#something something about cheating death

[winepresswrath]

tbh all jiang cheng ships are hypothetically good to me because jiang cheng is just so not in a good place for dating or marriage. no one should wife him up which is why anyone wifing him up has great comedy potential. it is a situation you're putting him in where he's forced to cope with intimacy and the possibility of betrayal or rejection. he's going be thinking about his parents' marriage except for the times he's going to be thinking about his sister and his redacted. and also there is the potential for someone to die horribly and leave him alone with a baby. again.

#tagging this with one of my more controversial opinions which is that while we the readers are basically told that the rumours are false #and wei wuxian believes the rumours are false #from jiang cheng's perspective wei wuxian is schrödinger's brother in like three different ways #one of them literal! does he trust that his dad didn't cheat on his mom: no. obviously #does he trust that wei wuxian's mom wouldn't cheat on her husband? he doesn't know her and he doesn't have wwx's attachment to the idea of #her #so anyway legally no biologically maybe emotionally REDACTED #ps yanli said so in public once REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED #maybe he'll think about wc and wzl a little #because you know. snuggles on the lotus pier throne #maybe had something going on with his mom #came into his house and did things to his body that can't be undone #yanli... like the yanli issues are so depressing but if he somehow married and it was somehow not a disaster #always the possibility of being torn from him by death

[anna-scribbles]

h-how do you ever finish any of your work? genuine question because you seem to be productive despite your agreste syndrome and I need to learn your ways. but also how do you ever finish any of your work

unclear. last night i stayed up and finished a report worth 25% of my grade at about 5am, arrived on time for my 9am lecture, and spent about half of it zoned out while thinking about seventeen year old emilie agreste. and i was one of the most active participants in the class discussion

#in some ways it IS the move to go to grad school right out of undergrad #because your body can still sort of operate like a college kid #i’m on about 3ish hours of sleep rn and this morning it felt SO over but now i’ve eaten something and we’re so back #i also don’t really do caffeine. except sometimes i’ll go get one of those panera death lemonades #i might be able to snag a short nap before work #but anyway about seventeen year old emilie. i was thinking abt how she was in that movie solitude and adrien said she was seventeen #WAIT. NO. HE SAID SHE WAS SEVENTEEN IN THAT PHOTO ON HIS DESKTOP NOT IN THE MOVIE #well. okay whatever i’m gonna tell you what i was thinking about anyway #OKAY i’m back i just checked the wikipedia page and then i watched the end of gorizilla. to make sure i’m not lying. because i’m normal. #anyway i was thinking about the solitude film and how it’s super rare and old and obscure and whatever. and how apparently #emilie wrote it herself and andre produced it #and i’m thinking about how gabe was discovered by audrey and that’s how he got his start in the fashion industry #so now i’m like?? did gabe and emilie first meet on the set of solitude? because gabe was designing costumes or whatever? #and that’s how audrey found him? have people already thought about this?? #also i just checked and it doesn’t say emilie’s last name in the credits and also it’s ‘graham films’ with the twin rings logo m #so i’m assuming she’s still emilie graham de vanily at that point #anyway it comes back to seventeen year old emilie because i started imagining seventeen year old runaway emilie having her new life in pari #after escaping her british nobility life #and the first thing she does is write and star in an original movie. of course. #and she meets this repressed bisexual punk upstart costume designer who is so the opposite of everyone she’s ever known #and he’s immediately so unhealthily obsessed with her. which she appreciates. #and then they proceed to have the most toxic doomed evil relationship of all time #also she gets cheated because once gabe gets money he represses himself SO hard that he is now exactly like all the people emilie grew up w #but at least he’s still obsessed with her #this is what i was thinking about during class today. i don’t know how i get anything done either. #ml #anna rambles #asks

[shblackwoodart]

guess what my favorite song from msr is

#my art #wip #wilbur soot #mammalian sighing reflex #someone on twitter said it might be about techno so it made me think that “around the pomegranate” means something like “how to cheat death #because ofc pomegranates are associated with hades and death and underworld and all that #idk if it makes any sense

[skuaclan]

skuaclan confession foxfern originally died on moon 1 but i couldn't find a way to work that into my plans/didn't want to spend ages on the literal first moon setting up her death so i reset the game and started again lmfao

#im now playing about 5-10 moons ahead! not toooo far ahead so things are still fresh in my mind/im motivated to keep progressing with art #but far enough ahead that i have room to actually foreshadow and develop things #i do try to stay true to the rng but if something is gonna make my storytelling shit then im absolutely gonna cheat around it lmao #having a death right out the gate to start me off coooould have been cool but man it wouldve been demotivating to set up a blog

[ilovefredjones]

thought jim’s speech to uhura sounded familiar

#the way jim sees death as something that can WIN #something that has to be beaten and fought back against #something that can be outsmarted & outran if only he’s quick enough #which like!! obviously it’s not!!!! #death is completely random cant particularly be cheated out of #but jim doesnt think he deserves to be alive #he isn’t a survivor - he’s a CHEATER #he doesn’t die when he’s supposed to #he finds a way around the kobayashi maru #‘you never have faced a death’…… jim being a little boy on tarsus…… #everyone around him dead or dying himself included #and yet he survives. he pushes through. he cheats #he cheats simply by surviving #like his little pep talk is soooooo. like girl that is not a normal way to talk about DEATH #it is not something that can be BEATEN?????? ARE YOU OK?????? #like can anyone hear me. do you understand #star trek #star trek snw #james kirk #star trek the wrath of khan

[diredeliverance]

Deciding to run with "Ismene not only could have known Enver Flymm, she did" has been a rewarding experience purely for the fact it means this guy has been positively haunted by Bhaalspawn in his life. Good. Suffer.

#'putting him in your own personal saw trap' was something said about something else but I think it extends to this. #this too is a part of that. #woman who tells you how you're going to die and it's the last conversation you ever have with her and you tell her that's nonsense #but it won't leave your mind and decades pass and it still just thrusts itself upon you uninvited at random moments #and she's gone forever so you'll never really know. and you don't know if you remember what she said right anymore either. #she told you every man wishes to cheat death and it makes you angry every time you think about it now #so sayeth emi

[thetimelordbatgirl]

With all the mystery around who Ruby is and who her mom is, I really, really hope it isn't actually the Trickster like others have been saying, because while yes it would be nice to see something from SJA appear in current DW, it also would just feel weird at this point as the Trickster was such a Sarah Jane villain that it just feels wrong to give him to the Doctor as an enemy just because Sarah Jane is gone.

#like the way he had alot of connections to sarah jane versus none with the doctor #closest his brigade got was a connection to donna via the time beetle #but like hes always been a sarah jane enemy really #debuting via targetting her childhood friend and offering said childhood friend to switch sarah jane to her place to die #just because the future would be fucked without sarah jane #leading to a confrontation between the two in the place of non-existance or whatever its called #and just trickster earned a full spot on enemy list when erasing luke from existence and targeting maria #two kids sarah cares about fully #and then the next two times it was sarah jane's parents he tried to tempt her to save and therefore again mess up the timelien #and then got a guy as a minion to marry sarah jane but the doctor interrupted shit and ultiamtely thanks to sarah #the guy turns against the trickster and hes stopped #and i know the trickster was intended to return in S5 finale but like #i uh dont really like those plans they had for him and sky for so many reasons #literally ignored it in my fic when it comes to adult sky as it is #and last we got of him overall was fucking up sarah jane's funeral but getting defeated by everyone present #which...yeah that audio including that felt a lil weird and unneeded but #like i know people are saying they could be reusing the sky trickster plot with ruby but i really hope not #just because to me anyway it made no sense #especially for a villain whose focus has always been tempting others to cheat death and such #its how he causes chaos basically #let alone added unneeded shit to sky's character just to be an excuse to get rid of her at the end of S5 #like at this point just do something different leave the trickster in SJA stuff...i would say have a luke audio with him #but as we know beyond bannerman road literally gave luke dust and made him pro-military and didnt even have him #talk with wormwood in her appearence so...

[4arconinoma]

Will never understand why people hate Skyler White as if she isn't the best fucking character in the entire show

#maybe only second to jesse or something but still #You literally just hate women And youre a Pussy Go fuck yourself #how is she unlikeable when she is the most reasonable person in this situation #ooooooouh she cheated IDGAF THAT SHE FUCKED ANOTHER GUY BECAUSE HER DEADBEAT HUSBAND REPEATEDLY LIED TO HER !!!!!!!! HE KILLED PEOPLE !!!!! #Next dudebro i see being a whiny bitch about her is getting bludgeoned to death with a rock !!! Honest to God !!!! #number 1 skyler defender I need you all to explode she's the most girlboss on Earth and she's right in nearly every situation LITERALLY #Anyways i need to continue watching brba. Miss it need to finish so bad #Gonna try to do that soon #brba #txt

[catgirlkirigiri]

I think I’m gonna play Rivulet next now that I am completely disregarding unlock order. Also does anyone know if there’s a setting or mod or anything that would make Hunter’s slag keys harder to lose? Because I keep starting Hunter and immediately losing the keys to accidental throws or getting grabbed. I know key items respawn in the room they disappeared in next cycle but it keeps happening in stupidly dangerous spots that I can’t get back to without dying. I’m bad at video games if you couldn’t tell

#(guy who has several mods to cheat death because they cannot parkour for the life of them) #ok I say several but there’s only three. ones mouse drag so if I get grabbed by something and it drops me but I’m dead I can revive myself #(alternatively if I haven’t saved in a while I have just thrown the thing killing me until I’m freed a few times) #(might get that one ‘keyspam to get dropped’ mod to replace that strat tho) #second is wormgrass immunity. because I suck at riding rain deer I can never seem to grab their antlers. I just follow the deer directly #underneath them to get the same experience but at my (low) skill level lmao #and lastly when I’m doing big jumps I turn dev tools on and hover my mouse over solid ground past the jump so if I fall I can quickly #teleport to mouse and save myself. because frankly I just suck at parkour and don’t want to get stuck because of that #(past garbage wastes I totally did mouse drag revive myself a few times after just barely hitting the toxic water) #also I have a mod that makes sluppies immune to (almost) every form of death so I don’t have to worry about my kids. except if they get #grabbed and taken to a den they are very dead. which is the main cause of death I got the mod to prevent. lol. lmao even #zoracontent

[jvzebel-x]

🦋

#when i was growing up my mom Only gave me incredibly inappropriate advice lmao. #i was raised by my toxic high school best friend-- except she was like that my whole life lmao. #she told me once to corner this girl i had problems w in the bathroom during class one day&beat the fuck out of her #&if i did to call my mom before i did it so she could call school&tell them she was taking me the period before so i had an alibi lmao. #she gossiped about me to my friends when she was angry w me-- something that actually ruined my life in a real way #when she was angry at me so she told a friend of mine i was cheating on my boyfriend at the time so that 'friend' told him #(she just wanted him to know he deserved better&she was there for him if he needed someone to talk to :)) #&he beat me almost to death+threw me off the back of his motorcycle lmao. #when i mentioned that he thought i was cheating on him to my mom bc of a friend telling him i was my moms immediate response was to #deny vehemently that she has anything at all to do w it-- something i had not thought of until right then&realized the time my then bf #thought i cheated on him my mom was the only person who knew i had gone out. shed actually threatened to tell him herself #bc i was out bc i was arguing w her at the time lmao. #every memory i have of that woman makes me feel queasy lmao. #every time she yelled at me&told me i was depressing&i ruined everything w my horrible attitude. #the time she told me she didnt want to wait for me while i was limping up stairs bc she was in a bad mood&we were late for a movie #she wanted to see so she literally stomped her foot before yelling at me to hurry up lmao. #every time she called me selfish&cruel&insisted that the problem in every relationship i had was me #ESP the relationship i had w her. #i miss my mom sometimes. i hate my mom a lot of the time. #but more than anything i am just so fucking grateful she's out of my life. #i dont think ive changed a whole lot at my core throughout my life but im absolutely positive cutting her out of my life made it possible #for me to be a better person just in general.

[ljf613]

Look, I love Azula. Y'all know this. I probably have more thoughts, opinions, headcanons, and plot bunnies/fic ideas about her than any other character in the series.

But I have been seeing a lot of posts lately trying to reframe the entire series around her. And I need y'all to understand that Azula is not the main character. She is a side character who exists for the purposes of serving the story.

Whatever problems you have with how the narrative frames her (and I have plenty of my own), this was never going to be a story centered around Azula.

That's what fanfic is for.

#avatar the last airbender #thoughts #fandom critical #y'all need to chill #i cannot believe i have to explain this #atla is a fairly mature story #but y'all seriously need to read/watch something a little more grown up and learn how story structure works #this isn't just about azula btw #there's a longer rant here i may get into further later #characters' dying is (usually) not about writers hating them (this isn't marvel) but about how their death fits within the STORY BEING TOLD #same for every other element of a story #characters and scenes do not exist in a vacuum! #'character x was robbed!' 'ship y was cheated!' that's not what the point of the story is! that's not how you analyze media! #all queued up

[femmesandhoney]

The dark media focusing on women that you mentioned still falls into the bury your gays trope, especially with killing eve. We as lesbians deserve better than constant negativity. The L word original, even is filled with cheating. What shows and movies have you seen that don’t have any of this, to the point where you feel like it’s over flooding with positivity and no dark media? Almost all of the media aimed at us is already so dark, open your fucking eyes?

#anon r u being dumb on purpose be fr #like i never said lesbian media was overflowing with positivity its barely a thing at all #my og post wasnt even about only lesbians it was about women in dark media too again learn to read #if u cant distinguish that wanting more lesbian characters and women centric dark media isnt me saying i think all lesbian media is #sunshine and rainbows and i dont want that then?? i cant help u youre just an idiot #never seen the L word i dont care #only killing eve in those examples ended badly yes ik it was random and stupid from all the writer changes #doesn't mean the rest of the show isnt still pretty good and fits into a rec for darker media #also none of the other recs i gave ended badly either for lesbians since most werent lesbian recs?? r u good #like if u dislike killing eve ok fair i wasnt happy w the ending either #get ur head out of ur ass tho about thinking all dark media = death and dying lesbians like that is so stupid and doesnt exist nor is what #i want from dark media either #pretty sure u have little clue what dark media as a genre im referring to cause u seem hella confused #like the l word isnt dark media and cheating doesnt make something dark media?? #again ur coming into my inbox and projecting onto me problems w me that arent supported by anything ive said #so knock it off #idk what gave u this burst of confidence to be a dumb shit in my inbox but if u continue ur blocked

[loveofastarvingdog]

i’m still thinking about the answer to the question you sent me btw

oh hell yeah!!!! i’m excited for whatever you respond with!! i’ve been thinking about it too tbh because there’s so much i think i would love to hear them talk about with each other <3

#ash tag🐟🧯 #ask and ye shall receive / knock and the door shall be opened #and now i really really want to see them (the show . it doesn’t necessarily have to be buck and eddie) address the fact that buck feels like #he’s supposed to be dead. that he cheated death. got away with something he wasnt supposed to #because YEAH we see him working through his life (life is a gift etc) but it’s still not really about the fact that he Died

[beyblaiddyd]

I think about "the worst thing that could have happened to you has already happened and you're still here " an unreasonable amount Sarah and Juno are characters who exist to pan sear my mind

#cocoa talks too much #theyre characters who have less than negative actual homoeroticism going on but i can also visualize it #like if that meme thats like #'if she cheat on you go to his house and kiss him. see what that dick about. see what all the fuss is about' #was about like death or something. do you understand me. grabbing you

[bloominstorm]

Wakui really tryna make me stop slandering Mikey out here.

#like…ok listen tht chapter was sad af #the thing about Mikey is tht I always gave him some grace because he clearly went through shit to turn out how he did #and he knew he had issues but he still tried to be as good as he could with the morals he learned from the important ppl in his life #it was interesting to see that despite Mikey’s parents being in his life for a short period of time they still had such a significant impact #on him like the way he latched into being strong because his father appeared to be strong and because of the way his mother talked about him #he wanted to be more like his father #also interesting to note is that Mikey doesn’t seem to have his own identity? i used to scoff at ppl who made theories about him not knowing #who he truly is but this proves it because he adopts the character traits of ppl he cares about #he did so with his dad his brother Baji draken izana (funnily enough) etc in the future timelines #the relationship his mom had with his dad was odd tho #were they married.. were they still together when he died because if so tht means he cheated on her a little bit before he died since Emma #is a year younger than Mikey but the mom still talked about him like she loved him and even accepted Emma since Emma seemed genuinely hurt #over her death - I will say the mom was a bit ..weird why would you only talk about his father when you’re talking to your kid? why not #talk about yourself or talk to Mikey about things other than being strong I understand he was fixated on strength but she could’ve stirred #it away from being the constant topic of conversation when they talked like how he’s doing and how he can take care of himself mentally #she was good in telling him that being strong doesn’t mean you don’t cry tho #also something odd I noted was how Mikey said he hated weak guys who cried easily like…? thts literally shinichiro #and you made it seem like everything you did was as a result of your brother and tht you admired him so much #thts literally the only reason he cared about takemichi 😭 I just find it weird because by tht point shinichiro was the main one taking care #of him and Emma while in a gang and inspired him to be in a gang yet he hated ppl like him and seemed to even after seeing shinichiro lead #his own gang.. #now onto the whole sanzu and Baji thing again I believe Wakui is shoehorning Sanzu into Mikey’s story because he was supposedly there from #the beginning yet wasn’t considered to be in the original toman and wasn’t close to Mikey like Baji was or draken was who he met later on #he can’t be like Mikey asked sanzu and he refused bc we see sanzu is up his ass so why wouldn’t he do it? #he can spin it like he thought sanzu was weak tho but again it wouldn’t make sense because how he was when he came in contact with Takemichi #would show he didn’t care and would be open to it - it just makes no sense #but whatever I wanna see how this goes because now we’re seeing Draken’s reintroduction and I can’t wait to see how he positively impacted #Mikey just like he did with mitsuya #tokyo revengers spoilers #Tokyo revengers 263

[fromevertonow]

Suzanne Collins is one of the few contemporary writers who realizes the importance of names in her stories and the significance they bear. They add so many layers to the story, additional meanings that otherwise would not have existed.

The original trilogy:

Katniss: named after a plant of which you can eat the roots. Her father taught her where to find it and told her that “as long as you can find yourself, you’ll survive” (quote may be a little bit off, but it’s from one of the early chapters in THG). Additionally, the leaves are in the shape of an arrowhead, referencing her skills with the bow which her father also taught her how to use.

Peeta: literally bread lmao. But bread is one of the basic nutritions humans need, a little bit goes a long way to keep you alive. Peeta’s presence in Katniss’s life also kept her alive, literally and figuratively—the burned bread he threw her in the flashback and their complicated relationship.

Primrose: a plant with medicinal purposes, even more significant in light of her work as a medic in Mockingjay.

Gale: literally means “strong wind” and considering that in every encounter with Katniss he’s caused some reaction, he pulls her into directions she maybe initially doesn’t want to go in. Additionally, his name also represents his determination and steadfastness in his beliefs.

TBOSAS

Lucy Gray: named after William Wordsworth’s poem “Lucy Gray” which is about the titular character of the poem who got lost during a blizzard. She literally got lost in snow. Rachel Zegler sang this poem in two parts on the original soundtrack of the movie. When Snow asked who the girl in the song is, Lucy answers that she’s a mystery, just like her.

Snow: aside from the obvious snow references, I think his name is most significant in relation to Lucy and the poem. The only one who knows what caused her disappearance is Snow. He is the reason that Lucy is gone. But her traces in the snow are still visible. He will always remember her because the memory of Lucy has manifested itself in every part of his life.

Coriolanus: named after the Roman general (and also the titular character of Shakespeare’s play), Coriolanus wanted to attack Rome and become its ruler. He was scorned and celebrated by the people, only to be later exiled from the city by them. In TBOSAS, Coriolanus is the star pupil at the Capitol’s academy but sent into exile to the districts after he won the Games with Lucy through cheating.

Volumnia: Coriolanus mother who played a part in his ascent to power. In TBOSAS, she almost serves like a mentor to Coriolanus, teaching him how to think in terms of power.

(Edit) Sejanus: a roman soldier who was betrayed by the roman emperor Tiberius, just like the future president betrayed him.

(Edit) Plinth: got this info from here, but it was too good not to include here. A plinth is a base for a statue or vase to stand on. After Sejanus’s death, all of the Plinth fortune was given to Snow for being such a good to friend him. It was this money that skyrocketed the Snow family from poverty to filthy rich. The Plinth money was the foundation upon which Snow built his power.

There are so many other names that have historical (mostly Roman and Greek) connotations—Plutarch, Seneca, Cinna—but also regular names like Trinket and Beetee bear meanings that represent the character beautifully.

Names are important. For any lover of literature or (aspiring) writers, please look closely at them. They can shape your story into something unique.

Feel free to correct me if I’ve said something wrong. I know there are many names missing, but I can only add so many examples ✊🏻😔

#tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #thg #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #gale hawthorne #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #suzanne collins #literature