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Mother of Drogon
#game of thrones#gotedit#gameofthronesedit#asoiaf#asoiafedit#hotdedit#house of the dragon#house targaryen#mother of dragons#mother of drogon#my gif#daenerys targaryen#drogon#dragon#year of the dragon#emilia clarke#houseofthedragonedit#tvandfilm#dailytvfilmgifs#dailytvwomen#ladiesblr#tvedit#she mothered and I still love her#of course i have to have these gifs to be made on my blog yes its mandatory#iconic shots#how it started vs how it ended#fire and blood#dragon queen#girlboss#snow
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I am the knight. Someone called me to this strange land. I don't know who or why. I am going to find out.
I am the knight. My sibling called me to Hallownest to do what they could not. I will succeed where they failed. I am born of God and Void. I am the Ghost of Hallownest, and I hate you.
#hollow knight#how it started vs how it ended#something akin to this idea entered my mind as i was making dinner today#no idea if it'll be as impactful without 40+ hours of fighting and exploring and experiencing many different flavors of death in between bu
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DPxDC Prompt #18
Inspired by reading this prompt from @nerdpoe and my brain randomly deciding to mash it with this prompt and reblog from @stealingyourbones and @moodycow210. Basic premise is the Nerdpoe prompt with the backstory of the Bones prompt. Do read those for full context of what my brain was trying to do here.
Danny was sent on a mission by Clockwork and missed his window back home, getting stuck in a vast, dark (twilight), oceanic place; with only the company of fish-like beings that can only communicate empathically very basic desires and intents.
After a while of panic and searching for a way back, he ultimately settles in and waits for rescue, occupying his time by playing with and training his powers. He discovers an ability to shapeshift and decides to make his form into something more comfortable and camouflaged for where he is.
The form he settles in to is somewhere between human and fish. Hands and claws and fins and webbing and gills.
It saves his life when Danny loses his hold on his ghost form, discovering that the changes transferred over to his living self.
And Danny waits.
And waits.
And drifts along, avoiding the attention of anything with teeth and intent to eat, while searching for his own meal.
And forgets what he's waiting for.
Danny has been there so long now. His memories of before are nothing but vague, indistinct impressions. Like the shadow of the other creatures that sometimes brush against his own. When the green, swirling thing appears in front of him, he almost swims away from it. But something about it brushes him, like those shadows of before. It calls to him, urges him to approach, to swim through.
On the other side of the green thing is light. So much light. It's so bright. And full of fish. More fish and more light than he can remember ever seeing before. The other fish swim around, swimming with a suffocating shadow of urgency and fear. And the green thing is gone.
Confused and disoriented, he cannot avoid the massive thing, like a strange tangle of kelp vines, sweeping through the water collecting anything that does not avoid it's path. It pulls him and many fish up and up and up. To a place too heavy to swim, where some instinct has him changing the way he breathes from his gills to his mouth and nostrils. He didn't know he could do that. And yet, some part of him is quite certain that he did.
There are strange shapes beyond the strange vines. They bark noises that brush against those shadows of memory, but he does not understand them. He should, he knows he should. He should understand a lot more about this situation than he does. But he doesn't.
"Is that one of them fish people?"
"Looks like it. Seems a young one too."
"Should we toss it back?"
"Why? Pretty little fish, bet we could find a buyer. He oughta fetch a pretty penny. Might even get nough to actually retire."
#DPxDC#DPxDC prompt#Less a prompt and more a ficlet free for continuations but -eh- semantics#Check out the linked prompts for full context#Danny got stuck on a time mission#Made himself a mer/atlantean to feel more comfortable/better survive where he got stuck#(Dealer's choice how much fish vs how much human he is.)#He ended up being stuck so long he started to forget how to human#Finally goes through another portal back to his own time and close to home#Only to immediately be caught up by some less than moral fishermen#They'll sell him to some other sleezebag#And Danny will spend a while in captivity before being found by Aquaman#His memories are still there but very muddled by his time in the deep)#Fortunately for Danny - though he doesn't know it - not being a normal fish makes him immune to things like depth and salinity changes#So don't @ me about it#Comic logic
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So, I know I'm a little (very) late to the AvA stuff, but I was rewatching AvM Season 3 for the seven hundredth time and, well, I noticed something and I'm curious to know if it's been discussed before.
AvM Episode 29, Purple's story, specifically, Pink's death.
Her color changes as she dies, or is represented to have died.
It fades to grey.
Now, the question is, can we, or rather should we, use this to infer anything lore-related? Was this just an artistic choice to depict the act of becoming unhealthy/dying, or could this be what actually happens to stick figures that die over a period of time? Are their colors linked to their health?
Let's have a bit of fun with it, and presume that the fading of one's color can happen to a stick figure for health-related reasons, as the scene could imply.
This fading seems to involve loosing the saturation of one's color into grey. Saturation is how vibrant a color is, and the complete lack of saturation is greyscale.
The World-of-Alan reason for Pink's death is that she 'got sick', which is where the health connection of this theory comes from. If she did loose her color as she was dying as the notes depict, that loss of color was likely a result of her failing health rather than any other factors, like age or outside variables. A whole bunch of human body stuff are indicators for good vs poor health, including skin color (jaundice and cyanasis are good examples) so why not a stick's color for them?
What if, when they fully die, they lose all of their original color?
Now, let me propose this…
Who else do we know of who has had their color loose vibrancy?

What if Victim's color has lightened because he's ill?
#I started this post because I was legitimately interested in how Pink's death was portrayed#And ended with with a Game Theory tier nonsense theory#“What is Victim's sick? Ignore the major ass-kicking he gave Chosen in Ep10 let's just contemplate this theory.”#That being said I am still very curious to see if there will be a canon/lore reason for it bc I think it'd be neat#Alternative victim's color crack theory: He's just old for a stick figure.#Bonus angst: King gets the flu at some point and his color dulls a little bit as he's sick and Purple freaks the hell out#bc he thinks King is dying like his mother#But King is totally confused he's just like “kid chill it's just the flu”-#alan becker#animation vs animator#animator vs animation#animation vs minecraft#ava#avm Pink#ava victim#Just for those people: I am aware the real reason Victim's color was changed was to differentiate him from TCO#I read the wikis before I post this sort of stuff
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Hii! Can you do ghoap x reader fluff? Like cuddles with mild flirting (from soap, obviously) and like soap is the little spoon, because in return he gets head scratches in return, reader in the middle, and Simon as the big spoon just pressing his face into the crook of readers neck?
Would rlly apreciate it <3
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i loved this idea when i read it and then proceeded to take far too long to actually answer it lmao BUT!! here it is,, ghoap x fem!reader fluff - ty for the request 💓
you picked up the cheap jar of pasta sauce and compared it to the branded version stacked next to it. as far as you could tell, the ingredients were the same and the little veg chunks included weren’t any smaller.
you nodded to yourself. it was decided, you weren’t paying two quid extra just for a name, fuck dolmio.
you looked higher to the top shelf and frowned when you saw the pasta had been pushed away from the edge and you’d be unable to reach it on your own.
“need a hand, dove?”
you turned to see a handsome man with a mohawk beelining towards you, his eyes tracing your frame with hot familiarity. without waiting for your response, he bullied his way into your space to reach over you for the pasta. barely stepping back, he handed you the pack and looked you up and down.
“thanks, stranger,” you said, holding back a laugh at his amused smile. you saw the moment he decided to play along.
“pretty skirt,” he said and nodded down to your bare legs peeking out beneath the denim.
“hm, my boyfriend got me it,” you said, a little teasingly.
“oh? and this boyfriend, he’s left ye all alone to do the shoppin’ has he?”
“no, he’ll be back soon. and he’s kinda protective, won’t be happy seeing me talking to other guys,” you said trying not to smile.
“ah’m no’ scared,” he scoffed, his own smile breaking out as he looked around the aisle eagerly for the aforementioned boyfriend.
“i don’t know, he’s pretty big and strong, wears a scary mask,” you said.
“aye? reminds me o’ my boyfriend,” he said and you finally giggled, leaning in to kiss him and giving up playing pretend.
“dove, they got their tiger bread in stock again,” simon said as he rounded the corner of the aisle and interrupting your kiss. “i ha’n’t ‘ad this in ages.” simon barely paused at the unexpected appearance of johnny, his eyes turning up in the corners as he smiled under his mask. “johnny, look, tiger bread.”
“yeah, i seen, si,” johnny said fondly, crowding you back against the trolley. “only getting the one loaf?”
simon paused. “hm. you’re right.”
you snorted as he dropped the bread into the trolley before heading back to the bakery section and leaving the pair of you alone again.
“work was a fookin’ drag, dove, cannae stand all this paperwork they’re keepin’ me busy with,” johnny groaned into your temple. you petted his arm consolingly before turning back to your list and shopping trolley.
“you were injured less than a month back, john, you can’t have been expecting to be back in the field so soon?” you hummed as you continued shopping with johnny leant over your back.
his silence spoke volumes.
you shook your head as you made your way through the store and waved simon over as you passed him by, hoping he hadn’t harassed the bakery staff into making more tiger loaves last minute for him. the absolute fiend.
“wha’s wrong with him?” simon asked as he got back, hands full as he nodded to johnny’s slumped frame. you refrained from asking simon if you really needed three tiger breads and instead nudged your other boyfriend up from your shoulder.
“he’s bored,” you said easily, grinning when johnny pulled back properly to send you a betrayed look.
“fuck’s sake. c’mere,” simon huffed before dipping down to kiss him, chuffing a laugh as johnny sputtered at the woollen texture of the mask in between them. “you’ll be back in no time. just behave or it’ll be longer.”
“ye sound like cap,” johnny grimaced. he wiped a hand down his tired face. “when are we goin’ home, hm? fuckin’ knackered, could do with a nap before dinner.”
“y’drive ‘ere?” ghost asked while you grabbed a box of eggs, checking for any cracked inside.
“aye.”
“then you can leave whenever,” ghost said flatly, though the glint of his eyes in the overhead lights betrayed his amusement at johnny’s plight.
johnny pouted.
“yer cruel, si. tell him, dove, he’s heartless,” johnny bemoaned dramatically.
“you’re cruel and heartless, simon, would you prefer strawberry jam or raspberry for a change?”
“could be a treat,” ghost conceded.
johnny groaned at the both of you, pinching your hip when you laughed.
“you both know i cannae sleep without someone’s arms around me,” he huffed, turning his big puppy eyes on you both.
you caved immediately.
“aw poor baby,” you cooed, biting your lip when you saw simon roll his eyes. “let’s get this done quick then, yeah? go grab the burgers we like from the frozen section and that ice cream we got a couple weeks back.”
“yes, ma’am.” johnny jogged off.
“si, can i trust you not to make your way back to the bakery if i give you a list of items to grab?”
“no,” he admitted without shame. “i saw the lad in the back prepping more for tomorrow, think i could convince ‘im to cook ‘em now for me if given the time.”
“right. hand holding it is as we find the toiletries then. ‘s like herding cats with you two.”
simon hummed, his eyes trained on the section you knew the bakery to be hidden in.
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once home, johnny packed away the majority of your shopping in record time, snatching the jam from simon’s hands and almost throwing it onto the work top before plying his mask up one handed and dragging him down into a rough kiss with the other. you watched, amused, with raised eyebrows as johnny dragged him back towards the bedroom desperately, waving a hand at you and gasping out a needy, “dove, c’mon, stop fucking around,” in between wet kisses.
you didn’t need to be told twice before attaching your hands onto simon’s thick waist from behind, guiding them from bumping into any furniture or walls as they stumbled blind to the bedroom.
johnny pulled back with a dopey smile and pushed simon none too gently onto the bed. you took advantage of his lowered height and pulled off his mask completely, rubbing a gentle hand over his buzz cut hair and down to his jaw. you leant in for a soft peck before feeling johnny’s hands and arms wrap around your soft stomach.
he clung to you, nuzzling at your cheek over your shoulder until you turned in his arms to share your attention.
you heard the bed creak as simon settled further up the bed as johnny kissed you. you shuffled back, parting from johnny just long enough to get your bearings and climb onto the bed, simon’s hands moving to guide you back as johnny hummed against your lips.
you flopped back into simon’s arms, got comfortable as he wrapped you up and held you tight against him.
johnny sighed in relief at the sight and shuffled down so he could rest his head on your chest.
you gathered him close and laughed when he started whining when your hands stayed on his shoulders.
“so needy johnny, have you ever heard the phrase ‘patience is a virtue’?” you teased as you started to run your nails through his hair, lightly scratching until he sighed and dropped his body weight against you and simon.
“too t’red,” he mumbled.
simon lifted his warm hand from your hip and draped it heavily over the back of johnny’s neck, keeping him close. soon enough, the scot was snoring.
you tried not to laugh, your chest bouncing johnny with your muffled chuckles. “i think that might be a record.”
“tired lamb,” simon said condescendingly, but he rubbed his thumb lovingly over the soft skin behind johnny’s ear.
“don’t be mean.” you grinned back at him.
simon hummed and rested his head into the crook of your neck, tucking you in closer with the arm still wrapped underneath your waist. “not bein’ mean.”
he nipped at your neck, a soft nibble that had you gasping and clenching your thick thighs around the one johnny had slipped inbetween.
“prick,” you huffed without malice when he stopped and let out a long tired breath in your ear. he hummed with closed eyes, clearly not listening.
you chuffed a laugh into johnny’s hair. the low thrum of arousal simon had brought on was easy enough to ignore but you’d have rather he’d finished what he started. instead, you tucked your cold toes between his large calves behind you in penance and tugged johnny even closer, enough to smother him. with your arse perched perfectly in simon’s lap and johnny nestled close to his second favourite place on your body, you were sure they’d give you what you were after once their nap is over. you closed your eyes with a smile; you could wait for them to get their energy up, and you loved your puppy piles just as much as they did.
#idk if you wanted fem or gn reader but i went fem in the end bc it was easier to write :p#sorry if you wanted gn!! feel free to put in another request for it and ill get started lmao#i hope you like it!!#i know this is a little bit of a toe dip into smut and not just 100% soft pg fluff but i couldn’t help it#stellewrites asks#sorry but i had tiger bread for the first time in 2 years the other day and it changed my life#forgot how much i love that stuff#AND cheesy jalepeno bread OOO i need to get that again too#so basically put that into ghost here lmao ahdkajdjajsj#ghoap x reader#ghoap#ghost x reader#ghost x soap x reader#ghost x reader x soap#soap x reader#johnny mactavish x reader#simon riley x reader#simon ghost riley x reader#simon riley x reader x johnny mactavish#johnny soap mactavish x reader#i’ve got a petty hatred for branded stuff vs aldi’s own like the price difference is crazy but they’re exactly the same!!!#so that also jumped out at the start of this lmao#stelle writes n that
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Remember. You’re the only Phukan I have.
THE BOY NEXT WORLD. EPISODE 7
#boy next world#the boy next world#the boy next world the series#cirrusphukan#cirphu#bossnoeul#boss chaikamon#noeul nuttarat#thai bl#thai drama#bledit#asianlgbtqdramas#boynextworldedit#my edits🌱#far from perfect but i had to make it. the way it started vs how it ended just breaks my heart:’(#i’ll get back to my usual tbnw edits dw
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@octdl-lee
Random captive TDL au lore dump and some behind the scenes stuff since you asked so nicely :]
Dark in captivity
victim did use dark as a way to train and get the mercs and him used to the box
victim and agent (i would probably explore their dynamic in this au also, mitsi would haunt this narrative because yes)
some behind the scenes things
additional art
#alan becker#animator vs animation#ava#ava tdl#ava victim#captive tdl au#long tag warning#dark is going to have some dog/caged animal symbolism and machine symbolism#TDL is very much a problem captive also very annoying one at that#you can blame the high security one him since his constant escapes helped rocket corp to tighten their security#victim is definitely insane and he will do some incredibly messed up stuff in this au#the machinery on agent is supposed to look like it is slowly consuming him like some kind of infestation#agent has some issues as well and will be an enabler for victim#victim and agent's relationship will get some attention in this au but the main plot will still revolve around chosen and dark#chosen and dark's relationship is a lot more complex so i won't bother to summarise it all since i don't really want to spoil it#TSC will receive a bit of attention since he is still very much tied to the plot of ava#tsc does have a split personality like an alter ego that takes over when he is in danger#i dont think i would really touch on the colour gang since i think it would make the story too messy#i do have most of the story already planned out#it is just the part leading to the ending#every weapon and tech in rocket corp was tested on TDL#in a way he did help with the destruction of chosen by helping rocket corp to improve their tech by being their test subject#fulfilling his code in its own twisted way#btw the additional cage in his containment area is to temporarily hold him during the box maintainence or upgrades#it is also the same type of cage that TSC is kept in currently#the box prototype that TDL is in would probably have a different name like 'the cage'#the bars of the cage is electrically charged and it also resembles a dog cage (dog symbolism)#there won't be too much about dark during his captivity since it will be more about how it impacted the relationship between him and chosen#i would probably start posting more random lore bits every now and then between comics#i hope i stop getting side tracked when working on this au
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EVIL MARK, EVIL MARK, EVIL MARK!!! I want to be coherent about this season but please picture me foaming at the mouth and running on the walls. S2 being what if Mark's just like his Dad? Insanity. I love this show. Anyways, AU where an Evil!Mark tries to make Our!Mark worse, and Our!Mark tries to make the other better. Something something confronting your idea of the worst version of oneself. Plus, tweaked black and yellow costume because I saw it and immediately went murder hornet lookin' ass and knew I had to draw it. Evil ass Mark. Horrible. I think he should be dragged kicking and screaming into redemption.
#mark and the fact he is fighting for this fucking life to avoid the Many Bad Endings???? im pacing. getting out the red string.#when the season is about who you are and what you could become. when trying to be good is an active choice and a struggle.#RAHHHHHHHHHHH#chewing on the bars of my enclosure...when every mark is evil OUR mark is the outlier. the exception. the OTHER. RAHHHH#dog poetry being mark poetry because how often can you kick a dog before it starts snarling before you raise your hand?#how often can you beat it before it rips into you without mercy? when it bites not at your hand but at your neck?#when does violence for survival and violence for vengeance start and end? when your opponent is down and you keep drawing blood?#circling and pacing and losing my mind over this btw if you care#anyways self vs self gets me going crazy. did you know i loved the end of atsv? because it shows.#i think o!mark would lose his fucking mind at what evil wasp looking mark has done + this mf wasp would LOATHE mark's kindness#they both see the other as the WORST version of themselves and they can't stand it. They can't shatter the mirror but they think they can--#--change the reflection.#evil mark seeing mark and seeing what he USED to be#mark seeing what he COULD be#CAN U SEE THE VISION??????#digital art#invincible rotating in my mind#invincible fanart#fanart#mark my beloved#mark grayson fanart#mark grayson#invincible s2#invincible show#mark like hello this is my secret twin and he is NOTHING like me hahahaha anyways wanna debate about having mORALS and LIFE#mark grayson vs the urge not to accept every responsibility as his own#he's batman coded that way#ok im done yapping#if this happened in the comics in any way shape or form dont tell me JACK SHIT or i will PUMMEL YOU with my SHOES
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This picture is so chaotic as a whole

But then you look closer:


/Record scratch/
"Hi. You might be wondering how I got here..."
#i cant stop looking at reino and pasta#like every time i look back at it#i start giggling again#its an absolute dumpster fire of an image#it sums up the end of the game well#it was so chaotic#this series is going to be so fun to watch#florida panthers#boston bruins#nhl playoffs 2024#bruins vs panthers series#round 2 game 2#nhl#hockey#nhl playoffs#record scratch#you might be wondering how i got here
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Asia Consent getting her wig stolen in the beginning of Dragula Season 666 / Asia Consent winning at the end of Dragula Season 666
#Dragula Spoilers#How it started vs how it ended#Asia Consent#Dragula#The Boulet Brothers Dragula#dragulaedit#Dragula Season 666#Dragula Season 6#Season 666#Season 6#Winner#Dragula Winner#My Gif#Carrie#Wig Snatched#The Crowning#LGBT#lgbtedit#Trans#Queer#So happy for Asia glad she won#Drag#dragedit#dragsource
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Photos via vampystat and heeeymira
2nd video
_littlepossum: “I got a plushie!” 😭😭 (given to him by @/lestat_thinker made by @&inkalope)
@/SmokieMoonpie now that you’ve said it, please brag about being the person he immediately wanted to show his plushie to 😭
1st video
SmokieMoonpie: He was feeling left out after this (Context— Jacob: *showing off the plushie*: Can you believe someone made this with their hands?)
More videos/photos of jacob with his plushie: 1 | 2 | 3
#jam reiderson#jacob anderson#sam reid#The 92nd Street NY IWTV Season 2 panel#i think this is from#AMC Upfronts 2025#interview with the vampire#iwtv#i am still mad with the way amc is choosing to promote this show after S2 ended#bc trying to erase all the POCs actors of the promo#and also the possibility that jacob is choosing to stop coming to most of iwtv events bc he wants to focus in other things#also the fandom is annoying the sh*t out of me#a lot of you are using race to create fanwars bc this is not about the POCs actors for a lot of u but + about shipping (l*ustat vs l*umand)#and to hype up your favs while discredit others actors work and that is why some of u are choosing to attack sam instead of amc#so this is the only thing i will post right now#we will see how it goes when s3 starts to shoot and definitely when it releases#maybe by then i will not be as pissed with everything going on in this show/fandom
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blood warning lol
Regular CC or
Vampire CC? ;)
#how the night starts vs how it ends lol#you must choose one#no you cannot opt out#cc babcock#ccbds#cc babcock defense squad#lauren lane#the nanny#art#fan art#the nanny fanart#vampire#vampire art
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Crack AU where Victim discovers Alan's YouTube channel, and out of pure petty spite, makes one of his own.
He makes videos reacting to Alan's animations, and half the time he's just throwing shade at Alan.
The other half he's genuinely reacting to the insanity that is Orange and the gang's life.
#He starts out loathing everything about the others (Chosen/Orange/RGBY)#but slowly and unintentionally becomes fond of the Color Gang from their antics#A fondness that can't quite temper out the sting of jealous resentment Victim feels towards Orange#And gaining an unwanted understanding of Chosen that makes him uncomfortable because of how similar Chosen's life was to his own suffering#Things are always rather uncomfortable when they're put into perspective aren't they Victim?#He doesn't say anything after seeing the reviving scene in Showdown; he just sits in silence not even looking at the 'camera'#and the video just ends#And then after the picture 'memories' of AvA 11 he just stops; leans his head on the desk; and sobs.#He doesn't even finish the animation; he can't. He knows what happens next.#He doesn't want to see it again.#animator vs animation#ava#alan becker#ava victim
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1.01 | 5.13
#britin#queer as folk#cinematv#filmtvcentral#userthing#userbbelcher#smallscreensource#userrlaura#usernuria#mlmsource#otpsource#usergay#lgbtedit#tvarchive#dailyflicks#userstream#usersource#usermandie#how we started vs. how we ended#justin clinging to brian in the pilot to brian clinging to justin in the finale#someone sedate me pls#1x01#5x13#the hold they have on me is not healthy lmao
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IF IT (the fabricated nature of the reality you’ve been sucked into/the creeping realization you should be somewhere and someone much worse) SUCKS, HIT DA BRICKS!!
#nene trying to run from fantasy until they reach her reality together#vs mitsuba suggesting they run from the reality he knows they should be in…. even if he doesn’t think it’ll work in the end#and hanako pretending not to remember. to have been fictional from the start. in an effort to keep nene alive#vs kou looking away from what he knows is probably the truth#bc mitsuba’s alive! his mom’s alive! his life as an exorcist is a little dangerous sometimes but he’s ok. he has free time after school to#help with the school festival and see his friends and make new ones#ok the differences in how these realities are treated in the narrative and the character’s reactions to them are so interesting <3#shijima’s painting is just that - a preserved piece of artwork#a kind existence but a shallow one - especially for nene who would be imprisoned there#but the clock keeper’s world! that’s reality babey!#the sun isn’t just yellow paint. you could fall right through the clouds#mitsuba gets to live and kou gets to be there with him and nene gets to grow up!! like amane did!! until those hopes fall through#it’s enough to say maybe there’s a world out there where we could be sort of happy and sort of safe and where we could grow old.#but it’s not this one. and even if it was it’s not where we belong#but no wonder that nene wanted to stay! and that kou didn’t want to remember! and that mitsuba was ready to run from what he knew was an#inevitable truth!!#idk the way jshk discusses reality is so interesting to meee like functionally shijima’s painting is reality when you’re in there#the difference between that and the reality the clock keepers make by changing the timeline is that you know one is ‘fake’#once you know the painting is fake you can’t stay. but once you know don’t belong in the clock keeper’s reality you can’t stay there either#all you have is your own. good and bad it’s yours nonetheless and you have to live there#sorry for all the tags I just caught up and love to yap <3#tbhk#toilet bound hanako kun#tbhk manga spoilers#jshk#jibaku shounen hanako kun#yashiro nene#mitsuba sousuke#kou minamoto#tbhk hanako
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i feel like im not making any sense but does anyone else feel like there are stories that let u run with them and ones that spell everything out for you
#im reading that post that says artists are directors of audience reaction and not its dictator:#'you cannot guarantee that everyone viewing your work will react as you are trying t make them react. a good artist knows that this is what#allows work to breath. by definition you cannot have art where the viewer brings nothing to the table ... this is why you have to let go of#the urge to plainly state in text exactly how you think the work should be interpreted ... its better to be misinterpreted sometimes than#to talk down to your audience. you wont even gain any control that way; people will still develop their opinions no matter what you do#im thinking abt this again cuz i was thinking maybe the thing that lets adventure time work so well the way it does is cuz it doesnt#take itself too seriously that it gives the audience enough room to fuck with subtext and then fuck with them back yknow. i think it was#mentioned somewhere that they werent even planning to run with the postapocalyptic elements that are hinted in the show but changed their#mind after the one off with the frozen businessmen and dominoed into marcy and simons backstory. on the other side there are stories that#explain too much to let the story speak for itself and i think it ends up having to do more with the crew trying to lead ppl in a certain#direction than expand on what they have and i see a lot of this with miraculous. like when interviews and tweets are used as word of god in#arguments and it becomes a little stifling to play around with it knowing the creator can just interject. u can say its the crews effort to#engage with its audience but it feels more like micromanaging. and none of this is to say there ISNT room for stories that spell things out#theyre just suited for different things. if sesame street tried abstract approaches to themes and nuance itd be counterproductive#a lot of things fly over my head so i need help picking things apart to get it- but it doesnt have to be from the story itself. ive picked#picked up or built on my own interpretations listening to other ppl share their thoughts which creates conversation around the same thing#sometimes stories will spell things out for you without being so obvious abt it that it feels like its woven into the text. my fav example#for this might be ATLA using younger characters as its main cast but instead of feeling like its dumbed down for kids to understand why war#is bad its framed from a childs point of view so younger audiences can pick up on it by relating to the characters. maybe an 8 year old#wont get how geopolitics works but at least they get 'hey the world is a little more complicated than everyone vs. fire nation'. same for#steven universe bc its like theyre trying to describe and put feelings into words that kids might not have so they have smth to start with#especially with the metaphors around relationships bc even if it looks unfamiliar as a kid now maybe the hope is for it to be smth you can#look back to. thats why it feels like these shows grew up with me.. instead of saving difficult topics for 'when im ready for it'#as if its preparing me for high school it gave me smth to turn in my hands and revisit again and again as i grow. stories that never#treated u as dumb all along. just someone who could learn and come back to it as many times as u need to. i loved SU for the longest time#but i felt guilty for enjoying it hearing the way ppl bash it. bc i was a kid and thought other ppl understood it better than me and made#feel bad for leaning into the message of paying forward kindness and not questioning why steven didnt punish the diamonds or hold them#accountable. but im rewatching it now and going oh. i still love this show and what it was trying to teach me#yapping#diary
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