#there's a metaphor in there somewhere

[preciouslandmermaid]

Chapter 8:

He knocked on the solid, wood door, “Hey – it’s Carm. We gotta talk.”

You replied, “Door’s open.”

versus 

Chapter 11:

“Hey!” You slammed your palm on the door a few times, “Open up. It’s me.”

“Not right now,” came Carmy’s struggled reply.

You jiggled the knob. Locked. You pressed your cheek to the cool, quiet wood and said, “I bet Fak has a set of keys.”

#there's a metaphor in there somewhere #somethign something #reader already easily let carmy into her heart (she doesn't realize it yet) #nghb inspo #versus reader trying to reach carmy and he's being avoidant but rather than let him get away with it #reader is like ok fine i will find an alternative method to get thru to you #something something the reader doesn't keep her office door locked #even though she's having a moment of distress #while carmy does shut the door and lock it #ARE U SEEING IT? ARE U SEEING THE METAPHOR?

[carmenonmonday]

If only I fought for other types of happiness in my life as hard as I fought for a good ticket to Harry's concert

#maybe i would have something nice in my life #you should've seen me yesterday frantically refreshing the website despite having a ticket since january #and trying to convince myself the back view is enough #there's a metaphor in there somewhere #and im a right mess today

[pokeberry5]

something like tim convinces himself that robin has to be a Boy™ and then steph becomes robin and shatters that conviction and all his repressed gender feelings come spilling out, but actually letting go of that conviction isn’t all that easy

if there's no homoerotic tension between you and the manifestation of your alter-ego that you’ve constructed in your mind, do you really have identity issues?

closeups + refs (leyendecker) + bonus:

#sart #dc #probably gets resolved by tim watching steph in action and having not-conversations about his function as a vigilante w bruce and dick #im not sure how to tag this ? bc to me it’s somewhere between a metaphor and tim taking his compartmentalization too far and an actual ship #but ive also been affectionately referring to this as timcest #so take that as you will #tim really has me reaching unparalleled levels of blorbo brain rot #i was in the dairy aisle like man i want to draw tim in a dress but I’ve also never drawn tim in a suit #and things spiraled 😌

[faintlyminty]

scrolling tumblr with dried blood on my thumb from a bloody nose bc i can't get up off my bed from period cramps (:

#my friend gave me tea that helps them with cramps but i forgot to bring it with me on this trip :| #plus i'm recovering from covid so my insides are just spoiled soup rn #there's a metaphor in there somewhere

[thankstothe]

The real plot of season 7

#house md #james wilson #lisa cuddy #screencap #s07e01 “Now What?” #s07e05 “Unplanned Parenthood” #s07e017 “Fall from Grace” #he was trying to cheer cuddy up but im 100% sure hes also serious #this mf sees a window goes “is anyone going to climb through that?” and doesnt wait for an answer #girl that is always aware of the exit points #or entrance #multifunctional! #escape artiste #theres metaphor in here somewhere #something about wilson still finding a way into houses life even when front door is closed and even if it in unconventional manner

[tsukinoshinjiu]

The Goddess Hylia Reborn

#my art #artwork #digital art #artists on tumblr #art #legend of zelda #zelda #skyward sword #ss #skyward zelda #hylia #goddess hylia #kinda feel like the metaphor ran away from me again #but its in there somewhere #probably #cw blood #blood #blood cw

[cohlumbo]

Texas Heartache ft. Rustin Cohle, Martin Hart

x 🏜️

#this AMV lowkey be looking like rustin just gone girled marty...... #with ginger as the fake kidnapper & everything #I AM THE C*NT YOU SENT UNDERCOVER #and other things of that nature #idk old chaps now that i saw the amy dunne pussy i can't unsee it #🎶 #true detective #rust cohle #marty hart #true detective s1 #rust and marty #juice newton #my beloved... #h #🧃 #you can exactly see the moment my work computer's processor passed the Turing test and humbled me down by crashing on me mid-HD rendering #there's a metaphor for justice in there somewhere #video also in source my beauties 💗 #HD because tumblr won't actually let me live . & also #pinning this until my fic gets out 🤏😔

[onecricket]

transcript:

"when I was young I was given a box

my mother told me

"it will be safer for you here"

I did my best to fit where I could

now I find that box was never meant for me

it was for her"

#pre-pride poems #pride poems #?? #idk i was on a roll and wanted to post them somewhere #lgbt #i remember clearly as a kid my mom using the box metaphor for me to fit in #thinking out of the box is great its wonderful but you have to learn to live in the box or your life will be so hard for you #jokes on you mom lifes been hard IN THE BOX TOO

[obsessedwithstarwars]

Danny makes jokes out of anyone finding out ghosts are real.

But only when it’s done through “accidental summonings”. In all fairness, if he hadn’t become a ghost at 14, he probably would have fuc-messed around with a ouija board too. So he can’t really blame them when the poor unfortunate souls happen to guess the correct phrase.

(And before you ask, it’s the ghostbusters theme song because of course it is.)

Instead of giving his victims summoners a heart attack, he decides to go for a more… Matrix approach. Incorporate a little humor into an otherwise terrifying experience.

Rather than a red pill and a blue pill though, he gives out a bright green glowing pill and piece of candy. He definitely gets annoyed more people don’t go for the candy. Just because it’s clearly the wrong answer doesn’t mean you should miss the opportunity for a delicious snack!

#danny phantom #danny fenton #ghost king danny #he’s gotta poke fun somewhere #the Observants just suck the life out of him #and he means that literally #jazz corrects him when he says that #it’s METAPHORICALLY little brother #they’re EYEBALLS JAZZ #LITERAL EYEBALLS #THEY COULD BE BORING ME TO DEATH WITH THEIR LASER FOCUS AND THUS LITERALLY KILLING ME #Tucker says he only uses the Matrix because he will never be as cool as Morbius #Danny resents that #Sam agrees with Tucker #and Jazz refuses to give her opinion but CLEARLY she has one #Dan and Ellie both think Danny is an idiot #but also show up later dressed as identical Agent Smiths shouting MISTER ANDERSON at assholey summoners #they LOVE scaring the shit out of the asshole summoners #it freaks Danny out when they look identical so they make a point of doing it often #no one is entirely sure how they pull it off but it is scarily accurate

[glyphes]

Happy, healed and healthy adventurers Gale and Astarion! I chose all the Astarion origin/ rogue dialogue specific options for this

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bloodweave #gale dekarios #astarion ancunin #he calls him a ray of metaphorical sunshine amidst the darkness 🥺 #this is my canon ending #somewhere along the line they settle down and gale becomes a professor but yeah #gale needs someone to get him out of his tower once in a while and i LOVE that astarion does that for him #he’s good for him!! they can be good for each other!!!!! #vg #vid #my post

[stormboundstars]

woke up to my friend telling me I should check out Alien Stage, and I said “oh that's trending on Tumblr, sure I'll check it out while I have my coffee” not knowing it's roughly twenty minutes of tragic, queer love stories, great music, and fucked-up personalities set in a Hunger Games-style singing competition with aliens, and yeah. I am now crying about all the characters and picking apart the lore and moving songs to my playlists. and I haven't even had my coffee yet.

#alien stage #alien stage round 6 #had me in tears. real #vivinos #alnst #alien stage round 5 has got to be my favorite oooo luka was so smooth with it #also the fact that the aliens chose a singing competition as a means of oppression....idk there's a metaphor in there somewhere #newt rambles

[emblazons]

It’s “realizing that Will’s struggle in S2 with being infected with a virus that spreads and will kill him quickly (but doctors don’t care) is a metaphor for how gay men were treated during the aids crisis” hours

—right alongside Mike (who comes from a family with a Reagan sign in their front yard + a mom who outwardly supported Margret Thatcher), who sat at his now confirmed gay best friend’s side the entire time he was sick and watched as people were willing to let him die because he was viewed as expendable……and now has an ongoing storyline where

1) his relationship with his girlfriend is falling apart because he doesn’t love her romantically

2) he’s staring longingly and pushing toward the freedom his gay best friend embodies for him, and

3) he cannot bring himself to tell anyone around him something because “what if they don’t like it” + dehumanize him for telling the secret truth he cannot bring himself to externalize, despite now knowing something that scares him about about himself:

(Bonus points for the fact that the first time we see Mike push Will and himself toward a girl is after he watches how people were willing to let his gay best friend (and him, by extension) die should they not confirm to expectations)

#can you tell I am rewatching S2? lmao but!! #he’s gay. he’s gay. HE IS IN THE CLOSET AND TERRIFIED AND FUCKING. GAY #this is not about his feelings for El and never had been #it’s about his DEEP AND UNRELENTING FEAR that he is going to be seen as less than human and potentially killed for his honesty #THE REFUSAL TO TELL THE TRUTH IS A PROTECTION MECHANISM #ROOTED IN WHAT HES SEEN & EXPERIENCED & KNOWS ABOUT HIMSELF AS A GAY MAN #like this boy is having an extended metaphorical existential crisis over being gay. that is the point #it always HAS been. but the depth and context for his struggle requires complex sociological knowledge & people don’t do that anymore lmao #ANYWAY #I’m gonna do a whole proper post on this I promise. I just had to get the thought out somewhere lmao #mike wheeler core #mike wheeler #will byers #stranger things #the me tag #gay mike wheeler

[vanmec]

Death of Papa Emeritus III

(close up under the cut)

[My Socials] | [Prints]

#papa my beloved im so sorry #just kidding im not lmao #the band ghost #ghost #ghost bc #ghostbc #ghost band #ghost fanart #terzo #terzo emeritus #papa emeritus lll #there's a metaphor somewhere #still obsessed #also gold because i have a problem but it doesn't need to be solved

[area51-narutorun]

The best part of the coronation livestream is when they zoom in on the throne and you can see that it’s covered with hundreds of years worth of graffiti. There’s someone deeply satisfying about that.

#it’s like #you can cover it up with gold and jewels #but it’s scratched and defaced and crumbling #there’s a metaphor there somewhere #anti monarchy #uk politics #king charles #f*** him

[edsbacktattoo]

From here to here is freezing.

#if i look at this anymore i’ll burn it #i haven’t drawn anything in so so long it’s nice to pick it up a little again :) #done with procreate #is there a metaphor in there somewhere?? maybe #do i also just like drawing angsty art of my babygirl?? also maybe #anyway don’t look at it too closely #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd fanart #edward teach #thanks casper for all your support on this one biggest smooch for u #OKAY GOODBYE #my art #jams scribbles

[hurrakka]

So...I had a vision

#my art #prototype #alex mercer #leon kennedy #re 6 #this is a visual metaphor of my past obsessions meeting up w my current one #feels like 2013 all over again heh #tw knife #when i played leons campaign i knew ive seen that jacket somewhere