Though, unlike Gabimaru, Chobei is a lot closed off towards strangers. Thats why while Gabi changes during the story, Chobei remains the same at core, only his little brother who learns to connect with others change and Chobei adapts to it. While Gabimaru wants to redeem and live normal life, Chobei wants to continue live his life as criminal. Gabimaru is a lot like hero while Chobe is a lot like villain but they are very human characters in the end. Despite they seem opposite, i think it is important to remember that their beginning is different and they both are ready to give up on their humanity to return to ones they dont want to lose. Their home. Their family. For Gabimaru, its his wife Yui and for Chobei, its his little brother, Toma.

They both have compatible partner, (platonic soulmates) in a way. They have opposite, perfect match partners for them.Gabimaru’s partner is Sagiri, even their element are matching. Fire and wood. For Chobei, his partner is Toma, their elements are matching too. Metal and Earth. Sagiri is tall, black hair girl while Gabi is short, white hair boy. Sagiri has mature, compatible, mother energy, she is obsessed with rules while Gabi is cat like, stubborn, desire his freedom but also obedient. Chobei is dominant, masculine energy while Toma is obedient, feminine boy. They match perfectly. (Sagiri and Toma are kinda parallels too, in a way with their loyalty and support, etc.)

Whenever Gabimaru and Chobei about to loose their humanity, Sagiri and Thoma are the ones who reminds them to their humanity. (Though, in Gabimaru’s case, its both his wife and Sagiri.).They do their best to help them.

Another difference is about their desire to live. Gabimaru wants to have normal life for himself, thats why he tries his best to survive during the story while Chobei only wants to survive to protect his little brother, its for someone else’s sake, the moment he thought his brother can handle things by himself, he was okay with dying, thankfully he didnt.

At the end of story, both Gabimaru and Chobei die and become plant-person and saved by Sagiri and Toma. Gabimaru finally receive the normal life he wants with Yui and Chobei continue to his weird adventures with Toma.

There are many things to say but for now, thats it. Jigokuraku specifically focus on humanity of criminals and craziness of samurays so its interesting to explore, especially Gabi and Chobei gets many focus so i would like to talk about them more. There were too many pics that fits here but well, i didnt want to use too much. I read this manga years ago, kinda in a mood to talk about it more.

#jigokuraku #jigokuraku meta #jigokuraku analysis #hell's paradise #hells paradise #gabimaru #gabimaru the hollow #yamada asaemon sagiri #Sagiri #aza chobei #aza chobe #aza toma #aza brothers #jigokuraku spoilers #jigokuraku parallels

[simon-newman]

And now Parallel Paradise killed my favorite girl.

Damn it!

#Parallel Paradise

[sisterdivinium]

Finding "the meaning" to a show that could have had up to five or seven seasons but was cancelled after the second is somewhat like trying to understand a novel composed of seventy chapters by having read only twenty — there is a whole wealth of information which we do not possess that could alter our reading of any given element or of the entire thing in itself.

Still, there are always patterns that weave a story into a cohesive unit and they can help us to better grope in darkness towards comprehension. One such pattern in Warrior Nun appears to be how the consequences to mistakes, "sins" or evil deeds committed by characters manifest.

Basic storytelling usually requires characters to act on something so that complications or resolutions may arise from their choices and move the plot forwards. In Warrior Nun, many of these actions are quite tragic in nature: Suzanne's arrogance and pride lead to the death of her Mother Superion; Vincent's allegiance to the higher power he believed Adriel to be inspired him to kill Shannon; Ava's flight from the Cat's Cradle ends up damning Lilith as she is mortally wounded and taken away by a tarask... All of these events have negative outcomes and heavy repercussions on all characters directly or indirectly involved. Something changes permanently because of them, be it in the world around them or within the characters themselves.

And yet, it would seem that all of these dark deeds not only move the story forwards but might also have overall positive results. We would have had no protagonist without Ava — and she would arguably never have received the halo to begin with had she not been murdered. What's more, on a personal scale, the horrifying crime she suffers is, in the end, the very thing that allows her a second chance in life, a new life.

An act of outside evil permits Ava to grow and develop, shows her a path she would not otherwise have found. Without her own season in some sort of hell, Lilith would not have been able to advance towards other ways of being and understanding beyond her very strict limitations. Vincent and Suzanne would not have embarked on their own journeys of enlightenment without having caused the pain they are responsible for.

Beatrice might have been paying for someone else's mistakes, but she, too, is given the chance to grow into herself through it. The afflictions that torment these characters advance the overall plot, but they also advance them, as individuals, as long as they are willing to learn and keep going despite the calamities large and small that they are faced with. Beatrice keeps going after parental rejection, Mary keeps going after losing Shannon, Jillian keeps going after losing her son (in part through her own actions, adding insult to injury)... Trouble and the adaptation that follows it, if one is open enough to learn from the experience, motivates the characters, propels them forward, teaches them.

The problem of evil has occupied the minds of many a thinker throughout the ages, given how the very existence of it, evil, might call into question that of God (a good, omniscient, omnipotent one, anyway). A common way of justifying suffering (and also God), then, is by claiming, as Saint Augustine, that "God judged it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit any evil to exist".

Now, it would be rather ridiculous to say of Warrior Nun that it follows in Leibniz's footsteps, also because this philosopher, expanding on the augustinian concept, attempted to defend the goodness of a real God with his "best of all possible worlds" while all we have is... Well, whatever/whoever Reya is.

But there seems to be an inclination towards some sort of optimism as a worldview nonetheless.

Betrayals reveal truth and grant knowledge (Vincent's culminates with the coming of Adriel, which allows us to know of the threat of a "Holy War" and thus prepare for it; Kristian's gives Jillian much needed insight, William's lights up the fuse for the fight to be taken more seriously...), crimes committed willingly or not open the way for Ava (Suzanne's killing of her Mother Superion causes the loss of the halo, which is transferred to Shannon, whose death opens the gates for Ava to walk through after being herself murdered by sister Frances)... The magnitude of these positive outcomes is perhaps not "balanced" when compared to the evil that brings them about, but there is still something to take out of the catastrophe.

However tragic the tones of a given event, the show itself appears to shun the predetermination that makes tragedy as a genre; if everything is connected, here it at least appears to not necessarily drag everyone into their horrible dooms.

What's more is that this lurking "optimism" matches really well with our own protagonist's personality.

And it makes perfect sense that Ava would do the best she could with whatever she is given.

Life for her, in the conditions she experienced after the accident, would have been unbearable without some sort of positive outlook on life. However deadpan, the joking and the "obscene gestures" and whatever other forms of goofing around beside Diego are a way of turning a portion of the situation in her own favour. Proverbial eggs have, after all, already been broken right and left — might as well make an omelette of whatever remains.

Humour is just another way of looking at the bright side of something, or, at the every least, of mitigating the utter horror it might bring. If the show allows for moments of lightness, if it lets us laugh, if it takes us through a perilous voyage which still bears ripe, succulent fruit instead of the rot of pessimism and its necessary contempt for humanity, it is because Ava herself sees things in this way. It isn't gratuitous or naïve in this case, but a true survival strategy, especially as it is confronted with the morbidity of Catholicism.

Here is a religion that soothes its faithful with the promise of reward in the afterlife — how else does one charge into battle against the unknown, risking one's own death along with that of one's sisters, without the balm of believing that we shall all meet again eventually, "in this life or the next"? How else does one come to terms with the ugliness and the pain of this existence if not by looking forward to a paradise perfect enough to make all trials and tribulations here worth it?

True nihilism would have annihilated Ava. Her present perspective is what avoided the abyss.

And there is nothing Panglossian to her attitude or what the show might imply by giving us her view on things. This isn't about "the best of all possible worlds", but of making the best of whatever situation we're in, of taking what we have and doing something with it, something good, something of ourselves. It isn't God making good out of evil, but our choices.

Killing innocent people and feeling no remorse will never be the best someone can aspire to do. Sister Frances, cardinal William, Adriel all learn this the hard way.

Those who do their best find that, somehow, they can move on from whatever it was that paralysed them. Ava, most of all, knows what it is to be stuck, frozen in place; she can never be the character who refuses to grow, even through pain, lest she condemns her spirit to the same fate her body is all too familiarised with. Those around her wise enough to let themselves be touched by her, by the dynamic power she carries, walk forth with her and live.

It says very little about "God" that Warrior Nun should adopt its heroine's views and seem "optimistic" as it progresses — but it speaks volumes about the values it presents for pondering, of the inspiration its protagonists provide, and of the multiple reasons why this is a story unlike most others.

#warrior nun #ava silva #you know it's actually very funny to type this as someone who is very schopenhaurian with hints of nietzsche #but i AM doing the best i can too :) #again i will reiterate that i don't think this apparent optimism has anything to do with the classic theodicy #if anything i see it more as a cry in favour of antitheism -- this is YOUR life fuck god #life is shitty so carve out your own makeshift paradise out of the wreck you are given #and don't make things harder for anyone else in the process if you can avoid it #(but that might just be the luciferian in me speaking lol) #anywho this post is a translation of one i wrote not too long ago in cryptic english and a ton of tags #so if it seems familiar that's why #also i do find it rather telling that whenever i try to delve into how the show structures things i talk about ava #i don't set out to analyse her -- but in analysing the show i must analyse her as well if by the edges #which again points to how finely woven she is to the fabric of the entire thing #remember how i said ava is a representation of free will? #well this whole bringing good out of evil thing also touches upon it #saint augustine maintains that it is precisely free will that allows us to do it -- to choose good #of course he means it in a sense of being free to pursue god rather than evil but you see the parallel still works #(this is the post i mentioned in the last reblog. figured i'd go ahead and throw it in the wild since there are more brewing) #analysis and similar #exercises in observation

[dramastream]

All of Us Are Dead (2022 ‒ ) dir. Lee Jae Gyoo My Liberation Notes (2022) dir. Kim Seok Yoon Night in Paradise (2021) dir. Park Hoon Jung

#parallels #all of us are dead #web weaving #my liberation notes #night in paradise #aouadedit #mlnedit #userbbelcher #netflix #tvedit #netflixedit #horroredit #kdramaedit #chewieblog #dailynetflix #cinemapix #tvcentric #useroptional #usertelevision #televisiongifs #cinematv #kdrama #*g #+ #luni #.blood.

[renegadesstuff]

Chenford season 6 domestics scenes 🤍

#the rookie #lucy chen #chenford #tim bradford #tim and lucy #lucy and tim #tim x lucy #lucy x tim #the rookie series #the rookie edit #the rookie s6 #the rookie spoilers #the rookie season 6 #6x03 #trouble in paradise #the rookie parallel

[oplishin]

i do love the contrast between dean in 2017, throwing the black chair aside because he knows that fundamentally, what happened between him and seth was not about a chair to the back and cannot be fixed by it, vs roman in 2022, who breaks the chair on seth's back and comes back to hit him again when it doesn't fix anything.

#roman of 2022 is so thoroughly changed and warped by his surroundings #and it poisons all of his relationships in ways that are *wonderful* to see #god. everything the black chair symbolizes for the shield. there are so so so many connections and parallels to draw all the time #seth rollins #roman reigns #i love the smile on roman's face after he hits seth the first time. like it's almost perverse in its relief #but then he *has* to hit seth again because it didn't actually do anything. and it doesn't fix anything the second time either #wwe #the shield #jrestling #god i have so many fucking tags just kill me #birds on a wire #insufferable bird of paradise #inexorable red-winged blackbird #yes i am watching this match for a 3rd time