#theme: shame

[lucidloving]

Janet Fitch, White Oleander // Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye // Gail Carson Levine, "Fairest" // Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters // Hieu Minh Nguyen, "Pig" // Valentina-Remenar on DeviantArt // Ashe Vernon, Not A Girl

#theme: ugliness #theme: beauty #theme: shame #web weaving #webs #aesthetic #art #poetry #prose #prose poetry #song lyrics #collage #literature #novels #novel quotes #book quotes #beauty #ugliness #aestheticism #shame

[araekniarchive]

eve, after the fall (auguste rodin; bronze, 1883)

Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve // Hozier, From Eden // Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber // Frank Bidart, The War of Vaslav Nijinsky // Eagles, The Last Resort // Anne Sexton, Words for Dr. Y

#webs #web weaving #requests #mine #bit of an experimental one so lmk if you like the style #theme: eden #theme: shame #theme: anguish #theme: grief #theme: religion #theme: loss #theme: rejection #theme: tragedy #thanks to @shadowoftheraven15 for the request!! i know it was a couple months ago but i hope you still like it <3 #auguste rodin #mark twain #hozier #angela carter #frank bidart #eagles #anne sexton #this is a reproduction in bronze; the original is in white marble but im gonna be real with you. i felt this one more. idk why #RIP I POSTED THIS ON THE WRONG BLOG FIRST

[araekni]

Sue Zhao, My mother texts me instructions to cook silken tofu (x)

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) dir. Daniels

Eden Robinson, Writing Prompts for the Broken-Hearted

Hannah Lowe, The Stork

@greysfields (x)

@wellwaterhysteria, 'excerpts of texts my mum has sent me this year' (x)

Sally St. Clair, 'The Distance Between Them' from Death of a Mother: Daughter's Stories

Warsan Shire, How to Wear Your Mother's Lipstick

Deborah Levy, Hot Milk

A handwritten note from my mum, c. 2006

@ryebreadgf, green grass (x)

#webs #web weaving #topic: love #theme: mothers #theme: daughters #theme: truth #theme: shame #mine #image described #image description in alt text #sue zhao #@blossomfully #everything everywhere all at once (2022) #eden robinson #hannah lowe #@greysfields #@wellwaterhysteria #sally st. clair #warsan shire #deborah levy #@ryebreadgf #about me #anyway. i will never show this to my mum but its for her like everything else i am #happy mother's day <3

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

BBC Merlin being about 'magic' for 7 minutes gay

#not to be all autistic about media analysis again but i think fandom tends to overlook the symbolic/metaphorical aspect of queer subtext #a show can be queer coded because two same sex characters have an intense relationship with homoerotic undertones #or it can be queer coded because it conveys themes of alienation. repressed identity. oppression. internalised shame #Merlin does both. several times over #gay ass wizard show #bbc merlin #merlin #merthur #magic is gay #magic as a metaphor #flashing #flashing lights #< thanks to photosensitive-despair for advising me to change the tags

[aroaceleovaldez]

yknow i was gonna make a post about how happy I was to see the show acknowledge adhd/dyslexia/learning disability stuff and the way they handled and showed Percy's experience with that system, and how it influenced his reactions to things. But i'm honestly glad I didn't because WOW the show completely ditched all of that immediately. There was set-up for a really interesting arc about the demigods = neurodivergence metaphor and "You are singular" (pun off of "half-blood"/"demigod" and a very direct rejection of the "puzzle" metaphor for things like autism) and a very quick acknowledgement in like episode 2 of an off-hand "oh yeah all demigods are like that (adhd/dyslexic)" and then. nothing. absolutely nothing.

heck, they even changed the design of the zoo van (in the books very explicitly a black van with white text, which Percy notes specifically because white-on-black text is more dyslexia-friendly) which is a personal affront to me because That's My Dyslexia-Friendly Van, How Dare You.

i know some people have argued that maybe Annabeth pausing in the store was supposed to be her having a dyslexia moment, but if it was then we would have gotten the Dyslexia Effect™ on the text (and dont tell me they didn't have the budget for it cause HAVE YOU SEEN THEIR BUDGET FOR THE SHOW? They clearly haven't been using all of that). It's almost definitely supposed to show that Annabeth hasn't been in mortal spaces in a very long time and is, yknow, a kid, being indecisive of which snacks to buy.

i have said it before and i'll say it again: the core of PJO is disability. You can never remove that, or else it is no longer PJO. The heart of the series will always be a story made for an ADHD/dyslexic kid to help them learn about and be interested in mythology, and if you stray from that it's going to be very noticeable very fast. Almost every character in PJO has a learning disability. The entire series is framed as a way to introduce kids to mythology in a fun way and emphasize those themes of mythology being important even in modern day with how it still affects our lives, to ask you to look at what lessons we can still learn from these myths and how they apply to modern lives, and that you can be a hero not despite your disability, but alongside it. That is the core of PJO, always and forever. And the show failed that.

#pjo #riordanverse #pjo tv #adhd #dyslexia #pjo tv crit #< the fact that we have a tag for that now. hoo boy. #also all of this + im extra mad that the show intentionally did not include the bianca cameo in the closed captioning #cause like. okay failing to follow through on the disability themes in the series? that's one thing but i was somewhat expecting it #so disappointed but not surprised. *intentionally not providing appropriate closed captioning* though? SHAME ON YOU.

[katabay]

original thief series basso & garrett :)

ngl, it's about quality over quantity for me. an npc can have a total of three minutes of screen time, but if they have a cool name, they can live rent free in my head and I'll spend several hours trying to decipher drawable features from a blurry screenshot of pixels

there is a vague hint of a story here, and that's because every time I try to play thi4f, I get incredibly frustrated with how Not Fun the game play is. like, is the story good? well. but it has a PLAGUE. that should've given it instant 'I'll replay this once a year' status in my heart, but the game play sucks so bad that I've never finished it. I can't believe Not Fun gameplay beat out my obsession with narrative plagues.

anyway, the idea is basically if the original era had a game with a plague centric narrative and some other stuff I liked out of thi4f thrown into a narrative blender, with a heavy dash of horror thrown in because some parts of the thief games were scarier to me than entire dedicated horror genre games.

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app

#if i had a laptop and the skillset i would attempt a story mod because the thief modders who create whole mission stories #are GENIUS and also somewhat terrifying. love them! xoxox #anyway im actually kind of obsessed with parts of thi4f but its also like. not at that sweet spot of almost good enough to be fun #to talk about. which. for the record. has not stopped me from talking about it at length to people #the city itself actually fucking fascinates me. its almost alive and im SO mad that not a single part of that game is actually terrifying #it should be gnarlier and instead it feels a bit like it doesn't quite want to be trapped in the story it has to tell? #but between the level that has the bodies on the meathooks #and the scene with the bodies hanging from the rafters or whatever that was and garrett living in a clock tower #because the game is very much ALMOST about changing times and authoritarian violence and capitalism #(like. by virtue of how the story sort of spins out i think it misses it's mark on a lot of stuff here #in the sense that i dont feel like it actually wants to tell that story. it wants to. go in a different direction. or at least walk on top #of those themes instead of through it) #ANYWAY between all of those things. it does kind of live in my head rent free. they did create a compelling setting #SHAME THEY DIDNT WANT TO ACTUALLY EAT ANY OF IT #unrelated but i would've given thi4f a 10/10 if they kept garrett's fucking nail polish from the concept art. cowards. unforgivable #thief the dark project #i still have no idea how to tag the game series as a whole RIP #sorry for the dedicated dark project fans. if you know what the general series tag is. please let me know #garrett thief #basso thief

[demilypyro]

shut the FUCK up listen to metal gear rising a stranger i remain

#out of all the Metal Gear Rising bosses nobody ever really talks about Mistral #which is a shame because I lowkey like her theme the most out of the whole soundtrack #Youtube #demilyjams

[souldagger]

turns out one of the co-creators of Blue Eye Samurai is a zionist, so i'll be deleting my posts about it. i will no longer be recommending / supporting it in any way and i encourage others to do the same, so long as one of the primary people behind the show (& profiting off of it) supports Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people

#absolutely shameful how he can make a show in which anti-racism and colonialism are literally major themes #and then turn around and do this irl. god #.txt

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Female reproduction system themed bedroom. 

that’s it, I’m home design shaming

#ovary themed bedroom #home design shaming

[fromtheseventhhell]

I also find it funny that fandom will only accept Lyanna being her non-conforming, wild self in the context of saying that Arya isn't meant to be pretty; Any other day we get back-to-back posts about how Lyanna is actually super traditionally feminine cause she sniffled at a song once, so she's actually more like Sansa. Instead of constantly speaking on Arya and Lyanna, how about you guys reflect on why your standards of beauty for women are attached to how well they perform feminity within the patriarchy?

#lyanna stark #arya stark #asoiaf #/Lyanna isn't actually pretty she was a wild tomboy/ Those two things are not mutually exclusive 😭 #how you look is not a reflection of your personality and this is also a running theme within the story #we have morally good characters who are ugly and morally bad characters who are beautiful this is like...kindergarten level #Lyanna is idealized in terms of her personality hence /you saw her beauty but not the iron underneath/ #and Ned correcting Robert when he said Lyanna wouldn't have shamed him like Cersei had #he's a very shallow misogynistic character and I truly doubt he would've been as attached to the idea of her without surface level beauty #reminds me of people saying that Olivia Hussey is a bad fancast for them because she has a /doll like/ beauty and they're /rougher/ 😭 #as though their entire facial structure magically changed once they realized they enjoyed playing with swords instead of sewing sdksdkdsksd #it's giving that one tiktok with the /cat pretty vs doe pretty vs bunny pretty/ #even if you wanted to make the case that her beauty is idealized in her death we get Arya described a pretty multiple times? #idk it's just so wild to me to use personality as an indication of looks it just sounds so stupid #Arya/Lyanna can still have /delicate/ features (which is extremely subjective) and still have a wild personality #how about we acknowledge that the perception of both of them is warped by strict patriarchal gender norms instead? #some real analysis just to shake things up idk

[taikanyohou]

"With more sheets, we can do it often. Your beloved sex. Well, unfortunately, the other party is someone you hate."

MY PERSONAL WEATHERMAN (2023). Episode 3.

#my personal weatherman #asianlgbtqdramas #asiandramasource #asiandramanet #dailyasiandramas #boyslovesource #mlmsource #jdramasource #jdramaedit #* #faiza gifs #segasaki babe ..... yoh doesnt hate you :((( its a shame he CLINGS onto that and then uses that to tease yoh but deep down #gets hurt too. but knows that yoh likes him. GOD THEYRE SO MESSY I LOVE THEM! #'you told me do as i like then i'll do what i want' .................. god OKAY OKAY OKAY. #AND THE MANHANDLING THEME CONTINUES. JUST LIKE I WANTED IT TO. MY BELOVED.

[lucidloving]

CJ Hauser, "The Crane Wife" // Alice Munro, "Lives of Girls and Women" // Emily Dickinson, "Letter 50" and Vincent van Gogh, Bedroom in Arles // Jennifer S. Cheng, "So We Must Meet Apart" // Last Words of a Shooting Star— Mitski // s-sublime on DeviantArt // @wingrefs // CJ Hauser, "The Crane Wife"

#theme: afraid of wanting #theme: shame #theme: making yourself small #web weaving #webs #aesthetic #art #poetry #writing #prose #prose poetry #song lyrics

[araekniarchive]

as something holy

Danez Smith, The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar

Jorge Luis Borges, The Meeting in a Dream

Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

Hozier, Take Me to Church

Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

John Keats in a letter to Fanny Brawne, c. October 1819

Tosca, Ho Amato Tutto (trans. from Italian)

Richard Siken, Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out

Lord Alfred Douglas, Two Loves

Zolita, Holy

Ethel Cain, Sun Bleached Flies / @toothachebench​

Mabel (2016–), Episode 22: Eternal Return

Fall Out Boy, Church

Sarah Kane, Phaedra’s Love

Sappho (attrib.)

Richard Siken, Saying Your Names

Dante Émile, After Abel

Mary Lambert, She Keeps Me Warm

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Natalie Diaz, These Hands, If Not Gods

Danez Smith, The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar

#webs #web weaving #theme: religion #theme: love #theme: lgbt #theme: shame #mine #danez smith #jorge luis borges #jeanette winterson #hozier #radclyffe hall #john keats #tosca #richard siken #lord alfred douglas #zolita #ethel cain #@toothachebench #mabel #fall out boy #sarah kane #(i had to read thru the entire script sideways to find this part bc i don't have premium pdf editor. fear me) #sappho #but not really #dante émile #@orpheuslament #mary lambert #william shakespeare #natalie diaz

[molinaesque]

On the topic of Raphael and him "being bad in bed".

Okay I'm only ever going to talk about this at length once and then never again. I've been avoiding talking about it until now because bringing it up always just seems to keep this topic in circles and it becomes an endless pit of nothing.

First of all, I know most of the time (like maybe 70% of the time) it's for the lolz. I get it. Hell, Raphael fans will be the FIRST to quip about this.

BUT

For those taking it seriously one way or another... It becomes such old hat VERY fast.

Those who use it as a jab towards Raphael havers are... Kinda dumb. Because it's like... Okay, and? You act as if somehow negates the entirety of his character somehow just because "HAR HAR HANDSOME DEVIL MAN IS BAD AT SEX" and it's so... vapid and boring? Also it seems a lot of people keep thinking "bad at sex" = JUST that he finishes too fast and nothing else but they seem to forget that the player character came up with that insult on the spot (rather than seeing it as a commentary about his pure selfishness and where it stems from). Haarlep is also a bias source. There's a semblance of resentment from them AND they're a damn incubus. EVERYONE'S terrible in bed in comparison (have you seen Tav? Little shit just lays there like a sack of potatoes during the Haarlep scene). This isn't me saying "Oh it means Raphael is terrific in bed because Haarlep's word cannot be trusted". HELL, no. Quite the opposite, actually. I'm saying "okay... What can I glean from that set of information?"

I feel like this goes for Raphael havers too who have this conversation. I feel like many tend to fall into this trap of odd desparity when they realise that "oh no our magnificent hot man is bad at sex" and somehow treat it as if it's forever a caveat and somehow negates the ENTIRETY of Raphael as a complex character. My first reaction when I got this information during House of Hope was laughing and then going "mmm that's so interesting and adds such a great layer to this already amazing character. Where else can I take this to". In fact, House of Hope as a quest does SO much in adding all these tidbits that make Raphael not just another boring, all knowing, god like, ineffible character. It made me love and appreciate his character even MORE. instead of going in circles and lamenting in how this is somehow "the worst thing ever", I think it's way more fun to explore it and delve into where the root of his narcissism and self esteem issues come from. The dichotomy and complexes of his character. There's SO much to talk about there and yet we're still just stuck on "haha devil man is a bottom and bad in bed" (which is another ridiculous thing btw because people seem to misconstrue bottoms as JUST being submissive. Y'all need to be more open minded 😂).

Apologies if this came off as ranty/condescending maybe. But it's coming from someone who's just minding her own business but have to see a variation of that line CONSTANTLY in the notes/tags on my art/gif posts and as I said... It gets so old REALLY fast. Like please be more imaginative than this, I beg of you. 😭

#bg3 raphael #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #I'm definitely missing on some thoughts here but I'm typing this while starving and tired #Aaaand I won't talk about it at length ever again because again #It's SO boring as a topic holy god #The dude is a goldmine of endless directions and topics and themes #We could talk about his childhood - his existential crisis of his upbringing and being half mortal and devil #We could talk about about his obsession with absolute control and freedom and power and want of that in the hells #We could talk about the myriads of ways he and Tav could continue their odd relationship if they went Team Raphael route #We could talk about his diaries #We could talk about his endless dichotomies and why it makes him such a well rounded character without giving away too much #We could talk about his obsession with the arts and literature and how much of a nerd he is for it #But no #All we talk about is his goddamn prowess in the bedroom... And that's a damn shame #Bg3 thoughts #There's the new goddamn Chains of Asmodeus out too... There's SO much we can talk a out concerning Raphael and all that new info #Come on now

[nashvillethotchicken]

Thinking about Lestat seeing Louis’s eating patterns as a waste of his gift/himself while Armand gives Louis food that he literally can not enjoy or digest just so he has something on his stomach

#if i had to give each of louis relationship a theme loustat would be shame and loumand would be enabling #which are both really bad ways of “helping” a partner with an ed #lestats shame and anger tactics only make louis more resentful and less likely to eat #while armand having the little drinks and exotic animals and the human food dont actually deal with louis problem head on- #cus at the end of the day louis is still not eating enough #and i think they really exemplifies both of their trauma and abandonment issues #both of them came up chronically food insecure #lestat was put into the role of provider at a very early age and stayed in that role until he died/was turned #so for him rejecting what lestat gives is like rejecting lestat cus he doesnt have anything else to make him “useful” #and lestats reaction to rejection is anger and control so he tries to shame and control louis into eating more/human #while armand has been abandoned by literally everyone he loves up till this point so for him its like #ok i can make people dtay if i give them what they want and what louis wants is to not feel bad about eating and so armand does that #but it still doesnt get to the root of the issue which is louis having poor coping mechanisms for his grief and other emotions #like either way you slice it. louis is not meeting his nutritional needs. he eats drinks from one guy eats a fox or some other small animal #when he should be having like two dudes at least #and then he has human food which according to anne rice makes vampires vomit up their whole stomach content so... #louis imma send you to my therapist shes great #interview with the vampire #iwtv #louis de pointe du lac #amc iwtv #lestat de lioncourt #ldpdl #iwtv 2022 #armand iwtv #armand #loumand #loustat #like armand gives louis food he cant eat just so he knows theres something in louis stomach even for a short while

[boydykedevo]

just curious if there's a consensus here so:

Specifically THEME music, this isn't about the rest of the soundtrack (or the rest of the campaign for that matter). I’m excluding Balance both so as not to bias the results, and cuz the theme’s not original music.

Linky links under the cut in case anyone needs a refresher (listen to all of them before voting if you can!) Also feel free to listen to them all and vote even if ur not in the fandom! ^^

Commitment

Amnesty

Dust

Graduation

Ethersea

Steeplechase

#once again if i missed a campaign that has its own original theme let me know so i can delete my account in shame #taz #the adventure zone #taz commitment #taz dust #taz graduation #taz ethersea #taz steeplechase #icarus is talking #personal answer is as much as the amnesty and ethersea themes are just AMAZING. and the grad one has made me cry lmao #I have to admit steeplechase superior!