#themes: punishment

[lucidloving]

Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild // Clarice Lispector, "The Burned Sinner and the Harmonious Angels" // Warsan Shire // Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else // Anne Sexton, "The Double Image"

#theme: i have never been allowed to be holy #on lowercase r religious suffering and punishment #but also capital R if that resonates with you #web weaving #webs #web weave #webweave #poetry #aesthetic #prose #prose poetry #literature #book quotes #books #novel quotes #novels #words #quotes #excerpt #poem excerpt #poem #novel excerpt #religious imagery #inspo #writing #anne sexton #chelsea hodson #compilation #parallels

[7cfc00]

home is where the heart is (and yours is gone)

#happy holidays #dndads #dndads fanart #dungeons and daddies #dndaddies #dndads s1 #glenn close dndads #dndads season 2 #dndads odyssey #dndads glenn close #im so sick and fever rn so forgive me for any mistakes in this drawing or in my following explanation #background is covered in crosses for the bad day book. the chains represent his time in meth bay prison #the three swords are a reference to the three of swords tarot card which means like heartbreak or smth #also can be taken literally because his heart exploded #the swords themselves are modelled after the sword of justice to bring in themes of justice and punishment as well as referencing the trial #i also drew the same sword in the blackjack thing. #bottom left is his funeral pyre (referencing his death) and nick jr (representing his son's “death”) #the door is the door to his apartment its number 48 because ep 48 is carry on my wayward son #christmas decor cus of course hed had them up all year round #the plant is a peace lily representing death and funeral s again #headstone is morgan's the crysanthemum represents her death. this is because its also featured in the “remember death” thing i drew once #also i just associate flowers w the close family because it very easily represents both mortality and love #anyway. fuckin. his heart (loved ones + literal heart) are gone and its like. can he ever return home #idk smth about not being able to go back to the way things were smth about having the comfort of a home anymore. leaving all that shit behi #d. i feel so tired #sorry for the long explanation i think i may have went a little too hard on the symbolism but i didn t know how else to #express the feelings of glenn's conversation w darryl in that one episode

[dykeinthedark]

doing this thing i call "reading every class high school lit book i missed out on" partially because as an english minor i feel like a lot of ppl in my english lectures have already read these books in higschool partially because high school english classes suck balls and i think the way they taught kids to read books was lame and dumb as hell and killed love for reading and i think some of these books they make kids read should never be experienced in a classroom setting

#the horror on my face when i talk to someone and they read catcher in the rye at an age below 16.... that should be a punishable offence #actually teaching catcher in the rye should be illegal. u are meant to experience that on ur own. that shit is between u and god. #the reason why i'm a separate peaceposting rn is because i see the homosexuality and analyze it for fun instead of being bored #if i had to read it in school i'd probably enjoy it less. imagine being quizzed on it. imagine having the themes spilled out for you. gross #if i got reading comprehension quizzed on any book i like i think i would kill myself in front of everyone forever #THAT'S JUST NOT HOW IT WORKS. AND WHY DO COLLEGES UNDERSTAND THIS BUT HIGHSCHOOLS DON'T #LIKE A 16-17 YEAR OLD HIGHSCHOOLER DOES NOT NEED TO BE READING QUIZZED LIKE 18-19 YEAR OLDS DON'T OKAY

[kaiminluu]

no wonder his calls to cali never went through

happy late birthday to my favorite character in the world michael wheeler

#mike this is your punishment for forgetting will's bday #i'm a diehard believer in “twirls the phone cord in his fingers” mike #bc me too mike #me too #also #love on the line by her's is the theme song for this piece #i'll be waiting on the end of the lineeee all i want is for you to be mineeeeee #sweet talking all the way to bankruptcy fr #mike wheeler #mike wheeler fanart #stranger things #stranger things 4 #st fanart #byler fanart #byler #<- target audience #my art

[uncanny-tranny]

Death to the trope of rewarding disabled characters with an abled body. Death to the trope that a disabled body is a punishment, a sight, something to shame and be ashamed of.

#disability #ableism #ableism tw #i can appreciate different themes with regards to how we relate to/with disablity and disabling events... #...but i cannot get behind the idea that a disabled body is a punishment or a horrific thing y'know... #...my life is worth living as a disabled person. people with even more disabling things/more disabled experiences have lives worth living.. #...and it's so hard to stomach sometimes knowing that there's a non-insignificant number of people who disagree #i'm just so frustrated with this 'trope' and i've been ranting at my dad for two days now about how much i hate it #thank you to my dad for letting me rant and rave at him :) (lighthearted and genuine)

[the-casbah-way]

forgive the brief jesus chris superstar rant but. there is a very important difference between the pharisees being villains and the pharisees being antagonists. they're technically antagonists because they're actively working against the interests of our protagonist, but i don't believe they should ever be played as villains. they're not evil or bad or wrong. they're terrified just like literally everyone else in the show is, and their actions are completely justified. to me that's the entire point of the musical. it's not about christianity; it's about the impact the roman empire's brutal and violent imperialism had on everyone on all levels. including jesus and judas, but also including the pharisees, and even herod and pilate. when a powerful coloniser forces their presence on innocent people they are the only winners. everyone else suffers, even the puppet kings and high priests who look like they're reaping some sort of benefit from it all. that's roman propaganda. the romans kept native rulers like herod and caiaphas in power to maintain the illusion of provincial autonomy, and keep populations appeased and therefore under control. everyone in the show is acting out of fear of the romans. the one roman character we do see (pilate) is acting out of fear of his own emperor. it makes no sense to cast the pharisees as two dimensional Bad Guys, especially when the same productions that do that usually offer a sympathetic portrayal of pilate. it would be so easy to stage and direct a production in a way that makes it obvious that the pharisees are doing what they're doing because they truly have no choice, and not because they're pure evil and want to kill jesus for the sake of it. it's not only an antisemitic trope but also undermines a really important theme of the musical. if you can see the humanity in the violent roman governor installed forcefully on conquered land then you can afford some humanity for the pharisees too. they are victims of pilate and victims of rome just like everyone else

#THEY ARE NOT ALLIES OF PILATE. they have a common interest yes. ie avoiding punishment from rome #but the pharisees have no choice but to go to pilate. they have no real power. because like i said. they are puppet rulers #i am just tired of seeing the pharisees as villains #IF YOU WANT A VILLAIN (idk why you need to have one i don't think this show is about that) IT SHOULD BE FUCKING PILATE. AND NO ONE ELSE #THE PHARISEES ARE NOT VILLAINS. THEY ARE NOT EVIL. THEY ARE VICTIMS. #i am tired of seeing them costumed or directed in a way that makes them stereotypical Bad Guys #the 2k version of jcs is my favourite but i HATE how it portrays the pharisees at times especially annas #when annas pushes judas to the floor for literally no reason it's like. you are going out of your way to make these guys seem evil #sucks because the actor from 2k is the best annas i've ever seen in terms of presence and voice #and the actor who plays caiaphas in that film does a really good job at showing fear instead of pure anger and evil #but it's generally all still done in a way that makes the priests seem evil. in my opinion #and yes i called pilate violent. he's not in A Lot of productions but. the real pilate was an extremely brutal governor #and there's a very good reason for portraying him as such. especially when you consider the themes i mentioned here #jesus christ superstar #jcs #ask to tag

[raayllum]

—cut lines from 5x08, Finnegrin's Wake

#rayllum #tdpedit #tdp #graphics #rayllumedit #theme: freedom #5x08 #personal fave #my edits #arc 2 #captain hostage exchange canon #tag ramble #like i get why this line was cut (& think it was the right call) but holy shit the Dichotomy this sets up #in an episode so surrounding themes of freedom & chains & control and the fucking pawn callum intro #like we knew finnegrin had decided rayla was callum's weakness and was going to fucking. #press on that wound as punishment but like the constructed binary of #'keep rayla and be weak/chained down and controlled' OR 'be willing to lose her and be Free' #and we all know what callum chose. and what he'll keep choosing #like yeah it's. it's Over. he's dooming the world for her next season #this line alone + the intro is like. all the proof i need at this point cause Holy Shit

[ryssbelle]

Playing dnd with @frulleboi and @kenxboi be like

#my art #dnd #friends #comic #frulle my beloved #kenny my beloved #its a zelda themed dnd and we're all links #kenny is the dm #and decided to punish us for being too funny #smh smh couldnt handle our skeleton puns #there was one day where frulle and i just spent like an hour reading off puns and laughing with each other #while lee was passed out on call #it was so fun #kenny is a great dm btw #but also evil #they like to punish us for being the funniest people alive #we kind of deserve it tho... #only a little

[spacedlexi]

the way the ericson group were at the outbreak just a bunch of troubled kids who made various mistakes or committed crimes and were judged by a system that punished and abandoned them instead of giving them the support and love they needed, are then nearly a decade later put into a situation where now they must judge a troubled child for the mistakes and crimes hes committed against them. and 5 to 3 vote them out 😭

#twdg #i love the way s4 connects back to lees whole 'murderer' thing back in s1 😭 guilt...atonement.....systems of punishment #i love thinking about s1>s4 themes and crying #anyway this is partially why i hate when i see the ericson cast reduced down to 'just some teens' its so much more than that #them being abandoned in a boarding school for troubled kids is SO IMPORTANT its not 'just some school' #anyway its also probably why theyre my favorite cast #theyre literally one of if not the most mature group of the series even while being a bunch of kids who make choices i dont agree with #because they actually love and care about each other. even when theyre mad. because theyre all they have left #i do think the vote was a fair way to handle it even tho i still ultimately find it cruel. they couldve talked it out #but this is still a story that needs conflict to resolve so is what it is #they would rather they leave than have to face their confused feelings. the most immature thing they do. but understandable #they did such a good job crafting that cast for clem GOD an entire ensemble built around her and aj....delicious #zombie/post apoc media about love and community my beloved 😭 #sorry but get tf out of here with that 'humans are evil and everyone dies' lame ass bullshit we are nothing without community #the amount of love pouring out of s4 is like getting my ass kicked but then they give me a big hug and kiss after and send me on my way #s4 my absolute beloved i really love it more and more every time. so much to appreciate even with it the way it is #the themes bro the themes........ the connections between seasons 1 and 4 you are everything to me #it speaks

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

i've been seeing a few cross in a maid dress drawings on twitter and i wanna contribute to the cause<3333

#art #illustration #my art #undertale #utmv #cross #cross sans #xtale sans #cross!sans #crosssweep #congrats crisscross!!! probably half appreciates half regrets the fact that he won HHH #dedicated to the one anon who requested a sans in a maid dress that i accidentally deleted....gotta be the saddest mistake of my life</3 #i wanted to give him a cow themed outfit at first but then i realized this is supposed to be a winning prize not a punishment lmao xD #this was supposed to be a small practice doodle so that's why the proportions are kinda chibi-like btw hhh #i wanna make cross buffer in general but i need to learn how to draw bigger and leaner bodies and i'm nothing if not lazy xd #jk jk you will get the working out wip i have in store if you want muscular skeleguys but for now you get this lollipop of a man<333

[qqueenofhades]

Do you think we romanticize the concept of revolution (especially violent revolution) out of some weird offshoot of our tendency to romanticize and propagandize war/the military?

Like, we treat war/the military as a good thing, so when we turn against it, we basically just apply the REVOLUTION coat of paint over the "military is great and just" framework? or something?

There are a few reasons. First, America itself is totally beholden to the idea of the Glorious Populist Revolution that overthrows the tyrants and brings Freedom (TM), thanks to the American revolution. That is why the right wing has spent endless time cosplaying "1776" and "Founding Fathers" and all the other cosmetic trappings that they put on their fascism project, and keep threatening to have a "new revolution" or a "new civil war" if Trump isn't immediately reinstated to the presidency for life. Because they are steeped in the paradigm of "messianic militarism," which has a long and inglorious history in the West and is based in Christian imperialism and colonialism, they just think that The Right Kind of Violence will overthrow the Evil Oppressors and everything will then be glorious! Of course, this has been a recurrent theme in human history and it has never, ever worked.

Because the so-called progressive left often takes deeply theocratic and fascist/conservative concepts and then just changes the wording/rationale/costume dressing, they have therefore become attached to the idea of "guillotining" all the oppressors (like the French revolution, which famously worked out fine and was definitely not followed by the Terror and did not at all end with the country lapsing back into absolute imperialism under Napoleon barely a decade later!), like we can just kill all the right people and then the world will be fine! Which uh. Yeah, that's a hard no from me. I dream as fondly of Elon Musk getting into a Tesla and suddenly blowing up as anyone, but I don't subscribe to the repurposed genocidal fantasy that "killing everyone is right when My People do it!," and I don't think that this would remotely result in a better world the end, because again: Historian talking here. It literally never, ever has. There are no magic shortcuts to making things better. It only happens by doing the work and not fantasizing about how much easier it would be if all the bad things abruptly disappeared in a splendid shower of blood and gore. Because a) that's not gonna happen and b) we don't fucking want it to! What is wrong with you?! Do you think only the Deserving Sinners will die in your Progressive Rapture and everyone else will be fine??? Because! Yeah! NO!!!

#anonymous #ask #politics for ts #it is just thinly repurposed protestant evangelical apocalyptic eschatology #about the End of Days when All Sinners Are Destroyed #which is a punishment fantasy for the christian fascists and also the leftists #the only thing that changes is who is getting punished and how #but Destroying the Infidels And The World Is Now Perfect #is the common theme #and yeah uh. hard pass.

[bruciemilf]

Wait, we sticking with the NO CAPES rule in the Superbat Incredibles AU? If so, I can totally see Bruce slaying a Batman Beyond-esque suit.

I'm sorry, but I keep imagining Bruce easily slipping back into Batman stealth mode and slipping through the base to save Clark.

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Also, imagine him in this scene bcz now he no longer has a cape to hide behind.

Just saying, whoever designed his new suit did everyone a favour. Especially Clark.

THAT SCEEEEENE I REMEMBER IT

#also one of the more subtle themes the incredibles implemented and one i really enjoyed #is that you should learn to let go of the narrative that just because someone is more 'special' than you means your efforts are useless #like -- buddy inherently believed the resson he couldn't be a hero was bc he didnt have superpowers. but it wasn't like that #it was because he wanted the world to serve HIM instead of serving the world. i think a main attribute we should give to modern #interpretations of heroism is: you can be angry at the world. but you do not get to be angry and punish other people #asks

[iwatcheditbegin]

It would be one thing if the Gaylor speculation was just “ I really relate to some lyrics , wonder if there’s another meaning here 👀?”

And not calling her a liar, making invasive speculations, calling all her relationships fake, attacking her loved ones, sexualizing her, throwing her traumas in her face.

#I’m not even gonna get started on the fact that none of these ppl seem to even like Taylor #and are always trying to punish her in weird ways or claim she’s horrible #i find a lot of themes in Taylor’s music I can relate to my own life but that’s bc she’s a good writer

[danilovefest]

Dani talking about what it was like to be injured right after winning his 125cc title. Interviewer: What was it like to go from maximum joy to the accident? How did you feel? Dani: Well, winning the championship after seeking it for so long... Seeking it, working hard and being excited about it... Right when it happens and you start to reap the fruits... It's over. Three days and out. Actually, I think there were five days. It was over. I fell and I hurt really bad. It was the first time that I hurt myself and I was far from home... Well, it was a new situation. I didn't understand why, if you do things well, with humility, work, effort, without cheating, always with respect... That is, following the right path. Then why? It didn't match up. I didn't understand. Why did I have to be punished? I always looked for the meaning of what was happening to me.

#young dani conceptualizing his injuries as divine punishment is bonkers lore #dani pedrosa #danilovefest #theme: injury #media: video #source: the silent samurai extended interview #injury #crash #theme: 125cc

[rheaanddamianfan]

#damian priest #rhea ripley #finn balor #dominik mysterio #the judgement day #punishment martinez #this is my bisexuality #puerto rican papi #idk what I'm doing #i love editing weird shit #Imagine they use this song as a theme next week

[anomalocarisfreak]

#punisher #the punisher #frank castle #this isn't a genuine headcannon from me i just needed a theme sorry gay frank castle truthers