#recurring themes

[bobauthorman]

Once more on the not-so-merry go round

Nora's "Putting the weight of the world on her shoulders" is heartbreaking enough, but her ditching Ren to go with Velvet means she's distancing herself from her team...

...Just like Pyrrha did.

#RWBY #Greenlight Volume 10 #Support CRWBY #Save RWBY #Bad Habits #Nora Valkyrie #Pyrrha Nikos #Velvet Scarlatina #Lie Ren #Volume 9 Bonus Animatic #Meta #Recurring themes #I made myself sad

[raccoonfallsharder]

sometimes you’re revising your twenty-seventh and final chapter of a longform fanfic and you’re like

well shit

will i ever write anything this good again

guess im glad to have peaked in my thirties and not sooner

#window across the galaxy #just fanfiction things #rocket raccoon #i basically played with everything i like as a reader which was fun #narrative symmetry #recurring themes #emotional turmoil #blah blah blah #longform fic #just writer stuff #guardians of the galaxy #gotg fanfiction #rocket raccoon fanfiction

[devoursjohnlock]

@kettykika78 So, I'm going to start here with meta prompt answers, because this is not an idea I particularly subscribe to, so it's easier for me to give my perspective on it.

You''re right, we do see multiple fake deaths per character in Sherlock, but I think there is no limit of two. My feeling is that we see strongly recurring patterns in Sherlock specifically because we see strongly recurring patterns in the Doyle canon, including fake deaths and importantly, fake deaths of mirrors of our beloved main characters.

Also, counting character "deaths" or "fake deaths" becomes a bit subjective. Did Moriarty fake his death in TRF? TAB tells us that his body was missing, but was that real? Does John kicking him off a cliff count as another death? Maybe. How many "deaths" does Sherlock get? One for the fall from Bart's, one for being blown out a 221B window (which bumps John's and Mycroft's scores as well), but he was also "shot" by the cabbie, shot (no quotation marks) by Mary, sentenced to a delayed-action death in Eastern Europe by Mycroft, overdosed instead, sucked into a pool of black ooze in TFP, strangled by, well, everyone... I could go on, but dying is sort of Sherlock's function within the narrative.

I know that many of these are not the type of "deaths" that you're thinking of, but to me the line gets quite blurry, and I think that is intentional.

#Sherlock #asks #kettykika78 #deaths #fake deaths #recurring themes #meta prompts

[1mnobodywhoareyou]

I can't stop thinking about how parents can do EVERYTHING right and still hurt their kids.

And we continually prioritize the "rightness" of these parents over the hurt of the kid.

#and what counts as right is socially determined #why can we understand impact > intent in every other situation but not with kids? #hint: childism #i say this as a parent in her 30s #i spend way too much time thinking about this kind of thing #recurring themes #parenthood

[ghost-of-you]

Not only did someone evidently tell at least one member of 5sos that he’d (they’d?) never change and 5sos said “yeah, probably” and proceeded to write numerous songs featuring that, but they told 5sos that young, pretty sure they’ve got songs about that in their earlier albums.

If you're open to interpretation the earlier reference I can think of is rejects and the "They tried to save me, but I'm too far gone and they called me crazy, so I played along and you wanna change me but I'm on my own" if you look at it as you want me to be something I'm not but there's no hope for me. There's also independence day "you're telling me the same old story that I need to change" and looking at the "same old story" of trying to change them it could be earlier kspskaoa. But it is all around their discography. "But I'm never one to change am I?" "I'd never change, thought I'd never change" "I'll try and change my ways" the literal "you tell me I won't ever change" "but I know that I'm never ever gonna change" "people always say it's hard to change" "telling me six seven eight nine ten more things to change" honestly, whoever told them they wouldn't change made an impression.

#recurring themes #they cant change and they need to run away #its in every album kspskapakapakapak #i was asked #anon 😌

[howifeltabouthim]

'So we never really communicate?' 'Well,' he said, 'I suppose actions don't lie.'

Iris Murdoch, from Under the Net

#communication #actions #truth #actions speak louder than words #recurring themes #agreed #dialogue #novel of ideas #quotes #lit #words #excerpts #quote #literature #iris murdoch #under the net

[imathrashpanda]

Most common recurring themes in the my dreams: Sea Serpents:

I'm often trying to film or photograph them but things always go wrong i.e my camera dies, the buttons don't work, my phone just disappears etc. But often they turn out to be Animatronics:

Almost exclusively found in the water and LONG before fnaf came around. Not possessed or haunted creepy pasta stuff but occasionally abandoned or not working. Not limited to (but often) sea serpents, sometimes hippos, penguins and even cavemen. Roadside Dinosaurs:

They show up frequently in weird places. Probably cause when I was little I obsessed with a local tourist attraction that included an exhibit of roadside dinosaurs. Waterslides:

I'm not usually riding them, they're just kind of around. Quite often high up near a ceiling. Being attacked by a snake/big cats:

I should clarify I dont have a fear of either of these animals but for some reason it came up in dreams a lot. When I was younger it was always dreams of accidentally running into an angry snake in the forest or having to hold very still while on a boat as snakes hung from the branches above. Later it turned into dreams where a big cat had escaped a zoo and was attacking people and i had to get to safety before it found me.

Tidal Waves:

This one was A LOT more common when I was younger. I'd see a tidal wave coming in the distance and would be terrified, but somehow it was never as bad as I thought and often did no damage at all.

#dreams #dreaming #imagery #recurring dream #recurring themes #animals #snakes #big cats #tigers #animal attack #roadside dinosaurs #sea serpents #animatronic sea serpents #animatronics #submerged animatronics #waterslides #meaning #dream logic #sea #tidal wave

[elfcollector]

I think I need to go to camp for a while. Be alone. Scream at the sky.

#gamingnetwork #vgedit #videogameedit #gamingedit #dailygaming #gameplaydaily #mybg3 #bg3edit #bgedit #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate #bg3 #karlach #karlach cliffgate #the recurring theme that actually revenge rarely feels as liberatory as you want it to......agh #anyway this scene made me nauseous in the best way i had to take a break and pace around my living room #i dont care how u tag this but karlach in this set IS saying it to a purely platonic tav #she and delight are best friends forever...platonic soulmates forreal

[sualne]

vampire terminology used wrong

#donquixote doflamingo #monkey d luffy #my art #my comic #op vamp au #described in alt text #yea. this was funnier in my head. #luffy hates that terms 'vampire parent & child' to refer to the vampire who has turned someone and the one who's been turned. #also 'newborn vampire'. a recurring theme is him being pissed at the infantilisation (& dehumanisation) he goes through since #he's became a vampire. thought it'd be hilarious if mingo went on and called himself daddy instead of father because he's insufferable #originally had croc standing menacingly in the last panel but they're on mingo's ship so he isn't there

[petersthree]

@pscentral event 26: minimalism @lgbtqcreators bingo: colour

SEVERANCE + OPENING SHOTS

#severanceedit #severance #useraudrey2 #appletvsource #usergiu #userrin #trueloveistreacherous #usertina #omgari #usersunny #usergreen #usercamena #userahay #ganjacat #userfinches #janie makes stuff #*gifs #decided to go w the opening shots bc i love a recurring theme but man oh man if there's ever a show that's Minimalist(TM) #it's certainly this one

[plushefemme]

another "innocent" housewife feeder concept: the idea of my partner finally protesting that i'm feeding them too much rich food (even though they're blushing and smiling when they say it so i have a suspicion they're not protesting TOO much) and they accuse me of making them fat, i'm like what are you talking about, it's all homemade so it's healthy for you!! i only make things from scratch, using whole unprocessed ingredients 🥺🥺😇🥰 *cut to me putting like a whole stick of butter into basically everything i make*

#maybe i need a tag for this bc i have a feeling its gonna be a recurring theme lol #housewife feeder vibes #plushetxt #plushequeue #femme feeder hours

[ingravinoveritas]

I think I’m sensing a theme here... (Click for audio of David’s quote.) Bonus:

#michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #david tennant #soft scottish hipster gigolo #mcm comic con #bbc radio #i am yelling #the fact that Michael said this today #and used the EXACT SAME WORDS as David #it sure doesn't feel like a coincidence #also i'm almost sure that person didn't tweet it like that on purpose #and it makes it even funnier #we may be from different places and have different beliefs #but we can all agree that Michael and David are the right people to fill each other's holes #sweet jesus take the wheel #subtext that is rapidly becoming a text #ineffable lovers #recurring themes #gif by me

[koolaidmansb1tch]

I suddenly wanted to make more DP in-universe memes :)

(check @sqwishywrites34 for the first ones I made lol)

#dp memes #dp in universe memes #danny phantom #in universe memes #fenton’s bladder is a recurring theme lol #dp #danny phantom in universe memes #do these count as incorrect quotes? #idk i’m gonna put it anyway #danny phantom incorrect quotes #memes #i hope you like them :)

[t00thpasteface]

every time i think of them, i think of this specific text post

#a recurring theme for me is drawing nerevar looking very happy while almalexia is actively plotting how to kill him #art #sketch #tes #the elder scrolls #morrowind #indoril nerevar #almalexia

[sprinklecipher]

Hi there! I’m interested in how the meaning of "potato bug" varies by region, so I'm running a very short (~1 minute), anonymous survey to find out!

---SURVEY LINK---

You can complete the survey even if you've never heard of "potato bugs" before (but please indicate as much when prompted). Also, please be aware that the survey includes several photos of insects, so I'd advise against taking it if you're squeamish about bugs

Thanks and have a great day! :)

#Bugs #Insects #Potato bug #Potato bugs #Survey #Surveys #Entomology #Linguistics #Dialect Maps #Dialects #Polls #Research #Survey research #sC Original #Potato Bug Map #<- project tag #when I made my blog I never would've expected that bug-related dialect surveys would become a recurring theme but here we are

[fantastic-nonsense]

I wouldn't mind the heavy focus on warrior Amazons so much if they were allowed to be competent instead of just being used as red shirt cannon fodder. But it seems DC only hypes up the Amazons as deadly fighters so other characters can look more impressive when they take them down.

Oh and Happy New Year.

Happy New Year! Forgive me if I use your ask to talk about a piece of the Wonder Woman mythos I've wanted to discuss for some time, because your complaints offered me the perfect segue to write a nice, in-depth meta on it and I couldn't pass up the opportunity.

Honestly, I think a lot of people (both creatives and readers) either don't know, forget, or fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the Amazons' warrior status. So they often get reduced to "deadly warriors who strike first," "supposedly deadly but generally incompetent warriors when outside of their own books," or "militant man-haters" by a lot of people. None of which are true.

The Amazons are incredibly competent warriors and have been since Marston's first portrayal of them in the 1940s, so I don't inherently mind them being shown as such. However, where people get bogged down is insisting that they be shown as deadly and trigger-happy offensive fighters who are happy to strike first and hard, which fundamentally goes against the philosophy and thematic messaging built into Amazonian lore.

DC's Amazonia, lore-wise, is traditionally framed as an Aphrodite vs. Ares "peace and love vs. violence and war" story. In Marston's original rendition of the Amazon's backstory Aphrodite is not only their patron goddess but also their sole creator; it was only after Crisis on Infinite Earths and George Perez's long-overdue lore expansions that the rest of the goddesses became co-creators and co-patrons of the Amazons. Regardless, Ares and his domain are consistently invoked as what the Amazons don't want to be like or engage in. That behavior is the antithesis of what Amazons are supposed to be. This lore informs literally everything about how the Amazons view both their combat abilities and their duty to the goddesses.

The contemporary Amazons are, for the most part, women who died in terrible and traumatic ways at the hands of men (usually through domestic violence, murder, or as conquests of war). When the goddesses created the Amazons by reincarnating these women via the Well of Souls, they specifically charged them to become their champions. And what did these goddesses want? They explicitly wanted justice and protection for women in a violently patriarchial world. The Amazons being warriors is thus specifically tied to an understanding of necessary self-defense and protection (both of themselves and other women), not offense.

Which of course is what lands the Amazons on Themyscira in the first place: invoking the goddesses' ire by not obeying these commands after their rebellion against their enslavement by Heracles and his men crosses the line from the necessary battle to achieve their liberation into wanton violence and revenge:

"The battered Hippolyta prayed to her goddesses and found the courage and inspiration to free herself. Athena had reminded Hippolyta of the Amazons' purpose and mission—but not all of the Amazons remembered. Or cared. They yearned for vengeance. For retribution against those who violated them...and under Antiope, many found it." -Wonder Woman: Our Worlds at War (2001)

And as Hippolyta and Menalippe tell Antiope:

"No, Antiope. Never vengeance; never again!" /// "That is Ares' way, Antiope. We achieve no glory by embracing the Dark God's power!" -Wonder Woman (1987) #1

The Amazon way is promoting a society based on love, equality, truth, and peaceful conflict resolution, not vengeance and violent combat. It's a philosophy that defines Diana's mission in Man's World as an ambassador, teacher, and living example of her peoples' way of life:

Enraptured, they listen to her dissertation on equality between the sexes, tolerance, peaceful coexistence. Social Philosophy 101, Amazon Style. -Wonder Woman (1987) #170

Diana's gods-given mission was to spread the Amazonian ideals of conciliation—to give those living in the World of Man the proper tools to peacefully coexist with each other. It was her life's purpose to teach the possibilities of respect and love by being a living example of an upbringing founded in those ideals.

Truth-seeking, diplomacy, and peace are the Amazonian way of dealing with conflict, not violence. And when you are forced to engage in combat (and you should be prepared for that eventuality because sometimes it will happen), your goal should be self-defense and de-escalation, not offense and prolonging the conflict longer than necessary.

This is also, as an aside, why Diana (and specifically Diana in her capacity as Wonder Woman) does not usually carry offensive weapons like a sword and why her primary "weapons" are the Lasso of Truth and protective bracelets. She's the official representative of her peoples' culture and personally deeply believes in that cultural philosophy. Other Amazons have different views on the matter, including her mother, but Diana grew up completely separated from the World of Man and fully immersed in that belief system, which deeply informs how she views her mission as Wonder Woman.

Personally, I think many (but not all) of the problems re: depicting the Amazons in the modern era come from various writers attempting to solve contradictions that don't exist. They see "kickass trained warriors living peacefully on an island" and see that as a contradiction they have to solve: why do they train if they're pacifists? Why do they fight if they're peaceful? In reality, it's not a contradiction: their status as warriors and champions is specifically tied to self-defense and protection (both of themselves and others), but given the choice they don't want to have to take up arms to protect people because that goes against their fundamental cultural philosophy. Outsiders and meddlesome gods are the ones who force them to do that! What they want is for everyone to be treated with love, respect, and understanding so they don't have to!

And there's a lot of problematic elements built into the concept's execution, but this is the core thesis behind the split between Hippolyta's Themyscirans and Antiope's Bana-Mighdall. The Themysciran Amazons have had their fill of violence and war; they just want to live in peace. But a) they were specifically tasked with guarding Doom's Doorway when they were taken to the island, a duty which necessitates perfect combat readiness, and b) their history is littered with examples of people refusing to leave them alone. So they train, in case someone decides to take shots at them, but otherwise live in peaceful isolation. Meanwhile, the Banas looked at that same shared history and went "we need to take the fight to the outside world. Offense is the best defense, and the only way to protect ourselves and the other women of the world is to actively seek vengeance for the violence women face." So they chose to actively intervene in Man's World, fighting constant battles and exacting revenge for any women mistreated at the hands of men.

...which is also why Artemis was such a necessary and interesting addition to the Wonder Woman mythos (even if she's often handled...poorly), because she and Diana represent two diametrically opposed views of how to protect and represent both their cultures and the women of Man's World, but that's a rant for a different time.

Anyway, the Themysciran Amazons' martial pacifism as a cultural value isn't a contradiction; it's one way of looking at a history filled with violence and victimization and saying "no more." And it's a pretty subversive way of doing so, which (well-written) comics tend to note!

So yes, the "Amazons are warriors" mentality has always been there and has been solidly emphasized at various points throughout Wonder Woman's history, and it should be acknowledged and shown that they're all incredibly competent in battle when they're forced to engage in it. But the way in which it gets emphasized is what defines whether a writer has a solid understanding of the history and baggage that comes with depicting the Amazonian struggle and the socio-political issues embedded in their lore. And unfortunately...many writers just don't seem to get it.

#sorry for just ranting about this but I HAVE to correct the narrative every time this comes up. it's not a want. it's a need. #someone hire me to write a political history of Amazonia #I could do SO MUCH with the recurring themes of isolationism vs. interventionalism as a method of self-defense #dc comics #wonder woman #wonder woman meta #diana of themiscyra #artemis of bana mighdall #queen hippolyta #dc amazons #dc meta #long post #asks